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rapper helps with his royal wedding nerves.", "The discount chain's US owner postpones restructuring while it considers possible bids.", "The UK government is to pay compensation after trying to deport EU nationals sleeping rough.", "Will Liverpool deny Chelsea the final Champions League place? And what chance is there of Swansea escaping relegation?", "Joe Tilley's family had flown out to the South American country in a desperate effort to find him.", "Two Britons, freed after being kidnapped in a national park in DR Congo, say they are \"very grateful\".", "Actress Jodie Whittaker talks about her role as the Doctor as she arrives at the Bafta TV Awards.", "Liverpool finish fourth, Swansea are relegated and Tottenham win a nine-goal thriller on the final day of the Premier League season.", "Police seized the \"small quantity\" of drugs at the building in central London on 3 May.", "Eurovision 2018's winner says the competition was always with herself.", "The French president sees defeating Islamist terror and boosting aid for Africa as key goals.", "The new signs include Snapchat End, Instagram Ave, Google Walk, Selfie Passage and WTF Lane.", "Actresses, including Cate Blanchett and Salma Hayek, protest against gender inequality.", "Soldiers have joined park rangers in the search for the two tourists, an army spokesman says.", "Ex-PM Tony Blair says Dame Tessa persuaded him during a discussion in the garden at Number 10.", "\"Thank you so much for choosing different,\" Netta says after lifting the trophy.", "A man kills a passer-by before being shot dead by police in an attack claimed by Islamic State", "Drivers were stranded on the M11 in Essex for more than two hours while 12 animals were rounded up.", "From the weather to weird words, children at an American school in the UK offer Meghan advice on adapting.", "Music acts from all over Europe are competing to win the annual Eurovision Song Contest.", "The hip-hop star is told he can't stop a gynaecologist from using the name Dr Drai.", "The military attache is alleged to have killed a motorcyclist by driving a red traffic light.", "The song contest organisers give some details and launch an internal investigation into the breach.", "Provides an overview of France, including key dates and facts about this west European country.", "Mohamed Salah sets a Premier League scoring record as Liverpool seal a place in next season's Champions League by beating Brighton.", "Former Labour minister Baroness Jowell has died a year after being diagnosed with brain cancer.", "Jim Ratcliffe, who runs chemical powerhouse Ineos, is worth £21bn, the Sunday Times Rich List says.", "A man in his 20s is taken to a central London hospital with a stab wound.", "Lewis Hamilton took his second win in succession by dominating an eventful Spanish Grand Prix.", "All the news and reaction on the song contest as Israel wins, with the UK coming 24th.", "The 72-year-old admitted killing at least 15 men in the 1970s and 1980s.", "In a call to the country's president Theresa May also reiterated the UK's commitment to the Iran nuclear deal.", "Mariah Carey tells Blackpool \"We Belong Together\" after agreeing to headline a festival in the town.", "Some 7,000 candidates from rival coalition blocs stood for seats in the 329-member parliament.", "Three people talk about how they don't worry about being classed as obese because they need to be bigger for their jobs.", "It is thought the stage invader also stormed January's National Television Awards and The Voice.", "The father of four children killed in Australia says he believes the grandfather planned the killings.", "The Fastest Shed smashes its own speed record at Pendine Sands.", "Thousands of people join a march in London over wages, workers' rights and public services.", "Phillip Sullivan leapt to the side as a support car hit a traffic island where he was standing.", "The restaurant's ditching its disposable plastic straws for ones made out of pasta.", "A new study says global tourism accounts for 8% of carbon emissions, far larger than previously thought.", "The airline's shares drop 14% after the boss resigns and the government voices doubts over its future.", "Amy is part of a Cambridge University study to find a treatment for Alzheimer's.", "Russia's Vladimir Putin walks down long Kremlin corridors to get to his swearing-in ceremony.", "Vladimir Putin has won another term as president. Do ordinary Russians share his outlook?", "The mother of a dead teenager pleads for an end to the violence after a spate of shootings in London.", "The foreign secretary will try to convince the US to stick with the landmark weapons agreement.", "Why are people flocking to sculpture parks to see huge artworks in stunning outdoor settings?", "The teenagers are in hospital after the shootings, which happened within minutes of each other.", "Phillip Sullivan was left shaken after leaping out of the path of the support vehicle.", "A vintage light aeroplane has made an emergency landing on a beach after its engine failed.", "Temperatures peaked at 26C, at Northolt, ahead of a possible record-breaking Bank Holiday Monday.", "The rapper's mum has said how supportive her son was when she told him she was gay.", "The RNLI says it has trained hundreds of lifesavers from developing countries in Africa.", "A former employee of the state of Texas describes the profound effect the executions had on her.", "DUP leader says she wants the EU to take a more sensible approach to the Brexit negotiations.", "A man who attempted to stop the 2016 attack said the Prince of Wales called him \"remarkable\".", "New fissures have opened up as the Kilauea volcano spews lava into residential neighbourhoods.", "The government's two suggested options for its customs relationship with the EU after Brexit.", "The government says it plans to eliminate all avoidable plastic waste, including wet wipes.", "A lottery-winning couple continue to celebrate by turning their garden into an sparkling artwork.", "A cordon remains in place in Oxford city centre as officers are locked in a stand-off with the gunman.", "Premier League managers send messages of support to Sir Alex Ferguson, who remains in intensive care following surgery for a brain haemorrhage.", "A man in his 50s has died after he collapsed at the Belfast marathon on Monday.", "So what does Google suggest when you begin to ask questions about the Russian leader?", "The UK foreign secretary sets out what the US president would need to do to deserve the honour.", "Cuts to police budgets may be less relevant than cuts to mental health provision.", "He demands respect for Russia on the world stage, so what makes him tick?", "Watch as Mark Williams delivers on his promise of appearing naked in his news conference if he won the World Championship title.", "It is also estimated green spaces save the NHS about £111m a year in prevented GP visits.", "\"Frictionless\" borders are important to manufacturing jobs, business secretary Greg Clark warns.", "A 13-year-old with brain trauma regains consciousness as doctors were about to end his life support.", "The Swiss consumer goods group has bought the rights to market the Seattle chain's products.", "The wounded boy was one of five people shot in London over a 24-hour period.", "Despite the French president's efforts, the \"Art of the Deal\" author continues to slam the Iran accord.", "The girl is fighting for her life after the second such incident in Jharkhand state in recent days.", "Manager Neil Warnock was giving his post-match press conference after Cardiff won promotion to the Premier League.", "Arsene Wenger says his farewell to Emirates Stadium with a thrashing of Burnley to leave in the same way it all began for him as Arsenal manager 7,876 days ago - with victory.", "The higher cost of vanilla is proving chilling for an industry that relies on the exotic spice.", "Suranne Jones says she is \"so gutted and so sorry\" after missing Frozen's final four shows.", "The militant Shia group and its allies are reported to have made significant gains in parliament.", "The Labour peer admits the cartoon is in \"poor taste\" as he apologises to the new home secretary.", "Police say 15 people have been arrested in connection with the rape and murder of the 16-year-old.", "After years of study, it turns out a secret burial chamber of Queen Nefertiti does not exist.", "Rhyhiem Ainsworth Barton \"had so much potential\" and was \"trying to make a difference\".", "New South Wales sets aside thousands of hectares of forest to secure the future of an Australian icon.", "MPs want a change to the Children's Act to ensure extended family can see children after divorce.", "Mark Williams wins his third World Championship - 15 years after his last - by holding off John Higgins' stunning fightback at the Crucible.", "President Sergio Mattarella proposes a caretaker government until December - or new elections.", "Pakistan take a firm grip on the first Test against England by reaching 350-8 - a lead of 166 - on the second day at Lord's.", "The former film mogul was charged with rape and sexual abuse after turning himself in to New York police.", "Nebraska police say they found 118lbs (53kg) of the illicit opioid in a secret compartment of a truck.", "A group of Reds-supporting ex-pats and Spaniards look forward to the Champions League final.", "The design reflects the Duchess of Sussex's Californian background, Kensington Palace says.", "A leading cancer expert says the problems date back to 2005, but no one was properly checking the data.", "The Welsh band play a triumphant Biggest Weekend show, despite the loss of their bassist, Nicky Wire.", "Actor Rose McGowan tells PM how she feels about Harvey Weinstein being charged", "Why the Italian artist is the \"David Attenborough of art\".", "In a recording posted online, the prank caller pretends to be the new prime minister of Armenia.", "Britons working on the island had passports seized and some were assaulted, the Foreign Office says.", "A customer took more than four hours to get through to TSB by which time most of the money had gone.", "These refugees have come all the way from Syria. Now they're smuggling themselves back.", "Bank of England signals a “disorderly” departure from the EU could put off interest rate rises to support the economy.", "Daniel Craig's fifth outing as the secret agent is due to be released in the UK from 25 October 2019.", "The tech giant has offered a rather convoluted explanation as to what happened.", "As we await the official referendum result, BBC News looks at the current abortion law in Ireland.", "A string of actresses have claimed he harassed or assaulted them in hotel rooms and offices.", "The teenager was stabbed in Sheffield on Thursday evening, South Yorkshire Police said.", "Investigators want public help to identify the men behind the \"horrendous act\", which injured 15.", "Key moments in the cases against the producer, who has been found guilty of rape and sexual assault.", "The Hollywood mogul enters NY police station to face charges of rape and other counts of sexual abuse on two women.", "North Korea appears to have blown up tunnels at its only nuclear test site.", "Analyst Ankit Panda examines how the planned 12 June Singapore leaders' summit fell apart.", "Hundreds of fans at the first Ed Sheeran Manchester date had tickets that wouldn't get them in.", "The 80-year-old actor says he did not intend to make anyone feel \"uncomfortable or disrespected\".", "Alison Chabloz, from Derbyshire, claimed the Holocaust was \"just a bunch of lies\" in her songs.", "The visit will be the first official tour of the region by a member of the Royal Family.", "BBC News NI takes a look back at the issue of abortion - one of the most controversial in Irish history.", "AG Barr recalls 750ml glass bottles of drinks products, including Irn Bru, after reports of caps popping off.", "Joseph Isaacs, jailed for 16 years, shouted \"money, money, money\" as he tried to kill the 96-year-old.", "Interest in coins marking the scrapped meeting soars and the White House gift shop website crashes.", "Nicky Wire won't make the band's headline performance due to a family illness.", "Four children died when their house was torched with petrol bombs amid a \"petty feud\" over a damaged car.", "Investors reject proposal pressing the firm to review its use of plastic straws on environmental grounds.", "Sameeh was at the wedding in April when his father Ali was killed by a Saudi airstrike in rural Yemen.", "The actress, one of the movie mogul's accusers, says it's 'a slap in the face of abusive power'.", "Trump's recent decisions suggest US foreign policy is running in a void, the BBC's Jonathan Marcus says.", "The note begins by thanking Kim for his 'time and patience', then the president's pen turns poison.", "A 95-year-old man is arrested after a female carer died of head injuries, the Met said.", "Five weeks into the IT crisis, the bank says experts from IBM will remain \"for as long as it takes\".", "A strengthening of laws to ban smoking in public places in Wales is being put forward.", "BBC News NI looks at the background and the potential outcomes of the abortion referendum in the Republic of Ireland.", "Complaints against the web giants are filed on the first day of the EU's new data protection law.", "Exam league tables are stigmatising white working-class schools, head teachers say.", "Social media stars Zoella and Alfie Deyes feature in a study into the protection of children online.", "Liverpool fans had paid up to £1,000 for flights to Kiev to watch the Reds face Real Madrid.", "Liverpool fans had paid up to £2,000 for trips to Kiev to watch their team take on Real Madrid.", "The US president says a planned meeting next month with North Korea's leader will not take place.", "Fifteen people are injured in Mississauga, near Toronto, after a blast at an Indian restaurant.", "Samsung has been ordered to pay Apple damages in a long-running dispute between the tech firms.", "Some Liverpool supporters will miss out on the Champions League final after flights were axed.", "Experts say that Ivory Coast in West Africa has become a hotspot for the scammers.", "The average UK household income, after taxes and benefits are accounted for, is £19,432 per person.", "After being charged with rape and other sex offences, Harvey Weinstein is led from a police station in cuffs.", "A restaurant aims to give diners with dementia and their carers the \"best possible time\".", "Flaws pointed out in a review of Tesla's Model 3 have prompted Elon Musk to make changes.", "Undercover filming shows men pulling a badger cub from the ground and setting dogs on it.", "The insulation used to refurbish Grenfell should never have been on the building, BBC Panorama finds.", "From an on-duty radiographer to a taxi driver who helped on the night, people of Greater Manchester reflect on the past 12 months.", "Choirs lead a chorus of amateur voices in a sing-along to remember the Manchester attack victims.", "Officials accuse the UK of challenging \"traditional values\" as it marked the day against homophobia.", "The Duchess of Sussex starts laughing when Prince Harry's speech is momentarily interrupted by a bee.", "Tony Blair says he \"goes along\" with Theresa May's apology to Libyan dissident Abdul Hakim Belhaj.", "The cost of petrol and diesel is at the highest level for three-and-a-half years.", "Speaker John Bercow says he respects all his colleagues, including Commons leader Andrea Leadsom.", "A service has been held for the presenter, attended by friends including David Walliams and Christopher Biggins.", "A man who was sexually abused by Catholic priest Paul Moore when he was just five years old has said the ordeal \"poisoned my life\".", "The official death toll rises after 23-year-old Grettel Landrove dies of her injuries.", "The deal gives the Japanese firm more than two million songs by artists including Queen and Alicia Keys.", "Manchester Together featured choirs leading songs by Ariana Grande, Elbow and Oasis.", "Supermarket says Tesco Direct faces high costs, will not become profitable and will be closed.", "A group of survivors from the Manchester attack sing in a choir to help them cope with the trauma.", "The youngest victim of the Manchester attack, Saffie Roussos, was a big Harley Davidson fan.", "The Facebook founder faces questions from European lawmakers over the data scandal and fake news.", "A video showing footage of the blaze is shown without a warning, causing distressed relatives to leave.", "Plymouth MP Luke Pollard said it was \"very silly\" in light of terror attacks where cars were used as weapons.", "The retail giant speeds up the pace of closures that it says are \"vital for the future of M&S\".", "A replica of the Demilitarised Zone (DMZ) separating North and South Korea is drawing tourists.", "Freya Lewis, 15, was the honorary starter in the junior race, in which she also took part.", "The US vice-president issues a warning to Kim Jong-un ahead of a summit scheduled for 12 June.", "The FTSE 100 index closed more than 1% up at 7,864.34, comfortably above its previous high point on 17 May.", "Robby Potter spent three weeks in a coma following last year's terrorist attack at a pop concert.", "Names and backgrounds of the victims of the Grenfell Tower fire.", "The joint US-German Grace satellites go into orbit to monitor Earth's most important resource.", "Messages will be attached to 28 trees for the first anniversary of the Manchester bombing.", "The actress revealed the diagnosis on her chat show to explain why she has been covering her head.", "The Brexit vote has lowered growth by up to 2%, Bank of England Governor Mark Carney says.", "The singer says she got \"really sick\" after the Billboard Awards and has been advised to rest.", "The latest news, sport, weather and travel from across the North West on Friday 25 May.", "Early exposure to microbes may help protect children against a type of leukaemia, says a UK scientist.", "The victims of the attack are being remembered at a memorial service.", "Manchester police Chief Constable Ian Hopkins says he shed tears after meeting victims' families.", "The whole bridal party join the newly-weds in three official photographs from their big day.", "Epic Games has announced it will be putting up a $100m prize fund for first year of competitive play.", "Family members and friends have described their loved ones and paid tribute to their lives.", "The pop star has taken an aggressive stance by cancelling more than 10,000 tickets for his tour.", "The father of the youngest victim says he wants to celebrate his daughter with a concert.", "New England captain Harry Kane says the team can win the World Cup in Russia and \"anything else is not good enough\".", "The world's largest amphibian is in \"catastrophic\" decline, with probably only a handful left in the wild.", "Arsenal are set to appoint former PSG and Sevilla boss Unai Emery as their new manager to replace Arsene Wenger.", "A BBC investigation uncovers allegations of 'illegal' adoptions at a home run by Catholic nuns.", "Crowds of survivors and relatives of people who died in last year's bombing gathered to pay tribute.", "The ex-London mayor, suspended over anti-Semitism claims, says he is \"sorry for offence he caused\".", "The president had said he backed reintroducing the death penalty for plotters of the 2016 coup.", "At The Races presenter Hayley Moore grabs the reins of Give Em A Clump after he unseats his rider.", "President Donald Trump, speaking by video, leads speeches on the US move.", "This is how British television's famous faces made their entrance to this year's Bafta TV Awards.", "Alan and Jean, a couple from Leeds, were being watched by thousands of people around the world and didn’t even know.", "The superhero has finally said sorry to David Beckham for mocking his voice.", "The shark - thought to be up to 8ft long - bit the man as the crew tried to get it back in the water.", "Theresa May said £40m of government money would help build a \"lasting legacy\" for the politician.", "Holiday firm Thomas Cook is considering the future of its notorious sun, sea and sex holiday brand.", "The store said there was an \"issue\" with renewing the service's web domain before it expired.", "Xia Boyu lost his feet to frostbite after giving his sleeping bag to a sick teammate in 1975.", "Palestinian officials say dozens of people were killed, with thousands more wounded.", "An emergency operator accused of ignoring a French woman's plea hours before her death says she refuses to take the blame.", "A police officer recalls a pursuit at more than 100mph as the \"scariest moment\" of his career.", "Labour will be \"midwife to a hard Brexit\" if it spurns close links with the EU, warns David Miliband.", "New figures show sharp rise in number of primary-age children referred for mental health help.", "Two Britons, freed after being kidnapped in a national park in DR Congo, say they are \"very grateful\".", "Students sitting their SATs say it helps them with concentration and focus.", "Latest updates as Palestinians are killed at protests on the Israel-Gaza border and the US embassy opens in Jerusalem.", "Liverpool finish fourth, Swansea are relegated and Tottenham win a nine-goal thriller on the final day of the Premier League season.", "Meghan Markle and Prince Harry will spend their last night before getting wed in hotels 15 miles apart.", "A group of hikers has a lucky escape on Indonesia's Mount Merapi volcano.", "Celebrity chef and food campaigner Jamie Oliver says he is encouraged by Scotland's healthy eating plans.", "The city's importance explained, as the controversial US embassy move to the city goes ahead.", "The man complained of breathing difficulties after going to a nightclub in Colombo.", "The new signs include Snapchat End, Instagram Ave, Google Walk, Selfie Passage and WTF Lane.", "British former Olympic champion Darren Campbell says he is \"relieved to be alive\" as he recovers in hospital after a bleed in the brain.", "The hip-hop star is told he can't stop a gynaecologist from using the name Dr Drai.", "Margot Kidder, known for her role as Lois Lane in the 1978 film Superman, died at her home on Sunday.", "More than half of UK police forces are handing over victims of crime for immigration enforcement.", "Scientists are working on an inhalable treatment that could stop any cold virus in its tracks.", "The song contest organisers give some details and launch an internal investigation into the breach.", "A man and a seven-year-old boy died in Ireland after 16 parachutists jumped from the plane.", "Former Labour minister Baroness Jowell has died a year after being diagnosed with brain cancer.", "The defence secretary says the plans show a commitment to protecting the UK from \"intensifying threats\".", "A broken oven meant customers had to wait up to an hour for food at the Notting Hill Pizza Festival.", "The embolisation procedure was successful and there were no complications, her office says.", "In a call to the country's president Theresa May also reiterated the UK's commitment to the Iran nuclear deal.", "The suspect is accused of planning an attack at the British Museum after her IS fighter fiance was killed.", "Mariah Carey tells Blackpool \"We Belong Together\" after agreeing to headline a festival in the town.", "But the singer says there was \"no time to feel fear\" when her performance was interrupted.", "The EU's chief negotiator says there is a \"risk of failure\" in key areas being negotiated.", "Three people talk about how they don't worry about being classed as obese because they need to be bigger for their jobs.", "The prince pays tribute to \"one of our country's greatest treasures\" as the health service turns 70.", "Andrew Parker hits out at \"reckless\" Salisbury attack and warns Russia may become an \"isolated pariah\".", "Barcelona's dream of going a whole La Liga season unbeaten ends in their penultimate game as they are beaten by Levante.", "Crowds of well-wishers have lined the streets in Liverpool to pay their respects to Alfie Evans who was at the centre of a High Court battle over his care.", "How to prepare for an unprecedented meeting between two wildly unpredictable men? And is there time?", "Actor Shayne Ward says many people considering taking their own life say they've been helped.", "Wayne Rooney has agreed a deal in principle that could see him leave Everton for MLS side DC United this summer.", "Provides an overview of the Golan Heights, a strategically key Syrian territory occupied by Israel.", "Peers say it is \"inconceivable\" there will not be an impact on supplies, even with a trade deal with EU.", "Activists who installed hidden cameras say the cubs were used to give hounds a taste for killing.", "The family home will be torn down unless a further £200k is spent on a replacement roof.", "The singer is named in a lawsuit which alleges a woman was raped at his home in February last year.", "Sir Alex Ferguson no longer needs intensive care after having emergency surgery on Saturday for a brain haemorrhage, Manchester United announce.", "The public inquiry was due to report this year but will now not be ready until at least 2023.", "The Equality and Human Rights Commission says hundreds of firms have yet to report gender pay details.", "A BBC Watchdog investigation tested hygiene standards at Odeon, Vue and Cineworld chains.", "Two-time premier Mr Mahathir continues to be an influential figure in the country, although his legacy has been mixed.", "In a dramatic comeback, former PM Mahathir Mohamad, 92, ends the ruling coalition's 60 years in power.", "Documents seized in Libya in 2011 led to the UK government apologising to Abdul Hakim Belhaj.", "Severn Trent boss Liv Garfield is among those honoured at the Veuve Clicquot Business Woman Awards.", "Ed Sheeran, Rita Ora and Calvin Harris all rise up the Sunday Times Rich List.", "\"Milestone\" deal paves the way for the government to start selling its 70% stake in the bank.", "Cancer patients are being put at risk by tougher rules on immigration, say specialist doctors.", "A US magazine has apologised after rescinding her event invite when Bill Clinton decided to attend.", "Fatima Boudchar gave a statement after the UK government apologised to her and her husband.", "Georgina Chapman opens up in her first interview since allegations against her husband emerged.", "The trio were held for \"hostile acts\" in North Korea, but are now on their way back to the US.", "The president is meeting the three Americans at Andrews Air Force Base near Washington.", "About 10,000 England fans are due in Russia with authorities keen to avoid Euro 2016-style violence.", "A Commons committee is to consider whether the 1991 law is effective, as figures suggest a rise in attacks.", "The inquiry panel will review the recall of more than 2,500 neurology patients by the Belfast Trust.", "The Bank of England's Mark Carney says the economy is in a \"temporary soft patch\", but that it is \"likely\" rates will rise this year.", "The number of unauthorised family holidays in Wales has increased since fines were introduced, a review finds.", "Fairground workers William and Shelby Thurston put \"profit before safety\", a judge says.", "The emergency services can assess how seriously ill a person is before setting off to the scene.", "Khalid Sheikh Mohammed asks to submit information as Gina Haspel faces her confirmation hearing.", "A slowdown in economic growth seems set to delay any interest rate rise until at least August.", "This Hawaii resident had a surprise when he returned home after fleeing the Kilauea eruption.", "The telecoms giant will axe many back-office and middle management roles in the next three years.", "Netta Barzilai from Israel is one of the big favourites to win this year's song contest.", "Four-month-old Natalie Jackson was born with a distinctive black birthmark covering a third of her face.", "The move is part of the streaming service's new \"Hate Content & Hateful Conduct\" policy.", "Gordon McKay admitted shaking Hayley Davidson who suffered a serious brain injury and died in hospital.", "Call to expand Oxford and Cambridge universities to boost social mobility.", "The actress's symptoms of memory loss and confusion have grown worse recently, her husband says.", "Network Rail says a five-year scheme to replace ageing signalling marks a turning point for the UK.", "Jojo Moyes stumps up £360,000 to keep the under-threat Quick Reads adult literacy scheme going.", "Prince Harry has invited 25 Army comrades to perform duties at his wedding to Meghan Markle.", "The police officer has been cleared of having improper relationships with anti-hunting activists.", "Syrian state TV broadcast footage showing Israeli rockets being intercepted by anti-missile systems.", "The former PM promised to boost Malaysia's economy but has been found guilty of corruption.", "At least 41 people die after a dam bursts in Kenya, sending floodwater through hundreds of homes.", "Glowing blue algae have transformed California's coast.", "A court heard the 17-year-old allegedly planned the attack after her Islamic State fiancé died.", "Andy Murray is doing \"everything he can\" to come back from injury in time for Wimbledon, says mother Judy.", "Police investigate separate incidents where thieves forced their way into homes in Kilmarnock and Paisley to steal a safe.", "The All Under One Banner event in Glasgow city centre has been organised by supporters of Scottish independence.", "Celtic secure an eight consecutive Scottish title with a convincing victory away to third-top Aberdeen.", "Two of the youngest candidates in the local council elections are still studying for their A-levels.", "The scale of the Tories' local election losses means the PM must go now, Iain Duncan Smith says.", "An Edinburgh scientist warns not enough is known about predicting major volcanic eruptions.", "Israel carries out air strikes on the Gaza Strip, after militants fired more than 200 rockets into Israel", "The man was killed after his motorbike collided with a lorry and a car on the A709 west of Lockerbie.", "Visitor numbers at Snowdon and Pen y Fan are going up - leading to overflowing car parks and bins.", "Nadia Sparkes, 13, was shown a knife and punched following taunts about her litter-picking.", "Labour also suffers losses in the local elections, as resurgent Lib Dems gain more than 700 seats.", "Both parties will now look ahead nervously to the European elections.", "It was a bad night for the Tories and for Labour, while the Lib Dems, Greens and independents prospered.", "She helped the group sell more than £2.7m of cocaine with her son directing operations from prison.", "A 17-year-old boy was arrested in the Chippenham area on Friday afternoon.", "A Conservative council leader who lost his majority says she should \"consider her position\".", "George Perrot, freed from a life sentence after his rape conviction was quashed, is accused of rape.", "Fulham's Harvey Elliott becomes the youngest ever Premier League player at 16 years and 30 days.", "The new Sky/HBO mini-series doesn't just get you thinking, it stops you sleeping.", "The moment Gerald Ramsden is elected after a dead heat in Hambleton.", "Full coverage of the results of the NI local elections as counting took place across NI's 11 councils.", "The firings took place early on Saturday from the east of the country, says South Korea.", "Manchester City beat West Ham to win the Women's FA Cup for the second time in three years at Wembley.", "The Scottish Conservative leader warns the Tories will suffer the wrath of voters in the EU elections unless they \"get Brexit sorted\".", "Ministers urge the Conservative party to unite - while Matt Hancock urges Tory MPs \"to compromise\".", "The two agreed there was \"no collusion\" between the Trump campaign and Russia, said the White House.", "Direct links to climate change are difficult to prove but rising temperatures are increasing cyclone intensity, say scientists.", "King Vajiralongkorn begins three days of traditional rites to symbolically transform him into a living god", "Final results show DUP and Sinn Féin remain the biggest parties but Alliance and others make gains.", "Scientists in the Antarctic are monitoring seal poo to keep track of what's happening in the environment.", "Caster Semenya wins the 800m at the first Diamond League meet of the season in Doha and vows to not quit the sport after IAAF ruling.", "An expert says Karanbir Cheema's fatal reaction to touching cheese was \"extraordinarily unusual\".", "Beyond the headlines of misery for the UK's two major parties, smaller plot twists have played out.", "Officials say hostility to medical staff is hindering efforts to tackle the deadly disease.", "Alliance and the Greens were not the only winners in an election full of surprises.", "Head teachers demand better support for schools facing protests over lessons on same-sex marriage.", "Former Alliance Party leader David Ford says the party have been polling strongly in the council election.", "Josh Dey retrieves CCTV footage of the crash in Highgate in which he suffered a bleed on the brain.", "Police say the group known as ‘Saoradh’ are the political voice of the New IRA.", "Find your result and follow the others as they come in using our interactive map.", "Alliance's surge is the most striking development of the NI council election results so far.", "The disqualified driver was recognised by a police officer who had dealt with him previously.", "All the latest news about England local elections 2019 from the BBC", "Alan Simpson was a pilot in a plane which crashed into a mountain during bad weather.", "Police say one of the women found in a flat in east London is mother-of-three Mihrican Mustafa.", "Health Secretary says he will \"consider all options\" to boost child immunisation uptake in England.", "The grime star breaks a rap streaming record to beat Taylor Swift to the UK chart top spot.", "The party stalwart blames its poor leadership, Brexit \"duplicity\" and the anti-Semitism row for his decision.", "Leader Vince Cable hails local election results as \"positive\" as he meets supporters in Essex.", "Bangladesh's foreign minister says the 19-year-old IS bride has \"nothing to do\" with his country.", "The jet carrying 143 people slid off a runway after landing in Jacksonville during a thunderstorm.", "Veteran socialist Eamonn McCann returns to politics, two years after losing his Northern Ireland Assembly seat.", "There have also been some surprising successes for Alliance and the Greens.", "A former Conservative councillor heckles the prime minister as she addresses the Welsh Tory conference in Llangollen.", "Torrential rain and powerful winds of up to 200 km/h (125mph) cause widespread disruption.", "Keepers at Woodside Wildlife Park managed to move the eggs from a nest to an incubator.", "Liverpool ensure the Premier League title race will go to the final day of the season as Divock Origi's late winner sees them beat Newcastle in a thriller.", "Leonardo da Vinci may have suffered nerve damage in a fall, impeding his ability to paint in later life.", "The Labour Party suffers a net loss of council seats - starting from the low base of 2015.", "The compensation and legal bill for newspapers that hacked phones has already reached nearly £500m.", "How the referendum results unfolded", "The UK entrepreneur puts himself through a gruelling training programme so he can rocket to space.", "Serena Alexander-Benson told her father she was going to school, but she never arrived.", "The Irish Republic has voted by a large majority to repeal a part of the constitution that banned abortions.", "Social media stars Zoella and Alfie Deyes feature in a study into the protection of children online.", "The former film mogul was charged with rape and sexual abuse after turning himself in to New York police.", "The US signals no change on sanctions as freed prisoner Joshua Holt meets Donald Trump at the White House.", "Jos Buttler and Dom Bess both make fifties to give England a slender lead in the first Test against Pakistan at Lord's.", "Two of the animals on the Isle of Rum died after becoming tangled in discarded fishing rope.", "Leo Varadkar says Irish people have voted for a \"modern constitution for a modern country\".", "Organisers say they hope hosting the event in Birmingham will drive more UK players to compete.", "Ten-man Fulham hold off Aston Villa to win the Championship play-off final and seal a return to the Premier League.", "The vote for liberalisation marks a significant break away from the influence of the Catholic Church.", "How many undiscovered species are there in the UK - and how unusual is it to find new life?", "Police are investigating whether there were any suspicious circumstances.", "Leeds Town Hall, a popular wedding venue, is covered by a huge banner advertising a major triathlon.", "As we await the official referendum result, BBC News looks at the current abortion law in Ireland.", "The actress, one of the movie mogul's accusers, says it's 'a slap in the face of abusive power'.", "Marcel Campbell died in the incident near Islington Town Hall on 21 May.", "The EU's Brexit chief says negotiations must speed up in order to reach a deal on a future relationship.", "Leo Varadkar was speaking after exit polls suggested a landslide vote in favour of reforming the law.", "The note begins by thanking Kim for his 'time and patience', then the president's pen turns poison.", "The design reflects the Duchess of Sussex's Californian background, Kensington Palace says.", "Britain's Chris Froome launches a devastating attack to win stage 19 of the Giro d'Italia and take the overall lead.", "A 95-year-old man is arrested after a female carer died of head injuries, the Met said.", "A Times newspaper investigation found the NHS was charged £3,220 for a mouthwash used by cancer patients.", "The Welsh band play a triumphant Biggest Weekend show, despite the loss of their bassist, Nicky Wire.", "Speaking about a row over tickets for his UK tour, the star says he wants to stop fans getting \"ripped off\".", "South Korea releases a Hollywood-style video of the meeting between the leaders of South and North.", "Business groups write to the prime minister urging the government not to waver on Heathrow expansion.", "A group of teenagers at a school where free sanitary products are available tackle the stigma around periods.", "Why the Italian artist is the \"David Attenborough of art\".", "The fourth man to walk on the Moon became an accomplished painter, finding inspiration in space.", "Homeowner Chris Scott thought the bunker's entrance was just a drain cover.", "Its creators say the violent, puppet-based Happytime Murders movie violates its good name.", "South Korea's movie-style video shows its president meet Kim Jong-un for only the second time.", "Five weeks into the IT crisis, the bank says experts from IBM will remain \"for as long as it takes\".", "Some Liverpool supporters will miss out on the Champions League final after flights were axed.", "BBC News NI looks at the background and the potential outcomes of the abortion referendum in the Republic of Ireland.", "Hayden, nine, will be Aston Villa's mascot for their Championship play-off final game on Saturday.", "The man was \"grateful but embarrassed\" after being freed after three hours wedged in a child's swing.", "BBC News NI takes a look back at the issue of abortion - one of the most controversial in Irish history.", "Experts say that Ivory Coast in West Africa has become a hotspot for the scammers.", "AG Barr recalls 750ml glass bottles of drinks products, including Irn Bru, after reports of caps popping off.", "Chris Froome is set for a historic Giro d'Italia victory as he leads by 46 seconds with just the procession into Rome to come.", "Helicopter footage shows Kilauea volcano lava destroying dozens of houses on Hawaii's Big Island.", "Supporters of the Yes campaign react to the overwhelming vote to overturn the abortion ban.", "Gareth Bale scores two goals - including a stunning overhead kick - as Real Madrid beat Liverpool to win the Champions League for the third year in a row.", "There is hope for NI, Penny Mordaunt says, after Ireland voted to overturn its abortion ban.", "The US president issues an optimistic statement on possibly reinstating the cancelled meeting.", "The findings from Which? come ahead of a major overhaul in how providers can advertise broadband speeds.", "Five pubs, including one designed around a nursery rhyme, have been granted Grade II listed status.", "The defence secretary believes the UK should increase its military presence, the BBC understands.", "The BBC meets couples across the UK sharing their big day with Harry and Meghan.", "Test your knowledge of past royal weddings with our archive-inspired quiz.", "The victim is pronounced dead at the scene in Barking, east London.", "Rosina Coleman, 85, was found dead by a handyman working at her east London home.", "Ten people were killed and another 10 wounded when a gunman opened fire at Santa Fe High School in Texas.", "Sir Eric Pickles and Peter Lilley are among nine Tories nominated to be elevated to House of Lords.", "MTV has suspended production of the show after claims of sexual harassment against host Nev Schulman.", "Charlie Deutsch ran back to his car after he was arrested at the roadside and then raced off.", "Latest updates as 10 people are confirmed dead in an attack at the Santa Fe High School in Texas.", "The island would have become the first place in the British Isles to allow assisted dying.", "John Bercow's office says \"strong views\" were expressed amid claims he was rude about a female minister.", "Ms Markle asked her future father-in-law, as her own father can't attend the wedding due to ill health.", "As final preparations take place, Meghan Markle's mother will meet the Queen for the first time.", "Legal and General's fund will focus on firms who score highly in areas such as women on boards.", "Meghan Markle says she feels \"wonderful\" before her wedding - while Harry is \"relaxed, of course\".", "Since their first public appearance in September, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have been busy.", "Former Bank of England deputy Charlotte Hogg says she has learnt lessons since resigning from her post.", "North Korea's threat to cancel its summit with the US suggests a problem of interpretation.", "Reece Platt-May, whose sons were killed by a speeding driver, was found dead in a Greek hotel.", "From tea towels to mugs, how big is the royal memorabilia market?", "Berlinah Wallace was convicted of throwing the acid at her ex-partner but found not guilty of murder.", "Harry and Meghan toured Windsor in an open-top carriage after exchanging marriage vows and rings.", "Three-quarters of those who challenged the Department for Work and Pensions were successful last year.", "The UN rights chief sharply criticises Israel for killing Palestinians \"caged in a toxic slum\".", "A student at Santa Fe High School in Texas describes fleeing campus after a gunman opened fire.", "\"Ms Markle is certainly dragging them into the Instagram age - but just how much can she change?\"", "She was found with fatal injuries after Belgian police pursued a van carrying 30 migrants for an hour.", "The vehicle caught fire on a Texas motorway after crashing into the central reservation.", "Anyone misplace a leg?", "Kilauea volcano sends ash 30,000ft (9,100m) into the sky and residents are advised to shelter.", "A two-year-old caught up in a Belgian police chase died from a gunshot to the face, officials say.", "The victim, named locally as Ozell Pemberton, was stabbed on Sutton Coldfield's main shopping street.", "Security will be the biggest expense, but precise costs are hard to count.", "As global rates of short-sightedness - or myopia - increase around the world, Singapore is hoping to buck the trend with three simple but innovative solutions.", "Manchester Arena attack survivor, 12, takes victim's grandmother to the royal wedding.", "Anyone could fill in the official study, which, some academics said, uses \"loaded, them and us\" questions.", "BBC hosts Katty Kay and Christian Fraser roll out the bunting as they sample the royal merchandise.", "A timeline of international air crashes from 1998 to the present.", "Hours before the attack, he made an ominous post on social media accompanied by an occult symbol.", "The Russian exile and his daughter were found slumped on a bench in Salisbury on 4 March.", "Nathan Gilmaney and Troy Thomas carried out a \"spree of violence\" as they rode a moped in London.", "With Ireland set to vote on legalising abortion, do people living in its cities and its countryside see the issue differently?", "More than 100 people have died in the crash near Havana but three women were pulled from the wreckage alive.", "Crowds lined the streets as Windsor was taken over by a rehearsal of the carriage procession.", "Hundreds of guests watched the couple exchange vows in a ceremony featuring a gospel choir and an American preacher.", "Phillip Sullivan leapt to the side as a support car hit a traffic island where he was standing.", "There is no overwhelming evidence that it will help, says the health body NICE in new draft guidelines.", "Taunting someone facially different is a hate crime and campaigner Rory McGuire wants everyone to know that.", "A picture of Theresa May is removed at the University of Oxford to save it from protesting students.", "Labour MP Ann Coffey says some children are being sent as far as 100 miles from where they live.", "Scotland Yard's Gang Violence Matrix is racially discriminatory and unlawful, Amnesty International says.", "The rapper's mum has said how supportive her son was when she told him she was gay.", "Iran prepares to restart uranium enrichment while European leaders call on Tehran to uphold the deal.", "Firms pledge a crackdown on \"excessive\" differences between premiums for new and existing customers.", "About 20 shots were heard when police exchanged fire with a suspect in Oxford city centre on Monday.", "The reports follow a BBC survey suggesting 27% of British Sikhs have a family member with a problem.", "Matthew Moseley, 50, handed a shotgun to his son and urged him to \"tell them you've done it\".", "Wales manager Ryan Giggs says he is hoping and praying that Sir Alex Ferguson can recover from his brain haemorrhage.", "A cordon remains in place in Oxford city centre as officers are locked in a stand-off with the gunman.", "Average rail ticket prices go up by 3.4% across the UK - the biggest increase in five years.", "The UK foreign secretary sets out what the US president would need to do to deserve the honour.", "A university library in Zambia has removed a notice telling female students to dress \"modestly\".", "Watch as Mark Williams delivers on his promise of appearing naked in his news conference if he won the World Championship title.", "Ireland make it to the final for the first time since 2013, with Israel's Netta also qualifying.", "Talks are due to start on Wednesday, 17 years after the country defaulted on its debts.", "Zimbabwe's armed female anti-poaching unit protects one of Africa's biggest elephant populations.", "Ex-Chelsea coaches Gwyn Williams and Graham Rix face new allegations of racially abusing young players in the 1970s, 80s and 90s.", "This is a regal jumping spider, and there are no prizes for guessing what it's good at.", "The social media site cracks down on foreign ads relating to Ireland's referendum on abortion laws.", "Despite the French president's efforts, the \"Art of the Deal\" author continues to slam the Iran accord.", "The German carmaker says another 60,000 diesel engine A6 and A7 models have emission software issues.", "Peers defeat the government as they support the UK remaining in the European Economic Area.", "The artist was found dead at her home days after she returned to performing after a two-year hiatus.", "The wounded boy was one of five people shot in London over a 24-hour period.", "Heidi Alexander's move means there will be a by-election in her Lewisham East seat.", "A selfie ban and a harassment hotline are among new measures to be introduced at the festival.", "President Sergio Mattarella proposes a caretaker government until December - or new elections.", "Firms which exploit staff could face higher financial penalties and increased risk of prosecution.", "The militant Shia group and its allies are reported to have made significant gains in parliament.", "A 13-year-old with brain trauma regains consciousness as doctors were about to end his life support.", "Ministers raise concerns over plans to introduce a new body to look into unsolved Troubles crimes.", "Debbie Abrahams is \"relieved\" of her shadow cabinet post following a \"thorough investigation\".", "This is America takes on guns, racism and identity... \"You might laugh... you might want to be sick.\"", "A cyber-safety booklet released by the First Lady bears an uncanny resemblance to an Obama-era edition.", "The search giant unveils an experimental tool that can make appointments by calling businesses.", "The New York Yankees and Boston Red Sox will play two Major League Baseball regular season games at the London Stadium in June 2019.", "The Kilauea volcano in Hawaii started erupting on 3 May and has so far destroyed 26 homes.", "President Donald Trump said the deal was defective and that maximum sanctions on Iran would be re-imposed.", "A review finds 33 criminal cases were wrongly investigated including sex attacks and violent crimes.", "A report proposes giving 25-year-olds £10,000 and taxing pensioners to spend more on the young and NHS.", "West Bromwich Albion are relegated from the Premier League after Southampton won 1-0 at Swansea City on Tuesday night.", "Mark Williams wins his third World Championship - 15 years after his last - by holding off John Higgins' stunning fightback at the Crucible.", "The government says it plans to eliminate all avoidable plastic waste, including wet wipes.", "Parts of England could reach 28C on Monday - breaking the record of 23.6C set in 1999.", "At the end of maternal mental health week, one mother details her experience of post-natal depression and the help she describes as a godsend.", "All of Ms Markle's bridesmaids will be children, according to new details released about the wedding.", "The foreign secretary will try to convince the US to stick with the landmark weapons agreement.", "The Labour group leader says the anti-Semitism row \"made a difference\" to the borough's results.", "Sir Alex Ferguson, who led Manchester United to 38 trophies during 26 years in charge, has emergency surgery for a brain haemorrhage.", "Chelsea boss Emma Hayes wants to be known as a coach not a \"role model\" as she prepares her side for Wembley while 33 weeks pregnant.", "Border officers confiscated the year-old reptiles because they were not being transported correctly.", "Several quakes including a magnitude 6.9 hit the US state, a day after the Kilauea volcano erupted.", "Without a real majority, neither Jeremy Corbyn nor Theresa May can see off the competition.", "The tabby disappeared seven months ago as it was not \"feeling the love\" for noisy building work at home.", "The Trump administration's move means up to 57,000 Hondurans will have to leave the US by 2020.", "Prof John Curtice looks at what the local election results mean for the state of the parties.", "The InSight probe launched from California to investigate the interior of the Red Planet.", "More than 2,500 of Dr Michael Watt's patients have been recalled after a case review by Belfast Trust.", "Analysis suggests the two main parties are neck and neck overall in terms of national vote share.", "Lance Martin's property was three feet away from falling to the beach below.", "Jamie Acourt had evaded capture for two years by using false identities, police say.", "The fleet returns to its old base seven years after disbandment, to oversee forces in the North Atlantic.", "A 38-year-old woman is in a critical but stable condition after being attacked with a drill in Strabane.", "Ramona Bachmann scores twice as Chelsea Ladies beat Arsenal Women at Wembley to win the Women's FA Cup final.", "It has emerged an aid worker on a Scottish government-funded project was reported to police in 2009.", "Statistics show that New York still appears to be more violent than London.", "Louis is seen at home with his sister and three days after his birth in photos taken by their mother.", "Labour has failed to take target councils in London, while the Conservatives have lost control of two councils.", "A Turkish football fan goes above and beyond, screaming in Scotland and other stories you may have missed.", "Following a BBC investigation, YouTube has taken down hundreds of videos promoting an essay-writing company.", "The SMMT trade body hits out after reports the government will target hybrids in a new emissions drive.", "Police say 14 people have been arrested in connection with the rape and murder of the teenager.", "Nearly 1,500 visitors a day will be able to visit Coronation Street's set in Greater Manchester.", "The former MP says the accusations led to him losing his job and home and suffering from depression.", "A ban on women in the \"purified\" space is lifted in a bid to modernise the traditional sport.", "Idaho State University faces a fine after misplacing a tiny amount of the weapons-grade material.", "Stoke's 10-year stay in the Premier League comes to an end as they are consigned to the Championship by Crystal Palace's second-half resurgence.", "Knife offences remain a major subject of public interest. But what are the facts?", "Brighton secure their Premier League safety as they beat Manchester United with a goal awarded by goalline technology.", "Sir Paul McCartney is made a Companion of Honour while Darcey Bussell is rewarded for her services to dance.", "The Jones family's belongings were packed in a removals van, but TSB's computer fiasco put their move in doubt.", "The American space agency Nasa has launched its latest mission to Mars.", "The All Under One Banner event saw thousands of people parade through the city centre of Glasgow.", "\"They don't have guns,\" the president told the NRA. \"They have knives and instead there's blood all over the floors of this hospital.\"", "Thousands of visitors were evacuated when a blaze engulfed part of Europa-Park on Saturday.", "Rita Ora pays an emotional tribute to Avicii as she performs their collaborative single Lonely Together.", "Serena Alexander-Benson told her father she was going to school, but she never arrived.", "The Irish Republic has voted by a large majority to repeal a part of the constitution that banned abortions.", "Environment Secretary Michael Gove launches a review of the country's protected landscapes.", "The victim, also a 15-year-old boy, died of stab wounds to the chest.", "A baby born with her heart beating outside her body has been moved to a hospital nearer home.", "An 18-year-old, named locally as Georgia Jones, and a man died in separate incidents at Mutiny Festival.", "Claims England players were involved in spot-fixing are \"outrageous\", says Test captain Joe Root.", "Prisoners released on licence could instead fill labour shortages caused by Brexit, a minister says.", "Torrential rain hit the West Midlands and weather warnings are in place for southern England.", "Those in the industry ask the PM to ensure they will continue to be able to hire EU workers.", "Police are investigating whether there were any suspicious circumstances.", "Leeds Town Hall, a popular wedding venue, is covered by a huge banner advertising a major triathlon.", "Janine Milburn hopes the death of her \"little girl\" at a festival will deter others from taking drugs.", "Flights are cancelled or delayed after its aircraft fuelling system was damaged by a thunderstorm.", "Marcel Campbell died in the incident near Islington Town Hall on 21 May.", "The EU's Brexit chief says negotiations must speed up in order to reach a deal on a future relationship.", "Serena Alexander-Benson was last seen by her father leaving her home in Wimbledon on Friday.", "The note begins by thanking Kim for his 'time and patience', then the president's pen turns poison.", "Helicopter footage shows Kilauea volcano lava destroying dozens of houses on Hawaii's Big Island.", "Less than 1% of Russia's 144 million people are black. What is life like for them?", "The Mutiny Festival has released a statement following the deaths of two revellers at its event.", "The successful campaign to repeal Ireland's Eighth Amendment turns to face the north.", "Chris Froome becomes the first Briton to win the Giro d'Italia and only the seventh man to claim all three Grand Tour titles.", "But the leading Tory Brexiteer urges Theresa May to take a tougher line in Brexit negotiations.", "Business groups write to the prime minister urging the government not to waver on Heathrow expansion.", "South Korea releases a Hollywood-style video of the meeting between the leaders of South and North.", "Around 15,000 lightning strikes were recorded in just four hours, BBC Weather said.", "A group of teenagers at a school where free sanitary products are available tackle the stigma around periods.", "Liverpool keeper Loris Karius says he is \"infinitely sorry\" after his two mistakes helped Real Madrid beat the Reds in the Champions League final.", "The fourth man to walk on the Moon became an accomplished painter, finding inspiration in space.", "Its creators say the violent, puppet-based Happytime Murders movie violates its good name.", "Homeowner Chris Scott thought the bunker's entrance was just a drain cover.", "Female doctors are paid on average £10,000 less than male doctors in England, figures show.", "A report says RBS has failed to appreciate the impact of its decision to close dozens of branches in Scotland.", "South Korea's movie-style video shows its president meet Kim Jong-un for only the second time.", "Merseyside Police says it is aware of death threats made to Liverpool goalkeeper Loris Karius after the Champions League final.", "It follows an overwhelming vote in favour of overturning the country's abortion ban.", "Daniel Ricciardo drives a masterful race to fend off Sebastian Vettel's Ferrari and win the Monaco Grand Prix in a stricken Red Bull.", "Labour urges Theresa May to reform NI abortion law as DUP and government say it is a devolved matter.", "The man was \"grateful but embarrassed\" after being freed after three hours wedged in a child's swing.", "BBC News NI takes a look back at the issue of abortion - one of the most controversial in Irish history.", "Pakistan beat England by nine wickets with more than five sessions to spare in the first Test of the summer at Lord's.", "Sex assaults and drug use among teens were reported at Mutiny in the Park, police say.", "Stories you may have missed this week, including a mini Meghan and Harry.", "The new technical courses, including construction and childcare, will be an alternative to A-levels.", "The US pop star plays a brief, but hit-packed, show at the BBC Music Biggest Weekend festival.", "Supporters of the Yes campaign react to the overwhelming vote to overturn the abortion ban.", "Gareth Bale scores two goals - including a stunning overhead kick - as Real Madrid beat Liverpool to win the Champions League for the third year in a row.", "The idea of opening new grammars has faced much criticism, but the experiences of former pupils might explain why their appeal seems to remain so durable.", "James Male, Andrew Bridge, Steve Warren and Paul Goslin died when the Cheeki Rafiki capsized in 2014.", "A wildlife ranger is said to have died when a vehicle was targeted in the Virunga National Park.", "One million customers will see their annual dual fuel bills rise by an average of £64.", "The bodies of four children and three adults were discovered at a rural property, police say.", "The official also says Brexit has led to a \"growing acceptability of intolerance and racist speech\".", "The family home will be torn down unless a further £200k is spent on a replacement roof.", "The public inquiry was due to report this year but will now not be ready until at least 2023.", "Doctors say Florida deputy Jeremie Nix's quick-thinking and swift actions kept baby Kingston alive.", "Newsnight speaks to a young asylum seeker who was told by the Home Office that he could not study.", "Drivers including football fans and people catching flights are being warned to expect disruption.", "The PM sets up two working parties in a bid to hammer out differences over customs plans.", "Regulators fine the Barclays chief for breaching rules by trying to identify a whistleblower.", "High car insurance and the boom in delivery services such as Deliveroo have increased the number of mopeds.", "Ministry of Defence's 10-year spending plan faces a shortfall of between £4.9bn and £20.8bn, say MPs.", "Documents seized in Libya in 2011 led to the UK government apologising to Abdul Hakim Belhaj.", "Manchester United legend Eric Cantona will return to Old Trafford in a charity match for Unicef in June.", "The 23.8m (78ft) swell is the largest ever recorded below the equator, New Zealand scientists say.", "The inflation measure used to set loans on tuition fees is \"grossly unfair\", says a committee of MPs.", "The driver suffered minor injuries in the crash on a dual carriageway.", "From appointment to being fired for gross misconduct, the inside story on Student Loans Company chief.", "Georgina Chapman opens up in her first interview since allegations against her husband emerged.", "Fatima Boudchar gave a statement after the UK government apologised to her and her husband.", "A US magazine has apologised after rescinding her event invite when Bill Clinton decided to attend.", "There has been speculation a £1bn contract for three new Royal Fleet Auxiliary support ships could go abroad.", "Names and backgrounds of the victims of the Grenfell Tower fire.", "A Commons committee is to consider whether the 1991 law is effective, as figures suggest a rise in attacks.", "Soldiers who served with Prince Harry in Afghanistan prepare for their role in his wedding.", "Ayatollah Khamenei is pictured at a Tehran book fair reading Michael Wolff's Fire and Fury.", "Grammars have been growing, with more than 7,500 extra places being created since 2010.", "The AA says the number of claims for damage caused by potholes has soared this year.", "Mayor Sadiq Khan says a ban could tackle the \"ticking time bomb\" of child obesity.", "The man fell about 498,000 retweets short before a Canadian skating duo helped him score a free flight.", "A teenager tries to scale a sheer cliff but gets stuck and ends up clinging on by his fingernails.", "The government pledges £50m for grammar school expansion and gives councils funding for new faith schools.", "Netta Barzilai from Israel is one of the big favourites to win this year's song contest.", "The school, which is an \"annexe\" of an existing grammar school, has places for 450 pupils.", "The move is part of the streaming service's new \"Hate Content & Hateful Conduct\" policy.", "The general manager of Beekse Bergen park in the Netherlands said they had a lucky escape.", "The space agency says it will be the first test of a heavier-than-air aircraft on another planet.", "Delays are forecast as Luton Airport workers vote to walk out in a row over pay and contracts.", "An Italian couple who died in the Grenfell Tower fire become heroes in a new story book.", "Relatives pay tribute to \"passionate and charismatic\" Frightened Rabbit singer Scott Hutchison.", "The rapper says R Kelly hasn't been convicted of a crime and the decision is \"wrong\".", "Solo: A Star Wars Story has been widely praised by the first people to see the film.", "Prince Harry has invited 25 Army comrades to perform duties at his wedding to Meghan Markle.", "Bereaved relatives say they will not attend the inquiry unless a more diverse panel is appointed.", "He says it is right to \"move on\", having announced he will step down as first minister this autumn.", "It took 300 eggs and an awful lot of flour, sugar and chocolate to recreate the royal couple.", "The entitlement to time off work after the loss of a child is expected to come into force in 2020.", "The Electoral Commission calls the group's conduct \"disappointing\" and refers a senior figure to the police.", "Glowing blue algae have transformed California's coast.", "A court heard the 17-year-old allegedly planned the attack after her Islamic State fiancé died.", "The prime minister's decision is seen as a U-turn, as she previously said she would not appoint any other members.", "When a family tragedy struck, this MP campaigned for change", "Just 7% of private rental properties are suitable for a disabled person, new report finds.", "President Donald Trump, speaking by video, leads speeches on the US move.", "Alan and Jean, a couple from Leeds, were being watched by thousands of people around the world and didn’t even know.", "The shark - thought to be up to 8ft long - bit the man as the crew tried to get it back in the water.", "Officials have found the records of people who were made to leave the UK, the home secretary reveals.", "Palestinian officials say dozens of people were killed, with thousands more wounded.", "Wages are rising faster than inflation for the first time in more than a year, official figures show.", "The move follows criticism of the handling of personal information in the national pupil database.", "Eloise Parry died at the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital after taking a slimming supplement, a court hears.", "The US retailer is the latest firm to anger China by not adhering to its territorial claims.", "A police officer recalls a pursuit at more than 100mph as the \"scariest moment\" of his career.", "US media reports Thomas Markle will miss his daughter's wedding due to a planned heart operation.", "Three experts explain how Donald Trump might avoid diplomatic gaffes and forge a lasting peace with North Korea.", "Women received driving lessons at an exhibition ahead of next month's lifting of the female driving ban.", "The singer spoke to her mum and grandmother about the \"black hole\" she fell into as an adolescent after her single came out.", "Former Aston Villa and Bolton defender Jlloyd Samuel dies in a car crash in Cheshire, aged 37.", "The city's importance explained, as the controversial US embassy move to the city goes ahead.", "Film critics walk out of controversial director Lars von Trier's violent serial killer screening in Cannes.", "Eduardo Leon, 27, allegedly hopped over a fence and broke into her home before being discovered, say police.", "The man complained of breathing difficulties after going to a nightclub in Colombo.", "Goalkeeper Joe Hart and midfielder Jack Wilshere are left out of England's World Cup squad by Gareth Southgate, BBC Sport has learned.", "Police say budget cuts are making it more difficult to investigate. Find out how your force is doing.", "Phone company apologises for mail addressed to \"Mr Isis Terroriste\" and \"Mr Getout Ofengland\".", "Cars were crushed beneath tonnes of concrete when a pillar for the under-construction road toppled.", "Find out more about what it is like to live in the Gaza Strip, from the economy to education, health and water.", "Israeli troops killed 58 Palestinians protesting along the Gaza border on Monday.", "An A&E nurse opens up about life on the front line as the profession considers asking for body cameras.", "British former Olympic champion Darren Campbell says he is \"relieved to be alive\" as he recovers in hospital after a bleed in the brain.", "Margot Kidder, known for her role as Lois Lane in the 1978 film Superman, died at her home on Sunday.", "The men complained of breathing difficulties after going to a nightclub in Colombo.", "For the first time, Facebook shares details about the amount of hateful content posted by users.", "Prince William is helping to build a new home for a boxing gym destroyed in the Grenfell Tower fire.", "A broken oven meant customers had to wait up to an hour for food at the Notting Hill Pizza Festival.", "From carriages to very excited commentators, here's how the BBC covered the big ones.", "The husband of jailed mother Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe says she is facing possible new charges.", "Palestinians call it \"the Catastrophe\" of their displacement - here it is explained in brief.", "The embolisation procedure was successful and there were no complications, her office says.", "The suspect is accused of planning an attack at the British Museum after her IS fighter fiance was killed.", "Wolfe wrote the 1980s satire Bonfire of the Vanities, which was made into a film starring Tom Hanks.", "Brigitte was forced to live and work with priests in a shrine to “atone” for her uncle's sins.", "Posing for photos with the Turkish president lands footballers Özil and Gündogan in hot water.", "The EU's chief negotiator says there is a \"risk of failure\" in key areas being negotiated.", "Two pages of the teen's diary, glued over with brown paper, have finally been revealed.", "Manhattan nanny Yoselyn Ortega says \"sorry for everything\" as a judge hands her the maximum sentence.", "Andy Hill's Hawker Hunter jet crashed on to the A27 in West Sussex during an air show in 2015.", "Crowds of well-wishers have lined the streets in Liverpool to pay their respects to Alfie Evans who was at the centre of a High Court battle over his care.", "The mayor of London says the rise is \"unacceptably high\", and calls for \"national solutions\".", "The group of six are thought to have made about £2.5m selling puppies from houses in west London.", "The US president owns two golf courses in Scotland and another in Doonbeg, Ireland.", "Kim Jong-un's pledge is a step towards ending the nuclear programme but isn't 'denuclearisation'", "A BBC documentary about the Manchester attack was \"entirely inappropriate\", a chief constable says.", "The return of female models to the F1 grid at this weekend's Monaco Grand Prix is \"a beautiful thing\", Lewis Hamilton says.", "The 19-year-old was arrested in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire, on Wednesday evening.", "Statistics show that New York still appears to be more violent than London.", "The US President says North Korea's attitude changed after a second meeting with the Chinese leader.", "A new report suggests only one in six screenwriters working in film and television in the UK are female.", "Arsenal name former Paris St-Germain and Sevilla boss Unai Emery as their new head coach.", "Jealous Berlinah Wallace wanted to \"burn, disfigure and disable\" her ex-partner Mark van Dongen.", "Husnain Rashid also allegedly encouraged poison being injected into supermarket ice creams.", "With Ireland set to vote on legalising abortion, do people living in its cities and its countryside see the issue differently?", "The coin hails \"peace talks\" between Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un but critics say it may not even happen.", "From an on-duty radiographer to a taxi driver who helped on the night, people of Greater Manchester reflect on the past 12 months.", "Jeremy Corbyn says he is not asking or advocating for a border poll but would ensure the GFA is implemented.", "The Duchess of Sussex starts laughing when Prince Harry's speech is momentarily interrupted by a bee.", "Kees van Dongen says he his son \"begged him to let him take his own life\"", "As we await the official referendum result, BBC News looks at the current abortion law in Ireland.", "A group of survivors from the Manchester attack sing in a choir to help them cope with the trauma.", "The youngest victim of the Manchester attack, Saffie Roussos, was a big Harley Davidson fan.", "The Facebook founder faces questions from European lawmakers over the data scandal and fake news.", "A video showing footage of the blaze is shown without a warning, causing distressed relatives to leave.", "Commons leader Andrea Leadsom does not say when the EU Withdrawal Bill will return to the Commons, following Lords defeats, but says Brexit legislation will be \"a matter of weeks not months\".", "The retail giant speeds up the pace of closures that it says are \"vital for the future of M&S\".", "Robby Potter spent three weeks in a coma following last year's terrorist attack at a pop concert.", "The expense of shutting stores contributes to a big slide in annual profits, as sales keep falling.", "She is performing The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill on tour, 20 years after its release.", "A watchdog says \"innovative changes\" helped boost London Ambulance Service's performance.", "Olga Tokarczuk wins the £50,000 literary prize for her book Flights.", "The daughter of an ex-Russian spy poisoned in Salisbury tells Reuters she is taking \"one day at a time\".", "Two of the animals on the Isle of Rum died after becoming tangled in discarded fishing rope.", "A US diplomatic employee suffers a brain injury after experiencing abnormal \"sounds and pressure\".", "Donald Trump's long-time and fiercely loyal lawyer is now at the centre of a criminal investigation.", "Prohibition of drugs has never worked according to an experienced drugs investigator.", "The new French-Spanish operator promises Wales' rail services will be \"unrecognisable\" in five years time.", "The government department worker claims the restraint took place amid years of bullying and harassment.", "The actress revealed the diagnosis on her chat show to explain why she has been covering her head.", "The foreign secretary was asked if he would rather use a private plane over normal flights.", "Philip Wilson is the most senior Catholic ever found guilty of covering up clerical sex abuse.", "The prize-winning author of American Pastoral and Portnoy's Complaint dies at 85.", "Gavin Grimm, who has been fighting his former high school's policy for years, says he feels relief.", "DNA research team say sampling of Loch Ness could uncover evidence of new creatures.", "The announcement is being seen as a sign that a new, more powerful console is on the way.", "Photographer Alexi Lubomirski describes working with the Duke and Duchess of Sussex on their wedding day.", "Hamid Ali Jafari tells the inquiry of his search for his father and how he hopes they meet in heaven.", "For the first time a badger baiting network is infiltrated by an undercover reporter.", "A judge rules that blocking access to the president's tweets violates free speech.", "Enough water to meet the needs of 20 million people is lost through leakage every day, the report says.", "At The Races presenter Hayley Moore grabs the reins of Give Em A Clump after he unseats his rider.", "Ministers pledge action on drug killings as MP says they must ask themselves \"do black lives matter?\"", "Choirs lead a chorus of amateur voices in a sing-along to remember the Manchester attack victims.", "The girl became pregnant at 13 by a relative in Pakistan who she was then forced to marry.", "Theresa May clashed with Jeremy Corbyn over private sector involvement in the NHS - here are the key bits.", "BBC News examines the dreadful price Mark van Dongen paid for rejecting his girlfriend.", "Voters returned home from across the world to cast their ballot in Friday's historic referendum.", "The joint US-German Grace satellites go into orbit to monitor Earth's most important resource.", "The Brexit vote has lowered growth by up to 2%, Bank of England Governor Mark Carney says.", "Family members and friends have described their loved ones and paid tribute to their lives.", "The university apologises after retweeting criticism of the MP from one of its students.", "Pulitzer prize-winning novelist who scandalised middle America but became the grand old man of American letters.", "Sophie Parker shares her story of being bullied for having a birthmark on her face.", "The prospect of an increase in UK interest rates this year recedes after inflation dips in April.", "Players who do not stand for the anthem will be allowed to stay in the locker room until it is over.", "Bishop Curry speaks to the BBC's Religion Editor, Martin Bashir, about his royal wedding sermon.", "Crowds of survivors and relatives of people who died in last year's bombing gathered to pay tribute.", "Investigative art, works that blur fact and fiction and pieces exploring oppression make the list.", "Caster Semenya unsuccessfully challenged a rule to restrict the level of testosterone permitted in female runners in a case about athletes with differences of sexual development.", "The UK's largest ATM network is increasing the fee it pays cash machine operators to keep remote machines free of charge.", "There was a lot of frustration with how Gavin Williamson - now sacked from his role of defence secretary - had sometimes behaved.", "As Indonesian orangutans come into closer contact with humans, they are at increasing risk of capture.", "A profile of Julian Assange, founder of the whistleblowing website Wikileaks.", "The girl, 2, is seriously injured in hospital after being hit at a house in Liverpool.", "Mohamed Noor shot Justine Damond as she approached his patrol car to report a possible rape.", "A full public inquiry into the infected blood scandal finally starts hearing first-person testimony.", "More than 1,700 cash machines started charging a fee in the UK between January and March this year.", "A church warden and magician are accused of plotting to kill Peter Farquhar to inherit his home.", "A Labour MP says the Welsh Government should look at its part in the Cwm Taf maternity crisis.", "Football should introduce \"temporary concussion substitutions\" says a brain injury charity in the wake of Tottenham defender Jan Vertonghen's injury in the Champions League semi-final first leg.", "Fiona Onasanya was jailed in January for lying about a speeding offence.", "Ben McDonald was \"really fit\" but died at the finish of the the Cardiff Half Marathon.", "Joseph McCann's case was not referred to parole officials before he was released from prison.", "Mothers speaking to the Cwm Taf maternity review \"overwhelmingly\" had distressing experiences.", "The Cabinet Office minister has resigned amid accusations of bullying.", "Shadow minister Rebecca Long Bailey said this is \"the first step towards taking more radical action\".", "The boy ran into a shop pleading for help saying he had been stabbed, an eyewitness says.", "MPs call for more than £3bn for children's services in England to end a funding crisis.", "The new legislation makes it illegal to kill beavers or destroy established dams without a licence.", "The steelmaker asked for help after the EU froze UK companies out of its carbon credits scheme.", "BabaBing says the supermarket chain copied a bag the firm worked on for two years.", "Simon Hayes was part of a plot to abandon the man in the UK so he could be treated on the NHS.", "Stephen Coxen had been ordered to pay his victim £80,000 in damages after he was sued for rape in the civil courts.", "The supermarket chain reveals the cost of its failed Asda merger as it reports a slip in sales.", "A mother who lost her baby after maternity unit failings says she has \"lost all confidence\".", "Pete Wishart said he would have a \"solid agenda of reform\" if he is chosen to replace John Bercow as Speaker.", "Smartphone revenue falls at its steepest-ever rate, but the technology giant is upbeat on the future.", "Zarhid Younis, 34, faces two counts of preventing the lawful and decent burial of a dead body.", "From a rape allegation in Sweden to jail in the UK, the key dates in the Julian Assange case.", "Researchers collected samples from rivers in Suffolk and found the drug when testing for chemicals.", "Indian sprinter Dutee Chand has been cleared to run again but she is collateral damage in a scientific dispute, writes Matt Slater.", "No 10 says Theresa May had \"lost confidence in his ability to serve\" in his role.", "John Worboys, now known as John Radford, is due to appear in court later this month.", "Two of the youngest candidates in the local council elections are still studying for their A-levels.", "Olympic champion Caster Semenya loses her appeal against new rules from athletics' governing body restricting testosterone levels in female runners.", "BBC Arabic found videos of bodies being desecrated by fighters loyal to strongman Khalifa Haftar.", "Customers of Gill's Motorhomes say they lost large sums of money after the company ceased trading.", "Martin was one of thousands of NHS patients infected with HIV or hepatitis in the 1970s and 80s.", "Gerard Batten attacks Nigel Farage's \"ego-driven\" Brexit Party as he launches UKIP's European campaign.", "Several ministers deny being involved in leaking information from a National Security Council meeting.", "High Court judges rule in favour of the government's decision to approve airport expansion plans.", "Defendant is in a critical condition in hospital after incident during fraud case sentencing.", "Sir Jim Ratcliffe, Britain's richest man and owner of Ineos, says ministers should look at the science.", "The Wikileaks co-founder deliberately put himself out of reach by hiding in the Ecuadorian embassy, a judge says.", "Reaction after Defence Secretary Gavin Williamson is sacked following an investigation into a National Security Council leak.", "The show is renewed for a sixth season but it's unlikely the actor's character Jamal will come back.", "Clashes broke out between police and protesters as 'yellow vests' and labour unions held a march.", "Homes in the city of La Paz were destroyed, but no casualties were reported.", "Theresa May's letter to Gavin Williamson outlining why he was being dismissed, and his reply to her.", "A year after a new law pushed up the price of cheap, high-strength alcohol, ministers are hopeful Scotland's drinking habits have changed.", "Theresa May says her aims are \"very similar\" to Labour's when it comes to customs talks.", "A group of 87 MPs say the Home Office unlawfully discriminated against the Windrush generation.", "More than 250 free-to-use cash machines are closing every month as operators shut unprofitable ones.", "Some see the man behind Wikileaks as a reckless 'hacktivist' – others think he's a campaigner for truth.", "Police staff accused of domestic abuse are less likely than the general public to be convicted.", "Alex Hepburn was involved in a \"pathetic sexist\" conquest game he helped set up on WhatsApp.", "Tottenham need to overturn a one-goal deficit to reach the Champions League final after losing at home to Ajax in the first leg of their semi-final.", "Lionel Messi's second-half double, including a stunning free-kick, earns Barcelona a handsome advantage against Liverpool in their Champions League semi-final.", "The group's leader quits but says the decision was not made for political or financial reasons.", "Victims of the contaminated blood scandal have been giving testimonies about how it affected their lives.", "The United Nations says plans to classify female athletes by their testosterone levels, put forward by athletics' governing body, \"contravene international human rights\".", "Feuding rappers have been jailed for life for the gang-related murder of an Ipswich teenager.", "Mark Zuckerberg announced changes to Instagram, WhatsApp and Facebook at a speech in San Francisco", "Karanbir Cheema, 13, died two weeks after cheese was flicked at him at school, an inquest hears.", "Scientists find evidence an ancient human species called a Denisovan lived at high altitudes in Tibet.", "Police say the teenager has suffered serious injuries while on a footpath near a secondary school.", "The Welsh and Scottish governments have also declared an emergency - along with dozens of towns and cities.", "How to prepare for an unprecedented meeting between two wildly unpredictable men? And is there time?", "Theresa May clashed with Jeremy Corbyn over Brexit and the customs union - here are the key bits.", "The two singers have been feuding since a reported row over backing dancers.", "A picture of Theresa May is removed at the University of Oxford to save it from protesting students.", "There is no overwhelming evidence that it will help, says the health body NICE in new draft guidelines.", "Here's what Iran and world powers agreed on its nuclear programme, and why it is now in crisis.", "The bakery chain's shares plunge after it warns that its profits could flatline in 2018.", "Sir Alex Ferguson no longer needs intensive care after having emergency surgery on Saturday for a brain haemorrhage, Manchester United announce.", "Scotland Yard's Gang Violence Matrix is racially discriminatory and unlawful, Amnesty International says.", "A BBC Watchdog investigation tested hygiene standards at Odeon, Vue and Cineworld chains.", "In a dramatic comeback, former PM Mahathir Mohamad, 92, ends the ruling coalition's 60 years in power.", "The Parental Bereavement Bill clears its Commons stages, as it heads to the Lords to be debated.", "Huddersfield Town ensure Premier League survival with a draw at Chelsea - a result which damages the Blues' Champions League hopes.", "The biggest rat eradication project ever undertaken appears to have succeeded.", "A survey finds Scots use more of the drug per session - and in Glasgow can order it \"quicker than pizza'\".", "Ed Miliband says the government should implement part two of the Leveson inquiry into press standards.", "The reports follow a BBC survey suggesting 27% of British Sikhs have a family member with a problem.", "The BBC's Watchdog discovers a fault that causes some vehicles to shut down while being driven.", "London has overtaken Paris and Montreal for the title of best student city, despite being so expensive.", "Cancer patients are being put at risk by tougher rules on immigration, say specialist doctors.", "The prosecution has begun its closing statement in the Sophie Lionnet murder trial.", "The trio were held for \"hostile acts\" in North Korea, but are now on their way back to the US.", "Scott Hutchison of Frightened Rabbit has not been seen since he left a hotel in South Queensferry.", "The government heads off a Commons defeat on re-launching the Leveson inquiry into press standards.", "About 10,000 England fans are due in Russia with authorities keen to avoid Euro 2016-style violence.", "Abdul Hakim Belhaj claims MI6 helped the US kidnap him in Thailand in 2004 to return him to Tripoli.", "Footage of the police raid on the singer's home showed nothing that was private, BBC lawyers say.", "Communications watchdog Ofcom says average download speeds rose 28% since its last yearly survey.", "Mr Heaney collapsed at the Sydenham bypass, five miles into the race on Monday.", "Ireland make it to the final for the first time since 2013, with Israel's Netta also qualifying.", "The European deal will allow the UK telecoms group to take on Deutsche Telekom in Germany.", "Fairground workers William and Shelby Thurston put \"profit before safety\", a judge says.", "Talks are due to start on Wednesday, 17 years after the country defaulted on its debts.", "The lead researcher says the discovery could \"make a real difference to people\".", "Khalid Sheikh Mohammed asks to submit information as Gina Haspel faces her confirmation hearing.", "Peers defeat the government as they support the UK remaining in the European Economic Area.", "An Airbus executive says future UK work on the Galileo sat-nav system would have to be moved to the continent because of Brexit.", "Members of the public are being offered the chance to attend the event at Westminster Abbey.", "Four-month-old Natalie Jackson was born with a distinctive black birthmark covering a third of her face.", "Government's child mental health plan leaves hundreds of thousands without proper care, says report.", "A woman who noticed an unexpected figure on her account says the system is an \"absolute joke\".", "Firms which exploit staff could face higher financial penalties and increased risk of prosecution.", "This is America takes on guns, racism and identity... \"You might laugh... you might want to be sick.\"", "Network Rail says a five-year scheme to replace ageing signalling marks a turning point for the UK.", "An Italian couple who died in the Grenfell Tower fire become heroes in a new story book.", "The University of Warwick is investigating after screen shots of the group conversation emerged.", "Ministers raise concerns over plans to introduce a new body to look into unsolved Troubles crimes.", "Michael Cohen is reported to have received $500,000 from a firm with ties to a Russian oligarch.", "President Donald Trump said the deal was defective and that maximum sanctions on Iran would be re-imposed.", "Owen Scott tried to kill his children and step-daughter with a hammer then crashed his car at 92mph.", "The devastating Sichuan earthquake which struck 10 years ago left around 87,000 people dead.", "West Bromwich Albion are relegated from the Premier League after Southampton won 1-0 at Swansea City on Tuesday night.", "The search giant has blocked all ads relating to the Irish Republic's forthcoming referendum on abortion.", "Sunrise Senior Living will pay more than £2m after the competition watchdog intervened", "Royal Wedding 2018: The bridesmaids and pageboys", "The shadow chancellor urges a corporate auditing overhaul, following the Carillion collapse.", "Rosina Coleman, 85, was found dead by a handyman working at her east London home.", "Idris Elba, Elton John and David and Victoria Beckham were among those attending the royal wedding.", "Memories are shared at a vigil for those who died when a pupil opened fire at Santa Fe High School.", "\"Ms Markle is certainly dragging them into the Instagram age - but just how much can she change?\"", "Train timetables across parts of the north of England are set to undergo an \"unprecedented\" change.", "From Charles taking Doria's hand, to \"thank you Pa\", here are some moments to remember.", "Guests including David and Victoria Beckham, as well as George and Amal Clooney, have arrived.", "Rules will introduce new categories for defects and tougher tests on diesel emissions.", "Coverage of the ceremony from St George's Chapel in the grounds of Windsor Castle and procession.", "Meghan Markle has left her hotel with her mother Doria Ragland en route to marry Prince Harry.", "For the first time, Beijing has sent long-range bombers to a disputed island in the flashpoint region.", "Leeds fighter Josh Warrington wins the IBF world featherweight title from Lee Selby after a thrilling bout at Elland Road.", "The General Assembly of the Church of Scotland agrees to draw up plans to allow ministers to conduct same-sex weddings.", "Five pubs, including one designed around a nursery rhyme, have been granted Grade II listed status.", "Bishop Curry captured the world's attention with a fiery address at the royal wedding.", "Princes Harry and William meet the crowds in Windsor, while bride-to-be Meghan Markle arrives at her hotel.", "The BBC meets couples across the UK sharing their big day with Harry and Meghan.", "A selection of photos from the wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle.", "Chelsea boss Antonio Conte says he will shake Jose Mourinho's hand when his side face Manchester United in the FA Cup at Wembley.", "Sir Eric Pickles and Peter Lilley are among nine Tories nominated to be elevated to House of Lords.", "Boris Johnson to make the first visit by a British foreign secretary to Argentina for 25 years.", "The director of Leon and The Fifth Element has denied the allegation through his lawyer.", "The eruption of Hawaii's Kīlauea has produced striking images - but what's going on underneath?", "American Bishop Michael Curry captures the world's attention with a rousing sermon.", "The wedding of Harry and Meghan prompts online comment on black influence on the wedding", "Rosina Coleman was found dead by a handyman working at her east London home.", "The UN rights chief sharply criticises Israel for killing Palestinians \"caged in a toxic slum\".", "The couple exchanged vows and rings before the Queen and 600 guests at St George's Chapel.", "Security will be the biggest expense, but precise costs are hard to count.", "Nathan Gilmaney and Troy Thomas carried out a \"spree of violence\" as they rode a moped in London.", "The couple exchanged vows and rings before the Queen and 600 guests at St George's Chapel.", "The couple share a smile and take hands during their wedding ceremony in St George's Chapel.", "Jessica Patel worked with her husband at Middlesbrough's Roman Road Pharmacy.", "The couple share their first kiss as husband and wife on the steps outside St George's Chapel.", "Ten people were killed and another 10 wounded when a gunman opened fire at Santa Fe High School in Texas.", "The singer's personal details were accessed while he was being treated at Ipswich Hospital.", "Eden Hazard's penalty secures Chelsea the FA Cup as they beat Manchester United in what could be Antonio Conte's final match in charge.", "From tea towels to mugs, how big is the royal memorabilia market?", "We speak to people in Windsor celebrating Harry and Meghan's big day in a big way.", "What will happen - and when - at St George's Chapel for Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's wedding.", "The bride wears a white, silk crepe halter-neck evening dress as the newlyweds leave for a private party.", "A timeline of international air crashes from 1998 to the present.", "The Russian exile and his daughter were found slumped on a bench in Salisbury on 4 March.", "Princess Charlotte is among six bridesmaids and her brother Prince George is one of four page boys.", "Derek and Louie Edyvean were tracked down after their love letter was posted on Facebook.", "Moqtada Sadr, a long-time opponent of the US and Iran, makes a comeback in Iraq, final results show.", "Janet Daby is chosen to stand in Lewisham East's by-election from a shortlist of black and ethnic minority women.", "Runner-up to the coveted prize for best film was Spike Lee's anti-racism satire BlacKkKlansman.", "Leonard Finch was one of the original \"skid kids\" and helped set up a bike club.", "Celtic become the first Scottish side to win successive domestic Trebles after beating Motherwell in the Scottish Cup final.", "We asked you what it was like to see the carriage travel through Windsor- and one word kept coming up.", "Harry and Meghan toured Windsor in an open-top carriage after exchanging marriage vows and rings.", "Messages will be attached to 28 trees for the first anniversary of the Manchester bombing.", "The bride arrives wearing a dress by British designer Clare Waight Keller.", "More than 100 people have died in the crash near Havana but three women were pulled from the wreckage alive.", "Meet the black gospel choir and African American preacher who took centre-stage at the royal wedding.", "Hundreds of guests watched the couple exchange vows in a ceremony featuring a gospel choir and an American preacher.", "Rolling reaction following the English local and mayoral elections on 3 May 2018", "Parts of England could reach 28C on Monday - breaking the record of 23.6C set in 1999.", "The restaurant's ditching its disposable plastic straws for ones made out of pasta.", "A succession of senior ministers challenge Mrs May over one of the UK's preferred customs options.", "Cardiff City secure promotion to the Premier League with a draw against Reading, thanks to Fulham's loss at Birmingham.", "The BBC presenter, who will go into hospital this week, is expected to make a \"full recovery\".", "The foreign secretary will try to convince the US to stick with the landmark weapons agreement.", "Sir Alex Ferguson, who led Manchester United to 38 trophies during 26 years in charge, has emergency surgery for a brain haemorrhage.", "More than 900 people attended a 'Beyoncé Mass' held at an Episcopal church in San Francisco, California.", "David Meek shares his memories of retiring Manchester United boss Sir Alex Ferguson, whose programme notes he ghost-wrote for 26 years", "The North says tough words from Washington could ruin the atmosphere of Korean reconciliation.", "The teenagers are in hospital after the shootings, which happened within minutes of each other.", "Phillip Sullivan was left shaken after leaping out of the path of the support vehicle.", "Lebanon elects its parliament for the first time since 2009, with a changed voting system.", "A vintage light aeroplane has made an emergency landing on a beach after its engine failed.", "Southern tells people not to travel to Brighton as engineering works hit replacement rail services.", "Temperatures peaked at 26C, at Northolt, ahead of a possible record-breaking Bank Holiday Monday.", "Several quakes including a magnitude 6.9 hit the US state, a day after the Kilauea volcano erupted.", "UK fugitive Jamie Acourt was arrested over alleged drug offences in Barcelona on Friday.", "DUP leader says she wants the EU to take a more sensible approach to the Brexit negotiations.", "The tabby disappeared seven months ago as it was not \"feeling the love\" for noisy building work at home.", "The government's two suggested options for its customs relationship with the EU after Brexit.", "All the latest news about England local elections 2018 from the BBC", "A lottery-winning couple continue to celebrate by turning their garden into an sparkling artwork.", "The man was taken to hospital after the attack on Sunday morning, but died later from his injuries.", "Premier League managers send messages of support to Sir Alex Ferguson, who remains in intensive care following surgery for a brain haemorrhage.", "BBC Sport takes a look back at Sir Alex Ferguson's football career in pictures", "Former Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson remains in intensive care after having emergency surgery for a brain haemorrhage.", "It has emerged an aid worker on a Scottish government-funded project was reported to police in 2009.", "Ramona Bachmann scores twice as Chelsea Ladies beat Arsenal Women at Wembley to win the Women's FA Cup final.", "\"Frictionless\" borders are important to manufacturing jobs, business secretary Greg Clark warns.", "Louis is seen at home with his sister and three days after his birth in photos taken by their mother.", "Chief football writer Phil McNulty believes that Sir Alex Ferguson has changed British football for ever", "A Turkish football fan goes above and beyond, screaming in Scotland and other stories you may have missed.", "Sex workers from the charity Scot-Pep joined thousands of others at the demonstration held in Glasgow.", "Visitors were able to view the gallery after they left their clothes in the cloakroom.", "Following a BBC investigation, YouTube has taken down hundreds of videos promoting an essay-writing company.", "A 17-year-old boy is charged after a 38-year-old woman is attacked with a cordless drill in Strabane.", "Flash floods in the Turkish capital, Ankara, cause havoc.", "Derek has been selling souvenirs near Windsor Castle for 37 years - and has even met the Queen.", "This new chain of coffee shops in Paris is almost entirely run by people with learning disabilities.", "France's economy minister says the national carrier could 'disappear', as staff begin another strike.", "Nearly 1,500 visitors a day will be able to visit Coronation Street's set in Greater Manchester.", "Arsene Wenger says his farewell to Emirates Stadium with a thrashing of Burnley to leave in the same way it all began for him as Arsenal manager 7,876 days ago - with victory.", "Suranne Jones says she is \"so gutted and so sorry\" after missing Frozen's final four shows.", "The Tories gained control of Pendle after a councillor suspended for a racist joke was reinstated.", "Police say 15 people have been arrested in connection with the rape and murder of the 16-year-old.", "After years of study, it turns out a secret burial chamber of Queen Nefertiti does not exist.", "The American space agency Nasa has launched its latest mission to Mars.", "Israel's military says it was not involved in the explosion, which comes amid tensions on the border.", "The All Under One Banner event saw thousands of people parade through the city centre of Glasgow.", "Rhyhiem Ainsworth Barton \"had so much potential\" and was \"trying to make a difference\".", "Training to be a doctor takes many years. What are the different stages of a junior doctor's training - and how much responsibility do they have?", "President Rouhani issues a warning with a week left for the US to decide whether to scrap the accord.", "A Reuters/Ipsos survey indicates most US users remain loyal, despite the Cambridge Analytica row.", "England's new summer begins with old failings as they are bowled out for 184 by Pakistan on day one of the first Test at Lord's.", "Vertical Ulster Bank £5 and £10 notes will come into circulation next year.", "Northern has \"declared war on passengers and staff\", a union claims as its members strike.", "The return of female models to the F1 grid at this weekend's Monaco Grand Prix is \"a beautiful thing\", Lewis Hamilton says.", "The 19-year-old was arrested in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire, on Wednesday evening.", "The creams work much less well after they have been worn in the sea, warns consumer group Which?.", "Army sergeant Emile Cilliers denied trying to kill his wife by tampering with her parachute before a jump.", "The first minister asks a top civil servant to conduct a full review and report to her personally.", "In a recording posted online, the prank caller pretends to be the new prime minister of Armenia.", "As a report calls for a 4% increase in annual funding to improve the NHS in England, there is no sign ministers have agreed what is required and what they can afford.", "With Ireland set to vote on legalising abortion, do people living in its cities and its countryside see the issue differently?", "Bank of England signals a “disorderly” departure from the EU could put off interest rate rises to support the economy.", "The pair were \"fascinated\" by Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, who killed 13 people at a US school.", "The Britain's Got Talent judge was seven months pregnant when she lost her son Theo in 2011.", "A severely disabled boy, 11, says Flambards Theme Park in Cornwall is discriminating against him.", "Jeremy Corbyn says he is not asking or advocating for a border poll but would ensure the GFA is implemented.", "\"Outstanding\" schools may not be as good as their rating suggests, says Ofsted.", "As we await the official referendum result, BBC News looks at the current abortion law in Ireland.", "The singer poses for a photo with his 21-year-old daughter, whom he had previously never met.", "Test your knowledge of how the EU's data protection law could affect you.", "The move comes as Germany's biggest lender attempts to return to profitability.", "The 80-year-old actor says he did not intend to make anyone feel \"uncomfortable or disrespected\".", "The visit will be the first official tour of the region by a member of the Royal Family.", "Officers acted \"inappropriately\" when they used a stun-gun on a Milwaukee Bucks player.", "Reports emerged of chaos in hospitals during January, but how bad has it really been?", "The California city names 23 May Stormy Daniels Day, calling the adult film star \"a profile in courage\".", "Four children died when their house was torched with petrol bombs amid a \"petty feud\" over a damaged car.", "Investors reject proposal pressing the firm to review its use of plastic straws on environmental grounds.", "The UK steps up its war of words with the EU over being shut out of new satellite navigation system.", "Sameeh was at the wedding in April when his father Ali was killed by a Saudi airstrike in rural Yemen.", "Pakistani exchange student Sabika Sheikh was killed in the Texas school shooting.", "Donald Trump's long-time and fiercely loyal lawyer is now at the centre of a criminal investigation.", "Trump's recent decisions suggest US foreign policy is running in a void, the BBC's Jonathan Marcus says.", "The number of Romanian nationals living in the UK is 411,000 - overtaking India and the Irish Republic.", "The government department worker claims the restraint took place amid years of bullying and harassment.", "The note begins by thanking Kim for his 'time and patience', then the president's pen turns poison.", "Hayden, nine, will be Aston Villa's mascot for their Championship play-off final game on Saturday.", "Boyband founder Mark Walton tells a court he had never met a French nanny found dead on a bonfire.", "Hamid Ali Jafari tells the inquiry of his search for his father and how he hopes they meet in heaven.", "Sterling Brown told police \"you didn't have to touch me\" after they used a stun-gun on him.", "A judge rules that blocking access to the president's tweets violates free speech.", "The pair became obsessed that Sophie Lionnet was plotting against them with a former Boyzone singer.", "Why was the young French au pair Sophie Lionnet tortured and murdered by the couple who employed her?", "Sophie Lionnet's employers accused her of being \"in league\" with a founding member of the Irish boy band.", "An attack on a referee at an amateur football match has been described as the \"worst assault on a match official on British soil\".", "The prosecution has begun its closing statement in the Sophie Lionnet murder trial.", "The US president says a planned meeting next month with North Korea's leader will not take place.", "Voters returned home from across the world to cast their ballot in Friday's historic referendum.", "Survival depended on whether ancient 'birds' lived on the forest floor or in the branches, say scientists.", "EU residents are being blocked from several services and in some cases having their accounts wiped.", "Players who do not stand for the anthem will be allowed to stay in the locker room until it is over.", "Bishop Curry speaks to the BBC's Religion Editor, Martin Bashir, about his royal wedding sermon.", "The average UK household income, after taxes and benefits are accounted for, is £19,432 per person.", "The R&B singer, who denies sexual misconduct, declines to tone down his act in North Carolina.", "Researchers warn of suicide rates among students rising above the rest of their age group.", "Why Donald Glover's latest video is \"a powerful and poignant portrait of 21st Century America\".", "Anyone born in the next 20 years is eligible to apply for a seat at the Westminster Abbey service.", "Provides an overview of France, including key dates and facts about this west European country.", "The general manager of Beekse Bergen park in the Netherlands said they had a lucky escape.", "Just 7% of private rental properties are suitable for a disabled person, new report finds.", "The Trades Union Council says wages won't return to pre-crash levels until 2025.", "A wildlife ranger is said to have died when a vehicle was targeted in the Virunga National Park.", "The official also says Brexit has led to a \"growing acceptability of intolerance and racist speech\".", "Newsnight speaks to a young asylum seeker who was told by the Home Office that he could not study.", "All frontline officers at South Wales Police could get Tasers to deal with a growing knife threat.", "Soldiers have joined park rangers in the search for the two tourists, an army spokesman says.", "The US space agency says it will be the first test of a heavier-than-air aircraft on another planet.", "The military attache is alleged to have killed a motorcyclist by driving a red traffic light.", "Dr John Nilsson-Wright looks at the outcome of talks between North and South Korea's leaders.", "The 72-year-old admitted killing at least 15 men in the 1970s and 1980s.", "Some 7,000 candidates from rival coalition blocs stood for seats in the 329-member parliament.", "The Irish rock combo fronted by Eli Hewson are accusing their English namesakes of seeking publicity.", "The ex-Labour leader says not backing staying in the EEA would be \"a serious evasion of duty\".", "In 2016, 146 students killed themselves, and three have died in Bristol in the past month alone.", "Supermodel Naomi Campbell says the US actress's marriage to Prince Harry will \"show the world about race\".", "Journey inside the world of medieval combat with a longsword world champion.", "Doctors say Florida deputy Jeremie Nix's quick-thinking and swift actions kept baby Kingston alive.", "Provides an overview of Iraq, including key dates and facts about this Middle Eastern country.", "The French president sees defeating Islamist terror and boosting aid for Africa as key goals.", "Actresses, including Cate Blanchett and Salma Hayek, protest against gender inequality.", "Names and backgrounds of the victims of the Grenfell Tower fire.", "All the news and reaction on the song contest as Israel wins, with the UK coming 24th.", "Relatives pay tribute to \"passionate and charismatic\" Frightened Rabbit singer Scott Hutchison.", "Votes are being cast in Iraqi, but many people have lost faith in politics.", "Iraqis vote in the first polls since the defeat of IS, but Iran's influence looms large, writes Jeremy Bowen.", "The special relationship between Prince Harry and Meghan Markle is also big business in the US.", "The Fastest Shed smashes its own speed record at Pendine Sands.", "The prime minister's decision is seen as a U-turn, as she previously said she would not appoint any other members.", "Thousands of people join a march in London over wages, workers' rights and public services.", "A bishop from Chicago will give the address at Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's wedding next week.", "You might think you already know everything about the Eurovision Song Contest, but which is the rarest language?", "The former Italian PM had been barred from holding public office over a tax fraud sentence.", "The discount chain's US owner postpones restructuring while it considers possible bids.", "Drivers including football fans and people catching flights are being warned to expect disruption.", "The driver suffered minor injuries in the crash on a dual carriageway.", "Police confirm they are not looking for anyone else over the killing of seven family members.", "Music acts from all over Europe are competing to win the annual Eurovision Song Contest.", "Eighty-two women take part in a symbolic protest at the Cannes film festival.", "The decision to cancel the police comedy series Brooklyn Nine-Nine caused outrage among fans.", "The man fell about 498,000 retweets short before a Canadian skating duo helped him score a free flight.", "A teenager tries to scale a sheer cliff but gets stuck and ends up clinging on by his fingernails.", "The space agency says it will be the first test of a heavier-than-air aircraft on another planet.", "Leinster beat Racing 92 in a nail-biting Champions Cup final to be crowned European champions for a record-equalling fourth time.", "University mental health services face a \"considerable challenge\", a report says.", "Bereaved relatives say they will not attend the inquiry unless a more diverse panel is appointed.", "The $3.7bn (£2.7bn) bridge links southern Russia with the territory it annexed in 2014.", "The Farnese Blue has spent the past 300 years in the collections of European royal families.", "More than 300 women and girls who accuse the ex-sports doctor of sexual assault will receive $500m.", "Can Meghan Markle and her relatives cope with the pressure of being in the Royal Family spotlight?", "The reformist politician is freed from jail after a pardon, paving the way for a return to politics.", "Officials have found the records of people who were made to leave the UK, the home secretary reveals.", "Film critics walk out of controversial director Lars von Trier's violent serial killer screening in Cannes.", "The guidance is intended to safeguard silence and recollection in monastic life.", "BBC's Watchdog uncovers cases of tumble dryers bursting into flames after they were modified.", "A campaign group wants Stagecoach and Virgin to be stopped from bidding on future contracts.", "US media reports Thomas Markle will miss his daughter's wedding due to a planned heart operation.", "Eleven babies and one mother died at Furness General Hospital in Barrow between 2004 and 2013.", "Three experts explain how Donald Trump might avoid diplomatic gaffes and forge a lasting peace with North Korea.", "Women received driving lessons at an exhibition ahead of next month's lifting of the female driving ban.", "The organiser of Lebanon's Beirut Pride says authorities detained him on Monday night.", "More than 1,600 IT specialists and engineers offered jobs in the UK were denied visas between last December and March, BBC News has learned.", "The palace's near-monopoly on information has been broken in the run-up to the royal wedding.", "A court hears a secret recording of when Safaa Boular learned her alleged fiance had been killed.", "Two members of the Windrush generation describe to MPs and peers the ordeal of facing deportation.", "The decision to end the East Coast Mainline rail franchise early is to come under scrutiny from MPs.", "The Spider-Man co-creator accuses the company of taking advantage of his degenerative eye condition.", "Mark Goldring is to leave following the scandal involving claims of sexual misconduct by staff in Haiti.", "Labour wants to bring Britain's railways back under public control, but 75% of the industry is already nationalised.", "Read North Korea's response to a US official's remarks, threatening to pull out of the Trump summit.", "Police say budget cuts are making it more difficult to investigate. Find out how your force is doing.", "Goalkeeper Joe Hart and midfielder Jack Wilshere are left out of England's World Cup squad by Gareth Southgate, BBC Sport has learned.", "Tests found no cause of Thomas Howard's death but police are investigating whether drugs played a part.", "Facebook's chief will attend a closed door meeting with European Parliament leaders in Brussels.", "Cars were crushed beneath tonnes of concrete when a pillar for the under-construction road toppled.", "Rosina Coleman was found dead by a handyman working at her east London home, police say.", "Housing Secretary James Brokenshire announces a consultation on banning inflammable cladding on high-rise buildings, even though a report into the Grenfell Tower fire does not propose a ban.", "Seventy four households, out of 210 affected, are in permanent homes, the housing secretary says.", "The men complained of breathing difficulties after going to a nightclub in Colombo.", "Former Huddersfield and Everton left-back Ray Wilson, a member of England's 1966 World Cup-winning team, dies, aged 83.", "The closures will put 800 jobs at risk but the retailer says it is in a \"perilous\" financial position.", "The people who dressed Prince William for his wedding show us what it takes to get a Royal groom kitted out.", "Prince Harry and Meghan Markle choose 10 young children to be bridesmaids and pageboys.", "The RMT union warns of \"disastrous consequences\" as Govia Thameslink changes its entire timetable.", "Dr John Nilsson-Wright looks at the outcome of talks between North and South Korea's leaders.", "Theresa May clashed with Jeremy Corbyn over Brexit and future UK-EU trade - here are the key bits.", "From carriages to very excited commentators, here's how the BBC covered the big ones.", "Rail services on the East Coast Main Line to be brought back under government control.", "Sam Allardyce is sacked as Everton manager after six months leaves his role as Everton manager after six months in charge at Goodison Park.", "England manager Gareth Southgate names uncapped Liverpool defender Trent Alexander-Arnold in his 23-man squad for the World Cup.", "Baroness Amos, the UK's first black woman university head, criticises \"deep-seated prejudices\".", "Two pages of the teen's diary, glued over with brown paper, have finally been revealed.", "Bank of England deputy governor Ben Broadbent admits his description had \"ageist and sexist overtones\".", "Emile Cilliers denies sabotaging Victoria Cilliers' parachute in 2015 in a bid to kill her.", "The Brexit legislation returns to the Commons after peers inflict 15 defeats.", "Many had left the area when they heard the RAF Typhoon roar overhead in the Derwent Valley.", "The royal bride's former teachers and first boyfriend recall her as a brave and passionate teen.", "Govia Thameslink Railway blames \"logistical reasons\" for disruption on its services.", "The singer says he's not given permission for Small Bump to be used to promote an anti-abortion campaign.", "Forty-one survivors and relatives of those killed in attacks set out plan to foil future plots.", "Eruptions could block escape routes for residents on south-eastern corner of Big Island, Hawaii.", "The General Assembly of the Church of Scotland agrees to draw up plans to allow ministers to conduct same-sex weddings.", "Royal Wedding 2018: The bridesmaids and pageboys", "A post mortem examination took place on Tuesday to establish how 24-year-old Jastine Valdez died.", "The kindness in a box that is making a huge difference to women undergoing chemotherapy.", "More than 100 people have died in the crash near Havana but three women were pulled from the wreckage alive.", "The shooting suspect said he spared lives \"so he could have his story told\", a court document says.", "A source close to the Chelsea owner says the renewal process is taking \"a little longer than usual\".", "The couple share their first kiss as husband and wife on the steps outside St George's Chapel.", "Details of Prince Harry and Meghan's honeymoon have yet to be confirmed.", "A selection of photos from the wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle.", "Only four of 14 firms invited for talks turned up, culture secretary admits, as he pledges new laws.", "Sir Mo Farah has joined 30,000 runners marking the anniversary at the Great Manchester Run.", "Moqtada Sadr, a long-time opponent of the US and Iran, makes a comeback in Iraq, final results show.", "Janet Daby is chosen to stand in Lewisham East's by-election from a shortlist of black and ethnic minority women.", "Runner-up to the coveted prize for best film was Spike Lee's anti-racism satire BlacKkKlansman.", "Ten people were killed and another 10 wounded when a gunman opened fire at Santa Fe High School in Texas.", "Idris Elba, Elton John and David and Victoria Beckham were among those attending the royal wedding.", "Meghan's stylist says she was 'calm and chatty' ahead of the event, which was watched by millions.", "Emma Barnett asked the Labour MP if he stands by remarks that people are playing 'up the issue of the Irish border'.", "The director of Leon and The Fifth Element has denied the allegation through his lawyer.", "Freya Lewis, 15, was the honorary starter in the junior race, in which she also took part.", "The wedding of Harry and Meghan prompts online comment on black influence on the wedding", "Births are banned on the remote island and the mother says she did not know she was pregnant.", "The two players of Turkish origin stated that Germany was their country, President Steinmeier said.", "Eden Hazard's penalty secures Chelsea the FA Cup as they beat Manchester United in what could be Antonio Conte's final match in charge.", "We asked you what it was like to see the carriage travel through Windsor- and one word kept coming up.", "Harry and Meghan toured Windsor in an open-top carriage after exchanging marriage vows and rings.", "About 30 firefighters tackled the large grass fire near the summit of the Edinburgh landmark.", "Rosina Coleman was found dead by a handyman working at her east London home.", "A man suffers serious leg injuries as Hawaii continues to battle the eruption of the Kilauea volcano.", "A group of teenagers at a school where free sanitary products are available tackle the stigma around periods.", "The couple exchanged vows and rings before the Queen and 600 guests at St George's Chapel.", "Rafael Nadal survives a stunning fightback from world number three Alexander Zverev to win an eighth Italian Open.", "From Charles taking Doria's hand, to \"thank you Pa\", here are some moments to remember.", "A man, thought to be in his 20s, has been killed in Mitcham after he was stabbed multiple times.", "Rules will introduce new categories for defects and tougher tests on diesel emissions.", "The bride wears a white, silk crepe halter-neck evening dress as the newlyweds leave for a private party.", "One of the biggest rail timetable overhauls ever in the UK is predicted to create winners and losers.", "Smart technologies can sift through data to help the NHS spot diseases quicker, the PM is to say.", "Hours before the attack, he made an ominous post on social media accompanied by an occult symbol.", "US wildlife officers in Washington state track and shoot a cougar after a rare attack on humans.", "A timeline of international air crashes from 1998 to the present.", "Former Welsh leader Nathan Gill says UKIP has no future and should end after Brexit.", "Bomb disposal teams deal with a 1,000kg World War Two sea mine washed up off Sussex.", "Now the most talked about name in fashion, Clare Waight Keller from Givenchy describes the dress in detail.", "Hundreds of guests watched the couple exchange vows in a ceremony featuring a gospel choir and an American preacher.", "Meet the black gospel choir and African American preacher who took centre-stage at the royal wedding.", "Leeds fighter Josh Warrington wins the IBF world featherweight title from Lee Selby after a thrilling bout at Elland Road.", "Ella Kissi-Debrah, 9, suffered a fatal asthma attack thought to have been brought on by pollution.", "Prince Harry and Meghan send best wishes to their niece, who is seen in new photos taken by her mother.", "A video of Ella Markham dancing at a Spurs match attracted trolls and huge support for her.", "Fatiha is the grandmother of six children kept in a camp in Syria, but she hopes she'll be able to welcome them back to Belgium soon.", "Network Rail only considered tenants \"late in the process\" of selling its commercial property, says watchdog.", "There was a lot of frustration with how Gavin Williamson - now sacked from his role of defence secretary - had sometimes behaved.", "More than 1,700 cash machines started charging a fee in the UK between January and March this year.", "The men were killed in two separate accidents in the space of less than 10 hours on the A74(M).", "Counting continues after council and mayoral elections in England and Northern Ireland.", "A coroner says a man acted lawfully when he stabbed a burglar to death at his home in London.", "All the latest news about England local elections 2019 from the BBC", "Pedro scores an away goal as Chelsea recover from an early setback to draw with Eintracht Frankfurt in the first leg of their Europa League semi-final.", "Fiona Onasanya was jailed in January for lying about a speeding offence.", "Athletics South Africa (ASA) says it is \"reeling in shock\" after Caster Semenya lost a landmark case against athletics' governing body.", "Reaction as Gavin Williamson insists he is not the source of a leak from a National Security Council meeting on Huawei.", "The Cabinet Office minister has resigned amid accusations of bullying.", "The boy ran into a shop pleading for help saying he had been stabbed, an eyewitness says.", "The surprise announcement comes days before elaborate coronation ceremonies begin for him.", "Voters have been deciding who should represent them on 11 councils across Northern Ireland.", "Elections are being held for 248 English councils, six mayors and all 11 councils in Northern Ireland.", "The new international development secretary says he intends to run for the Conservative leadership.", "Richard Osborn-Brooks had been held on suspicion of murder after an intruder was stabbed in his home.", "The network accused InfoWars' Alex Jones and the Nation of Islam's Louis Farrakhan of hate speech.", "Zarhid Younis, 34, faces two counts of preventing the lawful and decent burial of a dead body.", "One of the official pacers at the London Marathon says runners were treated \"horrifically\".", "Leeds striker Patrick Bamford is banned for two matches after being found guilty of \"successful deception of a match official\".", "No 10 says Theresa May had \"lost confidence in his ability to serve\" in his role.", "Council polls will offer an insight into what the British public makes of politics right now.", "The Wikileaks co-founder's extradition hearing relates to the leak of US government secrets.", "Peter Mayhew, who has died aged 74, was a \"kind and gentle man\", says Han Solo actor Harrison Ford.", "Euro elections can draw a line under \"grief\" over the lack of political leadership, says Plaid's leader.", "Olympic champion Caster Semenya loses her appeal against new rules from athletics' governing body restricting testosterone levels in female runners.", "The US flight required a specially-designed drone which was able to maintain and monitor the organ.", "No-one has been allowed to leave the US ship, reportedly owned by the Church of Scientology.", "Nicola Sturgeon signals she could ditch plans to cut air departure tax during first minister's questions.", "Find your result and follow the others as they come in using our interactive map.", "Police officers stop relatives of Henry Vincent from stapling tributes to garden fences in Hither Green.", "Attempts are made to trace families of Sussex veterans who filmed messages in Asia.", "Beyond Meat's stock market value hits $3.8bn as shares in the US firm start trading on Wall Street.", "Clashes broke out between police and protesters as 'yellow vests' and labour unions held a march.", "Theresa May's letter to Gavin Williamson outlining why he was being dismissed, and his reply to her.", "The London Gay Men's Chorus performed outside the Admiral Duncan pub in Soho to remember the victims of a deadly nail bomb attack on 30th April 1999.", "The Canadian aircraft manufacturer employs about 3,600 people in Northern Ireland.", "Labour also suffers losses in the local elections, as resurgent Lib Dems gain more than 700 seats.", "A fire chief says some people see nice weather \"as opportunities to burn\".", "The Scottish government is warned its staff have no clear understanding of what is needed to implement new welfare benefits.", "Pooches and hounds are at polling stations as people vote in local elections in England and Northern Ireland.", "The Treasury is seeking views about the future of our coins - but what uses do 1p and 2p pieces have?", "Male nurses suggest it is still seen as a feminine career and there are not enough role models.", "Nellie and Joe Graham, who are both in their 100s, share their secrets to a long marriage.", "Victims of the contaminated blood scandal have been giving testimonies about how it affected their lives.", "The BBC is not allowed to report details of campaigning while the polls are open.", "Karanbir Cheema, 13, died two weeks after cheese was flicked at him at school, an inquest hears.", "Scientists find evidence an ancient human species called a Denisovan lived at high altitudes in Tibet.", "Stephanie Hayden and Catholic journalist Caroline Farrow are told not to mention each other online.", "The rapper thanks his mum for her \"relentless effort\" as he picked up 12 awards at Wednesday's event.", "The Welsh and Scottish governments have also 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No drivers by any chance? Or explain the operational incident please.\"\n\nThe company replied: \"Unfortunately we are not privy to this information\".\n\nAnother stranded passenger wrote: \"You've cancelled 5 (FIVE!!!) trains in a ROW between London and Stevenage, what an absolute joke\" while another asked: \"Surely you have had more than a year to plan your new timetable?\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Great Northern This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nFrom Sunday, every schedule for Thameslink, Southern, Gatwick Express and Great Northern trains has been changed, in an attempt to improve rail efficiency in the South East.\n\nIt will mean 400 extra trains a day and new direct services from 80 stations into central London.\n\nBut passengers in a number of smaller locations complain they will be served with fewer or slower services.\n\nSteve Chambers, from the Campaign For Better Transport, said he was concerned about the disruption seen on Sunday.\n\n\"The changes have been brought in on a day when there are usually less passengers and less trains and still there have been problems,\" he said.\n\n\"It doesn't bode well for tomorrow. But the biggest issue altogether will be people turning up to get their usual train and finding it no longer exists.\n\n\"The way customers have been informed just has not been good enough.\"\n\nThe RMT also claims passengers with reduced mobility may be left behind if a train is at risk of delay.\n\nGTR said it placed high priority on making its services accessible to all.\n• None Rail firm changes time of every train\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Ed Sheeran says he has not given permission for his song Small Bump to be used by anti-abortion campaigners.\n\nThe singer told his Instagram followers it was \"important\" that he let them know \"it does not reflect what the song is about\".\n\nHe said he's been told that the song, released in 2012, has been used to promote an anti-abortion campaign.\n\nIt comes just days before a referendum on whether to change Ireland's strict abortion laws takes place on 25 May.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Why Ireland is having a referendum on abortion\n\nSmall Bump, which comes from his debut album + (Plus), includes the lyrics: \"You were just a small bump unborn, just four months then torn from life.\n\n\"Maybe you were needed up there, but we're still unaware as why.\"\n\nWriting on Instagram on Friday, Ed said: \"I've been informed that my song Small Bump is being used to promote the pro-life campaign, and I feel it's important to let you know I have not given approval for this use, and it does not reflect what the song is about.\"\n\nVoters in Ireland are to decide on whether to change the country's constitution - which only allows for abortions if the life of the mother is in danger.\n\nIf passed, the law would allow for abortions to take place up to 12 weeks of pregnancy without restriction.\n\nAt the moment, a woman convicted of having an illegal abortion faces up to 14 years in jail. But they are allowed to travel abroad for terminations.\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 couple have been dating for several years\n\nHe's been referred to as one of the UK's most eligible bachelors but Hollywood star Hugh Grant is finally tying the knot.\n\nThe Four Weddings and a Funeral and Paddington star is set to wed the mother of three of his children, Swedish TV producer, Anna Eberstein.\n\nA photograph of the wedding banns has been posted in several newspapers.\n\nGrant, 57, has five children in total, including two - Tabitha and Felix - with former partner Tinglan Hong.\n\nEberstein, 39, gave birth to her first child with Grant, a son, in 2012.\n\nGrant and Hurley are still good friends\n\nThe couple then had a daughter, whose name has not been revealed, in December 2015.\n\nIn March this year, Grant's ex-girlfriend Liz Hurley revealed that Grant and Eberstein had recently welcomed a third child but the sex is unknown.\n\nHe was famously arrested in Los Angeles in June 1995 for lewd conduct with prostitute Divine Brown, and fined £800 after pleading no contest to the charge.\n\nPolice officers in an unmarked vehicle trailed the actor's car after spotting him picking up Brown in an area notorious for prostitutes.\n\nHugh Grant starred as the villain in Paddington 2\n\nGrant later apologised for his \"insane\" act.\n\nThe actor has starred in films including Four Weddings and a Funeral, Notting Hill, and Paddington 2.\n\nHe is also starring in the new BBC drama A Very English Scandal, playing disgraced MP Jeremy Thorpe.\n\nEarlier this year, Grant settled a phone-hacking damages claim against Mirror Group Newspapers (MGN) at the High Court.\n\nIt is understood the star will be paid a six-figure sum, which he will donate to the campaign group Hacked Off.\n\nThe actor said the newspaper group had been guilty of phone hacking on an \"industrial scale\" and called for another public inquiry to \"get to the truth\".\n\nMGN said it \"deeply regretted\" the acts and described them as \"morally wrong\".\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 best way to get news on the go", "Flights from Luton Airport were delayed for longer than any other UK airport last year, analysis of Civil Aviation Authority data suggests.\n\nPlanes left 19.7 minutes late on average, with Gatwick, Jersey and Durham Tees Valley next worst.\n\nThe top performers were Heathrow - flights were 11 minutes late - Leeds Bradford, Belfast City and London City.\n\nScheduled and charter flights, but not cancelled services, from the 25 busiest airports were examined in the study.\n\nThe Press Association, which compiled the departure punctuality ranking, said flights across all airports left an average of 15 minutes late.\n\nThe CAA said the data allows passengers to \"make informed choices about which airports they fly from\".\n\nBut a spokesman for the Airport Operators Association said \"outdated\" airspace infrastructure limits the efficiency of flights.\n\nHe said: \"Airports are working with air traffic service providers and the government to plan and deliver the necessary changes so everyone can continue to fly with a minimum of delays.\"\n\nA spokeswoman for London Luton said factors outside its control had an influence on punctuality including air traffic control strikes, late arriving aircraft, bad weather and congested airspace.\n\nGatwick said it was doing \"everything within its power\" to improve the proportion of its flights that depart on time, including using new technology to predict and recover from late running flights.", "The fire ripped through the west London tower block on 14 June last year\n\nThe insulation that burned out of control on Grenfell Tower had never passed the required safety test and should never have been on the building, a BBC investigation has discovered.\n\nPanorama understands the manufacturer, Celotex, used extra fire retardant in the product that qualified for the safety certificate.\n\nA more flammable version was then sold for public use, the programme believes.\n\nCelotex said it is co-operating with the police investigation and inquiry.\n\nThe company said it could not comment further but wished to express its deepest sympathies to everyone who was and remains affected by the fire. But it has not denied any of Panorama's allegations.\n\nPanorama also accused Celotex of mis-selling the insulation with misleading marketing.\n\nThe programme has been advised that the way Celotex tested and sold the insulation could amount to corporate manslaughter.\n\nThe RS5000 insulation, which was used in the refurbishment of Grenfell, gives off toxic fumes which contain cyanide when it burns. Panorama understands that almost all of the 72 people who died at Grenfell were killed by smoke.\n\nCelotex's plastic foam insulation has been used on hundreds of other buildings around the country.\n\nFire safety expert Arnold Tarling said he was shocked by the revelation: \"Well, words fail me. This is absolutely mind-blowing. This material is all over the place.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A University of Central Lancashire fire test for the BBC of the products used in Grenfell Tower shows the cladding core melting and lighting the insulation.\n\nThe change in formula was not the only problem with the fire safety test that the insulation passed.\n\nThe BS8414-2 test only showed RS5000 was safe to use on certain new build projects when it was combined with a specific fire-proof cladding panel.\n\nIts marketing suggested the insulation was suitable for use with other cladding panels and for tower block refurbishment projects like Grenfell. Neither was true.\n\nThe company was repeatedly warned that its marketing was misleading, but it carried on mis-selling the product anyway.\n\nPanorama has discovered Celotex targeted the contractors who were refurbishing Grenfell and specifically offered its flammable insulation - even though the company knew it was going to be combined with combustible cladding panels.\n\nMatt Wrack, general secretary of the Fire Brigades Union, said Panorama's allegations should be investigated: \"If there are breaches of the law then those people need to be held to account.\"\n\nCelotex said it wished to express its deepest sympathies to everyone who was and remains affected by the fire.\n\nIt said it was co-operating fully with all the inquiries into the Grenfell Tower fire, including the police investigation and the public inquiry.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"We believe that the right forum for considering and assessing the many, complex and inter-related issues which arise in relation to the fire - and which require consideration of the involvement of all relevant parties - is through these official investigations. We do not think it is appropriate to comment any further outside of or in advance of that process.\"\n\nWhen Panorama told Celotex that its actions might amount to corporate manslaughter, the company said: \"We fully recognise the seriousness of the Grenfell fire. It is for this reason that we believe the public inquiry and the police investigation are the right processes to consider the events leading up to the fire, and the night of the fire itself.\"\n\nPhase two of the public inquiry into the Grenfell Tower fire began on Monday\n\nThe programme also reveals for the first time that the cladding panels and insulation used at Grenfell were never tested together before the fire.\n\nRobert Bond, chief executive of the main contractor Rydon, tells the programme that testing of the cladding system wasn't required because \"it was deemed to comply\".\n\nBut Panorama understands the company had a legal responsibility to test the system for safety.\n\nGrenfell: Who is to Blame? will be broadcast on BBC One at 20:00 BST on 21 May.", "Ms Valdez's suspected abductor Mark Hennessy was shot in Cherrywood in south Dublin by Gardaí (Irish police)\n\nThe woman abducted near her home in County Wicklow died by strangulation, Irish police have confirmed.\n\nA post mortem examination took place on Tuesday to establish how 24-year-old Jastine Valdez died.\n\nGardaí (Irish police) had been searching for Ms Valdez after witnesses saw the student being bundled into a car near Enniskerry on Saturday.\n\nHer body was found in the Puck's Castle area of County Dublin on Monday.\n\nAccording to Irish national broadcaster RTE, detectives believe she was killed within 45 minutes of being abducted.\n\nA blood-stained note found in the car driven by her suspected killer Mark Hennessy is to be forensically analysed.\n\nMr Hennessy, 40, was shot dead by police in Cherrywood in south Dublin on Sunday night.\n\nThe Wicklow father of two had a previous conviction for assault a number of years ago, but he was also facing a drink-driving charge after he had been arrested last year, RTE reports.\n\nOfficers thanked the public for their help with the investigation and appealed for privacy for the Valdez family.\n\nIt was reported that Ms Valdez's purse was found by Gardaí in the Rathmichael area of County Dublin on Monday morning.\n\nJastine Valdez was last seen alive on Saturday afternoon\n\nSearch teams were in Rathmichael and also searched an area known as the 'Scalp', while a walk on Killiney Hill was cordoned off.\n\nThe Garda helicopter conducted an aerial search of the area while members of the Irish Defence Forces and Civil Defence were called in to help.\n\nIt is understood Mr Hennessy was armed with a knife when he was shot.\n\nA Garda statement said officers had \"interacted with the driver\" of a black Nissan Qashqai in Cherrywood at about 20:00 local time on Sunday.\n\nIt added that an \"official Garda firearm was discharged\" during the incident.\n\nThe shooting has since been referred to the Republic of Ireland's police watchdog for an independent investigation.\n\nOfficers searching for Ms Valdez had appealed for information about the suspected abduction of a woman on the R760 road out of Enniskerry, around the same time she disappeared.\n\nMr Hennessy was a father of two from County Wicklow\n\nA woman walking along the road was reportedly forced into a black Nissan Qashqai, registration 171 D 20419, at about 18:15 local time on Saturday.\n\nA phone belonging to Ms Valdez was later found near the Powerscourt Estate in Enniskerry and the area was cordoned off for investigation.\n\nPolice traced a vehicle to the man who was later shot\n\nAn incident room has been established at Bray Garda Station.\n\nSunday Times journalist John Mooney said that after the abduction reports, police viewed CCTV footage and traced a vehicle to Mr Hennessy.\n\nThey visited his home in Bray, County Wicklow, but his partner said he was not there.\n\nMr Mooney said there was no known link between Mr Hennessy and Ms Valdez.\n\n\"The words abduction and ransom have been mentioned to me, but some of the more established detectives working on this case are stating that maybe there's some connection that hasn't been established just yet,\" he said.\n\n\"But at the moment there is no clear link between the two.\"", "Rachael Bland hosts the podcast You, Me and the Big C with Lauren Mahon and Deborah James\n\nBBC presenter Rachael Bland, who blogs about having cancer, says her hopes now rest on clinical trials after being told her breast cancer was \"incurable\".\n\nThe 40-year-old said she had become a \"lab rat\", in her latest post, after starting her first trial last week.\n\nShe also revealed she was out with her young son when she received a call with the news that her cancer was incurable.\n\nBland, who also co-hosts the podcast You, Me and the Big C, was diagnosed with breast cancer in November 2016.\n\nShe had months of chemotherapy and radiotherapy in 2017 but required more surgery earlier this year after discovering cancer had spread to her lymph nodes.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Rachael Bland This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 Radio 5 live newsreader and presenter was with her two-year-old son Freddie and his friends at an ice cream farm when she received a call with the results of some biopsies.\n\nOn her blog 'Big C little me', she wrote: \"My heart raced as I answered it, knowing a phone call did not bode well.\n\n\"Then came the words 'I am so sorry, it's bad news. The biopsies have come back showing the same cancer is back and is in the skin'.\n\n\"I watched my little Freddie innocently playing away in a tyre in the barn and my heart broke for him.\n\n\"I scooped him up and dashed home and then had to break (her husband) Steve's heart with the news that my cancer was now metastatic and therefore incurable.\"\n\nRachael with her husband Steve and son Freddie\n\nMetastatic - or secondary - breast cancer occurs when cancer cells spread from the primary cancer in the breast through the lymphatic or blood system to other parts of the body.\n\nOlympic medal winning sprinter Katharine Merry, four-time Olympic rowing champion Matthew Pinsent, and fellow BBC presenter Victoria Derbyshire - who has previously spoken about having treatment for breast cancer - were among those to send their support to Bland on social media.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nOther people who have followed her progress since she started writing about her cancer diagnosis responded by saying what an inspiration she had been to them.\n\nOne Twitter follower, Tom Millen, said: \"I couldn't be more gutted for someone I've never met. May you continue to inspire others as you do me.\"\n\nAnother, Tamsin Edwards, who is also living with cancer, said: \"Your podcast has helped me more than I can say: fears about chemo, how to think about the future, effects on partners and the ways cancer affects other people than me.\n\n\"We're all in the waiting game - I'm so sorry for your results and wish you well.\"\n\nHer husband, Steve Bland, said: \"I hate that she has to write this so so much... but I'm so very very proud that she did.\"\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\nBland told the BBC she had been \"absolutely overwhelmed by all the wonderful messages\", adding that \"whatever happens, I feel like I have such amazing support from everyone\".\n\nAfter going through a strict screening process, Bland started immunotherapy - which works by harnessing the immune system to destroy cancer cells - at the Christie Hospital in Manchester last Wednesday.\n\nShe is taking a new trial drug that is designed to make immunotherapy - usually used for other cancers - more effective in treating breast cancer.\n\nIt was very early in the process, she said, but she felt \"an odd sense of pride\" that she was one of fewer than 150 people in the world to test it.\n\n\"If it doesn't help me then I hope the data I provide will at some point in the future help others in the same position,\" she added.\n\n\"I feel a bit like a grenade with the pin out… just waiting for some odd sensations to appear. Tick tock.\"\n\nShe said she will stay on the trial if, when she has a scan in six weeks, the cancer is stable or has shrunk, or if it has grown by more than 20% she will be put on a different trial.\n\n\"We are waiting and hoping,\" she said.", "Oprah Winfrey (l), Chadwick Boseman (c), Lena Dunham (r) are among the stars who signed the open letter\n\nScores of celebrities are calling on world leaders to take urgent action against global gender inequality.\n\nOprah Winfrey and Meryl Streep are among the big names putting political leaders \"on notice\" in an open letter led by international charity ONE.\n\nThe 140 signatories demand a commitment to help every girl get an education and for leaders to use their power to deliver \"historic changes for women\".\n\nBlack Panther stars Letitia Wright and Chadwick Boseman have also signed.\n\nActors from the UK - including Michael Sheen, Thandie Newton and Natalie Dormer and the US - including Lena Dunham, Natalie Portman and Issa Rae - took part in the charity's global call to action.\n\nIn the wake of recent movements against sexual harassment, Nashville star Connie Britton said in a statement: \"We have seen an astounding level of attention paid to the harmful impacts that sexism and systemic gender inequality have on our society.\"\n\nThe Emmy-nominated actress, who endorsed the letter, went on to say, \"This year, it is my hope that all of us, especially our leaders, join in the fight for full equality.\"\n\nThe letter describes poverty as sexist and said: \"We won't stand by while the poorest women are overlooked.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe equality gap between men and women would take 100 years to close at its current rate, the World Economic Forum reported last year.\n\nCampaigners hope many other people will sign the open letter.\n\nIt has also been endorsed by prominent names outside of the entertainment industry including former US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, Facebook's Sheryl Sandberg, Huffington Post founder Arianna Huffington, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, a former Nigerian minister and Mozambican politician Graça Machel.\n\nWe're putting you on notice.\n\nFor 130 million girls without an education. For one billion women without access to a bank account. For 39,000 girls who became child brides today. For women everywhere paid less than a man for the same work.\n\nThere is nowhere on earth where women have the same opportunities as men, but the gender gap is wider for women living in poverty.\n\nPoverty is sexist. And we won't stand by while the poorest women are overlooked.\n\nYou have the power to deliver historic changes for women this year. From the G7 to the G20; from the African Union to your annual budgets; we will push you for commitments and hold you to account for them. And, if you deliver, we will be the first to champion your progress.\n\nWe won't stop until there is justice for women and girls everywhere.\n\nBecause none of us are equal until all of us are equal.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Janet is the first black woman to win the Billboard Icon Prize\n\nJanet Jackson made her stance on the #MeToo movement clear as she won the Icon prize at the Billboard awards.\n\n\"I believe that, for all of our challenges, we live at a glorious moment in history,\" she said.\n\n\"At long last, women have made it clear that we will no longer be controlled, manipulated, or abused.\n\n\"I stand with those women and with those men equally outraged by discrimination, who support us in heart and mind.\"\n\nThe singer, whose 1986 breakthrough album Control, dealt with themes of feminism and taking charge of her own identity, has previously sung about domestic abuse on songs like What About and Lessons Learned.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Billboard Music 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.\n\nThe 52-year-old was the first black woman to receive the Icon Prize, as Bruno Mars pointed out while welcoming her to the stage.\n\n\"The name Jackson represents artistic genius and iconic performance,\" said Mars.\n\n\"The Jacksons are music royalty and the first family of entertainment. She is an activist. She's a humanitarian. She's a powerful woman.\"\n\nThe singer went on to perform a medley of Nasty, If and Throb - in her first televised performance in the US for nine years.\n\nJackson's honour comes just days after the 25th anniversary of her seminal album Janet.\n\nShe is one of the most successful artists of all time in the US, with 27 top 10 singles and 10 number ones. She is also one of only four acts to score a number one album in each of the last four decades.\n\nThe singer's hits include What Have You Done For Me Lately, That's The Way Love Goes, Again and Together Again\n\nAs the crowd chanted her name, Jackson said she hoped faith could help heal the divisions caused by a tumultuous time in global and personal politics.\n\n\"My prayer is that, weary of such noise, we will turn back to the source of all calmness, that source is God. Everything we lack, God has in abundance: Compassion, sensitivity, patience and boundless love.\"\n\nJackson is only the seventh artist ever to win the Icon award - following in the footsteps of Prince, Stevie Wonder, Celine Dion, Cher, Neil Diamond and Janet's former backing dancer Jennifer Lopez.\n\nOther prizes on the night went to Ed Sheeran, Taylor Swift and Kendrick Lamar; while there were tributes to dance musician Avicii and the victims of the Santa Fe High School shooting.\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 Janet Jackson: The stories behind the songs\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The price of fuel has hit a three-and-a-half-year high as the price of oil continues to climb, putting more pressure on consumers.\n\nThe average price of petrol has risen to 127.22p a litre and diesel to 129.96p a litre, following a rapid rise in the oil price.\n\nRecent figures suggest a squeeze on incomes has begun to ease, with wages growing faster than prices.\n\n\"Things have started to look better for the UK consumer recently, with inflationary pressures easing and real wage growth finally started picking up,\" said George Salmon, equity analyst at Hargreaves Lansdown.\n\nHowever, he said, that drivers had noticed the impact of higher fuel prices at the pumps.\n\n\"Filling up the tank is a pretty essential expense for most of us, so the average consumer could find there's a few pounds less in the jar at the end of each month.\"\n\nEarlier this month, government figures indicated wages grew at an annual rate of 2.9% in the three months to March, whereas over the same period the inflation rate was 2.7%.\n\nAs a result, for the first time in a year, real incomes grew, although they remain lower than they were before the financial crisis.\n\n\"Official figures show that transport is routinely the single biggest area of household expenditure bar none and in most cases transport equals the car,\" said Philip Gomm of the RAC Foundation.\n\nHe said the poorest households tended to be hit hardest because they drive the oldest, least fuel-efficient vehicles.\n\nIn early 2016, fuel prices dipped almost to the £1 a litre mark as oil went below $30 a barrel. Since then both have risen fairly steadily.\n\nThis month the price of crude oil briefly reached $80 a barrel and is still at levels not seen since 2014. Last week, the chief executive of French oil company Total, Patrick Pouyanne, said he believed oil could reach $100 \"in the coming months\".\n\n\"If the boss of one of the world's largest oil companies is talking about $100 a barrel or more, then you have to think things are going to get worse before they get better,\" said Mr Gomm, pointing out that prices at the pumps lag behind prices in the wholesale market.\n\nHowever, Ruth Gregory, chief UK economist at Capital Economics said she expected the impact of higher fuel prices on the UK consumer to remain limited.\n\n\"We're expecting the oil price to drift lower by the end of next year. The recent rise mostly reflects geopolitical tension and the potential risk of supply disruption, factors we think should prove temporary.\"\n\nIn the meantime, the overall trend for rising wages would continue she said.\n\n\"We've seen clear signs of a revival of pay growth in recent figures and we are expecting a further tick up to around 3% towards the end of this year.\"\n\nAlan Clarke, UK economist at Scotiabank, said while filling the tank represents only around 3% of household expenditure on average, fuel price rises could still dent consumer confidence.\n\n\"The sentiment is important,\" he said. \"You really notice [price rises] for things you buy frequently like petrol and food.\"\n\nHe said by July, petrol and diesel prices were likely to be 14-15% higher than a year earlier.\n\nWhen prices rise for non-discretionary things such as fuel, there is less left for \"fun\" items such as holidays and eating out, Mr Clarke said.\n\nThe higher fuel price comes in the wake of higher crude oil prices.\n\nThe rise has been driven in part by President Trump's announcement that the US would re-impose sanctions on Iran, overturning the deal to curb Iran's nuclear ambitions and raising fears that Iran's energy exports would be affected.\n\nFresh US sanctions against Venezuela after the re-election of socialist leader, Nicolas Maduro, have also pushed the price of oil higher.\n\nDespite this, BP chief executive Bob Dudley has said he expects US shale and increased supply from members of oil producers group Opec to make up for lost production elsewhere.\n\nHe predicted the oil price would return to between $50 and $65 a barrel in the near future.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Speaker John Bercow admits muttering 'stupid' 'as an aside'\n\nCommons Speaker John Bercow has said he \"respects all his colleagues\" after admitting using the word \"stupid\" during Commons exchanges.\n\nHe said he used the word, reported to have been directed at Commons leader Andrea Leadsom, as a \"muttered aside\".\n\nHe told MPs he had the highest regard for Mrs Leadsom's \"political ability and personal character\".\n\nBut he said he would continue to speak openly and, at times, \"disagree\" with ministers on their Commons management.\n\nMr Bercow has faced calls to apologise amid reports he used the phrase \"stupid woman\" in connection with Commons leader Mrs Leadsom during a row over the scheduling of a government statement on the nationalisation of the East Coast rail franchise last week.\n\nIn an unscheduled statement to MPs on Monday as Mrs Leadsom was about to take part in a debate, Mr Bercow said he believed the timetabling of government business had been \"badly handled\" on the day by the government.\n\nThe decision to announce such a major development on the same day as Labour debates on Grenfell and Brexit was \"disrespectful\" to MPs wanting to speak on those issues, he said.\n\nExplaining what had happened, he said: \"Having expressed my displeasure on the matter quite forcefully from the chair, I used the word stupid in a muttered aside.\n\n\"The adjective simply summed up how I felt about the way that the day's business had been conducted.\"\n\nHe said he \"loved this place\" and held all his colleagues in the \"highest esteem\", adding: \"Anyone who knows the leader of the house at all well will not have the slightest doubt about her political ability and personal character.\"\n\nSpeaking later, Mrs Leadsom said she was committed to treating all her colleagues with courtesy and respect and expected the same pleasantries to be shown to all members.\n\n\"I take my responsibilities to this House very seriously. As you said last week Mr Speaker, we have a responsibility to safeguard the rights of this House.\"", "Chelsea Football Club owner Roman Abramovich has faced delays in renewing his UK visa, the BBC understands.\n\nThe Russian billionaire did not attend Saturday's FA Cup final at Wembley when the Blues beat Manchester United 1-0.\n\nA source close to the 51-year-old suggested he was in the process of renewing his visa, and said it was taking a little longer than usual.\n\nAsked about the visa, Security Minister Ben Wallace said: \"We do not routinely comment on individual cases.\"\n\nMr Abramovich's office said it does not discuss personal matters with the media.\n\nThe delay comes amid increased diplomatic tensions between London and Moscow after the poisoning of former Russian spy Sergei Skripal in Salisbury.\n\nBBC home affairs correspondent, Daniel Sandford said Mr Abramovich appears to be able to run his businesses in Russia without significant interference from the Kremlin, suggesting that he is reasonably close to President Vladimir Putin.\n\nBut he said it was not clear if the delay in renewing his visa is in any way linked to the deterioration in relations between the two countries.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMr Abramovich, who made his fortune in oil and gas in the 1990s, became owner of the companies that control Chelsea in 2003.\n\nAccording to the Sunday Times Rich List, he is Britain's 13th-richest man, with a net worth of £9.3bn.\n\nHe owns a mansion on Kensington Palace Gardens, the most expensive street in London.\n\nMr Abramovich is also the former governor of the remote Chukotka region in Russia's Far East.\n\nHe has been a regular visitor to the UK since buying Chelsea, attending many of the home matches, and has been to Wembley for previous cup finals.\n\nHis private Boeing 767 left the UK on 1 April. It has since travelled to Moscow, New York, Monaco and Switzerland but does not seem to have returned to Britain.\n\nMr Abramovich (right) has often been spotted at Chelsea's Stamford Bridge ground\n\nThe best way to get news on the go", "Kelly Clarkson made an emotional plea over the school shooting in Texas, while hosting the Billboard Awards in Las Vegas.\n\nTen people died on Friday at Santa Fe High School after 17-year-old Dimitrios Pagourtzis allegedly opened fire on classmates.\n\n\"I'm so sick of moments of silence. It's not working,\" she said.\n\n\"Why don't we not do a moment of silence? Why don't we do a moment of action? A moment of change?\"\n\nHaving to compose herself on multiple occasions, she continued: \"Once again we are grieving for more kids that have died for just absolutely no reason at all.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Billboard Music 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.\n\nIt wasn't the only time that American school shootings were referenced during the show.\n\nThe Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School show choir later joined Shawn Mendes and Khalid on stage.\n\nThey're from the school in Parkland, Florida, where 17 people were killed in February.\n\nThey performed the song Youth, which has the chorus: \"You can't take my youth away.\"\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\nWhen it came to the actual awards, Ed Sheeran was the big winner.\n\nThe singer took home four awards - top artist, top radio songs artist, top song sales artist and top hot 100.\n\nOther artists used the ceremony to pay tribute to Avicii, who died last month aged 28.\n\nAndrew Taggart from The Chainsmokers said the DJ's death was \"a great loss for the music world and for us\".\n\n\"He was an artist who inspired so many in so many ways and simply put he meant so much to us and so many in the EDM community.\"\n\nSwedish DJ Avicii, whose real name is Tim Bergling, died last month\n\nHalsey added: \"Everyone who worked with him would agree he was such a joy and it makes this tragedy all the more painful.\n\n\"And it's a reminder to all of us to be there and to support and love all of our friends and family members who may be struggling with mental health issues.\"\n\nThe annual awards show, which celebrates artists' achievements on the Billboard charts in the US, had a performance from Ariana Grande.\n\nShe performed No Tears Left To Cry, her first single since the Manchester Arena terror attack, which took place almost a year ago.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nOther winners included Taylor Swift, who won top female artist, and Camila Cabello, who scooped the Billboard chart achievement award.\n\nKhalid won top new artist, Taylor Swift won top selling album for reputation and Kendrick Lamar was named top streaming artist.\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\nThe newly married Duke and Duchess of Sussex have left Windsor Castle as the weekend's royal wedding celebrations come to a close.\n\nThe couple stayed at the castle on Saturday after an evening reception with 200 of their friends and family, hosted by Prince Charles.\n\nDetails of Prince Harry and Meghan's honeymoon have yet to be confirmed.\n\nBut their first official engagement as a married couple will be a garden party at Buckingham Palace on Tuesday.\n\nEarlier the Royal Family posted a message on their twitter account to thank those who had travelled to Windsor for the wedding.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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End of twitter post by The Royal Family\n\nThe wedding celebrations ended with a black-tie dinner and fireworks display at Frogmore House, near Windsor Castle.\n\nFor the evening, Meghan changed out of her wedding dress into a lily-white, silk crepe Stella McCartney halter-neck gown.\n\nPrince Harry, who was given special permission from the Queen to keep his short beard for the ceremony, while wearing the frockcoat uniform of his former regiment, the Blues and Royals, changed into a tuxedo.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Stella McCartney This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 evening refreshments are said to have included themed cocktails, including one named \"When Harry met Meghan\" - referencing the romantic comedy starring Meg Ryan and Billy Crystal.\n\nGuests dined on posh burgers and candy floss, according to reports, and danced to music provided by a celebrity DJ.\n\nSome are also said to have staged an after-party at Chiltern Firehouse in central London.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Meghan reveals her halter-neck evening dress before driving into the sunset\n\nClare Waight Keller, the designer of Meghan's wedding dress, said it was a collaborative process with the royal bride.\n\nMeghan was \"exactly what you see on TV\", said the Birmingham-born designer, adding: \"She's just so genuine and warm and radiant. She's just glowing.\n\n\"She's a strong woman. She knows what she wants, and it was really an absolute joy working with her.\"\n\nThe designer - artistic director of Givenchy - also spoke to Prince Harry after the ceremony.\n\n\"He came straight up to me and he said 'oh my God, thank you, she looks absolutely stunning',\" she said. \"I think everybody saw on television - he was absolutely in awe, I think.\"\n\nHer final design sketches are being given to Meghan as a keepsake.\n\nMuch has been made of the boat neck cut and the minimalist design of the dress\n\nMeghan showed little sign of nerves while getting ready, her hair stylist has revealed.\n\nSerge Normant, who flew from New York for the big day, said it was \"dreamy\" to work with her, adding: \"She was very happy. It was a beautiful morning, just the perfect morning to get married.\"\n\nAs a wedding gift, Prince Harry gave his bride an emerald-cut aquamarine ring which had belonged to his late mother - Diana, Princess of Wales - which she wore to the evening reception.\n\nAll of the 600 guests at the ceremony held at St George's Chapel, in Windsor Castle, were invited to a lunchtime reception at St George's Hall, where the best man, the Duke of Cambridge, acted as compere.\n\nGuest Suhani Jalota, founder of the India-based Myna Mahila charity, said Elton John performed a \"mini-concert\". She said speeches by the Prince of Wales and the groom were \"lovely\", adding: \"Some people were even crying.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAmong the close friends who attended the evening celebrations were Bollywood star Priyanka Chopra and tennis ace Serena Williams, who revealed their outfit changes on social media.\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post by mimicuttrell 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’. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nPosting on Instagram, David Beckham said: \"Watching Harry as happy as he was makes us all proud of the man and person he has always been... what a day.\"\n\nTV audiences around the world watched the ceremony at St George's Chapel, held in front of 600 guests.\n\nIn the UK, more than 13 million people watched the TV coverage on the BBC One - peaking at 13.1 million just after 13:00 BST.\n\nITV's audience peaked at 3.6 million, just after 14:00 BST.\n\nThousands of people lined the streets of Windsor to watch the couple as they left the ceremony in a horse-drawn carriage.\n\nThe best way to get news on the go", "Survivors from the Manchester Arena bombing have formed a choir to help them cope with the trauma of the night.", "A woman drove her car into the path of runners at the Plymouth Half Marathon, saying she had a workshop to get to.\n\nThe move was widely criticised by onlookers and on social media.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHundreds of patients have lost the first round of a legal battle for compensation at the High Court over allegedly \"defective\" hip implants.\n\nA judge ruled that manufacturer DePuy was not liable to the 312 patients who claimed they had been injured by the implants.\n\nClaimants say the metal-on-metal hips were defective and meant some patients needed more surgery than necessary.\n\nThe Pinnacle Ultamet replacement was withdrawn from sale in the UK in 2013.\n\nAnd 312 people said they had had to have remedial surgery after it had failed prematurely.\n\nLawyers for claimants alleged it had released metal particles, damaging the surrounding tissues and causing pain, difficulty walking, swelling and numbness or loss of sensation in the leg.\n\nBut Mrs Justice Andrews said they had failed to prove the hip joint:\n\nAnd DePuy said it was \"pleased\" the implant had:\n\n\"At DePuy, we have no greater responsibility than to the patients who use our products,\" it added.\n\nBut lawyers for the claimants, Leigh Day, said they were \"extremely disappointed\" by the judgement and were in touch with their clients \"to see what next steps could be taken\".\n\n\"It is genuinely concerning that the DePuy Pinnacle metal-on-metal hip replacement, which no clinician would now use, from a product group the orthopaedic profession has rejected for the serious harm it can cause, is deemed safe by this judgement,\" they said.\n\nLast year, the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency said every patient with a metal-on-metal prosthetic hip should have regular check-ups to spot any complications.\n\n\"Although the majority of patients with these metal-on-metal devices have well-functioning hips, it is known some may develop soft tissue reactions related to their implant.\n\n\"The clinical advice we have received indicates patients will likely have the best outcomes if these problems are detected early, monitored and treated if necessary,\" the MHRA said when it updated its advice in 2017.\n\nAbout 56,000 UK patients have had a metal-on-metal hip device implanted.", "A small number of gift bags given to guests at the Duke and Duchess of Sussex's wedding are being sold online.\n\nNine auctions can currently be found on the website eBay - with some listings reaching more than £1,000.\n\nThe bags were given to 2,640 members of the public invited into the grounds of Windsor Castle for the wedding on 19 May, but not the 600 chapel guests.\n\nContents of the bags include the order of service booklet and a tube of \"handbag shortbread\".\n\nOne listing reads: \"Don't miss out on this limited once in a life time opportunity to have a piece of royal history.\"\n\nAnother, seemingly posted by the Swindon Night Shelter, promised all proceeds would go towards meeting \"the complex needs of those homeless and vulnerable in Swindon and the surrounding area\".\n\nOther items given to the guests include a bottle of water, a chocolate coin, a fridge magnet, a badge and a 20% off voucher for the Windsor Castle gift shop.\n\nThe 600 guests invited into the chapel, including celebrities such as David and Victoria Beckham, Oprah Winfrey and George and Amal Clooney, were not given gift bags.\n\nSome auctions had reached more than £1,000\n\nThe Duke and Duchess of Sussex were married at St George's Chapel\n\nAmong the 2,640 guests invited into the grounds were 200 people from charities associated with Harry and Meghan, 100 local schoolchildren, 610 Windsor residents and 530 members of the Royal Households and Crown Estate.\n\nA further 1,200 people were invited by the nine regional Lord Lieutenant offices\n\nKensington Palace has declined to comment on the story.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nRoyal wedding guests invited into the grounds of Windsor Castle received:\n• None Wedding moments you may have missed", "After a historic summit, a replica of the Demilitarised Zone separating North and South Korea has drawn hordes of tourists with hopes for peace.", "The government’s ambition to clean up motor vehicles by 2040 is not ambitious enough, a leading energy expert says.\n\nProfessor Jim Watson, head of the prestigious UK Energy Research Centre, said the target should be at least five years earlier, as in Scotland.\n\nThe government is currently considering obliging new cars to run on electricity for at least 50 miles by 2040.\n\nThe government said it would not discuss the issue before it had published its policy which is due soon.\n\nBut ministers are facing competing pressures on the issue. Some UK car firms are telling ministers their proposed targets are unachievable, while others say the targets can easily be reached.\n\nProfessor Watson, who started working life as a car engineer, says the motor industry has a history of saying targets are impossible, then suddenly finding new models to do the job.\n\n“It’s great that they [the government] are having a target, but it could be much more ambitious,” he told BBC News.\n\n“If you push industry further they could go faster.\n\n“Sometimes the car industry has done itself a great disservice by lobbying against environmental standards and then finding itself in trouble when the oil price goes up and people want cleaner, more efficient cars.”\n\n“They should embrace it [a strong target] and ask government to regulate them harder.”\n\nProfessor Watson was referring to the long campaign by US car makers against tighter efficiency standards – a battle that ended when the manufacturers faced bankruptcy because in part their models were inefficient.\n\nIn effect, the US car firms were so successful with lobbying that they nearly lobbied themselves into extinction.\n\nOne UK car firm spokesman told me: “We don't have a good record on this – the industry has cried 'wolf' too often in the past.”\n\nThe Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders told BBC News it rejected this suggestion.\n\nThere is certainly a range of views among UK car firms about the advisability of the 2040 target. Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) has said publicly that it expects to meet the government’s current proposed standards long before the set date.\n\nA spokesman said: “From 2020, every new Jaguar and Land Rover will have the option of electrification.\n\n“This (2040 target) is 22 years away - or seven new cars away for many new car buyers on a typical ownership cycle. We are confident that every new Jaguar or Land Rover will meet the proposed criteria long before 2040.”\n\nNissan told BBC News it supported clean car targets. A spokesman said: “As the pioneer of electric vehicles, we welcome plans that encourage people to switch to low or zero emission vehicles.”\n\nBut other manufacturers discussing the issue on condition of anonymity told BBC News the proposed 2040 standards are ill-considered.\n\nOne criticised the idea currently under consideration by the Department for Transport to force hybrid cars, by 2040, to have the capacity to travel 50 miles without burning fossil fuels.\n\nThe car maker said this would require a much bigger battery entailing more weight and cost. That extra capacity would be redundant for most of the time for an average driver.\n\nThe issue is causing headaches for many other governments needing to cut emissions that cause local air pollution and climate change.\n\nIndia’s transport minister announced 2030 as a day beyond which only all-electric cars may be sold.\n\nBut after a barrage of criticism from car firms, he rescinded the order, and India’s policy is not yet clear. Tata Motors in Delhi did not want to comment on whether it could cope with a 2030 all-electric policy.\n\nWhat is certain is that in Europe and Asia, car makers are being expected to move inexorably towards low or zero emissions vehicles.\n\nThe car makers admit they face uncertainty over the future. After decades of homogenisation of world markets, they may find themselves manufacturing electric cars to access the Chinese economy on the one hand and petrol SUVs for Texas on the other.\n\nCar makers think China will probably become a world leader in car standards – especially in cities.\n\nThe UK car firms are in concert on one issue: the need for the government to radically improve the supply of charging infrastructure, and to increase incentives to buy low-emissions cars.\n\nThey told BBC News ministers would need to move swiftly to accelerate demand for clean cars, or it would be impossible to step up production levels to the amount needed by 2040.\n\nElectric and hybrid cars currently constitute 1.4% of the current UK fleet. Of new sales, 4.7% are clean fuel – that’s 119,786 out of 2.54 million cars sold last year.\n\nMike Hawes from the SMMT told BBC News: \"Vehicle manufacturers will increasingly offer electrified versions of their vehicles giving consumers ever more choice but industry cannot dictate the pace of change nor levels of consumer demand.\"\n\nEnvironmentalists say this is a red herring – car buyers, they say, will buy whatever vehicles are permitted to be sold in the country at that time.\n\nThe environment department Defra is concerned that their colleagues in transport at DfT have had their ambition dulled by car industry lobbying.\n\nOne Defra source told me: “They are chancing their arm. The targets for 2040 are not ambitious at all.”\n\nThe DfT didn’t want to address that comment.", "Fernando de Noronha has one of the world's best beaches\n\nA remote Brazilian island with a ban on childbirth is nonetheless celebrating the first baby born there in 12 years.\n\nFernando de Noronha island, 370km (230 miles) from the city of Natal, has about 3,000 residents but no maternity wards.\n\nExpectant mothers are requested to travel to the mainland.\n\nA woman who does not want to be named had a baby girl on Saturday on the island - she says she was unaware she was pregnant and is \"dumbstruck\".\n\nThe woman is believed to be aged 22.\n\n\"On Friday night I had pains and when I went to the bathroom I saw something coming down between my legs,\" she was quoted as saying by O Globo website.\n\n\"That's when the child's father came and picked it up. It was a baby, a girl. I was dumbstruck.\"\n\nThe baby was later taken to the local hospital.\n\nIn a statement, the local administration confirmed the birth.\n\n\"The mother, who does not wish to be identified, went into labour at her home,\" the statement says, according to O Globo.\n\n\"The family says they were not aware of the pregnancy.\"\n\nTo celebrate the rare birth, local residents are now helping the family, with some donating clothes for the baby girl, reports say.\n\nFernando de Noronha boasts some of the world's best beaches and is famous for its wildlife reserve in Brazil's national maritime park. Sea turtles, dolphins, whales and rare birds are frequently observed there.\n\nBecause of the reserve's vulnerability, strict population controls are in place on the island.\n• None Brazilian island is overrun by invasion of blind toads", "In the early hours of 14 June 2017 a devastating fire engulfed the Grenfell tower block in North Kensington, west London.\n\nThe building burned for several hours and 72 people were eventually confirmed to have lost their lives.\n\nRelatives of many victims were given the chance to commemorate their loved ones at the public inquiry in London.", "Freya Lewis, who was seriously injured in the attack at an Ariana Grande concert last year, has taken part in the 2.5k-long Junior Great Manchester Run.\n\nThe 15-year-old is raising money for the hospital that treated her.\n\nHer father Nick said she had \"proven to be very remarkable... we're proud beyond words\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The emergency services were alerted at about lunchtime on Sunday\n\nA fire crew has returned to Arthur's Seat in Edinburgh after reports that a grass blaze on the hillside had reignited.\n\nAbout 30 firefighters using backpacks tackled the flames for several hours after the fire was reported at about 13:40 on Sunday.\n\nCrews left the scene at about 23:30, but one appliance returned at about 11:00.\n\nOne casualty was taken into the care of paramedics with a suspected leg injury.\n\nFirefighters are currently beating out smouldering patches on the extinct volcano.\n\nFire chiefs in Scotland have warned of an increased risk of wildfires, following a series of blazes across the country.\n\nPark Rangers were trying to stop people climbing Arthur's Seat\n\nNine fire engines were sent to the blaze at Mobster Croft in the Spittal area after the alarm was raised shortly before midday.\n\nFirefighters spent more than six hours tackling the wildfire.\n\nCrew from Balintore fire station were among firefighters called to tackle a wildfire near Mey in Caithness on Friday.\n\nAnd in Argyll on Saturday the A85 near Dalmally was closed by a wildfire for several hours.\n\nThe fire was on both sides of the road at Glenlochy.\n\nThe previous day crews had been called to a wildfire near Mey village in Caithness.\n\nFire chiefs warned that discarded cigarettes and unattended barbecues or campfires can start fires which burn for days and devastate vast areas of land\n\nBruce Farquharson, an area manager with the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service, urged the public to play their part in preventing further fires.\n\n\"Right now, many firefighters across Scotland are actively tackling wildfires, working to protect our communities and their efforts have to be commended,\" he said.\n\n\"However, many of these fires are preventable, and we again urge people to read our safety advice, and enjoy the weather responsibly.\"\n\nThe Balintore fire crew were also called out to help at the wildfire in Caithness on Saturday.\n\nMr Farquharson, who is also the chairman of the Scottish Wildfire Forum, urged people to follow the Scottish Outdoor Access Code.\n\nHe added: \"Wild and grass fires can start by the careless disposal of cigarettes and barbecues or campfires left unattended.\n\n\"They then have the potential to burn for days and devastate vast areas of land, wildlife and threaten the welfare of nearby communities.\n\n\"Many rural and remote communities, such as those in the Highland area, are hugely impacted by wildfires, which can cause significant environmental and economic damage.\n\n\"Livestock, farmland, wildlife, protected woodland and sites of special scientific interest can all be devastated by these fires - as can the lives of people living and working in rural communities.\n\n\"Just one heat source like a campfire ember can cause it to ignite and if the wind changes direction even the smallest fire can spread uncontrollably and devastate entire hillsides.\"\n\nCrews from across Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross have been mobilised to tackle wildfires over the last two days\n\nScottish Natural Heritage said there was a danger of fires in the north east, south east and central Scotland, especially between 16 and 24 May.\n\nIts recreation and tourism manager, Mark Wrightham, said: \"In this weather, we advise people to be careful when lighting fires, or consider using a camping stove instead. Be particularly cautious when disposing of cigarettes - even a cigarette butt can easily start a wildfire.\n\n\"One of the biggest risks is disposable barbecues. These should be taken away and disposed of safely in a bin. You may think the barbecue's no longer a risk, but the lingering heat could cause vegetation to smoulder and catch fire.\n\n\"A few simple tips can make all the difference in making sure as many people as possible can enjoy our countryside safely.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The UK must be ready to counter \"intensifying threats\" emerging in space, the defence secretary has said.\n\nThose threats include the \"jamming\" of military satellites used by the Army.\n\nLaunching the UK's first defence space strategy, Gavin Williamson said that he would boost staff in the sector by a fifth to 600.\n\nHe also confirmed that he is considering British participation in an alternative satellite-navigation system to the EU's Galileo programme.\n\nMr Williamson said that with so much military and civilian technology reliant on satellites - which are potentially vulnerable to attacks - the UK needs to be at the forefront of space technology.\n\nSuch technology was \"not just a crucial tool for our armed forces but vital to our way of life, whether that be access to our mobile phones, the internet or television,\" he said.\n\n\"It is essential we protect our interests and assets from potential adversaries who seek to cause major disruption and do us harm.\"\n\nPart of the UK's strategy will see RAF Air Command given a key role in the control of military space operations.\n\nThe defence secretary also said the government would review the UK's contribution to the EU's Galileo satellite programme as well as planning for an alternative system.\n\nThese comments come after the EU blocked the UK's participation in the project citing security concerns.\n\nThe Financial Times reports that the European Commission has sent a letter to the UK government in which it warned that security elements of the project needed to be protected to avoid them being \"irretrievably compromised\" by being shared with the UK, which will be a \"third party\" after Brexit.\n\nThe Galileo project aims to be a European version of the US's GPS system - promising real-time positioning down to a metre or less.\n\nThe UK has spent 1.4 billion euros on the project and Business Secretary Greg Clark is said to be taking legal advice on whether the money can be reclaimed.\n\nOn Monday defence minister Guto Bebb is set to tell the defence space conference in London that space is a \"vital\" part of the British economy.\n\nHe will say launching the strategy will \"ensure our industry continues to benefit from this growth in satellite technology.\"", "Our modern germ-free life is the cause of the most common type of cancer in children, according to one of Britain's most eminent scientists.\n\nProf Mel Greaves, from the Institute of Cancer Research, has amassed 30 years of evidence to show the immune system can become cancerous if it does not \"see\" enough bugs early in life.\n\nIt means it may be possible to prevent the disease.\n\nThe type of blood cancer is more common in advanced, affluent societies, suggesting something about our modern lives might be causing the disease.\n\nThere have been wild claims linking power cables, electromagnetic waves and chemicals to the cancer.\n\nThat has been dismissed in this work published in Nature Reviews Cancer.\n\nInstead, Prof Greaves - who has collaborated with researchers around the world - says there are three stages to the disease.\n\nThis \"unified theory\" of leukaemia was not the result of a single study, rather a jigsaw puzzle of evidence that established the cause of the disease.\n\nProf Greaves said: \"The research strongly suggests that acute lymphoblastic leukaemia has a clear biological cause and is triggered by a variety of infections in predisposed children whose immune systems have not been properly primed.\"\n\nThis study is absolutely not about blaming parents for being too hygienic.\n\nRather it shows there is a price being paid for the progress we are making in society and medicine.\n\nComing into contact with beneficial bacteria is complicated, it's not just about embracing dirt.\n\nBut Prof Greaves adds: \"The most important implication is that most cases of childhood leukaemia are likely to be preventable.\"\n\nHis vision is giving children a safe cocktail of bacteria - such as in a yoghurt drink - that will help train their immune system.\n\nThis idea will still take further research.\n\nIn the meantime, Prof Greaves said parents could \"be less fussy about common or trivial infections and encourage social contact with other and older children\".\n\nDr Alasdair Rankin, the director of research at the blood cancer charity Bloodwise, said: \"We urge parents not to be alarmed by this study.\n\n\"While developing a strong immune system early in life may slightly further reduce risk, there is nothing that can be currently done to definitively prevent childhood leukaemia.\"\n\nThis study is part of a massive shift taking place in medicine.\n\nTo date we have treated microbes as the bad guys. Yet recognising their important role for our health and wellbeing is revolutionising the understanding of diseases from allergies to Parkinson's and depression and now leukaemia.\n\nProf Charles Swanton, Cancer Research UK's chief clinician, said: \"Childhood leukaemia is rare and it's currently not known what or if there is anything that can be done to prevent it by either medical professionals or parents.\n\n\"We want to assure any parents of a child who has or has had leukaemia, that there's nothing that we know of that could have been done to prevent their illness.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Teenagers at the Discovery Academy in Stoke-on-Trent, which has introduced free sanitary towels, tackle the stigma around \"that time of the month\".", "MPs want to see further sanctions against 'Kremlin-connected individuals'\n\nThe UK has been accused of turning a \"blind eye\" to Russia's \"dirty money\", putting national security at risk.\n\nThe Commons foreign affairs committee said London was being used to hide the \"corrupt assets\" of President Vladimir Putin and his allies.\n\nIt said it was \"business as usual\" for the UK despite the poisoning of Russian ex-spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter.\n\nThis undermined the UK's efforts to confront the full spectrum of President Putin's offensive measures, it said.\n\nThe UK's \"lethargic response is being taken as proof that we don't dare stop them... London's markets are enabling the Kremlin's efforts,\" committee chairman and Conservative MP Tom Tugendhat wrote in the Sunday Times, ahead of the publication of the report.\n\nSecurity and economic crime minister Ben Wallace said he had not been called to give evidence to the committee: \"I fear such an omission weakens the foundation of the report,\" he said.\n\nMr Wallace said the UK was \"determined to drive dirty money and the money launderers out\".\n\n\"[We] will use all the powers we have, including the new powers in the Criminal Finance Act, to clamp down on those that threaten our security,\" he added.\n\nThe UK's efforts to confront President Putin's offensive measures are being undermined, MPs say\n\nMr Tungendhat said ministers should investigate \"gaps\" in the sanctions regime which allows the Russian government and individuals linked to President Putin to continue to raise funds in the City.\n\nThe report, named Moscow's Gold: Russian Corruption in the UK, points out that Russian gas giant Gazprom was able to trade bonds in London \"days after the attempted murders\" of Mr Skripal and his daughter.\n\nThat business between the UK and Russia had resumed so swiftly prompted the Russian embassy in London to tweet: \"Business as usual?\"\n\n\"The scale of damage that this 'dirty money' can do to UK foreign policy interests dwarfs the benefit of Russian transactions in the City.\n\n\"The UK must be clear that the corruption stemming from the Kremlin is no longer welcome in our markets and we will act,\" said Mr Tugendhat.\n\nAndrey Kortunov is director general of the Russian International Affairs Council a think tank funded by the Russian state.\n\n\"I don't think we can argue that most of the Russian money which is parked in London is used to serve the interests of Russian foreign policy,\" he said.\n\n\"There are very different people, their stories are diverse and some of them are very strong opponents of the Russian leadership.\"\n\nThe committee's report urges the government to show \"stronger political leadership\" on the issue by taking a number of actions, including:", "The TV presenter had been riding in a charity event when the accident occurred in 2012\n\nTV presenter Lorraine Kelly has had a tearful reunion with the NHS staff who saved her life after a \"terrifying\" horse-riding accident.\n\nTo mark the 70th anniversary of the NHS, Ms Kelly visited St George's Hospital, south London, where she was taken after her fall in 2012.\n\nKelly said she was \"close to death\" after losing three pints of blood.\n\nThe ITV star paid tribute to the hospital's \"amazing\" staff, adding she owed an \"unpayable debt\" to the NHS.\n\n\"I'm just one of many that are helped by this incredible service on a daily basis,\" she said.\n\nGlasgow-born Kelly was reunited with consultant Sarah Krishnanandan, who was among the team who treated her after she was rushed in as a trauma call.\n\nMs Krishnanandan said the presenter arrived with \"a deep wound\" on her thigh and had \"probably lost quite a bit of blood\" after being trampled by her horse.\n\nLorraine Kelly was admitted to St George's Hospital with a \"deep wound\" on her leg\n\nKelly also visited the hospital room she stayed in while recovering from her injuries, and spoke to the surgeon who treated her, Martin Vesley.\n\nKelly's daughter Rosie Smith, who visited her mother in the hospital room, paid her own tribute to the \"amazing\" staff, who she said worked hard to put the family at ease.\n\n\"I first realised how serious it was when I saw her for the first time,\" said Ms Smith. \"She was really pale.\n\n\"The staff were amazing and the nurses were great. Martin put my mum at ease, and they made me and my dad feel really comfortable.\"\n\nThe visit was broadcast on Kelly's morning show \"Lorraine\" on Monday, as part of a series commemorating the NHS's landmark anniversary.\n\nThe NHS Heroes Awards, which were launched to highlight the achievements of health service staff and volunteers, will be held on Monday evening.", "Cameroon's Arcangeline Fouodji Sonkbou is one of dozens of competitors and officials who went missing\n\nAround 50 competitors have remained in Australia illegally after going missing during this year's Commonwealth Games, a government official has said.\n\nNearly 200 others hold bridging visas and are applying for refugee status.\n\nAustralia has warned it will deport those who stay in the country illegally, after dozens of competitors - including many from Africa - disappeared from the competition.\n\nThe numbers are a dramatic increase on other international sporting events.\n\nMalisa Golightly, from the department of home affairs, told a Senate committee on Monday that the government had \"had no contact\" with the missing athletes, but added: \"We know they haven't left.\"\n\nShe said that around 190 of the 205 athletes and officials in the country legally are seeking protection visas. The remaining number are applying for business or other visas.\n\nAustralian media had speculated that anywhere between 20 and 100 athletes had absconded during the Golden Coast Games, which ended on 15 April.\n\nThey included eight members of Cameroon's delegation, as well as participants from Uganda, Sierra Leone and Rwanda.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Why some Commonwealth Games athletes overstay their visas\n\nOther athletes have disappeared during major international sporting events, although not on this scale.\n\nDuring the London 2012 Olympics, for example, 21 athletes and coaches vanished and many have still not been found. More than 80 also filed for asylum in the same period.\n\nAnd when Australia last held the Commonwealth Games, in 2006, more than 40 athletes and officials overstayed or sought asylum.", "THE DUKE AND DUCHESS OF SUSSEX / ALEXI LUBOMIRSKI The bride had 10 bridesmaids and pageboys including Princess Charlotte and Prince George\n\nThe Duke and Duchess of Sussex have released three official photographs taken on their wedding day.\n\nThe pictures, taken by Alexi Lubomirski, include a group photograph with bridesmaids and close family, including their parents and the Queen.\n\nThe couple would like to thank everyone who took part in the celebrations on Saturday, Kensington Palace said.\n\n\"Their Royal Highnesses are delighted with these official portraits,\" a statement added.\n\nTHE DUKE AND DUCHESS OF SUSSEX / ALEXI LUBOMIRSKI\n\nMr Lubomirski, who also took the couple's official engagement pictures, said it had been an \"incredible honour\" to document the Duke and Duchess of Sussex's \"inspiring journey of love\".\n\n\"This has been a beautiful chapter in my career and life, that I will happily never forget,\" he said.\n\nThousands of well-wishers gathered in Windsor as Prince Harry wed Meghan in St George's Chapel on Saturday afternoon.\n\nMore than 110,000 people filled the town's streets with about 67,000 train trips made in and out of Windsor's two stations on Saturday, according to the council.\n\nMeanwhile, an average of 11 million viewers watched on BBC or ITV at any one time.\n\nTHE DUKE AND DUCHESS OF SUSSEX / ALEXI LUBOMIRSKI Meghan's mother Doria Ragland was the only member of her family to attend the wedding\n\nMr Lubomirski is normally found shooting for fashion magazines like Vogue and Harpers Bazaar and can count celebrities including Beyoncé, Julia Roberts, Nicole Kidman and Scarlett Johansson among his subjects.\n\nAccording to his website, in 2014 he published a book called 'Princely advice for a happy life', written for his sons, about behaving like a 21st Century prince.\n\nAlexi Lubomirski (right) and his wife Giada were among the guests at the ceremony on Saturday\n\nMeghan's pure white, boat neck gown was designed by British designer Clare Waight Keller, the first female artistic director of French fashion house Givenchy.\n\nA five metre-long white silk veil - which covered her face as she entered the chapel - included embroidered floral detail representing all 53 countries of the Commonwealth.\n\nThis was kept in place by Queen Mary's diamond encrusted bandeau tiara, loaned to her by the Queen.\n\nFor the couple's private evening reception, the Duchess of Sussex changed into a lily white, silk crepe halter-neck dress designed by Stella McCartney.\n\nOn Monday, the British fashion designer shared an animated sketch of the gown and said making it was \"one of the most humbling moments of my career\".\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\nAs a member of the royal family, Meghan now has an official profile on the Royal Family website, which details her work for a number of charitable causes.\n\n\"I am proud to be a woman and a feminist,\" the Duchess of Sussex, said on the site.\n\nThe best way to get news on the go", "Jailed British-Iranian Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe is facing a new charge against her in Iran, her campaign says.\n\nHer husband said the 39-year-old, who denied the new allegation of spreading propaganda, was told to expect a conviction by the judge.\n\nThe prime minister's spokesman said the government was urgently seeking more information from Iranian authorities.\n\nMrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe is serving a five-year jail sentence in Iran after being convicted of spying.\n\nShe was detained at an airport in April 2016 while travelling home with her daughter and was accused by Iran of plotting against the government.\n\nMrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe, from Hampstead, north London, denies the charges against her and says she was in the country to introduce her daughter, Gabriella, to her parents.\n\nIn her latest court appearance on Saturday, her husband Richard Ratcliffe said his wife asked the judge for leniency for the sake of her child.\n\nAccording to The Free Nazanin Campaign, Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe said: \"She hasn't seen her father for over two years now.\n\n\"I have been a good prisoner for the sake of my baby, and I would ask the judge to close this new case and give me parole - so that I can go home and have another baby and have a normal life.\"\n\nNazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe's daughter Gabriella hasn't seen her father for two years\n\nFollowing her court appearance at the weekend, Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe was able to telephone the British ambassador to Iran for the first time in more than two years, her campaign said.\n\nIt added that she discussed, with both the judge and the ambassador, a request for her to be let out on temporary release for her daughter's fourth birthday next month.\n\nThe prime minister's official spokesman said: \"The UK government remains committed to doing everything possible to help secure Ms Zaghari-Ratcliffe's release and alleviate her suffering.\"\n\nThe new charge came despite Theresa May raising her case, along with other British prisoners held in the country, with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani.\n\nIn a telephone call earlier this month, Mrs May had asked for them to be released on \"humanitarian grounds\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Why one mother's personal plight is part of a complicated history between Iran and the UK (video published August 2019 and last updated in October 2019)\n\nMr Ratcliffe has petitioned the UK government to help free his wife, making numerous media appearances and visiting Downing Street.\n\nIn November last year, Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson apologised for telling a Commons committee hearing that Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe had been teaching journalism in Iran - something her family and employer say is incorrect.\n\nMr Johnson raised the case with his Iranian counterpart in January and had been urged to do so again, by the family, when they met last week.", "Eight-year-old Saffie Roussos was one of 22 people killed in the Manchester arena attack. Her father Andrew says he wants her to be remembered with a special concert.", "The couple left the White House at the beginning of 2017\n\nBarack Obama and Michelle Obama are teaming up with Netflix to produce films and TV shows.\n\nNetflix say the former US President and First Lady have \"entered into a multi-year agreement\" with the service.\n\nIt says the \"films and series\" will \"potentially\" include \"scripted series, unscripted series, docu-series, documentaries and features.\"\n\n\"Barack and I have always believed in the power of storytelling to inspire us,\" said Michelle Obama.\n\nExact details of programming have yet to be announced.\n\nThe couple have created Higher Ground Productions to produce the content to be aired on Netflix.\n\nThe couple hope to \"curate talented, inspiring, creative voices\" as part of their content for Netflix\n\n\"One of the simple joys of our time in public service was getting to meet so many fascinating people from all walks of life, and to help them share their experiences with a wider audience,\" said Mr Obama.\n\n\"That's why Michelle and I are so excited to partner with Netflix - we hope to cultivate and curate the talented, inspiring, creative voices who are able to promote greater empathy and understanding between peoples, and help them share their stories with the entire world.\"\n\nMrs Obama said: \"Barack and I have always believed in the power of storytelling to inspire us, to make us think differently about the world around us, and to help us open our minds and hearts to others.\n\n\"Netflix's unparalleled service is a natural fit for the kinds of stories we want to share, and we look forward to starting this exciting new partnership.\"\n\nWhen rumours began to circulate that the Obamas were going to team up with Netflix earlier this year, The New York Times said one possible show idea was for Mr Obama to moderate debates on issues such as health care, climate change and immigration.\n\nBut the paper said there were no plans to use the shows to attack conservative critics or Donald Trump.\n\n\"Barack and Michelle Obama are among the world's most respected and highly-recognised public figures and are uniquely positioned to discover and highlight stories of people who make a difference in their communities and strive to change the world for the better,\" said Netflix chief content officer Ted Sarandos.\n\n\"We are incredibly proud they have chosen to make Netflix the home for their formidable storytelling abilities.\"\n\nThe streaming service's mix of original drama, films and other programming has proved popular globally, with subscriber numbers reaching nearly 118 million at the end of 2017.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Shana Fisher was aggressively pursued by Dimitrios Pagourtzis, her mother says\n\nThe mother of a 16-year-old girl killed in the Santa Fe school shooting has said her daughter had publicly rejected suspected killer Dimitrios Pagourtzis just days before the attack.\n\nSadie Rodriguez said her daughter Shana Fisher had endured \"four months of problems from this boy\".\n\n\"He kept making advances on her and she repeatedly told him no,\" she told the Los Angeles Times.\n\nTen people died in the shooting on Friday, and 13 were injured.\n\nMs Rodriguez said Mr Pagourtzis had been increasingly aggressive until her daughter stood up to him, embarrassing him in class.\n\n\"A week later he opens fire on everyone he didn't like,\" she said.\n\nMs Rodriguez claimed her daughter had been the first shot dead, but did not specify how she knew.\n\nThe student's aunt, Candi Thurman, wrote on Twitter: \"Shana turned 16 on May 9th. She should be getting her first car, not a funeral.\"\n\nPagourtzis, 17, has been charged with murder after the attack at Santa Fe High School, south-east of Houston in Texas.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Dimitrios Pagourtzis is read his rights after his arrest\n\nAccording to an affidavit filed in court, he waived his right to remain silent and admitted \"to shooting multiple people\".\n\nSigns reading \"Santa Fe Strong\" could be seen outside many local churches and businesses over the weekend.\n\nThe funeral of Pakistani exchange student Sabika Sheikh was among the first to be held, at a mosque in suburban Houston.\n\nMore than 3,000 members of the Texas Muslim community attended to pay tribute to the 17-year-old, who had described her acceptance on to a US exchange programme as the best thing that had ever happened to her.\n\nA member of Sabika Sheikh's host family wipes away a tear at her funeral prayer service\n\nHer host family described their time with her as \"a precious gift,\" saying they had even joined her in fasting during Ramadan.\n\nAnd speaking from Karachi, Sabika's family told the LA Times they had been counting the days before she would return for the summer holiday.\n\n\"I don't blame the murder of my girl on American society but on that terrorism mindset that is there in all societies,\" her uncle Ansar Sheikh said, adding: \"We need to fight it all over the world.\"\n\n\"I do ask the American government to make sure weapons will not be easily available in your country to anybody. Please make sure this doesn't happen again.\"\n\nAn emotional service was also held at Aldersgate United Methodist Church, where one of the students killed, Jared Black, had been a member.\n\nAt Arcadia First Baptist Church, Texas Governor Greg Abbott joined a gathering on Sunday which was initially planned to celebrate the high school's graduating seniors. Inevitably, its focus shifted in the wake of the shooting.\n\n\"We want to come together as a community and support one another,\" senior pastor Jerl Watkins said, according to Dallas News.\n\n\"It's times like this when all of us realise how fragile our lives really are.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"It broke my heart to see what was going on\"\n\nAmerican football player JJ Watt, who plays for the Houston Texans, has offered to pay for the funerals of the eight students and two teachers killed.\n\nWatt previously raised $31m (£23m) to support victims of Hurricane Harvey, which devastated the Houston area in 2017.\n\nIn a statement, the family of the shooting suspect said they were \"saddened and dismayed\" by the deadly attack and \"as shocked as anyone else\".\n\nOn Sunday, National Rifle Association president Oliver North blamed the shooting on \"a culture of violence\".\n\n\"Many of these young boys have been on Ritalin since they were in kindergarten,\" he told Fox News.\n\nPolice have not said that the Sante Fe suspect was taking ADHD medication.", "The diagnosis of cancer and other diseases in the UK can be transformed by using artificial intelligence, Theresa May is to say.\n\nThe NHS and technology companies should use AI as a \"new weapon\" in research, the PM will urge in a speech later.\n\nExperts say it can be used to help prevent 22,000 cancer deaths a year by 2033 while aiding the fight against heart disease, diabetes and dementia.\n\nHigh-skilled science jobs will also be created, Mrs May is to pledge.\n\nSpeaking in Macclesfield, Mrs May will say: \"Late diagnosis of otherwise treatable illnesses is one of the biggest causes of avoidable deaths.\n\n\"And the development of smart technologies to analyse great quantities of data quickly and with a higher degree of accuracy than is possible by human beings opens up a whole new field of medical research.\"\n\nThe prime minister wants to see computer algorithms sifting through patients' medical records, genetic data and lifestyle habits to spot cancer.\n\nBBC health and science correspondent James Gallagher says Mrs May's plans do chime with excitement within medical science about the potential of using data and AI.\n\nBut our correspondent added there are many challenges ahead including creating the right infrastructure within the health service, separating hype and genuine innovation and ensuring the public's highly personal data is used responsibly.\n\nCancer Research UK says halving the number of lung, bowel, prostate and ovarian cancers diagnosed at an advanced stage could prevent thousands of deaths a year.\n\nThe prime minister will also unveil a new strategy to help older people remain healthy\n\nSir Harpal Kumar, chief executive officer of Cancer Research, described the government's plans as pioneering but added: \"We need to ensure we have the right infrastructure, embedded in our health system, to make this possible.\"\n\nSimon Gillespie, chief executive at the British Heart Foundation, said: \"Using artificial intelligence to analyse MRI scans could spot early signs of heart disease which may be missed by current techniques.\n\n\"This could lead to a quicker diagnosis with more personalised treatment that could ultimately save lives.\"\n\nMrs May will also use her speech to announce a new target to ensure that five more years of people's lives will be healthy, independent and active by 2035.", "Ryanair has reported record annual results, despite it having to cancel thousands of flights in September due to problems with pilots' rotas.\n\nThe Irish airline said profits after tax rose 10% to €1.45bn (£1.27bn), despite the wave of bad publicity.\n\nHowever, it warned higher costs would make the year ahead more difficult.\n\nThe outlook for the coming year was \"on the pessimistic side of cautious\", chief executive Michael O'Leary said in a statement.\n\nThe carrier, Europe's largest low-cost airline, said passenger numbers had risen by 9% to 130.3 million in the 12 months to the end of March,\n\nThat increase was stimulated by lower fares, it said, with Germany, Italy and Spain the three largest growth markets.\n\nRyanair said it expected to carry 7% more passengers in the coming year, but said costs would rise by 9%, including staff costs and the oil price. However, fares are expected to remain unchanged.\n\nLast year, mistakes with pilots' rotas led to about 20,000 flights being cancelled.\n\nProblems began after the airline admitted in September it had \"messed up\" pilots' holiday, leaving it unable to staff all its scheduled flights.\n\nFollowing reports that pilots were leaving the firm, Mr O'Leary wrote to the Ryanair's pilots to offer them better pay and conditions. And in December, Ryanair said it would recognise trade unions, something the airline had always resisted, in order to avoid further disruption to flights over the busy Christmas period.\n\nSince then, Ryanair has begun to recognise trade unions on a country-by-country basis, and its Irish union is currently threatening to ballot pilots over working practices.\n\nVictoria Moores, European editor for Air Transport World, told the BBC's Today programme that Ryanair was a strong performer in the aviation sector, thanks in part to its success at filling aircraft to near full capacity.\n\n\"If you look at their load factor, which is the percentage of the aircraft that is filled, they are filling 95% of every aircraft on average.\"\n\nA load factor of between 60% to 70% was more usual 20 years ago, Ms Moores said.\n\nBut she added last year's crisis over rosters was prompting change at the airline.\n\n\"What we've heard in these results is a move towards pay increases,\" she said.\n\nRyanair's statement said it expected the market for experienced pilots in Europe to remain tight, putting further upward pressure on staff costs.", "Last updated on .From the section Arsenal\n\nArsenal are set to appoint Unai Emery as their new manager.\n\nManchester City assistant manager and former Gunners captain Mikel Arteta was strong favourite to succeed Arsene Wenger.\n\nEmery emerged as the unanimous choice following a recruitment process in which all candidates were spoken to.\n\nThe 46-year-old Spaniard is available after leaving Paris St-Germain where he won one Ligue 1 title and four domestic cups in two seasons in charge.\n\nPreviously he guided Sevilla to three consecutive Europa League triumphs between 2014 and 2016.\n• None Meticulous, experienced, successful - and still a risk: Phil McNulty on Arsenal's surprise choice\n\nEmery announced last month he would leave French champions PSG when his contract expired at the end of the season. He was replaced by former Borussia Dortmund boss Thomas Tuchel, who had also been linked with the Arsenal job.\n\nEmery's English is not completely fluent but the language barrier is not expected to be a problem.\n\nAn announcement and news conference are expected later this week.\n\nAfter Wenger's departure was announced, the betting odds on Emery replacing him were at one stage as long as 66-1 - placing him behind the likes of former Tottenham manager Tim Sherwood.\n\nOther candidates included Juventus manager Massimiliano Allegri and former Chelsea and Real Madrid boss Carlo Ancelotti, as well as former Arsenal players Arteta, Thierry Henry and Patrick Vieira.\n\nThe recruitment process was led by Arsenal chief executive Ivan Gazidis, head of football relations Raul Sanllehi and head of recruitment Sven Mislintat - though the final decision would be down to majority shareholder and owner Stan Kroenke.\n\nWenger, 68, left the Gunners at the end of season after 22 years in charge, during which he won three Premier League titles and seven FA Cups, including two Doubles.\n\nWhat's going on at Arsenal? Where's Unai Emery come from? I can't get it out of my head.\n\nYou'd have thought that by now they would have known exactly what's going on.\n\nEmery has had loads of money to spend at Paris St-Germain and now has to come to Arsenal with £50m with a bunch of players who have been playing in second gear.\n\nHis coaching ability will have to get going instantly and he will have to find some gems instantly.\n\nI wouldn't be disgruntled as an Arsenal fan about Unai Emery, I think the fact he's come out of left field when everyone's thinking 'it's going to be Arteta', that's the only problem. If we do see a difference in intensity, drive and consistency everybody will get onside and that's all Arsenal fans want to see.", "Paul Austin found the device about 500 yards from his front door\n\nA live German sea mine from World War Two washed up on the Sussex coast has been towed out to sea and blown up.\n\nThe large metal device measuring about 6ft (1.8m) and thought to weigh about 1,000kg was found on Saturday.\n\nThe Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA) said the mine was \"safely detonated\" at about 17:10 BST.\n\nEarlier, residents were alerted as a precaution and vessels were told to steer clear of the mine off Elmer Beach, near Bognor Regis.\n\nA mile-wide maritime and air exclusion zone was in force, with coastguards broadcasting to vessels in the area.\n\nOperations have been taking place through the night\n\nSussex Police said bomb disposal teams were called in after the device was found in the water by someone living nearby.\n\nExplosives teams inspected the device and work took place to make it safe while the tides allowed access, officers said.\n\nPaul Austin, who found the device and alerted emergency services, said when he looked at it closely, it was \"quite clearly a weapon\".\n\nHe had been walking on the beach with a friend when he saw the object and noticed it had a propeller, or a fin, and a cone nose.\n\n\"At first it looked like a big oil drum. I didn't think it was a bomb,\" he said.\n\n\"We were almost standing on it, but then we stepped away.\n\n\"I said 'let's throw stones at it' as a joke. But then I thought - actually, that's a torpedo or a bomb.\"\n\nHe said he had since talked to emergency teams and learned it was one of the biggest bombs the Nazis ever produced.\n\nThe device was about 500 yards from his front door, he added.\n\nMr Austin said he was struck by how the bomb would have been used in the war, adding: \"If that went up, and it's full of TNT, it would have taken a lot of people with it.\"\n\nCoastguards said the device could be detonated at sea\n\nNo homes had to be evacuated.\n\nCh Supt Jane Derrick said the force had followed advice from military ordnance teams about safe areas.\n\nOther members of the public were earlier asked to avoid the Elmer Beach area, whether for using the beach, swimming or sailing.\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. Ken Livingstone: \"It's better for Labour if I resign\"\n\nKen Livingstone has said he is resigning from the Labour Party.\n\nThe ex-London mayor has been suspended since 2016 in a row over allegations of anti-Semitism following comments he made about Hitler and Zionism.\n\nMr Livingstone said he did not accept he was guilty of anti-Semitism or bringing Labour into disrepute but his case had become a \"distraction\" for the party and its political ambitions.\n\nJeremy Corbyn said it was a sad moment but it was the \"right thing to do\".\n\nMr Livingstone, an ally of Mr Corbyn, has always maintained that comments he made about the Nazi leader supporting a Jewish homeland when he first came to power in the early 1930 were historically accurate.\n\nSpeaking in April 2016, Mr Livingstone, who was defending MP Naz Shah over claims she had made anti-Semitic social media posts, said: \"When Hitler won his election in 1932, his policy then was that Jews should be moved to Israel. He was supporting Zionism before he went mad and ended up killing six million Jews.\"\n\nDespite his decision to resign from the party, Mr Livingstone said on Monday he \"did not accept\" the allegation that he was \"in any way guilty of anti-Semitism\".\n\nHe added that he \"abhorred\" anti-Semitism and was \"truly sorry\" that his historical arguments had \"caused offence and upset in the Jewish community\".\n\n\"I am loyal to the Labour Party and to Jeremy Corbyn,\" he said in a statement. \"However, any further disciplinary action against me may drag on for months or even years, distracting attention from Jeremy's policies.\n\n\"I am therefore, with great sadness, leaving the Labour Party.\"\n\nA spokesman for the Campaign Against Antisemitism said Mr Corbyn's decision to describe Mr Livingstone's resignation as \"sad\" had merely \"rubbed salt into the wound\".\n\nThe group called for Mr Corbyn to apologise and added: \"The Labour Party's anti-Semitism problem seems to be growing, not receding.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Luciana Berger This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 later on BBC Radio 5 live, Mr Livingstone said his decision had come after he was warned \"some of the old right wingers\" in Labour's National Executive Committee had again been planning to call for his expulsion from the party.\n\nLabour MP Ruth Smeeth described Mr Livingstone's decision to resign as \"welcome\" but added his \"toxic views\" should have resulted in his expulsion from the party \"years ago\".\n\nIlford North Labour MP Wes Streeting added: \"We must now make it clear that he will never be welcome to return.\"\n\nLast week, shadow attorney general Baroness Chakrabarti called for Mr Livingstone's expulsion - signalling to some that the party leadership had now turned against him.\n\nHe was awaiting a fresh disciplinary process due to start this week.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Tulip Siddiq This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 Livingstone was expelled from Labour in 2000 after challenging the party's official candidate in the mayoral contest but returned to the fold later.\n\nBBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg said Mr Livingstone's departure from the party would be a relief to Mr Corbyn.\n\n\"Mr Corbyn wants people to believe that he is taking anti-Semitism seriously. While Mr Livingstone was still a member that was challenging to say the least,\" she said.\n\n\"Although he and Mr Corbyn were fellow political travellers for years, he had long passed the point of being helpful to his old friend.\"\n\n\"After much consideration, I have decided to resign from the Labour Party.\n\nThe ongoing issues around my suspension from the Labour Party have become a distraction from the key political issue of our time - which is to replace a Tory government overseeing falling living standards and spiralling poverty, while starving our schools and the NHS of the vital resources they need.\n\nWe live in dangerous times and there are many issues I wish to speak up on and contribute my experience from running London... from the need for real action to tackle climate change, to opposing Trump's war-mongering, to the need to end austerity and invest in our future here in Britain.\n\nI do not accept the allegation that I have brought the Labour Party into disrepute - nor that I am in any way guilty of anti-Semitism. I abhor anti-Semitism, I have fought it all my life and will continue to do so.\n\nI also recognise that the way I made a historical argument has caused offence and upset in the Jewish community. I am truly sorry for that.\n\nUnder Labour's new general secretary I am sure there will be rapid action to expel anyone who genuinely has anti-Semitic views.\n\nI am loyal to the Labour Party and to Jeremy Corbyn. However any further disciplinary action against me may drag on for months or even years, distracting attention from Jeremy's policies.\n\nI am therefore, with great sadness, leaving the Labour Party.\n\nWe desperately need an end to Tory rule, and a Corbyn-led government to transform Britain and end austerity.\n\nI will continue to work to this end, and I thank all those who share this aim and who have supported me in my own political career.\"", "More consumers will use apps on their smartphone than a computer to do their banking by as early as next year, according to forecasts.\n\nLast year, 22 million people managed their current account on their phone, industry analyst CACI said.\n\nIt has predicted that 35 million people - or 72% of the UK adult population - will bank via a phone app by 2023.\n\nBy then, customers would typically visit a branch only twice a year, it said.\n\nCACI added that rural areas and smaller coastal towns would see the biggest increase in mobile users between now and 2023, owing in part to frustration over broadband access pushing customers towards mobile networks.\n\n\"With so much more functionality, mobile is rapidly becoming the digital channel of choice, and replacing traditional online banking for many customers,\" said report author Jamie Morawiec.\n\n\"Whilst the number of internet log-ons is decreasing, so are the numbers of users. In fact, CACI predicts that 2019 will be the year in which mobile banking overtakes internet banking in terms of users.\"\n\nIt would also mean banks might again review the location and number of branches.\n\nMajor UK banks have been closing hundreds of branches in recent years, with more plans announced recently.\n\nEarlier this month, Royal Bank of Scotland announced it was to close 162 branches across England and Wales. Some 109 branches will close in late July and August 2018, while a further 53 branches will close in November 2018.\n\nThese branch closures follow existing plans to close 52 bank branches in Scotland that serve rural communities, and 197 NatWest branches.\n\nLloyds also announced recently that it was planning to close 49 branches.", "Conservative councillors tried to distance themselves from Theresa May and the government\n\nConservative councillors have criticised Theresa May after losing hundreds of seats in the local elections.\n\nA council leader who lost his majority said the prime minister should \"consider her position\" and others said they made gains \"despite\" the government.\n\nThe Conservatives and Labour lost out to smaller parties and independents.\n\nThere are reports of spoilt ballots referring to Brexit in some areas.\n\nElections for more than 8,400 seats on 248 councils took place amid widespread criticism of MPs and the government over the handling of Brexit.\n\nThe Conservatives, who were defending council seats they won in 2015, alongside the party's general election victory, were at pains to stress the vote was about local services and council tax rather than what was happening at Westminster.\n\nHowever, by Friday morning they had lost out mainly to the Liberal Democrats and independents on councils such as Cotswold, Winchester and North Kesteven.\n\nThe Greens have also won dozens of seats including in Folkestone and Hythe, where they have six new councillors.\n\nLabour have also been losing seats, including in strongholds such as Bolsover, where they lost their majority amid a surge in support for independents.\n\nParty leader Jeremy Corbyn has said he is \"very sorry\" it lost three of its councils in the North West, despite winning control in Trafford.\n\nTony Berry wants Theresa May to consider her position after losing control of Cotswold District Council\n\nThe Tories lost Cotswold District Council after 16 years, with the Liberal Democrats now in charge.\n\nConservative group leader Tony Berry said it was a \"very unusual set of circumstances\".\n\nHe blamed Brexit and \"professional politicians who are basically working for themselves rather than necessarily what is best for the country\".\n\nAsked his message to Theresa May, he said: \"I would ask her to consider her position very carefully.\"\n\nA voter in Worcester posted a picture of his spoilt paper\n\nHundreds of ballot papers were spoiled in Rugby, according to the borough's returning officer.\n\nAdam Norburn said many had \"Brexit\" scrawled across them.\n\nAnd a voter in Worcester posted a picture of his spoilt paper on Twitter.\n\nJordan said he was a Conservative party member but that the major parties had been \"lying for three years straight about Brexit\".\n\nThere were also reports of a \"larger than normal\" number of spoilt ballots in Ipswich.\n\nAnd in one ward in Broxtowe, Nottinghamshire, almost one in 20 ballots was spoilt.\n\nCandidates at the count told the Local Democracy Reporting Service many comments written on the papers related to Brexit.\n\nThere were 33 spoilt votes out of 673 in the Eastwood Hall ward.\n\nIt is not illegal to spoil a ballot paper, but filling it out incorrectly or covering it with graffiti will render it invalid.\n\nIn Bath and North East Somerset, where the Liberal Democrats won control, Tory casualties included the council leader Tim Warren.\n\nMr Warren said councillors had been \"given a kicking for something that wasn't our fault\".\n\nAsked whether there needed to be changes in leadership or policies at the top of the Conservative Party, Mr Warren replied: \"There needs to be a change in action.\"\n\nMike Bird said the Conservatives won control at Walsall \"despite\" the government\n\nIn Walsall, the Conservatives took control of the council after winning seats from Labour, having run the authority for a year without a majority.\n\nCouncil leader Mike Bird said the Tories won \"despite\" the Conservative government and Theresa May.\n\n\"She hasn't helped us make any gains at all - far from it - we made the gains despite the prime minister.\"\n\nIn North East Lincolnshire, another Tory gain, group leader Philip Jackson said the party \"managed to disengage national politics from what was happening locally\".\n\nLabour's leader in Leeds said councillors were bearing the brunt of \"anger and frustration\" about national politics.\n\nJudith Blake said the party had been \"punished locally\" after losing four seats on the city council, while retaining control.\n\nLabour also lost seats in Wakefield to the Liberal Democrats and independents. Councillor Graham Isherwood said the party was \"paying the price for that lot in Westminster\".\n\nIn Ashfield, Nottinghamshire, a group of independents won an overall majority, a month after taking control from Labour.\n\nJason Zadrozny, leader of the Ashfield Independents, said politics had been \"a bit of a mess\".\n\nIn North Devon, where the Lib Dems won control of the council from the Conservatives and independents, the group's leader David Worden said: \"It was a tremendous night for us and shows that the Lib Dem fight back is well and truly happening.\"\n\nThe Lib Dems also won a 20-seat majority in North Norfolk, something the party's leader in the district Sarah Butikofer said was beyond the party's \"wildest dreams\".\n\nEither search using your postcode or council name or click around the map to show local results.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Why Are The Police Putting Down Their Guns?\n\nHundreds of firearms officers hand in their permits to carry weapons.", "HSBC has reported a 31% jump in pre-tax profits for the first quarter as it cut costs and incomes from Asia grew.\n\nEurope's largest bank made $6.2bn (£4.8bn) before tax in the three months to March, up from $4.8bn in the same period a year earlier.\n\nIt beat the $5.58bn average of analysts' estimates compiled by HSBC.\n\nChief executive John Flint said the results were \"encouraging\" against a backdrop of global economic uncertainty.\n\nShares closed more than 2% higher in Hong Kong trading after the earnings release.\n\nIn London, the bank's shares added 2.7% in Friday morning trading.\n\nIn a statement, HSBC said growth in Asia was strong during the first quarter and reported a 7% rise in revenue for the period, compared with a year earlier.\n\nThe bank makes three-quarters of its profits in Asia.\n\nThe earnings release also showed HSBC had made progress in efforts to cut costs, with operating expenses down 12% during the first quarter. Earnings per share rose 40% to 21 cents.\n\nHSBC has moved to rein in spending while trying to boost investment in retail banking and wealth management.\n\n\"These are an encouraging set of results, particularly in the context of heightened economic uncertainty globally,\" said Mr Flint.\n\nThe bank's US business continued to disappoint, but saw a return to profit, bringing in $379m, compared with a pre-tax loss of $596m in the first three months of 2018.\n\nThe bank said its \"US turnaround\" was progressing, but remained its \"most challenging strategic priority\".\n\nEarlier this year, HSBC warned profits would be hit by a slowdown in China.\n\nIn 2018, the lender said it would invest up to $17bn over three years in areas including in China and technology, without affecting profitability.", "Free-to-use cash machines have been disappearing at a rapid rate across the UK, according to a study by Which?\n\nNearly 1,700 machines started charging for withdrawals in the first three months of the year, with the majority starting to charge in March, according to the consumer lobby group.\n\nCardtronics, which runs most of those, and fellow provider NoteMachine are both likely to charge at more machines.\n\nThat could mean the country losing 13% of its free ATMs in only a few months.\n\nThe changes come after a reduction in the fee operators receive from banks each time an ATM is used.\n\nLink, which oversees ATMs, began to cut the fee, known as the interchange rate, last year. So far it has reduced the charge from 25p to 23p per withdrawal.\n\nLink said at the time that the move was aimed at protecting the ATM network. It left the fee for free-to-use ATMs - which are 1km or more from the next nearest cash machine - unchanged.\n\nAshleigh Cooper from Hebden Bridge in West Yorkshire has seen the number of cash machines dwindle from six down to two.\n\nMr Cooper, aged 60, said: \"It causes real problems especially on bank holidays. There are no banks here anymore. We have a mobile bank that visits every few weeks but that's no good to me.\n\n\"Hebden Bridge is quite a touristy area and there's usually a problem with one of the cash machines going out of order because it's run out of cash.\n\n\"The local cinema here was always a cash business but they're now having to accept digital payments or lose punters.\n\n\"For me it's like going back to the dark ages, it's crazy.\"\n\nATM operators receive the interchange fee from banks each time one of their cash machines is used.\n\nNoteMachine, which operates 7,000 cash machines across the UK, said the cut in the interchange rate meant it was considering introducing fees at up to 4,000 of its machines.\n\n\"Unless urgent action is taken to reduce the pressure on ATM operators by reversing the interchange fee reductions, NoteMachine will be forced to begin converting ATMs to surcharging,\" said chief executive Peter McNamara.\n\nRival ATM machine operator Cardtronics has said it is likely to convert another 1,000 of its ATMs over the coming months. It said it \"had been forced into charging a fee for cash withdrawals on some of our machines where Link's cuts have left us with no choice\".\n\nThere were about 52,000 free cash machines in the country at the start of the year.\n\nGareth Shaw, head of money at Which?, said: \"Communities are being stripped of free access to cash at an alarming rate that could hit the most vulnerable in our society the hardest, while denying millions of people free withdrawals.\n\n\"A regulator is desperately needed to get a grip of these rapid changes across the cash landscape and ensure all those still reliant on this important payment method aren't suddenly shut out from accessing the cash they need in their daily lives.\"\n\nReported charges range from 50p to £1.99 and the situation angered some of the respondents to the Which? survey.\n\nAnita Brakewell, from Blackpool, said: \"Being disabled means I don't have the option of walking to the next free cash machine, so these charges shut me out of cash that's important to my daily life.\n\n\"My town has also suffered from bank branch closures, making it hard to access the cash and financial services I need.\"\n\nAnd Robin Farnsworth, from Kirkcaldy, said: \"I stopped using the local cashpoint when it started charging me just to access my cash. I'm on a very tight budget and can't afford to be spending out just to get the money I need for everyday life.\"\n\nBank of England figures show that 2.2 million people are almost entirely reliant on cash.\n\nAnd last year's Access to Cash study, published in December, found that more than eight million people would struggle to cope in a cashless society, which would present real challenges for 25 million UK residents.\n\nHowever, cash use has halved in the past 10 years and in 2017, debit cards overtook notes and coins as the UK's most popular payment method.\n\nThere is a fierce, three-way, struggle going on over the future of our network of free-to-use cash machines.\n\nThe upstarts are independent operators like Cardtronics and Note Machine which now have the most ATMs.\n\nThen there are the banks. They have to pay the operators each time their customers use a non-bank machine.\n\nFinally, we have Link which runs the network and has been trying to get the operators to accept lower payments from the banks.\n\nTwo cuts to the payments have been pushed through, prompting Cardtronics to say it is being \"forced\" to charge the customer instead.\n\nAnd the backdrop is that we are using less cash, which means fewer withdrawals and less chance that a cash machine will pay its way.\n\nSo it's not clear where this will end.\n\nBut more charging will cause anger and frustration amongst those who depend heavily on cash.", "With the results for Waverley and Mansfield now in, every council in England has declared.\n\nThe Conervatives have suffered huge defeats, losing more than 1,300 councillors and 44 councils.\n\nAnd Labour, who had been expected to make gains, instead lost 81 councillors and six councils.\n\nTheresa May has said the results show the public want both parties to \"get on\" with Brexit.\n\nBut the strongly pro-EU Lib Dems gained 700 seats, with leader Sir Vince Cable calling every vote received \"a vote for stopping Brexit\".\n\nThe Green Party - who are also pro-EU - have picked up an additional 194 seats in comparison to 2015.\n\nYou can read a full breakdown of all the results here.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nPolice have started an investigation into a number of assaults in Warrington following a visit by the founder of the English Defence League, Tommy Robinson.\n\nMr Robinson, who is standing as a candidate for the European Parliament, had a milkshake thrown over him in the town centre on Thursday.\n\nTwo people were taken to hospital in the hours that followed.\n\n\"We will not tolerate disorder... whatever the motivation,\" said Ch Insp Simon Meegan of Cheshire Constabulary.\n\n\"We are aware there has been a lot of talk, videos and speculation about what happened on social media but we need to hear from people who were there at the time and witnessed what happened.\n\n\"In particular, we want to hear from anyone who was in the area at the time and recorded any of the incidents on their mobile phone,\" he said.\n\nIt was the second time in two days Mr Robinson had a milkshake thrown over him on the campaign trail.\n\nHe is running as an independent to become an MEP for the north-west England, one of eleven candidates in the constituency.\n\nFootage posted on social media appeared to show Mr Robinson arguing with another man before a milkshake is thrown.\n\nThere is then an altercation.\n\nOther footage showed a further altercation between a number of people in central Warrington later that afternoon.\n\n\"This is a complex investigation, which involves a large number of people and we are treating this matter seriously and asking for the public's help in tracing those responsible,\" said Ch Insp Meegan.\n\nNo arrests have been made and inquiries are ongoing, police said.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Henry Vincent and another man broke into Richard Osborn-Brooks's home in Hither Green\n\nA 79-year-old man who killed an armed burglar with a kitchen knife acted lawfully, an inquest has decided.\n\nRichard Osborn-Brooks stabbed Henry Vincent with a knife in Hither Green, south-east London, in April last year.\n\nMr Osborn-Brooks told Southwark Coroner's Court the 37-year-old had threatened him with a screwdriver, then \"rushed forward\" and \"ran into the knife I was holding\".\n\nSpeaking by videolink, Mr Osborn-Brooks told the inquest he still believed the intruder was \"intending to do me harm\" during the break-in on 4 April 2018.\n\nHe said two men had knocked on his door, grabbed him and pushed him inside.\n\nBoth then demanded money as one then shoved him toward the kitchen and the other ran upstairs.\n\nHe told the hearing that when he grabbed the knife, Mr Vincent's accomplice fled out of the front door but the intruder came down the stairs holding the screwdriver and saying \"get out of my way or I'll stick you with this\".\n\nMr Osborn-Brooks said he had then warned Mr Vincent that his weapon was \"bigger than yours\".\n\n\"I thought he would look at my knife... and he would take the opportunity to run out the front door which was open.\n\n\"He definitely didn't try to get out of the front door, he came towards me,\" Mr Osborn-Brooks said.\n\nMr Osborn-Brooks said Mr Vincent threatened him with a screwdriver during the raid\n\nMr Vincent's cause of death was given as an incised wound to the chest.\n\nHis sister had told the hearing her brother was \"not a violent person\".\n\n\"He was a father, he was a son, he was a brother. No one deserves to die,\" Rosie Vincent said.\n\nIn a statement, the pathologist who carried out the post-mortem examination said a toxicology report indicated \"a recent use of both cocaine and heroin\".\n\nHe said Mr Vincent \"may have been experiencing the effects\" at the time of the raid.\n\nSenior coroner Andrew Harris said: \"The interaction that led to the stabbing was the simultaneous approach of the deceased with a small screwdriver and the forward movement of the householder with a kitchen knife, leading to moderate force being applied by the knife to Mr Vincent's chest, and its penetration.\n\n\"The householder was terrified and asserted he acted in self-defence after an assault by the other intruder. He was close to, but not obstructing, the exit by the intruder.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Hundreds of people may have missed out on voting in this year's council elections because of pilot schemes requiring them to prove their identity.\n\nThe Electoral Commission said the trial project saw 2,083 voters refused a ballot paper because they weren't carrying the necessary ID, with up to 758 of them not returning to cast their vote.\n\nBroxtowe, Derby and North West Leicestershire were three of the 10 areas involved in the pilot.\n\nCraig Westwood, director of communications, policy and research for the Electoral Commission, said \"nearly everyone\" in the pilot areas was able to vote and showed the correct ID \"without difficulty\", but said government needs to \"consider carefully the available evidence about the impact of different approaches\".\n\nQuote Message: Important questions remain about how an ID requirement would work in practice, particularly at a national poll with higher levels of turnout.\" from Craig Westwood Electoral Commission director of communications, policy and research Important questions remain about how an ID requirement would work in practice, particularly at a national poll with higher levels of turnout.\"", "Ann Moore-Martin died of natural causes in 2017\n\nA church warden plotted for an 83-year-old woman to die during sex or by her choking on her dentures, a court heard.\n\nBenjamin Field began a sexual relationship with Ann Moore-Martin, 57 years his senior, as part of a plot a few months after murdering her neighbour Peter Farquhar, 69, prosecutors allege.\n\nA jury heard Mrs Moore-Martin acted if she was \"hypnotised\" by him.\n\nMr Field, 28, and Martyn Smith, 32, deny murder and conspiracy to murder.\n\nMr Farquhar, who died in October 2015 and Miss Moore-Martin, who died in May 2017, lived in the Buckinghamshire village of Maids Moreton.\n\nPeter Farquhar was a guest lecturer at the University of Buckingham\n\nOliver Saxby QC, prosecuting, told an Oxford Crown Court jury: \"Ann Moore-Martin was gushing about Benjamin Field.\n\nJurors were told Mr Field bought her a sex toy and took a picture of a sex act.\n\nMr Field, the son of a Baptist minister, is accused alongside Mr Smith of plotting to make the church-going pensioner's death look like an accident, such as dying during sex, falling down the stairs or choking on her dentures, the court heard.\n\nMr Saxby told the jury that Mr Field suffocated Mr Farquhar and tried to kill Miss Moore-Martin \"by a manner of means\".\n\nShe died of natural causes, the court was told.\n\nPeter Farquhar lived at the house circled on the left, and Ann Moore-Martin on the right\n\nMr Field, of Wellingborough Road, Olney, denies murder, conspiracy to murder, possessing an article for the use in fraud and an alternative charge of attempted murder. He has admitted four charges of fraud and two of burglary.\n\nHis brother Tom Field, 24, of Wellingborough Road, Olney, Buckinghamshire, denies a single charge of fraud.\n\nMr Smith, of Penhalvean, Redruth, Cornwall, denies murder, conspiracy to murder, two charges of fraud and one of burglary.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Ms Ardern and her partner Clarke Gayford are now engaged\n\nNew Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern is engaged to her long-term partner, television presenter Clarke Gayford, a spokesman has confirmed.\n\nNews of the couple's engagement emerged after Ms Ardern was seen at a ceremony on Friday wearing a diamond ring on the middle finger of her left hand.\n\nA hawk-eyed journalism intern spied the new addition and asked the prime minister's office about it.\n\nHer spokesman then confirmed that the pair got engaged over Easter.\n\nLast year, Ms Ardern gave birth to the couple's first child, a daughter named Neve Te Aroha.\n\nEarlier this January, Ms Ardern was asked by the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire if she would ever propose to Mr Gayford.\n\n\"No I would not ask, no. I want to put him through the pain and torture of having to agonise about that question himself,\" she said.\n\nMs Ardern was the second world leader to give birth while in office. The first was the late Benazir Bhutto, Pakistan's two-time prime minister.\n\nThe couple have one child together, a baby girl named Neve Te Aroha\n\nShe said at the time that Mr Gayford would assume the role of a stay-at-home dad.\n\n\"I'm very, very lucky,\" she told Radio NZ.\n\n\"I have a partner who can be there alongside me, who's taking up a huge part of that joint responsibility because he's a parent too, he's not a babysitter.\"\n\nAccording to local media outlets, Ms Ardern and Mr Gayford first met at an awards event in 2012.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jacinda Ardern: 'It takes strength to be an empathetic leader'", "Actor Sir Tony Robinson, a former member of Labour's governing National Executive Committee, says he has quit the party over its current direction.\n\nHe said he was leaving after nearly 45 years because of Labour's stance on Brexit, its handling of anti-Semitism allegations and its poor leadership.\n\nSir Tony, 72, is best known for playing Baldrick in the comedy Blackadder.\n\nThe political activist has spoken at rallies for the People's Vote campaign, which is calling for a public vote on the final Brexit deal.\n\nHis decision comes as Labour lost seats in Thursday's local elections, with voters turning to smaller parties and independents.\n\nAnnouncing his move on Twitter, Sir Tony said it was partly down to the party's \"continued duplicity on Brexit\".\n\nHe has previously written a tweet to deputy leader Tom Watson, saying: \"Our party members are overwhelmingly in favour of a second referendum. To campaign on a platform of constructive ambiguity would be unprincipled, duplicitous and rather sinister.\"\n\nLabour has refused to fully endorse a further referendum on Brexit - as supported by many ordinary members - instead saying it would do so under certain circumstances.\n\nSir Tony, who has frequently criticised Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn on Twitter, also raised the issue of anti-Semitism and swore when describing the leadership in his tweet.\n\nLabour has been dogged by criticism of how it has handled allegations of anti-Semitism since Mr Corbyn became leader.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Tony Robinson This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 Time Team presenter, who campaigned at several general elections, served on Labour's National Executive Committee between 2000-04.\n\nLabour did not want to comment on his departure.", "Ms Begum left Bethnal Green, east London, in 2015 to join the Islamic State group in Syria\n\nIS bride Shamima Begum would \"face the death penalty\" for terrorism if she came to Bangladesh, the country's foreign minister has said.\n\nAbdul Momen told the BBC that Ms Begum has \"nothing to do\" with his country.\n\nThe 19-year-old, who left east London to join the Islamic State group in 2015, was stripped of her British citizenship in February.\n\nHer claim to Bangladeshi nationality through her mother is believed to have informed the Home Office's decision.\n\nUnder international law, it is illegal to deprive nationals of citizenship if to do so would leave them stateless.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC, Ms Begum's lawyer, Tasnime Akunjee, told the BBC \"in no way is she Bangladesh's problem\".\n\nMs Begum is appealing against the Home Office's decision.\n\nMr Momen said there was \"no question\" of giving Ms Begum Bangladeshi citizenship or allowing her into the country, piling pressure on Home Secretary Sajid Javid to settle her status.\n\n\"She has never sought Bangladeshi citizenship and her parents are also British citizens,\" he told the BBC.\n\n\"The British government is responsible for her. They'll have to deal with her.\"\n\nHe added that, if she did end up coming to Bangladesh, she would fall foul of the country's \"zero tolerance policy\" towards terrorism.\n\n\"Bangladeshi law is very clear. Terrorists will have to face the death penalty,\" he said.\n\nAlthough Ms Begum travelled to Syria to join the IS group, she has not admitted any terror offences.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Tasnime Akunjee, the lawyer for the family of Shamima Begum, expects her to be \"damaged\" by her ordeal\n\nThe Home Office could reverse its decision \"at any time\" and doing so would \"save British taxpayers a lot of money\" in court costs and legal aid, Mr Akunjee said.\n\n\"What Sajid Javid did in stripping Shamima of her citizenship is human fly tipping - taking our problems and dumping them on other countries,\" he said.\n\nThe Home Office told the BBC it would not respond to Mr Momen's comments and had nothing further to add to its previous statement.\n\nMs Begum left the UK with two school friends at the age of 15 before being found by a journalist from the Times in a Syrian refugee camp in mid-February this year.\n\nHeavily pregnant with her third child, she pleaded to return to the UK, claiming she had been \"brainwashed\" by Islamic State and now \"regrets everything\".\n\nShe said she did not regret travelling to Syria but did not agree with everything the IS group had done.\n\nMr Javid did not acquiesce to her pleas, telling MPs he \"won't hesitate\" to revoke her citizenship in the interests of national security.\n\n\"If you back terror, there must be consequences,\" he said.\n\nMs Begum was 15 and living in Bethnal Green, London, when she left the UK in 2015\n\nSoon afterwards, she gave birth to a boy called Jarrah. He died of pneumonia in March at less than three weeks of age. She had two other children who also died.\n\nIn the wake of the boy's death, Mr Javid was criticised over the decision to strip Ms Begum of her British citizenship.\n\nThree weeks prior to the death, Ms Begum's sister, Renu Begum, had written to Mr Javid asking him to help her bring the baby to the UK.\n\nUnder the 1981 British Nationality Act, a person can be deprived of their citizenship if the home secretary is satisfied it would be \"conducive to the public good\" and they would not become stateless as a result.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Alison Bennington was congratulated by DUP colleagues after her election\n\nThe election of the DUP's first openly gay politician was welcomed by one of the party's senior politicians.\n\nAlison Bennington was elected to Antrim and Newtownabbey.\n\nBelfast East MP Gavin Robinson said it was a \"good news story\", despite assembly member Jim Wells claiming members were \"shocked by the decision\" to let her run.\n\nElsewhere there were some surprising gains for Alliance and some smaller parties.\n\nSinn Féin had a mixed set of results on the first day of counting, while the Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) lost a number of seats.\n\nThere are 11 councils in Northern Ireland and a total of 462 seats up for grabs.\n\nAlison Bennington has been elected as a councillor for the party which has consistently opposed the legalisation of same-sex marriage. It remains against the law in Northern Ireland.\n\nThe DUP's founder and leader for almost 40 years, Ian Paisley, was also the founder of the Free Presbyterian Church of Ulster, a fundamentalist and evangelical denomination which many DUP politicians are still associated with.\n\nDUP leader Arlene Foster said Ms Bennington's election did not necessarily mean a shift in the party's policy.\n\nJim Wells, who has been one of the party's most vocal opponents of same-sex marriage, said: \"This marks a watershed change in DUP party policy and none of the members were consulted about it.\n\n\"Many thousands of people in Northern Ireland are depending on the DUP to hold the line on these moral issues.\n\n\"They feel very let down and very concerned about what has happened.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or 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 Simpson This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 DUP MP for East Belfast, Gavin Robinson, said: \"If you believe in our party's principles, if you stand for our values, if you are prepared to go forward and seek selection and you are selected and elected by the people - then get on and do the job.\n\n\"We're not a theocracy, we're a political party.\"\n\nFormer DUP special advisor Timothy Cairns said he felt he spoke for many in the party who were \"quite angry\" at Mr Well's comments.\n\nHe said: \"Most right-thinking people are disgusted at Jim Well's comments.\n\n\"It is time for the leadership to take action. It is beyond time.\n\n\"What Jim has said this evening about a fellow colleague is wrong\".\n\nThere were a number of gains for the Alliance Party and smaller parties including the Greens and People Before Profit.\n\nAlliance won three seats in the Ormiston district electoral area (DEA) in Belfast and took a seat from Sinn Féin in Titanic, securing a second councillor in that DEA.\n\nThe party also topped the poll in every DEA in Lisburn and Castlereagh - with all nine candidates being elected - and won seats outside its traditional greater Belfast heartlands with victories in Coleraine, Lurgan and Faughan.\n\nAlliance's Ross McMullan (centre) got almost 1,000 votes over the quota\n\nThe Green Party's Áine Groogan topped the poll in the Botanic DEA and has become her party's first councillor in that area.\n\nMs Groogan, who was a first-time candidate in the local government elections, told BBC News NI her party had made gains because voters were \"fed up with old-style politics\".\n\nElsewhere in Belfast another smaller party, People Before Profit took a seat from Sinn Féin in Collin and also gained a councillor in Oldpark.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Áine Groogan: 'People are fed up with old-style politics'\n\nHowever the Progressive Unionist Party lost a seat as Julie-Anne Corr-Johnston was defeated in Oldpark.\n\nAs well as losing out to People Before Profit in Collin and Alliance in Titanic, Sinn Féin's former Derry and Strabane mayor Maolíosa McHugh lost his seat.\n\nSinn Féin assembly member Raymond McCartney said his party was set to lose \"a couple of seats\" on that council.\n\nMr McCartney said the party fought a strong campaign but that the absence of devolved government at Stormont was an issue on the doorsteps.\n\nHe said it would inform Sinn Féin's position going into talks aimed at restoring devolution which are due to start on Tuesday.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Voters have shown that they want equality, says Mary Lou McDonald\n\nParty president Mary Lou McDonald added that the election had demonstrated to her that the political deadlock was \"unacceptable\".\n\nThe SDLP's Mary Durkan has been elected in the Foyleside District of Derry and Strabane Council after her first foray into politics. The barrister is the sister of assembly member Mark H Durkan.\n\nSDLP leader Colum Eastwood said his party had done \"very, very well\" in Derry and Strabane and was pleased with the performance overall.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The SDLP's \"renewal project\" is working \"very well\", says Colum Eastwood\n\nHe said: \"We are very happy, we have had some difficult years but I think this is a positive day for the party.\n\n\"What we are seeing is that new candidates with good campaigns and hard work on the ground are actually winning and winning well.\"\n\nThe UUP lost a number of seats on Friday, including in Ormiston, where Peter Johnston lost out and in Botanic.\n\nSo far the party's first preference vote share is down by 2% compared to the last council election in 2014, but this could improve after more results are declared on Saturday.\n\nThe UUP enjoyed a better day in Lisburn and Castlereagh, where their first preference vote share rose by 1.9%.\n\nThey also had a narrow victory in Cusher DEA in Armagh, Banbridge and Craigavon where Gordon Kennedy beat DUP candidate Quincey Dougan to the last seat by 1.84 votes.\n\nWhere else would you find such electoral excitement on a Friday night?\n\nThere have been gains for the smaller parties including Alliance, the Greens and People Before Profit at the expense of the DUP and Sinn Féin.\n\nThe two biggest parties say their vote has held up - and even improved - in some of their traditional stronghold areas.\n\nBut there's no denying both have taken gambles that haven't paid off, running more candidates in some areas in a bid to increase their presence only for it not to work out.\n\nThe SDLP are pleased with their performance in some areas, but across the board the UUP vote looks much poorer than the strong result they polled in 2014.\n\nAs ever, transfers are key for those final nail-biter seats in each area. As one candidate put it to me: \"Every transfer matters, it's like Game of Thrones!\"\n\nIn Mid-Ulster, Kyle Black, the son of prison officer David Black who was murdered by dissident republicans, was elected in Carntogher.\n\nHe said: \"Out of absolutely devastating circumstance that will impact out lives forever, I wanted to try and do something positive - to give back to the community.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Kyle Black says he entered politics after his father's murder showed him the \"worst\" of Northern Ireland\n\nIt will be late on Saturday before the full results are confirmed.\n\nAs of Friday night, turnout was recorded as 52%, but this is not the final figure.\n\nThursday's good weather appears to have boosted voter numbers, but there is a wide variation across the different District Electoral Areas (DEAs).\n\nIn County Fermanagh, the turnout was almost 72% in the Erne East DEA.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Darran Marshall This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nHowever, in east Belfast, just over 42% of eligible voters cast their ballot in the Titanic DEA.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Belfast City Council This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIt has been two decades since a council election was held on its own, and not in conjunction with another poll.\n\nThe official turnout in 2014's council election, which was held alongside the European election, was 51%, and the DUP secured the highest number of seats.\n\nFind the result of your council election Enter your postcode or council name to find out By-elections can take place in some council wards even if that council is not scheduled for elections this year. Check your council website for details.\n\nThe first results started to come in after 11:00 on Friday\n\nBBC News NI will cover the latest election results and analysis on our website, mobile app and on Facebook and Twitter throughout the weekend.\n\nA dedicated live page will keep you up to date as the results are announced.\n\nThere will also be special election programmes on BBC Radio Ulster from 10:00 on Saturday.\n\nTelevision coverage will be on BBC Two Northern Ireland at 10:00 on Saturday, with an hour-long Sunday Politics programme on the same channel at 11:00 on Sunday.", "Cyclone Fani has slammed into India's eastern coastline. More than a million people have been evacuated from the state of Orissa, also known as Odisha.", "Candidates had to draw lots after a tie in the local elections in North Yorkshire.\n\nLabour candidate Gerald Ramsden was elected to the Northallerton South seat on Hambleton District Council after drawing with the Conservative candidate on 527 votes.\n\nThe returning officer then had to randomly choose between two blank envelopes with one candidate's name in each.\n\nMr Ramsden is the first Labour councillor in Hambleton in more than a decade.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nLabour has suffered a net loss of council seats - starting from the low base of 2015 in many cases.\n\nThe Conservatives have lost more than 10 times as many councillors, but what is remarkable is that the main party of opposition - around the mid-term of a not-very-popular government - has not made net gains.\n\nIt seems reasonable to assume that some votes have been lost by Labour in Leave areas because - as the leader of Sunderland City Council Graeme Miller has said - the party hasn't decisively ruled out another referendum.\n\n(It has retained it as an option, if the Conservatives are unwilling to change their deal).\n\nBut if you take a close look at the figures in Sunderland, the complexity of Labour's political problems are revealed.\n\nIts vote fell by nearly 17 points there - while UKIP's went up by 4.5.\n\nThe pro-Remain Lib Dems saw their vote rise by nearly 10 points and the Greens by 8.5.\n\nIndeed, the combined vote of the Lib Dems and Greens was 21.4%, not far off UKIP's 23.9%.\n\nThe swing from Labour to the Lib Dems was about 13% and to the Greens 10%.\n\nThose in Labour's ranks who wanted a stronger commitment to another referendum on any Brexit deal are arguing now that the party is losing support in some Leave areas by failing to appeal enough to those who voted Remain.\n\nDefections to the Lib Dems and the Greens suppressed the Labour vote, and further flatters UKIP's performance.\n\nIn leave-supporting Derby, where Jeremy Corbyn's party lost six seats and UKIP gained two, the swing from Labour to Lib Dems was 6%.\n\nBut those who support Labour's current policy - a heavily caveated commitment to a referendum on Brexit under certain circumstances rather than a public vote in all circumstances - say this is too simplistic an analysis.\n\nIn truth, we can't discern the underlying motives of Labour/Lib Dem switchers in every part of the country unless we ask them.\n\nThere are genuinely local factors at play in some areas - unsurprising, perhaps, as these are indeed local elections.\n\nAnd some on Labour's left have another theory. They say the party is vulnerable to a protest vote because some Labour councils have had to cut services due to constrained budgets.\n\nIn some cases the Lib Dems are the beneficiaries\n\nOthers on the left say the party can't get a hearing for its anti-austerity message as the Brexit debate muffles all else.\n\nThey are actually quite keen for their party leadership to reach a deal with the government soon to get Brexit over the line and - they believe - this will then neutralise the political toxicity of the issue.\n\nBut there is little doubt politicians will proclaim to know the will of the people, without necessarily exploring deeper motivations - and the results will be interpreted in a way which advances their own arguments.", "The report comes less than two weeks after bombings at three churches in Sri Lanka on Easter Sunday\n\nThe persecution of Christians in parts of the world is at near \"genocide\" levels, according to a report ordered by Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt.\n\nThe review, led by the Bishop of Truro the Right Reverend Philip Mounstephen, estimated that one in three people suffer from religious persecution.\n\nChristians were the most persecuted religious group, it found.\n\nMr Hunt said he felt that \"political correctness\" had played a part in the issue not being confronted.\n\nThe interim report said the main impact of \"genocidal acts against Christians is exodus\" and that Christianity faced being \"wiped out\" from parts of the Middle East.\n\nIt warned the religion \"is at risk of disappearing\" in some parts of the world, pointing to figures which claimed Christians in Palestine represent less than 1.5% of the population, while in Iraq they had fallen from 1.5 million before 2003 to less than 120,000.\n\n\"Evidence shows not only the geographic spread of anti-Christian persecution, but also its increasing severity,\" the Bishop wrote.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prince Charles: \"It is an indescribable tragedy that Christianity is now under such threat in the Middle East''\n\n\"In some regions, the level and nature of persecution is arguably coming close to meeting the international definition of genocide, according to that adopted by the UN.\"\n\nThe foreign secretary commissioned the review on Boxing Day 2018 amid an outcry over the treatment of Asia Bibi, a Christian woman who faced death threats after being acquitted of blasphemy in Pakistan.\n\nIts findings come after more than 250 people were killed and more than 500 wounded in attacks at hotels and churches in Sri Lanka on Easter Sunday.\n\nAsia Bibi's husband pleaded for asylum from the UK, US or Canada\n\nMr Hunt, who is on a week-long tour of Africa, said he thought governments had been \"asleep\" over the persecution of Christians but that this report and the attacks in Sri Lanka had \"woken everyone up with an enormous shock\".\n\nHe added: \"I think there is a misplaced worry that it is somehow colonialist to talk about a religion that was associated with colonial powers rather than the countries that we marched into as colonisers.\n\n\"That has perhaps created an awkwardness in talking about this issue - the role of missionaries was always a controversial one and that has, I think, also led some people to shy away from this topic.\n\n\"What we have forgotten in that atmosphere of political correctness is actually the Christians that are being persecuted are some of the poorest people on the planet.\"\n\nIn response to the report, the president of the Board of Deputies of British Jews, Marie van der Zyl, said Jews had often been the targets of persecution and felt for Christians who were discriminated against on the basis of their faith.\n\n\"Whether it is in authoritarian regimes, or bigotry masked in the mistaken guise of religion, reports like the one launched today remind us that there are many places in which Christians face appalling levels of violence, abuse and harassment,\" she said.\n\nThe review is due to publish its final findings in the summer.", "Theresa May was heckled at the Welsh Conservative conference\n\nNeither the prime minister nor the Labour leader has anywhere to hide.\n\nAfter nine years in government it's not surprising that the Conservatives have lost a significant chunk of seats.\n\nBut the sheer number that have disappeared and the loss of control of authorities will hurt - especially with so many activists identifying Theresa May's handling of Brexit as a root of the problem, not just a general malaise.\n\nThe perceived personal nature of the failure is more of an indignity than an encounter with a heckler in tweeds.\n\nAnd for Jeremy Corbyn, it IS surprising and disappointing that Labour has simply failed to make any significant capital from such a divided and chaotic government.\n\nHowever ardently his devotees swear loyalty, the party has fallen back - on this set of results at least - seeming further rather than closer from winning power in a general election he so often claims to crave.\n\nTake a breath. Local ballots do not translate directly into the next general election. It bears repeating time and again that specific rows over green belt building, local party spats, even simple quirks of geography all apply too.\n\nBut such an enormous set of results does give a sense of the public's political taste at this moment. And it provides a bitter flavour for the two big UK parties - locked in an uncomfortable embrace with historically feeble levels of support.\n\nThe public will also have given both of them anxiety about the potential of the Lib Dems to creep back into their territory after a strong show. And the sour mood around Brexit adds more pressure to Labour and the Tories in their own ranks too.\n\nFor Mrs May it directly and overtly gives ammunition for convinced Tory Eurosceptics to demand a more rapid departure from the EU, whatever happens.\n\nThe delay, they believe has been toxic, so the solution is to speed on. And for Labour's many supporters of a second referendum, the significant advance of the Lib Dems and the Greens is evidence that a clear demand for another say is the only way to carve out a convincing identity.\n\nThat geographical pattern is very marked, although unwise maybe to assume it can last, or a howl for another referendum is what it overwhelmingly means.\n\nBecause while our departure from the EU has just shaped yet another chapter of our politics in an unconventional way, two of the old rules do still apply.\n\nAfter months of grisly pantomime, the rejection of both parties may well also be a simple judgement on both main parties' competence.\n\nVoters quite plainly like politicians who look like they know what they are doing. And the public does not like parties that spend vast amounts of time fighting amongst themselves.\n\nWhether government or opposition, we want them to care about us, rather than be expected to care about them.\n\nNo surprise for today at least, that the Labour and Tory leaderships are both outwardly trying to push harder for a joint deal that could find a way out for them both - damned or saved together.\n\nBut their local election anguish doesn't make a deal any easier to achieve.\n\nSo our two big political parties are both finding there's been a cost to conflict and messy internal compromise.\n\nAnd will look ahead nervously to the European elections when two new parties created specifically to advance clear ways out of the Brexit stalemate could divide the public more cleanly, and mete out a much more painful punishment to them.", "Brexit minister James Cleverly has tried to play down Conservative expectations for the local elections.\n\nAfter nine years in government you would expect the party to \"lose lots and lots of seats\", he told the BBC. \"That's the normal situation.\"\n\nMr Cleverly said Swindon was an area where Tory local councillors \"work hard and deliver good council services\".\n\n\"I hope they are judged on that delivery, but it would be unrealistic for me to pretend, that nine years in government, and with Brexit as a backdrop, this is going to be anything other than a really, really tough night for us.\"", "Angela Collingbourne (top left) and seven other members of the drugs gang were jailed on Friday\n\nA grandmother has been jailed for six years after becoming \"second in command\" to a drugs gang headed by her two sons.\n\nAngela Collingbourne, 51, helped the group to sell more than £2.7m of cocaine in Newport, with her son directing operations from prison.\n\nSeven other members were also jailed for conspiracy to supply class A drugs on Friday at Newport Crown Court.\n\nAnother eight had already been jailed in March, bringing the total to 16.\n\nThe gang, from Newport, dealt the drug from a garage called NP19 Tyres, with video showing thousands of pounds passing through but only a handful of cars being repaired.\n\nThe court was told Collingbourne, who is a grandmother, racked up a \"number of convictions\" for shoplifting, driving and a public order offence before becoming responsible for managing the gang's funds and facilitating - and maintaining control of the mobile telephone trading line with 4,000 customers.\n\nProsecutor Andrew Jones said: \"She was a middle tier manager of the organisation.\"\n\nAnother eight members, including Angela Collingbourne's sons, were jailed in March\n\nShe denied being \"a trusted lieutenant of this organised crime group, the second-in-command\" - but was convicted by a jury.\n\nRichard Barton, defending, said Collingbourne was acting out of \"mother's love\" and trying to provide for her three sons - the youngest of which has now lost \"three fifths of his remaining family\" following the convictions.\n\nThe court was told Collingbourne became estranged from her \"racist\" parents after they did not approve of her relationship.\n\nJudge Daniel Williams told Collingbourne: \"During your trial you portrayed yourself as a victim, fighting bigotry and injustice - but the jury saw through you.\n\n\"You dismissed your crimes as evidence of your own victim-hood.\n\n\"You were counting and banking the vast profits from this operation.\n\nAngela Collingbourne was captured on CCTV counting cash from drugs sales\n\n\"You began to believe that you were unstoppable.\"\n\nThe gang was arrested following a year-long investigation, Operation Finch, which involved surveillance and secret recordings.\n\nCollingbourne's son Jerome Nunes, 28, and Blaine Nunes, 26, were jailed for 12 and 14 years.\n\nJudge Williams said it was \"depressing\" that Jerome Nunes was able to direct the operation from his prison cell using hidden mobile phones, while serving a sentence for possession of cocaine with intent to supply.\n\nThe gang sourced drugs from Merseyside, with Matthew Croft regularly visiting Liverpool to meet \"up-stream suppliers\", the court heard.\n\nShe would accompany her partner Thomas Allison to drug deals in her pyjamas and had ambitions of buying a £500,000 house with him. A raid recovered Versace, Prada, Bulgari and Louis Vuitton clothing.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "India is the world's largest democracy and, according to UN estimates, its population is expected to overtake China's in 2028 to become the world's most populous nation.\n\nAs a rising economic powerhouse and nuclear-armed state, India has emerged as an important regional power. But it is also tackling huge, social, economic and environmental problems.\n\nHome to some of the world's most ancient surviving civilisations, the Indian subcontinent - from the mountainous Afghan frontier to the jungles of Burma and the coral reefs of the Indian Ocean - is both vast and varied in terms of people, language and cultural traditions.\n\nDroupadi Murmu was sworn in as president in July 2022. A teacher and former governor of Jharkhand State, she is the first person from a tribal community to serve as India's head of state. She is a member of the governing Bharatiya Janata Party. The presidency is largely ceremonial, but can play a significant role if, for example, no party wins an outright majority in elections.\n\nHindu nationalist Narendra Modi stormed to power on a surge of popular expectation and anger at corruption and weak growth.\n\nDespite Mr Modi's polarising image, his Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) scored an unprecedented landslide victory in the May 2014 parliamentary elections.\n\nIt was the first time in 30 years that a single party had won a clear parliamentary majority.\n\nMr Modi fought on his record as chief minister of the economically successful state of Gujarat, promising to revitalise India's flagging economy.\n\nBut his time in Gujarat was overshadowed by accusations that he did too little to stop sectarian riots in 2001 that saw more than 1,000 people - mainly Muslims - killed.\n\nThe Himalayan region of Kashmir has been a flashpoint between India and Pakistan for over six decades.\n\nSince India's partition and the creation of Pakistan in 1947, the nuclear-armed neighbours have fought two wars over the Muslim-majority territory, which both claim in full but control in part.\n\nToday it remains one of the most militarised zones in the world. China administers parts of the territory.\n\nIndia has a burgeoning media industry, with broadcast, print and digital media experiencing tremendous growth.\n\nThere are around 197 million TV households, many of them using satellite or cable. FM radio stations are plentiful but only public All India Radio can produce news.\n\nThe press scene is lively with thousands of titles. India has the second largest number of internet users in the world, after China.\n\nIndian nationalist leader Mahatma Gandhi with Viceroy of India Lord Mountbatten and his wife in 1947\n\n2500 BC - India is home to several ancient civilisations and empires.\n\n1600s - The British arrive and establish trading posts under The British East India Company - by the 1850s they control most of the subcontinent.\n\n1920 - Nationalist leader Mahatma Gandhi heads a campaign of non-violent protest against British rule which eventually leads to independence.\n\n1947 - India is split into two nations at independence - Hindu-majority India and Muslim-majority Pakistan.\n\n1971 - India and Pakistan go to war over East Pakistan, leading to the creation of Bangladesh.\n\n1990s - Government initiates a programme of economic liberalisation and reform, opening up the economy to global trade and investment.\n\n2014 - Hindu nationalist BJP party scores biggest election victory by any party in 30 years.", "Last updated on .From the section Athletics\n\nCoverage: TV highlights on Saturday, 4 May, BBC One at 13:15 BST\n\nCaster Semenya said \"no human can stop me from running\" after winning the 800m at the Doha Diamond League meet amid speculation over her future.\n\nIt comes just two days after the South African, 28, lost a landmark case against athletics' governing body.\n\nSemenya challenged IAAF rules designed to limit testosterone levels in female runners but the Court of Arbitration for Sport (Cas) rejected her appeal.\n\n\"When you are a great champion, you always deliver.\n\n\"It's up to God. God has decided my life, God will end my life; God has decided my career, God will end my career. No man, or any other human, can stop me from running.\"\n\nThe Doha meet was Semenya's final race before the IAAF's new rules come into force on 8 May.\n\nShe added: \"How am I going to retire when I'm 28? I still feel young, energetic. I still have 10 years or more in athletics.\n\n\"It doesn't matter how I'm going to do it, what matters is I'll still be here. I am never going anywhere.\n\n\"I'm going to keep on doing what I do best - which is running.\"\n• None Semenya Q&A: Why is her case pivotal?\n• None 'Nobody has truly won in Semenya case - one side has just lost less than the other'\n\nUnder the new IAAF rules Semenya - and other athletes with differences of sexual development (DSD) - must either take medication in order to compete in track events from 400m to the mile, or change to another distance.\n\nOn Thursday, Semenya posted a cryptic tweet that suggested she could quit athletics, including a quote which referred to knowing when to walk away.\n\nAsked by reporters whether she would take medication to allow her to run in the 800m, she replied: \"Hell no.\"\n\nAnd she insisted she would be running in Doha again at the World Championships in September - though she did not know if that would be in the 800m or 5,000m races.\n\n\"With a situation like this you can never tell the future but the only thing you know is that you will be running,\" she said.\n\nVictory in the opening Diamond League event of the season was her 30th in a row at 800m.\n\nThe double Olympic champion showed no emotion as she crossed the finish line in the fastest time of the year and a meeting record of one minute 54.98 seconds, having dominated the race from the start.\n\nBurundi's Francine Niyonsaba finished second with the United States' Ajee Wilson third. Britain's Lynsey Sharp finished ninth.\n\nSharp, 28, told BBC Sport she had received death threats as a result of previous comments she had made about Semenya's \"advantage\".\n\n\"I've known Caster since 2008, it's something I've been familiar with over the past 11 years,\" she said.\n\n\"No-one benefits from this situation - of course she doesn't benefit, but it's not me versus her, it's not us versus them.\n\n\"I've had death threats. I've had threats against my family and that's not a position I want to be in. It's really unfortunate the way it's played out.\n\n\"By no means am I over the moon about this, it's just been a long 11 years for everyone.\"\n\nSemenya can appeal against the Cas ruling to the Swiss Tribunal Courts within 30 days of the ruling.", "Karanbir Cheema died almost two weeks after cheese was flicked at him at school, the inquest heard\n\nThe death of a schoolboy who collapsed after cheese was thrown at him was \"unprecedented\", an inquest has heard.\n\nKaranbir Cheema, 13, died after having a severe reaction at his school in west London on 28 June 2017.\n\nSpecialist Dr Adam Fox said severe reactions from skin contact were \"very, very uncommon\" and he was \"not aware of any fatal cases\".\n\nThe boy who threw the cheese previously told the inquest he had been \"playing around\".\n\nKaranbir, who had multiple allergies including to dairy products, was taken to hospital in a life-threatening condition after falling ill at Perkin Church of England High School in Greenford.\n\nHe died almost two weeks later at Great Ormond Street Hospital of post-cardiac arrest syndrome.\n\nSt Pancras Coroner's Court heard Karanbir's Epipen, which was kept at the school, was 11 months out of date and was the only adrenaline administered before the teenager suffered cardiac arrest.\n\nHe displayed signs of anaphylaxis such as scratching for several minutes before receiving the adrenaline, the inquest heard.\n\nDr Fox, a paediatric allergy consultant at Evelina London Children's Hospital, told the court it is \"an important learning point\" that \"at the first sign of anaphylaxis it's 'get the adrenaline out and make sure they get it as soon as possible'.\"\n\nBut Dr Fox said the pen \"probably had less potency\" as it was past its expiry date.\n\nKaranbir's Epipen, kept in the school welfare room, was out of date\n\nDr Fox said the cause of the reaction was what made it \"extraordinarily unusual\".\n\n\"If it was skin contact alone that caused, in this case fatal, anaphylaxis, I believe that to be unprecedented,\" he said.\n\nThe inquest has heard Karanbir, who also suffered from eczema, had scratched at his neck so much that blood was visible.\n\nDr Fox said \"further scratching and degrading of the skin barrier\" could have added to the reaction.\n\nA paramedic admitted she had \"probably\" panicked when treating him, when asked by the coroner.\n\nAlexandra Ulrich said she thought Karanbir had suffered an asthma attack and gave him two grams of magnesium sulfate, a drug which is used to treat muscle spasms during severe asthma attacks but is not meant for children.\n\n\"If I had known about the specific details of the history about the allergens, I wouldn't have given it,\" she said.\n\nMs Ulrich added a pocketbook given to ambulance staff had since been updated to make explicit the substance was not meant for under 18s.\n\nAndrew Jones, paediatric intensive care consultant at Great Ormond Street Hospital, said Karanbir's brain had been severely deprived of oxygen and over days it became apparent he \"had no chance of survival\".\n\nPathologist Liina Palm told the inquest the death was caused by anaphylactic shock and cited multiple food allergies as the underlying cause.\n\nDame Alice Hudson, executive head teacher of the Twyford Trust - which encompasses William Perkin school, said she believed there had been \"a very good general awareness\" of Karanbir's allergies among pupils.\n\nThe coroner is due to deliver her conclusion on 10 May.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Tory MP Graham Brady has said \"dissatisfaction\" over Brexit is hitting the party's vote, with voters on doorsteps having told him \"for heaven's sake, get on with it\".\n\nAsked whether Theresa May's name has come up much in canvassing, Mr Brady - chairman of the backbench 1922 Committee - said \"it does from time to time, but it's more an overwhelming frustration\" that Brexit is yet to happen.\n\nHe added he suspects there may be more spoiled ballot papers than usual.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A guide to voting in the local elections\n\nThe polls have closed in the elections for 462 new members of Northern Ireland's 11 district councils.\n\nEarlier the Electoral Office described voting as \"steady\". A total of 819 candidates were standing.\n\nPolling stations opened at 07:00 BST and closed at 22:00 BST in the proportional representation election.\n\nTurnout reports from polling stations at 17:00 BST ranged from a low of 15% in east Belfast to as high as 36% in one venue in the north of the city.\n\nThe final turnout in the last council elections five years ago was just over 51%.\n\nFull lists of the candidates standing in each council area can be found on the Electoral Office's website.\n\nA total of 1,305,553 people were eligible to vote.\n\nThe single transferable vote (STV) system is used in council elections, in which voters rank candidates by numerical preference.\n\nVoters marked their ballot with 1, 2, 3 and so on and could indicate as many or as few preferences as they wanted.\n\nVoters will decide who takes the 462 seats that are available across 11 councils\n\nCandidates are then elected according to the share of the vote they receive.\n\nIn advance of this election there had been some concern expressed that the turnout might be down, perhaps due to public disenchantment with politics, perhaps because for the first time in more than two decades these council elections were not happening in tandem with another contest.\n\nIn the event the good weather seems to have brought the voters out in force, with reports of people having to queue to get into some polling stations.\n\nSo it may be we will match the turnout in the last council election five years ago, which was 51%.\n\nCounting begins in the morning, and results will start to be declared during the afternoon. But the full makeup of our new councils won't be clear until Saturday.\n\nThe number of candidates was down from the 905 people who put their names forward for the previous council elections five years ago.\n\nCounting in the elections will begin on Friday morning.\n\nBBC News NI will cover the latest election results and analysis on its website, mobile app and on Facebook and Twitter on Friday and throughout the weekend.\n\nThere will also be special election programmes on BBC Radio Ulster from 16:00 on Friday and 10:00 on Saturday and on BBC Radio Foyle from 17:00 on Friday.\n\nTelevision coverage will be on BBC One Northern Ireland at 15:30 on Friday, BBC Two Northern Ireland at 19:30 on Friday and 10:00 on Saturday, with an hour-long Sunday Politics programme on the same channel at 11:00 on Sunday.", "New International Development Secretary Rory Stewart has said he intends to stand for the Conservative leadership after Theresa May steps down.\n\nHe told the BBC's Political Thinking With Nick Robinson podcast he could \"help bring the country together\".\n\nMr Stewart also said he wanted to move \"beyond my brief\", laying out his opinions on \"other issues\".\n\nMrs May has told Conservative MPs she will stand down if her Brexit deal is passed by Parliament.\n\nBoris Johnson, Michael Gove, Sajid Javid, Jeremy Hunt, Dominic Raab and Andrea Leadsom are among those who have been touted as possible replacements.\n\nIn March Chief Secretary to the Treasury Liz Truss told The Sunday Times if she were leader she would use money saved by Brexit to fund tax cuts for businesses and young people.\n\nJustine Greening told the same paper she would be tempted to enter the race to ensure the Conservatives bring a modern approach and equality of opportunity.\n\nAnd Work and Pensions Secretary Amber Rudd has said it is \"entirely possible\" she will launch a bid for the Tory leadership once Mrs May steps down.\n\nMr Stewart was promoted to international development secretary, his first cabinet role, on Wednesday, having previously served as prisons minister.\n\nThis followed the sacking of Defence Secretary Gavin Williamson, who was replaced by Penny Mordaunt, who moved from the international development job.\n\nSpeaking to Political Thinking, Mr Stewart said: \"I think it's important at this time when the prime minister's said she's going to step down to have a voice that's arguing for being radical - but radical in the centre of British politics, not radical on the extreme right of British politics.\n\n\"A voice that's prepared to say I do want to bring this country together.\"\n\nMr Stewart campaigned for the UK to remain in the EU during the 2016 referendum campaign. But he told Political Thinking that \"of course I accept Brexit; I'm a Brexiteer, but I want to reach out to Remain voters as well to bring this country together again.\n\n\"And the only way I can do that is by moving beyond my brief and beginning to lay out, whether it's on climate change or any of these other issues, what I think it would mean to be a country we can be proud of.\"\n\nHowever, Mr Stewart said he had \"to get the balance right because my primary job is to look after my department and that's what I really want to focus on day-in, day-out.\n\n\"But ultimately the prime minister is going to step down and if we're going to have a leadership contest we might as well be open about it and candidates might as well explain what they're about.\"\n\nMr Stewart also paid tribute to Mr Williamson, who was sacked by Mrs May after she said she had information that suggested he was responsible for leaking details of a National Security Council meeting.\n\nHe called Mr Williamson \"an extremely energetic secretary of state for defence\", adding that \"whatever happened in those last days and whatever he did wrong at the end, we owe him huge respect for what he did before that\".\n\nMr Williamson strenuously denies being the source of the leak.", "A hit-and-run victim has released CCTV footage of the crash in a bid to track down a driver after being disappointed by the police response to his case.\n\nMedical student Josh Dey suffered a bleed on the brain when he was knocked off his bike on Swain's Lane in Highgate, north London, on 21 April.\n\nA local restaurant gave him its CCTV video to help him with his public appeal to find the driver.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police said it was investigating, but no one has been arrested.", "Police say the group known as ‘Saoradh’ are the political voice of the New IRA.\n\nThey’ve been the focus of a backlash in Northern Ireland following Lyra McKee’s death.\n\nThey say they played no role in her death.\n\nThe BBC's Emma Vardy tried to ask questions of Thomas Ashe Mellon, a prominent member of the group.", "The US unemployment rate dropped to its lowest level for more than 49 years in April, according to official figures.\n\nThe jobless rate fell from 3.8% to 3.6%, the US Labor Department said, the lowest since December 1969.\n\nHowever, the fall was due to a large number of people - 490,000 - leaving the labour force during April.\n\nThe data also showed that the world's largest economy added a stronger-than-expected 263,000 jobs during last month.\n\nWage data showed that average earnings grew at an annual rate of 3.2%.\n\nAnalysts said the figures indicated that the economy remained healthy, but was not running at a pace that might cause the US Federal Reserve to alter interest rates.\n\nHiring gains were seen in nearly all sectors of the economy during April.\n\nHowever, there was little change in the numbers of involuntary part-time workers. The number of people working part time because their hours had been reduced or because they were unable to find full-time jobs remained at 4.7 million.\n\nIan Shepherdson, chief economist at Pantheon Macroeconomics, called it a \"strong\" jobs report, \"but payroll gains can't continue at this pace\".\n\n\"What can continue, though, is the downshift in unemployment, and that means more power to scarce labour and faster wage gains in due course.\"\n\nHe added that while there were no immediate implications to monetary policy, it would be possible that similar data in future could \"prompt something of a rethink at the Fed\".\n\nIt's a strong jobs report and certainly undermines the concerns expressed in recent months that the US might be heading for a recession soon.\n\nThe unemployment rate puts the US close to, though not at, the top of the international league table. That is a little flattering however. It reflects not just job creation, but also the number of people not seeking to work. They are classified not as unemployed but as \"not in the labour force\".\n\nThe percentage who are either working or trying to get work (known as the participation rate) puts the US much closer to mid-table, as does the percentage who do have jobs.\n\nThe Federal Reserve chairman, Jerome Powell, (speaking to CBS television) has referred to \"an unusually large number of people in their prime working years who are not in the labour force\". There are a number of factors behind that but one possible contributor is a major US public health problem; the misuse of opioid drugs.\n\nNancy Curtin, chief investment officer at Close Brothers Asset Management, said: \"Unemployment is at a multi-decade low, the trade talks with China are progressing well, and Chinese stimulus is in place, which should boost global demand. All of this bodes well for the US economy continuing to build momentum.\"\n\nDespite the strong jobs growth, US inflation remains below the Fed's target of 2%.\n\n\"Business spending is going towards digital transformation rather than investment in labour, which is proving deflationary,\" said Ms Curtin.\n\n\"What this means for expansion is unclear, but so long as [US Fed chairman] Powell remains pragmatic and flexible with his policy the US is in a good position for the second half of the year.\"\n\nThe US Federal Reserve indicated earlier this year that it would not change rates for the rest of 2019.\n\nOn Wednesday, the Fed voted to hold interest rates, keeping borrowing costs at between 2.25%-2.5%.\n\nA day earlier, US President Donald Trump had tweeted that the Fed should reduce rates by 1% to help the US economy \"go up like a rocket\".", "Conservative MP Vicky Ford became visibly upset during a BBC interview as the Tories lost a comfortable majority in Chelmsford to the Liberal Democrats.\n\nAt the count in Essex, Ms Ford became emotional as she reflected on \"a very disappointing night\".\n\nShe said voters' frustration with Brexit was the cause of the Tory losses.\n\n\"I think it is really disappointing when you look at some of the individuals who have lost their seats tonight,\" she said.", "Milo Yiannopoulous, Alex Jones and Louis Farrakhan have all been banned\n\nFacebook is banning several prominent figures it regards as \"dangerous individuals\".\n\nThe social network accused Alex Jones, host of right-wing conspiracy website InfoWars, its UK editor Paul Joseph Watson and ex-Breitbart News editor Milo Yiannopoulos of hate speech.\n\nLouis Farrakhan, the Nation of Islam leader who has expressed anti-Semitic views, will also be excluded.\n\nFacebook has already banned anti-Islamic UK groups like Britain First.\n\nThe latest ban also applies on Instagram, which Facebook owns.\n\n\"We’ve always banned individuals or organisations that promote or engage in violence and hate, regardless of ideology,” the company said in a statement.\n\n\"The process for evaluating potential violators is extensive and it is what led us to our decision to remove these accounts today.\"\n\nThe banned group also includes Paul Nehlen, a white supremacist, and Laura Loomer, an anti-Islamic activist with a large social media presence.\n\nIn November, Ms Loomer handcuffed herself to a Twitter building in New York in protest at being banned from that platform.\n\nLaura Loomer is among those banned from the platform\n\nWhite supremacist Paul Nehlen, right, has twice run in Republican primaries\n\nHowever, Facebook has been criticised for giving forewarning of the bans, giving those affected a chance to redirect their followers to other services.\n\nFor a brief time on Thursday, Alex Jones was broadcasting, on Facebook, about his impending ban.\n\n“I’m about to be banned,\" wrote Mr Yiannopoulos to his followers on Instagram. \"Please sign up for my mailing list before this account disappears.\"\n\nA spokesperson at Facebook said the ban will apply to all types of representation of the individuals on both Facebook and Instagram.\n\nThe firm said it would remove pages, groups and accounts set up to represent them, and would not allow the promotion of events when it knows the banned individual is participating.\n\nIn an email, Facebook explained its rationale for banning the users:\n\nDo you have more information about this or any other technology story? You can reach Dave directly and securely through encrypted messaging app Signal on: +1 (628) 400-7370", "Liberal Democrat leader Vince Cable has called his party's local election results the \"big success story of the night\".\n\nThe party saw gains across the country, taking seats from both Conservative and Labour-run councils.\n\nSpeaking in Chelmsford, where the Lib Dems took control of the local council from the Conservatives, Mr Cable said the result demonstrated \"we are now very much part of three-party politics\".", "The deputy leader of the Liberal Democrats, Jo Swinson, said she is \"hopeful\" that the Liberal Democrats can make gains in the local council elections.\n\nShe said there is a \"Lib Dem fightback\", adding: \"People are absolutely disillusioned on the doorsteps with the job the government's making.\n\nMs Swinson said the \"only thing that unites the country\" is \"everybody's view\" that the government is dealing with Brexit badly.\n\n\"Doesn't matter if people were Leave or Remain, everyone can agree on that pretty much,\" she said.", "A hit-and-run victim has released CCTV footage of the crash in a bid to track down a driver who left him lying in a road in north London with a head injury.\n\nMedical student Josh Dey was hit on Swain's Lane in Highgate on 21 April.\n\nA local restaurant gave him its CCTV video to help him with his public appeal to find the driver.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police said it was investigating, but no one has been arrested.", "The polls have just closed. A phrase we're perhaps quite accustomed to these days.\n\nAll day, voters in many parts of England and in Northern Ireland have been casting their ballots, expressing their views on the politicians who had put themselves up for scrutiny, stepping forward for the chance to be part of important decisions about our communities - on housing, the transport we use, the care provided to the youngest and oldest in our society.\n\nEach and every area will have its own many stories, each of us our own motivations for which box, or none, we tick. What happens in towns, villages and cities, and the decisions made by town halls and councillors has a huge bearing, of course, on these results.\n\nThese elections are not taking place everywhere, so the results can't and won't give us a complete geographical picture. Turnout tends to be low in council elections, so in that sense too, the results are not representative of the whole voting public in the same way as a general election, where many millions more of us take part.\n\nNot all of the parties are even standing. Neither of the two new arrivals, Change UK and the Brexit Party, are taking part.\n\nAnd quite fittingly in a country like ours, there are plenty of quirks. In one Surrey borough for example, the residents' association party has held control for years and years and anyone else can pretty much forget their chances of getting a look in. In Cheshire West and Chester, the kind of area where general elections are traditionally won and lost, the lines of the map have been redrawn this time round, so it's still a fight between Labour and the Tories, but in a different way.\n\nWhatever happens in the next 24 hours as the results emerge, bear in mind that the results of these local elections are not a beautifully clear, let alone reliable, crystal ball that will reveal the future. But these contests are an enormous set of elections, much bigger than the normal set of local ballots, and an important chance to test how the craziness of our national politics right now is going down with the public.\n\nPolling matters of course, and goodness knows, there is plenty of that about. Recent surveys are certainly not pretty reading for the government, nor do they suggest their main opponents, Labour, streaking ahead. They are a useful but only hypothetical guide to the currents of the public's thinking.\n\nReal votes in real elections are what count, and tonight's a real chance to get a flavour of what the Great British voting public really thinks.\n\nWe'll be on air as the results come in overnight, on BBC One and BBC News, with loads of coverage online too.\n• None What to look out for in the local elections", "Stormzy has beaten Taylor Swift to the UK's number one spot - giving him his first chart-topping single.\n\nThe grime artist's comeback track Vossi Bop amassed 94,500 first-week combined sales to clinch victory over Swift's Me!, which ultimately entered third behind Lil Nas X's Old Town Road.\n\nStormzy also broke the UK's weekly streaming record for a rap song, with 12.7 million listens.\n\nThe star said he was \"speechless\" at the chart result.\n\nVossi Bop's sales are the second highest of the year so far, behind Ariana Grande's 7 Rings, which opened with 126,000 combined sales in January.\n\nStormzy, who is set to headline Glastonbury this summer, told the Official Charts Company: \"Words don't really do it justice. My supporters have had my back like crazy - this is all you guys, thank you so much.\"\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video by BBC Radio 1Xtra 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\nVossi Bop was just 530 sales ahead of Taylor Swift's single in the chart update on Monday, but Stormzy held on to pole position and Swift slipped back to number three.\n\nMe!, featuring Panic! At The Disco's Brendon Urie, is her ninth UK top five hit.\n\nEarlier this week the video for the single broke the YouTube record for most views in the opening 24 hours of release.\n\nElsewhere in the chart, a track consisting only of birdsong - Let Nature Sing, released by the RSPB - is a new entry at number 18.\n\nPop star Pink saw her eighth studio album Hurts 2B Human enter at the top of the album chart, more than 22,000 sales ahead of its nearest rival, Catfish and the Bottlemen's The Balance.\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.", "Star Wars star Harrison Ford has paid an emotional tribute to Chewbacca actor Peter Mayhew, who has died aged 74, saying: \"I loved him.\"\n\nFord, who played Han Solo, praised the \"kind and gentle man\" for his \"great dignity and noble character\".\n\nMayhew died at his home in Texas on 30 April with his family by his side, a statement said.\n\nThe British-US actor played the giant Wookiee warrior in several Star Wars films from 1977 until 2015.\n\n\"He put his heart and soul into the role of Chewbacca and it showed in every frame,\" his family said.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Peter Mayhew This article contains content provided by Twitter. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nLondon-born Mayhew played Chewbacca in the original Star Wars trilogy, episode three of the prequels, and shared the role in 2015's The Force Awakens.\n\nFord and Mayhew's characters were close friends and piloted the Millennium Falcon. \"We were partners in film and friends in life for over 30 years and I loved him,\" said Ford.\n\n\"He invested his soul in the character and brought great pleasure to the Star Wars audience.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMark Hamill, who played Luke Skywalker, described Mayhew as \"the gentlest of giants\".\n\nHamill said: \"What was so remarkable about him was his spirit and his kindness and his gentleness was so close to what a Wookiee is.\n\n\"He just radiated happiness and warmth. He was always up for a laugh and we just hit it off immediately and stayed friends for over 40 years.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Mark Hamill: Peter Mayhew was 'as kind and gentle as a Wookiee'\n\nStar Wars creator George Lucas had wanted a tall actor to play Chewbacca and initially considered 6ft 6in (1.98m) David Prowse for the role.\n\nHowever, Prowse wanted to play Darth Vader, so Lucas then turned to Mayhew, who at 7ft 2in (2.18m) was chosen purely for his height. His face was never seen.\n\n\"He fought his way back from being wheelchair-bound to stand tall and portray Chewbacca once more in Star Wars: The Force Awakens,\" his family said.\n\nMayhew also consulted on The Last Jedi, released in 2017, in an attempt to pass on the secrets of the role to his successor, Finland's Joonas Suotamo.\n\nMayhew's family said \"the Star Wars family meant so much more to him than a role in a film\".\n\nLucas said: \"Peter was a wonderful man. He was the closest any human being could be to a Wookiee: big heart, gentle nature - and I learned to always let him win. He was a good friend, and I'm saddened by his passing.\"\n\nLucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy added: \"Peter's iconic portrayal of the loyal, lovable Chewbacca has been absolutely integral to the character's success, and to the Star Wars saga itself.\n\n\"When I first met Peter during The Force Awakens, I was immediately impressed by his kind and gentle nature.\n\n\"Peter was brilliantly able to express his personality through his skilful use of gesture, posture, and eyes. We all love Chewie, and have Peter to thank for that enduring memory.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Joonas Suotamo This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSuotamo played Chewbacca's body double in Force Awakens and went on to play the Wookiee in 2017's The Last Jedi and 2018's A Star Wars Story.\n\nHe added to the warm tributes, saying Mayhew was \"an absolutely one-of-a-kind gentleman and a legend of unrivalled class\".\n\nRobert Iger, head of The Walt Disney Company, tweeted that the \"beloved\" star was \"a gentle giant playing a gentle giant\".\n\nThe Force Awakens director JJ Abrams and The Last Jedi director Rian Johnson added their voices.\n\nIn a handwritten note posted on Twitter, Abrams said: \"Peter was the loveliest man... kind and patient, supportive and encouraging. A sweetheart to work with and already deeply 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 3 by Rian 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\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Elijah Wood This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 5 by KevinSmith This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nCanadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau shared a photograph of himself with the star.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Justin Trudeau This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSan Diego Comic-Con said he was their \"beloved companion\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 San Diego Comic-Con This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 family's statement also said the actor had been \"heavily involved\" with non-profit organisations and had launched his own foundation, which they said supported \"everything from individuals and families in crisis situations to food and supplies for children of Venezuela\".\n\nThey did not reveal the cause of death. A memorial service for friends and family will be held on 29 June, while a separate memorial for fans will take place in December, the statement said.\n\nThe actor is survived by his wife Angie and three children.\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.", "On Thursday, voters will go to the polls to elect 462 councillors to Northern Ireland's 11 councils.\n\nBut who are the young people who want your vote?\n\nBBC News NI met the youngest candidates from each of Northern Ireland's largest parties.\n\nTwo of them are canvassing while studying for their A-level exams and one is in her final week of university.\n\nThey spoke to the BBC's Erinn Kerr about moustaches, memes and making a difference.\n\nFull lists of the candidates standing in each council area can be found on the Electoral Office's website.", "Fans have paid their respects to McNeill at his statue outside Celtic Park\n\nThousands of people are set to line the streets of Glasgow for the funeral of Celtic and Scotland legend Billy McNeill.\n\nA mass for the former Celtic player and manager will be held at St Aloysius' Church in Glasgow city centre at 11:30.\n\nThe cortege will then make its way to Celtic Park, where fans will be gathered, before heading for a private family interment.\n\nMcNeill, who had lived with dementia since 2010, died aged 79 on 22 April.\n\nNcNeill lifted the European Cup as Celtic captain in 1967\n\nAhead of the funeral service, which will be broadcast live on a large screen outside Celtic Park, the McNeill family thanked everyone who had sent kind messages over the past week.\n\nA statement said: \"They have cheered us up tremendously at this difficult time.\n\n\"The love and affection shown towards our father is nothing short of amazing and is something we will never forget.\n\n\"Our father always made time for the fans and knew how important they are so we would like to send an open invite to help us pay our respects to him.\"\n\nThe former Hoops captain enjoyed a glittering career at the Parkhead club, where he became the first Briton to lift the European Cup after a 2-1 win over Inter Milan in Lisbon in 1967.\n\nHe led Celtic to nine successive league titles and won seven Scottish Cups and six League Cups, before having two spells as manager.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: 'Billy was the top man; he'll never be forgotten'\n\nThe former Scotland defender, who won 29 caps for his country, also managed Clyde, Aberdeen, Manchester City and Aston Villa in the 1970s and 80s.\n\nTens of thousands of fans have already paid their respects to McNeill at his statue outside Celtic Park.\n\nFootball clubs around the country also staged a minute's applause as a tribute before matches last weekend.\n\nCeltic's players will wear McNeill's former number five on their shorts when they face Hearts in the Scottish Cup final at Hampden Park on Saturday 25 May.", "Meryl Streep and Goldie Hawn's Death Becomes Her is among the films on the bill\n\nThe British Film Institute (BFI) is facing accusations of misogyny over a season dedicated to \"fierce females\".\n\nThe programme includes films featuring \"some of the most wickedly compelling female characters on screen\".\n\nIn December, more than 330 academics and critics signed a letter warning that it risked \"uncritically parroting\" the misogyny of Hollywood.\n\nThe Playing the Bitch season was programmed by Anna Bogutskaya, who said she hoped to \"start a conversation\".\n\nIn a blog explaining the project, Ms Bogutskaya said she realised the title had \"powerful connotations\" that made it \"offensive to many\".\n\nShe wrote: \"My intention is not to provoke but to pose a question I can't answer by myself: what makes a screen 'bitch'?\"\n\nFilms starring Rosamund Pike and Nicole Kidman will also be screened\n\nThe protest letter, led by Dr Erika Balsom and Dr Elena Gorfinkel, senior lecturers in film studies at King's College London, was sent after an outline of the season, then simply titled Bitches, was announced.\n\nThey said the characters in question \"do not subvert gender norms, they inhabit stereotypes\". In this context, they said the word was \"insulting, not empowering\".\n\nThe season also reinforced a \"woeful status quo\" by featuring \"male representations of crazy, damaged, spiteful women\", they wrote.\n\nDr Balsom and Dr Gorfinkel met the BFI in January to discuss their complaints, and the full line-up was announced on 1 May.\n\nOn Friday, the pair told BBC News: \"It appears the only change they made was altering the title slightly.\n\n\"The BFI has failed to listen to over 330 scholars, film-makers, curators, artists, critics, etc, who expressed doubts about their season with ample time for them to reflect on their choices.\"\n\nThe film screenings and panel discussions will take place in June.\n\nThe season is advertised as a \"thought provoking analysis\" of \"tough, difficult women\" that aims to celebrate \"self-determining, independent, defiant, but always charismatic anti-heroines\".\n\nAll the films featured were made by male directors, but the BFI said more than half of the work was taken from source material written by women, and that the point of the season is to celebrate female actors.\n\nA BFI statement said: \"We thought very hard about using the word 'bitch' for the programme and appreciate that it is a provocative term, infused with different meaning by people from different genders, generations, backgrounds and cultures.\n\n\"This is a really interesting and important conversation, and we are going to directly address the word and its meaning in this season through our events programme.\"\n\nA BFI spokeswoman also pointed to a wider programme of screenings, events and releases exploring the work of women in front of and behind the camera.\n\nThere's a meme that's recently been reblogged on Tumblr. It's of Glenn Close as Cruella De Vil in the 1996 film 101 Dalmatians.\n\nShe says: \"More good women have been lost to marriage than to war, famine, disease, and disaster. You have talent, darling. Don't squander it.\" A comment underneath says: \"Patriarchy is that they gave this line to a villain.\"\n\nIt's a conversation that film students have had for decades - does the male gaze result in one-dimensional women on the screen? Particularly the heartless, icy woman who assumes cartoonish traits that further perpetuate gender-based stereotypes?\n\nA prime example? An ambitious woman is a bitch. Critics of the BFI season take exception to this word and the connotations around it.\n\nThe BFI says the word is a vehicle to explore female characters. But in an age where social media users criticised Brie Larson's Captain Marvel role by telling her to \"smile more\" (to which she responded by Photoshopping smiles onto Superman, Iron Man and Captain America), we still aren't quite there with appreciating a female hero - or a \"bitch\".\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nJeremy Corbyn says he is \"very sorry\" the party has lost control of three heartland councils in the North despite a significant victory in Trafford.\n\nLabour took full control of the former Conservative flagship council, gaining six seats as the Tories lost nine.\n\nBut he said the party should have done better in Hartlepool, Wirral and Bolsover where they lost control.\n\nSo far Labour has lost 83 seats across the country.\n\nBut the victory in Trafford is the first time Labour has taken control there since 2003.\n\nSir Graham Brady, Conservative MP for Altrincham and Sale West, indicated the Brexit deadlock in Westminster had been a factor for the Tories.\n\n\"It has undoubtedly been harder for us to get our vote out because of dissatisfaction with the national scene,\" said Sir Graham, who is chairman of the 1922 Committee, which represents Conservative backbenchers.\n\nHe added: \"I think the overwhelming view on the doorsteps has been 'for heaven's sake, get on with it'.\n\n\"I think there is massive frustration that we have yet to see the whole thing through.\"\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\nSpeaking in Sale, Labour leader Mr Corbyn told the BBC: \"We have won Trafford to an overall majority.\n\n\"We have had swings to Labour across a number of councils across the whole of the country and that gives us a basis on which we can win marginal seats in places such as Swindon, Thurrock and other places.\"\n\nHe said the achievement in Trafford was \"amazing\" but added that he was \"very sorry\" about losing so many councillors across the country.\n\nMr Corbyn said: \"We will fight back and we will win them back.\"\n\n\"Of course we wanted to do better. We always want to do better. That's what we are in politics for.\"\n\nIn Trafford, Labour gained Ashton-upon-Mersey, which has always voted Conservative, while the Greens took a seat from the Tories in Altrincham and the Liberal Democrats also added two seats.\n\nSean Anstee, the former Tory leader of the council, told the BBC: \"We need to rethink who we are. The prime minister has to think about her position.\"\n\nHe added: \"It was a very painful night overall. Not just for the party as a whole, but for those dedicated and hardworking councillors who have served the community for a number of years, but lost out tonight.\"\n\nThe new Labour leader of Trafford Council Andrew Western said: \"It's a stunning set of results tonight. We've won a ward that we've never won before.\n\n\"I think this is an endorsement of our first year in office and I could not be happier with the result.\"\n\nThe new Labour leader of Trafford Council Andrew Western said it was a \"stunning\" night for his party\n\nThe story was not so positive for Labour in Bolton, where the party lost seven seats and its grip on the council which now has no overall control.\n\nIndependent groups Farnworth and Kearsley First and Horwich and Blackrod First Independents took four of those, promising to fight for their area.\n\nIn Wigan, Labour won 20 out of 25 available seats but saw their number in the council chamber reduce by three.\n\nIndependent candidates won seats in Bryn, Atherton and Hindley while the Conservatives took Orrell from Labour.\n\nLabour lost seats in Bolton to the Lib Dems, Conservatives and four independent candidates\n\nElsewhere in Greater Manchester, Labour held on to Tameside, Oldham, Bury, Salford and Rochdale.\n\nLabour maintained its tight grip on Manchester City Council, despite losing one of the 33 seats it was defending to the Lib Dems.\n\nIn Stockport, both Labour and the Lib Dems made small gains at the expense of the Conservatives but the council remains in No Overall Control.\n\nEither search using your postcode or council name or click around the map to show local results.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "That's the end of our coverage on this live page. Thanks for sticking with us over the past two days.\n\nThe election has produced an intriguing set of results. Stay tuned to the BBC News NI website over the coming days for more reaction and analysis.", "Unless a rich benefactor steps in, the role of human-induced climate change in Cyclone Idai is unlikely to be clearly determined.\n\nThe scientists with the expertise simply don't have the resources to do the large amount of computer modelling required.\n\nHowever, there are a number of conclusions about rising temperatures that researchers have gleaned from previous studies on tropical cyclones in the region.\n\nWhile Cyclone Idai is the seventh such major storm of the Indian Ocean season - more than double the average for this time of year - the long-term trend does not support the idea that these type of events are now more frequent.\n\n\"The interesting thing for the area is that the frequency of tropical cyclones has decreased ever so slightly over the last 70 years,\" said Dr Jennifer Fitchett from the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa who has studied the question.\n\n\"Instead, we are getting a much higher frequency of high-intensity storms.\"\n\nClimate change is also changing a number of factors in the background that are contributing to making the impact of these storms worse.\n\n\"There is absolutely no doubt that when there is a tropical cyclone like this, then because of climate change the rainfall intensities are higher,\" said Dr Friederike Otto, from the University of Oxford, who has carried a number of studies looking at the influence of warming on specific events.\n\n\"And also because of sea-level rise, the resulting flooding is more intense than it would be without human-induced climate change.\"\n\nA poor country with a long coastline, Mozambique is especially vulnerable to storms sweeping in from the Indian Ocean.\n\nMore than 700 lives were lost during a devastating flood there nearly 20 years ago. I was one of many journalists reporting on the plight of communities submerged. One woman, stranded in a tree, was forced to give birth among the branches.\n\nA huge international response saw the Royal Air Force send six helicopters to rescue survivors. Back then, the priority was to save lives. Little thought was given to rebuilding homes and infrastructure with new designs to help them withstand future storms.\n\nDevelopment experts have long argued that reconstruction should enshrine the principle of resilience, with roads raised high enough to stay dry in floods and houses made robust enough to resist cyclone-strength winds.\n\nThere are plenty of examples of how this forward-thinking can help. In low-lying Bangladesh, there are schools built on high ground which can serve as refuges during storms. And as the potential effects of climate change become better understood, there's growing recognition of the need for communities to adapt to what could be tougher conditions ahead.\n\nOne critical factor in the Southern Indian Ocean that is having an impact on these storms is sea-surface temperatures. Warmer seas mean there is more energy available for cyclones, which only form when the water reaches 26 degrees C.\n\nThese storms also need help from the Earth's rotation to get them spinning. This rotating effect gets stronger the further you move away from the Equator and towards the poles.\n\nHowever, in previous decades, the further away you were from the Equator meant the cooler the seas became and so any tropical cyclones that formed didn't have the energy to keep going. Now climate change is impacting that relationship.\n\n\"Under increasing sea-surface temperatures, we are seeing the line of constant temperature required for these storms to form moving further and further towards the South Pole,\" said Dr Fitchett.\n\n\"So it is increasing the range in which these storms can form and that's then allowing them to intensify so quickly.\"\n\nBut it's not just a simple equation. Higher sea-surface temperatures can also work against the formation of cyclones.\n\n\"On the one hand, you have the higher ocean temperatures and that lends more energy for tropical cyclones to form,\" said Dr Otto. \"But you also have higher temperatures in the atmosphere which leads to more wind shear, which weakens hurricanes.\"\n\nAccording to researchers, about seven different ocean or atmospheric conditions are required for cyclone formation and normally only a couple of these occur. However, because of climate change, more and more of these conditions are coinciding with each other and that's why these big storms happen very quickly.\n\nWhatever arguments about the impacts of climate change on tropical cyclones, the damage caused in Mozambique has much more to do with the vulnerability of people on the ground than rising temperatures.\n\n\"If you look at North America, they are experiencing Category 5 cyclones quite regularly now, and they don't experience the level of damage that Mozambique is seeing,\" said Dr Fitchett.\n\n\"When a storm like this comes along, the potential for devastation is infinitely higher. A city like Beria is at much higher risk, because not only have you many more people there, it's also so much more difficult for them to get out.\"", "The Duke of Cambridge arrives at Westminster Abbey with John Hall, Dean of Westminster\n\nThe Duke of Cambridge has been booed as he arrived at a service marking 50 years of the UK's nuclear deterrent.\n\nMembers of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) greeted Prince William with chants of \"shame on you\" as he arrived at Westminster Abbey.\n\nHe was joined at the service by Penny Mordaunt, in her first official engagement as defence secretary.\n\nEarlier, Ms Mordaunt praised the \"incredible crews\" who had manned the UK's nuclear submarines over the years.\n\nShe also announced the fourth of the new Dreadnought class submarines - which are replacing the existing Vanguard class submarines - would be called HMS King George VI.\n\nThe Ministry of Defence has previously been criticised over its failure to dispose of nuclear submarines\n\nAnti-nuclear campaigners gathered outside the abbey and staged a \"die-in\" - lying on the ground pretending to be dead - to commemorate victims of nuclear war.\n\nOmar Ahmed, an activist from Nelson, Lancashire, said: \"I'm surprised that he would come and support something that could destroy our planet.\"\n\nCND's head Kate Hudson has described the commemoration as \"disappointing\".\n\nSpeaking to the BBC's Today Programme, she said: \"A thanksgiving for nuclear weapons is completely inappropriate, and we're not alone in thinking this.\"\n\nThe memorial service was organised under Gavin Williamson before he was sacked as defence secretary following an inquiry into a security leak.\n\nIn a packed Westminster Abbey, with the Duke of Cambridge and newly installed Defence Secretary Penny Mordaunt seated close to the High Altar, the dean delivered a brief but pointed address.\n\nAcknowledging that he had received a large amount of personal correspondence and emails asking him to cancel the service, he said he was \"proud that it is taking place here in the abbey\".\n\nPenny Mordaunt replaced Gavin Williamson as defence secretary after he was sacked this week\n\nIt was not a celebration of nuclear power, he said, for \"we cannot celebrate weapons of mass destruction\". But he added: \"We do owe a debt of gratitude to those responsible for maintaining the peace.\"\n\nAcross the road from Westminster Abbey, a cluster of about 200 protesters stood quietly - holding banners which read \"Trust in God not in Nuclear Weapons\" and \"Blessed are the peacemakers\".\n\nMusician Brian Eno joined protesters and asked: \"Why are we wasting so much of our resources on weapons that we're never likely to use?\"\n\nThe Chaplain of the Fleet, the Venerable Martin Gough, who offered the Naval Prayer during the service, said: \"This was an opportunity to acknowledge the sheer sacrifice that naval personnel and their families have to make when they join the sea deterrent service.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The drone had to be custom-built\n\nA donor kidney has been delivered to surgeons at a US hospital via drone, in the first flight of its kind.\n\nMany see huge potential for unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) delivering medical products, with some drones already doing so in Africa.\n\nThe US flight required a specially-designed drone which was able to maintain and monitor the organ.\n\nIt is hoped that it can pave the way for longer flights and address safety issue with current transport methods.\n\nThe recipient, a 44-year-old from Baltimore, had waited eight years for the transplant.\n\nShe said of the unusual delivery method: \"This whole thing is amazing. Years ago, this was not something that you would think about.\"\n\nAccording to the United Network for Organ Sharing, which manages organ transplants in the US, in 2018 there were nearly 114,000 people on waiting lists, with 1.5% of organs not making it to the destination and nearly 4% being delayed by two hours or more.\n\nThe drone took off at night\n\n\"Delivering an organ from a donor to a patient is a sacred duty with many moving parts. It is critical that we find ways of doing this better,\" said Joseph Scalea, assistant professor of surgery at University of Maryland School of Medicine (UMSOM), and one of the surgeons who performed the transplant.\n\n\"As a result of the outstanding collaboration among surgeons, engineers, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), organ procurement specialists, pilots, nurses, and, ultimately, the patient, we were able to make a pioneering breakthrough in transplantation.\"\n\nThe three-mile journey required a lot of new technology, including a custom-made drone capable of carrying the additional weight of an organ, which also needed on-board cameras and organ tracking, and communications and safety systems for a flight over an urban, densely-populated area.\n\nIt also had a parachute recovery system in case the aircraft failed.\n\nThe drone's mission was a success and the patient has now left hospital\n\n\"There's a tremendous amount of pressure knowing there's a person waiting for that organ, but it's also a special privilege to be a part of this critical mission,\" said Matthew Scassero, part of the engineering team based at the University of Maryland.\n\nCharlie Alexander, chief executive of The Living Legacy Foundation of Maryland, a charity working to increase organ donation, said: \"If we can prove that this works, then we can look at much greater distances of unmanned organ transport.\n\n\"This would minimise the need for multiple pilots and flight time and address safety issues we have in our field.\"", "Voters have delivered a stinging rebuke to the two main parties at Westminster in the local elections in England, with ballots still being counted in Northern Ireland.\n\nSee the results below in our interactive map.\n\nEither search using your postcode or council name or click around the map to show local results.\n\nBy-elections can take place in some council wards even if that council is not scheduled for elections this year. Check your council website for details.\n\nWith all the results declared in England the Conservatives have lost over 1,300 councillors while Labour has also seen dozens of losses. The Lib Dems and Greens have both made significant gains, with the Lib Dems gaining more than 700 councillors and the Greens nearly 200.\n\nIndependent candidates have also made unusually large gains, as shown by the rise of \"Others\" in the above chart.\n\nProfessor Sir John Curtice has calculated how Thursday's vote would translate across Britain. This projection of the national vote share puts Labour and the Conservatives both on 28%.\n\nThe Lib Dems were the big winners in terms of councils, taking over 10, seven of which were at the expense of the Conservatives. Their most impressive victory was in Chelmsford where they flipped a majority of 23.\n\nThe Conservatives saw big losses in the south west, particularly the new councils of Bournemouth, Christchurch & Poole and Somerset West & Taunton. Labour suffered its biggest loss in Ashfield, where it lost 20 councillors and the control of the council passed to Independents.\n\nLabour won seats in many parts of the country, and the party's largest gain was 16 councillors in the former UKIP stronghold of Thanet. The Conservatives' largest gain was in North East Derbyshire.\n\nSupport for the major parties fell more heavily in their heartlands, according to Prof Curtice, with Tories losing most seats in the south of England and Labour in the north.\n\nThe Green Party were one of the beneficiaries of the main parties' misfortune, gaining nearly 200 new councillors across the country and only failing to defend seats in two areas.\n\nMeanwhile, UKIP lost councillors in many areas. The biggest loss came in their old heartland of Thanet, where former-leader Nigel Farage campaigned unsuccessfully to become an MP in 2015.\n\nSeveral mayoral elections have also taken place across England. Middlesbrough and Copeland returned independent mayors, while the North of Tyne returned a Labour mayor as did Leicester. Bedford re-elected its Liberal Democrat mayor.\n\nData journalism, development and design by Daniel Dunford, Joe Reed, Sean Willmott, John Walton, Wesley Stephenson, Mike Hills, Clara Guibourg, Ed Lowther, Alison Benjamin, Tom Francis-Winnington, Katia Artsenkova, Shilpa Saraf and Adam Allen.", "Police say one of the women found in a flat in east London was mother-of-three Mihrican Mustafa\n\nA woman who was found in a freezer along with another female has been formally identified as mother-of-three Mihrican Mustafa.\n\nThe two bodies were found frozen, clothed and on top of each other at the flat in Vandome Close, Canning Town, east London, on 26 April.\n\nThe Met confirmed they had been able to identify the 38-year-old but have not yet identified the other woman.\n\nA man has been charged with two counts of preventing a lawful burial.\n\nZahid Younis, 34, of Vandome Close, is due to appear at Kingston Crown Court on 29 May.\n\nThe two bodies were found in Canning Town on 26 April\n\nMs Mustafa, who was also known as MJ, had been reported missing on 10 May last year, according to police.\n\nDet Ch Insp Simon Harding said investigators did not yet know how she died, adding post-mortem tests were \"ongoing\".\n\nHe said the death had been \"devastating\" for the 38-year-old's family and urged anybody who knew what happened to her to come forward.\n\nHe added that since Ms Mustafa was a missing person, the Met had referred itself to the Independent Office for Police Conduct \"in accordance with agreed protocols\".\n\nA 50-year-old man arrested on suspicion of murder has been released while inquiries continue.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "In World War Two members of the Royal Sussex Regiment got the chance to film messages to their loved ones back home.\n\nThe film was screened at cinemas in Brighton and was eventually archived at the Imperial War Museum.\n\nNow North West Film Archive and Screen Archive South East are collaborating to try and trace the families of the veterans featured in the film.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Beyond Meat boss Ethan Brown is not worried about the competition\n\nShares of vegan burger maker Beyond Meat soared on their Wall Street debut as investors bet on the growing popularity of plant-based foods.\n\nThe stock closed up 163% on the first day of trading, valuing the California company at close to $3.8bn.\n\nBeyond Meat's shares were priced at $25 each at the start of trading, but touched $72 during the trading day before closing at $65.75.\n\nThe company has aggressive plans to expand sales outside the US.\n\nMoney raised from the listing will give Beyond Meat the firepower to compete with other rivals in the increasingly crowded fake meat market, which includes Silicon Valley start-up Impossible Foods.\n\nSpeaking at the stock market launch on the Nasdaq exchange, Beyond Meat founder and chief executive Ethan Brown called plant-based meat an \"enormous opportunity for economic growth in rural America and throughout the world\".\n\nHe said: \"We understand the composition of meat, we understand the architecture and year after year we collapse the gaps between our product and animal protein.\"\n\nBeyond Meat counts actor Leonardo DiCaprio and Microsoft founder Bill Gates among its investors.\n\nTyson Foods, the biggest US meat processor, owned a 6.5% stake in Beyond Meat, but last week said it sold its holding, as it looks to develop its own line of alternative protein products.\n\nBurger King and Impossible Foods last month started selling their vegan burger Impossible Whopper in 59 stores in and around St. Louis, Missouri, with nationwide sales expected by the end of the year.\n\nBeyond Meat creates substitutes for meat by using ingredients that mimic the composition of animal-based meat, like proteins from peas, fava beans and soy.\n\nAbout 70% of the company's revenues are generated by its flagship Beyond Burger patties, and it also sells imitation sausages and vegan ground beef.\n\nBeyond Meat, which has yet to make a profit, has started selling products in the UK as more supermarkets fill their shelves with meat alternatives. Beyond Burger was originally due to be introduced in the UK at 350 Tesco stores last August, but that was delayed by three months because of supply issues.\n\nWaitrose started a dedicated vegan section in more than 130 shops last year and Iceland reported sales of its plant-based foods rising by 10% in a year.\n\nResearch conducted by the Vegan Society in 2016 estimated there were around 540,000 vegans across the UK, compared with around 150,000 in 2006.\n\nIn 2018, some $50m of Beyond Meat's revenues came from retail sales, including at Amazon's Whole Foods Market and Kroger Co supermarkets, while some $37m was generated at restaurants.\n\nAccording to regulatory documents ahead of the stock market debut, Beyond Meat's net loss narrowed marginally to $29.9m in the year ended 31 December, from $30.4m a year earlier. Net revenue more than doubled to $87.9m in the same period.", "A former Conservative councillor heckled the prime minister when she addressed the Welsh Tory conference in Llangollen.\n\nStuart Davies shouted to Theresa May: \"We don't want you\", and called on her to resign, before he was escorted away.\n\nMrs May was speaking about Thursday's local election results and Brexit.", "The artists shortlisted tackle issues such as oppression and marginalised communities\n\nThe Turner Prize has ended a sponsorship deal with Stagecoach South East - a day after it was announced.\n\nThe firm was to support an exhibition of the four shortlisted artists at the Turner Contemporary gallery in Margate.\n\nBut there was criticism as the chairman of its parent company had backed a ban on teaching LGBT issues.\n\nThe local bus company said the decision had been \"mutually agreed\" and while it was committed to diversity did not want anything to distract from the artists.\n\nThe bus company says the decision to end its partnership was mutually agreed\n\nGay rights campaigner Peter Tatchell was among those against the prize's partnership with Stagecoach South East. He told the Daily Telegraph he was \"surprised and disappointed\" when he heard the announcement.\n\nSir Brian Souter, who backed a failed campaign 19 years ago to keep Section 28 - a law banning teachers discussing gay rights in schools - is the co-founder and chairman of the Stagecoach Group.\n\nIn a statement, Turner Contemporary and the Tate gallery - which organises the annual prize - said its priority was to \"show and celebrate\" artists and their work.\n\nIt said: \"The Turner Prize celebrates the creative freedoms of the visual arts community and our wider society.\n\n\"By mutual agreement, we will not proceed with Stagecoach South East's sponsorship of this year's prize.\"\n\nIn a later statement, Tate said it didn't know about Sir Brian's views on gay rights when it agreed the deal.\n\n\"The corporate agreement was between Turner Contemporary and Stagecoach,\" it said.\n\n\"The relevant legal and financial due diligence was observed. Neither Turner Contemporary nor Tate were aware of the wider issues.\"\n\nStagecoach South East said: \"We are absolutely committed to diversity in our company, however we do not want anything to distract from celebrating the Turner Prize artists and their work.\"\n\nThe winner of the £40,000 prize will be announced on 3 December.\n\nThis year's Turner Prize nominees are Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Helen Cammock, Oscar Murillo and Tai Shani.\n\nThe shortlist of artists was announced on Wednesday and their work tackles issues including oppression and marginalised communities.\n\nLast year's Turner Prize was won by artist Charlotte Prodger for her film on her experience of coming out as gay in rural Scotland.\n\nLife has never been easy for arts fundraisers. Typically sport takes the lion's share of corporate sponsorship, with arts organisations feeding off any scraps of company cash that might be left over.\n\nThere is not a history of companies queuing around the block to financially support exhibitions and gallery refurbishments. It is a small pool in which fundraisers have to fish, and it's now in danger of evaporating altogether.\n\nThe public scrutiny museums, theatres, orchestras and other arts bodies now find themselves under is unprecedented. The effect is two-fold.\n\nFirstly, corporate sponsorship deals nowadays must be able to withstand forensic examination by stakeholders and the media, which Turner Contemporary's deal with Stagecoach could not.\n\nSecondly, the negativity surrounding arts sponsorship - from the Sackler Trust controversy to BAE Systems withdrawal from supporting the Great Exhibition of the North - is extremely off-putting for companies that might be thinking of entering the arts arena.\n\nWhat has also become absolutely clear over the past 12 months is that arts organisations have to up their game when it comes to basic due diligence before accepting a sponsor's money.\n\nIt is no longer good enough to check the credentials of the sponsoring company. They now have to make sure the personal values of those who run and own it are compatible with their own charitable objectives.\n\nA quick Google search won't do. Twitter feeds, Instagram posts and other platforms for public comment all have to be rigorously checked.\n\nAll of which means more work for already hard-pressed fundraising departments operating in arts institutions that are still feeling the chill wind of austerity. Theirs is a difficult and thankless job that has now become much, much harder.\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 founder of Insys Therapeutics John Kapoor has become the first pharmaceutical boss to be convicted in a case linked to the US opioid crisis.\n\nA Boston jury found Kapoor and four colleagues conspired to bribe doctors to prescribe addictive painkillers, often to patients who didn't need them.\n\nThe former billionaire was found guilty of racketeering conspiracy for his role in a scheme which also misled insurers.\n\nTens of thousands of deaths have been caused by opioid overdoses in the US.\n\nIndian-born Kapoor founded drugmaker Insys Therapeutics in 1990 and built it into a multi-billion dollar company.\n\nThe jury found Kapoor had also misled medical insurance companies about patients' need for the painkillers in order to boost sales of the firm's fentanyl spray, Subsys.\n\nThe court heard that Kapoor - who was arrested in 2017 on the same day President Donald Trump declared the opioid crisis a \"national emergency\" - ran a scheme that paid bribes to doctors to speak at fake marketing events to promote Subsys.\n\nDuring the 10-week trial, jurors were also shown a rap video made by Insys for its employees on ways to boost sales of Subsys.\n\nKapoor and his co-defendants - Michael Gurry, Richard Simon, Sunrise Lee and Joseph Rowan - face up to 20 years in prison.\n\nA statement from Kapoor's lawyer said he was \"disappointed\" with the verdict. The men had denied the charges and have indicated that they plan to appeal.\n\nForbes listed Kapoor's net worth as $1.8bn (£1.4bn) in 2018, before dropping off the publication's billionaire rankings this year.\n\nHis conviction marks a victory for US government efforts to target companies seen to have accelerated the opioid crisis.\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\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.", "Stephen Dure, also known as Stevie Trap, was jailed in September\n\nA self-styled paedophile hunter has said his channel has been permanently banned by YouTube.\n\nStephen Dure, who is also known as Stevie Trap, previously posted videos of himself confronting alleged sexual offenders in Hampshire.\n\nHe said he has been prohibited from ever owning or using a YouTube account.\n\nThe website said the channel had been terminated because of \"multiple or severe violations\" of policies against bullying and harassment.\n\nPreviously, YouTube said it made a \"mistake\" when it deleted the account in April.\n\nMr Dure, from Southampton, said the channel had been deleted and reinstated three times in the past.\n\nHe said: \"I don't know what YouTube's problem is but I'm actually disgusted by the way they're treating me.\"\n\nThe campaigner said he was moving forward with plans to create his own website.\n\nIn a statement, YouTube said: \"We terminate the accounts of repeat offenders.\"\n\nMr Dure featured in a regional edition of a BBC Inside Out programme in 2017\n\nIn September, Mr Dure was jailed for 15 weeks for falsely accusing a man of grooming teenagers.\n\nHis wrongly-accused victim said he had been sacked and his home had been attacked as a result.\n\nMr Dure appeared in a BBC Inside Out programme in 2017, when he explained how he posed as children on the internet to \"trap\" sex offenders.\n\nHis YouTube and Facebook pages have shown videos of him making citizen's arrests after arranging meetings with suspects.\n\nThe TRAP Community Facebook page has more than 240,000 followers.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "It's not over - it's far, far from over.\n\nMany hundreds of seats are yet to declare. Many individual political stories yet to be told. So be very aware - the final shape of wins and losses for the government and the main opposition is unclear.\n\nBut at this stage of the morning, there is one message to both of the main parties at Westminster from this enormous set of elections - it's not us, it's both of you.\n\nLocal elections are about different issues in our villages, towns and cities. But at count after count, Tory and Labour candidates have been paying the price for Westminster's failure so far to settle the Brexit question. Council leaders from both parties saying openly that voters can't trust them any more because of how they have dealt with the issue - whether that is a sentiment among Leave voters in Sunderland who don't trust that we'll ever leave, or Remain voters in Bath who are furious that we likely will.\n\nOr more simply maybe, now we are nearly three years on from the referendum itself, this is a verdict on the competence of Westminster's biggest parties, on the mess of handling Brexit.\n\nThe beneficiaries? A Lib Dem recovery of sorts, a marked pick-up for the Greens, and independent councillors gobbling up seats in different pockets of the country. By traditional measures at this early stage, Labour is far from making the strides of a party marching towards Number 10. The Tories have so far escaped the worst. But their divisions over Brexit have cost them both - and neither of them have an obvious way out.\n\nBut as I say, many more results are yet to come in, and you can keep up with them here throughout the day.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Theresa May on local election results: \"Simple message... just get on and deliver Brexit\"\n\nThe Conservatives have lost 1,334 councillors, with Theresa May saying voters wanted the main parties to \"get on\" with Brexit.\n\nLabour also lost 82 seats in the English local elections, in which it had been expected to make gains.\n\nBut the strongly pro-EU Lib Dems gained 703 seats, with leader Sir Vince Cable calling every vote received \"a vote for stopping Brexit\".\n\nThe Greens and independents also made gains, as UKIP lost seats.\n\nAll 248 English councils holding elections have now announced their full results.\n\nWhile the scale of the Conservative election losses is larger than expected, Labour had predicted it would gain seats, having suffered losses the last time these council seats were contested, in 2015.\n\nThe Green Party has added 194 councillors, while the number of independent councillors has risen by 612.\n\nResults from Northern Ireland's 11 councils are also being announced. No local elections are taking place in Scotland and Wales.\n\nAfter nine years in government it's not surprising that the Conservatives have lost a significant chunk of seats.\n\nBut the sheer number that have disappeared and the loss of control of authorities will hurt - especially with so many activists identifying Theresa May's handling of Brexit as a root of the problem, not just a general malaise.\n\nThe perceived personal nature of the failure is more of an indignity than an encounter with a heckler in tweeds.\n\nAnd for Jeremy Corbyn, it is surprising and disappointing that Labour has simply failed to make any significant capital from such a divided and chaotic government.\n\nHowever ardently his devotees swear loyalty, the party has fallen back - on this set of results at least - seeming further, rather than closer, from winning power in a general election he so often claims to crave.\n\nRead more from Laura here.\n\nMPs have yet to agree on a deal for leaving the European Union, and, as a result, the deadline of Brexit has been pushed back from 29 March to 31 October.\n\nWhile local elections give voters the chance to choose the decision-makers who affect their communities, the national issue has loomed large on the doorstep.\n\nMrs May, appearing at the Welsh Conservative conference, said voters had sent the \"simple message\" that her party and Labour had to \"get on\" with delivering Brexit.\n\n\"These were always going to be difficult elections for us,\" the prime minister added, \"and there were some challenging results for us last night, but it was a bad night for Labour, too.\"\n\nA heckler shouted at the prime minister: \"Why don't you resign?\" He was then ushered out of the conference hall in Llangollen, North Wales, as the audience chanted: \"Out, out, out.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Vince Cable: Lib Dems are \"success story of the night\"\n\nBBC political correspondent Iain Watson said that while the Conservatives had lost \"more than 10 times as many councillors\", it was \"remarkable\" that Labour, \"around the mid-term of a not-very-popular government - has not made net gains\".\n\nSpeaking in Greater Manchester, Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn said he \"wanted to do better\" and conceded voters who disagreed with its backing for Brexit had deserted the party.\n\nBut Lib Dem leader Sir Vince, attending a rally in Chelmsford, Essex, where his party took control of the council, said it had been a \"brilliant\" result and that \"every vote for the Liberal Democrats was a vote for stopping Brexit\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe BBC projects that, if the local election results it analysed were replicated across Britain, both the Conservatives and Labour would get 28% of the total vote.\n\nThe data, based on 650 wards in which detailed voting figures were collected, suggests the Lib Dems would get 19% and other parties and independents 25%.\n\nPolling expert Prof Sir John Curtice said the days of the Conservatives and Labour dominating the electoral landscape, as happened in the 2017 election when they won 80% of the vote between them, \"may be over\".\n\nHe said it was only the second time in history that the two main parties' projected national share of the vote had fallen below 30%.\n\nThe only other occasion was in 2013, when UKIP performed strongly in local elections.\n\nProf Curtice also said the Conservatives and Labour had both lost ground since last year's local elections when both were estimated to be on 35%.\n\nWhile the Lib Dem figure was the highest since 2010, when they agreed to join the coalition government with the Conservatives, he said it was still well below the 24% the party regularly achieved in the 1990s and 2000s.\n\nGreen Party co-leader Sian Berry told the BBC the Greens were not simply benefiting from a protest vote over Brexit - their gains reflected \"huge new concerns\" about climate change as well as the strength of their local campaigning on a range of issues.\n\nFor UKIP, Lawrence Webb, a former London mayoral candidate who is standing in this month's European elections, said the party's \"fortunes were on the up\", despite the fall in its number of councillors.\n\nThis is the biggest set of local elections in England's four-year electoral cycle, with more than 8,400 seats being contested. A further 462 seats are up for grabs in Northern Ireland.\n\nSix mayoral elections have also taken place, with Labour's Jamie Driscoll winning the contest to become the first ever North of Tyne mayor.\n\nLabour candidates also won in Leicester and Mansfield but the party out lost to independents in Middlesbrough and Copeland.\n\nEither search using your postcode or council name or click around the map to show local results.", "The local election results are disappointing for both the Conservatives and for Labour, while the Liberal Democrats, Greens and independents prospered, writes Prof Sir John Curtice and colleagues on the BBC's local elections team.\n\n\"A plague on both your houses.\" That seems to have been the key message to emerge from the ballot boxes.\n\nOn the basis of the detailed voting figures in 40 local authorities, we estimate that if the pattern of voting in the local council elections were to be replicated across the whole of Great Britain, both the Conservatives and Labour would have won 28% of the vote. This is only the second time that this calculation has put both those parties below 30%.\n\nThe elections always looked set to be difficult for the Conservatives. The party was defending seats that were mostly last up for grabs four years ago, on the same day David Cameron won the 2015 general election. That, coupled with the party's recent freefall in the polls, clearly pointed to significant Conservative losses.\n\nAnd that proved to be the case. The party has suffered net losses of more than 1300 seats. On average the party's share of the vote was down by six points, both compared with 2015 and with last year's local election results.\n\nHowever, despite the government's difficulties, Labour also slipped back - on average, by no less than seven points compared with last year's local election results. As a result, the party has found itself suffering net losses of around 80 seats, when opposition parties are normally expected to post gains.\n\nThe party's performance would seem to confirm the message of a number of polls that Labour's support has been slipping in the wake of the Brexit impasse, a fall in Jeremy Corbyn's popularity, and a continuing row about anti-Semitism. Compared with last year, the party lost ground more heavily in Leave-voting areas than in Remain-voting ones, a pattern that it shared with the Conservatives (who in previous years have tended to perform better in such areas). This has been seized on by pro-Leave Labour MPs as evidence that the party should reach an agreement with the government which would pave the way for the UK to leave the EU.\n\nWhat the two parties also had in common was a tendency for their support to fall more heavily in their heartlands. Labour's vote fell back most heavily in the north, the Conservatives in the south. Equally, Labour's vote fell more heavily in wards where it was previously strong, while the Conservative vote fell most heavily where they were strongest.\n\nIt was as though voters vented their frustration with the Brexit process by punishing whichever party represented the political establishment locally.\n\nThis mood perhaps also helps account for the remarkable success of independent candidates. Those not standing on a party label were on average winning as much as a quarter of the vote where they stood. More than 900 independent councillors have been elected - a net gain of more than 500.\n\nMeanwhile the Liberal Democrats, who before they entered into coalition with the Conservatives in 2010 were often a vehicle for protest votes, also appear to have profited from voters' disenchantment with the two largest parties.\n\nThe party, which has made net gains of more than 600 seats, advanced particularly strongly in Conservative-held wards where it was previously in second place. Double digit swings from the Conservatives to the Liberal Democrats were common in such seats. The party seemed to be successful in reinvigorating some of the bastions of local strength where its support had been badly eroded in the wake of the coalition government. This pattern added significantly to the tally of Conservative losses.\n\nTheresa May insisted the local election results showed voters wanted the main parties to \"get on\" with Brexit.\n\nIn contrast, and despite the party's pro-Remain stance, there was only limited evidence that the Lib Dems' advance was stronger in areas that voted heavily for Remain in the 2016 referendum. For example, while support for the party rose on average by three points on last year in areas where more than half voted for Remain, it also increased by two points in areas where the Remain vote was less than 45%.\n\nThanks in part to the fact that in 2015 the Liberal Democrats had recorded its worst ever local election performance, the party was able to make so many gains, due to an increase in its vote since then, of eight points. More significant, perhaps, was the fact that its vote was also up by three points on last year's local elections.\n\nWhen the party's performance is projected into a national vote, it is estimated to be worth 19% of the vote. This represents its best local election performance since the party entered into coalition in 2010, but was still well below the party's performance in any round of local votes between 1993 and 2010. Overall, the party's performance is best seen as evidence of a partial recovery from the depths to which the party sank during the coalition years.\n\nAt the same time, the Greens had one of their best local election results ever. The party made net gains of more than 180 seats. The Greens posted an average of 12% of the vote in the wards they contested, up five points on their performance where they stood four years ago. That equals the party's previous highest average, 12% in 2009, when local elections were held on the same day as European Parliament elections. The party may have been helped by the recent protests about climate change.\n\nFighting just one in six wards, there was little opportunity for UKIP to make much impact on these elections. Where it did stand, the party's vote was down by four points on its relative high point of 2015, but up eight points on its poor position last year. However, the challenge from the Eurosceptic parties may be more formidable in the European elections in three weeks time, when Nigel Farage's Brexit Party is on the ballot paper.\n\nFind the result of your council election Enter your postcode or council name to find out By-elections can take place in some council wards even if that council is not scheduled for elections this year. Check your council website for details.\n\nThis analysis piece was commissioned by the BBC from an expert working for an outside organisation.", "Extremely severe cyclonic storm Fani is due to make landfall during Friday morning, local time, bringing heavy rain, strong winds and a powerful storm surge.\n\nFor more on this story click here", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Thousands of fans paid their last respects to the former Celtic captain and manager\n\nFans and football greats have paid their final respects to Celtic and Scotland legend Billy McNeill.\n\nA funeral mass for the first British man to lift the European Cup took place at St Aloysius' Church in Glasgow.\n\nAfterwards the cortege made its way to Celtic Park, where thousands of fans gathered to remember the club's former captain and manager.\n\nMcNeill, who had lived with dementia since 2010, died aged 79 on 22 April.\n\nThe funeral service was attended by many famous names from the world of football, including former Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson, Liverpool legend Sir Kenny Dalglish and the surviving members of the Lisbon Lions.\n\nCeltic manager Neil Lennon and club captain Scott Brown were joined by the first team squad and members of the board, including chief executive Peter Lawwell and largest shareholder Dermot Desmond.\n\nFormer Celtic managers Brendan Rodgers, Gordon Strachan and Martin O'Neill also turned out to pay their respects to the man known as Cesar.\n\nSir Kenny Dalglish and wife Marina arrive for the service\n\nAlex Ferguson was among those paying tribute\n\nPlayers from the current Celtic team also attended\n\nOld Firm rivals Rangers were represented by Ibrox legend John Greig, Gordon Smith, Willie Henderson and former boss Walter Smith.\n\nThe funeral was also attended by other figures from Scottish football, players who were managed by McNeill, and mourners from the world of politics.\n\nArchbishop Philip Tartaglia began his homily by offering \"heartfelt and prayerful sympathies\" to McNeill's wife of 56 years, Liz, and children Susan, Carol, Libby, Paula and Martyn.\n\nHe told the congregation the former defender, who had eight grandchildren, endured his ill health with \"dignity and courage\".\n\nArchbishop Tartaglia added: \"As Glasgow Celtic's most famous captain, Billy also belonged to another family, the Celtic family, who adored him as their hero and who mourn his passing.\"\n\nMcNeill's son Martyn described his parents as the \"the original Posh and Becks\" and shared anecdotes of a loving family life.\n\nHe concluded: \"We are not here to mourn the passing of a legend.\n\n\"We are here to say thank you for having so much more.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nBroadcaster Archie Macpherson, who worked with McNeill for the BBC, recalled watching him lift the European Cup in Lisbon in May 1967.\n\nMacpherson told the congregation: \"When I saw him appearing he looked slightly dishevelled, a bit weary also, I think, wearing a puzzled look as if he had not really taken in what these local lads from around Glasgow had achieved in reaching the pinnacle of European football.\n\n\"It just did not seem real until he had his hands on the cup.\n\n\"And, believe you me, even the most talented Hollywood agency could not have cast a better man for that particular role of lifting the cup.\n\nThe mass took place at St Aloysius' Church in Glasgow\n\n\"Tall. Handsome. Now you can be plug ugly and still lift a cup. Nevertheless, he did have the looks.\n\n\"As soon as he got the cup in his hands he was enlivened. It was as if he had been transfixed.\"\n\nMacpherson said McNeill believed the Celtic story was \"part fairytale\".\n\nHe also described McNeill and manager Jock Stein as \"one of the most powerful duos in the history of the British game\".\n\nAnd he added: \"He was simply a decent human being.\"\n\nThe service was broadcast on a screen outside Celtic Park\n\nMacpherson said McNeill seemed to rise above the rivalry of the Old Firm and he could not recall anyone in the media having a bad word to say about him.\n\nThe congregation was also told McNeill's daughters used to use his medals as currency when they played a grocery game with the neighbours.\n\nMacpherson joked: \"I had visions of the European medal being changed for a couple of chocolate biscuits.\"\n\nThousands of fans gathered at Celtic Park on Friday\n\nAfter the service the cortege was greeted with a standing ovation as it passed through Glasgow city centre.\n\nBut the loudest reception of all was reserved for Celtic Park where fans had gathered to watch the service on a big screen.\n\nSupporters clapped and cheered as the coffin was driven past the front of the stadium and down Celtic Way to McNeill's bronze statute, which is surrounded by hundreds of floral tributes.\n\nThere was also a rousing chorus of In the Heat of Lisbon before the McNeill family stepped out of the funeral cars to applaud the crowd.\n\nThe Bellshill-born defender enjoyed a glittering career and led the Parkhead club to nine successive league titles, seven Scottish Cups and six League Cups.\n\nMcNeill lifted the European Cup as Celtic captain in 1967\n\nBut his finest hour came in Lisbon on 25 May 1967 when Celtic defeated Italian giants Inter Milan 2-1 to become the first British team to lift the European Cup.\n\nMcNeill went on to have two spells at the club as manager and led the club to eight honours.\n\nThese included a league and cup double in 1988, the club's centenary year.\n\nTributes have been paid at the statue outside Celtic Park\n\nHis nickname was a nod to actor Cesar Romero, who starred as the getaway driver in the original Ocean's Eleven, as McNeill had the same car at the time.\n\nThe former Scotland defender, who won 29 caps for his country, also managed Clyde, Aberdeen, Manchester City and Aston Villa in the 1970s and 80s.\n\nTens of thousands of fans have already paid their respects to McNeill at his bronze statue outside Celtic Park, which was unveiled in 2015.\n\nCeltic's players will wear McNeill's former number five on their shorts when they face Hearts in the Scottish Cup final at Hampden Park on Saturday 25 May.", "Both Labour and the Conservatives have suffered losses in the local elections, with voters turning to smaller parties and independents in a backlash against the Brexit deadlock. But beyond the immediate headlines lie smaller storylines you may have missed - here are seven of them.\n\nA poll on Hambleton Council was decided by lot - and the result saw Labour take its first seat there in more than a decade.\n\nThe seat, Northallerton South, was tied on 527 votes for Labour and the Conservatives - so the seat was settled by the returning officer choosing between two blank envelopes, one candidate's name in each.\n\nLabour's Gerald Ramsden was the lucky winner of the draw.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Gerald Ramsden was elected after a dead heat in Hambleton.\n\nThe Tories won the Tetbury Town ward by just one vote - after officials looked through the spoiled ballots and accepted one where the voter had put \"Brexit\" and an arrow to the Conservative Party candidate.\n\nStephen Hirst retained his seat in the Cotswolds town after defeating independent Kevin Painter by 232 votes to 231.\n\nThe Conservatives and the independents had been tied before the returning officer, who is in charge of overseeing elections, decided to settle the matter by using the rejected ballot paper.\n\nMr Painter has confirmed he contacted the Electoral Commission for advice and he will be taking legal action over the decision.\n\nCotswold District Council said it had consulted the guidelines in the Electoral Commission's booklet on doubtful papers and examples within election law books.\n\nLeading Brexiteer MP Jacob Rees-Mogg now has a Liberal Democrat councillor representing him in Somerset.\n\nLiberal Democrat candidate Dave Wood defeated Conservative Tim Warren, leader of Bath and North East Somerset Council, in the Mendip ward.\n\nWera Hobhouse, Lib Dem MP for Bath, tweeted: \"Congratulations to Cllr Dave Wood, who moments ago beat B&NES council leader Tim Warren. He's now @Jacob_Rees_Mogg's local councillor!\"\n\nThe Democratic Unionist Party's first openly gay election candidate has been elected.\n\nAlison Bennington hugged supporters at a Belfast count centre for Antrim and Newtownabbey Borough Council.\n\nShe attracted 1,053 votes as part of her campaign for the pro-union and Christian party, and praised her supporters' \"good, hard work and good teamwork\".\n\nThe DUP's founder, the late Rev Ian Paisley, once led a campaign to, in his words, \"Save Ulster from Sodomy\" and prevent the decriminalisation of homosexuality.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or 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 Simpson This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nHas Extinction Rebellion led to a Green surge in the polls?\n\nThe Green Party has been one of the elections' biggest winners, picking up 265 seats - an increase of 194 compared to 2015.\n\nWith the local elections coming just after weeks of protests by Extinction Rebellion, should the environmental group be seen as having had an impact on voters' decisions?\n\nJonathan Bartley, the Green Party's co-leader, certainly thinks so.\n\nHe told the BBC he had \"no doubt\" the Extinction Rebellion group had contributed towards the party's election success, adding it was a \"powerful force in building awareness of the urgency of climate change\".\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 little-known Yorkshire Party has won council seats for the first time in its history.\n\nThe party, which was set up in 2014 and campaigns for regional devolution (among other things), has previously had councillors defect to it - but had never actually won an election.\n\nNow, the party has won six - with successes in both the East Riding of Yorkshire and Selby councils.\n\n#Dogsatpollingstations proved such a hit on election day it has even emerged as a muse for professional poets.\n\nBrian Bilston's effort, posted on Twitter, proved almost as popular as the dogs themselves.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Brian Bilston This article contains content provided by Twitter. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo is already the second deadliest in history\n\nThe death toll from the Ebola epidemic in the Democratic Republic of Congo has passed 1,000, the health ministry says.\n\nDRC's Ebola outbreak began in August and is the second deadliest in history.\n\nWorld Health Organization deputy director Dr Michael Ryan said mistrust and violence was harming efforts to tackle the disease as it spread through the east of the country.\n\nThere have been 119 documented attacks on medical centres and staff since January, Dr Ryan said.\n\nWHO staff anticipated \"continued intense transmission\", he added, in a briefing to reporters in Geneva.\n\nHealth workers have plenty of vaccines - more than 100,000 people have already been given the treatment. But continuing violence in the east of the country where militias are present, as well as mistrust of doctors, was hindering their programme, Dr Ryan said.\n\n\"We still face major issues of community acceptance and trust,\" he said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe DRC is also suffering from an outbreak of measles which has killed more than 1,000 people, with 50,000 cases reported. WHO staff have confirmed measles in 14 of the country's 26 provinces, in both rural and urban areas.\n\nEbola is still contained within two provinces in the DRC but it is becoming harder to monitor the spread of the virus because of violence. The WHO said the risk of a global spread is low, but it was very likely cases would spread into neighbouring countries.\n\nMost Ebola outbreaks are over quickly and affect small numbers of people. Only once before has an outbreak been still growing more than eight months after it began - that was the epidemic in West Africa between 2013 and 2016, which killed 11,310 people.", "\"We normally tip around £2, but if someone does something really good, then they might get a fiver. It's a really tangible way of saying, 'You know what, I really liked that.'\"\n\nBecky Thornton is one of a growing number of UK workers whose bosses have introduced \"peer-to-peer micro-bonuses\" - or what some people might view as tips.\n\nThere's been a sharp increase in schemes where co-workers are given the power and a budget to tip each other small amounts of money for good work.\n\nTwo of the main providers of these schemes told BBC Radio 5 Live's Wake Up To Money that they had seen a big rise in the number of UK businesses signing up to give their staff the power to hand out small cash rewards.\n\nUS-based firm Bonusly says it has seen a 75% increase in UK customers in the last 12 months alone, meaning there are now 250 UK-based firms using its scheme to reward more than 10,000 employees.\n\nAnd Reward Gateway told Radio 5 live it had seen a 100% increase in the number of UK businesses using its services to allow staff to give small amounts of cash to their colleagues.\n\n\"It's quite a nice way of giving feedback, it feels like a positive way to show you appreciate someone's work. I save up my tips and withdraw them when I've got over £100, then I treat myself,\" says Becky.\n\nRaphael Crawford-Marks, one of Bonusly's co-founders, says the idea is \"ensuring that employees receive timely and meaningful recognition\".\n\nHe doesn't like to think of it as \"tipping\", which he says has a different connotation in the US, where tips form a sizable chunk of some workers' pay.\n\n\"The monetary aspect of it exists to help employees form good habits about giving recognition to each other,\" he says.\n\n\"When every employee has a pot of money and all they can do with it is give it out to their colleagues, then that works as a nudge to encourage them to give it out.\"\n\nBut not everyone who has experienced it is a fan. Victoria Davies used to work at a company that managed bonuses this way and found it hard.\n\n\"If you're the type of person who normally goes above and beyond, you don't want to be seen to be doing that just to get tips,\" she says.\n\n\"It's open to abuse, isn't it? As someone who went through popularity contests at school, it was quite weird to think, 'Oh, do I need to ingratiate myself with people to be part of this community of tip-giving?'\n\n\"It was one extra level of stress that I didn't need.\"\n\nThe amount of money and the way the rewards work varies from employer to employer. Some even display charts showing who has received the most from their colleagues.\n\nBecky's employer gives staff £15 a month to assign to their colleagues, which is taken back if it is not used in time. Victoria was given a pot of £100 a year to dish out as and when she chose.\n\nJurgen Appelo, founder of Agility Scales and author of several books on management, introduced the scheme for his employees who award one another points. The value of those points is determined by the profit the company has made each month.\n\nHe acknowledges there is a risk that this scheme becomes a popularity contest: \"You cannot prevent this becoming a bit of a contest, but we already have a contest in place with the traditional system and that is sucking up to the boss.\n\n\"It is a popularity contest of who is most popular with the boss and that has proven to be a very bad system.\n\n\"So I am just replacing that part with the crowd, so people see they are liked, appreciated, valued by [their] colleagues. We did the research on our own team, we know who the introverts and the extroverts are, we try to check if it correlates with the points they get and it doesn't.\"\n\nJulie Wacker, business psychologist at workplace wellness consultancy Robertson Cooper, says businesses must be careful of unintended consequences.\n\n\"I can see how this could have a huge impact and be fun. But if it's not set around a work culture with good values in place, it could end up being cliquey, it could be quite negative,\" he says.\n\n\"The intention is no doubt good, it's to motivate people and give instant feedback. It means you're not reliant on a manager for recognition, which could release people from the negative impact of bad managers. But there are risks it's just a popularity contest.\"\n\nWhatever the reasons behind it and whether you love it or hate it, the professional association for people in HR, the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, has told the BBC it has seen an increase in members talking about these schemes.\n\nThere's a good chance this very American import could soon be coming to a workplace near you. Best start smiling at those colleagues.\n\nYou can hear more about this story on the Wake Up To Money podcast\n• None Who is worst hit by the decline in cash?", "The future of 1p and 2p coins may be in doubt - but it seems their use goes way beyond simply paying for things.\n\nTreasury officials are seeking views on the future mix of UK notes and coins as we increasingly move towards digital and mobile payments.\n\nIt conjures up the image of people throwing their smartphones, rather than coppers, into a fountain for good luck - although Downing Street has backed away from a plan to scrap copper coins.\n\nAccording to BBC News readers, viewers and listeners there are many other uses for these coins, from home improvements to baking. Here is a selection.\n\nMany flower sellers and lovers swear by the use of pennies in a vase to keep them from drooping.\n\nReader Chris Stone says: \"The question the government should really be asking is if they end copper coins, what will we put in our vases with tulips? Is this part of their strategy to restrict growth?\"\n\nThey say the copper is important, and it is unlikely they would want to dunk a fiver in the vase - even though the new polymer banknotes are waterproof.\n\nFrom pretty penny to penny-wise, there are dozens of phrases in the English language in which pennies play a part.\n\nA number of people have said this is part of British culture.\n\nIf they are replaced by digital payments, will the language become less elegant?\n\n\"A crypto-currency for your thoughts\" just isn't poetic.\n\nVarious uses have been found for pennies among DIY enthusiasts.\n\nSome have used thousands of pennies as flooring or to tile walls, although it takes quite a bit of patience and glue to achieve the desired effect.\n\nOthers have found more practical uses.\n\nOn Twitter, DogKick says they are \"great as a standby screwdriver for slot-headed screws\".\n\nTeachers swear by coins when it comes to helping youngsters learn to count and add up. It is best to start with ones and twos, and considerably more challenging if they could only use fives and tens.\n\nBBC News website readers have also expressed their worries over the future of games using pennies.\n\nPaul Watts says: \"I save 2p coins during the year and my family use them to play the card game Newmarket at Christmas.\n\n\"There is a lot of joy in everyone's faces when the kitty builds up. But when it is won it, only amounts to around £2.40, but then it hasn't cost anyone a lot of money if they lose!\n\n\"Imagine no 2p coins and having to play with 5p coins. That would then be potentially an expensive card game at Christmas -unless you won.\"\n\nOthers have spoken of switching coins to play the game variously known as penny up, or penny up the wall, or penny pitching - where players try to rebound their coins onto the coins of their opponents.\n\nThe leisure theme continues with an appeal from one reader over the future of a traditional game in the UK's amusement arcades.\n\n\"Snooker Bob\", from Aylesbury, writes: \"We love the 2p coin and save them up every year for our trip to the seaside. These would not be the same without a visit to the arcades with their 'penny falls'.\n\n\"A couple of pounds of these coins can give pleasure to adults and children alike. What is the alternative? Five pence pieces are too small and 10 pence coins too expensive. Please do not take this pleasure away and also jeopardise the jobs of those who work in them.\"\n\nJohn White, chief executive of the amusement industry trade body Bacta, agrees, saying that other coins would not work in these machines.\n\n\"Generations of British families know and love them. This will destroy the product and a number of seaside arcades in the UK,\" he says.\n\nThere is another geographical concern, expressed by Linda Wooldridge on Twitter.\n\n\"Cities can work with contactless cards, rural and village shops not so - they work on real money,\" she says.\n\nThe phrase \"unexpected item in the bagging area\" remains one of the most annoying in the English language.\n\nSo, to get their revenge, or simply for good money management, many shoppers use their stock of pennies to pay at a supermarket self-service checkout machine.\n\nMariama on Twitter says: \"I only ever use the self-service checkout.\"\n\nOthers worry about the effect on prices.\n\nBBC News website reader Denise Ellis says: \"I would be sorry to see the 1p and 2p go - it would be yet another sign of inflation if all prices were rounded up to the nearest 5p or 10p. Having said that though, the pricing of lots of things at £x.99 is annoying.\"\n\nDavid Barber, from St Neots, Cambridgeshire. says: \"We must not get rid of 1p and 2p coins. It would be another kick in teeth for those in our country who have very little income, be it pension or benefits. Price increases would need to be a minimum of 5p if there are no lower denomination coins.\"\n\nBut Gillian Crawley, from Kingswood in Surrey, says: \"Of course 1p and 2p coins should be discontinued - they are now pointless, weigh down purses and pockets, and their loss might discourage the ridiculous habit of pricing most things at, for example, £2.99 rather than £3. That fools no one and has been going on for far too long.\"\n\nMike Cherry, the national chairman of the Federation of Small Businesses, says: \"It is important for a proper impact assessment to be carried out before any actions which might restrict the availability of 1p and 2p coins.\n\n\"While growing numbers of transactions are paid for electronically, cash is still an essential part of the mix for many small businesses. A retailer wanting to charge 99p should still be able to hand a penny change to a customer who pays with a £1 coin.\"\n\nSarah Fox, on Twitter, says pennies are \"good for blind baking\".\n\nBBC Good Food explains that this is the process of pre-cooking a pastry base - a sure-fire way to avoid the dreaded soggy bottom.\n\nApparently, the unbaked pie crust is lined with scrunched-up parchment, which can then be weighed down with pennies.\n\nMany readers were concerned with the potential loss for charities, as many pop coins in a jar and donate when the jar is full.\n\nThomas says: \"How many other people also deposit this 'shrapnel' into charity tins and if we withdrew the coins, how much would income would they lose?\"\n\nAndy, from Marlow, says: \"I put all my 1p and 2p pieces in charity jars. It isn't much, but everyone doing it would surely make a difference.\"\n\nCharities do face the cost of processing coins, so would no doubt prefer donations by direct debit or in bigger denominations. The question is, whether this would make up for the money lost if there were no coppers to donate?", "Colin Wilcox said several of his great aunts and uncles were buried at Wellow Baptist Church between 1932 and 1964\n\nPlans to build homes on the graves of people buried as recently as 2012 have been branded \"appalling\" by their relatives.\n\nWellow Baptist Church on the Isle of Wight has not been used in two years and has been earmarked for development.\n\nTony Daniell, whose wife died seven years ago, said he had been assured he could be buried alongside her behind the chapel.\n\nSo far, 46 objections against the plans have been raised.\n\nMany residents who have relatives buried at Wellow are among the complainants, according to the Local Democracy Reporting Service.\n\nColin Wilcox, from Brighstone, discovered his great aunts and uncles were buried at Wellow when researching his family history.\n\n\"I think it's appalling really, that they want to build houses here. These are my relatives,\" he said.\n\nThe church said it was taking concerns seriously but was confident \"agreeable responses\" could be reached.\n\nThe church said Wellow Baptist Church was in need of urgent structural repair and renovation\n\nAccording to the plans, Wellow Baptist Church - which was built in 1815 - would be replaced by two semi-detached houses and a further disused property next to Colwell Baptist Church would be knocked down and three houses built in its place.\n\nThe profit from the sale of the new housing would go towards redeveloping the church at Colwell.\n\nSusan Aggio, from Newport, said: \"My nan, Sylvia Fitzgerald, was buried here in 2010 and my granddad has a letter giving him permission to be buried with her. This is already causing the family upset — my granddad especially.\n\n\"I feel very sad that this is even being considered due to the amount of pain it is causing, and will continue to cause.\"\n\nAccording the plans up to 50 graves could be built on if the plans are approved\n\nColwell Baptist minister Dave Burton said the chapel was in need of urgent structural repair and renovation.\n\nHe said: \"Understandably, there are many legal restrictions around what can and can't be built over, or near to, a private burial ground and the project would, obviously, have to comply with all these restrictions if it were to proceed.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "An elaborate three-day coronation is taking place for the king of Thailand, and sacred water plays a key role in the consecration rites.\n\nThe official ceremonies, a mix of Brahmin and Buddhist rituals, begin on 4 May in the capital, Bangkok.\n\nKing Maha Vajiralongkorn, 66, inherited the throne upon the death of his revered father King Bhumibol Adulyadej in 2016. But in Thai royal tradition only after a king is consecrated does he become a Devaraja, or God king, and the upholder of Buddhism.\n\nThis is the first coronation in living memory for most of the Thai population and big crowds are expected to attend.\n\n\"This is a significant occasion where Thai people can reassure ourselves that we have long history, rich culture and close ties between the monarchy and the people,\" says Prof Tongthong Chandransu from Chulalongkorn University - a researcher in Thai culture.\n\nVajiralongkorn (pictured) is the son of Bhumibol who reigned for almost 70 years\n\nHistorically, Thai society was established around the banks of its rivers which provided staples like rice and fish. So many of its ceremonies and traditions revolve around water.\n\nFor weeks leading up to the coronation, officials collected water from more than 100 sources across the country between 11:52 and 12:38 - deemed an auspicious time in Thai astrology.\n\nThe water was then blessed in Buddhist ceremonies at major temples before being combined in another consecration rite at Wat Suthat - one of Bangkok's oldest temples.\n\nThe sacred water has been kept in ornate ewers ahead of the coronation\n\nThe consecrated water is used in two rituals at the Grand Palace. The first is the bath to \"purify\" the king, where the water is poured over his body while he wears a white robe.\n\nThe second is to anoint the monarch. The king changes into his full regal vestments and is seated on an octagonal throne made of fig wood.\n\nEight people pour the water on his hands - this time that will include Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn - the king's younger sister - Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha, as well as Brahmins and royal court pandits (scholars).\n\nThe use of water is based on a Brahmin tradition dating back centuries, experts say.\n\nAll the previous kings in the Chakri dynasty\n\nThe king then goes to the Bhadrapitha Throne and sits under the nine-tiered umbrella, where he is presented with the Royal Regalia.\n\nThe crown is a more recent addition to royal tradition in Thailand, a concept popularised by European courts.\n\nCreated in the reign of King Rama I in the 1782, it is made of gold and adorned with diamonds.\n\nIt weighs 7.3kg, symbolising the weight of the responsibilities the king carries, according the Prof Tongthong.\n\nThe Royal Sword of Victory represents wisdom in governing the country. According to legend, it was found at the bottom of the Tonle Sap lake in Siem Reap, Cambodia and given as a gift to King Rama I. It's said that when it arrived in Bangkok, seven lightning strikes hit the city simultaneously.\n\nAfter the crowning and investiture ceremonies King Vajiralongkorn - who holds the titles Rama X, or the 10th king of the Chakri dynasty - will present his first royal command.\n\nHis father had said at the time of his coronation in 1950: \"I will reign with righteousness, for the benefit and happiness of the Thai people\".\n\nAfter the coronation rites, the king takes up ceremonial residence at the Grand Palace - referred to in simple terms as a housewarming party.\n\nIn a private ceremony, at the Chakrapat Biman Royal Residence, he is escorted in by the women of the royal family.\n\nThey bring with them a cat and a white rooster, a grinding stone, a tray of green gourd, a tray of rice seeds, a tray of beans and a tray of sesame seeds. The grains represent abundance and fertility in Thai agriculture.\n\nThe significance of the cat is less straightforward. Some believe the owner of a new house should have a cat to chase away rats. Others believe the custom comes from a belief that cats expel demons and evil spirits, according to the Bangkok Post newspaper.\n\nHe's also given a golden key to signify his ownership of the palace.\n\nIn the days after the main ceremonies, the newly anointed king will take part in processions around Bangkok and make a public appearance on his balcony to give ordinary Thais an opportunity to pay their respects.\n\nImages courtesy of Ministry of Culture and Thailand PR department.", "Trans woman Stephanie Hayden claimed a Catholic journalist harassed her in a series of tweets\n\nA judge has told a transgender lawyer and a Catholic journalist involved in an \"out of control\" Twitter row not to mention each other online.\n\nTrans woman Stephanie Hayden has been granted an injunction against Caroline Farrow after a \"barrage\" of tweets.\n\nAt a High Court hearing in London, Mr Justice Bryan also asked Ms Hayden to not mention Mrs Farrow, and she agreed.\n\nThe judge said tweets sent by mother-of-five Mrs Farrow, whose husband is a priest, had \"crossed the line\".\n\nAn interim injunction bans Mrs Farrow from mentioning Ms Hayden, in particular from \"misgendering\" her, by referring to her as male when she is legally female.\n\nThe judge said: \"The tweeting… has got out of control. Each have said things in those tweets which, in the cold light of day in this court, I would anticipate they would rather wish they had not done.\"\n\nRepresenting herself, Ms Hayden told the judge the debate with Mrs Farrow had been going on since January.\n\nShe claimed Mrs Farrow harassed her in a series of tweets, suggesting she was violent, misgendering her and posting a photograph of her.\n\nMrs Farrow denied this and her lawyers argued she had been subjected to \"a positive avalanche of abuse over a number of months\" from Ms Hayden.\n\nThe two have previously been involved in Twitter rows over similar issues, the court heard.\n\nMrs Farrow was investigated by police after the founder of transgender support charity Mermaids, Susie Green, accused the commentator of misgendering her daughter on Twitter.\n\nMs Green later withdrew the complaint and Surrey Police announced in March they would take no further action.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Frankie MacRitchie's family said the \"wonderful\" nine-year-old boy \"will be so very missed\"\n\nA nine-year-old boy who was attacked by a dog died from a loss of blood caused by multiple bites to his head, an inquest opening has heard.\n\nFrankie MacRitchie from Plymouth, Devon, was attacked in a caravan at a holiday park in Looe, Cornwall, last month and died at the scene.\n\nDevon and Cornwall Police said the dog involved in the attack was put down this week.\n\nThe inquest in Truro has been adjourned to allow further inquiries.\n\nHis body was identified by his mother in the following days.\n\nThe inquest heard a post-mortem examination showed the preliminary cause of Frankie's death was severe loss of blood, caused by multiple dog bites to the head.\n\nFlowers and messages were left at Frankie's school in Plymouth after his death\n\nEmergency services were called to a caravan at Tencreek Holiday Park at 05:00 BST on 13 April after reports of a boy being \"unresponsive\".\n\nA woman described by police as a family friend was later arrested at a railway station near Plymouth.\n\nThe 28-year-old, who was initially held on suspicion of manslaughter and having a dog dangerously out of control, has since been released but remains under investigation.\n\nDet Insp Steve Hambly from Devon and Cornwall Police said: \"Officers are working closely with Frankie's parents at what is clearly a most distressing time.\n\n\"The dog involved in the incident was put down earlier this week with the full consent of his owner, having previously been housed by police since the day of the incident.\"\n\nActing Senior Coroner for Cornwall Andrew Cox told the hearing Frankie's body was identified by his mother Tawnee Willis at the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital five days after his death.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Armed police are on patrol in Windsor ahead of the Royal Wedding\n\nFront-line officers in remote, rural communities could be routinely armed in order to deal with terror threats, police chiefs have said.\n\nThe move is being considered by the National Police Chiefs' Council because of a lack of specialist counter-terrorist firearms officers.\n\nIt comes after a drive to recruit these officers in England and Wales fell short by about 100.\n\nPolice said arming officers in remote areas would be a last resort.\n\nCounter-terrorist specialist firearms officers (CTSFOs) are trained with special forces to deal with a raft of situations, including hostage rescues and terror attacks.\n\nPlans were put in place to bolster the UK's capacity for armed responses in the wake of the Paris terror attacks in 2015, in which 130 people died.\n\nOver the past two years, the Home Office has funded an extra 874 armed officers in England and Wales - bringing the total to more than 6,400 in April 2017.\n\nBut on a practical level, police chiefs have estimated that in rural communities, such as Devon and Cornwall, a firearms unit could be between 30-70 miles away in the event of a major incident.\n\nTwo years ago, police warned that \"unarmed and vulnerable\" officers in rural communities would be \"sitting ducks\" in the event of a terror attack.\n\nSince then, huge investment and effort has gone into improving armed police capacity and capability, as the latest announcement shows - but gaps remain.\n\nArmed response vehicles (ARVs), which are intended to be first on the scene of a firearms incident, are an expensive asset, with 13 officers required to double-crew a vehicle 24 hours a day, seven days a week.\n\nThat's why police chiefs are looking at alternatives to deploying ARVs in areas where there's a low risk of a terror attack, such as allowing front-line officers to carry guns.\n\nIt goes against the grain of British policing for officers to be routinely armed, but there's increasing support for it among those polled in a Federation survey and it remains firmly on the table as an option.\n\nSimon Chesterman, National Police Chiefs' Council lead for armed policing, said: \"Of course there are communities within England and Wales where an attack is highly unlikely.\n\n\"But ultimately, if something does happen, we have got to be able to provide an armed response.\"\n\nMr Chesterman said the training and demands of being a CTSFO meant there was a high turnover rate, and some officers were put off by the level of scrutiny that police face when police open fire in the line of duty.\n\nHe explained that police chiefs had conducted \"many layers of the analysis... to understand where is best to place these officers\".\n\nThere remains a shortfall in the number of counter-terrorist marksmen\n\n\"We can't put an armed police officer on every street corner everywhere across the whole of the United Kingdom, so what we've had to do is analyse the threat.\"\n\nHe said discussions were ongoing in a \"handful\" of police forces over how to improve response times - and whether some form of routine arming might be appropriate.\n\nMr Chesterman was clear that arming rural police forces \"does not need to happen at the moment\".\n\n\"This is not, if you like, a favoured option,\" he told the BBC's Danny Shaw.\n\n\"But I can't rule it out at this stage, in terms of making sure that all communities get the right level of protection from armed police.\"\n\nAround 90% of British police officers are currently unarmed.\n\nAny decision on arming officers is a matter for the chief constable of each of the 43 local forces covering England and Wales, as well as the national British Transport Police.", "Three of Nassar's victims (L-R) - Jade Capua, Kyle Stephens, Alexis Moore - confronted Nassar in court earlier this year\n\nMichigan State University has agreed to pay $500m (£371m) to gymnasts who were abused by ex-team doctor Larry Nassar.\n\nThe deal was announced by a California law firm representing 332 victims of Nassar, who assaulted women and girls under the guise of medical treatment.\n\nThe deal does not include any non-disclosure or confidentiality agreements, according to a statement from lawyers and the university.\n\nIt does not address allegations against other groups for which Nassar worked.\n\nIt does not address claims against USA Gymnastics, the US Olympic Committee, or the owners of the Texas facility where gymnasts trained, according to a statement from the California law firm of Manly, Stewart & Finaldi in Los Angeles.\n\nAccording to the lawyers, $425m will be paid to the claimants, and another $75m would be set aside for any future allegations against Nassar, 54, and the university.\n\nThe lawyers' statement does not address how the money will be allocated to each of Nassar's accusers.\n\n\"This historic settlement came about through the bravery of more than 300 women and girls who had the courage to stand up and refuse to be silenced,\" attorney John Manly said in the statement on Wednesday.\n\nHe added that it is their \"hope\" that \"the legacy of this settlement\" will serve to eradicate abuse in US sport.\n\nThe university's board chairman Brian Breslin also issued a written statement saying: \"We are truly sorry to all the survivors and their families for what they have been through, and we admire the courage it has taken to tell their stories.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What it was like to testify against Larry Nassar\n\n\"We recognise the need for change on our campus and in our community around sexual assault awareness and prevention\" he continued.\n\nMany of the young women who survived Larry Nassar's sexual abuse weren't just angry at what he had done to them, but at the institutions they felt had enabled him.\n\nMichigan State University was where he worked for decades, and many of the young gymnasts felt their complaints to staff there went ignored.\n\nThis settlement is an acknowledgement from the university that they could have done things so very differently. But for some survivors, like Rachel Denhollander, the first woman to go public with her story, there is a long way to go.\n\nShe says she is grateful for the settlement, but disappointed at the \"missed opportunity for reform\" at the university.\n\nFor so many of the women I watched in court throughout the harrowing sentencing earlier this year, speaking out wasn't just about getting justice for themselves - but about changing attitudes and processes so other survivors of abuse have a voice too.\n\nThe president of USA Gymnastics, which oversees the US Olympic team, as well as the entire board of directors resigned after at least 156 women came forward to testify against the disgraced ex-doctor.\n\nEarlier this year, the university's president and director of athletics resigned amid claims that school officials had been told of allegations against Nassar years ago but failed to act.\n\nFormer president Lou Anna Simon denied claims of a university cover-up as she stepped down on the same day that Nassar was sentenced for his crimes.\n\nThe settlement surpasses the $109m that Penn State University agree to pay in 2017 to settle claims by at least 35 people against American football coach Jerry Sandusky.\n\nNassar, 54, was sentenced to more than 100 years in prison for abusing female athletes he was supposed to be treating\n\nNassar is currently being held in federal jail and will likely remain there for the rest of his life.\n\nHe is serving a 60-year sentence for child pornography. If he is ever released he faces up to 175 years in state jail for sexual assault.", "Which? said consumers had been let down by false speed claims for broadband services\n\nWhich? says many UK households get half the broadband speed they pay for.\n\nCustomers on a 38Mbps service received average speeds of 19Mbps, according to its findings, taken from 235,000 uses of its broadband speed checker tool.\n\nAnd those on super-fast packages of up to 200Mbps were on average only able to receive speeds of 52Mbps.\n\nFrom 23 May, broadband providers will no longer be able to advertise \"up to\" speeds unless that speed is received by 50% of their customers at peak times.\n\n\"This change in the rules is good news for customers who have been continuously let down by unrealistic adverts and broadband speeds that won't ever live up to expectations,\" said Alex Neill, Which?'s managing director of home services.\n\n\"We know that speed and reliability of service really matter to customers.\n\n\"And we will be keeping a close eye on providers to make sure they follow these new rules and finally deliver the service that people pay for.\"\n\nOthers felt that the changes, which were demanded following a study by the Advertising Standards Authority, did not go far enough.\n\nCityFibre is one of a handful of providers that want the ASA to ban providers from using the word \"fibre\" in adverts if the connections they offer partially rely on a copper connection from the street cabinet to the home.\n\nFounder and chief executive Greg Mesch said: \"Although we welcome the new rules on advertising speeds coming into force, the ASA hasn't gone far enough to stop consumers from being misled by broadband adverts.\n\n\"Fundamentally, the service you get is about more than speed, as capacity and reliability are now as just critical.\n\n\"The current rules do not distinguish how fibre and copper-based services are described, despite the experience they deliver being worlds apart.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Horse Racing\n\nCulture secretary Matt Hancock says horse racing should not be funded by \"misery\" as he announced new rules on fixed-odds betting terminals (FOBTs).\n\nThe maximum stake on the machines, dubbed the \"crack cocaine of gambling\" as people can bet up to £100 every 20 seconds, will be reduced to £2 under the proposals.\n\nBookmakers say the move could lead to hundreds of shops closing.\n\nResearch has suggested it could cost British racing up to £60m annually.\n\nBookmakers support horse racing through an industry levy, and by paying for media rights and sponsoring races.\n\nThe British Horseracing Authority (BHA) says Hancock has asked officials to investigate the potential of expanding the levy to include global racing bets placed in Britain.\n\nHancock, the Conservative MP for West Suffolk, told BBC Radio Four's Today programme: \"I represent Newmarket, which is the home of horse racing. I love horse racing and there is an interaction between the sport and the gambling industry.\n\n\"We are working with the British Horseracing Authority on a package of measures to mitigate the impact on horse racing.\n\n\"But I would say this to people in the horse racing industry, and who love that sport: Horse racing should not be financed on the back of this misery.\"\n\nHe added: \"Horse racing is a wonderful sport that can, and will, pay for itself and be financially successful without having to ruin the lives of people using these machines.\n\n\"Horse racing is glorious. It doesn't have to be based on these machines, which are designed by their algorithms, to ensure people cannot win.\"\n\nThe government's consultation into electronic casino games, such as roulette, found consistently high rates of problem gamblers among players of FOBTs.\n\nHancock said he had spoken to people in his constituency who had lost thousands of pounds and pleaded for changes.\n\nBHA chief executive said British racing had \"a strong social conscience\" and supported the government measures.\n\n\"It is too early to say what the financial impact for racing will be,\" he said.\n\n\"Our estimates before today's decision ranged from £40 to £60 million per year, once the impact of the changes has filtered through into racing.\n\n\"These estimates did not take into account the Secretary of State's suggestion that the levy could be extended to bets on global racing, which could partially offset any reduction.\n\n\"We are also encouraged by the Secretary of State's reference to a period of transition which will allow time for racing and betting to adjust.\"\n\nFred Done, the co-founder of bookmakers Betfred, accused the government of playing politics with people's jobs.\n\n\"This decision will result in unintended consequences including direct and indirect job losses, empty shops on the high street, and a massive funding hit for the horse racing industry,\" he said.", "Four Windsor Grey horses will pull the newlyweds in the Ascot Landau carriage\n\nA rehearsal of the carriage procession through Windsor for the wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle is under way.\n\nMore than 250 members of the armed forces are taking part in the rehearsal - along with the couple's carriage.\n\nAfter tying the knot on Saturday, Harry and Ms Markle will travel through Windsor in the Ascot Landau carriage.\n\nUsed in official and ceremonial state events, the carriage will be pulled by Windsor grey horses.\n\nOn Saturday the procession will take place at 13:00 BST, after the hour-long service at St George's Chapel.\n\nMembers of both families will gather on the steps of the chapel to wave off the newlyweds on their carriage procession, which is expected to last about 25 minutes.\n\nThe carriage will leave Castle Hill, travel through Windsor and then it will proceed up the Long Walk all the way back to St George's Hall by Windsor Castle.\n\nKensington Palace revealed on Wednesday that Prince Harry's niece, three-year-old Princess Charlotte, will be one of six bridesmaids at the wedding.\n\nHer elder brother, Prince George, aged four, will be a pageboy alongside three other young boys.\n\nThe 10 children who have been chosen are all aged seven or under.\n\nSo far, the details of the bridesmaids' dresses and the pageboys' uniforms remain under wraps.\n\nPrincess Charlotte was a bridesmaid at her aunt's wedding\n\nPrince George also comes to the role with experience\n\nMs Markle, 36, will not have a maid of honour because she wanted to avoid choosing between her closest friends.\n\nIt is still unclear who will walk her down the aisle after it was reported that her father was due to have heart surgery.\n\nThomas Markle had told US website TMZ he would not go to the wedding amid a row over paparazzi photographs; then that he would; then that he could not because of a planned heart procedure.\n\nMeanwhile, a petition organised by campaign group Republic has been handed to MPs.\n\nSigned by 32,000 people, the petition calls on MPs to make the Royal Family pay for the security and policing surrounding Saturday's wedding and for the government to publish a report of all costs to taxpayers.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"The royals should be paying for this wedding\" - Republic\n\nRepublic chief executive Graham Smith said: \"There is nothing inevitable about the public spending on a royal wedding. If the royals don't want to pay a big security bill they could have had a private wedding in Sandringham or Balmoral.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe maximum stake on fixed-odds betting terminals (FOBTs) will be reduced to £2 under new rules unveiled by the government.\n\nCurrently, people can bet up to £100 every 20 seconds on electronic casino games such as roulette.\n\nCulture Secretary Matt Hancock called the machines \"a very serious social blight\" that \"needs to be tackled\".\n\nBut bookmakers have warned the cut could lead to thousands of outlets closing.\n\nFOBTs generate £1.8bn in revenue a year for the betting industry, according to the Gambling Commission, and taxes of £400m for the government.\n\nThe Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport said that in order to \"cover any negative impact on the public finances\" it would increase the Remote Gaming Duty, which is levied against online casino-type games such as blackjack.\n\nThe current rate operators must pay is 15% compared with a 25% tax on FOBTs. The government will announce the rise in the Budget.\n\nWilliam Hill, which generates just over half its retail revenues from FOBTs, described the £2 stake limit as \"unprecedented\" and warned that 900 of its shops could become loss-making, potentially leading to job losses.\n\nIt said its full-year operating profit could fall by between £70m and £100m.\n\nMr Hancock said: \"Sometimes in politics you have the chance to really do something to help people and, in particular, this case to help some very vulnerable people - hundreds of thousands of people who lose thousands of pounds on these machines.\"\n\nBut Betfred's managing director Mark Stebbings claimed the government had \"played politics with people's jobs\" and the move was \"clearly not evidence based but a political decision\".\n\n\"This decision will result in unintended consequences including direct and indirect job losses, empty shops on the High Street, and a massive funding hit for the horseracing industry.\"\n\nSports Minister Tracey Crouch said: \"We respect and understand that this may have an impact on jobs in bookmakers… we are working closely with the industry [for them] to be able to grow and contribute to the economy.\"\n\nThe government said the stake limit would come into effect some time next year, but would not set an exact timetable.\n\nTom Watson, the shadow culture secretary, told the BBC: \"The great tragedy of this is [that] for five years now pretty much everyone in Westminster, Whitehall and in the country has known that these machines have had a very detrimental effect in communities up and down the land.\"\n\nIn taking the most drastic of the options available to them on FOBTs, the government has indicated that gambling is on a journey much like nicotine a generation ago.\n\nMany addictive behaviours chart the same course. First, they are commonly accepted, then victims speak out and a campaign is launched. Finally, new laws catch up with a shift in public sentiment.\n\nIndustry figures argue that what is at stake is not only jobs and revenues for the Exchequer, but the principle that in a free society fully informed adults should be free to spend their money as they choose, so long as it doesn't harm others.\n\nCampaigners have successfully argued that the harm to communities and individuals is severe enough to warrant a major change.\n\nIt's vital to remember that, while FOBTs understandably grab the headlines, this review also looks at the radical shift of the industry online.\n\nThere many addicts who find there is no respite, and children with smartphones are potentially exposed.\n\nTighter regulation of online gambling is the next battle campaigners intend to win.\n\nThe government's consultation into gambling machines found consistently high rates of problem gamblers among players of FOBTs \"and a high proportion of those seeking treatment for gambling addiction identify these machines as their main form of gambling\".\n\nAnti-gambling campaigners have condemned the machines, saying they let players lose money too quickly, leading to addiction and social, mental and financial problems.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Terry White lost up to £15,000 per day on fixed-odds betting terminals\n\nMatt Zarb-Cousin is now a spokesman for the Campaign for Fairer Gambling but was previously addicted to FOBTs.\n\n\"It's no exaggeration to call FOBTs the crack cocaine of gambling,\" he has told the BBC.\n\n\"If we had a gambling product classification, similar to that of drugs, FOBTs would be class A.\"\n\nWilliam Hill chief executive Philip Bowcock, said: \"The government has handed us a tough challenge today and it will take some time for the full impact to be understood.\"\n\nGVC Holdings, which owns Ladbrokes, said it expected profit to be cut by about £160m in the first full year that the £2 limit is in force.\n\nHowever, Peter Jackson, chief executive at Paddy Power Betfair, welcomed the government intervention, saying his company had been concerned that FOBTs were damaging the reputation of the gambling industry.\n\nThe British Horseracing Authority (BHA), which receives millions of pounds from bookmakers through a levy, said it would work closely with the government to respond the decision.\n\nFOBTs are not the only culprits when it comes to problem gambling.\n\nA survey conducted by social research agency NatCen found the top five activities with the highest proportions of problem gamblers were:\n\nThe most popular types of gambling in the country - National Lottery draws, other lotteries and scratchcards - are associated with the lowest levels of problem gambling.", "The Pope has issued instructions telling nuns to use social media apps \"with sobriety and discretion\".\n\nThe document, titled Cor Orans, clarifies rules governing monastic life that were issued in 2016.\n\nIt says the guidance is intended to safeguard silence and recollection.\n\nThe document mentions \"social communications\" rather than specific apps, but Catholic newspaper the Tablet said that this referred to Facebook and Twitter among other services.\n\nThe document says that discretion should apply to \"the quantity of the information and the type of communication\", in addition to the actual content of the media.\n\nAn order of nuns in northern Spain made headlines last month after taking to social media to comment on a controversial case in Pamplona that saw a group of men accused of gang rape given what many regarded to be unduly lenient sentences.\n\nOn their Facebook page (in Spanish), the Carmelite Nuns of Hondarribia defended the victim by pointing out the free choice they had made to live in a convent, to not drink alcohol or go out at night.\n\n\"Because it is a FREE decision, we will defend with all means available to us (and this is one) the right of all women to FREELY do the opposite without being judged, raped, intimidated or humiliated for it,\" they added.\n\nThe latest guidance is not thought to have come about as a result of that case; and this is not the first time the Catholic Church has issued guidelines on social media use for nuns.\n\nThe original constitution on feminine monastic life, Sponsa Christi Ecclesia, was published in 1950 by Pope Pius XII, but Pope Francis expanded the document in 2016 to warn against digital culture's \"decisive influence\" on society.\n\nHe urged nuns not to let digital media \"become occasions for wasting time\".\n\nThe Vatican itself is a prolific tweeter.\n\nIt has posted close to 15,000 messages on its news account and more than 1,500 times via the Pope's English-language official page.\n\nIt also runs Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and Google+ accounts.", "Patients could have been put at risk of serious harm after NHS services in England were outsourced, a report says.\n\nNearly 90 women were wrongly told they were no longer part of the cervical screening programme after Capita started running back-office services in 2015, the National Audit Office said.\n\nIt said services had been \"way below\" acceptable standards, although no harm to patients had been found.\n\nNHS England acknowledged \"difficulties\" but said the change had saved £60m.\n\nNHS England agreed a seven-year £330m deal with Capita in 2015 to run back-office functions for primary care providers such as GPs, dentists and pharmacists in a bid to reduce costs and modernise services, the public spending watchdog said.\n\nDuties transferred to Capita included sending out test results, moving patients' medical records, processing patient registrations and paying GP practices.\n\nThe report found patients could potentially have been put at risk because of problems with the \"performers list\" - a list of GPs, dentists and opticians practising in the NHS - including whether they were suitably qualified and had passed other relevant checks.\n\n\"The failure to update performers lists may have compromised patient safety in cases where practitioners should have been removed,\" the authors of the report said.\n\nPharmacists are among the care providers Capita have run back-office services for\n\nOther issues reported by the NAO included:\n\nHowever, the NAO acknowledged that NHS England had made savings of £60m in the first two years of the contract, and said Capita's self-reported performance against the contract had improved.\n\nBut Sir Amyas Morse, the head of the watchdog, added that value for money was \"about more than just cost reduction\".\n\n\"It is deeply unsatisfactory that, two and a half years into the contract, NHS England and Capita have not yet reached the level of partnership working required to make a contract like this work effectively.\"\n\nThe NAO added that NHS England should consider whether the services should be taken back in-house.\n\nMeg Hillier, chairwoman of the Commons Public Accounts Committee, said trying to cut costs while modernising the service was \"over-ambitious, disruptive for thousands of doctors, dentists, opticians and pharmacists and potentially put patients at risk of serious harm\".\n\nDr Richard Vautrey, chairman of the British Medical Association's GP committee, said it was asking NHS England how it planned to resolve the \"shambles\" of Capita running the primary care support services.\n\nAn NHS England spokesman said the transition, \"while not without its difficulties\", had saved £60m which had been reinvested into front-line care, funding the equivalent of an extra 30,000 operations.\n\nA Capita spokeswoman added: \"The report notes that several organisations and legacy issues all contributed to underperformance.\n\n\"It has been acknowledged that performance has improved and Capita will continue to work with all parties to address the small number of remaining service issues.\"\n\nSeparately, earlier this month Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt said up to 270 women in England may have died because they did not receive invitations to a final routine breast cancer screening.\n\nHe said IT problems were to blame for the errors.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Dame Barbara thanked all her fans for their messages of support\n\nDame Barbara Windsor has spoken publicly for the first time since it was revealed she has Alzheimer's disease, vowing \"to carry on\".\n\nLast week her husband, Scott Mitchell, disclosed the EastEnders and Carry On star had been diagnosed in April 2014.\n\nIn a recorded message played on ITV's Loose Women she wished panellist Jane Moore a happy birthday and thanked fans for their support.\n\nJournalist Moore, a friend of the actress, broke the story in the Sun.\n\nIn her Loose Women message, Dame Barbara said: \"Hi Jane, and all the Loose Women, it's Barbara Windsor here.\n\n\"I just want to wish you a very happy birthday, darling Jane. Thank you, thank you so much for being a loyal and good friend and helping Scott share my recent news.\"\n\nDame Barbara also praised the public for all their kindness.\n\nScott Mitchell opened up about his wife's illness to stop rumours\n\n\"Thank you to everyone for the lovely messages of support that I've been receiving, it really means such a lot to me, it truly does,\" she said\n\n\"Have a great day and have no fear, as I still intend to carry on, and God bless everyone.\"\n\nThe video prompted Moore's eyes to fill with tears and she praised Mr Mitchell for the way he's supported his wife through her illness.\n\nDame Barbara's husband revealed last week that she had been taking medication to manage her condition, but that symptoms had worsened in recent weeks.\n\nHe said he wanted to stop any rumours about Dame Barbara's deteriorating health.\n\nJane Moore has been a friend of Dame Barbara and Scott Mitchell for some time\n\n\"Since her 80th birthday last August, a definite continual confusion has set in, so it's becoming a lot more difficult for us to hide,\" he said.\n\n\"I'm doing this because I want us to be able to go out and, if something isn't quite right, it will be OK because people will now know that she has Alzheimer's and will accept it for what it is.\"\n\nDame Barbara is one of Britain's best-loved stars. She appeared in nine Carry On films and played the pub landlord Peggy Mitchell in EastEnders.\n\nShe was also in sitcoms including Dad's Army and One Foot in the Grave.\n\nIn 2009 she was given a lifetime achievement award at the British Soap Awards.\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.", "On Saturday 19 May, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle will walk down the aisle. Test your knowledge of past royal weddings with our archive-inspired quiz.\n\nIf you cannot see the quiz, click here.\n\nFor the weekly news quiz, click here", "Charmaine Gooden has adored the Royal Family since she was growing up in Jamaica. She's travelling more than 3,000 miles to watch the royal wedding in Windsor.", "An 18-year-old man has been arrested after hoax bomb threats were sent to thousands of schools in the UK and US.\n\nThe teenager was arrested in Andover in Hampshire on Wednesday on suspicion of making threats to kill, blackmail and malicious communications.\n\nTwo other 18-year-olds were arrested in Hertfordshire in March.\n\nThe National Crime Agency said the series of threats \"caused huge worry and inconvenience\" and that the investigation was ongoing.\n\nThe agency's senior investigating officer, Marc Horsfall, said: \"Anyone thinking that law enforcement doesn't take such offences very seriously should really think again.\"", "Meghan Markle's family has found itself on the world stage ahead of her wedding to Prince Harry on Saturday. As more doubt is cast on whether her father will attend the ceremony, the Royal Family's closely-controlled media operation has at times seemed to be unravelling.\n\nHow has Kensington Palace, the office and residence of Prince Harry, which has rolled out the royal wedding plans and strategy over the past few months, dropped the ball so spectacularly in the last four days?\n\nThis was going to be a different wedding - no massed ranks of dignitaries, no traditional wedding cake, members of the public invited to view the happy just-married couple, sustainable, seasonably and renewably sourced victuals.\n\nOver the last couple of months announcements have come and gone, by and large slavishly followed by broadcasters, newspapers and websites well aware of the interest of the audience.\n\nThe usual tactic of the palace is to say nothing about stories that come up that run counter to the royal narrative, and wait for them to go away.\n\nGiven that there are so few reliable sources for real royal news, and that broadcasters are unhappy running stories on rumour and conjecture alone, it was by and large a winning strategy.\n\nBut with the entertainment website TMZ apparently having a hotline to the father of the bride, the palace's near-monopoly on information has been broken.\n\nTMZ has functioned as a rival press office, issuing apparently well-sourced bulletins on Thomas Markle's health and state of mind that left the palace blindsided.\n\nThe response to 24 hours that entirely contradicted the previously stated plan for the wedding? No comment.\n\nWho will walk the bride down the aisle? No comment.\n\nWhat on Earth is going on? No comment.\n\nThe news from Mexico has been harder for the palace to control\n\nAmongst the many who are now ever-so-wise after the event, there are questions.\n\nHow could the palace have let Mr Markle fall into a paparazzi trap? Why wasn't someone sent out to mind him?\n\nBut was someone really going to sit in a town outside Tijuana for six months, fighting off photographers?\n\nAnd maybe a man who is clearly not wild on company didn't really fancy that?\n\nThe BBC understands but has been unable to confirm that Kensington Palace did offer assistance to Thomas Markle in the months running up to Saturday's wedding.\n\nThe presumption must be that he declined it.\n\nThe palace media operations are not that big, sometimes (like many press offices) not that good, and they operate by and large on precedent.\n\nWe do it like this because we've always done it like this; this is public and we will comment, this is private and we will not comment.\n\nThat means they don't appear to think strategy as much as they might, and they don't seem to have had a contingency plan for what might happen with Ms Markle's family.\n\nThe families of previous brides understood the rules, even if as so-called commoners they knew that a single narrative of the wedding would preserve the event.\n\nAnd they knew that if they stepped out of line they would be out in the cold.\n\nRoyal fans are already securing viewing spots in Windsor\n\nBut Ms Markle's extended family - most of them with little left to lose as they haven't seen the bride for many a moon and will spend the wedding in TV studios rather than in St George's Chapel - are different.\n\nThey have descended en masse on Britain, all with stories to tell and bank balances to improve.\n\nAnd the previous reliance on the palace for titbits - that cake recipe, those flowers, that photographer - has vanished like dew on a spring morning.\n\nAt some point - presumably soon, as the current situation (\"no comment\") is untenable at this late date - there will be resolution.\n\nAn announcement will come as to who will do what on the day.\n\nAnd the hope of the palace - probably well-founded - will be that the long-planned mechanics of the occasion will drown out the discord of the past four days.\n\nBut for the moment there is that thing that nature abhors, a vacuum. And every well-laid plan of the palace is consumed by the soap-opera drama playing out well beyond its control.", "It's not over - it's far, far from over.\n\nMany hundreds of seats are yet to declare. Many individual political stories yet to be told. So be very aware - the final shape of wins and losses for the government and the main opposition is unclear.\n\nBut at this stage of the morning, there is one message to both of the main parties at Westminster from this enormous set of elections - it's not us, it's both of you.\n\nLocal elections are about different issues in our villages, towns and cities. But at count after count, Tory and Labour candidates have been paying the price for Westminster's failure so far to settle the Brexit question. Council leaders from both parties saying openly that voters can't trust them any more because of how they have dealt with the issue - whether that is a sentiment among Leave voters in Sunderland who don't trust that we'll ever leave, or Remain voters in Bath who are furious that we likely will.\n\nOr more simply maybe, now we are nearly three years on from the referendum itself, this is a verdict on the competence of Westminster's biggest parties, on the mess of handling Brexit.\n\nThe beneficiaries? A Lib Dem recovery of sorts, a marked pick-up for the Greens, and independent councillors gobbling up seats in different pockets of the country. By traditional measures at this early stage, Labour is far from making the strides of a party marching towards Number 10. The Tories have so far escaped the worst. But their divisions over Brexit have cost them both - and neither of them have an obvious way out.\n\nBut as I say, many more results are yet to come in, and you can keep up with them here throughout the day.", "A man accused of stalking Taylor Swift and breaking into her apartment block has been jailed for six months.\n\nMohammed Jaffar pleaded guilty to attempted burglary in the second degree, according to US prosecutors.\n\nThe 29-year-old was accused of calling the singer's management company 59 times and entering her apartment block between January and February 2017.\n\nHe was initially charged with one count of stalking and two counts of burglary but did not plead to those charges.\n\nIt was alleged Jaffar, from Michigan, kept calling Taylor's management company and left a series of voicemails asking to speak to the singer.\n\nHe was also accused of entering her apartment building in New York County and was allegedly seen on video in the hallway and on the roof.\n\nAs well as being jailed, he was also sentenced to five years' probation with a condition he would receive ongoing mental health treatment.\n\nTaylor has been targeted before.\n\nIn April, 22-year-old Roger Alvarado allegedly broke into her home in New York and took a nap in her property.\n\nEarlier that month, a 38-year-old man was arrested outside her Beverly Hills home on suspicion of stalking.\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.", "Vulnerable people struggling with dementia have been abandoned by the care system in England, a charity says.\n\nThe Alzheimer's Society said people had been left to \"fend for themselves\" because of inadequate community care from the NHS and councils.\n\nTo make its case, the charity published data showing there had been a 73% rise in potentially unnecessary hospital admissions among dementia patients.\n\nIt comes as ministers draw up plans to reform the council social care system.\n\nA Green Paper is being promised by the summer.\n\nThe Alzheimer's Society said this was desperately needed given the findings of its report.\n\nThe charity compiled data from 65 hospital trusts - nearly half of the total - on admissions for so-called preventable conditions.\n\nWith better care and support in the community, admissions for these sort of conditions can be avoided.\n\nBetween 2012 and 2017 the number of admissions recorded by the trusts rose from just over 31,000 to nearly 55,000.\n\nThe charity accepts some of the rise could be down to better recording, but said that could not account for the full increase.\n\nLeslie was admitted twice to hospital after falls\n\nOne of those caught up in the problem was Helen Jebson King's father, Leslie.\n\nHe ended up in hospital twice last year after falls.\n\nThe first time, he spent months in hospital before being discharged. And then, after his second admission, he died.\n\n\"It's so sad because it was so avoidable,\" Helen says. \"It made me realise dementia care is totally broken.\n\n\"People with dementia should be protected and supported in their homes, not ending up in hospital.\n\n\"It's not the place for them to be, stuck on a ward with no specialist support, feeling restless and confused.\"\n\nThe charity also gathered evidence from paramedics. One said it was \"utterly depressing\" taking people with dementia to hospital for conditions that could have been spotted and treated much earlier.\n\nA Department of Health and Social Care spokesman said: \"No-one with dementia should have to go into hospital unnecessarily, and we're determined to continue drive up standards of care.\"", "Fixed-odds betting terminals - found in bookmakers' shops - have been called the \"crack cocaine\" of the gambling world. Punters lose nearly £2bn a year playing them, and now the government has announced plans to restrict the maximum stake to £2. So, what are they?", "Stan Lee is the co-creator of Spiderman and numerous other Marvel characters\n\nStan Lee is suing the entertainment company he co-founded for $1bn (£742m), according to legal documents.\n\nThe comic book legend alleges he was coerced into a fraudulent sales agreement when he was in an emotionally and physically fragile state.\n\nThe complaint, filed in LA on Tuesday, claims Pow! Entertainment made Lee, 95, sign over his name and image rights.\n\nPow! later issued a statement insisting that Lee had \"clearly understood\" the terms of the agreement.\n\n\"The allegations are completely without merit,\" a company representative told the Hollywood Reporter.\n\n\"In particular, the notion that Mr Lee did not knowingly grant Pow! exclusive rights to his creative works or his identity is so preposterous that we have to wonder whether Mr Lee is personally behind this lawsuit.\"\n\nIt added: \"The evidence, which includes Mr Lee's subsequent statements and conduct, is overwhelming and we look forward to presenting it in court.\"\n\nPow!'s parent company, Hong Kong-based Camsing International Holding, said it was seeking legal advice.\n\nLee is the co-creative force behind many superhero characters, including Black Panther and Spider-Man.\n\nThe lawsuit alleges Pow! chief executive Shane Duffy and co-founder Gill Champion \"conspired and agreed to broker a sham deal to sell Pow! to a company in China and fraudulently steal Stan Lee's identity, name, image, and likeness as part of a nefarious scheme to benefit financially at Lee's expense\".\n\nThe complaint, lodged at Los Angeles County Superior Court, states Lee does not recall signing sale documents, nor having them read to him.\n\nJoan Lee, Stan's wife of almost 70 years, died last July aged 95\n\nThe suit draws attention to the death of Lee's wife last July, and his degenerative eye condition which has caused his poor eyesight, suggesting he could not have read the documents.\n\nThe legal papers also say Pow! took control of Lee's personal social media accounts. He appeared to regain control of his Twitter account on Tuesday and used the platform to tell fans his social media channels had been \"hijacked\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by stan lee This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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\"From now on, I will depend on you, my dear fans, to protect and defend me,\" he added.\n\nThe comic book writer went on to post his first Twitter video - with the help of fans - to express further gratitude.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 stan lee This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 just want to tell you I love your comments on Twitter - I don't know how much I have been missing now that I see them,\" he said.\n\n\"I appreciate everything you say and do, I love you all - let's keep up the great relationship\".\n\nThe nonagenarian signed off with his signature phrase \"excelsior!\" - implying triumph.\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. Is nationalisation the answer for Britain's railways?\n\nLabour wants to bring the railways back under public control - a policy that has garnered widespread support from a travelling public irritated by fare rises, overcrowded trains and a sense that train companies have profited while passengers have not.\n\nThe only problem is that about three-quarters of the industry - the track, signalling and big stations - are already under public control.\n\nThey were recaptured not by a reforming Corbynist minister, but by the Blairite transport secretary Stephen Byers. When he withdrew support from Railtrack, the privatised owner of the network, in 2001, it collapsed into administration.\n\nFrom the wreckage was born Network Rail, a not-for-profit organisation whose debts now count as part of public borrowing, and whose budgets and priorities are set in Whitehall.\n\nWhat remains in the private sector are the companies that run the trains - the 25 rail franchises - and the companies that own the trains. When Labour's shadow chancellor John McDonnell talks about a return to public control, he means the former.\n\nJohn McDonnell says he wants the \"the greatest possible integration\" for the UK's railways\n\nMr McDonnell told the BBC in an interview that if Labour were elected it would bring them back in, then reverse the historic split between track and train created at privatisation. He said he would aim for the \"the greatest possible integration\", claiming it would lead to efficiencies and a better railway. In short, he wants to bring back British Rail.\n\nThose with experience of British Rail and the privatised industry are not as gung-ho as Mr McDonnell.\n\nMichael Holden, the respected executive who was called in to run the government's Directly Operated Railways when the east coast main line went awry in 2007, said the tyranny of the annual budgets hampered British Rail.\n\n\"You were always competing for money with education and health. The end result was that we never had enough money,\" he said.\n\nWould going back to a unified British Rail really solve the railways' current problems?\n\nThe private industry has invested more - there are fleets of new trains, and ridership has doubled since privatisation - but the railway still relies heavily on state support.\n\nEven after premium payments from rail franchises are taken into account, the government last year put £3.3bn into the industry, down from £3.8bn a decade earlier. Most of that went to Network Rail as a direct grant.\n\nThe cost of improving the railway has also escalated since privatisation. Roger Ford, the technical editor of Modern Railways and a seasoned observer of the industry, said a prime example was the price of electrification - putting in the equipment necessary to run electric rather than diesel trains.\n\nThe cost of the latest big scheme undertaken by Network Rail - on the Great Western Main Line - had ended up being roughly six times as expensive as the last similar scheme project done by British Rail. Mr Ford said while some cost escalation was to be expected, \"we don't really know why\" current costs were so great.\n\nPaul Plummer, chief executive of the Rail Delivery Group, which industry's umbrella body, said nationalisation \"would not help the fundamental issues we face.\"\n\nMr McDonnell indicated in an interview with the BBC that a Labour government would be unlikely to try and buy back franchises, offering their owners compensation - the approach he has advocated with a planned renationalisation of water companies - but might instead simply wait for existing franchises to expire.", "A member of the Windrush generation says he was left \"broken\" after being wrongly detained in an immigration centre because he was unable to prove he had a right to live in the UK.\n\nAnthony Bryan, 60, came from Jamaica in 1965 but last year was threatened with deportation by the Home Office.\n\nHe spoke to MPs and peers with Paulette Wilson, who had a similar experience.\n\nMr Bryan agreed with a suggestion that a factor in the way he was treated was because he was black.\n\nHe was asked by Labour peer Baroness Lawrence if he thought things would have been different if he had been from Canada, New Zealand or Australia, to which he replied: \"I hate to say it, but I don't think I would have this problem\".\n\nWhen she asked him if he saw \"race as being a big part\" in what happened, he said: \"In the Home Office? Yes.\"\n\nThe murder of Mrs Lawrence's son Stephen in 1993 led to an inquiry which found there had been institutional racism in the Metropolitan Police.\n\nMr Bryan, a grandfather from north London, was held in a detention centre twice, for almost three weeks, last year.\n\nHis difficulties began when he lost his job after receiving a letter informing him he had no right to remain, despite having lived in the UK since he was eight.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMr Bryan told a parliamentary committee how he had phoned his family from the detention centre to tell them: \"It looks like you're going to see me in Jamaica.\"\n\nHe continued: \"They had tickets for me - I thought I was going, to be honest.\"\n\n\"I was resigned because I couldn't fight any more. I just gave up,\" he told the Joint Committee on Human Rights.\n\nHe said he explained to the officials who came to detain him at his home that he had lived in the UK for most of his life, adding: \"But to them I was lying... everything I was telling them, I had to prove that\".\n\nMr Bryan, who was accompanied at the hearing by his partner Janet McKay-Williams, was released from the immigration centre in November after a last-minute intervention from a lawyer.\n\nStories of Commonwealth migrants who arrived in the UK legally as children between the late 1940s and 1973, but have no formal documentation to prove they have the right to remain in the country, have emerged in recent weeks.\n\nThe Windrush generation is named after the ship that brought the first arrivals to Britain from the Caribbean in 1948.\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\nGrandmother Ms Wilson, 61, from Wolverhampton, gave evidence to the MPs and peers on the committee alongside her daughter, Natalie Barnes.\n\nShe said that without the efforts of her daughter \"I would be in Jamaica, all alone\".\n\nMs Wilson had been looked after by her grandparents in Wellington, Telford, when she first arrived in Britain from Jamaica in 1968 at the age of 10.\n\nShe received a letter from the Home Office in 2015 and was told to report each month to immigration officials. In October last year she was detained and taken to the Yarl's Wood immigration removal centre, where she spent a week before being released.\n\nMs Wilson said: \"The first thing I got was a letter saying I was an illegal immigrant. At the time I didn't understand it but it took me about a week before I could show my daughter I had got this letter.\n\n\"They were saying I don't belong here - I've got six months to get out.\"\n\nReferring to the decision to detain her, Ms Wilson told the committee: \"Where could I have run to? My family is here in England. I wouldn't have run away.\"\n\n\"I was thinking they were going to pick me up here and put me on the plane and probably when I get there people's going to kill me. I was thinking all sorts of things in my head.\"\n\nMs Barnes said \"documents were very hard to come by, They kept telling us to go here, there and everywhere... it was just very hard to get that evidence\".\n\nCommittee chairwoman Harriet Harman said she would write to Home Secretary Sajid Javid to get the Home Office to give Mr Bryan and Ms Wilson their files so they could see the information that officials had about them.\n\nThe home secretary said this week that 63 members of the Windrush generation could have been wrongfully removed or deported from the UK since 2002.\n\nBut Mr Javid, who took over the post last month after Amber Rudd resigned, told MPs he did not have information on how many Windrush immigrants had been detained.", "Corey (left) and Casper Platt-May were described by Corey's head teacher as \"lovely boys\"\n\nThe father of two boys killed in a hit-and-run crash in Coventry has been found dead in a hotel in Greece.\n\nReece Platt-May's body was discovered on the island of Corfu in the early hours of Thursday. His death is not being treated as suspicious.\n\nCasper Platt-May, two, and his brother Corey, six, were struck while on their way to a park by a speeding driver high on cocaine in February.\n\nRobert Brown, 53, was jailed for nine years last month.\n\nRobert Brown and Gwendoline Harrison showed no emotion as they were sentenced\n\nIn a statement, West Midlands Police said: \"Mr Platt-May was found dead in a hotel room in Corfu, Greece, during the early hours of Thursday 17 May.\n\n\"His death is not being treated as suspicious.\n\n\"His family has been notified and the matter will be passed to the coroner.\n\n\"Our condolences go to the family who have asked for the media to respect their privacy at this difficult time.\"\n\nCanon Katherine Fleming led a memorial service for the boys at Coventry Cathedral on 19 March.\n\nShe told the BBC Mr Platt-May was \"very natural talking about his children. He and their mum were sharing stories and bringing them back to life in those stories\".\n\n\"It was obvious there was so much love there,\" she added.\n\nWarwick Crown Court heard Brown had 30 previous convictions for driving without a licence or insurance.\n\nGwendoline Harrison, 42, of Triumph Close, Wyken, who was a passenger in the car, was sentenced to six months' imprisonment.\n\nShe had admitted a charge of assault intending to resist arrest and trying to leave the scene when she \"knew two children lay dying\".\n\nJurors heard how the boys were crossing Longfellow Road when they were hit by Brown, with Corey being thrown into the air by the impact of the collision.\n\nIn court Mr Platt-May had to read his emotional wife's statement which read: \"I can't work, my heart is broken, and time will never heal this. I will miss them forever. This monstrous act will haunt me.\"\n\nA request has been made to the Attorney General's office asking for Brown's sentence to be considered under the unduly lenient sentence scheme.\n\nThe scene of the crash was \"like a bomb had gone off\", the boys' grandfather said\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA woman has been cleared of murdering her former partner in an acid attack which led him to end his life.\n\nBerlinah Wallace, 48, hurled the corrosive fluid at Dutch engineer Mark van Dongen in Bristol in 2015.\n\nFifteen months later he ended his life by euthanasia in a Belgian hospital. He was paralysed from the neck down and had lost a leg, ear and eye.\n\nAt Bristol Crown Court, Wallace was found guilty of throwing a corrosive substance with intent.\n\nThe fashion student, originally from South Africa, was cleared by the jury of both murder and manslaughter.\n\nDuring the three-week trial Wallace told the jury Mr van Dongen, 29, had put the acid in a glass for her to drink.\n\nThe pair had met five years earlier on a dating website for people with HIV, as both had the condition.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMr van Dongen had returned to her flat in Ladysmith Road, Westbury Park, on the night of 22 September 2015 to reiterate that their turbulent relationship was over but decided to stay the night.\n\nThe trial heard Wallace threw a glass of acid over him as he lay in his boxer shorts on their bed, and shouted: \"If I can't have you no-one will.\"\n\nScreaming in agony, he staggered out on to the street where he was found by alarmed neighbours who dialled 999.\n\nThe bed where Mark van Dongen was lying when Wallace threw the acid at him\n\nHarrowing recordings of his suffering as they attempted to help him were played to the court during the trial.\n\nMeanwhile, instead of calling an ambulance, Wallace sat on the sofa in her flat and called another ex-boyfriend.\n\nShe will be sentenced on Wednesday.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Mark van Dongen's family talk about the impact of an acid attack\n\nSpeaking through an interpreter outside court, Mark's father Cornelius van Dongen described his son as his \"best friend\" and \"a loving brother\" who had made the family proud with the good results he achieved as a civil engineer.\n\n\"Mark was so brave when confronted with the hellish pain and disabilities inflicted on him but eventually it all became too much for him to bear,\" he said.\n\n\"He died in dignity and will live on in the hearts of his family and friends.\"\n\nHe said the court process had been \"a difficult and emotional experience\".\n\nMr van Dongen added: \"I am very disappointed in the outcome of this trial. There are only losers in this case. I hope that Mark can now rest in peace.\"\n\nSpeaking outside Bristol Crown Court, Cornelius van Dongen said there were \"only losers in this case\"\n\nDet Insp Paul Catton, who led the investigation for Avon and Somerset Police, said the attack was borne out of jealousy, resulting in Mr van Dongen suffering \"the most inconceivable pain imaginable\".\n\n\"He went from being a healthy young man with his whole life ahead of him to having extensive and repeated surgery on the most hideous injuries just to keep him alive.\n\n\"In the end, his pain was so devastating, so catastrophic, he sought the assistance of doctors to help him die.\"\n\nThe force has announced a Domestic Homicide Review will take place to examine the circumstances which led up to Mr van Dongen's death.\n\nWallace said she thought the substance she threw was water\n\nProsecutor Adam Vaitilingam acknowledged this was not a typical murder case but said it needed to be tried because Mr van Dongen's suffering had led him to end his own life.\n\nEuthanasia is legal in Belgium, where his family live.\n\nMr Vaitilingam said: \"It was exactly why she did it, to scar him for life, to make him less of a man and unable to have a relationship with another woman.\n\n\"It's the first time a jury has had to decide if an attacker is guilty of the murder where the victim has chosen to end his own life by euthanasia because of the terrible condition he was left in by the attack.\n\n\"Murder is made out if the attacker intended to kill them or cause them really serious harm.\n\n\"The doctors in Belgium granted euthanasia because of his unbearable physical and psychological suffering.\"\n\nWhat was the basis of bringing a murder charge in this extraordinary case? The answer lies in the way the law of murder applies the concept of causation.\n\nIf an accused person attacks a victim, intending to kill or cause serious harm, their actions alone may not result in death.\n\nHowever, they can be convicted of murder if their acts can fairly be said to have made a \"significant\" contribution to the victim's death.\n\nFor example if someone stabs a person in a shop and they run across the road to escape, but are hit and killed by an oncoming car, the attacker can be found guilty of murder.\n\nThe intentional stabbing is a \"significant\" cause of death even though it is the car driver that ends the victim's life.\n\nIf the jury had found Berlinah Wallace had thrown the acid intending to kill or seriously harm Mark Van Dongen, and that her act was a significant cause of his death, it would have been open to them to find her guilty of murder.\n\nClearly they did not find this to be the case.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "People with mild to moderate dementia took part in strength exercises\n\nExercise programmes for people with mild to moderate dementia \"don't work\", according to researchers writing in the British Medical Journal.\n\nThey found no improvements in thinking skills or behaviour in more than 300 people in their 70s who did aerobic and strength exercises over four months.\n\nOn the plus side, their physical fitness did improve, the study said.\n\nThe Oxford researchers said future trials should explore other forms of exercise.\n\nGentle, regular exercise was a good thing, they added, and there was no reason for anyone to stop exercising.\n\nBut at present, structured NHS exercise programmes for dementia patients did not appear to be a good investment.\n\nIn the study, 329 dementia patients took part in gym sessions lasting 60-90 minutes twice a week for four months.\n\nThey spent at least 20 minutes on a fixed cycle and lifted weights while getting out of a chair.\n\nThey were encouraged to do exercises at home for another hour each week.\n\nThe exercise group was then assessed and compared with a group of 165 people with dementia who received their usual care.\n\nProf Sallie Lamb, lead study author and professor of rehabilitation at Oxford University, said the results showed that people who had had dementia for two or three years could follow simple exercise instructions and improve their fitness and muscle strength.\n\n\"But these benefits do not, however, translate into improvements in cognitive impairment, activities in daily living, behaviour, or health-related quality of life,\" she said.\n\nAfter 12 months, researchers found that cognitive impairment had declined in both groups, with the exercise group slightly worse off - but the difference was small.\n\nProf Martin Rossor, professor of clinical neurology at University College London, said the results weren't surprising given degeneration of brain cells started many years before symptoms began in Alzheimer's disease, for example.\n\n\"So, the message remains that exercise is good, but to start an exercise regime once the disease is well established may be of limited value,\" he added.\n\nDr Sara Imarisio, head of research at Alzheimer's Research UK, said other forms of exercise could have different effects and this should be explored in future research.\n\nShe said there were many benefits to physical exercise, apart from simply health ones.\n\n\"For many people, exercise can be a source of enjoyment and provide valuable opportunities for social interaction,\" she said.\n\n\"These considerations can apply to people living with dementia just as much as they do to anyone else.\"\n\nExercise is still thought to be one of the best ways to reduce the risk of getting dementia in healthy older adults.\n\nBut this research suggests larger trials are needed to work out an effective exercise programme for brain health in those who already have the condition.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The body of 85-year-old Rosina Coleman was found at her home in Romford\n\nAn 85-year-old woman has been found dead in her home after a \"cowardly assault\", police have said.\n\nA handyman working at the address in Ashmour Gardens in Romford, east London, found the body of Rosina Coleman at about 11:30 BST on Tuesday.\n\nFriends and neighbours described the mother of two as \"the nicest person you could hope to meet\" who was \"always happy\".\n\nMurder detectives have not yet made any arrests.\n\nDet Insp Paul Considine, who is leading the investigation, said police believe Mrs Coleman was attacked between 07:30 and 11:30 on Tuesday.\n\nHe added: \"This is a despicable incident in which the victim, an elderly lady who lived alone, had been subjected to a cowardly assault that left her with serious injuries.\n\n\"It is imperative that we find those responsible for this horrendous offence.\"\n\nA police cordon is still in place in Ashmour Gardens in east London\n\nNeighbours said Mrs Coleman had lived on the street for more than 40 years with her husband Bill, who died about 11 years ago.\n\nAlan Mckeown, who lives on the adjacent street, said she was \"the nicest person you could hope to meet\".\n\nHe said he would often pass Mrs Coleman while walking his dog and \"she always wanted to have a good chat\".\n\nHe added: \"I thought she must have had a heart attack or something. I didn't dream of anything untoward like this.\n\nJackie Harwood, 72, said she used to meet Mrs Coleman on Saturdays at the local British Legion.\n\n\"She was a lovely person who was always happy, always dancing,\" she added.\n\n\"She was popular and would cook bread pudding and bring it in for everyone. She would always talk about her family as well.\"\n\nForensics officers are still coming in and out of the semi-detached bungalow where Rosina Coleman lived alone.\n\nHer neighbours tell me she was popular and well-liked.\n\nAshmour Gardens is a quiet residential street with children out playing on their bikes and people walking their dogs.\n\nThose that stopped to talk said they were shocked something like this happened here.\n\nAnother neighbour, who did not wish to be named, said Mrs Coleman was a seamstress who sewed all of her own clothes and made a suit a week.\n\nHe added: \"It's such a sad thing. I can't get my head around it. I can't think of anybody that would want to harm her.\"\n\nA police forensics tent has been erected in the garden of the property, with a tarpaulin sheet drawn across one of the glass windows.\n\nOfficers have also searched nearby drains and bushes.\n\nA post-mortem examination is expected to be carried out on Thursday.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Cladding on the Grenfell Tower was blamed for the spread of the fire\n\nSurvivors of the Grenfell Tower fire will still be living in emergency accommodation 12 months after the tragedy, the government has confirmed.\n\nHousing Secretary James Brokenshire told MPs that of the 210 households affected, 201 had accepted offers of temporary or permanent accommodation.\n\nLabour said only a third of families affected were in a permanent home.\n\nMeanwhile, the government announced it will fund a £400m operation to remove dangerous cladding from tower blocks.\n\nOnly buildings owned by councils and housing associations will qualify.\n\nMr Brokenshire told a Labour-led debate that of the 201 households which had accepted offers of temporary or permanent accommodation, 138 have moved into their accommodation. Of these 138, 64 are in temporary accommodation and 74 in permanent homes.\n\nWeeks after the fire on 14 June last year, which killed 71 people, the government said survivors would be offered permanent furnished social housing within 12 months.\n\nMr Brokenshire acknowledged that progress had been \"too slow\" and that it was \"understandable\" that some in the community would feel \"let down\" but said the local council now had 300 properties available \"to those who need them\".\n\nShadow housing secretary John Healey said residents had spoken about being offered properties which were damp, with insufficient bedrooms or on tenancy terms which were different to those they had in Grenfell.\n\n\"No-one wants to bring up children in a hotel room,\" he said.\n\nDuring the debate, Labour former minister David Lammy paid tribute to family friend Khadija Saye, a 24-year-old artist who died in the fire.\n\n\"She died, frankly, because the state failed her,\" he said. \"The state told her to stay put and she stayed put and when she did leave, even though she got split up from her mother, she didn't quite make it out.\n\n\"Had she set about leaving earlier, she probably would be with us today.\"\n\nConservative backbencher Kwasi Kwarteng said the government will be judged on its response to the tragedy and warned that the Tory party was at risk of losing the good will of victims of the fire.\n\nHe told the debate that there was an issue of a \"polarised society\".\n\n\"The suspicion today is that as the royal borough has got wealthier and wealthier, the political class, the people running the borough have really forgotten some of the less advantaged members of their community,\" he said.\n\nAnnouncing the funding for replacing cladding during Prime Minister's Questions, Theresa May told MPs that fire and rescue services had visited more than 1,250 tower blocks around the country since the fire.\n\nAnother resident - who suffered from long-term health issues prior to the disaster - was rescued from the fire but died in hospital in January.\n\nCladding on 228 buildings failed safety tests after the disaster.\n\nOn Thursday, Dame Judith Hackitt, the senior engineer responsible for reviewing the building regulations in the wake of the Grenfell fire, will publish her final report.\n\n\"As we approach the anniversary of the appalling tragedy that was the Grenfell Tower fire, our thoughts are with the victims and survivors and all those affected by that tragedy,\" added Mrs May.\n\nThe prime minister said that while councils and housing associations \"must remove dangerous cladding quickly\", the new scheme should not undermine other \"important maintenance and repair work\".\n\nPrivately-owned tower blocks will not be covered by government funding with residents in some buildings covered in the cladding initially being asked to cover the costs.\n\nLeaseholder residents in the Citiscape building in Croydon, south London, were asked to pay up to £31,300 each in order for the cladding to be replaced but the tower's developer, Barratt Developments, then said it would pay instead.", "Some progress has been made in encouraging girls to study physics at A-level, according to a report by the Institute of Physics (IoP).\n\nIn 2016, 1.9% of girls chose A-level physics, up from 1.6% in 2011.\n\nBut that compared with 6.5% for boys in 2016 and 44% of schools in England still send no girls at all to study the subject.\n\nThe IoP said physics-based skills were essential for many future careers, from artificial intelligence to aerospace.\n\nHowever, the gender balance at physics A-level in England's schools has changed little in decades, with only 20% being female.\n\n\"There is no evidence to suggest any intrinsic differences in ability or interest to explain why girls and boys choose technical subjects differently,\" said IoP President, Prof Dame Julia Higgins.\n\n\"The consequences of girls' choices at school are that many rewarding and fulfilling routes are closed off to them.\"\n\nThe report, Why Not Physics? - A Snapshot of Girls' Uptake at A-level, found only 1.9% of girls chose A-level physics in 2016, compared with 6.5% of boys.\n\nIn 2011, 1.6% of girls chose the subject, compared with 6.1% of boys.\n\nIn contrast, 8% of girls and 12.3% of boys progressed to maths A-level. In subjects such as English and psychology, the trend is reversed, with far more girls than boys choosing the subjects.\n\nThe IoP is hosting a summit on Thursday to tackle gender inequality in the classroom and to debate new ways to close the gender gap in the take-up of physics A-level.\n\n\"An ill-judged quip that girls 'can't do maths', or 'physics is too hard', can lead to girls making life-changing decisions that alter the subjects they study or the career they pursue,\" said Prof Higgins in a foreword to the report.\n\n\"Women in physics are still in the minority, and this lack of visibility preserves the myth and cements the fact that physics is simply not a subject for girls.\"\n\nThe lack of girls studying physics to a higher level also had consequences for the UK economy, the report said.\n\nPhysics-based skills are required in many growth areas, from aerospace to artificial intelligence, and thousands more workers need to be trained every year to keep the UK economy competitive.\n\nA recent study found that closing the gender gap in physics would take hundreds of years, given the current rate of progress.\n\nResearch analysing the names of authors listed on millions of scientific papers found physics, computer science, maths and chemistry had the fewest women, while nursing and midwifery had the most.\n\nWithout further interventions, the gender gap was likely to persist for generations, said scientists from the University of Melbourne.\n\nForecasts suggest it will take a very long time to close the gender gap in some fields, with predictions of 320 years for nursing, 280 years for computer science, 258 years for physics and 60 years for mathematics.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Mothers at this shopping centre say other stores are better at catering for young children\n\nMothercare has confirmed it is closing 50 stores as part of a rescue plan, a move that will put 800 jobs at risk.\n\nThe baby products retailer said it was in a \"perilous\" financial position.\n\nThe store closures will leave it with 78 outlets in the UK by 2020.\n\nThe retailer has already nearly halved its store numbers over the past five years. It had intended have 92 outlets by 2023, but has now accelerated its closure plans and will have just 73 by that year.\n\nThe company plunged to a £72.8m loss in its most recent financial year, as it took hefty charges to pay for closing stores and reorganising the business.\n\nMothercare saw falling numbers of shoppers in the second half of the financial year and had to discount to try to stimulate sales. However, over the year as a whole, like-for-like sales fell 1.3%.\n\nYou just have to speak to shoppers to understand what's gone wrong at Mothercare.\n\nThe mums I met yesterday bought their baby stuff in the likes of Primark and the supermarkets. Mothercare, they told me, was too pricey.\n\nTruth is, this chain has been struggling for a long time. Its UK business hasn't made a profit since 2012. It's yet another High Street chain that hasn't kept up with changing shopping habits and increasing competition. The tough conditions on the high street have finally brought things to a head.\n\nWill this restructuring be enough to secure long term survival? The shenanigans over its management changes don't exactly instil confidence and raise questions about the leadership of a business which needs a compete reboot.\n\nThe plan to close stores and cut rents at 21 of its stores is being carried out through a company voluntary arrangement (CVA).\n\nThe CVA, as is standard, will need the support of its creditors. One of these, the Pension Protection Fund, has already said it will vote in favour.\n\nThe company also said it would reappoint the chief executive who left in April following poor Christmas trading and a profits warning.\n\nMark Newton-Jones was sacked by the then chairman Alan Parker - who has himself subsequently stepped down. Former Tesco executive David Wood who had taken on the chief executive role and is just over a month into the job, will become group managing director.\n\nIn a statement, Mothercare said: \"Recent financial performance, impacted in particular by a large number of legacy loss making stores within the UK estate, has resulted in a perilous financial condition for the group.\"\n\nAs part of its restructuring, Mothercare has also arranged a refinancing package worth up to £113.5m, which includes £28m raised through issuing new shares, and an extension of its existing debt arrangements.\n\nMothercare chairman Clive Whiley said: \"These measures provide a solid platform from which to reposition the group and begin to focus on growth, both in the UK and internationally.\"\n\nCVAs have become widespread this year as a sheaf of major High Street names have had to undergo deep changes in the way they operate.\n\nEarlier this year, toy store chain Toys R Us collapsed into administration, as did electronics retailer Maplin.\n\nCarpetright has entered into a CVA and announced store closures, as has fashion chain New Look.\n\nA number of reasons have been cited for failures on the High Street, including a squeeze on consumers' income, the growth of online shopping and the rising costs of staff, rents and business rates.\n\nRichard Hyman, retail adviser and consultant, told the BBC's Today programme that Mothercare's problems went back years.\n\n\"I think Mothercare has not really delivered on the promise implicit in the name, in trading terms, for generations really,\" he said.\n\n\"Nothing can sum it up quite as well as the fact you can't get a pram round the store.\"\n\nHe added that this has become more of an issue as the trading climate is now \"so much more unforgiving\".", "Authorities will hold a post mortem examination to find out what led to the girl's death (file pic)\n\nA two-year-old girl was found with fatal injuries after a van carrying 30 Kurdish migrants was chased by police for an hour in southern Belgium.\n\nPolice say the girl died soon afterwards and have revealed that there was a scuffle and shots were fired.\n\nThe chase began on the E42 motorway outside the town of Namur.\n\nThe van drove west for several kilometres, evading police. Eventually it collided with another vehicle near Mons and the girl was found.\n\nIt took 15 police cars and some 30 police to bring the incident to an end at around 03:00 (01:00 GMT) on Thursday.\n\nBelgian media have reported that the girl, who was with her mother, had been held out of a van window apparently to keep the police at a distance. Local prosecutors told the BBC they could not confirm the reports.\n\nWhen the van finally stopped police said people emerged from the vehicle and moved towards them. After a struggle, officials said that police fired shots but stressed the girl was not hit by gunfire.\n\nAt least 30 people were inside the van, including children, they said. Police in France say people smugglers were involved, but that was not confirmed by local officials.\n\nHours after the incident in the early hours of Thursday, a group of some 60 migrants reacted by blocking a motorway near Dunkirk, south of the Belgian border in France.\n\nMigrants staying at the nearby Grande-Synthe camp had known the girl who had died as she was part of a family who had been staying in the gym, said French 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 Elisa Perrigueur This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nTwenty people were detained and the migrants then returned to Grande-Synthe, where some were searched by French CRS riot police.\n\nBelgian authorities said a post mortem examination would take place to find out what had caused her death. It was not clear whether the driver had got away but a number of the passengers would be interviewed, they said.\n\nA police patrol had tried to stop the van because it was being driven in a strange manner. A police check then indicated it was carrying false number plates, reports said.\n\nA minister in the French-speaking Wallonia-Brussels government, André Flahaut, sent his condolences to the girl's family. \"The politics of chasing migrants is bound to end in drama,\" he said on Twitter.\n\nA note on terminology: The BBC uses the term migrant to refer to all people on the move who have yet to complete the legal process of claiming asylum. This group includes people fleeing war-torn countries such as Syria, who are likely to be granted refugee status, as well as people who are seeking jobs and better lives, who governments are likely to rule are economic migrants.", "The chairman of bookmaker William Hill has warned the prime minister his firm risks being bought by a foreign rival if it is weakened by new betting rules.\n\nIn a letter to Theresa May, Roger Devlin said changes to the amount that can be bet on High Street gambling machines could hit jobs and profits.\n\nThe government is expected to announce imminently a final decision on its review fixed-odds betting terminals.\n\nHe proposed tougher rules on adverts and a levy to help problem gamblers.\n\nCurrently, fixed-odds betting terminals (FOBTs) allow players to stake up to £100 every 20 seconds.\n\nA review's interim findings suggested cutting the maximum stakes to £30, but there have been reports that the amount could be cut to just £2.\n\nAnti-gambling campaigners, who have dubbed the fixed-odds machines the \"crack cocaine\" of gambling, support the move.\n\nBookies, however, have warned that such a cut would result in the closure of thousands of outlets, a big reduction in tax paid to the Treasury, and would have knock-on effects on the horse racing industry.\n\nBookmakers support horse racing through an industry levy and offering prize money.\n\nMr Devlin's letter, first reported by Sky News and seen by the BBC, said UK gambling was \"extremely well regulated\".\n\nHe wrote: \"Sadly, I fear that your government is about to make a decision that is unnecessary and lacking in evidence - a decision that will also be catastrophic for a retail betting industry employing over 40,000 people.\"\n\n\"Consolidation within our sector continues and I would also not want to see the impact of a disproportionate… outcome being a factor in the name of William Hill being added to the list of companies now in foreign ownership,\" he said.\n\nMr Devlin said William Hill supported a ban on gambling advertising on television before the watershed, and a levy on the industry to pay for education and treatment of problem gamblers.\n\nMr Devlin, who was appointed chairman of the bookmaker earlier this year, is also chairman of the housebuilder Persimmon, which has been racked with controversy over a generous executive pay scheme.\n\nShares in William Hill have been hit hard by fears that fixed-odds stakes would be cut, falling sharply last month on reports that the chancellor, Philip Hammond, would not oppose the move.\n\nOn Monday, though. William Hill shares jumped after the US Supreme Court handed down a ruling that would allow states to legalise sports betting, opening up a big potential new market to gambling companies.", "Princess Charlotte comes to the role with experience\n\nThree-year-old Princess Charlotte will be one of six young bridesmaids at the wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, Kensington Palace has said.\n\nHer elder brother, Prince George, aged four, will be a pageboy alongside three other young boys.\n\nSo far, the details of the bridesmaids' dresses and the pageboys' uniforms remain under wraps.\n\nMs Markle, 36, will not have a maid of honour as she wanted to avoid choosing just one of her closest friends.\n\nAs well as his niece and nephew, Prince Harry has picked three godchildren - three-year-old Florence van Cutsem, two year-old Zalie Warren and Jasper Dyer, six - to have starring roles on his big day.\n\nJasper is the son of Prince Harry's close friend Mark Dyer, a former royal equerry to Prince Charles, who supported Harry after the death of his mother, Princess Diana.\n\nThe pair travelled together on Harry's gap year and Mr Dyer inspired the prince's charity work in Lesotho, Africa.\n\nMs Markle's goddaughters, Remi Litt, six, and her elder sister, Rylan, seven, will also be joining the procession of bridesmaids.\n\nAnd the three children of one of her best friends, Jessica Mulroney - Ivy, four, and seven-year-old twins Brian and John - will complete the picture.\n\nJessica, a stylist, is married to Ben Mulroney, a Canadian TV host and son of former Canadian prime minister, Brian Mulroney.\n\nShe was photographed arriving at Heathrow Airport with her family on Tuesday night.\n\nPrince George was pageboy at his aunt's wedding\n\nPrince George, second from right, concentrates on his duties\n\nPrince George, the son of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, will have experience to lean on - he was pageboy at his aunt Pippa Middleton's wedding to James Matthews last May.\n\nHis sister, Charlotte, a bridesmaid at her aunt's wedding, recently showed she was undaunted by the limelight when she visited her little brother, Prince Louis, at hospital after his birth.\n\nWith the world's cameras trained on her, she seemed to enjoy the attention, waving sweetly and smiling at the bank of photographers.\n\nMeanwhile, a petition organised by campaign group Republic has been handed to MPs.\n\nSigned by 32,000 people, the petition calls on MPs to make the Royal Family pay for the security and policing surrounding Saturday's wedding and for the government to publish a report of all costs to taxpayers.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"The royals should be paying for this wedding\" - Republic\n\nRepublic chief executive Graham Smith said: \"There is nothing inevitable about the public spending on a royal wedding. If the royals don't want to pay a big security bill they could have had a private wedding in Sandringham or Balmoral.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nPrince Harry and Ms Markle will be hoping for good behaviour from their bridesmaids and pageboys - all seven or under.\n\nAt his brother Prince William's wedding in 2011, the young bridesmaids and pageboys patiently posed in the Throne Room at Buckingham Palace\n\nPrince Harry was on hand to accompany the youngest ones in a carriage to Buckingham Palace\n\nThe day's highlight was a kiss on the balcony for all bar young bridesmaid Grace van Cutsem", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAn explosive eruption at Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano has sent ash 30,000ft (9,100m) into the sky.\n\nThe eruption took place at 04:15 local time (14:15 GMT) on Thursday, and scientists say further activity is likely in the near future.\n\nStaff at the volcano observatory and the national park had been evacuated.\n\nSince a new zone of Kilauea began erupting almost two weeks ago, lava has wrecked dozens of homes and forced hundreds of people to be evacuated.\n\nNational Guard soldiers in Hawaii sought protection from ash and volcanic gases\n\nA red aviation code had already been issued, warning pilots to avoid the potentially damaging ash cloud.\n\nThe US Geological Survey had warned that an explosive eruption at Kilauea was becoming more likely as the volcano's lava lake was lowering.\n\nThis increases the risk of steam-powered explosions as the magma meets underground water.\n\n\"We may have additional larger, powerful events,\" USGS geologist Michelle Coombs told reporters after Thursday's eruption.\n\nHawaii's emergency management agency advised people in the area affected by ash to stay in their homes if possible.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nKilauea is one of five volcanoes on the island of Hawaii - three of them active.\n\nIt is one of the most active in the world and has been erupting continuously, though not explosively, for more than 30 years.\n\nIts last explosive eruption took place in 1924.\n\nEven before Thursday morning's explosive eruption, the ash plume from the volcano could be seen from the International Space Station.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by A.J. (Drew) Feustel This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Schools are to be given advice on how to disable a glitch that allows pupils sitting online spelling tests to right-click their mouse and find the answer.\n\nIt follows the discovery by teachers that children familiar with traditional computer spellcheckers were simply applying it to the tests.\n\nThe Scottish National Standardised Assessments were introduced to assess progress in four different age groups.\n\nThe government said the issue had only affected a \"small number\" of questions.\n\nA spokesman said the issue was not with the Scottish National Standardised Assessments (SNSA) but with browser or device settings on some machines.\n\nFormer head teacher George Gilchrist tweeted about the issue after it emerged primary seven pupils were using the online spellchecker on the test.\n\nHe wrote: \"SNSA P7 spelling. Pupils asked to correct spelling of words. P7 pupils worked out if you right click on your answer, the computer tells you if it is correct! Brilliant! 😂\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by George Gilchrist This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIntroduced in 2017, the spelling test asks children to identify misspelt words.\n\nHowever, on some school computers the words were highlighted with a red line. Pupils who right-clicked on the words were then able to access the correct spelling.\n\nThe web-based SNSA tool enables teachers to administer online literacy and numeracy tests for pupils in P1, P4, P7 and S3, which are marked and scored automatically.\n\nEducation Secretary John Swinney said they would give teachers \"objective and comparable information\" to help them identify pupils' specific needs.\n\nA Scottish government spokesperson said: \"A small number of questions in the P4, P7 and S3 writing assessment were affected by this issue.\n\n\"Advice is being given to schools about how to disable the spellchecking function.\n\n\"There is no pass or fail in the assessment, which is one element in a range of evidence a teacher will gather on a child or young person's progress.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Chris Grayling says talk of nationalising the whole rail network was \"missing the point\"\n\nRail services on the East Coast Main Line are being brought back under government control, following the failure of the current franchise.\n\nOperators Stagecoach and Virgin Trains will hand over control from 24 June.\n\nThe Department for Transport will run the service until a new public-private partnership can be appointed in 2020.\n\nTransport Secretary Chris Grayling said it would smooth the transition to a new operator, but critics said it was evidence of private sector failure.\n\nMr Grayling said the franchise had failed because Stagecoach and Virgin Trains had \"got their bid wrong\", overestimating the profitability of the line.\n\nIt is the third time in a just over a decade that the government has called a halt to the East Coast franchise.\n\nThe London to Edinburgh line has been run by a joint venture between Stagecoach and Virgin, since 2015.\n\nThe companies promised to pay £3.3bn to run the franchise until 2023, but at the end of last year it become clear they were running into trouble.\n\nIn February it was announced that the franchise would end early, leading to accusations the government was bailing them out.\n\nThis is the third time a franchise on the East Coast Main Line has failed.\n\nIn 2005, GNER signed a £1.35bn, 10-year deal in what was then the biggest contract in European railway history. One year later it was stripped of the route.\n\nIn August 2007, National Express agreed a £1.4bn deal, but then handed it back to the government in 2009 amid the financial crisis.\n\nIt was then government-run until Stagecoach and Virgin's £3.3bn bid in 2015.\n\nRead more: What went wrong at the East Coast Main Line?\n\nTo have one rail company fail to fulfil its contract may be regarded as a misfortune. To lose three looks like carelessness.\n\nThe government insists that the East Coast service is not failing, and will continue to generate revenue for the public purse.\n\nIt says Stagecoach and Virgin have only themselves to blame for their inability to make enough money from the line.\n\nThat may be true. But critics say that if operators keep over-bidding, then that suggests a problem with the tender process.\n\nThe assumptions made by the DfT when inviting bids have also been widely questioned.\n\nNow the DfT wants to use the line as a model for a new type of franchise, based on a public-private partnership.\n\nThat may help to solve some issues - for example, reducing the friction between the track operator, Network Rail and the train operator.\n\nBut whether it will help to make the line viable for the new operator is open to question.\n\nMr Grayling said the companies had overestimated growth in passenger numbers and revenues and were having to reach into their own pockets to fulfil the terms of the franchise.\n\nHe told the Commons that Stagecoach and Virgin have lost almost £200m, but there had not been a loss to taxpayers \"at this time\".\n\nThe rail companies have blamed their problems on Network Rail, saying it had failed to upgrade the line which would have allowed them to run more frequent services.\n\nShadow Chancellor, John McDonnell tweeted that he welcomed the move, which he said was implementing Labour's Manifesto promise to renationalise the railways.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nFor the next two years the operator of last resort, overseen by the Department of Transport will operate the East Coast Main Line.\n\nIt will be advised by the engineering firm Arup.\n\nIn 2020 there will be another tender process for operating the franchise.\n\nMr Grayling would like to see closer co-operation between the state-owned Network Rail which owns the track infrastructure and the private train operators.\n\nDespite their failure on the East Coast Main Line, Virgin and Stagecoach will be allowed to bid for future rail franchises.\n\nFor a government wedded to the benefits of the private sector and to leaving the railways in the hands of private companies, today's decision is a significant blow.\n\nIt's also further ammunition for a Corbyn Labour Party committed to renationalising the railways.\n\nMr Grayling may protest that this is only a temporary measure - but it is still the third time in just over a decade that a private company has had to be stripped of the East Coast Main Line contract.\n\nThere are also likely to be raised eyebrows that despite their failure, Virgin Stagecoach will still be able to bid to run the line again after it is transferred back into public private ownership in 2020.\n\nAnd while memories of British Rail's stale sandwiches may have faded - strikes, costly commuter fares, cramped carriages and failing companies are hardly likely to endear passengers to the current crop of private rail operators.\n\nAfter looking into problems with the service, Mr Grayling said he was advised \"that there is no suggestion of either malpractice or malicious intent in what has happened\".\n\nHe added that the firms have paid a \"high financial and reputational price\" in relation to the East Coast route.\n\nStagecoach said it had attempted to negotiate a new contract with the Department for Transport, without success.\n\nMr Grayling said passengers and staff would not be affected by the change to the franchise arrangement. He said season tickets, timetables and employment conditions would remain unchanged.", "Haspel oversaw a secret US facility where terror suspects were tortured\n\nThe US Senate has approved the CIA's first female director, despite her role in the spy agency's post-9/11 interrogation programme.\n\nGina Haspel's confirmation in a 54-45 vote follows a partisan fight among senators about the CIA's Bush-era use of techniques such as waterboarding.\n\nMs Haspel, a CIA veteran, once oversaw a so-called black site in Thailand after the 11 September 2001 attacks.\n\nThe former CIA chief, Mike Pompeo, left to become US Secretary of State.\n\nRepublican Senator John McCain - who was tortured during his more than five years in a Vietnamese prison - had earlier announced his opposition to US President Donald Trump's nominee.\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\nOn Thursday, six Democrats crossed party lines to vote in her favour.\n\nOne of them, Virginia Senator Mark Warner, said Ms Haspel had told him the agency should never have resorted to so-called enhanced interrogation techniques.\n\nHe said she had pledged never to use such methods even if the president demanded it.\n\n\"I believe she is someone who can and will stand up to the president, who will speak truth to power if this president orders her to do something illegal or immoral, like a return to torture,\" he said in a speech before the vote.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nTwo Republicans - Jeff Flake and Rand Paul - voted against Ms Haspel, meaning she would not have been confirmed without support from Democrats.\n\nSpeaking before the vote, Republican chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee Richard Burr said the confirmation of a woman as CIA head would send an important message.\n\n\"Many others who have served, or are currently serving, have cracked the glass ceiling at the agency. Gina is poised to break it,\" he said.\n\n\"It may be impossible to measure the importance of that breakthrough but I do know that it will send a signal to the current workforce and to the workforce of the future that a lifetime of commitment to the agency can and will be rewarded.\"\n\nA 33-year veteran of the agency, Ms Haspel, 61, spent most of her career as an undercover operative.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC's Panorama programme witnesses the first accurate public demonstration of waterboarding\n\nIn 2002, she was selected by the agency to run a \"black site\" in Thailand where harsh interrogation techniques were used that a Senate report deemed to be torture.\n\nOne suspect that was brought there, Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, was brutalised using methods that were later banned by President Barack Obama.\n\nAl-Nashiri, who was interrogated after Ms Haspel took over the post, was also subjected to sleep deprivation, nudity, extreme temperatures, being held in a small box, and \"walling\" (being slammed repeatedly into a wall).\n\nThree years later, Ms Haspel ordered the destruction of 92 video tapes that documented the interrogation of him, and Abu Zubaydah, who was also held at the Thai location.\n\nAt least 119 men were tortured by the US in the aftermath of the attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon, according to a 2014 Senate report.\n\nHuman rights groups say Ms Haspel left Thailand to oversee further US torture, but it is unclear what role she played as her exact record has been classified by the CIA.\n\nMr Trump has previously called for the US to resume waterboarding terrorism suspects.", "From choosing the cake to the flowers and even the chair-covers, anyone who's ever planned a wedding knows it can be eye-wateringly expensive.\n\nBut when it comes to royal weddings - with all the VIPs, security and extra extravagance - the bill runs into millions.\n\nSo what do we know about the expected cost of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's wedding, and how much will the taxpayer be paying towards it?\n\nThe wedding will be held in Windsor. And crowds in excess of 100,000 people are expected to descend on the town.\n\nInvitations have been sent to 600 guests, with a further 200 invited to the couple's evening reception\n\nOn top of that, 1,200 members of the public will attend the grounds of Windsor Castle.\n\nAnd security will almost certainly be the biggest single cost.\n\nIn 2011, £6.35m was spent on security for the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge's wedding\n\nThe Home Office wouldn't comment when Reality Check contacted it, saying revealing policing costs could compromise \"national security\".\n\nLikewise, when we rang Thames Valley Police, it said: \"We aren't going to give you any data I'm afraid - even though we know you love numbers.\"\n\nHowever, we do know £6.35m was spent by the Metropolitan Police (ie the taxpayer) on security for Duke and Duchess of Cambridge's wedding.\n\nThat's based on a Freedom of Information request released to the Press Association.\n\nBut it's difficult to draw a direct comparison with Prince Harry and Ms Markle's wedding - the location and guest numbers are different.\n\nKensington Palace hasn't released any details of what it plans to spend on the wedding.\n\nThat's not really a surprise given that the official cost of Prince William and Catherine's wedding has never been revealed.\n\nThat leaves us with unofficial estimates and as such they need to be treated with some caution.\n\nBridebook.co.uk, a wedding planning service, says the total cost of the wedding could be £32m - including the cost of security.\n\nIt put the cost of the cake at £50,000, the florist at £110,000, the catering at £286,000, and so on and so on.\n\nReality Check contacted the company's owner, Hamish Shephard, to ask about the methodology used to arrive at the estimate.\n\nHe said the £32m figure had been based on the assumption that the Royal Family had paid for everything at market rate.\n\nBut in the absence of any official data, this is still guesswork - however well informed.\n\nFor example, we don't know if suppliers would offer a substantial discount for the privilege of providing their services for a royal wedding.\n\nMs Markle will walk down the aisle of St George's Chapel at Windsor Castle\n\nThe cost of security for the wedding will be met by the taxpayer.\n\nInitially, Thames Valley Police will have to absorb the cost itself.\n\nBut the force will be eligible to apply for special grant funding from the Home Office after the event in order to claim back some of the costs.\n\nSpecial grant funding is a separate pool of money forces can apply for if they have to police events outside their usual remit.\n\nAs for the rest of the total, the Royal Family has said it will be paying for the private elements of the wedding.\n\nEvery year the Royal Family gets a chunk of money from the annual Sovereign Grant, paid directly by the Treasury.\n\nThe grant is calculated on a percentage of the profits from the Crown Estate portfolio, which includes much of London's West End.\n\nSome members of the Royal Family benefit from additional income.\n\nFor example, Prince Charles gets money from the Duchy of Cornwall estate, a portfolio of land, property and financial investments.\n\nBut it's not clear which \"pots\" the palace will choose to fund the wedding from.\n\nRepublic, which campaigns for an elected head of state, and claims the overall cost of the monarchy is far higher than £82m, has submitted a petition against taxpayers' money being spent on the wedding.", "As global rates of short-sightedness - or myopia - increase around the world, Singapore is hoping to buck the trend with three simple but innovative solutions. Could these help to reduce the development of myopia in young children elsewhere?\n\nMore stories from Crowdscience on BBC World Service", "Houston died at the age of 48 in 2012\n\nA new documentary about late singer Whitney Houston alleges that her cousin, Dee Dee Warwick, sexually abused her.\n\nHouston's half-brother Gary Garland-Houston and her assistant, Mary Jones, both made the claims against Dee Dee, who died in 2008.\n\nThe film, Whitney, is directed by Scottish filmmaker Kevin Macdonald.\n\nDee Dee Warwick is the younger sister of soul singer Dionne Warwick and was the niece of Houston's mother.\n\nThe Warwick family has been contacted for comment by the BBC.\n\nKevin Macdonald with Whitney's niece Rayah Houston and the film's producer, Whitney's sister in-law Pat Houston\n\nHouston, who sold millions of records and had hits with songs like I Will Always Love You and I Wanna Dance With Somebody, died in 2012 at the age of 48.\n\nShe drowned in a bath in a hotel and the coroner ruled that cocaine use and heart disease were factors in her death.\n\nHouston ended her volatile 15-year marriage to singer Bobby Brown in 2007.\n\nTheir daughter, Bobbi Kristina Brown, died at a hospice in 2015 at the age of 22, six months after she was found unresponsive in a bath.\n\nFilm writer and producer Kaleem Aftab was among those to praise the film.\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\nOwen Gleiberman, film critic at Variety, wrote: \"We don't necessarily need another documentary to remind us of what a powerful and transformative singer Whitney Houston was. Whitney does something more essential: It plunges into the 'Why?' and comes up with a shatteringly convincing answer.\"\n\nTom Grierson, writing in Screen Daily, wrote: \"Whitney is strongest when it connects Houston to the larger history of Black America, illustrating how this glamorous performer grew up in poverty and never entirely escaped the obligation of helping to pull up her underprivileged family members.\"\n\nThe Times's Ed Potton gave it a four-star review while The Telegraph's Tim Robey was more lukewarm, giving it three stars and writing: \"The film is oddly unmoving as a memorial, but as with Amy Winehouse, it inspires a collective mea culpa for the feeding frenzy of public judgement that only turned to sympathy when it was far too late.\"\n\nDavid Rooney, a critic for The Hollywood Reporter, wrote: \"It's a riveting narrative, and even those not among Houston's more passionate fan base will find it an emotionally wrenching experience.\"\n\nWhitney will be released in UK and US cinemas on 6 July.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A man has been jailed for 29 years for killing a barmaid whose naked body was found in a park after she went missing on Christmas Eve.\n\nIuliana Tudos, 22, was discovered dead in a disused building in Finsbury Park, north London, three days later.\n\nMs Tudos, who was born in Moldova, had been slashed with a broken bottle in the neck, abdomen and wrists.\n\nKasim Lewis, 31, of Friern Barnet, north London, pleaded guilty to her murder at the Old Bailey on Thursday.\n\nHe was sentenced to life imprisonment with a minimum term of 29 years.\n\nJudge Richard Marks QC said he observed that no evidence suggested Ms Tudos had been sexually assaulted.\n\nBut said the fact that Lewis had cable ties with him, suggested there was \"sadism\" involved, and that he planned to attack someone.\n\n\"She must have died a terrible death. What you did to her was wicked beyond belief\", he said.\n\nDuring the attack, Lewis extracted her PIN number and later withdrew cash from her account.\n\nThe court heard Ms Tudos lived in Cyprus, where her parents are from, before moving to London in 2013.\n\nShe worked in the World's End pub in Camden High Street.\n\nShe had finished her shift at the pub and was planning to spend Christmas with friends after going home to collect her things.\n\nShe was picked up on CCTV at 20:33 heading towards the entrance of Finsbury Park.\n\nWhen she failed to turn up, her friends posted messages on social media, contacted the pub, hospitals and distributed fliers.\n\nHer body was found in a burnt-out shed by her friends, the court heard.\n\nParamedics described a wound to her chest as looking like the logo for Batman or the letter M, and she had been bound with cable ties, the court heard.\n\nCCTV footage was retrieved of Kasim Lewis using Iuliana's bank card\n\nA search of Lewis's phone revealed a trailer for a pornographic film featuring a young woman being chased into an alleyway and then bound with cable ties.\n\nIn a statement read to the court, Ms Tudos's stepfather Costas Vassiliou said his daughter was murdered in the most \"inhumane way\".\n\nHe described his \"beloved daughter\" as \"full of energy\" and \"loved and cherished by all of her friends and family\".\n\n\"As parents our dream was for Iuliana to get back to Cyprus after her graduation, get a job, get married and have children, our grandchildren,\" he said.\n\n\"All of these now are gone.\n\n\"As a family we will never get through this.\"\n\nThe public gallery was packed as friends and family came to see Iuliana's killer face justice.\n\nFriends wept and held hands to their mouths as the prosecution described her naked body being found with horrific injuries.\n\nHer mother sobbed as her husband read the family impact statement - saying they and Iuliana's two brothers would never get past their grief.\n\nSpeaking after the hearing, Mr Vassiliou said the outcome of the sentencing was \"very good\" and he trusted the judge had made the right decision.\n\nMany of Iuliana's friends who came to court were too upset to speak.\n\nOne told me she missed her friend \"so much\".\n\nShe added: \"He desecrated the body afterwards which is maybe even more disgusting than the actual killing.\"\n\nShe and another friend said they had been to Cyprus for Iuliana's funeral and that the family support there was \"amazing\".\n\n\"The family have been there for all of us as well,\" he said, and added that people like Lewis should be sentenced \"to die in prison\".\n\nLewis, who was born in Montserrat, entered his plea over a video link from HMP Belmarsh.\n\nHe had previously been jailed for an earlier sex attack.\n\nIn September 2005, he was handed two years for sexual assault and exposure on a bus and placed on the sex offenders register.\n\nIn 2011, he received a further eight months in jail for failing to comply with the sex offender notification requirements and a community order.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "In 2016-17, a total of 19% of students in higher education in the UK were from outside the country, according to official figures\n\nA Home Office advisory committee has ditched research assessing the impact of international students after academics labelled it \"unethical\".\n\nThe survey, set up by the Migration Advisory Committee (Mac), which informs Home Office policy, asked for students' views on international classmates.\n\nBut it could be completed by anyone and some said it posed \"loaded\" questions.\n\nA Mac spokesman stressed the survey was \"not designed to be discriminatory\", but confirmed it was being withdrawn.\n\n\"Following online commentary it has become apparent to us that we will be unable to use the responses to the survey,\" the spokesman said.\n\nThe committee defended the survey, saying it was \"simply an attempt to ask students for their experiences\" and \"had the potential to show a very positive view of international students in the UK\".\n\nHowever, on Thursday, it concluded the survey \"cannot now be used to add to our evidence base\".\n\nProf Tanja Bueltmann‏, a professor of migration history at Northumbria University, said the survey was \"completely invalid and must never be used as evidence to inform policy\".\n\nShe said she had urged the Home Office and the committee to scrap it or disregard it.\n\n\"Initially, I thought it must be some sort of fake thing - because of the nature of the questions,\" she said.\n\nIt asked students to assess whether the impact of international students on their course was negative, positive or neutral.\n\nIt also asked if students lived with any international students or studied with any on their course.\n\nThe survey was being posted by universities, who were encouraging students to fill it in and was due to close at the end of May.\n\nIt was also being shared on Twitter, by vice-chancellors from the Universities UK group, which later announced that it would no longer be sharing 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\nA Universities UK spokesman said: \"Due to legitimate concerns raised about a Migration Advisory Committee survey on international students, we will not be sharing it further.\n\n\"While it's important that policy-makers hear from students about international students' positive impact, views must be sought appropriately.\"\n\nUUK vice-chancellors will also be deleting all tweets of the survey.\n\nProf Bueltmann said: \"In principle there's nothing wrong with a survey on the impact of international students, but say you look Asian and you're actually British, but the student standing next to you thinks you're Asian?\"\n\nThis could mean the person is basing their views on the wrong information, she suggested.\n\nAn online message replaced the survey after it had been closed\n\nHer view was mirrored by the Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants, which questioned whether the survey was \"encouraging baseless speculation about those who seem different?\".\n\nThe National Union of Students called the survey \"inherently flawed\".\n\nThe Union's international students' officer, Yinbo Yu, said asking students to gauge international student numbers \"seemingly based on appearance\" was \"not only shockingly insensitive, but it does not reflect the reality of our diverse yet cohesive university communities\".\n\nProf Bueltmann‏ also suggested that those who had a view that immigration was a bad thing would have been more likely to fill it in.\n\n\"It's a bit like with Tripadvisor, you're more likely to fill it in if you've had a bad experience,\" she said.\n\n\"The survey unquestionably contains loaded/leading questions that force respondents to problematise international students in a way that they may never have naturally done.\n\n\"If I had done this as a research project, I'd be in trouble with my ethics committee now.\"\n\nShe added that the whole design of the survey was flawed because anyone could fill it in, and repeatedly if they used different computers.\n\nPosting on Twitter, Matthias Eberl, engagement lead at Cardiff University's Systems Immunity Research Institute, said: \"A student survey that's openly accessible to anyone and can be filled in multiple times. Whatever the results from this survey, they are utterly meaningless.\"\n\nA lawyer, Ewan Kennedy‏, also completed the survey, saying he found it \"very odd\".\n\nHe said he \"went through it as an experiment and it shot off at the end without needing any identifier - oops!\"\n\nThe survey was part of work commissioned by former Home Secretary Amber Rudd, after the government came under pressure to remove international students from net migration targets.\n\nIn her commissioning letter of August 2017, she said the committee had never undertaken a full assessment of the impact of international students.\n\n\"We would like to have an objective assessment of the impact of international students which includes consideration of both EU and non-EU students at all levels of education,\" the letter said.\n\n\"This assessment should go beyond the direct impact of students in the form of tuition fees and spending, including consideration of their impact on the labour market and the provision and quality of education provided to domestic students.\n\n\"This should give the government an improved evidence base for any future decisions whilst the ONS goes through the process of reviewing the contribution it thinks students are making to net migration.\"\n\nBefore the survey was decommissioned, a spokesman for the Mac had said it was part of its ongoing work looking at the impact of international students in the UK.", "There will be a consultation on banning inflammable cladding on high-rise buildings, the government says, despite a review into the Grenfell tragedy not recommending such a move.\n\nHousing Secretary James Brokenshire announced the consultation \"having listened carefully\" to concerns.\n\nEarlier, a government-commissioned building regulations review stopped short of proposing a ban - a move criticised by some Grenfell survivors.\n\nLabour MPs called for an immediate ban.\n\nArchitects, building firms and Grenfell survivors had backed laws forbidding the use of combustible materials in tower blocks.\n\nInflammable cladding is thought to have contributed to the rapid spread of fire in west London's Grenfell Tower last June.\n\nA total of 72 people died as a result of the blaze, the judge-led inquiry has said. This includes Maria Del Pilar Burton, 74, who died in January. She had been in hospital since she was rescued from the 19th floor.\n\nA subsequent survey identified hundreds of other buildings where cladding failed safety tests.\n\nThe Royal Institute of British Architects called for a ban on inflammable cladding, as well as a requirement for sprinklers to be fitted, and a second means of escape for high-rise residential buildings.\n\nAnnouncing the consultation, Mr Brokenshire said: \"We must create a culture that truly puts people and their safety first, that inspires confidence and, yes, rebuilds public trust.\"\n\nHe said the building regulations review, and the changes that will come from it, were \"important first steps, helping us ensure that when we say 'never again', we mean it\".\n\nLabour's shadow housing secretary John Healey responded, saying: \"Don't consult on it, do it.\"\n\nShahin Sadafi, chairman of Grenfell United, which represents survivors and the bereaved, said he was \"disappointed\" there was no immediate ban.\n\nEarlier, a government-commissioned independent report into building regulations called for a \"radical rethink\" of the safety system, but stopped short of recommending an outright ban on inflammable cladding.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Dame Judith Hackitt tells Today that the building regulation system is broken\n\nThe report's author, Dame Judith Hackitt, said indifference and ignorance had led to cost being prioritised over safety and called for regulators to \"come together\" to ensure building safety.\n\nShe also recommended incentives for the right behaviour and tougher penalties for those who breach the rules.\n\nAppearing before the Housing, Communities and Local Government select committee, Dame Judith said she supported Mr Brokenshire's announcement and it was \"complementary\" to her review, \"but on its own it will be insufficient\".\n\n\"Simply banning something from happening is no guarantee of compliance,\" she said.\n\n\"If people attach too much reliance upon banning activities and particular materials as being a solution to this problem it will create a false sense of security.\"\n\nShe told MPs that she had not known Mr Brokenshire had planned to announce a consultation.\n\nThe prime minister's spokesman said the current regulatory system was not \"fit for purpose\" and the government was committed to making the necessary changes.\n\nMr Sadafi said his group was \"disappointed and saddened that she (Dame Judith) she didn't listen to us and she didn't listen to other experts\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Diane Abbott: \"The 71 people who died were not a 'technical issue' and you need to step up.\"\n\nShadow housing minister Sarah Jones told the BBC that the report was a \"huge wasted opportunity\" and that the recommendations did not go far enough.\n\nLabour MP and Grenfell campaigner David Lammy said it was \"unfathomable\" that the review had not recommended a ban on combustible materials.\n\nThe independent review looked into regulations around the design, construction and management of buildings in relation to fire safety.\n\nDame Judith - a senior engineer who used to chair the Health and Safety Executive - said these issues \"have helped to create a cultural issue across the sector, which can be described as a 'race to the bottom', caused either through indifference, or because the system does not facilitate good practice\".\n\nHer appointment to lead the review had been met with some criticism due to her former role as director of the Energy Saving Trust. The organisation promotes insulation containing a foam known as polyisocyanurate (PIR), blamed for fuelling the fire at Grenfell.\n\nBut the government defended Dame Judith as \"an independent and authoritative voice\".\n\nHer review is separate to the judge-led inquiry into the Grenfell fire, which will start taking evidence on 21 May.", "Relatives gathered outside the headquarters of the secret service, where inmates have staged an uprising\n\nRelatives of political prisoners held in one of Venezuela's most notorious prisons say the inmates have staged an uprising.\n\nInmates held at El Helicoide, the headquarters of Venezuela's secret service, say they took over part of its cell blocks.\n\nThey say they did so after a political prisoner was beaten.\n\nMore than 300 political prisoners are being held in Venezuela, according to pressure group Foro Penal.\n\nThere is no official information about what happened at the Helicoide, the massive former shopping centre in central Caracas which houses Venezuela's secret service (Sebin).\n\nThe prison is inside the headquarters of the Bolivarian National Intelligence Service\n\nBut people with close links to the political prisoners held there said the uprising had started after Gregory Sanabria was beaten up, allegedly by a non-political prisoner.\n\nThe Sebin cells hold more than 300 inmates, with political prisoners and people accused of ordinary crimes locked up alongside each other. Many of the jailed opposition leaders have been accused of incitement to violence and vandalism, which the government argues are not politically motivated.\n\nPhotos on social media show the swollen face of Mr Sanabria, a student held in El Helicoide pending trial ever since he took part in mass anti-government protest in 2014.\n\nAccording to Patricia Ceballos, whose husband Daniel is one of the political prisoners inside El Helicoide, the beating triggered a protest which was met with tear gas by the National Guard and riot police.\n\nMr Ceballos, the former opposition mayor of the western city of San Cristóbal, said the inmates had taken control of parts of the jail.\n\n\"We're demanding that all political prisoner be freed, all of us who have been held here, kidnapped for years without justice or due process,\" he told CNN via telephone from inside the jail.\n\nJoshua Holt, a US citizen held at the jail for two years pending trial, pleaded for help in a video message sent as the uprising was apparently going on.\n\nMr Holt, a former Mormon missionary from Utah, travelled to Caracas in June 2016 to marry his Venezuelan girlfriend.\n\nWhile waiting for their US visas, Mr Holt and his wife were detained in her family's house in Caracas and accused of hiding weapons.\n\nMr Holt said he was fearing for his life.\n\n\"They're outside, they're trying to break in, they're saying they're going to kill me,\" the 26-year-old said as shouts could be heard.\n\nIn a second video he addressed his compatriots directly, asking them to help free him.\n\nThis Facebook post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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Facebook content may contain adverts.\n\nThe US embassy in Caracas tweeted that it was \"very worried about the rebellion\".\n\n\"Joshua Holt and other US citizens are in danger,\" it said in a tweet in Spanish. \"The Venezuelan government is directly responsible for their security and we will hold them responsible if anything happens to them.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by US Embassy, VE This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and 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 US Embassy, VE\n\nPolitical prisoners have long been complaining about the conditions they are held in and pressure groups inside Venezuela as well as abroad have called on the government of President Nicolás Maduro to free them but so far this has had little impact.", "The government's flagship Brexit bill is to return to the House of Commons having suffered a total of 15 defeats in the Lords.\n\nBrexit Minister Lord Callanan said he had \"a tremendous sigh of relief\" as he wound up proceedings.\n\nLabour urged Theresa May to take a \"pragmatic view\" of all the changes proposed by peers.\n\nThe 15th defeat came on the issue of environmental protection standards after Brexit.\n\nPeers voted by a majority of 50 to say the government should set up a body to maintain EU standards.\n\nOther defeats inflicted in the House of Lords - where the government does not have a majority - came on the customs union, the Irish border and removing the precise date of Brexit - 29 March 2019 - from the legislation.\n\nMPs will now debate the amendments when the bill returns to the Commons, with no date officially set so far.\n\n\"No one can be in any doubt that we have listened,\" Lord Callanan told peers.\n\n\"The government has suffered defeats on 15 issues.\n\n\"Although I regret the number of defeats I am grateful to those many Lords who I think have worked constructively to improve the bill.\n\n\"This House has done its duty as a revising chamber. The bill has been scrutinised.\"\n\nLabour's Lords Leader Baroness Smith said the bill was now \"in better shape\".\n\n\"I hope Mrs May will take a pragmatic view of how best to proceed rather than follow a purely ideological route that rejects sensible amendments,\" she added.\n\nThe bill's 15 defeat came over environmental standards\n\nEarlier, peers backed a cross-party amendment designed to ensure EU environmental principles continue to have a basis in domestic law at the end of the post-Brexit transition period in December 2020.\n\nIt requires the environment secretary to bring forward proposals for primary legislation to create a duty on public authorities to apply these principles, and to establish an independent public body to ensure compliance.\n\nLord Krebs, who instigated the move, argued that while EU rules would be carried over into UK law, environmental principles underpinning them would not.\n\nMinisters had promised a consultation on the issue but lost by 294 to 244.\n\nLord Krebs, the former chair of the Food Standards Agency, said he was \"not satisfied\" with the idea of a consultation and wanted guarantees that existing principles will continue to apply and be enforced.\n\n\"We have heard many times that the purpose of the Bill is to ensure that everything is the same the day after Brexit as it was the day before,\" he said.\n\n\"Yet for environmental protection things will not be the same. We're talking about the protection of our air quality, our water quality, rivers, oceans, habitats and biodiversity.\"\n\nLord Callanan argued the proposed change was \"premature\" in that it prejudged a period of consultation and would \"ultimately be detrimental to the future protection of environmental law\".", "Fixed-odds betting terminals currently allow people in the UK to bet £100 every 20 seconds. A 12-week consultation is underway which could potentially cut the maximum stake to £2 per game.\n\n53-year-old Terry White, from Barry in the Vale of Glamorgan, has lost hundreds of thousands of pounds on fixed-odds machines and is calling for a cap on the number of terminals on the high street.\n\nI am a gambler. I've been a gambler all my life.\n\nI started 35 years ago and the majority of bets were on horses and sport. There was a skill element to it - that horse is going to win or Liverpool are going to win tonight. You could do your research and become good at it.\n\nAnd I was good at it. I won about £250,000 over 25 years. But it was soft, recreational gambling.\n\nThen one day I walked into a betting shop and there were these machines there. They looked like the sort of machines you would find in arcades or at the seaside - they looked fun.\n\nIn the early days, just after the millennium, the machines had a limit of £5 or £10 and it was £1 per spin. It would take about 10 minutes to play £10.\n\nOver the next few years they increased it to £100 per spin, which only took 20 seconds. Effectively, you could lose £300 in a minute. Even if you were winning you could lose several thousand pounds in an hour.\n\nFixed-odds betting machines have games similar to fruit machines, as well as roulette and blackjack\n\nThe adrenaline is completely different because it is all happening live, in front of you. I was bored gambling on sport and I sought a fresh buzz.\n\nBut you leave yourself at the behest of a random number generator and soon I realised I was losing between £10,000 and £15,000 per week. One week I lost £40,000 of profit and it left me stunned and shocked and ashamed of myself for blowing all my money in one afternoon in a betting shop. I have lost about a quarter of a million in total.\n\nI take responsibility for my actions but my addiction is overwhelming. I have suffered bereavements over the last few years and when my depression was getting worse I would go into a betting shop. It became a crutch but also a burden.\n\nI lost my house, I've stolen, I've lied to people. To this day I'm £40,000 in debt. I'm moving into council accommodation soon, otherwise I would have been homeless. I could be declared bankrupt soon.\n\nThe low point was a suicide attempt in December. I was in hospital for three days. The pain of the addiction hits you from the moment you wake up and I've got nothing left to live for.\n\nThe fact this is all on the high street is a nightmare for an addict. I would not go to a casino because of the effort of getting dressed up and going to a venue, but there are at least seven on the high street in Barry and you cannot go into a betting shop without seeing a machine.\n\nI'll go weeks without food and neglect my health. I haven't left the house for 15 days as I try to force myself to go cold turkey.\n\nI am scared of going grocery shopping in case I end up in a betting shop and I am getting no help or therapy for my illness. I still have a compulsion to go into betting shops.\n\nNow my body is used to £60 spins I could not go back to playing with £5 because I'll always be thinking \"why didn't I bet more?\"\n\nThe limits on winnings are also a problem. As a gambler there's a compulsion to win your money back but you need to win twice to win back 10 spins.\n\nGamble Aware have a motto: \"When the fun stops - stop\". But gambling is not fun. When you're gambling your wages, your benefits or your life savings it cannot possibly be fun.\n\nBut the moment the credit is in the machine in front of me I am relaxed. When it is gone I am just thinking about where my next amount of money is coming from.\n\nI hope people realise this can happen to anybody. I like to think I'm an intelligent person but this compulsion has ruined my life.\n\nMy message is to stop going into these places, because you cannot beat them.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Persistent high levels of air pollution have seen the UK referred to the European Court of Justice\n\nThe UK is being taken to court by the European Commission over its long-standing failure to meet EU limits for nitrogen dioxide (NO₂).\n\nGermany, France, Italy, Romania, and Hungary have also been referred to the court for breaching pollution levels.\n\nThe European Environment Commissioner, Karmenu Vella, said the EU \"owed it to its citizens,\" to take legal action.\n\nBut Britain could face fines totalling millions of pounds, on-going until the problem is solved\n\nThe government has already lost a series of battles in the UK courts on air pollution.\n\nCommissioner Vella said it was the Commission's responsibility to ensure people could breathe clean air.\n\nHe said the member states being taken to court had been repeatedly warned to clean up pollution as soon as possible.\n\n\"We can't possibly wait any longer. It's high time to intensify efforts and end exceedances (of pollution levels).\"\n\nEnvironmentalists say by taking the UK to the European Court of Justice, the EU has demonstrated what will be lost after Brexit.\n\nThe Environment Secretary, Michael Gove, previously promised that governance of the environment would not be diluted when the UK leaves the EU.\n\nBut he revealed last week that the UK environmental watchdog he proposes after Brexit would not have the automatic power to take the government to court.\n\nThe Green MEP Keith Taylor welcomed the EC's decision. He said: \"The Commission is being forced to take legal action against the UK because the government remains steadfastly apathetic in the face of a public health crisis that is linked to the deaths of 50,000 British citizens every year.\"\n\nDiesel cars are one of the key reasons behind the UK's air pollution problems\n\n\"Post-Brexit, this is exactly the kind of scrutiny and oversight the Tories plan to escape. Proposals for a so-called environment watchdog that is nothing but a lame lapdog without the legal teeth to take the government to court put this reality in sharp relief.\n\n\"This is particularly concerning as legal action by the Commission and environmental lawyers, on the basis of EU law, has been the only way to force the UK government to take any action on air pollution at all.\"\n\nMargherita Tolotto from the green group European Environment Bureau said: \"European air quality laws are being broken on a continental scale.\n\n\"Everyone in Europe has the same right to clean air, and when national governments fail to deliver EU protections, it's right that the European Commission steps in to protect us from the air we breathe.\n\n\"Today's announcement should surprise no-one. The countries being sent to court have had too many final warnings.\"\n\nAs the announcement was being made, lawyers for Paris, Madrid and Brussels were in front of the European Court of Justice asking that the three cities be allowed to challenge vehicle emissions regulations set by the European Commissions and agreed by national governments.\n\nThey are trying to annul the Commission regulation that allows diesel vehicles to exceed emissions limits during road tests, in the wake of the \"dieselgate\" scandal.\n\nA Defra spokesperson said: \"We continue to meet EU air quality limits for all pollutants apart from nitrogen dioxide, and data shows we are improving thanks to our efforts to bring levels of NO₂ down.\n\n\"We will shortly build on our £3.5bn plan to tackle roadside emissions with a comprehensive Clean Air Strategy, setting out a wide range of actions to reduce pollution from all sources.\"", "The volcano is sending \"ballistic blocks\" out hundreds of metres - and they could reach several tonnes in weight\n\nA Hawaiian volcano is blasting out \"ballistic blocks\" the size of kitchen appliances and the authorities are warning it could get worse.\n\nSince a new zone of Kilauea began erupting almost two weeks ago, lava has wrecked dozens of homes and forced hundreds of people to be evacuated.\n\nAn ash plume rising up to two miles (more than 3,000m) prompted officials to warn pilots to avoid the area.\n\nQuakes as strong as magnitude 4.4 have been felt on the largest island.\n\nThe floor of the volcano's caldera (the bowl where lava erupts) is deflating, causing stress at the volcano's base.\n\nThis is causing earthquakes and new fissures to open in the ground, and creating the risk of new, highly explosive steam-powered eruptions as the magma meets underground water.\n\nThe ash plume can be seen from the International Space Station.\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\nBoulders of up to 60cm (2ft) were found a few hundred yards from the crater, reported the US Geological Survey's Hawaiian Volcano Observatory.\n\nBut it warned things could get much more dangerous.\n\n\"During steam-driven explosions, ballistic blocks up to 2m across could be thrown in all directions to a distance of 1km (0.6 miles) or more,\" it said.\n\n\"These blocks could weigh a few kilograms to several tons. Smaller (pebble-size) rocks could be sent several kilometers... mostly in a downwind direction.\"\n\nLava, earthquakes and projectiles are not the islanders' only concerns:\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.", "With two days to go until Prince Harry and Meghan Markle marry, the town of Windsor has held a rehearsal of the newlyweds' carriage procession.\n\nInternational broadcasters and more than 100,000 people from around the world are in Berkshire before the wedding on Saturday.\n\nCrowds lined the streets as the military helped staged a rehearsal of the couple's carriage procession.\n\nMore than 250 members of the armed forces took part in Thursday's run through - many of whom will be involved in ceremonial duties on the day\n\nAfter the hour-long service at St George's Chapel in Windsor Castle, Ms Markle and Prince Harry will travel in an Ascot Landau carriage through the town for about 25 minutes\n\nThe rehearsal took in the full procession route, passing the temporary TV studios on the Long Walk\n\nBroadcasters from around the world have bagged themselves a prime spot to see the royal couple\n\nOne painter finishes the last few letters of Prince Harry's name on this side of this pub\n\nFlags and bunting have been hung from buildings in streets across Windsor\n\nNormal life has to carry on, but there is time to stop for a quick photo on the school run\n\nPubs and bars across England and Wales can keep serving until 1am on the morning of the wedding day, and again after the couple are married\n\nThe local authority have installed screens and loud speakers to make sure all the visitors can hear Saturday's proceedings\n\nShops have already been selling souvenirs in large numbers in the weeks leading up to the royal wedding\n\nSchoolchildren have been quick to snap up union jack flags to wave at Ms Markle and the prince on their route\n\nWaxwork models of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have been touring Windsor in the run up to the big day\n\nEvery part of the town centre has been decorated by residents and the local authority\n\nYou can barely look anywhere in Windsor without seeing the smiling face of the royal couple looking back at you\n\nPolice from across the Thames Valley and London have spent weeks putting in place security\n\nWindsor's High Street is lined with enormous flags as it features in the procession route\n\nBarriers have been put in place on the Long Walk\n\nWomen take photos on their phones as they lean out of the window of a building near Windsor Castle\n\nBut it's not all jubilation as this car owner has their vehicle removed for failing to adhere to the wedding parking restrictions\n\nThe best way to get news on the go", "Bishop Curry will travel to Windsor to take part in the service\n\nAn American bishop is to give the address at the wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle next week.\n\nThe Most Reverend Michael Curry became the first black presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church - like the Church of England, part of the Anglican Communion - when he was appointed in 2015.\n\nBishop Curry, from Chicago, said the couple's love had an \"origin in God, and is the key to life and happiness\".\n\nThe wedding will take place at Windsor Castle on 19 May.\n\nThe Dean of Windsor, the Rt Rev David Conner, will conduct the service before the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Most Reverend Justin Welby, officiates the ceremony in St George's Chapel.\n\nArchbishop Welby said he was thrilled the prince and Ms Markle had chosen Bishop Curry to carry out the address, describing him as a \"brilliant pastor, stunning preacher\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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End of twitter post by Archbishop of Canterbury\n\nMs Markle was baptised by the archbishop ahead of her nuptials to Prince Harry.\n\nBishop Curry, who was ordained as a priest in 1978, is the presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church and has spoken on issues including social justice, immigration policy and marriage equality.\n\nHe most recently campaigned for the creation of family day care providers, educational centres and investment in inner-city neighbourhoods in all three of his parish ministries - North Carolina, Ohio, and Maryland.\n\nIn North Carolina, he helped to refocus the church's development goals to fund malaria nets to save more than 100,000 lives.\n\nBishop Curry defended the Episcopal Church's move to allow same sex couples to marry in church in 2015, which caused some churches to cut ties.\n\nThe US Episcopal Church is one of only two Anglican churches worldwide that allow gay marriage in church - the other being the Scottish Episcopal Church.\n\nThe couple announced their engagement in November\n\nSpeaking after Kensington Palace announced his role on Saturday, Bishop Curry said: \"The love that has brought and will bind Prince Harry and Ms Meghan Markle together has its source and origin in God, and is the key to life and happiness.\n\n\"And so we celebrate and pray for them today.\"\n\nIt comes in the wake of other revelations about the wedding, with the Duke of Cambridge taking up the honour of being Prince Harry's best man, and Ms Markle's father set to walk her down the aisle.\n\nSome 1,200 members of the public have been invited to watch the ceremony on the grounds of the castle in Berkshire, and 250 members of the armed forces have been given ceremonial duties.\n\nThere is even a promise of confetti for train travellers hoping to catch a glimpse of the couple on their wedding day.\n\nWith less than a week to go, Prince Harry and Ms Markle's waxworks have been installed at Madame Tussauds, shops have stocked up on souvenirs, and Legoland's Windsor resort has recreated the wedding day.", "This is how British television's famous faces made an entrance ahead of this year's Bafta TV Awards.\n\nThe trophies were handed out at a ceremony hosted by Sue Perkins at the Royal Festival Hall in London.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nYou might think you know everything there is to know about the all-singing, all-dancing, Eurovision Song Contest, but do you know which is the rarest language?\n\nAs UK representative SuRie prepares to take to the stage with her song Storm, on Saturday for the Grand Final in Lisbon, she is thought to be the first entrant to release a version of her music video in sign language.\n\nClassically trained SuRie (a combination of her forenames Susanna and Marie), from Hertfordshire, was approached by fan Tom Moran, who sent her a video of himself signing the song.\n\nMoran, who is not deaf himself, uses sign language to talk to many of his family members who are deaf.\n\nSuRie was so moved by the gesture she invited Moran to help her film a signed version of the video.\n\n\"I had really been wanting to learn BSL (British Sign Language) for a while now,\" SuRie says. \"But this was the first time I had actually done it.\n\n\"He was there behind the camera signing with me to make sure everything was correct.\"\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\nMoran was impressed with SuRie's efforts and loved the finished product.\n\nHe said: \"It's so important that we increase the accessibility of music and inclusivity of Eurovision for all.\"\n\nWhile SuRie is the first to make her music more accessible ahead of the competition, this isn't the first time Eurovision has signed songs for the deaf community.\n\nSince 2015, the European Broadcasting Union (EBU), which produces the Eurovision Song Contest, has collaborated with the national broadcaster of each host nation to provide sign language interpreters as part of a scheme called Eurovision Signs.\n\nThe initiative uses International Sign, or IS, which is a more generalised version of sign language and combines signs from different sign languages.\n\nHowever, IS differs from other sign languages in the way it relies on gestures to convey meaning.\n\nInterpreters use signs, as well as body language, to translate the songs and also dance to the beat. The interpreter's aim is to tell the story of the song.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIt is up to the networks that broadcast the contest to provide Sign Language interpreters.\n\nSo far, nine countries are on board with Eurovision Signs including Denmark, Norway and the first host nation to take part, Austria.\n\nEva-Maria Hinterwirth of Austrian broadcaster ORF previously said: \"We always say that music is a language which is understood by everyone.\n\n\"And we felt that we should make this world [be]come reality, and to offer music to everyone, including deaf people.\"\n\nSweden is particularly renowned for providing interpreters.\n\nTommy Krångh from Sweden has become well-known for his enthusiastic signing of songs\n\nTommy Krångh became a viral hit after his enthusiastic interpretation of songs for Sweden's 2015 Eurovision heats amassed 3.7 million views on YouTube.\n\nAccessibility for disabled people is a hot topic amongst music fans.\n\nIn January, Sally Reynolds, who is deaf, took legal action against the organisers of a Little Mix concert after it only supplied a BSL interpreter for the headline act and not for the supporting acts.\n\nThe organisers had initially refused to provide an interpreter at all saying it was the customers responsibility to arrange it.\n\nBut Under the Equality Act 2010, any organisation which supplies a service to the public is under duty to make reasonable adjustments to ensure a disabled person's experience is as close as possible to that of someone without a disability.\n\nWalter and Kazha performed the chorus of their entry The War Is Not Over in Latvian Sign Language\n\nSuRie says: \"I think it's really important that music is inclusive and accessible to all people. Eurovision is great because it unites people through a love of great music, and that should be open to all.\"\n\nIn fact, one entry has already been performed in the Grand Final in Latvian Sign Language. In 2005, Walter and Kazha performed the chorus of their entry The War Is Not Over in sign.\n\nAnd here are a few more facts to get you one-up on your fellow Eurovision fans.\n\nMonika Kuszynska became the first wheelchair user to appear at Eurovision when she represented Poland in 2015 and Russia's semi-finalist this year, Julia Samoylova, performed in her wheelchair.\n\nThe singer of I Won't Break, has spinal muscular atrophy, a condition which weakens the muscles and makes movement difficult.\n\nSuRie has remained tight-lipped about her final performance in the final and is looking forward to seeing what her fellow-contestants have planned.\n\nBut when asked whether she would consider signing her music videos in the future, she emphatically replied, \"Definitely!\"\n\nInclusivity remains the cornerstone of the competition's ethos.\n\nLaunched in 1956, it was originally a way of uniting post-war Europe and the competition has gone on to become the largest non-sporting event in the world.\n\nWith this year's theme #AllAboard, let's hope Eurovision continues to work towards creating a diverse and welcoming space for everyone to celebrate music.\n\nYou can watch the Eurovision Grand Final this Saturday 12th May from 8pm BST on BBC One.\n\nFor more Disability News, follow on Twitter and Facebook, and subscribe to the weekly podcast.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Deadpool has apologised to David Beckham after making a joke about him in his first film.\n\nIn the 2016 movie Deadpool, the superhero said the former England captain sounds like he's been sucking helium.\n\nRyan Reynolds turned up at Becks' house to make a very over the top apology in a clip promoting the sequel.\n\nBecks did get his own back though, reeling off some films he thinks Ryan should apologise for instead.\n\nThe latest Deadpool is out later this month\n\nUnlike the other Marvel superheroes, Deadpool is all about breaking the rules.\n\nHe's x-rated, he looks directly into the camera to speak to the audience, and he loves to have a laugh.\n\nBeckham is just one of many to have been mocked by the character, but in the clips it appears to have got to the former footballer.\n\nThe video sees Becks watching the scene that mentions him in the first Deadpool film - and rewinding it to watch it again with an unimpressed look on his face.\n\nIt goes without saying that there will be some graphic language in the clip.\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\nDeadpool clearly feels bad that David's feelings have been hurt and sends him a text message asking for forgiveness.\n\nThen Deadpool turns up at Becks' door after the text is ignored - but milk and cookies, helium balloons and a mariachi band aren't enough to earn Beckham's forgiveness.\n\nTickets to a football match eventually do the job, with Beckham telling Deadpool: \"I can't stay mad at you\".\n\nBut then Becks gets a few digs in too.\n\nDeadpool reminds him about the voice joke but David seemingly doesn't know what he's talking about.\n\n\"What did you think I was apologising for?\" Deadpool asks.\n\nFans have been loving the promo from the two stars.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIt's just the latest bit of marketing of the new film - including this rejection note from the Avengers.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Ryan Reynolds This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 film is released in the UK on 15 May.\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.", "Eight rangers have been killed at Virunga National Park in 2018 so far\n\nTwo Britons held hostage in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) have been released unharmed, Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson has announced.\n\nMr Johnson paid tribute to the DRC authorities and the Congolese Institute for Nature Conservation for their \"tireless help\".\n\nThe Britons are receiving \"support and medical attention\", according to a statement by Virunga National Park.\n\nA park ranger killed by the kidnappers has been named as Rachel Masika Baraka.\n\nThe group's driver was injured and released shortly after the abduction, which took place near the village of Kibati, just north of Goma, on the morning of 11 May.\n\nEarlier, tributes were paid to 25-year-old Ms Baraka, the eighth ranger to be murdered at the park this year.\n\nMr Johnson said his thoughts were with Ms Baraka's family, the injured driver, \"and the released British nationals as they recover from this traumatic incident\".\n\nPark director Emmanuel de Merode said: \"Ranger Baraka's life was tragically cut short in service to Virunga National Park. She was one of the park's 26 female rangers and was highly committed, showing true bravery in her work.\n\n\"We wish to extend our sincerest condolences to her family, and our thoughts are with all those affected by this incident.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by will ross This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. End of twitter post by will ross\n\nThe British ambassador to the DRC, John Murton, praised the \"courage and commitment\" of the park authorities and the Congolese Institute for Nature Conservation in securing the safe release of the hostages.\n\n\"The bravery and determination of all the staff of Virunga is vital for the conservation of animals in the park, and the protection of local communities,\" he said.\n\nCongolese authorities are working with the Foreign Office to repatriate the British tourists, according to a park statement.\n\nCosma Wilungula, director general of the Congolese Institute for Nature Conservation, said: \"We would like to thank our brave team for ensuring the swift resolution of this incident, and the safe return of the two British nationals.\"\n\nThe BBC's Louise Dewast, reporting from the country's capital Kinshasa, said there were armed groups operating in the park and there had been kidnappings before, with half involving a ransom demand.\n\nIn April, Mr de Merode, told the BBC World Service that recent attacks were part of \"a bigger picture which involves the trafficking of natural resources\".\n\nHe said the park was protected by around 800 rangers but there were also estimated to be between 1,500 and 2,000 militia members in and around the park.\n\nLast month five young rangers and a driver were killed in a militia ambush, the park said.\n\nIt was the deadliest attack in recent years and took the total number of rangers killed in the last 20 years to 175.\n\nA fifth of the park's southern sector was also deforested due to illegal charcoal production last year, the park said.\n\nThe national park, which runs along the border with Uganda and Rwanda, covers 3,000 sq miles (7,800 sq km).\n\nIt is a Unesco world heritage site and home to critically-endangered mountain gorillas, as well as lions, elephants and hippos.\n\nBBC Africa editor Will Ross said poachers were active in the park, which was also under threat due to the illegal felling of trees to make charcoal and plans for oil exploration.\n\nThe Foreign and Commonwealth Office advises against all but essential travel to Goma and has urged Britons not to go beyond the city.\n\nThe advice, last updated four days ago, says tourists are vulnerable if travelling without escorted transport in the eastern part of the country, and the \"risk of kidnap or injury as a result of armed or criminal activity remains high\".\n\nIt said that UK government staff were not always in the area and the British embassy's ability to offer consular assistance could be \"severely limited\".", "Ex-MP Tessa Jowell has received a standing ovation after an emotional speech on cancer in the House of Lords.\n\nShe was diagnosed with a brain tumour in 2017.", "One of the UK's richest men, Sir Jim Ratcliffe has built a multi-billion pound business by buying unloved assets. Now he wants to buy Manchester United.\n\nThe Ineos founder formally joined the process to buy the club in January, following confirmation from owners the Glazer family in November that they were considering selling as they \"explore strategic alternatives\".\n\nUnited, 20-time English champions, are currentlythird in the Premier League under new manager Erik ten Hag.\n\nThe Glazers have been criticised for their perceived lack of investment in the club, which has struggled since Sir Alex Ferguson retired in 2013 and has not won a trophy since 2017.\n\nBorn the son of a joiner in Failsworth, in Greater Manchester, Sir Jim is a boyhood United fan.\n\nKnown for his tough negotiating stance, he was once called Dr No by trade unions.\n\nThrough buying up and turning around cast-off parts of other businesses, Sir Jim has built up a huge fortune - although estimates of his wealth vary.\n\nForbes puts it at about $15bn (£12.5bn), whereasThe Sunday Times Rich List, which has him as the 27th wealthiest person in the UK, says it's closer to £6bn.\n\nManchester United's Premier League campaign got off to a poor start, losing their first two games, although the club is now third in the table\n\nFrom operations once owned by the likes of oil giant BP, Sir Jim created a company - Ineos - whose chemicals and raw materials go into nearly everything we touch every day.\n\nFrom 194 sites across 29 countries, Ineos generates sales of around £50bn and employs more than 26,000 people.\n\nIts raw materials are used in everything from packaging for toiletries, medicines and food, to mobile phones and furniture.\n\nSir Jim has always been involved with chemicals and industry.\n\nAfter graduating with a degree in chemical engineering from the University of Birmingham in 1974, he spent several years at oil firms BP and Esso before joining the fabric and chemicals producer Courtaulds.\n\nThen, in 1989, he made a career-changing step into the world of private equity when he joined Advent International.\n\nIt taught Sir Jim the cut and thrust of doing deals, before he made the leap into co-owning a business himself based on what would become a well-worn strategy.\n\nHe and fellow businessman John Hollowood bought BP's chemicals division in Hythe near Southampton for £40m in 1992. By 1994, it was valued at £100m when it floated on the London Stock Exchange.\n\nThe business, called Inspec, went on to acquire BP's speciality chemicals business in Antwerp, Belgium. Sir Jim then left to form his own firm, Ineos, in 1998 which bought the Belgian business for £89m.\n\nIneos has since grown to become a chemical powerhouse, expanding through acquisitions or by investing in controversial areas such as fracking.\n\nIneos reversed a plan to close its Grangemouth plant in 2013\n\nBecause of his decision never to float the company and thus have no City shareholders to consult, Sir Jim - who is also the majority shareholder of Ineos - has been able to move quickly on deals.\n\nHe has also earned a reputation as a tough negotiator in industrial disputes.\n\nFamously he faced off against unions at the Grangemouth petrochemical plant and refinery in Scotland in 2013, amid the threat of company-wide strikes over pay and pensions.\n\nThe dispute - which earned Sir Jim the Bond villain moniker of Dr No - led to Ineos announcing that it would close the plant and cut 800 jobs.\n\nHowever, the firm reversed its decision shortly afterwards when the Unite union agreed to a survival plan to invest £300m in the site to keep it open.\n\nNo stranger to controversy, Sir Jim attracted criticism when in 2016 Ineos imported the first ever shipment of shale gas (derived from fracking) from the US into the UK amid fierce opposition from green groups.\n\nHe also reportedly moved from the UK to Monaco in 2020, a place that does not collect personal income tax or capital gains taxes. Sir Jim declined to comment but when asked about reports he was moving to the principality in 2019 he told the BBC that he tried to \"give back to the UK\" and had invested £2.5bn in the country.\n\nIn recent years Sir Jim's business interests have moved away from chemicals. He announced plans to build a new vehicle based on the Land Rover Defender, which was discontinued in 2016.\n\nHowever, in 2020, Sir Jim, who was a Leave campaigner in the run-up to the Brexit referendum, said the new 4x4 vehicle would be built in France, ending hopes it would be made at a new plant in Wales.\n\nIn 2017, Ineos bought Belstaff, the luxury motorcycle wear maker whose jackets were once worn by actor Steve McQueen and modelled by the likes of David Beckham. Ineos also has a partnership with the Mercedes F1 team.\n\nAnd in 2019, Sir Jim became the new owner of a high-profile professional cycling team, after Ineos took over the former Team Sky. The team is now called Ineos Grenadiers.\n\nWhether or not these businesses could be classed as unloved is not certain, but Sir Jim clearly saw plenty of potential in them.\n\nSir Jim already has some footballing interests, as he owns French side Nice and Swiss club Lausanne-Sport.\n\nIn May, Sir Jim made an unsuccessful £4.25bn offer to buy Chelsea after owner Roman Abramovich put the London club up for sale.\n\nAt the time, he told BBC Sport he was a Manchester United fan and the reason he was not bidding for the Red Devils was because they were not for sale.\n\nThat has obviously now changed.", "Blinded By Your Grace is a song on Stormzy's debut album Gang Signs & Prayer\n\nThe Archbishop of Canterbury has turned to grime artist Stormzy to help quell his nerves as he prepares for Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's wedding.\n\nThe Most Reverend Justin Welby will officiate the highly anticipated ceremony at Windsor Castle on 19 May.\n\nHe said Blinded By Your Grace, a song released by the rapper last year, had helped him.\n\n\"There's a line in that, 'I stay prayed up and get the job done', I think that sort of sums it up,\" he said.\n\nSpeaking on BBC Coventry & Warwickshire, Mr Welby said: \"I'm always nervous at weddings because it is such an important day for the couple, whoever they are.\n\nThe Archbishop of Canterbury will marry the couple on 19 May\n\n\"I've made a couple of cack-handed mistakes over the last couple of weddings I've been involved in and I'm thinking this is probably not a good moment to make it a hat-trick.\"\n\nHe has previously admitted to fearing he might drop the ring during the service.\n\nThe archbishop, who is the most senior figure in the church after the Queen, has already been instrumental in preparing Ms Markle for the wedding.\n\nIn March he officiated as she was baptised and confirmed into the church in a secret ceremony, describing it as \"beautiful\" and \"very special\".\n\nPrince Harry and Meghan Markle will marry at Windsor Castle", "Poundworld employs about 5,500 staff in the UK\n\nDiscount retailer Poundworld has been put up for sale by its owner, private equity firm TPG, the BBC understands.\n\nThe chain had been looking at closing about 100 of its 355 stores as part of a restructuring plan, as it battled a tough retail environment.\n\nThat process has now been put on hold by US owner TPG after it received expressions of interest in the company.\n\nPoundworld, which employs about 5,500 people, is among many stores on the High Street which have been struggling.\n\nLike many retailers, it has been hit by falling consumer confidence, rising overheads, the weaker pound and the growth of online shopping.\n\nThe chain imports a lot of its stock and is having to pay more for it because of the fall in the value of the pound.\n\nThe process of finding a buyer will happen over a short timeframe, the BBC understands, to allow any new buyer to continue the restructuring process if required.\n\nIt had been expected to announce the terms of that process - known as a Company Voluntary Arrangement (CVA) - this month.\n\nCVA's have become popular among retailers because they allow firms to offload underperforming stores and reduce rents while avoiding administration.\n\nPoundworld, which has its headquarters in West Yorkshire, was formed in 2004, but it says it can trace its origins \"back to 1974 and a market stall in Wakefield, West Yorkshire\".\n\nPrivate equity firm TPG Capital, which bought a majority stake in Poundworld in 2015, also controls the restaurant chain Prezzo whose landlords agreed to a CVA last month. Prezzo is closing 94 branches.\n\nA number of other retailers have chosen to go through a CVA, including New Look and Carpetright, while House of Fraser is expected to make a formal CVA proposal next month, with a full restructuring in place by early 2019.\n\nEarlier this year, both Toys R Us UK and electronics chain Maplin went into administration.\n• None Six reasons behind the High Street crisis", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Tomas Lusas, a Lithuanian national, was awarded £10,000 after being illegally detained\n\nThe government is to pay hundreds of thousands of pounds to European rough sleepers who were illegally detained and deported.\n\nFigures obtained by the BBC reveal that in the year to May 2017, 698 homeless EU nationals were targeted and removed from the country.\n\nThe Home Office said no further action was being taken against European citizens for rough sleeping.\n\nLaw firms told the BBC that at least 45 clients were currently pursuing claims.\n\nEach claim is worth thousands of pounds, and varies according to the length of time spent in detention as well as other aggravating factors.\n\nTomas Lusas, from Lithuania, was arrested by immigration officers in 2016 after being kicked out of his home and forced onto the streets in west London.\n\nHe said: \"One morning I was woken up in my sleeping bag. There were six or seven officers and they said 'Home Office'.\n\n\"They took my ID. Two minutes later I was in handcuffs. Two minutes after that I was in a van.\n\n\"I was shouting, 'I'm gonna lose my job if you arrest me today'. But nobody listened to me. Nobody allowed me to explain why I was sleeping rough.\"\n\nMr Lusas refused to sign his removal papers and was detained at Brook House Immigration Centre in Gatwick for 19 days.\n\n\"It was like being in jail,\" he said.\n\n\"Your freedom is taken away. And what kills you is that you don't know the end of your sentence.\n\n\"I've spent nine years of my life in England and I didn't want to leave just because I was sleeping rough.\"\n\nMr Lusas appealed against his deportation and was successful. He was later awarded more than £10,000 in damages.\n\nThe Home Office under Theresa May introduced the concept of rough sleeping as an abuse of EU treaty rights two years ago.\n\nBut immigration enforcement teams were targeting rough sleepers even if they were in work or had a permanent right of residence in the UK.\n\nThe policy was halted after a judicial review in December ruled it to be unlawful and discriminatory.\n\nLeonie Hirst, an immigration and public law barrister, said anyone from the EU or the European Economic Area who had been detained or deported in similar circumstances could now make a potential claim.\n\n\"The EU law is clear and very robust, but the policy was a very flimsy attempt to misuse the law, simply to meet immigration targets,\" she said.\n\n\"I think it is highly unlikely, particularly given that people were targeted who were working, that this policy has done anything except cost significant amounts of public money.\"\n\nMs Hirst said she had heard evidence that immigration teams were working to quotas.\n\nShe said she had seen cases where officials were ignoring the usual practice of inquiring into individual circumstances before deciding whether to remove them.\n\n\"One of my clients told immigration officers that he had payslips with him to prove he was working, and he had the response, 'we don't want to see those, we're operating quotas',\" she said.\n\nA Home Office spokesperson said that \"claims for compensation will be considered on a case-by-case basis\" and that the government was \"determined to break the homelessness cycle\".", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nThere are two major issues left to be resolved in the final round of Premier League fixtures on Sunday.\n\nLiverpool and Chelsea are hoping to claim the last of the four Champions League qualification spots.\n\nJurgen Klopp's Liverpool currently hold the position, with a two-point advantage over Antonio Conte's side.\n\nSwansea or Southampton will fill the final relegation place, with it likely to be the Swans, who are three points and nine goals worse off than the Saints.\n\nThere are 10 top-flight matches in total, all starting at 15:00 BST.\n\nWith victory at Southampton, Manchester City will cap their superb title-winning season by becoming the first team in Premier League history to win 100 points.\n\nBurnley are assured of seventh place and Europa League football next season, meaning that the majority of Sunday's games represent a tussle for league positioning and the extra prize money that comes with a higher position.\n\nEach place is worth about an extra £2m to clubs, with champions Manchester City taking away £38.8m and whichever club finishes bottom claiming £1.9m.\n\nLiverpool almost over the line\n\nLiverpool are in pole position to finish in fourth place.\n\nChelsea's failure to beat Huddersfield at home on Wednesday and the Reds' vastly superior goal difference means Klopp's side need only a point at home to Brighton to ensure a place in next season's Champions League.\n\nLiverpool can even finish third - if they win and Tottenham fail to beat Leicester at home.\n\nIf Chelsea are to finish fourth, they must beat Newcastle at St James' Park and hope Liverpool lose. Anything else means Europa League football for the Blues.\n\nSwansea on the way out?\n\nSwansea are almost certain to be playing Championship football in 2018-19.\n\nTheir 1-0 home defeat by relegation rivals Southampton on Tuesday means they occupy 18th place in the table heading into the final day.\n\nThe only glimmer of hope for the Swans is that they face relegated Stoke at home, while Southampton host Manchester City, who have scored a record 105 goals this season.", "Joe Tilley had last been seen near the Fin del Mundo waterfall on 5 May\n\nA British man who went missing in Colombia a week ago has been found dead at the foot of a waterfall.\n\nThe body of Joe Tilley, from Leicester, was found at the Fin del Mundo waterfall, in the south-western Putumayo region, on Saturday, according to his family.\n\nRelatives had flown out to Colombia to join the search party after he was last seen near the waterfall a week earlier.\n\nThe Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) said it was assisting his family.\n\nAfter Mr Tilley went missing, friends set up a Facebook page asking for information on his whereabouts.\n\nA Facebook page was launched in a bid to find Mr Tilley\n\nA post on the @FindJoeTilley Twitter page said he was found at the \"lower part of the waterfall\" at 11:30 local time (17:30 BST) on Saturday.\n\n\"The search team have suggested he fell,\" the post added.\n\nAn online crowdfunding is aiming to raise £4,500 to bring Mr Tilley's body back to the UK and to help pay for his funeral.\n\nThe FCO said: \"Our staff are supporting the family of a British man who has died in Colombia and are in touch with the local authorities.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The pair were abducted north of the city of Goma, North Kivu province\n\nTwo Britons kidnapped in a national park in DR Congo have said they are \"very grateful\" after their release.\n\nBethan Davies and Robert Jesty were among three people held when their vehicle was ambushed in Virunga National Park on Friday.\n\nThey paid tribute to the \"excellent support\" they had received and said they would not comment any further.\n\nPark ranger Rachel Masika Baraka was killed by the kidnappers; a driver was injured and released.\n\nThe 25-year-old ranger is the eighth to be murdered at the park this year.\n\nPark director Emmanuel de Merode said: \"Ranger Baraka's life was tragically cut short in service to Virunga National Park.\n\n\"She was one of the park's 26 female rangers and was highly committed, showing true bravery in her work.\n\n\"We wish to extend our sincerest condolences to her family, and our thoughts are with all those affected by this incident.\"\n\nThe park declined to say how the two Britons came to be released and if the kidnappers had been detained.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or 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 ross This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. End of twitter post by will ross\n\nMs Davies and Mr Jesty said in a statement released by the Foreign Office: \"We are very relieved that there has been a positive outcome to the kidnapping and are very grateful for the excellent support we have received. We do not plan to comment further.\"\n\nVirunga National Park covers some 3,000 sq miles (7,800 sq km) and runs along the border with Uganda and Rwanda.\n\nThe park, which is a Unesco world heritage site, is home to critically-endangered mountain gorillas, lions, elephants and hippos.\n\nThe Foreign Office currently - and before the kidnapping - advises against travelling to the area.\n\n\"The opportunities for gorilla trekking in the Virunga National Park in North Kivu are limited, and armed groups are sometimes active within the park,\" the advice says.\n\n\"Tourists in eastern DRC have been known to be left very vulnerable as a result of trying to travel independently without escorted transport, and the risk of kidnap or injury as a result of armed or criminal activity remains high.\"", "Doctor Who actress Jodie Whittaker has spoken to the BBC's Lizo Mzimba on the red carpet ahead of the Bafta TV Awards.", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nMohamed Salah broke the Premier League scoring record for a 38-game season as Liverpool qualified for the Champions League on a busy final day of the season.\n\nSalah's 32nd goal - taking him past Alan Shearer, Cristiano Ronaldo and Luis Suarez, a Dejan Lovren header, Dominic Solanke's first goal for the club and Andrew Robertson's goal secured victory.\n\nThey needed only a point to head off Chelsea and seal the fourth remaining spot in Europe's premier club competition next season.\n\nVictory was not enough to take Liverpool up to third place, which was claimed by Tottenham with a stunning 5-4 win over Leicester in what may be their final game at Wembley before moving to their new stadium at White Hart Lane.\n\nMauricio Pochettino's side trailed three times, but a brace each for Erik Lamela and Harry Kane - the latter reached 30 goals for the league season as a result - along with an own goal from Christian Fuchs gave them victory.\n\nKane's England team-mate Jamie Vardy scored two of Leicester's four goals.\n\nIf Liverpool had lost to Brighton, they would not have missed out on the top four as a result of Chelsea's 3-0 loss at Newcastle.\n\nAyoze Perez scored twice after Dwight Gayle's opener to ensure Rafael Benitez's Newcastle finished 10th in the table, while Antonio Conte's side had to settle for fifth and a shot at the FA Cup in Saturday's final against Manchester United.\n\nSwansea needed to win, Southampton lose to Man City and there be a 10-goal swing to avoid being relegated on the final day. Swansea took the lead against Stoke but fell to a 2-1 defeat and a place in the Championship next season.\n\nAn injury-time goal from Gabriel Jesus consigned Southampton to defeat but, more significantly, gave champions Manchester City the win they needed to end their remarkable season with a record 100 points.\n\nArsene Wenger's final game of his 22-season Arsenal career was a victorious one as Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang's first-half goal gave them a win at Huddersfield.\n\nBoth sets of fans applauded Wenger in the 22nd minute of the game and two planes flew overhead dragging messages of support for the Frenchman.\n\nWest Brom's stay in the Premier League ended with a 2-0 defeat at Crystal Palace, for whom Wilfried Zaha and Patrick van Aanholt scored.\n\nIn a game between two sides managed by a former boss of the other team, David Moyes' West Ham came out on top against Sam Allardyce's Everton, with Manuel Lanzini scoring twice in a 3-1 win.\n\nMarcus Rashford scored the only goal in Manchester United's 1-0 home win over Watford, while Callum Wilson's 93rd-minute strike gave Bournemouth a 2-1 comeback win at Burnley.\n\nIn Scotland, Rangers and Hibernian shared 10 goals in a superb game at Easter Road.\n\nHibs took a 3-0 lead inside 22 minutes but Rangers levelled the score before the break. The away side looked on course for victory, leading 5-4 going in to the last five minutes but Jason Holt's sending-off left them vulnerable and Jamie Maclaren completed his hat-trick to rescue a point for Hibs.\n\nAberdeen became the first Scottish team to inflict a home defeat on Brendan Rodgers' Celtic as the Dons secured second place in the Premiership and limited Rangers to third.\n\nLee Erwin's early goal was enough to give Kilmarnock a 1-0 win over Hearts and seal fifth place with their highest Premiership points tally of 59.", "Drugs were found in \"a communal area\" of the building at 2 Marsham Street\n\nPolice were called to the Home Office after suspected Class A drugs were found in the department's headquarters.\n\nScotland Yard confirmed a \"small quantity\" was found by security staff at the Marsham Street building in central London on 3 May.\n\nOfficers seized the drugs but added no further action was necessary and advice had been given to security.\n\nThe Home Office said it takes incidents of this nature \"extremely seriously\" and appropriate action had been taken.\n\nReports in the Sunday Mirror suggest the substance found was crystal meth, possession of which can result in a maximum sentence of seven years in prison.\n\nA Home Office spokesman said: \"A small quantity of drugs was found within the 2 Marsham Street estate. The incident was referred to the police by building security, who attended the site and removed the substance.\n\n\"The police advised no further action was needed.\n\n\"We take incidents of this nature extremely seriously, always ensure that proper procedures are followed and take appropriate action based on the advice of the police.\"\n\nThe incident happened a few days after Sajid Javid replaced Amber Rudd as home secretary.\n\nA Metropolitan Police spokesman said the drugs were found in \"a communal area by security staff\" and police attended at 17:00 BST on 3 May.\n\n\"The substance was seized by officers and taken to a local police station. Advice was provided to security staff. No suspects have been identified at this time.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSo it was the relatable Netta from Israel who won this year's Eurovision rather than Cyprus' glamorous Eleni.\n\nEurovision proved once more that it embraces the outsider, the person who doesn't fit in.\n\nIt follows Conchita Wurst's victory in 2014 and, before her, that of Dana International in 1998.\n\nNetta told BBC News that she came to realise that she was \"different\" because of her size and found out that \"different is often not accepted\".\n\nThis is why, as she lifted her winner's trophy, she said: \"Thank you for choosing different.\"\n\nNetta stood out in this year's competition right from the beginning.\n\nCyprus had been the bookies' favourite\n\nIn the weeks leading up to the contest all the buzz was about the Israeli entry. But in the past few days, her star seemed to have waned in favour of Cyprus' hair-flicking Eleni Foureira.\n\nCertainly among the press, Netta had been almost written off - with Cyprus, France, Ireland and Italy thought to be the more credible acts.\n\nBy the half-way point in the scoring, though, the national juries had confounded this and she was in a strong third position.\n\nAnd then for the public vote - where the 25-year old gained enough points from viewers at home to move into first and take the Eurovision crown.\n\nThey had seen someone who was fun and quirky but who also carried a meaningful and substantial message of accepting who you are.\n\nIn 2018, Netta's victory feels particularly deserved following the #MeToo and #TimesUp movements. Eleni - all credit to her - was perhaps just too beautiful, too slick and too mainstream.\n\nIn the end, the vote wasn't even that close: Eleni's 436 points to Netta's 529.\n\nNetta said the competition wasn't against Eleni, but was about challenging herself.\n\n\"I'll keep competing with myself till I die,\" she said in an interview following her win.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A man interrupts the UK's SuRie during her Eurovision performance in Lisbon\n\nAside from Netta's win, outside the Altice Arena all fans wanted to talk about was the stage invasion during SuRie's performance for the UK.\n\nSuRie had her microphone snatched out of her hand as she was mid-song, leaving her unable to perform for 15-20 seconds.\n\nIn response, Eurovision fans rallied around SuRie, giving her the biggest cheer of the night, and imploring her to carry on.\n\nAnd that she did gamely, finishing her song powerfully, but visibly shaken. She was offered the chance to perform again, but declined.\n\nPortuguese colleagues tell me they felt ashamed at that moment, that they had let SuRie down, after months of her preparing for these three minutes on stage.\n\nWhether or not the event had any effect on the vote is hard to tell. The jury votes are already cast the night before the grand final, so this hitch would not have been taken into account at all.\n\nPerhaps the UK gained a few more votes from the televote, but it was still to be 24th place out of 26.\n\nSwedish commentator and Eurovision 2016 organiser, Edward af Sillen, told me that it's nothing personal or political against the UK.\n\n\"It's all about the song,\" he says. \"This year's entry (Storm) was not the best, but the BBC is moving in the right direction.\n\n\"It's never too late,\" he says. \"We are just waiting for you to enter the right song, and when that happens Eurovision will be so happy for you.\"\n\nAustria's Cesar Sampson got douze points from the UK\n\nOne of the major upsets of the night came in the guise of Austria's Cesar Sampson, which the UK jury was the first of many to award 12 points to. There had been no buzz around this act whatsoever.\n\nNobody But You is a nice enough song, and Cesar has a rich, warm voice - but it just didn't seem to stand out among the other entries.\n\nAnd yet. And yet it led at half time, once all the jury votes were in. Sampson himself said he couldn't believe it.\n\nOnce all was said and done it ended up in third place - an incredible result, although Sampson actually came second last year when he performed as a backing singer for the Bulgarian entrant.\n\nI don't think he'll be too upset though.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "French President Emmanuel Macron says fighting Islamist terrorism will be his top foreign policy priority.\n\nDefeating so-called Islamic State (IS) in Iraq and Syria must go hand-in-hand with anti-terror measures in Africa, he told some 200 French ambassadors.\n\nHe called the security of French citizens \"the raison d'être of our diplomacy\".\n\nIS-inspired terror attacks in France have killed more than 230 people since early 2015.\n\n\"We need an inclusive transition in Syria,\" he said, adding that France and its partners would have to invest in the reconstruction of both Syria and Iraq. \"We need to win the peace in both countries.\"\n\nHe also spoke of some \"specific results with the Russians\" on preventing further use of chemical weapons in Syria, but did not elaborate.\n\n\"Providing security for our citizens means that the fight against Islamist terrorism is our first priority,\" he said.\n\nWithin weeks of becoming president, Mr Macron held separate talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin and US President Donald Trump in Paris, visited French troops in troubled Mali and toured Central and Eastern Europe.\n\nBut recent opinion polls suggest a big slump in his popularity.\n\nBesides security, he stressed that French independence would be one of his foreign policy priorities. Another would be restoring French influence internationally.\n\nHe noted that poverty was a driver of African migration towards Europe, and stressed the importance of development aid for the Sahel region. That was the focus of talks he held on Monday with the leaders of Niger, Chad and Libya, and European partners.\n\n\"Africa is a continent of the future - we cannot just leave it alone,\" he said, outlining a strategy of \"creating an axis between Africa, the Mediterranean and Europe\".\n\nSoon after his May election triumph Mr Macron visited French anti-terror forces in Mali\n\nThis year some 125,000 migrants have crossed the Mediterranean on perilous journeys, during which more than 2,000 drowned. More than 90,000 of them reached Italy's shores, mostly fleeing violence and chaos in Libya.\n\n\"Italy and Libya expect more support from us, which we must provide,\" Mr Macron told the diplomats.\n\nHe announced that France would have a special envoy to steer negotiations on the migration crisis.\n\nHe is pressing the EU to help establish new centres in Chad and Niger to process asylum applications.\n\nThe idea is to curb the flow of asylum seekers who are exploited by people-smugglers in Libya and who risk their lives aboard overcrowded, unseaworthy boats. The new centres would focus on identifying genuine refugees who qualify for asylum.\n\n\"It's a human duty to welcome migrants,\" he said, while admitting that \"it's a considerable challenge for all European countries\".\n\nTurning to the EU's challenges, he said \"we can't let Europe get bogged down in technocratic quarrels\".\n\nThe answer to voters' sense of malaise with the EU, he said, was to reinvigorate democratic participation.\n\n\"Europeans need to take ownership of the European idea,\" he said, adding that the UK Brexit vote happened \"because for years we didn't dare to make proposals\".\n\n\"Europe suffered too much from being a crisis management union... we've got to build a union that is highly ambitious and protective.\"\n\nHe called for an EU of \"several formats\", to give space to those members wanting to integrate faster than others.\n\nA note on terminology: The BBC uses the term migrant to refer to all people on the move who have yet to complete the legal process of claiming asylum. This group includes people fleeing war-torn countries such as Syria, who are likely to be granted refugee status, as well as people who are seeking jobs and better lives, who governments are likely to rule are economic migrants.\n• None Is France already losing its Macron frisson?", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. About 20 signs have appeared in Oxford and the council claims they make the city hard to navigate\n\nFake signs like Facebook Row and Snapchat End are causing confusion around the streets of Oxford.\n\nThe social media-inspired signage was installed by the same mysterious artist who put up Middle Earth and Narnia signs in nearby Didcot.\n\nThe new signs include Twitter Lane, Emoji Alley, Instagram Ave, Google Walk, Selfie Passage, and WTF Lane.\n\nOxford City Council said the signs would be removed as they make the city hard to navigate.\n\nAbout 20 of them have appeared in the city so far.\n\nThe artist said he wanted to highlight the public's obsession with social media\n\nThe city council said the signs would make Oxford harder to navigate\n\nThe man responsible, who spoke to BBC News on condition of anonymity, said he wanted to highlight the public's obsession with social media.\n\n\"There's a lot said about what is real and what's not on social media, and so these signs of mine kind of reflect that climate,\" he said.\n\n\"My signs are not real. However, if you take a picture of them and when you see them in 2D photographs, they appear real.\"\n\nHe denied the prank was disruptive.\n\nHe said: \"I'm not destroying property, I'm not a vandal. I'm just merely somebody who is creating and helping people enjoy art.\"\n\nHis previous work in Didcot was subsequently removed by Oxfordshire County Council because of its distracting nature.\n\nRegarding the new signs, a council spokesman said they made the city \"harder to navigate, particularly for those who do not have a smartphone\".\n\nHe added: \"We do encourage street art and have a number of graffiti-free walls across Oxford.\n\n\"We would encourage the artist to get in touch with us, so we can point them towards our free walls - and they can put their obvious talent to less wasteful use.\"\n\nAuthorities felt a previous prank on signage in Didcot could distract drivers\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. Eighty-two women take part in an equality march on the Cannes red carpet\n\nDozens of women film stars have held a protest at the Cannes film festival against gender-based discrimination in the industry.\n\nCate Blanchett, Kristen Stewart and Salma Hayek were among those taking part in the red-carpet demonstration.\n\nThe prestigious Cannes festival has come under criticism for failing to showcase more films by women directors.\n\nThe protest comes after a period of turmoil in the industry following allegations of sexual harassment.\n\nThis is the first Cannes festival since allegations of sexual abuse were first made against producer Harvey Weinstein last year. He has always denied engaging in non-consensual sex.\n\nThe actresses and film-makers linked arms to stroll along the red carpet. Cate Blanchett spoke of the film industry's gender inequalities.\n\n\"We are 82 women, representing the number of female directors who have climbed these stairs since the first edition of the Cannes film festival in 1946. In the same period, 1,688 male directors have climbed these very same stairs,\" the two-time Oscar winner said.\n\n\"The prestigious Palme d'Or has been bestowed upon 71 male directors, too numerous to mention by name, but only two female directors,\" Ms Blanchett remarked.\n\nThe women taking part in the protest included all of the festival's female jury members and many women actors, directors and producers.\n\n82 women took part in a Cannes protest against sexual harassment in the film industry\n\nProducer and activist Melissa Silverstein of Women and Hollywood said the protest was a \"massive milestone towards change\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Melissa Silverstein This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAt an event often more associated with the flashy and superficial, this was a moment of real heft and resonance.\n\nThe sight of 82 women walking slowly, silently and purposefully up the red-carpeted stars of Cannes' Grand Theatre Lumiere brought home the shocking under-representation of female film-makers at an event meant to celebrate the totality of world cinema.\n\nThe timing was perfect. The evening's film, Girls of the Sun, not only has a female director but also tells of a commando unit of female fighters in Kurdistan.\n\nSome of the 82 were familiar. Many were not. Together, though, they sent out a powerful statement that both this festival and the industry that sustains it would do well to heed.\n\nFor the 2018 festival, an anti-harassment hotline has been created.\n\nThe French Equality Minister Marlene Schiappa said it had received \"several calls\" since the gathering began on 9 May.\n\nThe allegations of sexual harassment made against well-known male film industry figures has created a public conversation about gender discrimination and sexual harassment in many industries.\n\nIt led to the creation of a #MeToo hashtag, giving women an opportunity to share their experiences.\n\nThe Time's Up movement was created by more than 300 actresses, writers and directors to help fight sexual harassment in the film industry and other workplaces.\n\nAt the Golden Globes in January, many film stars wore black gowns in support of the Time's Up movement, standing in solidarity with victims of sexual assault and harassment.\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 Virunga National Park director said the tourist's vehicle was ambushed by gunmen\n\nA search is continuing for two British tourists who were kidnapped in a national park in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).\n\nDRC army spokesman Major Guillaume Kaiko Ndjike told Reuters that soldiers had joined rangers in the search operation at the Virunga National Park.\n\nThe park's director said the tourists' vehicle was ambushed by gunmen, who killed a ranger and seized the driver.\n\nThe Foreign Office said it was supporting the families.\n\nIt also said it was in close contact with the DRC authorities.\n\nLocal media reports say the ranger shot dead was a female guard, while the UK citizens - who have not been named - were taken along with their Congolese driver.\n\nPark director Emmanuel de Merode told the AFP news agency: \"I confirm that our vehicle was attacked. Three people were kidnapped, including two tourists.\"\n\nThe incident took place just north of the city of Goma, North Kivu province.\n\nThe BBC's Louise Dewast, reporting from the country's capital Kinshasa, said the situation was \"very serious\".\n\nShe said there were armed groups operating in the park and there had been kidnappings before, with half of these involving a ransom.\n\nThe national park, which runs along the border with Uganda and Rwanda, covers 3,000 sq miles (7,800 sq km).\n\nIt is a Unesco world heritage site and is home to critically-endangered mountain gorillas as well as lions, elephants and hippos.\n\nIn April, Mr de Merode, told the BBC World Service that recent attacks were part of \"a bigger picture which involves the trafficking of natural resources\".\n\nHe said the park was protected by around 800 rangers but there were also estimated to be between 1,500 and 2,000 militia in and around the park.\n\nThere have been a number of killings and kidnappings in recent years.\n\nFive rangers and a driver were killed in the park on 9 April.\n\nA week earlier, a park ranger died in an attack by armed men as he guarded the construction site of a hydroelectric plant.\n\nThe national park is known for its mountain gorillas\n\nBBC Africa editor Will Ross said poachers were active in the park, which was also under threat due to the illegal felling of trees to make charcoal and plans for oil exploration.\n\nWildlife authorities have tried to protect it but 170 rangers have been killed over the last 20 years, he added.\n\nThe Foreign and Commonwealth Office advises against all but essential travel to Goma and has urged Britons not to go beyond the city.\n\nThe advice, which was last updated three days ago, says tourists are vulnerable if travelling without escorted transport in the eastern part of the country, and the \"risk of kidnap or injury as a result of armed or criminal activity remains high\".\n\nIt said that UK government staff were not always in the area and the British embassy's ability to offer consular assistance could be \"severely limited\".", "Dame Tessa Jowell persuaded Tony Blair to support a bid to bring the Olympics to the UK, the former Labour prime minister has said.\n\nMr Blair said there was \"a lot of opposition\" to making a bid and he had been advised that there was \"no chance\" of winning it.\n\nBut Dame Tessa convinced him during a discussion in the garden at Number 10 and \"the rest is history\", he said.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIsrael's Netta has won the Eurovision Song Contest for her quirky dance song Toy - complete with its trademark chicken dance.\n\nShe had been an early favourite, but the vote went down to the wire with Cyprus finishing in second place.\n\nNetta thanked juries and the public for \"choosing different\" as she lifted the glass microphone trophy.\n\nUK entrant SuRie, whose performance was interrupted by a stage invader, finished 24th out of the 26 countries.\n\nSuRie came 24th out of 26 countries\n\nShe was part-way through singing Storm when a man, with a rucksack on his back, ran on and grabbed the microphone from her hands. She was given the chance to perform again but declined.\n\nSuRie later tweeted that she knew \"anything could happen\" on stage.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by SuRie This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nNetta - full name Netta Barzilai - picked up a total of 529 points to take the title, while bookies' favourite Eleni Foureira from Cyprus got 436 points, with Fuego.\n\nAustria had topped the leaderboard of the 63rd annual contest after the juries' votes had been given, with Cesar Sampson's Nobody But You the surprise frontrunner.\n\nBut it became clear it was between Netta and Eleni when the viewers' votes started coming in.\n\nOn stage, the Israeli singer said of her win: \"Thank you so much for choosing different. Thank you so much for accepting differences between us.\n\n\"Thank you for celebrating diversity. I love my country!\"\n\nShe later added: \"It's an empowerment song for everybody, for everybody who's been struggling being themselves - struggling with their bosses, with the government, with someone stepping on them.\n\n\"I've been told so many times that I'm not pretty enough, that I'm not smart enough, that I'm not skinny enough to do what I want to do.\"\n\nThis is not the first time Eurovision has rewarded the person who sees themselves as an outsider struggling to fit in.\n\nConchita Wurst winning in 2014 and before her Dana International in 1998 suggests Europe embraces those who are true to themselves.\n\nNetta told BBC News she had always been told she should \"diet a little bit\", wear black because it was \"more flattering\", and to \"sing like Adele\".\n\nBut she decided not to follow these rules: \"We're only here for a minute, why are we busy being unhappy?\"\n\nA decidedly happy Netta spoke to the international press after her victory, and told us she was \"proud and honoured\" - although it was still all \"a little hard to take in\".\n\nIn the interview, she also revealed she had a secret weapon during her performance. She said she had been given her late grandmother's ring by her father shortly before the contest. She said the ring gave her \"power\" and \"a lot of confidence\" for the competition.\n\nNetta also admitted she had no idea what was going on during the results stage of the show, because she didn't have her glasses on to see the scoreboard. She said she had to piece together the results from the shrieks of her team around her.\n\nFinally, when asked the first thing she would do when she got home she replied simply: \"Houmous!\"\n\nAsked about the close race with Cyprus, Netta said: \"I always said that comparing between musical genres is funny - and comparing between musicians is a little bit peculiar... I was competing with myself.\"\n\nShe said everything about the moment of winning was \"a black blur\", and that she thought \"what is happening?\" - partly because she couldn't see the points on the board without her glasses.\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 Eurovision Song Contest 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\nNetta said she never felt she had to deliver a message, adding: \"I just had to be me, no matter what my size is.\"\n\nThis year's final was held in Lisbon, Portugal, with the 2019 contest now set to take place in Israel. The last time Israel won Eurovision was 20 years ago, when Dana International was victorious with 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.", "Police rushed to the Opéra area of central Paris where a man killed a passer-by on Saturday night.\n\nThe attacker - who so-called Islamic State claimed as one of its \"soldiers\" - was shot dead by officers.", "The M11 was shut in both directions near Harlow\n\nDrivers were stranded on a motorway for more than two hours after 12 horses escaped onto the carriageway.\n\nPolice were forced to close the M11 near Harlow, Essex, on Saturday night while the animals were rounded up.\n\nThe motorway was shut in both directions between junctions 6 and 7 from about 23:50 BST, and did not reopen until 02:00.\n\nEleven of the horses were coaxed back into a field, while the last one was taken away in a horsebox.\n\nMotorists stuck in the traffic took to social media, with many branding it \"#M11horsegate\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Tillygranger This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nReality TV star Jodie Marsh tweeted she had been caught in queuing traffic, saying: \"Just got home after being stuck for over two hours on the #M11 because 12 horses were loose on the motorway.\n\n\"It wasn't too bad actually; we had quite a laugh in the car and we're assured the horses are 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 2 by Jodie Marsh This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 Twitter user, Joanna Chivers, said: \"At least I can say I was there for the great M11 horse round-up of 2018!\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Joanna Chivers This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nOthers were not quite so happy about the lengthy delays.\n\nFormer MP Brooks Newmark tweeted that traffic had not moved for two and a half hours and \"@HighwaysEngland and @M11Info have been utterly useless keeping us informed as to what is going on. Traffic must be backed up several miles by now. #M11horsegate #M11\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Brooks Newmark This article contains content provided by Twitter. 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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.", "From the weather to weird words, children at an American school in the UK offer Meghan advice on adapting.", "Mae Muller: Eurovision broke my heart but album kept me going , published at 01:08 Mae Muller: Eurovision broke my heart but album kept me going", "Dr Dre (not to be confused with Dr Drai)\n\nHip-hop star Dr Dre has lost a long-running trademark dispute against a gynaecologist with a similar name.\n\nThe case was first lodged in 2015, when Pennsylvania-based gynaecologist Draion M Burch tried to trademark the name Dr Drai.\n\nDr Dre objected, saying the similarity could cause \"confusion\", especially as his near-namesake wanted to sell audio books and seminars under the moniker.\n\nBut the US trademark office has disagreed and dismissed Dr Dre's case.\n\nIn a ruling made last week, it said that, while the two names were similar, Dr Dre had failed to show that people would be misled into buying by Dr Drai's products.\n\nGiven that the doctor's typical fee for a speaking engagement is $5,000 (£3,700), the consumer would be likely to exercise a \"higher degree of care\" than someone making a casual purchase, it said.\n\nMr Burch had also argued that consumers would be unlikely to confuse the two names \"because Dr Dre is not a medical doctor nor is he qualified to provide any type of medical services or sell products specifically in the medical or healthcare industry\".\n\nHe further testified that he did not seek to trade on Dr Dre's reputation because the association would be \"a bad reflection on me as a doctor\" - citing lyrics he characterised as misogynistic and homophobic.\n\nThe gynaecologist is the author of books such as 20 Things You May Not Know About A Vagina and describes himself as one of America's top health experts.\n\nDr Dre can currently be seen in the Netflix documentary The Defiant Ones, which charts his rise from the streets of Compton to the multi-millionaire executive in charge of Beats 1.\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.", "Pakistan has prevented a US diplomat from leaving the country after he allegedly killed a motorcyclist by driving through a red light last month.\n\nLocal press said on Saturday that a plane was sent by the US to collect Col Joseph Emanuel Hall, a military attache, but was denied clearance.\n\nUS officials have previously said he cannot be arrested or tried because he has diplomatic immunity.\n\nThe incident has increased political tension between the countries.\n\nAteeq Baig, 22, was killed in the crash in Daman-e-Koh, north of Islamabad, on 7 April.\n\nCCTV footage showed a white four-wheel-drive - said to be driven by Col Hall - ignoring the red traffic light at an intersection, crashing with a bike at speed and then braking.\n\nThe US embassy has denied reports in Pakistan's media that Col Hall was drunk while driving.\n\nThe dead man's father has called for the colonel to stand trial at Islamabad High Court (IHC).\n\nOn Friday, the IHC had ruled Col Hall does not have absolute immunity.\n\nHe had already been put on a travel \"black list\", which meant airports had been told not allow him to leave.\n\nNeither the US or Pakistan has officially commented on Saturday's news.\n\nRelations between Washington and Islamabad have been in the spotlight since US President Donald Trump's New Year's Day tweet, where he accused Pakistan of \"lies and deceit\".\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 January, the US government said it was cutting almost all security aid to Pakistan, saying it has failed to deal with terrorist networks operating on its soil.\n\nPakistan has denied the accusations and responded by saying it would no longer share intelligence with the US.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe Eurovision Song Contest stage invader gained access to the stage by climbing into a camera run and going over a bridge, organisers have said.\n\nThe man interrupted the UK's singer SuRie, who finished third from bottom at the event in Lisbon on Saturday.\n\nThe European Broadcasting Union said an internal investigation was under way.\n\nThe EBU said he was pursued by security over the bridge, adding: \"He was removed off stage after seven seconds and is being questioned by police.\"\n\nThe statement continued: \"We take security very seriously and an investigation into what happened is already under way.\"\n\nThe stage invader took the microphone off SuRie, before being dragged off stage\n\nSuRie was singing her song Storm when a man with a rucksack ran onto the stage, grabbed her microphone, and appeared to say: \"Nazis of the UK media, we demand freedom.\"\n\nHe was swiftly dragged off stage and SuRie continued performing the song.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'We all felt so sorry for SuRie'\n\nIt is thought the same man invaded the stage at the National Television Awards this year, and The Voice in 2017.\n\nSuRie was given the chance to perform again, but declined. The BBC said: \"SuRie and her team are extremely proud of her performance and have together decided that there is absolutely no reason to perform the song again.\"\n\nShe later wrote on Twitter: \"Well, I've always said anything can happen at Eurovision...\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by SuRie This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 Sunday, she wrote: \"I've been told the security agent who intervened last night is ok and thank goodness for that.\n\n\"Thank you everybody for your messages of love and support and huge congrats to @NettaBarzilai, I'm so, so proud of you x\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 SuRie This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nNetta, representing Israel, won the contest with 520 points, triggering jubilation in her home country.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIsraeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu even imitated Netta's now-famous chicken dance in his own tribute to the winner, and confirmed that next year's contest would be held in Jerusalem.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Benjamin Netanyahu This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "France is known the world over for its cuisine, fashion, culture and language.\n\nA key player on the global stage and a country at the political heart of Europe, France paid a high price in both economic and human terms during the two world wars.\n\nThe years which followed saw protracted conflicts culminating in independence for Algeria and most other French colonies in Africa, as well as decolonisation in south-east Asia.\n\nFrance was one of the key players in European integration as the continent sought to rebuild after the devastation of World War Two.\n\nA former economy minister who had never held elected office before, Emmanuel Macron won the May 2017 presidential election run-off by a decisive margin over his far-right challenger Marine Le Pen.\n\nThe 39-year-old former banker launched an independent campaign for the presidency little over a year before the election, and his En Marche! movement galvanised enough support from the centre-right and left to knock the traditional Socialist and Republican party candidates out in the first round of voting.\n\nThe following year saw President Macron's popularity fall as he tried to overhaul the economy, with major street protests in November 2018 over his attempt to wean the public off fossil fuels through price hikes.\n\nIn the April 2022 presidential election, Macron again defeated Le Pen in the second round of voting.\n\nPresident Macron appointed Elisabeth Borne prime minister in May 2022 following his presidential election victory. She is France's second woman prime minister after Edith Cresson in 1991-1992.\n\nBorne is a member of Macron's renamed Renaissance party and had previously served as minister of transport, minister of ecology and then labour minister.\n\nGrand Soir 3 is the late-night news programme of French public television network France 3.\n\nTelevision is France's most popular medium. The flagship network, TF1, is privately-owned and public France Televisions is funded from the TV licence fee and advertising revenue.\n\nSatellite and cable offer a proliferation of channels. France is also a force in international TV and radio broadcasting.\n\nPatron saint Joan of Arc is honoured for her role in the siege of Orleans and insistence on the coronation of Charles VII during the Hundred Years' War\n\n507 - Frankish leader Clovis defeats a Visigothic army at the battle of Vouillé and conquers Gallia Aquitania (southwest France) forming the basis of modern-day France.\n\n732 - Battle of Tours: Frankish and Burgundian soldiers under the Charles Martel inflict a significant defeat on invading Arab armies.\n\n742-814 - Charlemagne expands the Frankish state and unites most of western and central Europe, becoming the first recognized emperor to rule from western Europe after the fall of the Western Roman Empire.\n\n987 - Hugh Capet, Duke of France and Count of Paris founds the Capetian dynasty. His descendants gradually unify the country through wars and dynastic inheritance.\n\n11th Century - The Plantagenets, the rulers of Anjou, progressively build an empire from England to the Pyrenees that covers half of modern France. Tensions between French kings and the Plantagenets last until 1202-14 when Philip II of France conquers most of their continental possessions, leaving them England and Aquitaine.\n\n1337-1453 - Hundred Years' War: A series of armed conflicts between England and France originating from English claims to the French throne. The war leads to a broader power struggle involving factions from across Western Europe, fuelled by emerging nationalism on both sides.\n\n1415 - An English army under Henry V renews English claims to the French throne and decisively defeats a French army at Agincourt.\n\n1428-29 - Siege of Orleans: The watershed of the Hundred Years' War, taking place at the pinnacle of English power during the later stages of the war. The city held strategic and symbolic significance for both sides. The English besiegers are defeated by revitalised French defenders after the arrival of Joan of Arc.\n\n1453 - Battle of Castillon: decisive French victory ends the wear and sees England lose all its continental possessions except Calais, which France takes in 1558.\n\n1562-98 - French Wars of Religion: Civil war between French Catholics and Protestants or Huguenots. Up to four million people die from violence, famine or diseases. The fighting ends in 1598 when Henri of Navarre, who had converted to Catholicism in 1593, is proclaimed Henri IV. A pragmatic ruler, he issues the Edict of Nantes, which gives rights and freedoms to Huguenots, in order to end the religious warfare. He is assassinated in 1610 by a Catholic zealot.\n\nThe Protestant leader Henri of Navarre converted to Catholicism in order to secure his hold on France as Henri IV\n\n1620s - Huguenot rebellions against French state's centralising power and its increasing intolerance to Protestantism.\n\n1638-1715 - Louis XIV. France emerges as the leading European power during his long reign, which is marked by major conflicts, including the Franco-Spanish War (1635-1659), Franco-Dutch War (1672-78), the Nine Years' War (1688-1697) and the War of the Spanish Succession (1701-1715).\n\n1685 - Louis XIV revokes the Edict of Nantes, forcing thousands of Huguenots into exile and publishes the Code Noir providing the legal framework for slavery and expelling Jewish people from French colonies.\n\n1789 - Facing financial troubles, Louis XVI summons the Estates-General to propose solutions. Representatives of the Third Estate form a National Assembly, signalling the outbreak of the French Revolution.\n\n1792 - Monarchy is abolished and First Republic proclaimed.\n\n1793 - Louis XVI is convicted of treason and guillotined.\n\n1804-1814 - Napoleon crowns himself emperor of First French Empire. A series of military successes brings most of continental Europe under his control.\n\n1815 - Napoleon is defeated at Battle of Waterloo by an allied coalition - ending 23 years of war across Europe - and the Bourbon monarchy is re-established.\n\n1830 - The Bourbons are overthrown in the July Revolution, a constitutional monarchy under Louis Philippe I is introduced.\n\n1848 - Amid revolutions across Europe, Louis Phillippe is overthrown and a Second Republic is established.\n\n1852 - The president of the French Republic, Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte, Napoleon I's nephew, is proclaimed Napoleon III, emperor of the Second Empire.\n\n1870-71 - Franco-Prussian War. Prussian and German forces defeat French army, invade France and besiege Paris. Napoleon III overthrown. Third Republic proclaimed. Revolutionary government seizes control of Paris - the Paris Commune. Commune is bloodily suppressed by French government troops.\n\n1914-18 - World War One: massive casualties in trenches in north-east France; 1.3 million Frenchmen are killed and many more wounded by the end of the war.\n\n1939-45 - World War Two: Germany occupies much of France. Vichy regime in unoccupied south collaborates with Nazis. General de Gaulle, undersecretary of war, establishes government-in-exile in London and later in Algiers. Rise of French Resistance. Germans occupy all of France in 1942.\n\n1946-58 - Fourth Republic is marked by economic reconstruction and the start of the process of independence for many of France's colonies.\n\n1946-54 - Bitter war in French Indochina - Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia - for independence, between the Communist Viet Minh and French forces. France leaves after its army suffers major defeat at the battle of Dien Bien Phu in 1954.\n\n1954-62 - France faces another bitter anti-colonialist conflict in Algeria, which it treats as an integral part of France and is home to over one million European settlers. The conflict nearly leads to a coup and civil war in France itself.\n\n1957 - France joins West Germany and other European nations in the forming of the European Economic Community (EEC), now known as the European Union.\n\nThe Eiffel Tower in Paris was built from 1887 to 1889 as the centerpiece of the 1889 World's Fair\n\n1958 - French army in Algeria carries out coup attempt due to fears party politics in the unstable Fourth Republic will undermine the security of French's hold on Algeria. French army factions see wartime leader Charles De Gaulle as a guarantor that Algeria will remain French.\n\n1958 - De Gaulle returns to power on back of the crisis and founds the Fifth Republic, with a stronger presidency.\n\n1961 - French voters vote in favour of self-determination for Algeria in a referendum. Generals' Putsch. A failed coup attempt by four retired army general to force De Gaulle not to abandon French settlers in Algeria, and to deny Algeria independence.\n\n1962 - Algeria grains independence from French colonial rule.OAS (Organisation armée secrète) far-right paramilitaries attempt to kill De Gaulle for what they see as his abandonment of French settlers in Algeria by machine-gunning his presidential car. The attack fails.\n\n1968 - Civil unrest throughout France, with demonstrations, general strikes, and the occupation of universities and factories. The unrest begins with student protests against capitalism, heavy police repression sees sympathy strikes, which eventually involve almost a quarter of France's workforce.\n\nFrance has the largest defence budget in the European Union\n\n2015 - Seventeen people are killed in Islamist terrorist attacks, including at offices of satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo and at a Jewish supermarket in Paris.\n\nA series of coordinated Islamist terrorist attacks kill 130 people and injure 416 people in Paris - the deadliest in France since World War Two. Suicide bombers strike at outside the Stade de France in Saint-Denis during a football match. Others fire on cafés and restaurants. A third group carries out mass shootings at a music concert at the Bataclan theatre.\n\n2017 - Emmanuel Macron breaks the Gaullist/Republican-Socialist hold on the presidency through his La République En Marche! movement, drawing support from both the centre-right and centre-left.\n\n2022 - President Macron is returned to power for a second term.\n\nCyclists in the Tour de France head down the Champs Elysees in Paris\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nMohamed Salah set a new Premier League scoring record as Liverpool sealed a place in next season's Champions League with an emphatic victory over Brighton, and manager Jurgen Klopp believes the forward can \"still improve so much\".\n\nIt was an impressive Liverpool performance on a perfect sunny afternoon at Anfield and Klopp's side lingered long after the final whistle, soaking up the celebratory atmosphere with the Champions League final against Real Madrid to come on 26 May.\n\n\"Two weeks' break is perfect for us,\" said Klopp. \"We will be ready for the final. This group of players really deserve it. They keep moving to the next level.\"\n\nSalah was the centre of attention as he was feted on his side's home pitch after the match. There was the Golden Boot for Premier League's top scorer to be presented, the club's player of the year trophy too. The forward was clearly moved, and he shared the moment with his wife and young daughter.\n\nIt was his record goal that set the Reds on course to blowing Brighton away. The opener, a low finish from Dominic Solanke's pass, was his 32nd goal of the campaign - the most by a player in a 38-game Premier League season.\n\nDejan Lovren doubled the lead by powerfully heading in Andrew Robertson's cross and after the break it was more of the same - Liverpool continued to dominate.\n\nSolanke smashed in his first goal for the club off the underside of the bar, having met Salah's lay-off at the end of a strong run, while full-back Andrew Robertson also got his first Liverpool goal, sweeping in from close range with five minutes to play.\n\nLiverpool would have slipped out of the top four had they lost and Chelsea beaten Newcastle, but they made sure the Blues' result - a 3-0 defeat at St James' Park - was irrelevant.\n\nVictory meant the Reds matched their fourth-place finish of last season - they would have moved up to third had Tottenham not edged a thrilling 5-4 win at home to Leicester - while Brighton ended their first top-flight campaign since 1983 in the safety of 15th.\n• None The Premier League table - from August to May\n\nWhat a remarkable season it has been for Egypt forward Salah, who signed from Roma for £34m last summer.\n\nSome doubted his ability to perform in England following his disappointing spell at Chelsea, but the goal that broke the Premier League record was his 44th in 51 games for Liverpool in all competitions this season.\n\nAlan Shearer scored 31 Premier League goals for Blackburn in 1995-96, Cristiano Ronaldo did the same for Manchester United in 2007-08, and Luis Suarez netted 31 for Liverpool in 2013-14.\n\nShearer, for Blackburn in 1994-95, and Andy Cole, for Newcastle United in 1993-94, jointly hold the Premier League scoring record for a 42-match season - with 34 goals.\n\nPerhaps that total is what Salah was thinking of when he was taken off just before Liverpool's fourth, visibly disappointed. He left with Brighton at their most vulnerable, weary and exhausted from an afternoon living on their nerves against Liverpool's attack.\n\nEarlier on Sunday, Salah added the Premier League's Player of the Season award to the two other major individual prizes he was won this year - the PFA Player of the Year and Football Writers' Association Footballer of the Year awards.\n\nBut with the Champions League final against Real - winners of the past two tournaments - to come, the biggest piece of silverware is still to be settled.\n\nBrighton beaten - but they will be back\n\nChris Hughton's Brighton team can feel proud of what they have achieved this season. Many will have tipped them for relegation, but they have proved themselves more than capable of competing at English football's elite level.\n\nThere was the impressive 3-0 victory at West Ham in October, March's 2-1 home win over Arsenal at the end of a five-match unbeaten run, and a place in the FA Cup quarter-finals, where they lost to Manchester United.\n\nRevenge over United came in the shape of a 1-0 win that confirmed their Premier League status on 4 May, and survival was always the only aim for Brighton this season - Hughton said it \"meant everything\".\n\nBut perhaps there will be a slight regret over their end-of-season form. The 4 March victory over Arsenal put the Seagulls 10th in the table, after which they fell sharply over a run of seven matches without a win.\n\nA 10th-place finish would have earned them £21.4m in prize money - the take for finishing 15th will instead be £11.6m. Regardless, the most important thing has been achieved - they will be back next season.\n\n'I had no clue about the record!'\n\nLiverpool manager Jurgen Klopp told BBC Sport: \"The boys had pressure on them - massive pressure for the last few weeks. It is fantastic to qualify for the Champions League. It's a massive achievement.\n\n\"We did it in an impressive manner. We tried to win the game from the first second. A point was enough but I have no real idea how to go for a point.\n\n\"We could have scored many more but I'm glad we didn't. Brighton did not deserve that after a really good season.\n\n\"James Milner (who was left out of the squad) will be fine, just today was a bit early for him.\n\n\"I had no clue about (Salah's) record. I took him off and then I heard that Tottenham had scored five - Harry Kane could have got them all! He has been brilliant and he can improve so much. He will score in the future, 100%.\"\n\nBrighton boss Chris Hughton told BBC Sport: \"It was a very hard afternoon for us. We knew when we came here we would have to play at a very high level and stay in the game but they caused us so many problems.\n\n\"The only disappointment was that we didn't keep possession well enough today. The season as a whole, we have been in nearly every game and we have had good performances against the big clubs.\n\n\"We find it hard playing the top six away from home but our season shows more good than bad.\"\n\nSalah was back to his best against Brighton. I've only seen him have two poor games all season: against Chelsea and Roma.\n\nBut he got his record-breaking goal and I think he should have had a penalty too.\n\nHe was unmarkable, unplayable. I was very surprised to see him play in some games recently because I would have been saving him.\n\nBut he's scored against 17 teams and now he's got the Golden Boot.\n\nAnother unbeaten season at home - the stats\n• None Liverpool have gone unbeaten at home in a top-flight season for the seventh time, more than any other side\n• None They have finished in the top four in consecutive Premier League seasons for the first time since a run of four campaigns between 2005-06 and 2008-09\n• None Salah has scored against 17 different opponents in the league this season; a Premier League record\n• None He has scored in 34 different club games in all competitions this season, at least four more than any other player in Europe's big five leagues (Paris St-Germain's Edinson Cavani, 30)\n• None Lewis Dunk (Brighton and Hove Albion) wins a free kick in the defensive half.\n• None Goal! Liverpool 4, Brighton and Hove Albion 0. Andrew Robertson (Liverpool) left footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom left corner.\n• None Dale Stephens (Brighton and Hove Albion) wins a free kick in the defensive half.\n• None Substitution, Brighton and Hove Albion. Connor Goldson replaces Shane Duffy because of an injury.\n• None Delay over. They are ready to continue.\n• None Delay in match Shane Duffy (Brighton and Hove Albion) because of an injury.\n• None Offside, Brighton and Hove Albion. Dale Stephens tries a through ball, but Solly March is caught offside.\n• None Delay over. They are ready to continue. 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\nTessa Jowell once said she'd \"jump under a bus\" for Tony Blair. She was probably only half-joking. However, her loyalty to New Labour was more than simply tactical or careerist.\n\nShe was pro-European and in favour of a mixed-economy when both were deeply unfashionable on the left. Her belief that Labour should \"modernise\" was passionately held - forged at the coal face of a decade of Labour local activism.\n\nBaroness Jowell will be remembered at Westminster as someone who managed to be ideologically committed to her cause without overt sectarian bitterness.\n\nTessa Jane Helen Douglas Palmer began her life in London in September 1947 - the oldest of three siblings. Like Blair, hers was a middle-class family of Conservative voters.\n\nHer childhood was spent in Aberdeen - where her father, Kenneth, was a chest specialist at the university medical school. Her radiographer mother, Rosemary, bridled against the social snobbery of university life - where lecturers' wives did not have coffee with the professors' wives.\n\nSt Margaret's School for Girls was fee-paying and traditional - occasionally described as \"Scotland's Roedean\". Age 14, she saw Stanley Kubrick's film Spartacus - which \"moved me hugely with its themes of exploitation, courageous revolt and the heroism of the slave uprising\".\n\nShe abandoned notions of a career in medicine and qualified as a psychiatric social worker. A friend recalled meeting her for lunch at London's Maudsley Hospital - finding her physically shaking after an encounter with an aggressive patient.\n\nFighting the Ilford North by-election in 1978. \"It was the worst three weeks of my life\", she said.\n\nShe was elected to Camden Council - chairing its Social Services Committee at just 25 - a standard bearer of Labour \"sensiblism\" against \"loony left\" activists bent on confrontation with Margaret Thatcher. Once, she ended up covered with chicken livers hurled from the floor.\n\nShe fought the Ilford North by-election in 1978 - only to lose Labour's majority. \"It was the worst three weeks of my life,\" she said, targeted by the National Front and the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children, which sent her pictures of foetuses.\n\nThe press also hounded her - smelling scandal. She'd left her first husband - statistician Roger Jowell - and was living with corporate lawyer, David Mills. They later married. It was another 13 years before she made it to Westminster - as MP for Dulwich & West Norwood in 1992.\n\nTessa Jowell was Labour moderniser and supporter of Tony Blair\n\nShe arrived determined to play her part in the New Labour revolution. A fierce loyalty to Tony Blair never dimmed.\n\nFriends included Margaret Hodge, Harriet Harman, David Blunkett and the Blairs themselves - a Who's Who list of the movement. Peter Mandelson and Alastair Campbell became god parents to her children.\n\nIn Opposition, Blair made her a whip - dealing with a party dominated by northern men. They found her direct, thoughtful - but with sharp political elbows. \"If there is someone powerful in the room she has an almost subconscious locking on device,\" said one source.\n\nDavid Mills' business affairs were controversial and the couple split. They were later reconciled.\n\nHer marriage to David Mills sustained for nearly 40 years. But his business affairs twice badly damaged her political career.\n\nShe became minister for public health in Blair's first government. A promise to be the \"scourge of the tobacco industry\" rebounded when it was discovered that Formula One had been given an exemption from a ban on tobacco advertising.\n\nIt was discovered that Bernie Ecclestone - Formula One's boss - had donated a million pounds to the party. Blair pleaded he \"was a pretty straight kind of guy\". For Tessa Jowell the problem was her husband's connections to the company that owned the Benetton racing team. She only just survived..\n\nA decade later, a second scandal was far worse.\n\nIn 2006, by now secretary of state for culture, media and sport, her marriage came under renewed scrutiny. David Mills was accused of once taking money from Silvio Berlusconi, the controversial Italian prime minister, in return for illegally helping fight corruption charges.\n\nThe money had paid down the couple's mortgage. Mills furiously disputed the allegations and would spend years fighting the charges. Blair decided Jowell was free from wrong-doing - but she was politically damaged and the couple separated.\n\nOpponents on the left felt all this was somehow emblematic of the New Labour project and its love affair with the ultra-rich.\n\nTessa Jowell admitted she hoped to restore the relationship over time. After she'd left office, she told Woman's Hour that they were seeing each other regularly and had \"reached a state of stability which I never thought possible\".\n\nA hug from David Beckham to celebrate the announcement that London would host the 2012 Summer Olympics\n\nHer department was shocked when she insisted the UK should bid for the 2012 Olympics. There was a concerted attempt to talk her out of it. She sold it to Blair in a seven-minute meeting on the Downing Street veranda - despite his real reservations.\n\nWhen London won - after a Herculean lobbying effort - delivery fell to her. By the night of the opening ceremony, Labour was out of office - although she had remained a key member of the organising committee alongside Seb Coe and Jeremy Hunt.\n\nShe travelled to the stadium on the inevitable red London bus - only for the driver to get hopelessly lost. Boris Johnson and Ed Miliband teased her as they crossed the same roundabout for the third time. But she recognised that magical night as the high point of her career.\n\nInevitably, her political star waned after Blair left office. She never had the same affinity with Gordon Brown or Ed Miliband - although neither dispensed with her altogether. She left Westminster at the 2015 general election.\n\nCongratulating Sadiq Khan after she lost the nomination to be Labour's candidate for mayor of London\n\nDame Tessa Jowell, as she now was, fought hard to become Labour's candidate for London mayor in 2016. She had high hopes - the Olympics had been successfully delivered and, as minister for London, she had handled the aftermath of the 7/7 bombings well - remaining close to the families of many victims.\n\nShe won the most votes from party members in the first round of voting. But among registered supporters - who could now pay £3 to vote - the most New Labour candidate was well beaten by both Sadiq Khan and Diane Abbott. The winds of change were blowing through the party.\n\nIn May 2017, and by now a member of the House of Lords - Baroness Jowell of Brixton - she was on her way to give a speech about Sure Start children's centres - one of her proudest achievements as a minister and one she would herself highlight. She got into a taxi and suddenly found she couldn't speak.\n\nLords Speech: \"I am not afraid\", she said - to a standing ovation\n\nTwo days later she was diagnosed with a rare form of brain cancer. She knew the prognosis wasn't good. She could only have the operation and wait.\n\nLater, in a moving speech to the House of Lords, she called for adaptive trials. If one treatment wasn't working, she argued, patients should be able to try something different - even if it hadn't been fully tested. The risks, she said, look different if the clock's ticking against you.\n\n\"In the end what gives life meaning is not only how it is lived, but how it draws to a close,\" she said.\n\nTo a standing ovation Baroness Jowell quoted the last words of the poet Seamus Heaney... \"Noli timere\" - meaning \"do not be afraid\".\n\n\"I am not,\" she said, \"afraid.\"", "Jim Ratcliffe owns 60% of Ineos, the chemicals company he founded\n\nA businessman who once lived in a council house near Manchester is the richest person in the UK, according to the Sunday Times Rich List.\n\nJim Ratcliffe, who founded chemical firm Ineos, topped the list with an estimated worth of £21.05bn - after coming 18th last year.\n\nTwo of the company's directors are also on the list, which ranks Britain's wealthiest 1,000 people or families.\n\nJamie Oliver and fashion tycoon Sir Philip Green saw their fortunes drop.\n\nMr Ratcliffe, 65, moved from the council house in Failsworth to East Yorkshire as a boy.\n\nHe went to Beverley Grammar School, studied chemical engineering at Birmingham University, and got an MBA from London Business School, according to a Financial Times profile.\n\nHis father, who was a joiner, went on to run a factory that made laboratory furniture, while his mother worked in an accounts office.\n\nMr Ratcliffe's firm is currently locked in a legal battle with the Scottish government over its moratorium on fracking.\n\nHis wealth leapt by £15bn in the past year - partly because of a revaluation of his assets. He is the first UK-born person to top the rich list since the Duke of Westminster in 2003.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Ineos chairman, Jim Ratcliffe, on how Britain should negotiate Brexit\n\nMr Ratcliffe has been on expeditions to the North and South Poles, has run marathons, and is a Manchester United fan.\n\nIn 2015, he said the UK could thrive outside the European Union. \"The Brits are perfectly capable of managing the Brits and don't need Brussels telling them how to manage things,\" he said.\n\n\"I just don't believe in the concept of a United States of Europe. It's not viable.\"\n\nIn 2016, he told the BBC the government needed \"backbone\" when negotiating its exit from the EU.\n\nAt second place in the list were the Hinduja brothers, Sri and Gopi, worth £20.64bn. Their fortune jumped by £4.44 billion from 2017.\n\nBritish-American industrialist-turned-media mogul Sir Len Blavatnik came in third place with £15.26bn.\n\nSir Philip Green's estimated fortune fell by £787m to £2bn - partly because of his decision to contribute £363m to the BHS pension deficit.\n\nJamie Oliver fell off the list entirely, after problems at his restaurant group.\n\nIn total, 141 women are on the rich list, with Charlene de Carvalho-Heineken, of the brewing dynasty, ranked highest at number six.\n\nRobert Watts, who compiled the list, said: \"Britain is changing. Gone are the days when old money and a small band of industries dominated the Sunday Times Rich List.\n\n\"Aristocrats and inherited wealth has been elbowed out of the list and replaced by an army of self-made entrepreneurs.\n\n\"Today's super rich include people who have set up businesses selling chocolate, sushi, pet food and eggs.\n\n\"We're seeing more people from humble backgrounds, who struggled at school or who didn't even start their businesses until well into middle age.\"", "The Met Police say a crime scene remains in place.\n\nA man has been taken to hospital after being stabbed near the National Theatre on the South Bank in central London.\n\nPolice, paramedics and London's Air Ambulance were called to the scene of the attack just before 16:00 BST, said the Metropolitan Police.\n\nThe injured man, aged in his 20s, was taken to a central London hospital. The man's condition is said to be non life-threatening.\n\nPolice said there had so far been no arrests, but inquiries were under way.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Lewis Hamilton won for the second race in succession by dominating an eventful Spanish Grand Prix.\n\nThe Mercedes driver was supreme at the front in a race that featured a heavy first-lap crash, two caution periods and a number of spins and collisions.\n\nHamilton's win moves him into a 17-point championship lead, with title rival Sebastian Vettel fourth on Sunday following questionable strategy calls from his Ferrari team.\n\nThe Dutchman held on to third place, easily fending off Vettel's challenge despite damaging his front wing when he ran into the back of Lance Stroll's Williams at the restart after a mid-race virtual safety-car period.\n\nVettel dropped to fourth from second when Ferrari decided to pit him under the virtual safety car, the four-time champion saying he was running out of tyre life.\n\nThe problem cost Vettel what could be a crucial six points in his title fight with Hamilton.\n• None The man who made F1 great - without meaning to\n\nFerrari had also stopped early during the opening part of the race, Vettel making his first stop on lap 17 in an attempt to pre-empt an attack from Bottas.\n\nThe Finn was on course to jump Vettel in the pits anyway when he stopped after two further very fast laps, only for a problem with a rear wheel to delay him in the pits and leave Ferrari unpunished.\n\nBut Ferrari's problems returned, forcing the second stop that cost Vettel a place on the podium.\n\nVettel said: \"We couldn't make the tyres last. For us, it was clear it was the right thing to do. If you look from the outside, it is easy but inside the car we were going through the tyres too quick so we were not able to stay out for another 23 laps. Even in the end, I was not able to attack to the end.\"\n\nVettel's team-mate Kimi Raikkonen retired from second place with an engine failure on lap 24, before he had made a pit stop.\n\nHamilton was supremely above Ferrari's concerns, as he converted his first pole position since the opening race in Australia into a first-lap lead.\n\nAfter the early safety car for a multi-car crash caused by Haas driver Romain Grosjean in Turn Three, Hamilton bolted at the restart and had a 1.4-second lead at the end of the first racing lap.\n\nHamilton then pulled away at chunks of a second a lap and was immediately in control of a race he never looked likely to lose.\n• None Listen: 'This is more like it' - Hamilton celebrates on team radio\n\nFerrari's strategy let Mercedes off the hook for their slow stop to secure the first one-two of 2018 and Verstappen drove beautifully with a damaged car to take the final step on the podium.\n\nBehind Vettel and Ricciardo, Haas driver Kevin Magnussen was in no-man's land, way behind the top five, but well clear of the rest, led by Carlos Sainz's Renault and McLaren's Fernando Alonso, who recovered well after being delayed by the first-lap incident.\n\nAlonso pulled off the overtaking move of the race, passing Esteban Ocon's Force India around the outside of the fast Turn Three at the restart after the early safety car, then had to fight past Sauber's Charles Leclerc to take eighth, passing him with a wily move on the virtual safety car restart.\n\nThe race started with high drama as Grosjean made an inexplicable error. He lost control of his car behind team-mate Magnussen and spun, but then bizarrely kept his foot buried in the throttle, causing the car to spin around back onto the track shrouded in clouds of tyre smoke.\n\nAs he spun back across the track, Nico Hulkenberg tried to take avoiding action in his Renault but had his rear wheel caught by Grosjean's car, and Toro Rosso's Pierre Gasly, unsighted, smashed into the side of the Haas.\n\nAll were unhurt, although Grosjean had to go to the medical centre for a precautionary check because the incident triggered the high impact alert in the car.\n\nGrosjean was later handed a three-place grid penalty for the next race. Hulkenberg was withering in his assessment of the Frenchman's driving.\n\n\"He didn't look great in that scenario. Generally he likes spinning, but on the first lap is not a good time to do it with everyone there. He has to look at it and do some work on himself.\"\n\nWhat happens next?\n\nMonaco in two weeks' time. Red Bull could be a major threat in qualifying for the first time this year and a close weekend is in prospect between the top three teams.\n\nWhat they said\n\nHamilton said: \"The car and myself, I felt that synergy that I hadn't been feeling all year. This is when we are going to start trying to apply the pressure. A one-two for the team. Strength in depth.\"\n\nValtteri Bottas, who finished second: \"Of course I wanted to fight for the win today but as a team it was a good race. We had such a good car and the team was so reactive with strategy. As a team this weekend we have been perfect. For me, the wins will come.\"\n\nMax Verstappen, who finished third, said: \"The car was working really well, it is hard to pass, we just stayed close and got the luck with Kimi retiring.\n\n\"The tyres were handling really well and that gave us third place. I had to keep pushing as I had Sebastian behind me.\"", "What a finale to an amazing Eurovision this year.\n\nIn the weeks leading up to the competition all the buzz was about the Israeli entry, Netta Barzilai. But in the past few days, her star seemed to have waned in favour of Cyprus’ glamourous Eleni Foureira.\n\nCertainly among the press, Netta had been written off – with Cyprus, France, Ireland and Italy thought to be the more credible acts.\n\nBy the half way point in the scoring, though, the national juries had confounded this and she was in a strong third position.\n\nAnd then for the public vote: the 25-year old gained the highest number of points possible from viewers at home.\n\nPerhaps they had seen someone, who was fun and quirky but who carried a meaningful and substantial message of accepting who you are.", "Dennis Nilsen, on the right hand side, lured his victims to his flat before killing them, often by strangulation\n\nSerial killer Dennis Nilsen, who admitted killing at least 15 people in the 1970s and 1980s, has died in prison.\n\nThe 72-year-old was jailed for life in 1983, with a recommendation he serve at least 25 years.\n\nThe former civil servant murdered and dismembered several of his victims, most of them homeless young gay men, at his home in Muswell Hill, north London.\n\nHe was convicted of six counts of murder and two of attempted murder.\n\nThe Prison Service said Nilsen, who was born in Fraserburgh in Aberdeenshire, died at HMP Full Sutton near York.\n\nThe death of Nilsen will be investigated by the Prisons and Probation Ombudsman, as is normal for custody deaths, a spokesman added.\n\nNilsen was 37 when he was arrested, after human remains were found in a blocked drain at his home.\n\nHe and other tenants in his block of flats had complained to the landlord about the smell from the drains. An inspection by a plumber found pipes packed with human flesh.\n\nDuring his trial at the Old Bailey, the court heard the remains of three bodies were found at his home and bones from at least eight bodies were found at his previous address in Melrose Avenue, Cricklewood in north-west London.\n\nThe death of Nilsen - wearing glasses - will be investigated as is normal for custody deaths\n\nHe met his victims, all of them men, in a pub and he would take them back to his flat for a drink. Most were homeless, some were homosexuals and some were prostitutes.\n\nHis trial heard how Nilsen strangled many of his victims with a tie and then disposed of the bodies, either through hiding them under the floorboards or by cutting up the body and flushing parts down the toilet.\n\nOn many occasions, he would sit with their bodies for days before he dismembered them.\n\nNilsen admitted killing at least 15 people, but he was convicted of the murders of six men:\n\nThere were others who survived.\n\nMr Nilsen spent 11 years in the Army, with some time spent in the catering corps where he learned certain butchery skills.\n\nHe later served briefly as a probationary police constable before becoming a security officer with the Manpower Services Commission in 1974.", "The prime minister has raised the cases of the dual nationals being held in Iran with the country's president.\n\nIn a telephone call, Theresa May urged Hassan Rouhani to make further progress over the release of British-Iranians \"on humanitarian grounds\".\n\nMrs May also reiterated the UK's commitment to the Iran nuclear deal, which the US pulled out of last week.\n\nDowning Street said both leaders agreed to keep in contact about both topics ahead of a Brussels meeting on Tuesday.\n\nThere are nearly 30 dual nationals being held by the Iranian authorities - many of whom are accused of security offences.\n\nLast month, London's Imperial College professor Abbas Edalat was detained while reportedly attending an academic workshop in Tehran.\n\nAnother case is that of Nazanin Zaghari Ratcliffe, who is currently serving a five-year prison sentence, after being convicted of spying charges. She has always denied the claims.\n\nMrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe was arrested in 2016 during a holiday to introduce her baby daughter Gabriella to her parents.\n\nMeanwhile, Mrs May also used the phone call to bolster the European support for the Iran nuclear deal - designed to prevent the country developing atomic weapons.\n\nUS President Donald Trump withdrew from the deal, which was one of his election pledges, but the UK, Germany and France remain \"firmly committed\" to upholding it.\n\nA Downing Street spokesman said: \"[Mrs May said] it is in both the UK and Iran's national security interests to maintain the deal and welcomed president Rouhani's public commitment to abide by its terms, adding that it is essential that Iran continues to meet its obligations.\n\n\"The prime minister made clear that the UK condemns the Iranian missile attacks against Israeli forces and called on Iran to refrain from any further attacks.\n\n\"She said it was important to avoid provocative actions to ensure peace and security in the region.\"", "It will be the American star's only UK appearance this year\n\nMariah Carey has told Blackpool \"I'll Be There\" after agreeing to make her only UK appearance this year in the seaside town.\n\nThe American diva will jet over from Las Vegas to perform at the Tower Festival Headland Arena as part of the town's Livewire Festival.\n\nThe 23-27 August event will also feature Matt Goss and Boyz II Men.\n\nCarey is one of the best-selling artists of all time, having sold more than 200 million records worldwide.\n\nGillian Campbell, deputy leader of Blackpool Council, said: \"We are thrilled at the prospect of Mariah Carey performing live in Blackpool.\n\n\"She is a world-class artist and this promises to be another sensational Livewire event over the August Bank Holiday weekend.\"\n\nLivewire Festival launched last year and saw acts including Will Smith and DJ Jazzy Jeff, and The Jacksons perform.\n\nIn April, the event suffered a blow as country music star Kenny Rogers was forced to pull out of his Saturday headline slot due to ill health.\n\nCarey will not be the only star with a Las Vegas residency bringing their show to the town in the summer - a week after her performance, Britney Spears will take to the stage on the promenade at Blackpool Tower Festival Headland.\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. Female Iraqi MP, Dr Hanan al-Fatlawi, says she's been threatened because of her work\n\nIraqis have voted in the first parliamentary elections since the government declared victory over so-called Islamic State (IS) last year.\n\nAround 7,000 candidates from rival coalition alliances are vying for seats in the 329-member assembly.\n\nThe results are scheduled to be officially announced on Monday.\n\nDespite improved security, Iraq is still struggling to rebuild itself after four years of war against IS, a BBC correspondent says.\n\nHe says whoever wins will need to keep Iraq's fragile unity in the face of sectarian and separatist tensions.\n\nPrime Minister Haider al-Abadi had called on \"all Iraqis\" to take part in the election.\n\n\"Today Iraq is powerful and unified after defeating terrorism, and this is a huge achievement for all Iraqis,\" he said after casting his vote.\n\nPrime Minister Haider al-Abadi cast his vote in the capital Baghdad\n\nIraqis voted for rival lists of candidates. Most are predominantly Shia or Sunni, though the Kurds have their own lists.\n\nThe Shia-led government has won praise for the fight against IS militants, and security has vastly improved across the country.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Many Iraqis have lost faith in their politicians\n\nBut many Iraqis are disillusioned by widespread government corruption and a weak economy, the BBC's Martin Patience reports.\n\nThere is also frustration at a perceived lack of change. One Baghdad resident said that he \"regretted\" voting in the 2014 elections because \"all the promises are lies\".\n\nReuters reported that voter turnout in several polling stations in the capital appeared low, although the government partially lifted a curfew to encourage voting.\n\nSecurity around voting centres was tight. At least three people were killed in an attack near a polling station in the northern province of Kirkuk, according to local media.\n\nPeople turned out to vote in the city of Mosul, which was severely damaged in the fight against IS\n\nThe vote came just days after US President Donald Trump pulled out of the Iran nuclear deal.\n\nSome Iraqis fear their country could once again become a casualty in any struggle between America and Iran, our correspondent adds.", "\"Sometimes bigger is better.\"\n\nThe majority of adults in the UK are classified as overweight or obese according to national health surveys.\n\nBut a plus-size model, a professional rugby player and one of the UK's strongest women tell Newsbeat it doesn't bother them that they are classed as obese or morbidly obese.\n\nThey say being bigger helps them in their life and they need to be bigger for their jobs.\n\nThere are question marks about the reliability and effectiveness of BMI (Body Mass Index), the measurement used to classify people's weight.\n\nHowever, most doctors say it works for the vast majority of people the vast majority of the time.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nRebecca says she didn't like being bigger when she was at school.\n\n\"I was called the green giant in primary school and secondary school. It made me feel really different from everyone else, I didn't embrace it, I wanted to be thinner and I wanted to be smaller.\"\n\nBut a few years ago she realised her size could be a good thing.\n\n\"It was [first] through rugby I started utilising my strength, then I started weightlifting and that's when I really knew I could use my height and weight to my advantage.\n\nRebecca now enters lots of weightlifting competitions and has been winning.\n\n\"I don't care being classified as morbidly obese because I have the opportunity to be the strongest woman that ever lived.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"If I wasn't this size I wouldn't have a job.\"\n\nFelicity was dancing to Diana Ross in an east London bar when she was scouted to model.\n\nShe's worked for brands such as Mac Cosmetics, ASOS, Accessorize, Ann Summers, Boohoo, New Look, River Island and Missguided.\n\n\"I'm a plus-size model and I have to maintain being this size as it is the sample size for all the brands that I work for.\"\n\nFelicity says she's healthy and doesn't worry about being classified as obese.\n\nShe says people always want to talk to her about her weight.\n\n\"Everyone wants to be a doctor.\n\n\"The thing is, I swim, I work out, my body is fine and I've carried this weight my whole life.\"\n\nFelicity says at school everyone was hanging up posters of Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera on their walls.\n\n\"I was always the girl with the bigger bum and I remember being in PE and being the girl that had to wear the boys' shorts.\"\n\nFelicity has this message for men and women.\n\n\"Your weight does not define you, there are so many amazing opportunities for you.\n\n\"You need to remember self-love, brings beauty.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe 20-year-old is a tighthead prop for Northampton Saints.\n\n\"Being big helps me in scrums, it means I have more momentum on the hits and means that the weight baring down on the other loose head is greater.\"\n\nGrowing up, Ehren says he embraced being bigger.\n\n\"I wasn't a big baby, but by the time I went to school I was bigger than everyone else.\n\n\"I was never self-conscious about my size because my dad always told me bigger is better.\"\n\nEhren says he doesn't care about being classified as obese.\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 man stormed the stage, grabbing SuRie's microphone at the competition in Lisbon.\n\nThe singer was left visibly shaken, but managed to complete her performance.\n\nThe European Broadcasting Union said: \"The person responsible is currently in police custody.\" SuRie declined to perform again, saying there was \"absolutely no reason to\" because she and her team were \"extremely proud of her performance\".\n\nIt is thought the same man invaded the stage at the National Television Awards this year and The Voice in 2017.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe father of four children found shot dead along with their mother in rural Western Australia has pointed the finger of blame at their grandfather.\n\nAaron Cockman said he believed that Peter Miles, 61, had not \"snapped\" but had been \"thinking this through for a long time\".\n\nThe bodies of Miles, his wife Cynda, daughter Katrina and four grandchildren were found in Osmington on Friday.\n\nPolice have said they are not looking for any other suspects.\n\nThey have not confirmed the identity of the killer but say they believe him to be among the dead.\n\nThree long firearms found at the property were licensed to Mr Miles, they say.\n\nKatrina Miles lived on the property with her parents and four children\n\nMr Cockman was estranged from Katrina Miles at the time of the killings.\n\nHe told reporters he did not feel angry about what had happened, just \"tremendous sadness for my kids. I don't want anyone to feel angry\".\n\nOf Mr Miles, he said: \"I still love who Peter was and... if it wasn't for him I wouldn't have Katrina, I wouldn't have any kids. So it's not some random guy off the street who's taken them away from me, he gave them to me and now he's taken them away\".\n\nMr Cockman said he believed that Mr Miles had been facing some difficulties. His comments came amid local media reports - citing social media posts published earlier by Katrina - that the children had autism.\n\n\"Peter has been trying to hold it together for a long time. He's just thought... I can't live anymore, so this is it for me,\" he is quoted as saying in the Sydney Morning Herald.\n\nHe said on Sunday he took some solace from knowing his children had died peacefully in their sleep but added: \"I've lost everything in my life.\"\n\nCynda Miles was well known in her community\n\nPolice say they were alerted to the killings by a phone call from a man at the property early on Friday morning.\n\nWhen they arrived, they found the bodies of Peter Miles, outside the property, Cynda, 58, in the house, and Katrina, 35, and her children, Taye, 13, Rylan, 12, Ayre, 10, and Kayden, eight, in a nearby converted shed they were living in.\n\nThe killings have rocked the tiny rural community of Osmington, which is about 20km (12 miles) from Margaret River, a popular tourist and wine-growing area.", "The Fastest Shed has lived up to its name and beat its own record time, reaching 101mph\n\nA souped-up motorised shed has broken its own land speed record on a Welsh beach as it hit 100mph.\n\nThe Fastest Shed smashed its previous 80mph (129km/h) record for the fastest shed at a land speed event at Pendine Sands in Carmarthenshire on Saturday.\n\nOwner Kevin Nicks said it was \"marvellous\" to hit 101mph (160 km/h) in what he said was the only road legal motorised shed in the world.\n\n\"It couldn't have gone better, I'm so happy,\" said the 53-year-old gardener.\n\nMr Nicks, from Chipping Norton in Oxfordshire, spent more than £13,000 creating his bespoke shed on wheels, which now boasts a turbo-charged 400 brake horsepower engine that is more powerful than many sports cars.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The souped-up shed's previous best was 80mph\n\nHe first had the idea of creating a shed on wheels in 2015 when his old Volkswagen Passat lay broken on his drive - and he thought: \"Let's see if I can do something a little different.\"\n\nThe father-of-one initially spent £5,000 and 12 months making it roadworthy so he could \"take his daughter to school and pop to the shops\".\n\n\"I did everything, build the shed, connected the engine, build the chassis,\" said Mr Nicks, who lives in the same village as motoring broadcaster Jeremy Clarkson.\n\n\"The only thing I didn't do was felt the roof! I then thought 'I wonder how fast it could go'?\n\n\"I entered a few speed events and basically floored it. I hit 80mph to break the record, including the Guinness record. But it blew up so it needed some work.\"\n\nKevin Nicks created the Fastest Shed from his old Volkswagen Passat\n\nNow two years and 20,000 miles later, Mr Nicks has splashed out an estimated £8,000 on revamping the shed with a finely-tuned Audi RS4 engine.\n\n\"I've spent all winter doing it up and putting in a new engine and suspension, it's so quick off the mark.\n\n\"I had no idea how fast it would go - and it went well. It felt comfortable at 100mph, I was pleased.\"\n\nPendine Sands is synonymous with land speed attempts since Sir Malcolm Campbell broke the record in Bluebird in the 1920s\n\nMr Nicks said it was a \"magical moment\" breaking the record at Pendine, a beach which has become synonymous with land speed attempts since Sir Malcolm Campbell broke the record in the legendary Bluebird in the 1920s.\n\nHe was joined by a host of karts, three-wheelers and the most powerful street legal motorbikes as they hope to break the UK record of 194.5mph (313 km/h).\n\nSuperbike racer Zef Eisenberg will also attempt to break the land-speed record - and the 200mph barrier - on sand on his supercharged Suzuki Hayabusa.\n\n\"Pendine Sands is a notoriously difficult race track,\" said Eisenberg. \"Competitors have no idea what the surface is like until the tide goes out.\n\n\"It's not just the high-end engineering that makes breaking records on Pendine Sands difficult. As Pendine is a Ministry of Defence test fire site, you'll often end up encountering unexploded ordnance alongside giant washed-up jellyfish.\"\n\nEisenberg, from Guernsey, almost died after breaking the land speed record for a turbine bike 18 months ago as he crashed at 230mph (370km/h) and was in hospital for three months.\n\n\"No one in history, car or bike has ever exceeded 200mph on the sand at Pendine,\" he added.\n\n\"It's the holy grail of speed, where the best speed racers in the world have tried.\"", "Thousands of people have joined a trade union march calling for a \"new deal\" for workers and public services.\n\nThe central-London demonstration, led by the Trades Union Congress, highlighted demands for better pay and job security.\n\nTUC research said the UK's real wage squeeze would be the worst in modern history and the slowest for 200 years.\n\nThe government said its policies had boosted pay for the lowest earners and meant workers could keep more of it.\n\nDemonstrators gathering at Saturday's march called for a higher minimum wage of £10 an hour, a ban on zero-hours contracts and greater funding for the NHS, education and other public services.\n\nAt a rally in Hyde Park at the end of the march, Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn told the crowd that his party would create a ministry to guarantee worker's rights.\n\n\"We will give workers more power by strengthening their rights and freedoms to organise together to improve their lives,\" he said.\n\nHe blamed eight years of government cuts for the lack of wage growth. \"They protect the tax havens and cut the spending for public services,\" Mr Corbyn said.\n\nThousands upon thousands of people marched through London's streets, some dancing, playing drums, shouting slogans and carrying banners aloft.\n\nNurses, teachers, office workers, ambulance crews, civil servants and cleaners joined the noisy and colourful demonstration.\n\nAs they arrived for the rally in Hyde Park the rain began and it became more like a festival in a soggy field. There were food stalls, bands playing and speeches from union leaders and peace campaigners.\n\nThe star of the show, Jeremy Corbyn - wearing a cream jacket and a big smile - was cheered like a pop star. The applause was long and loud.\n\nMark Serwotka, general secretary of the PCS union, told the crowd that 150,000 civil servants could ballot for strike action after members were offered a below-inflation 1% pay rise for the 11th year running.\n\nTUC general secretary Frances O'Grady said: \"There is a new mood in the country. People have been very patient but they are now demanding a new deal.\"\n\nMeanwhile, research published by TUC suggested wages in the UK had lagged behind inflation since 2008, and were worth £24 less in real terms than in 2008.\n\nMcDonald's workers marched to highlight their cause\n\nThe TUC also said wages would not recover until 2025, by which time, it said, the average worker would have lost £18,500.\n\nThe TUC's deputy general secretary Paul Nowack told the BBC that 17 years of falling wages in real terms amounted to the biggest relative wage loss since the Napoleonic Wars.\n\nIn the last eight years, a million more children from working families were living \"below the breadline\", he said.\n\n\"I don't think it's right that people who go out and work are struggling to put food on the table.\"\n\nElsewhere, economists said the slow wage growth was a result of low productivity in the UK, rather than austerity policies.\n\nPaul Johnson, director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies, told the BBC: \"That means that the amount we produce for each hour we work is basically the same as it was in 2008. If we're not producing any more, we're not in the end going to be able to earn any more.\"\n\nTens of thousands of workers joined the TUC demonstration, making it the largest in years\n\nA Treasury spokesperson said wages were forecast to grow faster than inflation in each of the next five years, and that government policies were helping British workers.\n\n\"Our National Living Wage has boosted pay for the lowest earners by over £2,000 already; we are cutting taxes to help people keep more of what they earn; and we are making sure people have the skills they need to secure high-quality, well-paid jobs by investing in technical education and boosting apprenticeships.\"\n\nThe TUC said its figures were based on annual average weekly earnings for total pay (including bonuses) adjusted with the CPI measure of inflation, which were then compared with long-run back data published by the Bank of England.\n\nThe forward-looking ones were based on the Office for Budget Responsibility forecast to 2022, and then a projection to 2025 using the average forecast growth rate for the 2018-22 period.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A support vehicle crashed through a traffic island during the final stage of the race.\n\nA Tour de Yorkshire race marshal who had to leap out of the path of a support car said he had a sleepless night wondering how the car missed.\n\nPhillip Sullivan was volunteering in Leeds on the final stage of the four-day race when the crash occurred.\n\nA car for the Astana race team narrowly missed him as it went over the traffic island he was standing on.\n\nMr Sullivan was unhurt and said he did not want the crash to \"tarnish the Tour de Yorkshire\".\n\nHe was working as a flag marshal behind a bollard on the traffic island to warn cyclists of the hazard.\n\nMr Sullivan, 35, said: \"I am still thinking how close it was, but luckily I do not have a scratch.\"\n\nPhillip Sullivan said he would volunteer to work at the event again\n\nAfter the near-miss he composed himself and took his place again because he \"knew the riders were coming and I had a job to do\".\n\nHe said: \"But I do want it investigated, I don't want something like this to ever happen again and it to lead to someone getting killed.\"\n\nA spokesperson for Welcome to Yorkshire - one of the organisers of the race - said it had \"launched an immediate investigation to determine the facts of exactly what happened\".\n\nThe final stage started at the Piece Hall in Halifax\n\nMr Sullivan revealed his mother was watching the race further down the road and saw the crash. She only realised he was unhurt when he took his place again.\n\n\"It felt like it was in slow motion and it was sheer luck the car missed,\" he said.\n\nMr Sullivan said he had watched a video of his near-miss and worried about the driver of the car.\n\nThe Luxembourg-based Astana team said it was \"deeply sorry\" and has telephoned Mr Sullivan.\n\nMore than two million spectators watched the 2018 Tour de Yorkshire.", "A restaurant in Bristol has started serving straws made out of pasta with its drinks.\n\nBrace and Browns on Whiteladies Road says it uses them to cut down on plastic.\n\nIt says people allergic to gluten should not use them but that the general reaction has been positive.", "Travellers from affluent countries are a key part of emissions growth in tourism\n\nA new study says global tourism accounts for 8% of carbon emissions, around three times greater than previous estimates.\n\nThe new assessment is bigger because it includes emissions from travel, plus the full life-cycle of carbon in tourists' food, hotels and shopping.\n\nDriving the increase are visitors from affluent countries who travel to other wealthy destinations.\n\nThe US tops the rankings followed by China, Germany and India.\n\nTourism is a huge and booming global industry worth over $7 trillion, and employs one in ten workers around the world. It's growing at around 4% per annum.\n\nPrevious estimates of the impact of all this travel on carbon suggested that tourism accounted for 2.5-3% of emissions.\n\nHowever in what is claimed to be the most comprehensive assessment to date, this new study examines the global carbon flows between 160 countries between 2009 and 2013. It shows that the total is closer to 8% of the global figure.\n\nAs well as air travel, the authors say they have included an analysis of the energy needed to support the tourism system, including all the food, beverage, infrastructure construction and maintenance as well as the retail services that tourists enjoy.\n\n\"It definitely is eye opening,\" Dr Arunima Malik from the University of Sydney, who's the lead author of the study, told BBC News.\n\n\"We looked at really detailed information about tourism expenditure, including consumables such as food from eating out and souvenirs. We looked at the trade between different countries and also at greenhouse gas emissions data to come up with a comprehensive figure for the global carbon footprint for tourism.\"\n\nThe researchers also looked at the impacts in both the countries where tourists came from and where they travelled. They found that the most important element was relatively well off people from affluent countries travelling to other well to do destinations.\n\nIn the leading countries, US, China, Germany and India, much of the travel was domestic.\n\nTravellers from Canada, Switzerland, the Netherlands and Denmark exert a much higher carbon footprint elsewhere than in their own countries.\n\nSmall island states like the Maldives are hugely dependent on long distance tourism\n\nWhen richer people travel they tend to spend more on higher carbon transportation, food and pursuits says Dr Malik.\n\n\"If you have visitors from high income countries then they typically spend heavily on air travel, on shopping and hospitality where they go to. But if the travellers are from low income countries then they spend more on public transport and unprocessed food, the spending patterns are different for the different economies they come from.\"\n\nWhen measuring per capita emissions, small island destinations such as the Maldives, Cyprus and the Seychelles emerge as the leading lights. In these countries tourism is responsible for up to 80% of their annual emissions.\n\n\"The small island states are in a difficult position because we like travelling to these locations and those small island states very much rely on tourist income but they are also at the same time vulnerable to the effects of rising seas and climate change,\" said Dr Malik.\n\nDemand for international tourism is also being seen in emerging countries like Brazil, India, China and Mexico, highlighting a fundamental problem - wealth.\n\nThe report underlines the fact that when people earn more than $40,000 per annum, their carbon footprint from tourism increase 13% for every 10% rise in income. The consumption of tourism does \"not appear to satiate as incomes grow,\" the report says.\n\nThe World Travel and Tourism Council (WTTC) has welcomed the research but doesn't accept that the industry's efforts to cut carbon have been a flop.\n\nAs countries get wealthier their citizens' appetite for global travel rapidly increases\n\n\"It would be unfair to say that the industry is not doing anything,\" said Rochelle Turner, director of research at WTTC.\n\n\"We've seen a growing number of hotels, airports and tour operators that have all become carbon neutral so there is a momentum.\"\n\nExperts say that offsetting, where tourists spend money on planting trees to mitigate their carbon footprint will have to increase, despite reservations about its effectiveness.\n\nAwareness is also the key. The WTTC say that the recent water crisis in Cape Town has also helped people recognise that changes in climate can impact resources like water.\n\n\"There is a real need for people to recognise what their impact is in a destination,\" said Rochelle Turner, \"and how much water, waste and energy you should be using compared to the local population.\"\n\n\"All of this will empower tourists to make better decisions and only through those better decisions that we'll be able to tackle the issue of climate change.\"\n\nThe study is published in the journal Nature Climate Change.", "Jean-Marc Janaillac tendered his resignation after staff at the airline rejected a new pay deal.\n\nShares in Air France fell 14% in early Monday trading, reacting to the latest events at the troubled airline.\n\nIt was the first chance investors had had to respond to chief executive Jean-Marc Janaillac's resignation and comments by France's economy minister.\n\nMr Janaillac's move came after staff at the loss-making airline rejected a new pay deal and continued their industrial action in pursuit of a 5.1% pay rise.\n\nAnd on Sunday, minister Bruno Le Maire warned Air France could \"disappear\".\n\nThe French government owns 14.3% of the Air France-KLM parent group.\n\nMonday's walk-out is the 14th day of action.\n\nDespite the strike, the airline insisted that it would be able to maintain 99% of long-haul flights on Monday, 80% of medium-haul services and 87% of short-haul flights.\n\nThe government's response is seen as a test of labour reforms launched by French President Emmanuel Macron. There have also been strikes at the state-owned SNCF rail company.\n\nMr Le Maire told French news channel BFM TV: \"I call on everyone to be responsible: crew, ground staff, and pilots who are asking for unjustified pay hikes.\n\n\"The survival of Air France is in the balance,\" he said, adding that the state would not serve as a backstop for the airline's debts.\n\n\"Air France will disappear if it does not make the necessary efforts to be competitive,\" he warned.\n\nEmployees of Air France-KLM's French operations have staged a series of strikes in recent days\n\nAir France-KLM reported a net loss of €269m (£238m) in the first quarter of the year.\n\nBritish Airways and Lufthansa have already undergone heavy cost-cutting in recent years, amid rising competition from low-cost airlines and carriers from the Gulf states.\n\nBut many analysts say Air France has lagged far behind in restructuring and has failed to address its continued losses.\n\nThe group has already downgraded expectations of its financial performance for 2018.\n\nAir France merged with Dutch carrier KLM in 2004. The joint company flies tens of millions of passengers around the world every year.", "Amy is part of a Cambridge University study tracking 40 people with Down's syndrome to try to find a treatment for Alzheimer's.\n\nPeople with Down's syndrome are at greater risk of Alzheimer's, and of developing it earlier than others, and Amy told the Today programme she hopes she can help scientists find a treatment for Alzheimer's.\n\nClick here for the audio described version.", "Russia's Vladimir Putin walked down long Kremlin corridors to get to his swearing-in ceremony.\n\nHe also took a short ride in a new Russian limousine, called a Cortege.\n\nRussian TV showed the start of his fourth presidential term live.\n\nPutin sworn in for fourth term as president", "Vladimir Putin has won yet another term as president of Russia.", "Rhyhiem Ainsworth Barton was \"trying to make a difference\" by learning to work with children, his mother said\n\nThe mother of a 17-year-old boy who was killed over the weekend has called for an end to violence on London's streets.\n\n\"Let my son be the last and be an example to everyone. Just let it stop,\" said Pretana Morgan, whose son Rhyhiem was shot in Southwark on Saturday.\n\nThe teenager was one of five people shot in the capital over the bank holiday weekend.\n\nHome Secretary Sajid Javid said serious violence was \"robbing too many young people of their futures\".\n\nIn Wealdstone, three people, including two boys aged 13 and 15, were injured, and a 22-year-old was shot in Lewisham.\n\nThe 13-year-old was believed to be an \"innocent bystander\", police said.\n\nNone of them has injuries which are considered to be life-threatening.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or 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\nIn the latest incident, a 43-year-old man was stabbed in Ealing after a dispute over a man's driving on a residential street.\n\nScotland Yard said the victim - who is in a stable condition in hospital - was thought to have been attacked after questioning the driving of the suspect, who then drove away.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Pretana Morgan, Rhyhiem Ainsworth Barton's mother: \"Please just stop it now\"\n\nRhyhiem Ainsworth Barton, who was found in Warham Street, Southwark, was reportedly shot while playing football with friends and died at the scene on Saturday evening.\n\nWitnesses told the BBC a number of shots were fired, including one that missed a woman and went through a window.\n\nNo arrests have been made as part of the murder probe.\n\nHis mother, Pretana Morgan, said she \"couldn't have asked for a better son\". She said he was not in a gang and aspired to be an architect.\n\nSouthwark Borough Commander, Simon Messinger, said the violence had \"rightly caused concern\" and the \"fast-paced\" investigation was \"progressing all the time\".\n\nHe said additional officers would be on patrol for the rest of the weekend, supported by armed response officers on motorcycles, dog units and air support.\n\nLondon Mayor Sadiq Khan said he refused to accept that nothing can be done to stem the \"appalling rise of violent crime\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Mayor of London This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. 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End of twitter post 2 by Mayor of London\n\nRhyheim's death came less than 24 hours before two other teenage boys were shot on Sunday on a street in north-west London.\n\nA 13-year-old boy suffered a shotgun pellet wound to the head and was later discharged from hospital.\n\nA 15-year-old was also injured in a gun attack and remains in hospital being treated for a head injury.\n\nPolice said a third victim was also hit in the arm, but has not come forward.\n\nA Scotland Yard spokeswoman said they were investigating whether the incidents, which occurred at two separate locations on Wealdstone High Street, were linked.\n\nHarrow Borough Commander Det Ch Supt Simon Rose added: \"This was a callous, reckless and brazen act, without any thought by those responsible for the fact that there were families with children and people in the high street enjoying their weekend.\n\n\"This was quite simply, appalling.\"\n\nA 39-year-old man was arrested on Sunday and has now been released under investigation.\n\nThe two boys were shot on Wealdstone High Street\n\nIn a separate attack, a 22-year-old suffered non life-threatening wounds in a shooting in New Cross Road, Lewisham, at about 18:30.\n\nThere have been no arrests in any of the cases.\n\nThe BBC's home affairs correspondent Danny Shaw said the Met could take short-term measures, such as increasing the number of officers on patrol and using stop and search powers, to deter people carrying weapons.\n\nHowever, he said, it would be down to politicians and community leaders to tackle the longer-term issue of violence on the capital's streets.\n\nElsewhere, two men died in stabbings in Liverpool and Luton during the bank holiday weekend.\n\nA 20-year-old man, who was stabbed in Liverpool city centre early on Sunday, has been named as Fatah Warsame, from Cardiff.\n\nAnother victim, also aged 20, was killed in Bishopscote Road in Luton on Sunday evening.\n\nLabour MP David Lammy tweeted: \"Enough. Enough. My heart goes out to families grieving children and teenagers. So many shattered lives, families and communities.\"\n\nOfficial statistics released in April showed the number of homicides in London had surged by 44% in the last year.\n\nThe number rose from 109 to 157 - eight of which were a result of the terror attacks at Westminster Bridge, London Bridge and Finsbury Park.\n\nMore than 60 people have been killed in the capital this year - of which about half were the result of stabbings.\n\nA former Met Police Superintendent, Leroy Logan, said the \"growing crisis\" had seen \"younger and younger people\" being groomed by negative peer groups and gangs.\n\nHe told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that education was the key to stopping young people buying into \"the thug life and all the glamorisation of that sort of violent lifestyle\".\n\nCriminologist Anthony Gunter, from the University of East London, said the government didn't \"have a real handle or understanding of what's going on and what to do about it\".\n\nFormer gang member Darryl Laycock, who has been shot on three occasions and stabbed seven times, said he lost more than 30 of his friends to gun crime.\n\nHis work includes trying to divert young people away from street violence.\n\nHe told BBC Radio 5 Live more money should be invested in youth centres to give children something to do \"so they're not on the street getting mixed up in postcode wars\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. One drug dealer told Ed Thomas why he carries a loaded gun\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson will have two days of talks with White House officials\n\nBoris Johnson is visiting Washington to urge the US not to scrap the international deal designed to prevent Iran acquiring nuclear weapons.\n\nThe UK and its European allies have until 12 May to persuade President Donald Trump to stick with the deal.\n\nMr Trump has strongly criticised the agreement, which he calls \"insane\".\n\nIn a call with Theresa May on Saturday, the president \"underscored his commitment to ensure that Iran never acquires a nuclear weapon\".\n\nIn the landmark deal - signed by the US, China, Russia, Germany, France, the UK and Iran - the latter agrees to limit its nuclear activities in return for the easing of sanctions on its economy.\n\nEuropean allies France, the UK and Germany all agree the current deal is the best way to stop Iran developing nuclear weapons and the UN also warned Mr Trump not to walk away from the deal.\n\nBut Mr Trump has threatened to withdraw unless the signatories agree to \"fix the deal's disastrous flaws.\"\n\nThe British Ambassador to the US says France, UK and Germany have been working together for weeks to figure out a new way to address Mr Trump's concerns that the terms of the agreement are too lenient.\n\nHowever, Sir Kim Darroch insists all three countries are looking at how a deal would work even without the US.\n\nIran's President Hassan Rouhani says the US will face \"historic regret\" if it pulls out.\n\nIn remarks carried live on state television, he said Iran had \"a plan to counter any decision Trump may take and we will confront it\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A timeline of what Trump's said about the Iran deal\n\nMr Johnson will meet US Vice-President Mike Pence, National Security Adviser John Bolton and foreign policy leaders in Congress.\n\nAhead of the trip, Mr Johnson said the UK and US are \"in lockstep\" on many global foreign policy issues, citing the response to the use of chemical weapons in Syria and the Salisbury poisonings.\n\nHe added: \"The UK, US and European partners are also united in our effort to tackle the kind of Iranian behaviour that makes the Middle East region less secure - its cyber activities, its support for groups like Hezbollah, and its dangerous missile programme, which is arming Houthi militias in Yemen.\"\n\nThe UK-US talks come after Israel revealed \"secret nuclear files\" accusing Iran of having run a secret nuclear weapons programme, which was reportedly mothballed 15 years ago.\n\nUS Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said the documents were authentic and show the 2015 Iran nuclear deal was \"built on lies\".\n\nIran, in turn, accused Mr Netanyahu of lying. Foreign Minister Javad Zarif said the documents produced by Israel were a rehash of old allegations already dealt with by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the UN's nuclear watchdog.\n\nMr Trump has until the deadline of 12 May to make a decision on the deal - the next deadline for waiving sanctions.\n\nEarlier this month, Mr Johnson said it was important to keep the deal \"while building on it in order to take account of the legitimate concerns of the US\".\n\nMr Johnson's discussions are also expected to cover the crisis in Syria and also North Korea, ahead of Mr Trump's meeting with Kim Jong-un, which now has a date and location arranged.", "Olaf Breuning's Clouds are offset against the sky\n\nVisitor numbers to UK sculpture parks have increased significantly in the past five years, according to The Arts Council England.\n\nStatistics from five leading sculpture parks and attractions show a major increase in footfall, as more people become interested in outdoor art and larger pieces of work.\n\nYorkshire Sculpture Park saw its numbers rise from 350,000 to 500,000 in the past five years and Cass in West Sussex has seen its visitor numbers nearly double.\n\nJupiter Artland, a sculpture park near Edinburgh, New Art Centre in Wiltshire and the Folkestone Triennial have all seen their popularity rise too.\n\nNew Art Centre in Wiltshire has seen visitor numbers increase\n\nClare Lilley, director of programme at Yorkshire Sculpture Park, believes this is down to more people wanting to see and experience art outside the confines of a white-walled gallery.\n\n\"A sculpture park is a place where people can access contemporary and modern art incredibly easily.\n\nThere are no walls or doors so there's nothing stopping you from going into these green spaces and getting close to the sculptures and enjoying them in all seasons.\n\nI've seen people embracing sculptures and hugging Henry Moores, it's such a wonderful sensory and physical experience.\"\n\nCelebrated contemporary artists such as Ai Weiwei are now displaying works in sculpture parks\n\nAs well as works from master sculptors, the parks attract art from contemporary artists such as Antony Gormley, Ai Weiwei and Anish Kapoor.\n\nPhyllida Barlow, who represented Britain at the 2017 Venice Biennale, has created her first permanent outdoor sculpture to celebrate the 10th birthday of Jupiter Artland. Her artwork will be unveiled this week.\n\nShe said: \"It's been exhilarating and challenging working in the Scottish woodlands in the freezing rain and mud. There's a sense of liberation not having any gallery ceilings and working beyond a frame looking up towards the sky.\"\n\n\"I hope people who stumble upon this are curious.\"\n\nPhyllida's sculpture will join a growing number of larger-scale pieces currently being exhibited around the country.\n\nPhyllida Barlow worked in the warmth of her studio on the maquette for her new piece\n\nHelen Turner, curator of Cass Sculpture Park, believes that as people become more art literate they want to experience bigger and more ambitious sculptures, in which they can become fully immersed.\n\n\"Gigantic works can often have a humbling effect on us and make us feel very small in this world which I think is beautifully poetic. It's a bit like looking up at the cosmos; they put you in your place and remind you that life is short and not to take the small things too seriously.\"\n\nJake and Dinos Chapman created The Meek Shall Inherit the Earth but not the Mineral Rights\n\nFor the sculptor Sean Henry, smaller works can also have a big impact.\n\n\"A small Giacometti figure can have the same power as the Angel of the North.\"\n\n\"When you put your work in a park people will immediately voice their opinion and it seems more real and alive. With sculpture we have an emotional response that's more connected when we're outside with it,\" he said.\n\nThere are 80 identical two-metre tall graphite figures in Yorkshire Sculpture Park\n\nNot all sculptures have to be large to have an impact says sculptor Sean Henry\n\nWhile sculpture parks are not a new concept, artist Laura Ford feels they've come a long way since she was a student and are less formal.\n\n\"The idea of showing in a sculpture park seemed like the kiss of death. Now there's a different generation of people that have come out of a different way of curating outdoors, it's much more eclectic and interesting to me. I can reach a wider audience.\"\n\nBut she warns \"You need to wax and look after them,\" Bird poo is the worst, but apart from that they're pretty robust. The patina of age and being outdoors can often add to it.\"\n\nBeing outdoors means the sculptures have to be \"waxed and looked after\" says artist Laura Ford\n\nThere are now more than 30 sculpture parks and trails in the UK including pop-up parks across London.\n\nAccording to Clare Lilley, who launched Regent's Park pop up park sculpture space last summer, outdoor art is here to stay:\n\n\"People are putting sculpture parks into deserts, into mountains, there's even an underwater sculpture park in the Caribbean. It's definitely not a passing fad.\"\n\nShe added: \"These are places where people come to seek solace and beauty, where children explore and play and where people have conversations with complete strangers which they wouldn't in a gallery. This is something different\"\n\nLynn Chadwick's Diamond provides sharp relief among the countryside and wildlife\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 two boys were shot on Wealdstone High Street\n\nTwo boys aged 13 and 15 have been shot in north-west London.\n\nThe 15-year-old was found wounded in Wealdstone High Street at about 13:15 BST.\n\nMinutes later paramedics alerted police officers to the 13-year-old, who had also been shot on the same road. They are both in hospital.\n\nThe shootings come after Rhyhiem Ainsworth Barton, 17, was shot dead in the street in Southwark on Saturday evening while playing football.\n\nHis mother Pretana Morgan said he \"had so much potential\" and added that she \"couldn't have asked for a better son\".\n\nA jacket lies on the pavement at the junction of Palmerston Road and Wealdstone High Street\n\nPalmerston Road, just off Wealdstone High Street, was blocked off with police tape and manned by uniformed officers on Sunday evening.\n\nThe Met Police said the younger victim had suffered a shotgun pellet wound to the head.\n\nThe 15-year-old also suffered a head injury but neither was thought to be in a life-threatening condition, the force added.\n\nA shopkeeper said the 13-year-old was \"lucky to be alive\" and they believed a bullet had grazed the back of his head.\n\n\"He was holding his head down. I could not see his face but could see his white T-shirt was proper covered in blood,\" he added.\n\nIn a separate attack, a 22-year-old suffered non life-threatening wounds in a shooting in New Cross Road, Lewisham, at about 18:30.\n\nThere have been no arrests in any of the cases.\n\nForensics teams are at the scene in Wealdstone\n• None London killings: Why are they happening?\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A support vehicle crashed through a traffic island and narrowly missed a volunteer during the final stage of the Tour de Yorkshire cycle race.\n\nIt happened on the fourth day of the event as cyclists headed towards the finish line in Leeds, West Yorkshire.\n\nVolunteer Phillip Sullivan said he was shaken but unhurt after leaping out of the way, and wanted to make sure the driver of the car was OK.\n\nRace organisers have been contacted for comment.", "A vintage light aeroplane has made an emergency landing on a beach after its engine failed.\n\nPilot Zac Rockey was praised for safely navigating onto the sand at Jacobs Ladder, Devon, which backs onto a tall steep cliff.", "Stunning colours in Barnt Green in Worcestershire, where temperatures reached 23C\n\nMuch of the UK has seen sunshine and blue skies ahead of the early May Bank Holiday Monday, which forecasters say could be the hottest on record.\n\nPeople have been enjoying the sun, with some roads busy and train services packed as crowds head to the coast.\n\nTemperatures peaked at 26C in Northolt in north west London.\n\nCyclists pass Belvoir Castle, Leicestershire ahead of an early May Bank Holiday Monday which could break temperature records\n\nMeanwhile, Wales saw a top temperature of 23.6C in Llysdinam, Powys, and in Scotland the mercury reached 21.8C in Edinburgh.\n\nIn Northern Ireland, the highest recorded was 20.8C in Katesbridge.\n\nThe warmest early May Bank Holiday Monday on record was 23.6C, in 1999 - and this Monday could be the hottest since 1978, when the holiday was first introduced. The average high for the May Bank Holiday in London is about 18C.\n\nThe scene at Fisherrow Harbour in Musselburgh, East Lothian, was a serene picture of blue\n\nSo many people decided to head to Brighton and other South Coast seaside destinations that Southern Rail \"strongly advised\" passengers not to travel. Engineering work had seen trains replaced by replacement bus services\n\nFour retired firefighters, members of a group set up to preserve a former London Fire Brigade engine, enjoy the Brighton seafront after travelling from London\n\nThe sun shines brightly in a garden in Manchester, where temperatures rose to 23C\n\nNot a cloud in the sky above Chichester in West Sussex, where temperatures are expected to stay at a pleasant 23C on Monday\n\nAnd also in Chichester, Itchenor Sailing Club shared this photo of the harbour where they are hosting an open day\n\nThe sea was glistening off the coast of Paignton in Devon, photographed by a runner\n\nBut some snow remained on the mountain of Ben Ledi in Perthshire - although hillwalkers enjoyed clear views and spells of sunshine\n\nMeanwhile in Poole, Dorset, this exotic sunset scene looks like it is straight out of a holiday brochure\n\nMany walkers made the most of the clear skies and took to the hills in the Brecon Beacons\n\nSunday in London began with a glorious red sunrise, pictured here over the city from Richmond Park\n• None How hot is it where you are?", "Jay-Z's mum has spoken of how supportive her son was when she told him she was gay.\n\nGloria Carter told an audience at the GLAAD Media Awards that it was the first time she's spoken to anyone about who she really was.\n\nThe mother-of-four was presented with a special recognition gong for her contribution to his song Smile, released last year.\n\nShe said: \"Smile became a reality because I shared with my son who I am.\"\n\nThe GLAAD Media Awards recognise people and organisations for their fair, accurate and inclusive representations of the LGBT community and the issues that affect their lives.\n\n\"My son cried and said: 'It must have been horrible to live that way for so long.'\"\n\n\"I chose to protect my family from ignorance. I was happy but I was not free.\"\n\nJay-Z has previously told how he cried with joy when his mother spoke to him about being a lesbian and of being in love with her female partner.\n\nIn the song on the rapper's latest 4:44 album he says: \"Mama had four kids, but she's a lesbian/Had to pretend so long that she's a thespian. Had to hide in the closet, so she medicate/Society shame and the pain was too much to take.\"\n\nHe told US talk show host David Letterman: \"For my mother to have to live as someone that she wasn't and hide and like, protect her kids — and didn't want to embarrass her kids... for all this time.\n\n\"For her to sit in front of me and tell me, 'I think I love someone'. I mean, I really cried,\" he told the David Letterman Netflix show.\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\nHe said he had long known she was gay, but the pair only had their first conversation about it last year.\n\nTheir chat came about while Jay-Z was making his latest album 4.44.\n\n\"This was the first time we had the conversation, and the first time I heard her say she loved her partner,\" he said.\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.", "Beach lifeguards from the UK have been training volunteer lifesavers in developing countries such as The Gambia and the Philippines.\n\nThe scheme is part of the RNLI's aim to reduce drowning deaths around the world.", "Texas has executed far more people than any other US state, and one former employee of the state has watched hundreds of executions unfold. She speaks to Ben Dirs about the profound effect that had on her.\n\nIt is 18 years since Michelle Lyons watched Ricky McGinn die. But it still makes her cry.\n\nWhen she least expects it, she'll see McGinn's mother, in her Sunday best, her hands pressed against the glass of the death chamber. Dressed to the nines to watch her son get executed. Some farewell party.\n\nFor 12 years - first as a newspaper reporter, then as a spokesperson for the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) - it was part of Lyons' job to witness every execution carried out by the state.\n\nBetween 2000 and 2012, Lyons saw almost 300 men and women die on the gurney, violent lives being brought to a peaceful conclusion, two needles trumping the damage done.\n\nLyons witnessed her first execution when she was 22. After seeing Javier Cruz die, she wrote in her journal: \"I was completely fine with it. Am I supposed to be upset?\"\n\nShe thought her sympathy was best set aside for more worthy causes, such as the two elderly men Cruz bludgeoned to death with a hammer.\n\n\"Witnessing executions was just part of my job,\" says Lyons, whose cathartic memoir, Death Row: The Final Minutes, which I collaborated on, has just been published.\n\n\"I was pro-death penalty, I thought it was the most appropriate punishment for certain crimes. And because I was young and bold, everything was black and white.\n\n\"If I had started exploring how the executions made me feel while I was seeing them, gave too much thought to the emotions that were in play, how would I have been able to go back into that room, month after month, year after year?\"\n\nSince 1924, every execution in the state has taken place in the small east Texas city of Huntsville. There are seven prisons in Huntsville, including the Walls Unit, an imposing Victorian building which houses the death chamber.\n\nIn 1972, the Supreme Court suspended the death penalty on the grounds that it was a cruel and unusual punishment but within months some states were rewriting statutes to reinstate it.\n\nTexas brought it back less than two years later and soon adopted lethal injection as its new means of execution. In 1982, Charlie Brooks was the first offender to be put to death by needles.\n\nCrime makes Huntsville honest, and has earned it a reputation as the \"capital punishment capital of the world\". Certain journalists, usually from Europe, have written of the pervasive sense of death in the town, but they clearly arrived armed with an agenda.\n\nHuntsville is a neat little place, set amid the beautiful Piney Woods, on the buckle of the Bible Belt. There are churches everywhere, the locals are polite, and you could spend a few days in the city without ever knowing it was where bad folk met their maker.\n\nWhatever you imagine an execution witness to be like, Lyons isn't it. Over beers in Time Out Sports Bar - the sort of dive you might see on a documentary about a shooting in small-town America - Lyons speaks 19 to the dozen about any subject you fancy. Smart, cultured, and possessing a rapid-fire wit, she makes a mockery of that lazy British stereotype about Americans not doing irony. With Lyons, you bring your A game or get buried.\n\nBut when the conversation turns to the things she saw in the death chamber, sass gives way to vulnerability and it's not difficult to detect the toll it took.\n\nIn 2000, Texas carried out 40 executions, a record for the most in a single year by an individual state, and almost as many as the rest of United States combined.\n\nLyons, in her role as a prison reporter for The Huntsville Item, witnessed 38 of them. But her apparent nonchalance, which manifested itself in blithe entries in her journal, was merely a short-term coping mechanism.\n\n\"When I look at my execution notes now, I can see that things bothered me. But any misgivings I had, I shoved into a suitcase in my mind, which I kicked into a corner. It was the numbness that preserved me and kept me going.\"\n\nReading those early journal entries, it's the mundanities that jump out at you. Carl Heiselbetz Jr, who murdered a mother and her daughter, was still wearing his glasses on the gurney.\n\nBetty Lou Beets, who buried husbands in her garden as if they were dead pets, had tiny little feet. Thomas Mason, who murdered his wife's mother and grandmother, looked like Lyons' grandfather.\n\n\"Watching the final moments of someone's life and their soul leaving their body never becomes mundane or normal. But Texas was executing offenders with such frequency that it had perfected it and removed the theatre.\"\n\nThat is not to say Lyons took her job lightly. And when she joined TDCJ's public information office in 2001, her duties became more onerous. Now, Lyons wasn't only telling the people of Huntsville, she was telling the rest of the United States - and the world - what went on in the Texas death chamber.\n\nLyons described the procedure as like watching someone going to sleep, which was a great disappointment to some victims' loved ones, who thought \"Old Sparky\" - the electric chair, by which 361 offenders were put to death between 1924 and 1964 - put on a better show than the less theatrical lethal injection.\n\nThe room where lethal injections take place\n\nBut she also had to relay the desperate pleas for forgiveness, the anguished apologies and outlandish claims of innocence, as well as Biblical passages, quotes from rock songs, even the occasional joke (in 2000, Billy Hughes went out with, \"If I'm paying my debt to society, I am due a rebate and a refund\"). Rarely did Lyons hear anger, and only once did she hear an inmate sobbing.\n\nShe heard the sounds of offenders' last breaths - a cough, or a gasp, or a rattle - as the drugs did their work and their lungs collapsed, pushing the air out like a set of bellows. And after the inmate had died, she watched them turn purple.\n\nLyons received letters and emails from all over the world, from people condemning her for taking part in \"state sponsored murder\". Sometimes she wrote back, angrily telling them to keep their noses out of Texas' business.\n\n\"Pretty much the whole world beyond America thought it was weird that we were still putting people to death. European journalists would often use the word 'killing' instead of 'executing'. They thought we were murdering people.\"\n\nThere were occasional circuses, such as when Gary Graham was put to death in 2000 and the world's media descended on Huntsville, along with Jesse Jackson, Bianca Jagger, the New Black Panthers, toting AK-47s, and the Ku Klux Klan, in full regalia.\n\nGraham robbed 13 different victims in less than a week, pistol-whipped two of them, shot one in the neck and struck another with the car he was stealing from him. The final victim in his spree was kidnapped, robbed and raped.\n\nNone of this is disputed, because Graham pleaded guilty to the charges. However, he denied committing a murder at the start of his rampage. Lyons thought there were more deserving poster boys for the anti-death penalty movement.\n\nThe execution of Gary Graham sparked bitter protests in Huntsville in 2000\n\nBut sometimes, an offender's last moments were witnessed by a few prison staff and a sole journalist from the Associated Press.\n\nAs the drugs started flowing, there were no loved ones, either of the offender or his victims, to see him die. Even the local newspaper might not send a reporter. The state was carrying out the ultimate bureaucratic act on their doorstep and most of the citizens of Huntsville had no idea it was happening.\n\nA condemned man or woman might be on death row for decades, so Lyons got to know some of them well, including serial killers, child murderers and rapists. Not all of them were monsters, and she came to like a few of them, and she even thought they might have been friends, had they met in the free world.\n\nAfter Napoleon Beazley, who was only 17 when he murdered the father of a federal judge, was executed in 2002, Lyons cried all the way home.\n\n\"Not only did I get the sense that Napoleon wouldn't have been in any more trouble, I thought he could have been a productive member of society.\n\n\"I was rooting for him to win his appeals, but felt guilty about feeling that way. It was a heinous crime, and had I been the victim's family, I'd have absolutely wanted Napoleon to be executed. Did I have any right to feel sympathy for Napoleon, when Napoleon hadn't taken anything from me?\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The five ways the US executes - in 45 secs\n\nBut it was when Lyons became pregnant in 2004 that ambivalence began to set in and the mask began to slip.\n\n\"Executions ceased to be an abstract concept and became deeply personal. I started to worry that my baby could hear the inmates' last words, their pitiful apologies, their desperate claims of innocence, their sputtering and snoring.\n\n\"When I had my daughter, executions became things I dreaded. Usually, any emotion would come from the inmate's witness room, because while the victim's family had had a long time to process their loss, the inmate's family were watching a loved one die. They were just setting out on a long, hard road.\n\n\"I had a baby at home that I would do anything for, and these women were watching their babies die. I'd hear moms sobbing, yelling, pounding the glass, kicking the wall.\n\n\"I'd be standing in the witness room thinking: 'There are no winners, everybody is being screwed over'. Executions were just sad situations all round. And I had to witness all that sadness, over and over again.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The US executioner who wants the death penalty abolished\n\nLyons soldiered on for another seven years, watching inmate after inmate walk to their death with an unsettling docility, until a bitter divorce from TDCJ, which resulted in her winning a case for gender discrimination. As well as heartbroken, Lyons felt lost, like a prisoner escaped after a lengthy sentence.\n\n\"I thought being away from the prison system would make me think about the things I'd seen less, but it was quite the opposite. I'd think about it all the time. It was like I'd taken the lid off Pandora's Box and I couldn't put it back on.\n\n\"I'd open a bag of chips and smell the death chamber, or something on the radio would remind me of a conversation I'd had with an inmate, hours before he was executed. Or I'd see the wrinkled hands of Ricky McGinn's mother, pressed against the glass of the death chamber, and I'd dissolve into tears.\"\n\nThere are signs that Texas is losing its appetite for the ultimate punishment. The last major poll in the state, in 2013, revealed that 74% of Texans supported the death penalty, so the death chamber is unlikely to be dismantled any time soon.\n\nHowever, seven executions took place in Huntsville last year, the same as 2016 and a long way down from the record 40 in 2000.\n\nBut while Lyons believes Texas has employed the death penalty too often, she remains a supporter, at least for the worst of the worst. And Texas, as Lyons concedes, still does crime \"bigger and crazier\" than anywhere else in the US.\n\nIn the Joe Byrd Cemetery, a pretty plot of land where unclaimed Texas prisoners have been buried for more than 150 years, Lyons stands among the rows of crosses and wonders how many of these men she saw die. But it's not the executions she remembers that trouble her most, it's those she's forgotten.\n\n\"You don't see many flowers on the graves here,\" says Lyons. \"And what does it say about me that I can't recall some of those men I saw executed? Maybe they deserve to be lonely and forgotten. Or maybe it's my job to remember.\"\n\nUpdate 22nd May 2018: This article has been updated to clarify that Michelle Lyons' new book was written with Ben Dirs.", "Arlene Foster was interviewed on the BBC's Andrew Marr Show\n\nDUP leader Arlene Foster has said she she would like the European Union to take a more sensible approach to the Brexit negotiations.\n\nMrs Foster said she would like to see less rhetoric and more engagement from the EU on the way forward.\n\nThe EU's chief negotiator, Michel Barnier, was in Northern Ireland earlier this week.\n\nMrs Foster said she regretted the tone of what he had to say.\n\n\"What he [Mr Barnier] was saying was that it was up to the UK to come up with a solution and they would wait for that solution to come and that is not the way forward,\" Mrs Foster told the BBC's Andrew Marr show.\n\n\"The way forward is to have a negotiation where both sides are engaged in the negotiation and we look for a solution that will make the difference.\"\n\nMrs Foster said the DUP did not believe that the UK needed to stay in the customs union to have \"free flow between ourselves and the Republic of Ireland\".\n\n\"In August of last year, the government put forward various proposals,\" she said.\n\n\"We were disappointed there was not the engagement from the European Union at that time.\n\n\"What we would like to see from the European Union is less rhetoric and actually more engagement in relation to the pragmatic way forward.\"\n\nOn his visit to Northern Ireland, Mr Barnier said that the EU would consider \"any solution\" on Brexit which would allow it to maintain the integrity of the Belfast Agreement.\n\nHe said that it was important to maintain relationships in Northern Ireland.\n\nHe previously told a press conference on 30 April at the beginning of the all-island Brexit forum that his \"door is open\" to Arlene Foster and the DUP.\n\nHe said he had not approached the negotiations in a \"spirit of revenge\".\n\nThe UK and EU have agreed there should be no hardening of the Irish border\n\nThe UK government has said it is leaving the customs union but ministers have not yet agreed what will come next.\n\nPrime Minister Theresa May asked officials to draw up \"revised proposals\" after last week's meeting of her key Brexit committee.\n\nMrs Foster said she had a telephone conversation with Mrs May on Saturday about customs solutions.\n\nAll EU members are part of the customs union, within which there are no internal tariffs (taxes) on goods transported between them. There is also a common tariff agreed on goods entering from outside.\n\nThe UK government has said it is leaving the EU customs union so that it can strike its own trade deals around the world, something it cannot do as a member.\n\nThis means the UK and the EU will have to agree a new arrangement for what happens at their border post-Brexit.\n\nThe UK is under pressure to make progress on the issue before next month's EU summit.", "Prince Charles laid flowers at the memorial to the July 2016 Nice terror attack\n\nThe Prince of Wales has been meeting families of the victims of the Nice terror attack as part of a five-day tour of France and Greece.\n\nOne man who attempted to stop the July 2016 attack said Prince Charles called him \"remarkable and courageous\".\n\nThe prince, who is touring with Camilla, the Duchess of Cornwall, laid flowers at the city's memorial.\n\nMohamed Lahouaiej-Bouhlel killed 86 people when he drove a lorry into a large crowd on Bastille Day.\n\nThe 31-year-old Tunisian was shot and killed by French Police.\n\nThe royal couple stood in silence as they looked at the memorial on the Promenade des Anglais, the beach front road where the attack took place.\n\nThe prince then began speaking to some of the victims' families and was shown a framed photograph of two girls who lost their lives.\n\nOne young woman cried as she spoke to the couple about one of her loved ones.\n\nThe prince also met Franck Terrier, 51, who drove his scooter alongside the speeding lorry and jumped on to its cab, punching the driver through the window in a desperate attempt to force him to stop.\n\nMr Terrier said he was \"honoured\" to receive the prince's praise but said he did not think of himself as a hero.\n\nHe said he was just \"eating an ice cream\" with his family when the attacker accelerated at them.\n\nPrince Charles and Camilla visited Nice as part of a five-day tour of France and Greece\n\nAnne Murris, whose daughter Camille was one of the victims, said she showed the prince a collage of pictures of her daughter when he paid his respects at the memorial.\n\nShe said she told him of the different ways in which the victims are remembered in the city - including 86 stones on the city's beach each, with a victim's name painted on it.\n\nMs Murris described the royal visit as \"an honour\".\n\nThe royal couple met relatives of victims and members of the emergency services who responded to the 2016 attack\n\nWhen given a memorial stone as a gift, the prince said: \"I hardly think I merit it.\"\n\nThe royal couple also met Dr Daniele Navarro and his wife Nathalie who were the only first-aiders present for some 15 minutes after the attack.\n\nThe Navarros lost a very close friend and brother in the attack.\n\nMrs Navarro said the prince and Duchess of Cornwall showed \"extraordinary sympathy\" and spoke to her \"with heart\" and \"great sincerity\".\n\nPrince Charles said Britain cried for the people of Nice\n\nAt an evening reception, Prince Charles spoke of a mutual \"deep affection\" and \"enduring\" close ties with the people of Nice.\n\nThe prince said: \"You cried with the Nicois and the Nicois cried with all the British people after the tragedies of Manchester and London.\n\n\"We are neighbours by fate, partners by choice and friends because of the shared experience and deep affection that binds us.\n\n\"Time and again we have stood together, and struggled together, for the values that we both cherish.\n\n\"These are ties that bind and ones that will endure as our relationship continues to evolve.\"\n• None Attack in Nice: What we know", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe eruption of the Kilauea volcano in Hawaii has destroyed a total of 35 structures - mostly homes - and is threatening hundreds more.\n\nNearly 2,000 people have so far been evacuated. Some residents were allowed home to rescue pets, but authorities said it was not safe to stay.\n\nNew fissures and vents opened overnight in the Leilani Estates area, where lava leapt up to 230ft (70m) into the air.\n\nThe island was hit by a powerful 6.9 magnitude earthquake on Friday.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Lava flows are continuing from the Kilauea volcano in Hawaii\n\n\"When I evacuated on Thursday, I pretty much said goodbye because I have lived here a long time and seen what the lava does,\" local resident Ikaika Marzo told the BBC.\n\n\"I think it's just important for everybody just to be realistic.\"\n\nBrenton Awa, another resident, said: \"Knowing that these pets are still in cages, or in fences, or in chains without food makes my heart sore a little bit.\n\n\"That's one of the reasons we went in to feed some of the pets. It is just sad.\"\n\nKilauea is one of the world's most active volcanoes and has been in constant eruption for 35 years.\n\nAuthorities say the fire has destroyed 26 homes on the island and is threatening hundreds more\n\nFissures and vents in the Leilani Estates area have spewed lava around homes\n\nMore than $35,000 (£26,000) has been raised for a primary school teacher who has \"lost everything\" in the Leilani Estates lava flow.\n\nAmber Makuakane, a single mother-of-two evacuated on Friday carrying rubbish bags full of clothing and important documents, according to the fundraiser set up by her colleagues at Pahoa Elementary School.\n\n\"We are asking for donations to help her rebuild. If you know Amber, you know that she has the biggest heart and is always willing to help,\" the page said.\n\n\"She is not one who will ask for help, but we feel that she needs our support in this tragic time.\"\n\nThe Hawaii State Teachers Association confirmed her employment, and said a lava fissure opened up directly below her home, where she had lived for nine years.\n\n\"I honestly don't know where to begin or what to say, other than… MAHALO! MAHALO MAHALO!,\" Ms Makuakane said on GoFundMe, using a Hawaiian word meaning thanks.\n\nTen separate fissures have torn open the neighbourhood, about 40km from the volcano's crater\n\nSome residents were allowed home to rescue pets after filling out forms. About 2,000 have been evacuated\n\nMany are staying in emergency shelters, with no idea when they will be allowed to return home\n\nThe volcano erupted on Friday, following a magnitude 6.9 earthquake\n\nKilauea is one of the world's most active volcanoes and has been in constant eruption for 35 years", "The government has talked publicly about two potential options for its customs relationship with the European Union after Brexit.\n\nHere's a look at them in more detail:\n\nThis would involve the UK acting on the EU's behalf when imports arrive from the rest of the world.\n\nWhat it means in practice is that the UK would apply the EU's own tariffs and rules of origin to all goods arriving in the UK that are intended for the EU.\n\nSo when goods - bits of machinery or computers or consignments of food - arrive at UK ports en route to the EU after Brexit, UK customs officials would collect the money due and hand it on to Brussels.\n\nA customs paper published by the government last year suggested that new IT systems could be used to track whether items eventually ended up in the UK or crossed into the EU, and tariffs would be charged accordingly.\n\nAn alternative suggestion was that all companies would have to pay whichever tariff rate (EU or UK) was higher, and then claim a potential refund once goods reached their final destination.\n\nThe UK paper doesn't say anything about whether the EU would have to put the same system in place for goods heading from the EU to the UK. But the assumption is that it would, which would mean a lot of additional work in big ports such as Rotterdam.\n\nSo could it work? No-one really knows, but it would take a long time to set up any new system of this kind.\n\nThe government acknowledges that the proposal is both unprecedented and untested. It doesn't happen anywhere else in the world.\n\nOne initial response from Brussels described the proposal as \"magical thinking\". And there is still a huge amount of scepticism. A lot would have to be taken on trust.\n\nSupporters of the idea in the UK say it would remove the need for customs processes at the UK-EU border, but would still allow the UK to negotiate its own trade deals around the world.\n\nCritics - including many leading backers of Brexit - say it is unworkable, and would not amount to a clean break with the EU. They fear it would mean the UK staying in the customs union by default.\n\nThe second proposal - also known as maximum facilitation or max-fac - aims to create as frictionless a customs border as possible, rather than to remove it altogether.\n\nIt would employ new technologies (including some that are still being developed) and automation to streamline procedures and remove the need for physical customs checks wherever possible.\n\nAccording to the government's customs paper, it would build on existing schemes such as authorised economic operators or trusted traders, and introduce unilateral improvements to the UK's customs regime to make trade with the EU and the rest of the world easier.\n\nThe paper acknowledges, though, that the EU would be required to implement equivalent arrangements at its borders to make any such scheme a success.\n\nThe EU says it is happy to discuss anything that would facilitate trade, but (again), it could take years to introduce some of the technology needed. So the timescale of Brexit is an issue.\n\nIn her speech at the Mansion House in March, the prime minister also said there would have to be specific provisions for Northern Ireland, including no new restrictions on small traders who carry out the majority of transactions across the Irish border.\n\nThe European Commission is cautious about that, and worried about opportunities for smuggling.\n\nCritics also argue that a streamlined arrangement is not the same as having no customs border at all, and that this proposal would not meet the challenge of maintaining an invisible border between Northern Ireland and the Irish Republic.\n\nBut supporters of Brexit tend to prefer this option overall, because they see it as a cleaner break with the European Union.\n\nIt's also worth remembering that there is one other large fly in the ointment here - the whole border debate isn't just about customs and tariffs. It's also about the rules and regulations which apply to products that move around the EU single market. So, even the most innovative customs system in the world doesn't get rid of the need for border checks entirely.", "Wet wipes are a key component of fatbergs - like this giant one that weighed as much as 10 double decker buses\n\nWet wipes, used for sticky fingers and removing eye make-up, as well as on other parts of the anatomy, could themselves be wiped out over the next couple of decades.\n\nThe government says its plan to eliminate plastic waste \"includes single use products like wet wipes\".\n\nSo manufacturers will either have to develop plastic-free wipes or consumers will have to go without.\n\nWet wipes are behind 93% of blockages in UK sewers, a key element of the infamous giant obstacles known as fatbergs, according to Water UK, the trade body representing all of the main water and sewerage companies in the country.\n\nThat has prompted the government and industry to focus on persuading consumers not to flush them into the waste water system.\n\n\"We are continuing to work with manufacturers and retailers of wet wipes to make sure labelling on packaging is clear and people know how to dispose of them properly,\" a spokesperson for the Department of the Environment (Defra) said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A lazy person's guide to cutting plastic from your life\n\nHowever, Defra says it is also \"encouraging innovation so that more and more of these products can be recycled and are working with industry to support the development of alternatives, such as a wet-wipe product that does not contain plastic and can therefore be flushed\".\n\nDespite the name, fatbergs are actually mainly made up of wet wipes. They account for a startling 93% of the material blocking our sewers according to Water UK, the membership body for water providers.\n\nThey collected samples to analyse from blockages in sewers, pumps and wastewater treatment works.\n\nWet wipes - mostly baby wipes, but also those used to remove make up and clean surfaces - made up the vast majority of the material.\n\nFat, oil and grease only made up 0.5%.\n\nThe other 7% was made up of a range of other materials including feminine hygiene products, cotton pads and plastic wrappers.\n\nToilet paper made up just 0.01% of the material blocking our pipes and sewers.\n\nEnvironmental charities including Greenpeace and the Marine Conservation Society say they are not surprised by this high number, since wet wipes are often marketed as \"flushable\".\n\nThe wet-wipe industry has flourished over the last decade with manufacturers offering an ever broader range of wipes, for sensitive skin, babies' bottoms, removing make-up, applying insect repellent, deodorant or sunscreen. However most are made of polyester and other non-biodegradable materials.\n\nOne manufacturer, Jeremy Freedman, managing director of Guardpack, has written to his MP to say banning them would be environmentally disastrous.\n\nMr Freedman told the BBC what he saw as their benefits: \"If you go to TGI Friday and Nando's, for example, you'll see our products there.\n\n\"These wipes are biodegradeable, take 3ml of liquid on average. If they weren't able to use these, they would need to wash their hands, using on average one litre of water.\n\n\"They are also widely used in the medical industry and, for people with incontinence and disabled people, these wipes are critical to their lifestyle.\"\n\nHe said many of the wipes he produced were made of 100% biodegradable materials, but warned they were under no circumstances flushable.\n\nDefra is in the process of exploring how changes to the tax system or charges could be used to reduce the amount of single-use plastics wasted.\n\nPrime Minister Theresa May pledged in January to eradicate all \"avoidable plastic waste\" by 2042.\n\nThe government has also said it will consult over whether or not to ban plastic straws, cotton buds and drink stirrers.", "A couple who won £3m on a £10 scratch card in 2016 have had a giant Champagne bottle design mowed into their lawn.\n\nBillericay's Susan Richard, and her partner Barry Maddox, used some of their winnings to help family and friends, as well as buying new cars and seeing the world, but the lawn art was just a \"fun\" way to spend a bit of the money, they said.\n\nIt took three days to mow the Moet-inspired masterpiece.", "Armed police are locked in a stand-off with a gunman after a shootout in Oxford.\n\nThames Valley Police said shots had been fired from a property in Paradise Square and officers returned fire. Officers are currently negotiating with a man.\n\nOne person is being treated for a non-life threatening injury, South Central Ambulance Service said.\n\nA cordon remains in place around Paradise Square and Norfolk Street.\n\nFirearms officers were called at 13:15 BST after witnesses reported hearing gunfire.\n\nOn Sunday night police tweeted that officers \"remain in Paradise Square working to resolve the incident\".\n\nThe force added that some residents were being allowed to return to their homes.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by TVP Oxford This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nJohn Rippington was in the pub waiting for a friend when he heard the commotion.\n\n\"We heard one very loud bang and just previous to that, two guys had come in saying they thought they had heard gunshots outside.\"\n\nAnother resident said he witnessed the start of the altercation between an armed man and the police, during which he heard about 20 shots exchanged.\n\n\"He was shooting from the balcony and then he climbed down the balcony, he was in the gardens and police were kicking the back doors to other gardens trying to get him,\" the man added.\n\n\"I could hear a female negotiator and an armed response man trying to get him to put his hands up, let go of the gun, keep his hands on show and things like that.\"\n\nThames Valley Police said shots had been fired from a property in Paradise Square\n\nDean Dwyer, who saw armed police in the street, said: \"They were screaming 'put your hands up'.\"\n\nA woman, who asked not to be named, told the Press Association she heard loud bangs from her balcony.\n\n\"After a second round it became apparent these were gunshots so I rushed inside.\n\n\"There was a couple more shots, three spurts in total, still a lot of shouting and barking. I heard a man shout 'show me your hands' repeatedly.\n\n\"The shouting continued and only quieted down an hour later or so, between now and then there have been bursts of shouting, barks and helicopters.\"\n\nTourist Janet Borgerson said police seemed to have the gunman isolated\n\nTourist Janet Borgerson was in the nearby Malmaison hotel when she heard \"explosive cracks\" before a series of \"loud bangs\".\n\n\"I thought the second round were firecrackers. I noticed hotel bar staff ushering people inside,\" she said.\n\nMs Borgerson, who is visiting from the United States, said guests were later told they were \"perfectly safe\" and allowed to leave the hotel.\n\n\"The police were quickly on site and after 45 minutes or so inside, they seemed to have the shooter isolated.\n\n\"To the police, after a short time, this was definitely a 'keep calm and carry on' moment.\"\n\nWitnesses said emergency services \"stormed down the road\"\n\nBBC reporter Will Banks said a helicopter was hovering over the scene, with at least 10 police vehicles on the ground and police activity centred on Paradise Square.\n\nAndrew Mace, from Middle Barton in Oxfordshire, praised the emergency services for their conduct.\n\nThe 16-year-old said: \"We walked towards Paradise Square for a wander and there were about 20 police cars and five ambulances storming down the road. Police then stopped us from walking down and taped up the road.\n\n\"We walked up the hill then 10 paramedics carried a stretcher down past us to the scene. The police did a good job not to cause a commotion and secure the area.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Fred Dimbleby This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nFred Dimbleby, editor of Cherwell Online, tweeted footage showing paramedics carrying a stretcher to the scene.\n\nMembers of the public have been warned to avoid the area and the Oxford Tube, and Stagecoach said buses are not stopping on Castle Street.\n\nSupt Joe Kidman said: \"People in Oxford will notice an increased police presence in the area while officers are dealing with the incident, which is contained and taking place at a residential property.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Arsene Wenger was among a host of Premier League managers to send support to Sir Alex Ferguson over the weekend after the former Manchester United boss had emergency surgery for a brain haemorrhage.\n\nThe Scot retired as United manager in May 2013 after winning 38 trophies during 26 years in charge.\n\n\"He's a strong man and an optimistic man,\" said Wenger.\n\n\"We wish him all the best and that he recovers quickly.\"\n\nFerguson was at Old Trafford last Sunday when he presented departing Arsenal boss Wenger with a commemorative trophy.\n\n\"I was on the pitch with him last week. He was very happy but anything can happen,\" Wenger added.\n\n\"I went to see him in the box after the game on Sunday. He looked in perfect shape. He told me he's doing a lot of exercise, he looked very happy.\"\n\nThe most successful manager in the history of the British game, Ferguson's trophy haul at Old Trafford included 13 Premier League titles, two Champions League crowns, five FA Cups and four League Cups.\n\nHe famously won the Treble of Premier League, FA Cup and Champions League in 1999, the year in which he was knighted.\n\nFerguson has been married to wife Cathy since 1966. His son Darren manages Doncaster Rovers but did not not take charge of their League One match against Wigan on Saturday.\n\nManchester City manager Pep Guardiola also sent his close friend his well wishes, revealing Ferguson had recently taken him out for dinner to congratulate him on winning the Premier League title with City.\n\n\"A big hug and our thoughts are with his wife Cathy and the Manchester United family,\" the Spaniard told Sky Sports before City's goalless draw with Huddersfield on Sunday.\n\n\"I was glad to have dinner with him two weeks ago, and hopefully he can recover as quickly as possible.\"\n\nIn a tweet on Sunday night, Manchester United thanked the \"wider football world\" for their messages of support.\n\nChelsea manager Antonio Conte: \"I'm very sad. I have had the possibility to know him and his wife and to understand that this is a special person. He's not a normal person. A manager who won many titles in his career.\n\n\"I think I appreciated a lot the man. And yesterday this news changed my day in a bad way, because we hope to see him quickly and to have our best wishes to recover very soon. Now it's very difficult. We want to stay very close also.\"\n\nLiverpool boss Jurgen Klopp: \"When I heard it yesterday on the way to London, I really couldn't believe it. It can happen to all of us.\n\n\"He will be in my prayers 100%. I wish him and his family all the best. He will be in a good shape again. I'm 100% sure. I'm looking forward to seeing him again.\"\n\nManchester City assistant manager Brian Kidd: \"He's such an iconic person as everybody knows. There was a really sombre mood yesterday evening and this morning. You think Sir Alex is really indestructible, we've all been brought up with him.\n\n\"What he did for Manchester United was unreal and the pressure he was under every day to produce. It's phenomenal.\n\n\"You know him, you lads have had your run-ins with him but you know where he's coming from; he wears his heart on his sleeve.\n\n\"The opportunity he gave me, I'm always indebted to him, god bless him. All the love in the world to him.\"\n\nPremier League executive chairman Richard Scudamore: \"It's obviously a big shock but the most important thing is to wish him well, and his family well, to respect their privacy, and hope that very, very soon he's back to his best.\n\n\"He's probably the most iconic figure of football from the last 30 years, and then when you add that to the fact that he's such a important role model to so many people around the world, he's captured the world. He's a national institution really, so therefore I'm not surprised really at the massive outpouring of support.\"", "About 17,000 people took part in Monday's Belfast Marathon\n\nA man in his 50s has died after he collapsed during the Belfast marathon on Monday.\n\nIt happened at 9.55 BST in the early stages of the event at the Sydenham bypass, five miles into the race.\n\nThe event's organisers said two ambulances were quickly at the scene to take the man to the Royal Victoria Hospital.\n\nIt's understood it was the man's first marathon, although he was a regular runner.\n\nTwo senior members of the marathon organising team went to the hospital to offer support and condolences to the man's family.\n\nFormer Belfast Lord Mayor Brian Kingston is also a marathon runner\n\nA post-mortem examination is due to be carried out later, a police spokesperson said.\n\nThe man was among 17,000 runners taking part in the 37th annual Belfast City Marathon.\n\nFormer Belfast Lord Mayor Alderman Brian Kingston told the BBC that the runner's death was \"terrible news, very sad news indeed\".\n\nHe, himself, is a marathon runner.\n\n\"It's a day all about fitness, achievement, about people wanting to push themselves that bit extra, to achieve a great physical feat,\" he said.\n\n\"That a man has died is the worst possible news.\"\n\nHe said a fatality was \"a rare event\" and had not happened at the Belfast marathon for nearly 30 years.\n\n\"This very much overshadows everything that has happened on the day and everyone will want to convey condolences to the family,\" he said.\n\nMatt Campbell was running the London Marathon - when he collapsed\n\nIn April, MasterChef finalist Matt Campbell, 29, collapsed at the London marathon and died in hospital.\n\nHe had reached the 22.5 mile mark and had been running in memory of his late father.\n\nHundreds of runners later \"finished the race\" in his honour. His aim had been to raise £2,500 for the Brathay Trust, but more than £350,000 has been donated since he died.", "Why does Putin smile? Is he dead? Does he like Trump?\n\nVladimir Putin will remain as Russian president until 2024 after winning Sunday's election. And while much is known about the Russian leader, there's still plenty more that people would like to know.\n\nAs an experiment, we started typing a few questions about Mr Putin into Google to see what searches it would automatically suggest. We decided to answer the (occasionally quite strange) questions for you.\n\nNo, not as far as we know. He and his wife of 30 years, Lyudmila, announced their divorce in June 2013. They had rarely been seen together in public in the months before their announcement.\n\nThere are rumours that Mr Putin has dated former rhythmic gymnast and politician Alina Kabaeva, but there's been no indication whether the rumours are true.\n\nNo, unless something has changed since January, when this picture was taken.\n\nHis official salary is the equivalent of about $112,000 (£81,000) a year, according to information filed with the Central Election Commission of the Russian Federation before this election.\n\nBut two years ago, a then-US Treasury official told the BBC that Mr Putin was \"corrupt\" and had been hiding his wealth for \"many, many years\".\n\n\"We've seen him enriching his friends, his close allies and marginalising those who he doesn't view as friends using state assets,\" Adam Szubin said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHowever, a CIA memo in 2007 said his personal wealth at the time was close to $40bn; one analyst and critic of Donald Trump said in 2012 that the figure then could have been as high as $70bn, which would have made him the richest man in the world.\n\nNo - his election victory should be a clue that he's very much alive.\n\nHaving said that, speculation swirled about his wellbeing in 2015, when he was not spotted in public for 10 days.\n\nHad he been removed in a coup? Had he died? Become a father again? All sorts of theories emerged, but when the president popped up again, he said only that life \"would be boring without gossip\".\n\nHe's no different from the rest of us: when you're happy, your body creates endorphins, neuronal signals are sent to your facial muscles and they form a smile.\n\nAs for what particular things make him smile - how about romping with dogs in the snow?\n\nMr Putin with his dogs Buffy (L) and Yume\n\nWell he already has - and annexed Crimea in the process.\n\nOfficially, Russian forces did not subsequently enter other parts of eastern Ukraine in 2014 - Russia has acknowledged \"volunteers\" had helped pro-Russian rebels there - but it is believed by almost everyone but Russia that it was behind the military moves.\n\nRussia's manoeuvres began soon after Ukraine's President Viktor Yanukovych, a key Putin ally, was ousted amid pro-EU protests. A Ukraine that looked more to the EU would have been a Ukraine that was less dependent on its big neighbour to the east.\n\nSyria is strategically very important for Russia, which has two military bases there. Bashar al-Assad's government has been a crucial ally to Russia for some time.\n\nWhen war broke out in Syria in 2011, Russia supported Mr Assad, but it didn't become involved in the conflict until September 2015.\n\nRussia's involvement served two purposes - it kept Mr Assad in power and allowed Russia to make its mark on the international scene, ensuring the US would struggle to attain all its objectives in the region.\n\nNo, but it's generally accepted he has two daughters - Katerina, a former dancer who has been working at Moscow State University, and Maria, who is believed to work in endocrinology.\n\nNot much is known about them and you won't get any details from Mr Putin, but a Reuters investigation in 2015 found that Katerina and her husband were extremely wealthy.\n\nYes. He's been filmed speaking English fluently, and his spokesman Dmitry Peskov has said that Mr Putin even corrects translators if they don't translate to English correctly.\n\nWell now there's an interesting question.\n\nThirteen Russians, including a former Putin associate, have been charged with trying to influence the outcome of the 2016 US election, in support of Mr Trump and one-time Democratic contender Bernie Sanders.\n\nBut does Mr Putin actually like Mr Trump? Only the Russian president can answer that.\n\nThis might seem like a weird question, but there's history here.\n\nBack in 2005, Robert Kraft, the owner of the New England Patriots American football team, met the Russian president.\n\nDuring the St Petersburg visit, Mr Kraft handed Mr Putin his Super Bowl ring - a custom-made, 124-carat diamond ring created to commemorate the Patriots' Super Bowl win.\n\nAt the time, Mr Kraft said he gave it to Mr Putin as a gift. But in 2013, he changed his story - he said Mr Putin simply put it in his pocket and walked away.\n\nA week later, Mr Putin said he would commission a new ring \"if it has such great value for Mr Kraft and for the team\".\n\nThat's what was reported in 2015 - instead, it was more of a recommendation than an outright ban.\n\nBut then last year, Russia's ministry of justice announced that it treated the image below, and variations upon it, as \"extremist material\".", "The UK foreign secretary sets out what the US president would need to do to deserve the honour.", "The deliberate killing of one human being by another is a crime that defies easy characterisation.\n\nAmong the more than 50 tragedies that make up the current spike in homicides in the capital this year are some that may be premeditated or gang-related, but most will be unpredictable acts of violence in moments of mental anguish, involving a victim and a perpetrator who are well known to each other - family disputes or an argument between friends.\n\nBy far the most likely year of life in which we might be unlawfully killed is not in our teens or early 20s but our first year - babies under one are more than twice as likely to be murdered as a 20-year-old.\n\nThat is why it is far too simplistic to draw a direct link between the number of killings and the number of Bobbies on the beat. Cuts to police budgets may be less relevant than cuts to mental health provision.\n\nIn tackling gang activity, there is good evidence that a psychiatric health approach may be more effective than a tough criminal justice response, which can thwart individual acts of violence, but may also infect communities with resentment and distrust - the breeding ground of gangsters.\n\nAnalysis of a survey of more than 4,600 young men in the UK, published in the American Journal of Psychiatry, found those involved with gangs showed \"inordinately high levels of psychiatric morbidity, placing a heavy burden on mental health services\".\n\nThe authors concluded that \"healthcare professionals may have an important role in promoting desistence from gang activity\".\n\nSeparate research involving long and detailed interviews with 16 men on death row in the US found all had experienced family violence. Fourteen of the men had been \"severely physically abused as children by a family member\".\n\nThree of them had been beaten unconscious. Twelve of the death row inmates had been diagnosed with traumatic brain injury.\n\nThe World Health Organization in Europe found a similar link: \"Exposure to violence and mental trauma in childhood is associated with atypical neurodevelopment and subsequent information-processing biases, leading to poor attachment, aggression and violent behaviour. Children who experience neglect and maltreatment from parents are at greater risk for aggressive and antisocial behaviour and violent offending in later life.\"\n\nKilling can be contagious. The murder of one young person can raise fear levels on the street, making it more likely others will carry weapons to protect themselves. And more likely they will use them.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Fact checking murder statistics in London vs New York\n\nIn the US and increasingly in the UK, in places like Glasgow, agencies are successfully reducing gang violence by treating it in the same way they'd respond to a public health emergency, looking to disrupt the spread of a deadly virus.\n\nKaryn McCluskey, a former director of Violence Reduction Unit set up by Strathclyde police, says it is about identifying the people at risk.\n\n\"We need to interrupt because some people are very angry and sometimes they'll be on their phone, plotting their revenge,\" she says.\n\n\"Often these are people that need to be rehoused, who need drug addiction services, so it's about connecting them to all the other services that are out there and staying with them.\"\n\nThe general murder rate, though, is immune to quick and easy interventions. Declining for centuries, it is a reflection of deeper trends - society's relationship to violence and the mental resilience of a population.\n\nBack in the Middle Ages, according to analysis of English coroners' records and 'eyre rolls' (accounts of visits by justice officials), the rate was around 35/100,000. This is equivalent to the homicide level in contemporary Colombia or the Congo.\n\nFrom the middle of the 16th Century, the homicide rate starts to fall steeply, a dramatic reduction in risk that is maintained for 200 years. The development of a statutory justice system is often cited - but it was also a period in which society found alternative ways of dealing with dispute and discontent.\n\nFor Europe's elite, the duel emerged as a controlled and respectable way of responding to an insult against one's honour. Spontaneous violence became disreputable for gentlemen of standing while personal discipline and restraint were seen as the marks of a civilised individual.\n\nThe murder rate continued to fall, if less steeply, during the 19th and 20th Centuries as state control and social policies increased. It was also partly a consequence of young men being given a substitute for interpersonal violence to demonstrate their masculinity - organised sport.\n\nBoxing, for example, developed from bare-knuckled no-holds-barred brawls to disciplined contests governed by a strict code and overseen by a referee. The 'Queensbury Rules', introduced into British boxing in 1867, became shorthand for sportsmanship and fair play. Society at all levels increasingly valued the virtue of self-control.\n\nClose study of the vital signs of British society reveal a slight rise in the homicide rate over the past 50 years, but in historical terms the figures are still so low that a single appalling occurrence - a terrorist attack or the murderous activity of a serial killer like Dr Harold Shipman - can skew the data.\n\nIn international terms, the UK is among the less likely spots to be murdered: our homicide rate is broadly in line with other European nations (a little higher than Germany but slightly lower than France) and roughly a quarter of the level in the US.\n\nIt is right to be alarmed by the spate of tragic murders in London this year, but just as the cause of such killings are complex, the solutions to societal violence are complex too.", "Russian President Vladimir Putin, a judo black belt, appears to symbolise two of the martial art's key qualities - guile and aggression.\n\nHis swift military interventions in both Ukraine, annexing Crimea in March 2014, and Syria, bombing anti-government rebels in a move that bolstered Syrian government forces, stunned many observers.\n\nMr Putin, 68, has made no secret of his determination to reassert Russian power after years of perceived humiliation by the US and its Nato allies.\n\nHe has been in power since 2000 - the longest-serving Kremlin leader since Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin, who died in 1953. Mr Putin was re-elected for six years in 2018.\n\nA controversial national vote on constitutional reforms has given him the opportunity to stay in power beyond his current fourth term, which ends in 2024. He could remain in the Kremlin until 2036.\n\nIndependent monitoring group Golos called it \"a PR exercise\" with many violations.\n\nCritics see in Mr Putin traits from the Soviet era that shaped his world view. He was a KGB spy before his meteoric rise in the chaos of the USSR's collapse. Many of his close aides and friends have, or had, secret service connections.\n\nHe has restored Soviet-style pageantry for military parades, and Stalin portraits, once banned, have reappeared.\n\nRussia's widely exported Covid vaccine is called Sputnik V, after the Soviet Sputnik satellite that stunned the West back in 1957.\n\nMr Putin famously described the USSR's collapse as \"the biggest geopolitical catastrophe of the [20th] Century\". He bitterly resents Nato's expansion up to Russia's borders.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Will Putin rule Russia forever? A look at his 20 years in power (video from 2020)\n\nThe new build-up of Russian troops around Ukraine - described by Nato as the biggest since 2014 - has rekindled Western suspicion of Mr Putin. Relations are now as frosty as they were in the Cold War.\n\nUS President Joe Biden described Mr Putin as a \"killer\" - shortly before imposing a new round of sanctions on Russia, for alleged meddling in last year's US presidential election, large-scale cyber hacking and bullying of Ukraine.\n\nThe US sanctions in April 2021 targeted 32 Russian entities and officials, adding to an already long list under Western sanctions. And the US expelled 10 Russian diplomats.\n\nThe Kremlin has repeatedly denied the Western charges of election interference and hacking. After the 2016 US presidential election, US prosecutors accused a longstanding Putin ally - oligarch Yevgeny Prigozhin - of orchestrating Russian interference, mainly on social media, to favour Donald Trump.\n\nDonald Trump chatted with Mr Putin at an economic summit in Vietnam in November 2017\n\nMr Trump expressed admiration for Mr Putin, but it is all change now under President Biden.\n\nThe West also accuses Mr Putin of helping pro-Russian rebels in eastern Ukraine with heavy weapons and troops. He admits only that Russian \"volunteers\" have gone there to help.\n\nMr Putin fumed over what he called the \"coup\" that forced Ukraine's then-President Viktor Yanukovych to flee to Russia in February 2014.\n\nSince March 2014 the EU and US have expanded sanctions on key Russian officials and firms over Russia's military role in Ukraine.\n\nThe sanctions blocked Western travel and financial services for many of Mr Putin's aides.\n\nIn 2011 Mr Putin joined nationalist bikers - called the Night Wolves - for a Black Sea festival\n\nMr Putin appears to relish his macho image, helped by election stunts like flying into Chechnya in a fighter jet in 2000 and appearing at a Russian bikers' festival by the Black Sea in 2011.\n\nThe Night Wolves bikers' gang played a prominent role in whipping up patriotic fervour during Russia's takeover of Crimea in 2014.\n\nBut Mr Putin has also shown a gentler side on Russian state media, cuddling his dogs and helping to care for endangered Amur tigers.\n\nMarch 2013: Mr Putin plays in the snow with his dogs outside Moscow\n\nA survey by the respected Russian Levada Center in February 2021 suggested that 48% of Russians would like Mr Putin to remain as president beyond 2024.\n\nThat figure would be envied by many Western politicians, though it could suggest that many simply see Mr Putin as a safe bet. He scored political points for keeping Russia relatively stable after the post-communist chaos of the 1990s.\n\nBesides restoring widespread national pride, Mr Putin has allowed a middle class to emerge and prosper, though Moscow still dominates the economy and there is much rural poverty.\n\nHis popularity among older Russians is markedly stronger than among the young. The latter have grown up under Mr Putin and many of them appear to thirst for change.\n\nThousands of young Russians demonstrated nationwide in January 2021 in support of Alexei Navalny, Mr Putin's arch-critic, who was arrested immediately after returning from Berlin.\n\nThey were Russia's biggest street protests in recent years, and the police cracked down hard, detaining several thousand.\n\nNavalny made a name for himself by exposing rampant corruption, labelling Mr Putin's United Russia as \"the party of crooks and thieves\".\n\nMillions watched a Navalny video about \"Putin's palace\", a luxury Black Sea estate allegedly gifted to Mr Putin by wealthy friends. Arkady Rotenberg, a billionaire close to Mr Putin, later claimed to be the owner.\n\nNavalny is now in poor health in jail, convicted controversially over an old embezzlement case. His Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK) and Western governments called the trial politically motivated and the European Court of Human Rights ruled he should be released from jail because of the risk to his life.\n\nNavalny is another key reason why Mr Putin's relations with the West are so bad now.\n\nLast August he narrowly survived a Novichok nerve agent attack, which Western governments later blamed squarely on Mr Putin's Federal Security Service (FSB). Mr Putin headed the FSB before becoming president.\n\nNovichok - a Russian weapons-grade toxin - was also used to poison Russian ex-spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia in England in 2018. Russian state agents were blamed for that too. The Skripals survived, but a local woman died.\n\nMr Putin denied any links to those and other attacks on prominent political opponents.\n\nVladimir Putin grew up in a tough, communal housing block in Leningrad - now St Petersburg - and got into fights with local boys who were often bigger and stronger. That drove him to take up judo.\n\nAccording to the Kremlin website, Mr Putin wanted to work in Soviet intelligence \"even before he finished school\".\n\n\"Fifty years ago the Leningrad street taught me a rule: if a fight is inevitable you have to throw the first punch,\" Mr Putin said in October 2015.\n\nIt was better to fight \"terrorists\" in Syria, he explained, than to wait for them to strike in Russia.\n\nHe also used the crude language of a street fighter when defending his military onslaught against separatist rebels in Chechnya, vowing to wipe them out \"even in the toilet\".\n\nThe mainly Muslim North Caucasus republic was left devastated by heavy fighting in 1999-2000, in which thousands of civilians died.\n\nGeorgia was another Caucasus flashpoint for Mr Putin. In 2008 his forces routed the Georgian army and took over two breakaway regions - Abkhazia and South Ossetia.\n\nIt was a very personal clash with Georgia's then pro-Nato President, Mikheil Saakashvili. And it showed Mr Putin's readiness to undermine pro-Western leaders in former Soviet states.\n\nBack to nature in Siberia: Mr Putin cultivates a macho image which appeals to many Russians\n\nMr Putin's entourage is a fabulously wealthy elite and he himself is believed to have a huge fortune. He keeps his family and financial affairs well shielded from publicity.\n\nMr Putin was filmed in August 2015 enjoying a gym session with Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev\n\nThe Panama Papers leaks in 2016 exposed a murky network of offshore companies owned by a longstanding friend of Mr Putin - concert cellist Sergei Roldugin.\n\nMr Putin and his wife of Lyudmila got divorced in 2013 after nearly 30 years of marriage. She described him as a workaholic.\n\nAccording to a Reuters news agency investigation, Mr Putin's younger daughter, Katerina, is thriving in academia, has a top administrative job at Moscow State University and performs in acrobatic rock 'n' roll competitions.\n\nThe elder Putin daughter, Maria, is also an academic, specialising in endocrinology.\n\nReuters found that several other powerful figures close to Mr Putin - often ex-KGB - also have successful children in lucrative management jobs.\n\nThe 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi was a lavish showcase for the Putin era: it cost Russia an estimated $51bn (£34bn) - the highest price tag for any Olympics.\n\nHe is passionate about ice hockey, like judo - and state TV has shown his skills on the ice.\n\nMr Putin's brand of patriotism dominates Russia's media, skewing coverage in his favour, so the full extent of opposition is hard to gauge.\n\nEven in 2008-2012, as prime minister under President Dmitry Medvedev, he was clearly holding the levers of power.\n\nIn his first two terms as president, Mr Putin was buoyed by healthy income from oil and gas - Russia's main exports.\n\nLiving standards for most Russians improved. But the price, in the opinion of many, was the erosion of Russia's fledgling democracy.\n\nSince the 2008 global financial crisis Mr Putin has struggled with an anaemic economy, hit by recession and more recently a plunge in the price of oil. Russia lost many foreign investors and billions of dollars in capital flight.\n\nMr Putin's rule has been marked by conservative Russian nationalism. It has strong echoes of tsarist absolutism, encouraged by the Orthodox Church.\n\nThe Church supported a ban on groups spreading gay \"propaganda\" among teenagers.\n\nSoon after becoming president Mr Putin set about marginalising liberals, often replacing them with more hardline allies or neutrals seen as little more than yes-men.\n\nYeltsin favourites such as the oligarchs Boris Berezovsky and Vladimir Gusinsky ended up as fugitives living in exile abroad.\n\nInternational concern about human rights in Russia grew with the jailing of oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky, once one of the world's richest billionaires, and of anti-Putin activists from the punk group Pussy Riot.\n\nMr Putin's relations with the UK soured over the 2006 radioactive poisoning of anti-Putin campaigner Alexander Litvinenko in London. Agents of the Russian state were accused of murdering him.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Watch as Mark Williams delivers on his promise of appearing naked in his news conference if he won the World Snooker Championship title.\n\nWATCH MORE: I wasn't here last year, I watched it in a caravan - Williams\n\nREAD MORE: Williams beats Higgins to win third title\n\nAvailable in the UK only.", "Parks and green spaces generate health benefits that would cost more than £34bn if they did not exist, research by Fields in Trust has suggested.\n\nThe charity, which protects green spaces, also found that parks save the NHS about £111m a year.\n\nThe report coincides with the launch of a five-year plan to protect parks.\n\nGreen spaces can improve overall health for all, including \"the young, isolated and the vulnerable\", said parks and green spaces minister Rishi Sunak.\n\nIn the report, Revaluing Parks and Green Spaces, it is calculated that people would need to spend £974 each year to achieve the same level of life satisfaction they get from parks if they were not there.\n\nThat individual figure was then multiplied by the adult population, and the findings showed that parks generate more than £34bn of benefits.\n\nRegular users of parks and green spaces are likely to be healthier and less likely to visit their doctor\n\nThe total cost saved by the NHS is based only on prevented GP appointments and does not include savings from non-referrals for treatments and prescriptions.\n\nThe research comes at a time when 95% of park professionals say they are concerned about the lack of investment in green spaces, and 16% of people believe their local park is under threat of being built on.\n\nFields in Trust, which protects more than 2,700 spaces in the UK, has also launched a five-year strategy aimed at bringing 75% of the population within a 10-minute walk of a green space by 2022.\n\n\"Our parks are precious and I want to improve access to them for everyone,\" said Mr Sunak.\n\n\"These findings will play an important role in informing how we achieve this goal.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What is the EU customs union?\n\nA new \"customs partnership\" with the EU - which is fiercely opposed by some Tory Brexiteers - is still on the table, the business secretary says.\n\nGreg Clark warned about the effect of border checks on manufacturing jobs, saying whatever replaces the customs union was of \"huge importance\".\n\nHe added whichever option was chosen would \"take some time\" to put in place.\n\nHe said if the partnership model was adopted, \"we would not in effect be leaving the European Union\".\n\nBut Mr Clark was supported by former home secretary Amber Rudd, while Remain-supporting Tories criticised pro-Brexit \"ideologues\", saying they did not represent the party at large.\n\nAll EU members are part of the customs union, within which there are no internal tariffs (taxes) on goods transported between them. There is also a common tariff agreed on goods entering from outside.\n\nThe UK government has said it is leaving the EU customs union so that it can strike its own trade deals around the world, something it cannot do as a member. But ministers have not yet agreed how to replace it.\n\nThe UK is under pressure to make progress on the issue before next month's EU summit.\n\nHow to avoid customs checks has become a key Brexit debating point\n\nSpeaking on the BBC's Andrew Marr Show, Mr Clark said the UK would leave the customs union in 2019 with Brexit, and that finding the right replacement was of \"huge importance\", pointing to the needs of manufacturers like Toyota to avoid friction at the borders.\n\nAt last week's Brexit sub-committee meeting of senior ministers, several are believed to have voiced concerns about one of the two options put forward by the government - whereby Britain would collect tariffs on behalf of the EU for goods destined for member states.\n\nMr Clark said the ministers had had \"a much more professional, collegiate discussion\" than reports suggested.\n\nAnd he said the partnership proposal had not been killed off, saying it offered the \"very important\" feature of avoiding paperwork at UK-EU borders.\n\nBut he added that this model was \"not perfect\" because arrangements would be needed to refund firms if they were only liable for lower UK rates.\n\nHe said this, and an alternative proposal of using technology and advanced checks to minimise border disruption, needed \"further work\", and that whichever was chosen, \"it will take some time to have them put in place and available\".\n\nThe business secretary said it was \"possible\" this could take two or three years after the UK leaves the EU, suggesting that different elements of the plan could be implemented at different times.\n\nFormer home secretary Amber Rudd - who resigned last Sunday over a deportations row - backed Mr Clark's comments.\n\nMs Rudd, a leading voice in the 2016 campaign to stay in the EU, tweeted that the business secretary was \"quite right\" to argue for a \"Brexit that protects existing jobs and future investment\".\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\nSome Tory MPs are urging Theresa May to drop one of her customs proposals\n\nMrs May has been repeatedly urged by Brexiteers to abandon the partnership option, which critics say would keep the UK tied to EU rules.\n\nThe Sunday Telegraph quoted a cabinet source saying it would be \"unimaginable for the prime minister to press on with the hybrid model after it has been torn apart by members of her own Brexit committee\".\n\nSpeaking on ITV's Peston on Sunday, influential backbench MP Jacob Rees-Mogg - who has previously labelled the proposal \"cretinous\" - dismissed warnings about the impact on jobs if it is rejected.\n\n\"This Project Fear has been so thoroughly discredited that you would have thought it would have come to an end by now,\" he said.\n\n\"We will have control of goods coming into this country - we will set our own laws, our own policies, our own regulations, and therefore we will determine how efficient the border is coming into us.\"\n\nThe customs debate is central to the question of border between Northern Ireland and the Republic, with supporters of a customs union saying anything else will mean checks and a \"hard border\".\n\nBut Arlene Foster, who leads the Democratic Unionist Party, said a \"free flow\" of trade did not require a customs union, adding that a border was already in place between the two different jurisdictions.\n\nHowever, some pro-EU Tories are still pushing for much closer economic ties to the EU.\n\nAsked about Mr Rees-Mogg and other Brexiteers, former education secretary Nicky Morgan told Pienaar's Politics on BBC Radio 5 live people who \"shout loudest\" did not necessarily represent the majority of Conservatives.\n\nShe said Tory rebels on her side of the debate would be prepared to defy the party whip in key votes \"in the national interest\" but that the MPs who were \"sabre-rattling about leadership\" were those who wanted \"the hardest of hard Brexits\".\n\nAnd ex-business minister Anna Soubry told The Sunday Politics Mrs May had to \"see off\" those who operate a \"party within a party\" who do not represent \"the country at large\".\n\n\"These are ideologues,\" she added.\n\nThe CBI welcomed Mr Clark's commitment to \"frictionless\" trade, saying the customs union should remain in place \"unless and until an alternative is ready and workable\".\n\nLabour, meanwhile, faced criticism of its position on Brexit from pro-EU voices in the party.\n\nThe leadership was accused of \"complete cowardice\" by Labour peer Lord Alli for not supporting a Lords amendment aimed at keeping the UK within the European Economic Area (EEA), like Norway, after Brexit.\n\nEEA members get access to the single market - with free movement of people, goods, service and money - without being EU members.\n\nBut shadow international trade secretary Barry Gardiner said such an arrangement would reduce the UK to being a \"rule taker\" without a seat at the table when decisions on regulations are made.\n\nLabour says it would seek to draw up a new customs union with the EU after Brexit, and would try to persuade Brussels to change the rules and allow it to strike deals around the world.\n\nShadow chancellor John McDonnell told the Marr show that despite the criticism, the party had not lost votes by not being \"anti-Brexit\" or \"trying to reverse the referendum\".\n\n\"What people want is a traditional British compromise,\" he said.\n\n\"Respect the referendum result, but get the best deal you can to protect our economy and protect our jobs.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Trenton McKinley is now on a slow recovery process - half his skull must be re-connected\n\nA 13-year-old boy in the US state of Alabama regained consciousness just after his parents signed the paperwork to donate his organs.\n\nTrenton McKinley suffered severe brain trauma when he fell from a car trailer which flipped over and hit his head.\n\nDoctors told his parents he would not recover and that his organs were a match for five children who needed transplants.\n\nA day before his life support was to end, Trenton showed signs of awareness.\n\nThe teenager suffered seven skull fractures in the accident in Mobile, Alabama, in March.\n\nAccording to his mother, Jennifer Reindl, Trenton has since undergone several craniotomy surgeries, suffering kidney failure and cardiac arrest.\n\nAt one point, Ms Reindl said, Trenton died on the table for 15 minutes, after which doctors told her he would \"never be normal again\".\n\nMs Reindl told CBS News that she agreed to sign the organ donation papers when she learned her son's organs could save five other children.\n\n\"We said yes, that also ensured that they would continue to keep Trenton alive to clean his organs for the donation,\" Ms Reindl said, recalling how her son regained consciousness in March.\n\n\"The next day he was scheduled to have his final brain wave test to call his time of death, but his vitals spiked so they cancelled the test.\"\n\nTrenton says he does not remember anything from the accident\n\nTrenton is now going through a slow recovery process.\n\n\"I hit the concrete, and the trailer landed on top of my head. After that, I don't remember anything,\" he said.\n\nHe still has nerve pain and seizures, and will need surgery to reconnect half of his skull.\n\nHe has been walking and talking, even reading and doing maths, Ms Reindl said, calling it \"a miracle\".\n\nTrenton himself told WALA he thought he was in heaven while he was unconscious.\n\n\"I was in an open field walking straight,\" the 13-year-old said.\n\n\"There's no other explanation but God.\"", "Nestle has announced that it will pay Starbucks $7.1bn (£5.2bn) to sell the company's coffee products.\n\nThe Swiss giant, which boasts Nescafe and Nespresso amongst its brands, will have the right to market Starbucks' coffee in retail outlets outside the cafe chain.\n\nThat part of the business currently generates $2bn in annual sales.\n\nThe deal means Nespresso machine owners will be able to buy Starbucks coffee branded pods for use at home.\n\nConsumers will also find Starbucks coffee beans, ground and instant coffee more readily available as Nestle, the world's largest food and drinks company, uses its vast distribution network to market Starbucks products worldwide.\n\nNestle's name will not appear alongside Starbucks's, but the deal could still help Nestle strengthen its US business, thanks to the powerful High Street coffee brand.\n\nBoil it all down and this is a giant licensing arrangement, whereby Nestle is allowed to sell Starbucks products through Nestle distribution channels.\n\nThat means you'll see a lot more Starbucks branded coffee pods for use in Nespresso or Dolce Gusto devices which are all the rage - thanks in part to those George Clooney adverts.\n\nStarbucks will continue to buy the raw (green) coffee beans from farmers but now Nestle will step in and roast and prepare those beans for consumers under strict Starbucks licensing rules. Nestle will not acquire any Starbucks infrastructure nor will any Nestle products appear in Starbucks coffee shops.\n\nFor that arrangement, Nestle is paying $7bn because it believes Starbucks products will appeal to premium coffee lovers around the world.\n\nDespite the price tag, Nestle shareholders appear to like the deal. Nestle shares rose 1.5% today. While Starbucks investors kind of shrugged.\n\nMark Schneider, who in 2016 became the first outsider to run Nestle in almost 100 years, is attempting to boost the company's profit through expansion.\n\nLast year, Nestle paid an estimated $425m for a 68% stake in Blue Bottle Coffee, a California-based company that sells coffee to customers online and has a number of shops in the US and Japan.\n\nKona Haque, of the commodities trading company ED&F Man said Nestle was aiming to further strengthen its position in the US market through this latest deal.\n\n\"At the moment Nestle is very much known for its instant coffee. This is an opportunity to go into roast and ground which for today's millennials is a big growing trend,\" she said.\n\nMr Schneider described the \"global coffee alliance\" with Starbucks as \"a great day for coffee lovers around the world\".\n\nNestle said 500 Starbucks employees will transfer over to its business but they will continue to be located in Seattle, which has been the group's headquarters for the last 47 years.\n\nThe company recently sold its US sweets and chocolate business, including brands such as Crunch and Butterfinger, to Ferrero Group for 2.7bn Swiss francs (£1.9bn).", "The 13-year-old boy was hit by pellets as he walked with his parents in Wealdstone\n\nA 13-year-old boy shot in north-west London was an innocent bystander, according to police.\n\nThe teenager was one of five people shot in the capital within 24 hours.\n\nHe was hit by shotgun pellets as he walked with his parents in Wealdstone High Street on Sunday.\n\nPolice believe two others were injured including a 15-year old boy who is in hospital with a head injury. A third victim was hit in the arm, but has not come forward.\n\nThe Met described the attack as \"callous, reckless and brazen\".\n\nWayne Bent, who was part of a group who helped treat the 13-year-old until an ambulance arrived, said: \"There was lots of blood.\n\n\"The main area was the back of the head - it was just constantly bleeding.\"\n\nWayne Bent said he was part of a group who helped treat the 13-year-old boy in a shop doorway\n\nThe teenager was treated in hospital and has now been discharged.\n\nResident Jonathan Smith said he had \"heard gunshots before\" in the area.\n\nHe said: \"I sometimes feel a little bit unsafe living around here. There's quite of lot of youths hanging around.\"\n\nThe only sign of the violence from the day before were spots of blood on the pavement near a branch of Specsavers, where the 13-year-old victim had fled after being hit by a stray shotgun pellet.\n\nDetectives are still investigating the motive for the attack but one line of inquiry is a link to drugs.\n\nResidents told me that dealers openly sell drugs in an alley off the High Road. They also pointed to the absence of facilities for young people - and the closure of Wealdstone police station.\n\nIt was shut as part of a Scotland Yard drive to save money and remains boarded up - a symbol, some say, of the lack of police presence in the area.\n\nOfficers from the Met's gang crime unit believe the missing man and the 15-year-old were the intended targets of the attack.\n\nA 39-year-old man was arrested on Sunday and has been released under investigation.\n\nPolice are looking for two male suspects.\n\nRhyhiem Ainsworth Barton was \"trying to make a difference\" by learning to work with children, his mother said\n\nIn separate attacks, 17-year-old Rhyhiem Ainsworth Barton was shot dead in Southwark on Friday and a 22-year-old suffered non life-threatening wounds in a shooting in New Cross Road, Lewisham, on Sunday.\n\nRhyhiem's mother, Pretana Morgan, has called for an end to the violence in London.\n\n\"Let my son be the last and be an example to everyone. Just let it stop,\" she said.\n\nMayor of London Sadiq Khan said: \"This violent crime in London and across our country is simply unacceptable. It cannot be tolerated.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Before an official agreement was even made, Donald Trump was tweeting criticisms of the 2015 Iran nuclear deal. And now the attempts of the French president to dissuade him from ditching the deal look like they may have been in vain.", "Two recent cases of rape that made headlines have sparked massive outrage in India\n\nA 17-year-old girl in the eastern Indian state of Jharkhand is in a critical condition after she was raped and then set on fire, police say.\n\nA local man has been arrested in connection with the attack.\n\nIt is the second such incident to be reported in Jharkhand in recent days - another teenage girl who police say was raped and burned alive died on Sunday.\n\nPolice have not indicated the two cases are connected. They come as India reels from a string of violent sexual crimes.\n\nOne of them involves an eight-year-old Kashmiri Muslim girl who was gang raped, drugged and murdered in January.\n\nThe Supreme Court ruled on Monday that the trial of eight men, all of them Hindus, who have been arrested in the case must be held in Punjab because of the deep divisions between the communities.\n\nIn the latest case in Jharkhand, the girl is undergoing treatment in hospital after suffering 95% burn injuries, police told BBC Hindi's Ravi Prakash.\n\n\"The accused told us that he wanted to marry the victim but she wasn't ready,\" police officer Shailendra Barnwal said. They added that he attacked her on Friday in her relative's house in a village in Pakur district. The accused lived close by.\n\nPolice say the suspect's marriage request had been spurned\n\nAccording to the police, he waited until she was alone, then broke into the house and raped her before setting her alight.\n\nNeighbours reportedly rushed to the house on hearing her screams and took her to hospital.\n\nThe main suspect and 14 others have already been arrested in connection with the earlier rape and burning case in the state. It took place in Chatra district, about 380km (236 miles) from Pakur, late on Friday.\n\nThe shocking case in Kashmir and another in Uttar Pradesh state have caused outrage in India.\n\nFollowing protests, the cabinet approved the introduction of the death penalty for people convicted of raping children.\n\nA number of serious crimes in India carry the death penalty, but raping a child was not among them until now.\n\nAbout 40,000 rape cases were reported in India in 2016.\n\nMany cases, however, are believed to go unreported because of the stigma that is attached to rape and sexual assault.", "Cardiff City manager Neil Warnock's post-match press conference was interrupted by his daughter.\n\nHe was speaking after the Bluebirds won promotion to the Premier League on Sunday.\n\nThey clinched the second automatic promotion spot after drawing 0-0 at home to Reading.", "Arsene Wenger said his farewell to Emirates Stadium with a thrashing of Burnley to leave in the same way it all began for him as Arsenal manager 7,876 days ago - with victory.\n\nIn a season of discontent and occasional open rebellion, this was a day for a united front to celebrate the career of the manager who has brought so much success and style to Arsenal since starting his reign with that 2-0 win at Ewood Park in 1996.\n\nAnd in a campaign of disappointment that will now be viewed as the end of an era, the last hope of success snuffed out by the Europa League semi-final loss to Atletico Madrid, Wenger at least got the home send-off he so deserved - with a stylish win over Burnley.\n\nThe Clarets, who have a wonderful story of their own this season, were outclassed as Arsenal ran out 5-0 winners to give Wenger his 475th win in 826 Premier League games.\n\nThis was not the time to celebrate a single victory but to reflect on all the triumphs and pleasure Wenger has brought to Arsenal in almost 22 years, and everyone played their parts perfectly on and off the pitch. The differences of this season were set aside as the good and the great of Wenger's reign came into sharp focus.\n\nThe Emirates was draped in tributes to Wenger, with giant \"Merci Arsene\" banners outside the ground, while red T-shirts bearing the same slogan and the date were placed on each one of the 60,000 seats in the stadium.\n\nWenger, who is clearly departing with reluctance with 12 months still to run on his contract, made his entrance through a guard of honour formed by Arsenal and Burnley players, along with their manager Sean Dyche.\n\nAs he made his way towards the centre circle, huge applause reverberated around the arena that can stand as a monument to his footballing wisdom and financial expertise in the transfer market.\n\nThere have been fallow years and subsequent fall-outs with some Arsenal fans, but this was an occasion viewed through the prism of three Premier League titles - including two league and FA Cup doubles in 1997-98 and 2001-2002 - and \"The Invincibles\" season of those 38 unbeaten games in 2003-04.\n\nWenger's seven FA Cup wins have also earned him a place in history and many of the figures central to his achievements were here to pay their own tributes.\n\nMartin Keown and the great France midfield man Emmanuel Petit were backstage, and perhaps the most poignant sight of all was the return of David Dein to the Arsenal directors' box for the first time in 11 years.\n\nIt was a reminder of a once-unstoppable partnership between Wenger and the man who brought him to Arsenal - and perhaps things have never been quite the same since vice-chairman Dein left the board citing \"irreconcilable differences\" in 2007.\n\nAnd looking on from behind dark glasses was Arsenal owner Stan Kroenke, who, along with Arsenal's board, must replace the man Dein says is \"an impossible act to follow\".\n\nIn contrast to so much here this season, this was a day of complete satisfaction on and off the field, the sea of 60,000 red T-shirts watching a comprehensive attacking display that was Wenger's trademark from those glory days.\n\nAnd it was the potent strikeforce Wenger will leave behind that set up this easy win, with Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang and Alexandre Lacazette establishing the platform by half-time.\n\nSead Kolasinac, Alex Iwobi and a second from Aubameyang wrapped up sixth place - but this was Wenger's day.\n\nHis name swept around the stands inside the first two minutes, swiftly followed by that of Patrick Vieira, who has been linked as a potential successor.\n\nThe other great names who brought glory under Wenger were also recognised in song, from Thierry Henry and Keown to Dennis Bergkamp.\n\nBurnley's fans sang their own tribute to Wenger, but were also quick with a cutting comeback to the adulation by singing \"You Wanted Him Sacked\" at Arsenal's fans.\n\nOther former Arsenal players, such as Jens Lehmann, Robert Pires, Kanu and Sol Campbell, were there to join in the emotional post-match scenes.\n\nNo Arsenal fans left their seats once the real celebrations began at the final whistle - although the one note of dissent came when Arsenal chairman Sir Chips Keswick was jeered as he emerged to make presentations to retiring veteran Arsenal backroom man Vic Akers, ladies' captain Alex Scott and Per Mertesacker, who was given a final appearance before becoming the club's academy coach.\n\nArsenal's great statesman and double-winning goalkeeper Bob Wilson, who was goalkeeping coach when the French visionary was appointed, then paid homage to \"the greatest manager we have ever had\". His long-time assistant Pat Rice then presented Wenger with the gold Premier League trophy that was handed to the club after the Invincibles season.\n\nIt was then Wenger's turn to speak, and the Emirates fell silent for his final words, which started with a touch of typical Wenger class and humanity as he sent his best wishes to his old adversary and latterly friend Sir Alex Ferguson.\n\nWenger was receiving another presentation at Old Trafford just seven days ago, from Sir Alex Ferguson.\n• None Listen: Wenger has been a great man for Arsenal - Wright\n\nWenger, with his own giant image paraded on a floating flag behind him, spoke quietly with genuine emotion, ending with the message: \"I will miss you.\"\n\nA lap of honour saw Wenger being applauded with huge affection, the fractiousness of the last few months forgotten, especially by one youngster who got his wish after spending most of the afternoon holding up a placard reading: \"Arsene - please can I have your tie?\"\n\nWenger will cut the ties that have bound him to Arsenal at Huddersfield Town next week before this giant club starts to navigate a path away from the Wenger era.\n\nWith giant letters spelling out the day's main message \"Merci Arsene\" behind him, he waved one final goodbye as he disappeared down the tunnel. Now a new chapter will begin for Arsenal and Arsene Wenger.\n\n606 and out for Wenger in north London - the stats\n• None This was Arsenal Wenger's 606th and final home game in charge of Arsenal (W415 D120 L71), with this the 27th time that his team have won by five or more goals on home soil.\n• None Indeed, no manager has taken charge of more Premier League home games than Arsene Wenger (414), winning 286 of those. Only Sir Alex Ferguson has won more in the competition's history (305).\n• None Arsenal will finish the season having scored 54 league goals at the Emirates, their joint-highest tally of home goals in a Premier League campaign, along with 2004-05 (54).\n• None Sean Dyche suffered his 50th defeat as a manager in the Premier League, however only 11 of those have come this season, compared with 19 in 2014/15 and 20 in 2016-17.\n• None This was Burnley's joint-heaviest defeat in the Premier League and the third time they've lost by a five-goal margin (also 0-5 v Spurs and 1-6 v Man City in 2009-10).\n• None The Clarets have conceded more goals at the Emirates than any other away venue in the Premier League (13 in four games).\n• None Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang has now scored 20+ league goals in each of his last three seasons in the top five European leagues (25 in 2015-16 and 31 in 2016/17, both for Borussia Dortmund).\n• None Aubameyang has scored seven league goals at the Emirates this term, the most of any Arsenal player in their first seven home appearances in the Premier League.\n• None Alexandre Lacazette has been directly involved in nine goals in his last nine games in all competitions (eight goals and one assist), while also scoring and assisting in the same game for the first time for Arsenal.\n• None Among players to have scored 10+ goals in the Premier League this season, the Frenchman has scored the highest percentage of his goals in home games (79% - 11 of 14).\n\n'It is impossible to feel nothing' - what they said\n\nArsenal manager Arsene Wenger, speaking to BBC Match of the Day: \"It is impossible to feel nothing unless you are completely robotic.\n\n\"It is 22 years of total commitment and togetherness. Overall I would like to thank everybody. I had the luxury of doing this job for 22 years at the same club and I am grateful for that.\n\n\"It is difficult to analyse this season for what this team has done. At home it has been championship stuff, but away from home it has not been enough. We also went to the League Cup final and Europa League semi-final.\n\n\"The fans may be lost at the start next season, but they will have a new manager and they can continue the work as the basics are here.\"\n\nBurnley manager Sean Dyche, speaking to MOTD: \"I think Arsenal raised their performance considerably. After the results yesterday we suddenly had nothing to play for and that affects players, they need something on the game.\n\n\"Today Arsenal really turned up. It will be a different feel at home next weekend - our fans were great today and they know how good a season it has been.\n\n\"Arsene Wenger means a lot to the game, the only thing he'll be asking is if they could have done that more often. It's still quite fresh but in 10 years they'll probably be looking back and thinking 'what an era'.\"\n\nArsenal travel to Leicester for their penultimate game of the season on Wednesday (19:45 BST), while Burnley host Bournemouth on Sunday (15:00 BST).\n• None Attempt saved. Aaron Ramsey (Arsenal) left footed shot from a difficult angle on the left is saved in the top centre of the goal. Assisted by Henrikh Mkhitaryan with a through ball.\n• None Attempt blocked. Danny Welbeck (Arsenal) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Henrikh Mkhitaryan.\n• None Attempt missed. Héctor Bellerín (Arsenal) left footed shot from the centre of the box is too high.\n• None Goal! Arsenal 5, Burnley 0. Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang (Arsenal) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the top left corner. Assisted by Héctor Bellerín.\n• None Attempt saved. Johann Berg Gudmundsson (Burnley) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom right corner.\n• None Attempt missed. Jeff Hendrick (Burnley) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the left. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "The price of vanilla has soared over the last two years, sending a chill down the spine of UK ice-cream makers.\n\nAt around $600 per kilo the sweet ingredient costs more than silver.\n\nSnugburys Ice Cream is run by three sisters near Nantwich in Cheshire. The business churns out around five tonnes of ice cream in a busy week from the family farm.\n\nAround a third of their 40 flavours contain vanilla in some form and they are paying their supplier 30 times more for the extract than they did in previous years.\n\n\"It has really gone up, so last year we decided to buy it forward by a year's-worth,\" said Cleo Sadler, who manages the production side of the business.\n\n\"We had to make a decision as to whether we would absorb the costs - which we did in the end.\"\n\nBuying ahead means the sisters have sufficient stock for the coming summer and can stick to their prices.\n\nBut at least one other UK ice-cream business has stopped serving vanilla due to the higher costs.\n\nJulie Fisher, who founded artisanal ice-cream maker Ruby Violet seven years ago, told the BBC vanilla was off the menu in her London-based outlets \"for the foreseeable future\" because she can't afford the thousands of pounds it would cost.\n\nAnd others are reported to also be reconsidering their use of expensive extract.\n\nSnugbury's distributes all over the North West of England, but also runs a popular shop on-site where a steady stream of families drop in on their way across the countryside.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMs Sadler and her sisters, Kitty and Hannah, pride themselves on homemade ingredients, so would not consider synthetic alternatives to vanilla.\n\n\"As for the future, well we will have to sit down, crunch the figure, and see how it's going to work out for us for the years to come,\" she said.\n\nThe vast majority of vanilla - over 75% - is grown on the tropical island of Madagascar, off the South East coast of the African Continent.\n\n\"The main reason for the high price is that there was a cyclone in Madagascar last March which damaged a lot of the plantations,\" said Julian Gale, a commodities analyst for IEG Vu.\n\n\"And despite hopes that the price would have eased by now, it's still holding on the high side because demand is so strong.\"\n\nThe BBC's Tim Healy in Madagascar says that in addition to this, market watchers conclude that commodity speculation by a few large buyers is forcing prices upwards.\n\nEqually, the use of the vanilla market to launder money from illegal sales of Madagascar rosewood has provoked price spikes and made the product rather eco-unfriendly.\n\nIt's a difficult spice to cultivate, extracted from the delicate vanilla orchid flower. As a result, vanilla is the second most expensive spice in the world, after saffron.\n\n\"The other big producers are Papua New Guinea, India and Uganda,\" said Mr Gale.\n\n\"It's exported globally, a lot goes to America as it has a big ice cream industry.\"\n\nIt's not just ice cream: vanilla is popular across sweet foods, alcohol, as well as cosmetics and perfumes.\n\nNatural vanilla extract comes in potent, sweet scented brown liquor. Food manufacturers also purchase spent vanilla powder, the little black dots sometimes seen in ice cream. The price of that has also increased threefold.\n\nSynthetic flavouring called vanillin is extracted from wood and sometimes even petroleum. It is anticipated it will now be more widely used across industries trying to avoid escalating costs.", "Suranne Jones starred in two series of Doctor Foster, winning a Bafta for best leading actress\n\nDoctor Foster actress Suranne Jones has said she is \"so gutted\" after pulling out of West End play Frozen due to illness.\n\nThe star, 39, apologised to fans after she missed the last four performances of the show's run, which finished on Saturday.\n\nJones, who played a mother whose child has been abducted, said the show subject matter was \"deeply affecting\".\n\n\"I'm certain it has contributed to my feeling under the weather,\" she added.\n\nPosting a message on her Instagram page, Jones said she was unable to finish Thursday's matinee at the Theatre Royal Haymarket in London after feeling dizzy on stage.\n\n\"I came back after an illness and it was perhaps too soon,\" she wrote.\n\n\"Anyone who knows the show knows it is a highly draining piece and after three months and a sickness I just wasn't able to end the run.\"\n\nShe said she had hoped to return to the stage for the final performance on Saturday but was told by her doctor she should not \"put myself through it and risk getting ill again\".\n\n\"This show has taken its toll on me,\" she said.\n\n\"You as the audience experience it once and always say how you are moved and drained by it. We as performers always think we can push through and carry on but sometimes we just can't.\"\n\nThe Bafta award winner said she plans to rest before filming begins for new eight-part BBC series Gentlemen Jack later this month.\n\nThe series, which is created and directed by Happy Valley writer Sally Wainwright, will be filmed in West Yorkshire and Copenhagen.\n\nJones played the role of Dr Gemma Foster, a woman who suspected her husband of having an affair, in the BBC One drama series Doctor Foster.", "Hezbollah and its allies are reported to have made significant gains in parliament\n\nHezbollah's leader says the Iran-backed militant Shia group and its allies have achieved \"victory\" in Lebanon's first parliamentary elections since 2009.\n\nAlthough the official results have not been announced, Hassan Nasrallah said their gains guaranteed the protection of the \"resistance\" against Israel.\n\nSunni Prime Minister Saad Hariri said his Western-backed Future Movement had lost a third of its seats.\n\nMr Hariri is still expected to be asked to form a new unity government.\n\nBut analysts said he would emerge a weaker figure, and be even less able to exert influence over Hezbollah than he was in the past.\n\nA power-sharing system stipulates that the prime minister should be a Sunni Muslim, the speaker of parliament a Shia and the president a Maronite Christian.\n\nSaad Hariri pledged to work with other factions to secure Lebanon's \"political stability\"\n\nIn a televised address a day after the elections, Hassan Nasrallah declared what he called a \"great political and moral victory for the resistance option that protects the sovereignty of the country\".\n\nHe did not say how many seats his group and its allies had secured, but said the aim of their election campaign had been \"achieved and accomplished\".\n\nReuters news agency said a tally based on preliminary results showed Hezbollah and its allies had won at least 67 of the 128 seats in parliament. But the number of Hezbollah MPs was little changed at around 13.\n\nFormed as a resistance movement during the Israeli occupation of Lebanon in the early 1980s, Hezbollah is today a political, military and social organisation that wields considerable power in the country.\n\nIt is designated a terrorist group by Western states and Israel, with which it fought a war in 2006, and several of its members are accused of being behind the 2005 assassination of Mr Hariri's father Rafik - himself a former Lebanese prime minister.\n\nMr Hariri said his party had ended up with 21 seats, down from 33 nine years ago.\n\n\"We had hoped for a better result, it's true. And we were hoping for a wider bloc, with a higher Shia and Christian representation, that's also true,\" he added. \"But everyone could see that the Future Movement was facing a project to eliminate it from political life.\"\n\nDespite the results, Mr Hariri pledged to \"to participate in securing political stability and to improve the lives of all the Lebanese\".\n\nAn Israeli minister said the election results meant Lebanon and Hezbollah were indistinguishable.\n\n\"The state of Israel will not differentiate between the sovereign state of Lebanon and Hezbollah, and will view Lebanon as responsible for any action from within its territory,\" Naftali Bennett wrote on Twitter.\n\nTurnout was only 49.2% on Sunday, down from 54% nine years ago\n\nLebanon should have held elections in 2013, but MPs extended their terms several times because parties could not agree on a new electoral law.\n\nThe new law redrew constituency boundaries and changed the system from first past the post to proportional representation in an attempt to encourage voting.\n\nHowever, turnout among the 3.6 million eligible voters was only 49.2% on Sunday, down from 54% nine years ago.\n\nMr Hariri blamed the reduced turnout on the complexities of the new electoral law. \"The problem with this election: a lot of people didn't understand it,\" he said.\n\nThe elections were also the first since the start of a civil war in Syria in 2011.\n\nMore than a million refugees have fled to Lebanon since then, swelling the population by 25% and overwhelming public services.\n\nHezbollah has also sent thousands of its fighters to Syria to support forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad in battles against predominantly Sunni rebel forces and the jihadist group Islamic State (IS).\n• None 'Remember the days we tried to kill each other'", "Labour peer Lord Adonis has apologised for tweeting a cartoon which appears to mock the new home secretary.\n\nIn the tweet, which has since been deleted, a figure purporting to be Sajid Javid is seen at his desk, with the caption: \"I just want to settle in, get organised, then deport my parents!\"\n\nHe responded directly to the former education minister, Lord Adonis, saying \"you're better than this\".\n\nLord Adonis then apologised to Mr Javid for the \"poor taste\" cartoon.\n\n\"Sajid, on reflection I think the cartoon is too personal and in poor taste. I have deleted it. I am sorry,\" Lord Adonis wrote.\n\nMr Javid took over from Amber Rudd, who resigned last Sunday in a row over targets for deporting illegal immigrants.\n\nQuoting the original tweet containing the cartoon, Mr Javid said: \"Not like you Andrew Adonis.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or 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\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.", "Relatives of the 16-year-old mourn in the village of Raja Kendua\n\nIndian police say they have arrested the main suspect in an alleged gang-rape and murder of a teenage girl.\n\nDhanu Bhuiyan and his accomplices are accused of burning the 16-year-old alive on Friday in the state of Jharkhand.\n\nShe was killed after her parents complained to village elders that she had been raped, according to police.\n\nThe elders had told two accused rapists to do 100 sit-ups and pay a 50,000 rupee (£550; $750) fine as punishment.\n\nThe men were allegedly so enraged by the penalty that they beat the girl's parents then set her on fire.\n\n\"The two accused thrashed the parents and rushed to the house where they set the girl ablaze with the help of their accomplices,\" Ashok Ram, the officer in charge of the local police station, told the AFP news agency.\n\nPolice say they have arrested 15 of the 18 people they want to investigate in connection with the incidents.\n\nThey say Mr Bhuiyan was arrested at a relative's house where he was hiding. The suspect has not commented on the accusations.\n\nThe girl was believed to have been abducted from her home while her parents were attending a wedding.\n\nShe was then allegedly raped by two men in a forested area near the village of Raja Kendua.\n\nUpon discovering the assault, the 16-year-old's parents went to village elders to pursue charges against the suspected perpetrators.\n\nThe victim and the accused appeared to have known each other, police inspector-general Shambu Thakur told AFP.\n\nA series of sexual assaults have triggered outrage across India\n\nCouncils of village elders carry no legal weight. However, they have significant influence in many parts of rural India and are a way of settling disputes without having to go through India's expensive judicial system.\n\nHowever, several village elders have been charged with passing unlawful orders and tampering with evidence.\n\nThe latest incident comes as India reels from a string of violent sexual crimes.\n\nAbout 40,000 rape cases were reported in India in 2016.\n\nMany cases, however, are believed to go unreported because of the stigma that is attached to rape and sexual assault.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Dr Joyce Tyldesley, of Manchester University, tells Today about the secrets of Tutankhamun's tomb\n\nEgyptian authorities have finished their quest to discover a secret chamber in the tomb of Tutankhamun - concluding that it does not exist.\n\nPreviously, officials said they were \"90% sure\" of a hidden room behind the wall of the boy king's famous 3,000-year-old tomb.\n\nOne theory suggested it could have been the tomb of Queen Nefertiti - who some think was Tutankhamun's mother.\n\nNew research, however, has concluded the chamber simply is not there.\n\nThe search for the hidden tomb began when English archaeologist Nicholas Reeves, examining detailed scans of the chamber, discovered what looked like faint traces, or \"ghosts\", of doors beneath the plaster.\n\nHis 2015 paper The Burial of Nefertiti, he argued that the relatively small tomb had originally been designed for Queen Nefertiti - and her remains could possibly lie further within the tomb.\n\nNefertiti's remains have never been discovered, but she has been the object of much speculation. A 3,000-year-old sculpture of the queen, immaculately preserved, has made her one of the most recognisable women of ancient Egypt.\n\nIt is also thought she may have ruled Egypt as pharaoh herself between the death of her husband and the ascension of Tutankhamun.\n\nThis bust of Queen Nefertiti, on display in Berlin, has added to her fame\n\nAfter Mr Reeves' sensational paper, a series of radar scans seemed to support his theory, leading Egyptian authorities to declare it was \"90% sure\" that a further chamber existed.\n\nA second scan also seemed to support the theory, which would have been the most significant discovery of Egyptian antiquities in decades.\n\nHowever, Italian specialists from the University of Turin used new penetrating radar scans to reach their conclusion, saying they were confident in the results.\n\n\"It is maybe a little bit disappointing that there is nothing behind the walls of Tutankhamun's tomb, but I think on the other hand that this is good science,\" said Dr Francesco Porcelli, head of the research team.\n\nHe said they had analysed three different sets of radar data and cross-checked the results, to eliminate \"complexity in the data\" which affected previous scan results.\n\nEgypt's Antiquities Minister, Khaled al-Anani, said the authorities in the country accepted the results.", "Rhyhiem Ainsworth Barton was \"trying to make a difference\" by learning to work with children, his mother said\n\nA 17-year-old boy shot dead in London \"had so much potential\" and \"was a good boy\", his mother has said.\n\nRhyhiem Ainsworth Barton was found in Warham Street, Southwark, after a reported shooting in nearby Cooks Road on Saturday evening.\n\nHe was hit while playing football with friends and died at the scene shortly before 19:00 BST. No arrests have been made as part of the murder probe.\n\nHis mother, Pretana Morgan, said she \"couldn't have asked for a better son\".\n\nShe told reporters on the Brandon Estate he was an aspiring architect who was \"trying to make a difference\" by learning to work with children.\n\n\"My son was a very handsome boy. He's got so much potential,\" said Ms Morgan, who is originally from Jamaica and also has a six-year-old daughter.\n\nPretana Morgan has been paying tribute to her son\n\nThe teenager's godmother, Lacey Main, also paid tribute, describing him as a talented rapper.\n\n\"Any loss of life is a loss. It doesn't matter where they come from. It doesn't matter what religion, what culture, what skin colour... a life is a life,\" she said.\n\nAbigael Adeoye, 17, who lived in the same building as Rhyhiem, said they were best friends and she had known him since primary school.\n\n\"I was with him everyday. He was really bubbly.\n\n\"He used to message me every day and say 'Abigael come and see me'. I should have told him to stay at home yesterday.\"\n\nA forensic blue tent has been put up by the police cordon in Warham Street\n\nWitnesses told the BBC a number of shots were fired around the street including one that missed a woman and went through a window.\n\nPolice tape surrounds much of the area around Aberfeldy House and the Met's homicide team is appealing for witnesses.\n\nBorough commander Simon Messinger said the violence had \"rightly caused concern\" and the \"fast-paced\" investigation was \"progressing all the time\".\n\nHe said additional officers would be on patrol for the rest of the weekend, supported by armed response officers on motorcycles, dog units and air support.\n\nA police team is searching the scene outside Aberfeldy House in Camberwell New Road\n\nMore than 60 people have been killed in the capital this year - about half were the result of stabbings.\n\nLondon mayor Sadiq Khan said his thoughts go out to the \"loved ones of the teenager who was tragically killed\".\n\nIn a separate incident, two boys aged 12 and 15 were shot in Wealdstone north-west London and taken to hospital.\n\nOn Friday, in another unrelated matter, a cyclist was shot at in Blenheim Grove in Peckham. Three men then made off on two mopeds.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Australia's koala population has been under pressure due to loss of habitat\n\nThe state of New South Wales in Australia (NSW) is to spend A$45m ($34m; £25m) protecting one of its most iconic creatures - the koala.\n\nThe money will be used to establish forest reserves and build a hospital to care for the sick and injured animals.\n\nThere will also be adjustments to roadkill hotspots as many koalas are killed by cars.\n\nThe koala's decline has been blamed on habitat loss, dog attacks and climate change.\n\nAlmost 25,000 hectares (62,000 acres) of state forest will become a koala habitat, for the animals to breed freely.\n\nYou may also be interested in:\n\nThe koala population has dropped by about 26% over the past two decades in NSW, according to studies.\n\n\"We know that there are around 36,000 koalas left in the state, but we don't know that for sure,\" NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian said.\n\n\"It would be such a shame if this nationally iconic marsupial did not have its future secured.\"\n\nThe Australian Koala Foundation estimates there may be as few as 43,000 koalas left in the wild, down from a population believed to have numbered more than 10 million prior to the European settlement of the continent in the 18th Century.", "MPs are calling for the government to enshrine in law the right for grandparents to see their grandchildren after a divorce.\n\nThey want an amendment to the Children Act, which would include a child's right to have a close relationship with members of their extended family.\n\nThe change would also cover aunts and uncles seeing nieces and nephews.\n\nThe Ministry of Justice said it would consider the proposal.\n\nThe current rules mean relatives have to apply to court to gain access rights to a child and then have a child arrangement order - or CAO - put in place.\n\nThe issue was debated in parliament last week, with MPs sharing experiences of their constituents.\n\nConservative MP Nigel Huddleston said he knew of grandparents who had been accused of harassment and were visited by police after sending birthday cards and Christmas gifts to their grandchildren.\n\nHe said: \"Divorce and family breakdown can take an emotional toll on all involved, but the family dynamic that is all too often overlooked is that between grandparents and their grandchildren.\n\n\"When access to grandchildren is blocked, some grandparents call it a kind of living bereavement.\"\n\nLabour's Darren Jones read out a statement from a couple in his Bristol constituency who had not seen their grandchild for 11 years, saying how the experience had been \"heartbreaking\" for them.\n\nHe told the BBC: \"I had no idea this was a problem before I became an MP as there is just a presumption that grandparents have a right to see their grandchildren.\n\n\"It was only when Jane Jackson (who founded the Bristol Grandparents Support Group) walked into my surgery and I heard their story.... the sheer heartbreak of it... that I knew, and joined them in their call for action.\"\n\nMr Jones said there was now cross-party support for a change to the law.\n\n\"My expectation is there will be change and things have moved forward, but that is down to the work of those campaigners,\" he added.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jane Jackson, of the Bristol Grandparents Support Group, says some grandparents were suicidal\n\nHowever, Conservative MP Tim Loughton - a former children's minister who has argued for the rights for a number of years - said grandparents \"shouldn't hold their breath\".\n\n\"There is unfinished businesses here, with so many control orders themselves being flouted, and no presumption of rights for grandparents,\" he told the BBC.\n\n\"All MPs have completely awful cases in their own constituencies. But there is problems within the judges' lobby who think changing this would interfere with their independence to issue orders.\n\n\"Whilst Department for Education staff have often backed the move, there are officials in the Ministry of Justice who do not.\"\n\nChildren's minister Nadhim Zahawi said the government would look at any proposals that could improve the system, but the guiding principle \"has to be the wellbeing of the child\".\n\nHe told the BBC: \"We all have had cases in our surgeries of terrible tales of grandparents not being allowed to see their grandchildren, when it is clearly in the interest of the child.\n\n\"If it is in the child's interest, as it maybe, to see their grandparents, then that is what should happen. If we keep the child front and centre, we will always do the right thing.\"\n\nThe issue of access rights for grandparents was last examined in 2011 as part of the independent Family Justice Review.\n\nThe report recommended that CAOs stay in place to \"prevent hopeless or vexatious applications that are not in the interests of the child\".\n\nA Ministry of Justice spokesperson said: \"The welfare of a child is the primary consideration for the family courts and steps are taken wherever possible to reduce the impact of family conflict on children when relationships end.\n\n\"We will consider any proposals for helping children maintain involvement with grandparents, together with other potential reforms to the family justice system, which are currently being looked at.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Snooker\n\nMark Williams won his third World Championship - 15 years after his last - by holding off John Higgins' stunning fightback in a classic Crucible final.\n\nWilliams, 43, won 18-16 to become the oldest champion since fellow Welshman Ray Reardon, who was 45 in 1978.\n\nHe won seven frames on the trot to take a 14-7 lead but Scot Higgins, 42, came back magnificently to take eight of the next nine and level at 15-15.\n\nHowever, Williams responded in style to secure a famous victory.\n\nThe final was the closest since 2005 when Shaun Murphy beat Matthew Stevens by the same scoreline.\n\nWilliams claimed a record £425,000 at the Sheffield venue, taking his total prize money to £750,000 for the year, while Higgins' wait for a fifth title continues.\n\n\"It's unbelievable. Twelve months ago I wasn't even here. I watched it in a caravan,\" Williams told BBC Sport.\n\n\"I was seriously thinking of giving up, but my wife Joanne said I can't sleep in the house 24 hours a day.\"\n\nAnd after saying earlier in the tournament that he would speak to the media naked if he won the title, Williams walked into his news conference undressed apart from a towel.\n\nThe final pitted two players from snooker's 'class of 92', turning professional in that year alongside Ronnie O'Sullivan - and as far as sporting fairytales go, this is a remarkable one.\n\nOnly last summer, Williams failed to qualify for the Crucible and considered retirement, before deciding to continue.\n\nHe claimed two ranking titles earlier this season, six years after his last, and now has 21 in his career.\n\nWilliams showcased his best snooker in Sheffield, knocking in long pots when Higgins had seemingly got the cue ball safe, before compiling frame-winning contributions in amongst the reds.\n\nHis laid-back manner and languid appearance around the table - sometimes even making pots with his eyes closed - was a throwback to the turn of the century when he was the best player in the world and claimed world titles in 2000 and 2003.\n\nHe finished his dramatic semi-final against Barry Hawkins at 23:50 BST on Saturday and two hours later was eating a kebab and chips at a takeaway in the city.\n\nDuring the final, he asked to share some crisps, sweets and chocolate snacks with a fan who was sitting beside him in the arena.\n\nDespite being under extreme pressure late on, Williams - who was never behind in the match - held himself together for an outstanding success which will move him up to third in the world rankings.\n\nFor Higgins, it was a case of another missed opportunity. The Scot has now lost three finals, winning the last of his four titles in 2011 against Judd Trump.\n\nHe blew a 10-4 lead against Mark Selby last year, which he admitted could have been his best opportunity to add a fifth world crown and draw alongside O'Sullivan.\n\nA mixed tournament this time saw him thrash Jack Lisowski 13-1 in the second round, before edging a thrilling final-frame decider against Trump in the last eight.\n\nHowever, in the final, he was always chasing the game against Williams, trailing 10-7 overnight, and although he got level at 15-15 and made four centuries, never managed to edge in front and was punished for uncharacteristic mistakes.\n\nThere was even a chance Williams could finish the match with a session to spare, but Higgins' epic fightback prevented that.\n\n\"I was worried if I would take it to the fourth session,\" said Higgins. \"I didn't want to lose with a session to spare.\n\n\"It was a good match to watch but obviously I'm disappointed. He is a great champion.\"\n\nTrailing 15-10 Higgins came out firing in the final session with a century and punished Williams for breaking down on 58 by compiling a 67 in response.\n\nI was thinking 'I'm not going to get over the line here'\n\nHe did the same in the next as Williams missed a red on 47 and Higgins stroked in a superb 82, as well as taking the 29th to trail by one.\n\nAnd the same pattern emerged in the next as Williams made another 47 only for Higgins to make 62 and level the match.\n\nWilliams showed great courage to take the next two, including a century break, but missed championship ball on the pink as Higgins' 65 won the frame by two points.\n\nHowever, a run of 69 in the 34th frame gave him another world title.\n\n\"To play John in a final is an experience in itself,\" added Williams. \"You've got to expect a comeback because when you're 50 or 60 in front he's the best I've ever seen at clearing up - and that includes Ronnie O'Sullivan.\n\n\"I was thinking: 'I'm not going to get over the line here.'\n\n\"I knew if I didn't get enough he was going to clear up again. But I'm over the moon.\"\n\n'One of the greatest finals' - analysis\n\nSix-time world champion Steve Davis on BBC Two: \"What a magnificent performance from Mark Williams. The mental fortitude to not wilt under that pressure is immense. It was one of the greatest finals we've ever seen. The standard was fantastic.\"\n\nSeven-time world champion Stephen Hendry: \"You have to admire the way Mark Williams played after Higgins levelled the match. He was so calm and showed what an incredible temperament he has. He found a gear from somewhere and eased away again from his opponent.\"\n\nMasters champion Mark Allen on Twitter: \"The best final I've ever watched. Twists and turns, comebacks and clearances. Credit to the game. The rest of us have to catch up with these old guys well done @markwil147 and hard lines John Higgins.\"\n\nCrucible semi-finalist Kyren Wilson on Twitter: \"What an incredible final. The standard was through the roof! Congratulations to @markwil147 - chuffed for you and your family.\"\n\nFormer world champion Peter Ebdon on Twitter: \"Amazing character shown by both players. What an incredible final. Two of the greatest players of all time have both just got even greater.\"\n• None to follow snooker news and reports on the BBC app.", "Italy's coalition-building talks have failed, leaving the country facing fresh elections or a neutral caretaker government until the end of the year.\n\nPresident Sergio Mattarella said on Monday that those were the only two options left after a third round of negotiations were unsuccessful.\n\nNo single party or alliance won a majority in the March general election.\n\nThe most influential parties, Five Star and The League, favour a new vote in July. Mr Mattarella has the final say.\n\nFollowing the latest round of talks aimed at forming a coalition, the biggest single party, the anti-establishment Five Star movement, could not agree on joining forces either with the right-wing alliance of Forza Italia and The League or with the centre-left Democratic Party.\n\nPrevious attempts to break the deadlock since the inconclusive result on 4 March also came to nothing, with the parties' starting positions reportedly remaining unchanged.\n\nIn a televised public statement on Monday, Mr Mattarella urged party leaders to rally behind a \"neutral government\" after conceding that there would be no coalition deal.\n\n\"We can't wait any longer,\" he said.\n\n\"Let the parties decide of their own free will if they should give full powers to a government... or else new elections in the month of July or the autumn.\"\n\nA caretaker administration would be made up of policy experts appointed by the president.\n\nIt would have the responsibility of drawing up a 2019 budget with the aim of avoiding the possible \"recessionary effects\" of a scheduled increase in sales taxes later in the year, Mr Marrarella said.\n\nSuch a government would run until the end of the year and would then dissolve ahead of elections to be held at the start of 2019, Mr Mattarella added.\n\nHowever, neither the Five Star movement nor The League have yet shown any interest in supporting the move.", "Last updated on .From the section Cricket\n\nPakistan patiently took a firm grip on the first Test against England on the second day at Lord's.\n\nBabar Azam, Azhar Ali, Asad Shafiq and Shadab Khan made half-centuries to help the tourists to 350-8, a lead of 166.\n\nThey gave England, who were bowled out for 184 on day one, a lesson in the discipline, diligence and control required to make runs in Test cricket.\n\nIn improved batting conditions, England's bowling was adequate but lacking the penetration demonstrated by Pakistan on Thursday, perhaps leaving captain Joe Root rueing his decision to bat first.\n\nThe home side also did not help themselves by dropping three catches and missing another, to go with a Ben Stokes drop from the first evening.\n\nStokes at least brought much-needed venom to the home attack, taking three wickets and forcing Babar to retire hurt on 68 with what proved to be a broken wrist.\n\nIt may be that Pakistan already have a match-winning lead, while England's hopes rest on a rapid conclusion of the innings followed by a vastly improved display with the bat.\n\nIn truth, though, they need to pull off a remarkable fightback to avoid an eighth consecutive Test without a win.\n\nIf England's 13-match winless streak away from home can partly be put down to not having the tools for unfamiliar conditions, being so outplayed for two days at Lord's by Pakistan is a huge concern.\n\nCollectively, Pakistan have had greater preparation for this match and it has shone through with bat, ball and in the field.\n\nEngland may point to Pakistan having more favourable conditions in which to bowl - that was England's choice, though - but the home side have no excuse for the way they have been outfought with the bat.\n\nBar visiting captain Sarfraz Ahmed, who threw his wicket away with a hook at Stokes, Pakistan have shown the concentration and control that was beyond England, leaving with good judgement, defending solidly and scoring when given the opportunity.\n\nWhereas Pakistan held all chances presented to them on day one, England's catching was woeful.\n\nJos Buttler's acrobatic dive to try to grab Shafiq off Stokes can be excused - Shafiq was dismissed next ball - but Alastair Cook had an awful day at first slip.\n\nHe missed Babar, on only 10, low to his right, watched an edge off Faheem Ashraf fly between himself and wicketkeeper Jonny Bairstow and, in the next over, missed a straightforward chance from Shadab off James Anderson.\n\nWith Pakistan resuming on 50-1, 134 behind on a grey morning, England will have had hope of taking the early wickets that would have dragged them back into the contest.\n\nHowever, they were blunted by a touring batting line-up that practised the virtues of orthodox Test batting.\n\nAzhar played handsomely through the off side for his 50, sharing 75 for the second wicket with the watchful Haris Sohail.\n\nShafiq, who made 59, was compact bar some fortune off the edge and the occasional swipe at debutant off-spinner Dom Bess, who was slogged over cow corner for six.\n\nBabar has excelled in limited-overs cricket and grew from a nervous beginning into playing attractive drives. It was a surprise when he ducked into a Stokes bouncer and had to leave the field.\n\nStill the resistance came. Shadab was another who favoured the off side, reaching 52 before becoming one more victim to the Stokes short ball.\n\nIf England's batsmen suffered from a lack of patience on day one, perhaps the same can be said for the bowlers on Friday.\n\nAlthough it is legitimate for an attack and the captain to explore all options, rarely was a plan given time to breathe.\n\nMark Wood was asked to send down a barrage of bouncers inside the first 50 minutes of the day, accompanied by the unusual sight of Root fielding at short leg.\n\nEngland did not bowl badly in conditions less helpful than the first day; the bat was beaten with regularity.\n\nHowever, it was left to Stokes to provide the majority of the potency, the all-rounder accounting for Shafiq, Sarfraz and Shadab with short balls as well as striking an incapacitating blow to Babar's left wrist.\n\nLike England's catching, Anderson improved late in the day to bowl Faheem and have Hasan Ali held at gully.\n\nIt may, though, have already been too late.\n\n'England well and truly outplayed' - what they said\n\nFormer England spinner Phil Tufnell on BBC Test Match Special: \"England have been well and truly outplayed again.\n\n\"It shows through the fielding. Pakistan clung on to everything and it makes you seem together as a side. They have done the basics better than England.\n\n\"A lead of 166 on a pitch that is only going to get worse... England have got to somehow go out and get 400. There might be a chat or two behind a closed door in the dressing room this evening.\"\n\nFormer England captain Michael Vaughan: \"I don't think England can save this - unless there's rain. The maturity and discipline this inexperienced Pakistan side have shown has been tremendous.\"\n\nBBC cricket correspondent Jonathan Agnew: \"England are going to have to play so much better than they have batted in a long time if they are to save this game.\"\n\nEngland bowler Mark Wood: \"On the last day, if the pitch is dry, hopefully reverse and spin comes into it and if we can get a bit of a lead, we can put pressure on.\n\n\"We've got plenty of fight in the dressing room and plenty of experience - it's going to be a big effort, though.\n\nPakistan batsman Azhar Ali: \"The conditions weren't that easy for batting but the way the batsmen fought in the middle against a good English bowling attack was very exceptional we are all very happy with the position, but we have to keep playing good cricket.\n\n\"Test cricket is always very tough and there is still a long way to go.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. As Harvey Weinstein turns himself in, an accuser, Rose McGowan, reacts\n\nFormer Hollywood film mogul Harvey Weinstein has been released on $1m (£751,000) bail after being charged in New York with rape and sexual abuse.\n\nMr Weinstein, 66, also agreed to wear a GPS tracker and to surrender his passport after turning himself in to police on Friday.\n\nHe denies non-consensual sex and his lawyer said he would plead not guilty.\n\nThe actress Rose McGowan, who accused Mr Weinstein of rape, told the BBC it was an \"amazing day for his survivors\".\n\n\"It's a very significant moment, it's a concrete slap in the face of abusive power,\" she said. \"It's just the beginning of that process and if we can see this through to the end, I hope we emerge victorious.\"\n\nThe allegations against the disgraced film producer triggered the #MeToo movement, which sought to demonstrate and draw attention to the widespread prevalence of sexual abuse and harassment.\n\nHarvey Weinstein did not speak during his brief appearance at Manhattan Criminal Court\n\nMore than 70 women have accused Mr Weinstein of sexual misconduct although the charges relate to only two of them. Some allegations date back decades.\n\nNew York City police said on Friday that Mr Weinstein had been charged with rape, sex abuse, sexual misconduct and a criminal sex act. The charges related to incidents involving two women, who were not identified.\n\nHe had arrived at a police station in lower Manhattan during the morning, carrying three books. After having his mugshot and fingerprints taken, he was led out in handcuffs and taken to court.\n\nIn the brief court appearance, prosecutor Joan Illuzzi said the former studio boss had \"used his position, money and power to lure young women into situations where he was able to violate them sexually\".\n\nWitnesses say Mr Weinstein appeared pale and stared into space while prosecutors outlined the bail agreement.\n\nThe case was then adjourned until 30 July.\n\nOutside the court, Mr Weinstein's lawyer, Ben Brafman, told reporters his client would enter a not guilty plea.\n\n\"We intend to move very quickly to dismiss these charges,\" Mr Brafman said. \"We believe that they are constitutionally flawed. We believe that they are not factually supported by the evidence.\"\n\nThe New York Police Department issued a statement thanking \"these brave survivors for their courage to come forward and seek justice\".\n\nThe identity of one of the women whose accusations prompted the charges was confirmed by her lawyer on Friday. Former actress Lucia Evans had already publicly accused Mr Weinstein of forcing her into oral sex in 2004.\n\nLucia Evans is thought to be one of the accusers who prompted Friday's charges\n\n\"This is an emotional moment,\" her lawyer, Carrie Golberg, said in a statement. \"Today is big. But sexual violence is still happening. A victim or offender's fame should not matter. These cases must be prosecuted.\"\n\nThese are the first criminal charges against Mr Weinstein, who already faces a raft of civil lawsuits.\n\nMr Weinstein was fired last year from his production firm, the Weinstein Company, which later filed for bankruptcy. He has been condemned by top industry figures, and the organisation behind the Oscars expelled him from its membership.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nNearly 120lbs (54kg) of fentanyl, a powerful synthetic painkiller, has been seized by police in Nebraska - one of the largest busts in US history.\n\nThe drugs, seized last month, could kill over 26 million people, according to estimates by the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA).\n\nPolice found the fentanyl in a fake compartment of a lorry. The driver and a passenger were arrested.\n\nFentanyl is a synthetic opioid that is 30-50 times more potent than heroin.\n\nIt was the largest seizure of fentanyl in state history, Nebraska State Patrol said in a Twitter post on Thursday.\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\nPolice stopped Felipe Genao-Minaya, 46, and his 52-year-old passenger Nelson Nunez, both of New Jersey, on 26 April after spotting the pair driving on the shoulder of a motorway near the city of Kearney.\n\nDuring the stop, a trooper \"became suspicious of criminal activity\" and searched the lorry to discover 42 foil-wrapped packages containing 118lbs (53kg) of fentanyl.\n\nState troopers initially thought they had discovered a mix of narcotics and cocaine, but in Thursday's announcement officials said testing proved the drugs were \"entirely fentanyl\".\n\nThe two men were arrested on suspicion of possession of a controlled substance with intent to deliver and no Drug Tax stamp, according to a Nebraska State Patrol statement earlier this month.\n\nThey are being held in county jail on a $100,000 (£74,000) bond.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"My child died from it\": One mum on the prescription painkiller being taken to get a high\n\nFentanyl is a synthetic opioid that appears as a white powder, similar in size to grains of salt.\n\nJust 2mg of fentanyl - or a few grains of table salt - is a lethal dosage for most people, and even exposure can cause a fatal reaction, according to the DEA.\n\nAccording to DEA estimates, the 118lbs could kill about 26 million people.\n\nLike heroin and other opioids, fentanyl causes drowsiness, nausea and confusion, and overdoses can result in respiratory failure and death.\n\nIn the US, it is approved as an anaesthetic and for pain relief, but because of its high profit margin for traffickers, it has become a large part of America's opioid crisis.\n\nThe Center for Disease Control (CDC) reported that between 2015 and 2016, the rate of drug overdose deaths involving synthetic opioids such as fentanyl had doubled.\n\nMedical examiners ruled in 2016 that US musician Prince died from an accidental overdose of the drug.", "When the Champions League final between Liverpool and Real Madrid kicks off, not everyone in the Spanish capital will be supporting their local team.\n\nThe Madrid branch of the Liverpool Supporters Club - made up of Spaniards as well as ex-pats - will be hoping the trophy does not return to their home city.\n\nThe game kicks off at 19:45 BST on Saturday. Full coverage is available on the BBC Sport website.", "A coat of arms created for the Duchess of Sussex that reflects her Californian background has been unveiled.\n\nIt includes a shield containing the colour blue, representing the Pacific Ocean, and rays, symbolising sunshine.\n\nThe duchess worked closely with the College of Arms in London to create the design, Kensington Palace said.\n\nThe lion supporting the shield on the left is an image that dates back to early medieval times and relates to her husband, the Duke of Sussex.\n\nThe songbird supporting the shield on the right relates to the Duchess of Sussex.\n\nTraditionally wives of members of the Royal Family have two - one of their husband's supporters on the shield and one relating to themselves.\n\nBeneath the shield is California's state flower - the golden poppy - and Wintersweet, a flower that grows at Kensington Palace and was also depicted on the duchess' wedding veil.\n\nThe three quills illustrate the power of words and communication.\n\nThe duchess has also been assigned a coronet bearing fleurs-de-lys and strawberry leaves.\n\nWintersweet also featured on the Duchess of Sussex's wedding veil\n\nGarter King of Arms Thomas Woodcock, who is based at the College of Arms said: \"The Duchess of Sussex took a great interest in the design.\n\n\"Good heraldic design is nearly always simple and the Arms of The Duchess of Sussex stand well beside the historic beauty of the quartered British Royal Arms.\n\n\"Heraldry as a means of identification has flourished in Europe for almost nine hundred years and is associated with both individual people and great corporate bodies such as cities, universities and, for instance, the livery companies in the City of London.\"\n\nThe Duchess of Sussex's coat of arms reflects her Californian background\n\nIn 2011 a coat of arms was designed for the family of the Duchess of Cambridge - then Kate Middleton - which featured white chevronels symbolising mountains representing the family's love of the Lake District and skiing.\n\nAs the grant was made to the Middleton family, the Duchess of Cambridge's siblings are also allowed to use the coat of arms.\n\nThe Duke and Duchess of Cambridge's coat of arms combined the shields of Prince William and the Middleton family.\n\nThe conjugal coat of arms for the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge\n\nSamantha Grant, a half sister of the duchess, told the Telegraph it was \"a huge insult\" that their father Thomas Markle had not been given a coat of arms.\n\nAs an American, Mr Markle could apply for honorary arms - in addition to meeting the standard criteria of eligibility, however, he would also have to demonstrate his descent from a subject of the British Crown.\n\nThis could include ancestors dating back to before 1783, when Britain recognised American independence.\n\nFor any British person to have a legal right to a coat of arms it must have been granted to them or they must be descended in the male line from a person to whom arms were awarded. Organisations can also be granted a coat of arms.\n\nCoats of arms date back to 12th Century and were traditionally worn over armour in tournaments so participants could identify their opponents.", "Breast cancer screening is offered once every three years to women aged 50 to 70 in England\n\nTens of thousands more women in England may have missed out on breast screening invitations dating back further than previously thought, according to a leading cancer expert.\n\nEarlier this month, the health secretary said a 2009 computer failure may have shortened up to 270 lives.\n\nBut Prof Peter Sasieni said the problems go back to 2005, and could have been spotted earlier.\n\nPublic Health England said his analysis was \"flawed\".\n\nAnd it said an independent review would look at all aspects of the breast screening service.\n\nPHE discovered in January that some women aged 68-71 had not received their final invitation for breast screening.\n\nJeremy Hunt told the Commons that 450,000 women were affected between 2009 and the start of 2018.\n\nProf Sasieni, professor of cancer prevention at King's College London, looked closely at data from the breast cancer screening programme in England from 2004 to 2017 in a letter published in The Lancet.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Patricia Minchin says her cancer may have been spotted earlier had she received a screening letter\n\nHe found that the percentage of 65-70 year old eligible women invited for screening was consistently less, by 2-3%, than those invited in the group aged 55-64.\n\nThis is the case dating back to 2004-05 when the programme was first extended to include women up to their 71st birthday.\n\nThe difference amounts to 140,000 women being missed between 2005 and 2008 - adding up to a total of more than 502,000 not getting invitations since 2005, Prof Sasieni concluded.\n\nProf Sasieni, who is also lead investigator of the Cancer Research UK programme in cancer screening and statistics, said: \"Data that could have alerted people to the lack of invitations being sent to women aged 70 was publicly available, but no one looked at it carefully enough.\"\n\nAlthough the error should not be seen as \"a major public health failure\" and women should not feel anxious, he said it was right \"to investigate how this error occurred and why it was not spotted for so long\".\n\nHe added: \"It is important that the computer systems used to run our cancer screening programmes are reviewed and, if necessary replaced - and that detailed anonymous data are made available for independent scrutiny.\"\n\nProf John Newton, director of health improvement at Public Health England, said: \"This is a flawed analysis which fails to take into account some important facts, such as when the breast screening programme was rolled out to all 70 year olds in England or when a clinical trial was started called Age X.\"\n\nThis trial looked at offering screening to women from 47 up to the age of 73 to see what the risks and benefits would be.\n\nProf Newton said their top priority was making sure that all women who did not receive an invitation for a screen were supported.\n\nBaroness Delyth Morgan, chief executive at Breast Cancer Now, said it was \"concerning\" to hear that even more women could have been affected by missed screening invitations.\n\n\"We urge Public Health England to make clear the full extent of the error as soon as possible,\" she said.\n\nThe risk of breast cancer increases with age and screening helps early detection of cancers, offering the best chance of survival.\n\nBut it is not yet known if the long-term benefits of screening outweigh the risks for women over 70.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Manic Street Preachers played a triumphant set on the opening night of the BBC's Biggest Weekend festival - despite losing their bassist.\n\nNicky Wire was forced to pull out of the show earlier in the day due to a family illness.\n\n\"We wish him and his mother all the love in the world,\" frontman James Dean Bradfield told the crowd in Belfast.\n\nThe band's guitar technician Richard stood in, ably delivering hits like Motorcycle Emptiness and You Love Us.\n\nThe only major difference was that he didn't share Wire's penchant for cross-dressing.\n\n\"We tried to get him into a leopard skin skirt but it wasn't happening,\" joked Bradfield. \"Though he's got great calves and he's a great bass player.\"\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 Manics were followed on stage by US star Beck, who played an energetic, crowd-pleasing set that mixed his own hits with covers like Prince's Raspberry Beret, Talking Heads' Once In A Lifetime and Chic's Good Times.\n\n\"We're not trying to be the wedding band,\" he joked. \"These songs helped us reach a little higher up there.\"\n\nBut the biggest applause of the night was reserved for the star's 1993 slacker anthem, Loser.\n\n\"That's the loudest we've heard all year - that's going to be hard to beat,\" he told the 15,000-strong audience.\n\nClosing the night were iconic dance act Orbital, who brought their stunning light show - and a touch of middle-aged rave - to Belfast's Titanic Slipway.\n\nAs well as the classics like Satan and Halcyon, the duo played their 1991 hit Belfast, dedicating to the \"all of you who've lived through terrible experiences\" during the sectarian violence in Northern Ireland.\n\nThey also played a new song, The End Is Nigh, before rounding off their set with Doctor - a repurposed version of the Doctor Who theme tune.\n\nOrbital lit up the evening sky with their spectacular light show\n\nBeck's band formed an orderly queue for the ice cream van\n\nThe band attracted the biggest audience of the day in Belfast\n\nThe Breeders received a huge cheer as they rolled out the 90s grunge classic Cannonball\n\nThe Biggest Weekend is designed as the BBC's \"replacement\" for Glastonbury - which is taking a fallow year in 2018.\n\nAs well as the 6 Music stage in Belfast, there are events taking place in Swansea, Perth and Coventry across the Bank Holiday weekend.\n\nThe Scottish National Jazz Orchestra got the Scottish leg of the event off to a swinging start, followed by sets from Jamie Cullum, Eddi Reader and percussionist Evelyn Glennie.\n\nPerth's Scone Palace provided a dramatic backdrop as Nigel Kennedy headlined the event, playing Bach's double violin concerto in D minor with the Scottish Symphony Orchestra, as well as a selection of Gershwin classics.\n\n\"Thank you for listening to this stuff in not ideal conditions,\" he told the audience.\n\nEvelyn Glennie transfixed the audience with her performance of Michael Daucherty's Da Vinci's Wings\n\nThe Pipes & Drums of the Black Watch brought some traditional Scottish music to the show\n\nOther highlights on the opening day of the festival included:\n\nSaturday will see Radio 1's contribution to the festival kick off in Swansea with an early-morning set by Ed Sheeran - who then has to high-tail it to his own headline gig in Manchester.\n\nOther artists due to play over the weekend include Sam Smith, Florence + The Machine, Rita Ora, Liam Gallagher, Paloma Faith, Simple Minds, Craig David, Jess Glynne and Taylor Swift.\n\nMonday will also see a \"Strictly Spectacular\" at Coventry's War Memorial Park, with the show's professional dancers - including Gorka Marquez and Amy Dowden - accompanied by the BBC Concert Orchestra and Radio 3's Katie Derham.\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.", "Former Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein has been charged in New York with rape and several counts of sexual abuse, relating to two women.\n\nDozens of women have made allegations of sexual harassment and assault against Mr Weinstein, including the actor Rose McGowan.\n\nSpeaking to PM's reporter Luke Jones, Ms McGowan described the charges as \"a concrete slap in the face of abuse of power\".", "Back in 1977 when a sneering, snarling Sid Vicious joined the Sex Pistols to take the band's punk aesthetic up a notch or two, there was another young man making his own arty entrance on to the public stage.\n\nI have no idea if Peter Murray has ever worn a padlocked chain around his neck or sported a red T-shirt emblazoned with a swastika, but I'm guessing not. He doesn't strike me as the type.\n\nBut that doesn't mean the mark he has made on the cultural landscape of Great Britain is any less indelible or incredible than the nihilistic sound of the late Sex Pistol.\n\nWhile Sid was being vicious, Peter Murray wasn't.\n\nHe was hanging out at Bretton Hall near Wakefield teaching art teachers to teach art. The building was set in a nice location, the epitome of William Blake's \"green and pleasant land\" with rolling hills and all that.\n\nIt was the perfect landscape, the enterprising Murray thought, in which to exhibit some modern art.\n\nBlack and Blue The Invisible Men and the Masque of Blackness, by Zak Ove\n\nAnd so, with a £1,000 grant from a regional arts agency, he put on a group show of contemporary sculptors that included Mike Lyons, William Tucker, Kenneth Armitage (all male line-ups were de rigueur in the 1970s. And the '80s. And the '90s. And the noughties).\n\nThat was then. Today, Murray's Yorkshire Sculpture Park spans 500 eye-popping acres, welcomes around half a million people a year, boasts one of the finest displays of sculpture you will ever rest your eyes upon, and has spawned copycat art parks across the world.\n\nYou can go there and see - for free - grade A, five-star art by Barbara Hepworth, Henry Moore, Phyllida Barlow, Joan Miró and Ai Weiwei, among many others. Their work is dotted about in fields and woods, where even the trees start to morph into sculptures.\n\nThat's not me coming over all dewy-eyed and poetic, by the way. Some of the trees really are sculptures: great big bronze trunks and branches that look just like the real thing until you give them a hug and feel cold metal rather than warm bark.\n\nThey are the work of the respected septuagenarian Italian artist, Giuseppe Penone, the subject of a new special exhibition at YSP. He is the David Attenborough of art, an observer of nature who makes work to heighten our awareness of the beauty and power of the natural world.\n\nHe says he is particularly keen on trees as he sees them as the \"perfect sculpture\" - an exquisitely balanced form with roots that dive deep into the watery underworld, and branches that reach up towards the light in the sky.\n\nHe talks a lot about the \"forces of gravity\" (often expressed through placing one-tonne balls of concrete in his trees' branches) and the \"weight of life we are part of\".\n\nI asked him if his sculptures were a comment on the concept of a tree of life. He looked on me with benevolent pity, knotted his eyebrows, and replied with a winning smile: \"Err…yeah…if you want it to. It's possible.\"\n\nIn other words, no they aren't. What then, are they about beyond the obvious homage to nature?\n\nGetting an answer to that question from any artist is always tricky, and Signor Penone is no different.\n\nHe speaks philosophically about how we can only truly relate to the material world by seeing objects as an extension of ourselves. Which is why in a pile of real potatoes arranged against a wall in the indoor gallery space, he has added three bronze spuds onto which human facial features have been subtly moulded.\n\nThe idea of anthropomorphising nature is repeated in a marble wall sculpture called Corpo di Pietra - Rami (2016), in which the artist interprets the natural ridges on the marble's surface as the veins on the back of a human hand.\n\nSometimes, for me at least, he is a little too obvious when making the point about Man simply being a part of nature as opposed to being a separate or superior living entity.\n\nThere are, for instance, a series of bronze casts called Trattenere Anni di Crescita (2004-16) that consist of a tree trunk with a hand embedded in it, from which a severed arm protrudes like a branch.\n\nThey looked a bit surreal to me, but the artist repeated his charming knotted eyebrow routine again when I dared to share that thought with him. They are what they are and no more, he explained: a meditation on nature, art, and life.\n\nIt's an approach that also happens to eloquently sum up the YSP, which is why Giuseppe Penone is such a good choice for a special exhibition. Frankly, I think his outdoor pieces in the landscape are superior to those in the brightly lit gallery building, but they are all worthy of some time spent.\n\nWhat's more, if they are not quite your thing, you can always set off and explore the rest of the park, which, over the last 41 years has developed into one of the great jewels of the English countryside.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Listen to a clip from the recording that was posted online\n\nBoris Johnson has been targeted by a Russian prank caller pretending to be the new prime minister of Armenia.\n\nIn a recording posted online, the UK foreign secretary congratulates the caller on his election and goes on to discuss UK-Russia relations, the Salisbury poisoning and Syria.\n\nHe also expresses surprise and interest when the caller claims President Putin is \"influencing\" Jeremy Corbyn.\n\nThe UK government believes the Kremlin was behind the call.\n\nA senior UK diplomatic source said: \"This seems to be the latest desperate attempt by the Kremlin to save face after it was internationally shamed in the wake of the Skripal attack.\n\n\"Boris rumbled them pretty quickly and ended the call.\n\n\"It is tragic to see a major international power reduced to failed pranks you would usually only see on Trigger Happy TV.\"\n\nDowning Street said there would be a \"Whitehall investigation\" into how the caller was able to get through to the foreign secretary.\n\n\"Obviously this shouldn't have happened. An investigation is under way to determine the circumstances around this call and to make sure that this does not happen again,\" a No 10 spokeswoman said.\n\nThe 18-minute recording was posted on YouTube by pro-Kremlin British journalist Graham Phillips, BBC Monitoring reports.\n\nIt was credited to two prominent Russian political pranksters - Vladimir \"Vovan\" Kuznetsov and Alexei \"Lexus\" Stolyarov, who are in favour with the official Russian media.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by 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\nIt is not clear if the footage has been edited.\n\nAfter congratulating the caller, Mr Johnson talks of developing UK-Armenia trade and investment links. Asked about Russia, and the Salisbury poisoning, he says he is \"almost 100% sure\" that Mr Putin was behind the attack and that it is important to avoid a \"new Cold War\".\n\nHe advises the caller to show \"determination and firmness\" when dealing with Mr Putin.\n\nWhen the man claims the Russian president talked of his \"influence\" over the Labour leader and that his goddaughter \"met with people of Mr Corbyn\", Mr Johnson asks for more information.\n\n\"I am sure our intelligence will be listening on this line and they will draw the relevant conclusions,\" he says.\n\nDuring the conversation, the caller also describes what he says is a fake video of the aftermath of a suspected chemical weapons attack in Syria, to which Mr Johnson said it seemed to be \"very clear\" that the Syrian regime was behind a chlorine attack in Douma, \"almost certainly with Russian knowledge\".\n\nMr Johnson also jokes about the number of Russian oligarchs living in London.\n\n\"You throw a stone in Kensington and you'll hit an oligarch, some of them are close to Putin and some of them aren't,\" he says.\n\nThe Foreign Office said Mr Johnson realised the call was a hoax.\n\nIt added: \"We checked it out and knew immediately it was a prank call. The use of chemical weapons in Salisbury and Syria, and recent events in Armenia are serious matters.\n\n\"These childish actions show the lack of seriousness of the caller and those behind him.\"\n\nIn an interview with BBC Moscow, one of the hoaxers, Vladimir Kuznetsov, said they had been surprised at Mr Johnson's \"very diplomatic\" tone in private, compared with his \"flamboyant\" public persona.\n\nBut he said it was \"comic\" to suggest he immediately knew it was a prank: \"The conversation lasted for 20 minutes. What a silly statement.\"\n\nDetails of the call were published in the pro-Kremlin tabloid newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda, with the other hoaxer, Alexei Stolyarov, saying Mr Johnson had turned out to be \"a smart diplomat\".\n\n\"For the first time we spoke with an intellectual, and not a fool,\" he is reported as saying.", "Young Britons could be at risk of modern slavery if they work as touts outside the bars of Majorca, the Foreign Office has warned.\n\nAn undercover investigation commissioned by the department found that many of the workers had their passports seized by employers, were charged high rents and paid low wages.\n\nIt discovered 20 of the 25 Britons in prison on the island were former touts.\n\nThe Border Force is carrying out a week-long campaign to raise awareness.\n\nTouts - also known as PRs - are employed to encourage customers to come into their bars with drinks deals and to ensure they stay.\n\nThe investigation was conducted by criminologists, who also found women were subject to sexual abuse from customers and men were attacked or bullied when working to bring people into clubs.\n\nLloyd Milen, the British Consul for Barcelona and the Balaeric Islands, said: \"We wanted to understand what factors were at play, and then how we could prevent it.\n\n\"We commissioned some independent research, which showed us that many PR workers ended up in serious debt, many were working illegally, some had their passports retained and others faced repeated sexual harassment and assault.\"\n\nThe research also revealed that some of the touts took up drug dealing to make ends meet, whilst others began to have problems with alcohol.\n\nImmigration Minister Caroline Nokes said: \"By highlighting the issue we want to ensure that those contemplating PR work in Majorca, many of whom are tourists tempted by the idea of an extended stay in the sunshine, do not find their summer turning into a nightmare.\"\n\nThe touts or PR workers are employed to get people into bars and clubs with drinks offers\n\nThe modern day slavery charity, Unseen, will be visiting airports and targeting flights to the island with leaflets to ensure young people heading out there are cautious.\n\nJustine Currell, one of the charity's directors, said: \"It can be really hard to tell the scale of the problem as the people doing the jobs can seem quite happy.\n\n\"But they can be stuck in situations where they are not allowed to leave, they don't have their passports and are forced to pay extortionate amounts of rent.\n\n\"We just want them to know that they have somewhere to turn - they can call our confidential helpline and there is help available.\"\n\nFashion vlogger Jasmine Clough is releasing a video to warn her 200,000 followers to be careful if they choose to work abroad.\n\n\"It is something I have considered doing, and I have a friend working in Magaluf at the moment who said it is really long hours and a lot of hard work,\" she said.\n\n\"She hasn't had any bad experiences yet, but she is lucky.\n\n\"You think it will be loads of fun but the reality can be very different - I just want to warn people about the risks.\"\n\nThe Foreign Office advises that anyone who is overseas and has had their passport taken should first report it to the police.\n\nBritish nationals should then contact the local British Consulate for help and advice and to get a replacement.", "Francesca Cuff and Ben Alford had money stolen from their joint bank account with TSB\n\nA TSB customer has described how he watched thousands of pounds in wedding savings being stolen from his internet account as he waited on hold for the bank's fraud department.\n\nBen Alford from Weymouth in Dorset said it took more than four and a half hours to get through to TSB, by which time most of the money had gone.\n\nHe is one of many affected by fraud who have struggled to contact the bank.\n\nTSB says it has put in \"additional resources\" to support customers.\n\nBen called TSB after he noticed a £9,000 loan with another company had been taken out in his name without his knowledge.\n\nThe money had been paid into the TSB joint bank account he shares with his girlfriend, Francesca Cuff.\n\nBen said a £1,000 overdraft had also been set up without their permission.\n\nHe says he was logged into internet banking, and waiting for someone at TSB to answer his telephone call, when he noticed that money had begun to be stolen.\n\n\"There was initially £5,000 taken out of that account followed by another amount of £4,000, he told BBC Radio 4's You & Yours programme.\n\n\"Had they answered their fraud line promptly, none of this money would have been taken because it could have been stopped. I literally watched the money go out of our account\".\n\nAmong the money stolen was more than £7,000 the couple had put aside for their wedding.\n\n\"I just felt helpless. It was like being robbed in broad daylight\", said Ben.\n\nA spokesperson for TSB said it was \"really sorry\" about what happened to Ben and Francesca and \"the distress and inconvenience this caused them\".\n\n\"While our systems are safe and secure unfortunately fraudsters are increasingly sophisticated and looking to take advantage of situations like these.\n\n\"If customers have been a victim of fraud as a direct result of our recent IT issues they won't be left out of pocket,\" the spokesperson added.\n\nBen Alford and Francesca Cuff pictured in Barbados shortly after they got engaged\n\nBen is adamant that he has not handed over sensitive information by responding to any dubious texts, emails or telephone calls.\n\nInstead it seems the criminals already knew enough about him to raid his bank account, and they even had control of his mobile phone number.\n\nBen says someone had called his mobile phone network pretending to be him. They had closed his account and got his mobile number transferred onto their own phone.\n\nIt meant they would receive any text messages sent by TSB containing the passcodes needed to authorise changes to Ben's bank account.\n\nThe migration of data on TSB's five million customers from former owner Lloyds' IT system to a new one managed by current Spanish owner Sabadell created major difficulties for the bank.\n\nCriminals have taken advantage of the confusion, specifically targeting TSB customers with \"phishing\" emails and texts designed to con them into handing over personal details, passwords and passcodes.\n\nMany people have reported long waits to get through to TSB's fraud team and have complained about the bank's failure to get back to them after they have finally managed to report a fraud.\n\nThe UK's national fraud and cyber crime reporting centre Action Fraud says the number of \"phishing\" reports it has received about TSB have risen from 30 in April to just over 320 since the start of May.\n\nThat is an increase of 970%, and those are just the ones reported to the police.\n\nTSB has declined to say exactly how many of its customers have actually had money taken since its troubled move onto a new computer system.\n\nIn Ben Alford's case, the bank has refunded some of the money, but without telling him and it took almost a week to do so.\n\nThe regulator the Financial Conduct Authority requires banks to refund unauthorised transactions by the end of the business day following the day it becomes aware of a problem.\n\nBen says he is still due more money back and, to date, no one from TSB has been in touch with him or his girlfriend.\n\n\"TSB have not given us any information whatsoever. All they have done is log it. From my point of view their customer service is leaving a lot to be desired\".", "These refugees have come all the way from Syria. Now they're smuggling themselves back.\n\nZakariya has been living in Germany since he fled his home country.\n\nBut he says integration has been difficult, and that his hosts view refugees as terrorists rather than Muslims.\n\nThe BBC has followed him as he attempts to return to Syria.", "The Bank of England governor has said a \"disorderly\" Brexit could delay rises in interest rates as the Bank would be obliged to act to shore up the economy.\n\nMark Carney made clear what he described as a \"sharp Brexit\" could mean a reassessment of whether an interest rate rise is imminent.\n\nAnd whatever progress is made towards the \"new trading arrangements\" with the EU, weaker income growth \"is likely to accompany that adjustment\".\n\nHe was speaking at a London conference.\n\nMr Carney said that the negotiations were entering a \"critical phase\" and the Bank was prepared in case the transition was not \"smooth\".\n\nHe said the Bank was \"ready for Brexit whatever form it takes\" and suggested that it might be willing to tolerate higher inflation and retain ultra-low interest rates to support growth and jobs.\n\nThe Governor also said that weak growth in the first three months of the year may not just be down to the harsh weather.\n\nMr Carney said that recent weak growth may not just be due to the harsh weather of February and March\n\nConsumer spending statistics were weaker and the housing market was also showing signs of decline, the Governor argued.\n\nMany economists believe a weaker economy would also be likely to head off any plans to increase interest rates.\n\nThe governor also re-iterated the Bank's analysis that the referendum result had damaged the economy.\n\nPeople's incomes had been squeezed and spending had been cut back, he said, leaving households 4% worse off than the Bank expected before the referendum.\n\nBusinesses were also investing less than expected.\n\n\"As the consequences of sterling's fall showed up in the shops and squeezed their real incomes, [consumers] have cut back spending growth to rates about one half of those pre-referendum,\" he said.\n\nMr Carney argued the fall in the value of sterling happened because \"financial markets are valuing today what they expect tomorrow: a relative fall in real incomes as the UK moves toward its new trading arrangements\".\n\n\"Inflation rose well above the 2% target, peaking at 3.1% late last year, an overshoot entirely due to the referendum-induced fall in the exchange rate.\"\n\nHis speech comes two days after telling the Treasury Select Committee that households were £900 a year worse off due to the referendum.\n\nThose comments brought a sharp response from the Foreign Secretary, Boris Johnson, who said that it was \"absolutely not the case that Brexit has damaged the interests of this country\".\n\nMr Carney made clear that the Bank was preparing for all eventualities.\n\n\"A sharper Brexit could put monetary policy on a different path,\" the Governor said.\n\n\"For example, if the transition were disorderly, or the end state agreement materially worse than the average potential outcome, then the MPC [the Monetary Policy Committee, which sets interest rates] could once again be confronted by a trade-off between the speed with which it returns inflation to target and the support policy provides to jobs and activity.\n\n\"On this path, the MPC can be expected to set policy to manage any trade-off using the framework it applied following the referendum.\"\n\nAfter the referendum result the Bank cut interest rates and increased the amount of financial stimulus it provided to businesses.\n\nSenior sources have made clear that while interest rates cuts are not at present on the agenda, the speed with which any interest rate rises are brought in could be slowed if the negotiations with the EU do not progress as hoped.\n\nThe same sources also said that the Bank was ready for any eventuality and did not believe that a \"sharp Brexit\" was the most likely outcome.\n\nProgress via an implementation period was still probable and if it was agreed that could lead to a sharp pick up business confidence, for example.\n\nMr Carney said: \"The MPC has repeatedly emphasised that monetary policy cannot prevent either the necessary real adjustment as the UK moves to its new trading arrangements or the weaker real income growth likely to accompany that adjustment.\"", "Boyle and Craig previously worked together on Bond short Happy and Glorious\n\nOscar-winning director Danny Boyle is to reunite with Daniel Craig for the 25th Bond film, which is due to be released from 25 October 2019.\n\nBoyle will also reunite with Trainspotting writer John Hodge, who is creating an original screenplay.\n\nProduction is set to begin on 3 December at the UK's Pinewood Studios.\n\nEON Productions' Michael G Wilson and Barbara Broccoli described Boyle as \"exceptionally talented\", adding they were \"delighted\" to have him on board.\n\nDaniel Craig was last seen as Bond in 2015's Spectre\n\nThe film will reunite the Trainspotting director with Craig, with whom he worked on a short film made for the 2012 London Olympics.\n\nThe mini James Bond film Boyle made for the London 2012 Olympics opening ceremony was capped off by a double parachute jump\n\nDonna Langley, chair of Universal, which is distributing the film in the UK and internationally, hailed \"the unparalleled combination of Danny's innovative filmmaking and Daniel's embodiment of 007\".\n\nChair of MGM's board, Kevin Ulrich, added: \"We couldn't be more thrilled than to bring the next 007 adventure to the big screen, uniting the incomparable Daniel Craig with the extraordinary vision of Danny Boyle.\"\n\nMGM is distributing the film in the US from 8 November 2019, with Ulrich adding it had been 16 years since the company last distributed a Bond film, Die Another Day.\n\nCraig confirmed last August he would be returning to make his fifth Bond, having previously starred in Casino Royale, Quantum of Solace, Skyfall and Spectre.\n\nMichael G Wilson and Barbara Broccoli are working with Daniel Craig for a fifth time\n\nBoyle's other current projects include All You Need is Love, a Richard Curtis-scripted film that revolves around the music of The Beatles.\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 sending of a private conversation was a rare occurrence, Amazon insisted\n\nA couple in Portland, Oregon joked that their Amazon Alexa might be listening in to their private conversations.\n\nThe joke came to an abrupt end when they discovered a conversation was indeed recorded by Alexa - and then sent to an apparently random person in their contact list.\n\n\"Unplug your Alexa devices right now!\" warned the puzzled recipient, according to CBS affiliate station KIRO7, which first reported the story.\n\nAmazon has an explanation as to what happened. But first, here's how Danielle - who didn't want to share her surname with KIRO7's reporter - described the rather alarming chain of events.\n\nIt starts with a phone call from a person working for Danielle's husband.\n\n\"He proceeded to tell us that he had received audio files of recordings from inside our house,\" Danielle says.\n\n\"At first, my husband was, like, 'no you didn't!' And the [recipient of the message] said, 'You sat there talking about hardwood floors.' And we said, 'oh gosh, you really did hear us.'\"\n\nSo I asked Amazon what could possibly have caused this to happen, and here's what a spokesperson said:\n\n\"Echo woke up due to a word in background conversation sounding like 'Alexa'.\"\n\n\"Then, the subsequent conversation was heard as a 'send message' request.\"\n\n\"At which point, Alexa said out loud 'To whom?' At which point, the background conversation was interpreted as a name in the customer's contact list.\"\n\n\"Alexa then asked out loud, '[contact name], right?' Alexa then interpreted background conversation as 'right'\"\n\nThis is getting ridiculous.\n\n\"As unlikely as this string of events is...\"\n\n\"...we are evaluating options to make this case even less likely.\"\n\nFor what it's worth, Danielle told ABC that there were no audible warnings from Alexa that it (she?) was doing anything.\n\nAnd to offer one suggestion - sometimes the voice can be pretty quiet, especially if you're deep in conversation about hardwood floors.\n\nIt's a reminder of the susceptibility of voice-operated devices, particularly ones that want to be as chummy and personal as Alexa.\n\nAt least she isn't laughing at us anymore.\n• None Alexa wants children to say please", "On Friday 25 May, people in the Republic of Ireland voted on whether they want to make changes to the country's strict abortion laws, upheld in the Eighth Amendment of the Irish constitution.\n\nSo where does the law currently stand?\n\nSince 2013, terminations have been allowed in Ireland but only when the life of the mother is at risk, including from suicide. The maximum penalty for accessing an illegal abortion is 14 years in prison.\n\nIn 2016, the Irish Department of Health said there were 25 legal abortions carried out in Ireland.\n\nIn the same year, 3,265 women travelled from Ireland to the UK for a termination.\n\nAfter independence, Ireland retained many UK laws, one of which was the Offences Against the Person Act 1861 which criminalised abortion.\n\nHowever, in the early 1980s, following legal cases in other jurisdictions allowing the introduction of less restrictive abortion laws, some people became concerned that something similar could happen in Ireland.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The background and potential outcomes to the Republic of Ireland's abortion referendum\n\nIn 1983, after a referendum, an eighth amendment was added to the country's constitution known as Article 40.3.3.\n\nIn it, the state acknowledged \"the right to life of the unborn and, with due regard to the equal right to life of the mother, guarantees in its laws to respect, and, as far as practicable, by its laws to defend and vindicate that right\".\n\nAfter a further referendum in 1992, two other changes were made to the constitution in relation to women seeking to access terminations.\n\nThe Thirteenth Amendment said women were free to travel to other countries to access abortion services.\n\nThe Fourteenth Amendment stated that the constitution would not prevent people accessing information relating to \"services lawfully available in another state\".\n\nIn 2013, the law was changed when the Dáil (Irish parliament) voted to allow abortions under limited circumstances.\n\nThe Protection of Life During Pregnancy Act allowed terminations to be carried out where there is a threat to the life of the mother. They would also be allowed where there is medical consensus that the expectant mother will take her own life over her pregnancy.\n\nIn 2017, the Citizens' Assembly, a body set up advise the Irish government on constitutional change, voted to replace or amend the part of Ireland's Constitution which strictly limits the availability of abortion.\n\nSo on 25 May, 2018, the Irish people were asked if they wanted to remove the Eighth Amendment and allow politicians to set the country's abortion laws in the future.\n\nThe wording on the ballot paper read: \"Provision may be made by law for the regulation of termination of pregnancies.\n\nIn March, Health Minister Simon Harris outlined what would be in the government legislation if the people voted to repeal the Eighth Amendment.\n\nIf passed, women could access a termination within the first 12 weeks of pregnancy.\n\nHowever, beyond 12 weeks, abortions would only be permitted where there is a risk to a woman's life or of serious harm to the physical or mental health of a woman, up until the 24th week of pregnancy.\n\nTerminations would also be permitted in cases of fatal foetal abnormality.", "Angelina Jolie, Gwyneth Paltrow and Cara Delevingne have all spoken out\n\nSalma Hayek, Rose McGowan and Gwyneth Paltrow are among dozens of women who have come forward with allegations ranging from rape to sexual harassment by movie mogul Harvey Weinstein.\n\nHe is currently facing five charges relating to two women in New York.\n\nHe has previously admitted his behaviour has \"caused a lot of pain\" but has described many of the allegations against him as \"patently false\".\n\nHis spokesperson has said \"any allegations of non-consensual sex are unequivocally denied\" and there were \"never any acts of retaliation\" against women who turned him down.\n\nHere are some of those who have made allegations against him.\n\nThe actress has accused Weinstein of raping her by performing oral sex in a hotel at the Sundance Film Festival in 1997, when she was 23 and had just appeared in Scream.\n\nShe later reached a $100,000 settlement with him - and says he offered her $1m for a further non-disclosure deal to stay silent. She declined and has been one of his most vocal accusers.\n\nThe Emmy-nominated former Sopranos actress has alleged that Weinstein forced himself into her apartment in New York in 1992 and raped her.\n\n\"I was so ashamed of what happened,\" Sciorra told the New Yorker. \"And I fought. I fought. But still I was like, Why did I open that door?\"\n\nThe actress says Weinstein asked her to go to his hotel room under the guise of a business meeting, but appeared in a bathrobe and asked if he could give her a massage or if she could watch him shower.\n\nShe refused, and says he got revenge by seeking to damage her career. Director Peter Jackson has come forward to say he removed her from a casting list \"as a direct result\" of what he now thinks was \"false information\" provided by Weinstein.\n\nIn May 2018 Judd sued Weinstein claiming he damaged her career in retaliation for her rejecting his sexual advances but a Los Angeles court later dismissed her sexual harassment suit.\n\nHer defamation claim may still proceed, the judge said.\n\nMira Sorvino was photographed at a Weinstein Company party in January 2017\n\nThe Mighty Aphrodite star says he harassed her in a hotel room in 1995. \"He started massaging my shoulders, which made me very uncomfortable, and then tried to get more physical, sort of chasing me around,\" she said.\n\nLike with Ashley Judd, Peter Jackson said Weinstein warned him off casting her.\n\nHayek said Weinstein threatened to kill her\n\nThe Frida actress says she turned down repeated sexual advances from Weinstein while making the 2002 film Frida.\n\nAnd she says his persuasion tactics included threats. Hayek said Weinstein once told her: \"I will kill you, don't think I can't.\"\n\nThe Italian actress and director Asia Argento says she reluctantly agreed to give him a massage in a hotel room on the French Riviera, but he then raped her.\n\nWeinstein \"terrified me, and he was so big\", she said. \"It wouldn't stop. It was a nightmare.\"\n\nLucia Evans - nee Stoller - encountered Weinstein in 2004 in a New York club when she was an aspiring actress. She says she was forced to perform oral sex by the producer after going to his office for what she thought was a casting meeting.\n\n\"The type of control he exerted, it was very real,\" she told The New Yorker. \"Even just his presence was intimidating.\"\n\nThe Boardwalk Empire star has accused Weinstein of raping her twice in New York in 2010.\n\nThe first time was after he offered her a ride home, and the second was when he turned up uninvited at her apartment. \"I did say no, and when he was on top of me I said, 'I don't want to do this',\" she said.\n\nPaltrow says Weinstein asked her to give him a massage in his hotel suite after casting her in the leading role of 1996's Emma when she was 22.\n\nShe refused. \"He screamed at me for a long time. It was brutal,\" she said. She told then boyfriend Brad Pitt - who threatened to kill the producer if he did anything like that to Paltrow again.\n\nFormer production worker Mimi Haleyi alleges that she was raped by Weinstein when he forcibly performed oral sex on her in 2006 in his New York apartment.\n\n\"I told him 'no, no, no'. But he insisted,\" Ms Haleyi told a press conference in New York.\n\nThe actress also alleges she was raped by Weinstein when he performed oral sex on her without her consent. She says he lured her to a hotel room in 2010 under the guise of helping her procure future TV and film roles.\n\n\"I didn't know how to say no to someone like him at the time, which I regret,\" she said.\n\nThe Norwegian actress accuses Weinstein of raping her in a London hotel after the 2008 Bafta Awards ceremony.\n\nShe also alleges that he then asked her to engage in a threesome with him and another woman when back in Los Angeles following the Baftas.\n\nBritish actress Lysette Anthony says he carried out a \"pathetic, revolting\" attack at her London home in the late 1980s, which left her \"disgusted and embarrassed\".\n\nLysette Anthony told The Sunday Times she had reported an attack by Weinstein to the Metropolitan Police in London.\n\nIn an Instagram post, Delevingne writes how uncomfortable she felt during an encounter with Weinstein in a hotel room and describes what allegedly happened when she told him she wanted to leave.\n\n\"He walked me to the door and stood in front of it and tried to kiss me on the lips. I stopped him and managed to get out of the room,\" she says.\n\nThe French actress has written about how he invited her to come to his hotel room for a drink.\n\n\"We were talking on the sofa when he suddenly jumped on me and tried to kiss me,\" she wrote in The Guardian. \"I had to defend myself. He's big and fat, so I had to be forceful to resist him.\"\n\nAngelina Jolie with Gillian Anderson at the premiere of Playing by Heart in 1998\n\nJolie says she was propositioned by Weinstein in a hotel room in 1998.\n\n\"I had a bad experience with Harvey Weinstein in my youth, and as a result, chose never to work with him again and warn others when they did,\" she said.\n\nThe Pulp Fiction actress says Weinstein pushed her down and \"tried to expose himself\" at the producer's hotel room in London during the 1990s.\n\n\"He tried to shove himself on me... He did all kinds of unpleasant things,\" Thurman said. \"But he didn't actually put his back into it and force me. You're like an animal wriggling away, like a lizard.\"\n\nHarvey Weinstein and Heather Graham at a film party in 1999\n\nThe Boogie Nights actress told Variety she was once propositioned by Weinstein in the early 2000s when she met him to discuss being cast in one of his movies.\n\nShe alleges he implied she had to sleep with him to get a film role, telling her that his wife would have been fine with it.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Model Zoe Brock tells Radio 4's Today that she was one of Harvey Weinstein's victims\n\nThe model and actress says he asked for a massage in the south of France in 1997. She said: \"I didn't know what to do and I felt that letting him maybe touch me a little bit might placate him enough to get me out of there somehow.\"\n\nBefore long, she \"bolted\" into the bathroom. He banged on the door with his fists before eventually retreating, putting on a dressing gown and starting to cry.\n\nThe actress and producer says she was attacked by Weinstein when he invited her to his office in a hotel for a meeting about a script she had written at the Sundance Film Festival in 2008.\n\nHe insisted on listening to her pitch in his hot tub, then asked her to watch him masturbate, she says - and told her he could green-light her script if she did so. She left.\n\nThe Splash actress says she repeatedly turned down Weinstein's advances during promotion for Kill Bill and its sequel. He tried, she says, to get into her hotel room on multiple occasions, once getting a key and \"burst[ing] in like a raging bull.\"\n\nHe asked to grope her breasts and then asked her to expose herself to him, she alleges. She suffered physical repercussions as her flights were cancelled and she was left stranded after she turned him down on one occasion, she adds.\n\nThe actress says she rejected Weinstein's advances and that she believes her acting career suffered as a result.\n\nShe told the New York Times in the early 1990s she was directed to his hotel room, where he was in a bathrobe and asked her for a massage. When she refused she says he grabbed her hand and pulled it toward his crotch.\n\nModel Ambra Battilana Gutierrez has said she was groped by Weinstein and later went to New York police in 2015, saying the producer assaulted her. She then met Weinstein wearing a hidden microphone. But prosecutors took no action.\n\nOther stars to have detailed how he made advances in his home or hotel rooms include Brit Marling, Lupita Nyong'O, Lena Headey and Kate Beckinsale.\n\nOther women who have come forward since then with their stories include French actresses Florence Darel, Judith Godreche and Emma de Caunes.\n\nBritish model Kadian Noble, US actresses Jessica Barth, Katherine Kendall and aspiring actresses Dawn Denning, who is now a costume designer, Tomi-Ann Roberts, who is now a psychology professor, have also gone on the record.\n\nTV anchor Lauren Sivan alleges Weinstein cornered her in an empty basement area of a New York restaurant in 2007 and masturbated in front of her.\n\nAnd other workers at the Weinstein film company told the New Yorker about their experiences, including Emily Nestor, who was a temporary front desk assistant who said she had had to refuse his advances \"at least a dozen times\".\n\nActress Claire Forlani has said \"nothing happened\" between her and Weinstein - but only because she \"escaped five times\".\n\nIn an interview with Canadian TV, actress Lauren Holly said the producer approached her naked and requested a massage, at which point she \"pushed him and ran\".\n\nZelda Perkins, a British former assistant of Harvey Weinstein, says she resigned after a colleague accused him of trying to rape her.\n\nWeinstein's spokeswoman Sallie Hofmeister issued a statement on 10 October in response to the allegations of sexual harassment and assault.\n\n\"Any allegations of non-consensual sex are unequivocally denied by Mr Weinstein,\" she said. \"Mr Weinstein has further confirmed that there were never any acts of retaliation against any women for refusing his advances.\n\n\"Mr Weinstein obviously can't speak to anonymous allegations, but with respect to any women who have made allegations on the record, Mr Weinstein believes that all of these relationships were consensual. Mr Weinstein has begun counselling, has listened to the community and is pursuing a better path.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The boy was taken to hospital but died later\n\nA 15-year-old boy has been stabbed to death in Sheffield, the second fatal stabbing in the city in a week.\n\nThe boy was attacked in Lowedges Road, in the Lowedges district, at about 19:50 BST on Thursday. He died about an hour later in hospital.\n\nA 15-year-old boy has been arrested and is in custody on suspicion of murder, said South Yorkshire Police.\n\nThe force said it had been granted special stop and search powers to tackle knife crime.\n\nThe measures will be in place from 19:00 until 06:00 on Saturday in the Lowedges and Manor areas of the city, police said.\n\nA spokesman said there would be an option to extend it over the bank holiday weekend and would be reviewed daily.\n\nUnder Section 60 of the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994, officers do not have to have reasonable suspicion about the individual being stopped and searched.\n\nMeanwhile, police have asked witnesses to contact them especially if they have any dashcam footage as the investigation, involving a \"vast\" number of officers continues.\n\nA number of roads have been closed\n\nThe stabbing is not linked to the one two days earlier, when 19-year-old Ryan Jowle in the Woodhouse area of the city, said police.\n\nIn March, 22-year-old Jarvin Blake was also killed in the Burngreave area.\n\nCh Supt Stuart Barton said the latest stabbing might not be a random attack but contain \"a degree of targeting\".\n\nThe force is considering additional powers of stop-and-search in parts of the city.\n\n\"We're looking at certain areas if necessary - we have to look at doing that,\" he said.\n\nCh Supt Barton, the Sheffield commander, was asked on Wednesday about the level of knife crime in the city in recent months.\n\n\"It's a huge concern to the force. It's a huge concern nationally, not just in Sheffield.\n\n\"What I can say is that we continue to do what we can to work with people in schools, work within the city centre night-time operation.\n\n\"But the answers to knife crime lies with the people who carry those knives\", he said.\n\nThe scene of the boy's death was marked with a white forensics tent on the side of the main A61 route from Sheffield to Chesterfield.\n\nOne carriageway of the road is closed and the cordon is expected to remain in place until the early evening, said police.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Police have asked for public help to find the men\n\nCanadian police have launched a huge manhunt for two suspects who set off a homemade bomb at a restaurant in a Toronto suburb.\n\nPeel Regional Police has asked for the public's help to identify the men behind the \"horrendous act\", which injured 15 people, three critically.\n\nTwo suspects entered the Bombay Bhel restaurant in Mississauga and detonated the improvised bomb on Thursday night.\n\nThe pair then fled the scene after the blast at 22:30 local time.\n\n\"There is no indication this is a terrorist act,\" Peel Regional Police Chief Jennifer said, \"no indication this is a hate crime.\"\n\nBut she noted investigators are not ruling out any particular motive at this early stage in the investigation.\n\nPolice issued CCTV footage of the two suspects, describing them both as men around 5ft 10in tall with light or fair skin, and appealing for help identifying them.\n\nOne man was described as \"stocky\" and in his mid-20s, while the other was of thin build. Both wore blue jeans and dark hoodies, and had covered their faces.\n\nIndia's High Commissioner to Canada Vikram Swarup tweeted on Friday morning that India's consul general in Toronto had visited the three critically injured Indian-Canadians in hospital.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Vikas Swarup This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nPolice say two separate private birthday parties were being held in the restaurant when the blast went off.\n\nAbout 40 people, including staff and children under 10, were in the restaurant at the time.\n\nThe three people who were most severely injured are a 62-year-old woman and a 48-year-old woman, both from Mississauga.\n\nThe third is a 35-year-old man from the neighbouring city of Brampton.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Justin Trudeau This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe other victims range in age from 23 to 69 years of age.\n\nAll the victims have since been treated and released from hospital, according to police.\n\nIn a short statement on Facebook, Bombay Bhel Restaurant called the incident \"extremely horrific and sad\".\n\n\"We want to thank you for all of your support and well wishes, especially to the families that were affected.\"\n\nA police officer walks in front of shattered glass at Bombay Bhel restaurant\n\nChief Evans said her police force is working with others in the region as well as provincial and federal law enforcement in the investigation.\n\nMississauga Mayor Bonnie Crombie called the incident a \"heinous crime\" and said those involved need to be brought to justice.\n\n\"This is not the Mississauga I know,\" she told journalists on Friday morning.", "The disgraced film producer was sentenced to 23 years in jail after his trial in New York\n\nHollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein has been found guilty of rape and sexual assault by courts in New York and Los Angeles.\n\nHere is a summary of the key events that led him to court:\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein has arrived at a police station in New York, where he has been charged with rape and other counts of sexual abuse on two separate women.\n\nDozens of women have made allegations, including of rape and sexual assault, against the 66-year-old.\n\nWeinstein has always denied non-consensual sex and this is the first time he has been charged.", "Video shows North Korea appearing to blow up tunnels at its only nuclear test site. The move by the North was seen as part of a diplomatic rapprochement with South Korea and the US.\n\nIt came ahead of a planned summit between US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un in Singapore on 12 June, which has now been cancelled by Mr Trump.", "Why did the carefully planned summit collapse?\n\nPresident Donald Trump's shock announcement to cancel a planned summit with North Korea's Kim Jong-un follows weeks of fiery language. Analyst Ankit Panda looks at what happened.\n\nIn a letter released on Thursday morning, President Trump declared that the scheduled 12 June summit meeting in Singapore between him and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un - a meeting that would have been the first of its kind - would no longer take place.\n\nTrump justified his decision based on the \"tremendous anger and open hostility\" shown in a statement released by North Korea's state-run Korean Central News Agency this week.\n\nChoe Son-hui, a vice minister at North Korea's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, called US Vice President Mike Pence a \"political dummy\" for repeating remarks Trump made a week earlier, threatening to attack Kim Jong-un if he didn't submit to a deal on the United States' terms at the meeting.\n\nThe story of the summit's collapse, however, ultimately began with Trump's national security adviser, John Bolton, who had worked to raise expectations for what concessions the US should expect from North Korea to stratospheric levels.\n\nMr Bolton had built a maximalist \"denuclearization\" objective, seeking a deal at the Singapore meeting that would see North Korea turn over all its weapons of mass destruction - not only its nuclear weapons, but also its chemical and biological weapons.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Why North Korea is angry at this man\n\nBut Mr Bolton was probably never sincerely interested in seeing a diplomatic process with North Korea succeed.\n\nWeeks before becoming President Trump's national security adviser, John Bolton, as a then-private citizen, said in the aftermath of the president's acceptance of Kim Jong-un's invitation to meet that the goal of the process would be to \"foreshorten the amount of time that we're going to waste in negotiations that will never produce the result we want\".\n\nHis maximalist conception of what the United States should seek came to be known as the 'Libya model,' after the 2003 disarmament process that saw late Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi deprived of his nascent nuclear program. North Korea has long dreaded any comparisons to Libya and has said as much in recent statements.\n\nMs Choe's statement lashed out against the comparison to Libya, noting that North Korea was a full-fledged nuclear power, with intercontinental-range ballistic missiles and thermonuclear weapons to mount on them.\n\nLibya meanwhile was a fledgling nuclear pariah state that had \"simply installed a few items of equipment and fiddled around with them.\"\n\nThe moment the summit became doomed was when President Trump, speaking off the cuff, confused the 2003 \"Libya model\" of disarmament with the 2011 US-led intervention in Libya - a move that led directly to the demise of Muammar Gaddafi.\n\nThis is what Kim Jong-un learned from Libya's experience: that agreeing to disarm at the behest of the United States will sooner or later lead to his end.\n\nThe US has tens of thousands of troops in South Korea\n\nNorth Korea effectively saw Trump's comment as a threat. US Vice-President Mike Pence's decision to support Mr Trump's interpretation in a separate interview made it appear as if the president's off-the-cuff comment was a considered a US policy position - that should Kim come to Singapore and do anything other than submit to US demands, he would face US military action.\n\nThe Trump administration has, by all accounts, failed to take what North Korea has said about its negotiating position seriously. Even before Ms Choe's statement - the one that, according to Mr Trump's own letter, brought down the summit - North Korea communicated its displeasure with the US over John Bolton's rhetoric and over plans by the US and South Korea to conduct an aerial military exercise involving nuclear-capable bombers, something Pyongyang has long viewed as threatening.\n\nThe US has angered North Korea with aerial exercises over the peninsula before\n\nMore seriously, a statement by the Trump administration that Washington paid no costs and made no concessions in the run-up to the cancellation of this summit is false. The president's decision to cancel the summit appears to have blindsided Seoul, stressing an important US alliance at a pivotal time.\n\nSecondly, the decision to cancel the summit just hours after North Korea apparently carried through with its decision to dismantle its nuclear testing site creates unfavourable international optics.\n\nWashington comes off as the recalcitrant party, willing to scuttle a promising diplomatic process over nothing more than a harshly worded statement from a North Korean Foreign Ministry official.\n\nA satellite image of the Punggye-ri site before it was reportedly destroyed\n\nLooking ahead, there's a real possibility that President Trump will choose to blame the North Koreans for duplicity - for pulling the rug out from under him and his chances of a Nobel Peace Prize.\n\nNorth Korea's negotiating position never changed; it didn't change after Mr Kim's two meetings with Chinese President Xi Jinping and it didn't change after the inter-Korean summit meeting on 27 April.\n\nPresident Trump's letter appears to leave open an avenue for Kim Jong-un to work with him to restore the summit. He ends with an invitation for the North Korean leader, whom he addressed collegially as \"His Excellency,\" to not hesitate to \"call me or write\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or 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 White House This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and 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 White House\n\nMr Kim won't be eager to take up the president on his offer. While North Korea had much to gain from the summit, it has probably become apparent for Pyongyang that should it choose to meet Donald Trump, it would have little idea of what to expect.\n\nThat assumption would appear to be well-founded; the administration does not have a clear idea of what it seeks out of high-stakes diplomacy with North Korea.\n\nAnkit Panda is an adjunct senior fellow at the Federation of American Scientists and a senior editor at The Diplomat.", "Chloe Dutton (left) got her ticket as a 21st birthday present from mum Samantha\n\nHundreds of fans turned up to the first stadium date of Ed Sheeran's UK tour on Thursday to discover their tickets were invalid and they had to buy new ones.\n\nOn Tuesday, Sheeran's promoters said they had cancelled all tickets bought on Viagogo in a crack-down on touting.\n\nMany affected fans in Manchester were not aware and were told to buy new face-value tickets in order to get in, before seeking a refund from Viagogo.\n\n\"I was fuming,\" said Samantha Dutton from Stoke-on-Trent.\n\n\"I paid £400 for two tickets, now I've got to pay £150 to go and see him, and then I'll get my money back within five days, apparently.\n\n\"If you haven't got a spare £150 to pay for your tickets again, then you can't get in - and it's my girl's 21st birthday.\"\n\nAffected fans had their tickets stamped and were advised to apply for refunds from Viagogo\n\nSheeran's promoters have cancelled more than 10,000 tickets that were resold on Viagogo - often at vastly inflated prices - for 18 dates in the star's sold-out tour.\n\nMillie Nicholson, 18, from Skipton, North Yorkshire, supported Sheeran's attempts to tackle touting, but said this was \"definitely not\" the best way to go about it.\n\n\"To come all the way here to be pulled aside and be told your ticket's not valid, it's not good,\" she said.\n\n\"I paid £180 for mine and it's not on. And to be here to pay for another one - you're supposed to be here to have a good time… But I do think it's the right thing to do, to crack down.\"\n\nYasmin Campbell (right): \"It's filled us with anxiety\"\n\nYasmin Campbell, from Harrogate, found out on Facebook the day before that the tickets had been cancelled and agreed that it was \"definitely the right thing to do\".\n\nShe said: \"At least we're going to get to see the concert and it's not a total sham, but it's just horrible. It's taken all the excitement out of the build-up of the event and instead it's filled us with anxiety, and I will never buy from Viagogo again.\n\n\"A lot of people aren't fortunate enough to be able to pay again.\n\n\"My brother and his partner have stayed at home today and they're just hoping to get the refund through the bank because they couldn't afford to put the payment down again and they weren't interested in going through all of this farce to be able to do that.\"\n\nEd Sheeran is playing four nights at Manchester's Etihad Stadium\n\nStuart Galbraith, chief executive of the tour's promoters Kilimanjaro Live, said they were trying to make sure people paid no more than \"the price on the ticket that Ed wanted them to pay\".\n\nHe said: \"Although it's inconvenient for customers, we are helping them achieve refunds on transactions where they've just been ripped off.\n\n\"We have people we're helping out today who have paid up to £4,000, which is just outrageous.\n\n\"Everyone we've dealt with today, and we've dealt with hundreds, we've given them advice about how to receive refunds against their fraudulently traded tickets and we've sold them face-value tickets. So we've achieved what Ed wanted us to.\"\n\nViagogo customers were met by representatives of the gig promoters\n\nHe advised fans with tickets bought from Viagogo for other dates to arrange refunds and buy new face value tickets in advance. He said those affected should follow instructions on FanFairAlliance.org.\n\nHe said: \"Our whole process has been to try to deal with as much of this as possible in advance. We don't want to inconvenience people queuing and to be honest we don't want to deal with this ourselves on the day.\n\n\"If people have got tickets they know they've bought on the secondary market and they've paid over the odds, go to FanFairAlliance.org.\"\n\nFans who only discover that their tickets are invalid on the day and can't immediately afford to buy new face value tickets will be given the chance to come back and buy tickets for a different date, he said.\n\nAsked for a response to this story, Viagogo directed the BBC to the FAQ section of its website, where it protests against concert promoters who deny entry to fans using resold tickets.\n\n\"These types of entry restrictions are highly unfair and in our view, unenforceable and illegal,\" it says.\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.", "Freeman said making women feel uncomfortable was \"never my intent\"\n\nUS film star Morgan Freeman has apologised following allegations of sexual misconduct made by eight women and several other people.\n\nOne production assistant accused Freeman of harassing her for months during filming of bank robbery comedy Going in Style, CNN reported.\n\nShe said the 80-year-old touched her repeatedly, tried to lift her skirt and asked if she was wearing underwear.\n\nFreeman apologised to \"anyone who felt uncomfortable or disrespected\".\n\n\"Anyone who knows me or has worked with me knows I am not someone who would intentionally offend or knowingly make anyone feel uneasy,\" he said in a statement.\n\nMaking women feel uncomfortable was \"never my intent\", he said.\n\nHe is the latest well-known Hollywood figure to be accused of sexual misconduct after allegations of sex attacks by producer Harvey Weinstein led to the development of the #MeToo campaign against sexual harassment.\n\nThe production assistant was among eight women to tell CNN they had been the victims of harassment.\n\nShe told CNN that during the harassment another actor, Alan Arkin, \"made a comment telling him to stop. Morgan got freaked out and didn't know what to say\".\n\nMeanwhile a woman who worked on the 2013 film Now You See Me said staff knew \"not to wear any top that would show our breasts, not to wear anything that would show our bottoms\" or any close-fitting clothes if Freeman was around.\n\nMorgan is also said to have stared at women's breasts and asked women to twirl for him.\n\nCNN also said it had spoken to dozens more people who worked with or for Mr Freeman, some of whom praised Freeman and insisted his behaviour was always professional.\n\nThe best way to get news on the go", "Alison Chabloz had claimed the prosecution was an attempt to limit her free speech\n\nA blogger has been found guilty of broadcasting anti-Semitic songs on YouTube.\n\nAlison Chabloz, 54, from Glossop, Derbyshire, wrote and performed three songs about Nazi persecution, including one about the young diarist Anne Frank.\n\nChabloz claimed the Holocaust was \"a bunch of lies\" and referred to Auschwitz as a \"theme park\".\n\nShe was warned she may be jailed at her sentencing on 14 June. There was scuffle outside court.\n\nThere were several heated arguments outside court\n\nChabloz was convicted of two counts of sending an offensive, indecent or menacing message through a public communications network.\n\nShe was further convicted of a third charge relating to a song on YouTube.\n\nDistrict Judge John Zani, sitting at Westminster Magistrates' Court, said the offences were serious and \"the custody threshold may well have been passed.\"\n\nWhen the verdict was given supporters of Chabloz shouted \"shame\" from the public gallery.\n\nChabloz was released on bail on the condition she was placed on a night curfew at her home and does not leave England and Wales.\n\nWhen Chabloz left court there was a scuffle and heated arguments outside, before police arrived to keep the peace.\n\nPolice arrived to keep the peace after a scuffle outside court\n\nThe Campaign Against Anti-Semitism initially brought a private prosecution against Chabloz, before the Crown Prosecution Service took over.\n\nGideon Falter, the group's chairman, said: \"Alison Chabloz has dedicated herself over the course of years to inciting others to hate Jews, principally by claiming that the Holocaust was a hoax perpetrated by Jews to defraud the world.\n\n\"She is now a convicted criminal. This verdict sends a strong message that in Britain Holocaust denial and anti-Semitic conspiracy theories will not be tolerated.\"\n\nA CPS spokesman said it first became aware of the private prosecution in December 2016 when Alison Chabloz's solicitors asked the CPS to take it over and stop it.\n\nHowever, in 2017, the CPS determined the case should continue and Alison Chabloz was prosecuted.\n\nAlison Chabloz previously told the court she wanted put across her \"political, artistic, creative point\"\n\nChabloz, who describes herself as a Holocaust revisionist, said her music was \"satire\" and had previously told the court there was \"no proof\" gas chambers were used to kill Jewish people in World War Two.\n\nHowever, prosecutors said three of Chabloz's songs, including one which referred to the notorious Nazi death camp Auschwitz as a \"theme park\", were criminally offensive.\n\nAnother song included a section set to the tune of a popular Jewish song Hava Nagila.\n\nThe defence had told Judge Zani his ruling would set a precedent on the exercise of free speech.\n\nChabloz had claimed many Jewish people found her songs funny and that no-one was forced to listen to them.\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, on Twitter, or on Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Duke of Cambridge is to visit Israel, the Palestinian territories and Jordan in the summer.\n\nHis five day trip will begin in Amman, the capital of Jordan, on Sunday 24 June and end in Jerusalem.\n\nHe will also visit the Jordanian city of Jerash, Tel Aviv in Israel and the Palestinian city of Ramallah.\n\nIt will be the first official tour of Israel or the Palestinian areas by a member of the Royal Family on behalf of the British government.\n\nIsraeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said it would be \"an historic visit, the first of its kind\".\n\nHe said the prince would be welcomed \"with great affection\".\n\nThe Duke of Edinburgh and the Prince of Wales have previously visited Jerusalem, but not as part of an official tour.\n\nIn 2016, the Prince of Wales went to Jerusalem for the funeral of former Israeli president Shimon Peres.\n\nPrince William's visit comes at a tense time for the region. In May the US inaugurated its first embassy in Jerusalem, despite Israel's sovereignty over Jerusalem not being recognised internationally.\n\nOn the same day 60 Palestinians were killed by Israeli forces during border protests organised largely by Hamas - a militant Islamist group.", "Ireland has voted decisively in a referendum to reform the country's strict abortion laws, which had effectively banned all terminations.\n\nIt was Ireland's sixth referendum on the issue, and the country's younger voters led it in a two-thirds landslide in favour of ending the ban.\n\nHere we look back at how one of the most controversial legal issues in Irish history unfolded over more than a century-and-a-half.\n\nAbortion is first banned in Ireland in 1861 by the Offences Against the Person Act, and stays in place after Irish independence.\n\nOpponents of repealing the amendment say the mother and the unborn have an equal right to life\n\nThe Eighth Amendment to the Republic's constitution, or Article 40.3.3, is introduced after a referendum.\n\nIt \"acknowledges the right to life of the unborn and, with due regard to the equal right to life of the mother, guarantees in its laws to respect, and, as far as practicable, by its laws to defend and vindicate that right\".\n\nIt means the life of the woman and the unborn are seen as equal.\n\n1992 - The X case, and another referendum\n\nA 14-year-old suicidal rape victim is initially prevented by the courts from travelling to England to terminate her pregnancy. It is a controversy that will become known as the X Case.\n\nThe ruling prompts demonstrations by both anti-abortion and pro-choice campaigners across Ireland, in New York and London.\n\nHowever, the ruling is later overturned by Ireland's Supreme Court. It says the credible threat of suicide is grounds for an abortion in Ireland.\n\nNo government since then has enacted legislation to give medical practitioners legal certainty as to when terminations can be carried out.\n\nIn November that year, as a result of the X case and the judgement in the Supreme Court appeal, the government put forward three possible amendments to the constitution.\n\nA woman holds 'repeal the Eighth' badges up in front of her eyes at a pro-choice rally\n\nThey are enumerated as the twelfth, thirteenth and fourteenth amendments. Two of them are passed.\n\nThe Thirteenth Amendment said the abortion ban would not limit freedom of travel from Ireland to other countries for a legal abortion.\n\nThe Fourteenth Amendment said Irish citizens had the freedom to learn about abortion services in other countries.\n\nHowever, the Twelfth Amendment is rejected. It had proposed that the possibility of suicide was not a sufficient threat to justify an abortion.\n\nAnother referendum is held and the people of Ireland are asked if the threat of suicide as a ground for legal abortion should be removed.\n\nIt is again rejected (this time marginally) by voters.\n\nAfter three women take a case against Ireland, the European Court of Human Rights rules the state has failed to provide clarity on the legal availability of abortion in circumstances where the mother's life is at risk.\n\nA campaign to liberalise abortion gathers momentum, after Indian woman Savita Halappanavar dies in a Galway hospital after she is refused an abortion during a miscarriage.\n\nHer husband, Praveen Halappanavar, says she repeatedly asked for a termination but was refused because there was a foetal heartbeat.\n\nA vigil for Savita Halappanavar, who died in 2012 after being denied an abortion\n\nWhen asked if he thought his wife would still be alive if the termination had been allowed, Mr Halappanavar told the BBC: \"Of course, no doubt about it.\"\n\nFollowing her death, about 2,000 protesters assemble outside the Irish parliament in Dublin to call for the Irish government to urgently reform the Republic's abortion laws.\n\nCandle-lit vigils are held around the country.\n\nAbortion legislation is again amended to allow terminations under certain conditions - the Protection of Life During Pregnancy Act is signed into law.\n\nIt legalises abortion when doctors deem that a woman's life is at risk due to medical complications, or at risk of taking her life.\n\nIt also introduces a maximum penalty of 14 years imprisonment for having or assisting in an unlawful abortion.\n\nThis law gives effect to the 1992 Supreme Court ruling that abortion is permitted where the mother's life, as opposed to her health, is at risk.\n\nAnti-abortion groups argue that two sets of human rights are at stake\n\n2015 - The UN calls for another referendum\n\nThe United Nations Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights recommends a referendum on abortion, saying it is concerned at Ireland's \"highly restrictive legislation\" and calls for a referendum to repeal Article 40.3.3 of the Constitution.\n\nIt says it's \"particularly concerned at the criminalization of abortion, including in the cases of rape and incest and of risk to the health of a pregnant woman; the lack of legal and procedural clarity on what constitutes a real substantive risk to the life, as opposed to the health, of the pregnant woman; and the discriminatory impact on women who cannot afford to obtain an abortion abroad or access to the necessary information\".\n\nThe committee calls for a revision of the 2013 Protection of Life During Pregnancy Act and urges the adoption of guidelines to clarify what constitutes \"a real substantive risk\" to a woman's life.\n\nTens of thousands rallied in Dublin in September for constitutional change\n\n2016 - The United Nations weighs in on human rights\n\nThe United Nations Human Rights Committee says that Ireland's ban on abortion subjected a woman carrying a foetus with a fatal abnormality to discrimination and cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment.\n\nIt calls for the strict prohibition to be reversed, including reforming the right to life of the unborn in the constitution if necessary, to allow women to voluntarily terminate a pregnancy safely.\n\nThe case involves a woman called Amanda Mellet who had to travel abroad for an abortion.\n\nThe UN committee says the hospital where she was treated did not provide any options regarding the foetus's remains and she had to leave them behind.\n\nThree weeks later, the ashes are unexpectedly delivered to her by courier.\n\nMs Mellet files a complaint with the UN over her experiences.\n\nAnti-abortion campaigners say the unborn should have rights to life\n\nShe is later awarded compensation by the Irish government - thought to be the first time this had happened.\n\nThe move is hailed as \"highly significant\" by pro-choice campaigners.\n\nMeanwhile, the terms of reference are outlined for a Citizens' Assembly to begin examining the Eighth amendment. This is a public body set up to advise the Irish government on a number of ethical and political dilemmas facing the Irish people.\n\nThe Citizens' Assembly votes to recommend the introduction of unrestricted access to abortion.\n\nIt votes 64% to 36% in favour of having no restrictions in early pregnancy.\n\nRecent years have seen demonstrations both for and against repealing the Eighth Amendment\n\nThe chairperson, Justice Mary Laffoy, said: \"The members voted that they wanted to remove Article 40.3.3 from the constitution, and for the avoidance of doubt, to replace it with a provision in the constitution, which would make it clear that termination of pregnancy, any rights of the unborn, and any rights of the pregnant woman are matters for the Oireachtas (Irish Parliament).\n\n\"In other words, it would be solely a matter for the Oireachtas to decide how to legislate on these issues.\"\n\nHowever, anti-abortion campaigners dismiss the results of the ballots as a \"muddled and confused farce\".\n\nAn Oireachtas committee in 2017 also recommends substantial reform of the law.\n\nThe committee's chair, Senator Catherine Noone, concludes that \"we need some change\" and in order to effect that the constitution needed to be amended to remove Article 40.3.3.\n\nThe Irish government says it will hold a referendum in 2018 on whether to change the abortion laws.\n\nIn March, Irish Housing Minister Eoghan Murphy signs an order to set the date for an abortion referendum. The wording is then finalised, giving the go-ahead for voters to have their say on the issue.\n\nOn 25 May, voters go to the polls, where the ballot asks if they wish to approve the 36th Amendment to Ireland's constitution - a bill which would repeal the Eighth Amendment, the ban on abortion.\n\nTurnout is 64.51%, and the result is just short of two-thirds in favour of ending the country's ban on abortion: 66.4% yes to 33.6% no.\n\nThe Yes vote allows the government in Dublin to introduce legislation allowing abortion in the first 12 weeks of pregnancy, and between 12 and 24 weeks in exceptional circumstances.\n\n\"What we have seen today really is a culmination of a quiet revolution that's been taking place in Ireland for the past 10 or 20 years,\" says Prime Minister Leo Varadkar.", "The recall notice is in relation to glass bottles of AG Barr drinks, including Irn Bru\n\nSoft drinks maker AG Barr is recalling 750ml glass bottles due to concerns the caps may pop off unexpectedly and could cause injury.\n\nThe company said 11 of its fizzy drinks products - including Irn Bru, cola, and lemonade - were affected.\n\nIt said it has taken steps to remove the products from the market.\n\nCustomers who have bought the bottles were urged to open them at arm's length to release the pressure then return them to the shop or contact AG Barr.\n\nThe firm blamed a \"manufacturing fault\" for the issue and said it had taken the decision to recall 750ml glass bottles on a precautionary basis because there had been a small number of reports that the bottle caps pop off unexpectedly.\n\nThey have a use by date up to and including May 2019.\n\nPoint-of-sale notices will be displayed in all retail stores that are selling the products explaining to customers why the bottles are being recalled and telling them what to do if they have bought the product.\n\nA recall information notice from Food Standards Scotland said: \"If you have bought any of the above products carefully release the pressure from the bottle by pointing away from the body at arm's length as you would when opening a bottle of sparkling wine and then return to store or contact AG Barr.\"\n\nNo other AG Barr products are known to be affected.\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. Jim Booth described how Joseph Isaacs attacked him\n\nA man who attacked a 96-year-old D-Day veteran with a claw hammer has been found guilty of attempted murder and sentenced to 20 years.\n\nJoseph Isaacs, 40, of no fixed address, shouted \"money, money, money\" as he repeatedly hit Jim Booth.\n\nMr Booth spent nine days in hospital after the raid at his home in Taunton.\n\nHe said later he should have known how to deal with the assault, because he had been in the special services, but was now too old.\n\nIsaacs had previously admitted aggravated burglary, causing grievous bodily harm and seven counts of fraud.\n\nHe will spend 16 years in custody and four on licence, the judge ruled.\n\nDuring sentencing, Judge David Ticehurst said Mr Booth was an \"extraordinarily remarkable gentleman\" whom Isaacs \"savagely attacked with a claw hammer which you took with you for that purpose\".\n\nHe said: \"It was a brutal and utterly senseless attack on him.\"\n\nJudge Ticehurst also said Isaacs met the criteria for the extended sentence as he showed an \"apparent lack of remorse or concern\" for attacking Mr Booth for a \"paltry\" amount of money.\n\nThe court heard Isaacs, formerly from Exeter, went to Mr Booth's home on 22 November intending to obtain money as he had not eaten for days and was \"starving\".\n\nHe initially offered to carry out repairs to the roof, but when he was turned down he repeatedly hit the 96-year-old with a hammer and left him for dead.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Joseph Isaacs denied carrying out the attack when he was arrested\n\nIsaacs used Mr Booth's bank card to buy food at a McDonald's fast-food restaurant in Bridgwater after the attack.\n\nThe court heard Mr Booth was hit six times on the head, as well as on the arms with the claw side of the tool.\n\nMr Booth suffered a number of skull fractures, bleeds to the brain, deep wounds to both his arms and a fracture to his right hand.\n\nSpeaking after he had recovered, he said he was told one of his arm injuries showed he had hit back at his attacker.\n\n\"I'm saying I blame myself because I was special services and I think I really should have known how to deal with this, but I didn't.\n\n\"I was too old, obviously,\" said Mr Booth.\n\nIn a statement released after the sentencing, the veteran's family said: \"On 22 November last year, a light was shone on the very best and worst of humankind, when our father was subjected to a brutal and cowardly attack inside his home.\n\n\"Miraculously, though left for dead, and against all odds, he survived.\n\n\"In the very difficult six months since, our father has shown extraordinary courage and determination as he's battled with the pain and long-term effects of the injuries.\n\n\"He is truly inspirational.\"\n\nDet Ch Insp James Riccio, from Avon and Somerset Police, said: \"It was a cowardly act and it's a miracle Mr Booth survived these horrific injuries.\"\n\nJoseph Isaacs used Mr Booth's bank card to buy food a few hours after the attack\n\nMr Booth, who joined the Royal Navy at 18, took part in one of the most secret operations of the D-Day invasion in Normandy in 1944, and talked about it in a 2013 BBC documentary.\n\nHe was part of a team of submariners who submerged close to Sword Beach.\n\nOn the day of the landings he and his colleagues left their craft in a fold-up canoe to shine beacons to guide the Allied landing craft safely to shore.\n\nJim Booth served in the Royal Navy and this photo was taken of him on board the HMS Imersay in Malta in 1947 or 1948\n• None BBC One - D-Day- The Last Heroes - Sub Lieutenant Jim Booth\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Trump-Kim summit isn't happening - but has that only added to the allure of special coins made to commemorate the event?\n\nConfusingly, there are in fact two commemorative coins doing the rounds.\n\nThe focus of most of the attention is the coin created by the White House Communications Agency (WHCA) - it hails the talks between Mr Trump and \"Supreme Leader\" Kim Jong-un.\n\nSuch coins are often presented to foreign guests and diplomats.\n\nThe other features silhouettes of Mr Trump, Mr Kim and South Korean President Moon Jae-in and is available from the White House Gift Shop website. Its popularity appears to be soaring, with demand crashing the site.\n\nThe coin had been offered at a discount price of $19.95 (£14.90), down from $24.95, earlier on Thursday, with the gift shop also offering refunds if the summit did not take place.\n\nBut it said \"most supporters have said they want this heirloom of political history regardless of outcome\".\n\nThat does seem to be the case.\n\nBBC North America Correspondent Anthony Zurcher says the WHCA coin could be the \"1804 Dollar\" of numismatics - referring to a series of coins created for diplomatic gifts in the 1800s that now command ultra-high prices.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Anthony Zurcher This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe WHCA coin was not requested by Mr Trump or his team - but it has nevertheless provided an opportunity for people to lampoon him online.\n\nCould Mr Trump have sent half of the coin to Mr Kim as a declaration of love, as former Pentagon spokesman Adam Blickstein suggests?\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Adam Blickstein This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nDid the coin in fact help make Mr Kim the winner in the situation?\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Mike Signorile This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 snark factor went up further when writer Brian Krassenstein said Mr Trump could hang the coin \"next to his fake Time magazine cover\" - referring to a Washington Post report revealing that several of Mr Trump's golf clubs prominently display a framed copy of a fake Time cover featuring several positive headlines and Trump as its cover.\n\nOne social media user said the coins could just have been another way for Mr Trump to boost his business empire.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Tea Pain This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nWould the president be using them to pay people, wondered Paul Ryckert who posted a photo of the president looking at young lawnmower entrepreneur Frank Giaccio. The 11-year-old had written to the president asking to mow the White House lawn.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Paul Ryckert This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nOr would they simply find their way on to eBay, as President Obama's former chief strategist David Axelrod said.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 6 by David Axelrod This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nHowever, not everybody thinks the coin is funny.\n\nNorth Korea analyst Robert Kelly had earlier said it legitimised Mr Kim's \"personality cult\" and was \"un-American\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Robert E Kelly This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nFollowing this and other criticisms, the White House put out a statement saying it \"did not have any input into the design\" of the coin.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Peter Alexander This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and 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 show will go ahead with a stand-in bassist\n\nManic Street Preachers star Nicky Wire has pulled out of the band's headline performance at the BBC's Biggest Weekend performance.\n\nThe star is unable to perform \"due to a serious family illness\", the band said in a statement.\n\nFrontman James Dean Bradfield has told the BBC, a member of their road crew will stand in for the bassist\n\n\"I don't want to put too much pressure on the lad, but he's a guy called Richard from Pontypool in Wales.\"\n\nBradfield added: \"Rich has stood in for Nick a couple of times when his mother was so ill he couldn't travel, so he's done it before and he's a brilliant musician. He's very adept at doing stuff like this.\"\n\n\"He's been with us for over 10 years now and he's cool.\n\n\"He hasn't quite got the calf muscles Nicky's got, so he's not going to be wearing a skirt!\"\n\nThe Manics, alongside Beck and Orbital, top the bill on the first day of the BBC's UK-wide music festival.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by ManicStreetPreachers This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nPreviously, 80s pop band Tears For Fears were forced to pull out of a performance on the Radio 2 stage in Coventry due to \"unforeseen health concerns\".\n\nHowever, there will still be performances across the weekend from Ed Sheeran, Taylor Swift, Paloma Faith, Florence + The Machine, Nigel Kennedy, Evelyn Glennie and Liam and Noel Gallagher.\n\nUS singer Father John Misty got the 6 Music leg of the Biggest Weekend started in Belfast earlier.\n\nThe eccentric crooner – formerly of Fleet Foxes – was backed by the Ulster Orchestra for a special performance at the city’s Titanic Slipways venue.\n\nThe singer opened with a humble: \"Lovely to be here\", before joking: \"Wind versus sheet music. Let's see who emerges the victor.\"\n\nHe was followed on stage by art-rock band Public Service Broadcasting, who premiered a new piece about the ill-fated Titanic, which was built in Belfast between 1908 and 1912.\n\nThe music featured archive recordings from the building of the ship, as well as first-hand accounts from people who were involved in the construction.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by BBC Radio 6 Music This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAustralian singer-songwriter Courtney Barnett also had a surprise in store for her mid-afternoon set.\n\n\"We'd like to welcome some special friends to sing the next one,\" she told the crowd, before announcing: \"Please welcome Kim and Kelley Deal!\"\n\nThe sisters - who perform together in The Breeders - provided backing vocals (and some auntie-at-a-wedding dance moves) for Barnett's recent single Nameless, Faceless.\n\nThe Breeders will be back on stage later to play their own set.\n\nHighlights of Friday’s action in Belfast will be on BBC Four from 19:30, with the Manics on live from 20:00.\n\nMeanwhile in Perth, BBC Radio 3 took over Perth's for a day of classical music.\n\nKicking off with the Scottish National Jazz Orchestra, the line-up also includes a tribute to Andrew Lloyd Webber and a headline set from violinist Nigel Kennedy.\n\nThe Biggest Weekend, which fills a gap left by Glastonbury's fallow year, will be covered extensively on BBC TV and radio, with full sets available on the BBC iPlayer.\n\nYou can find out how to watch and listen on the official Biggest Weekend site.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The attack on the family's house in Salford was captured on CCTV\n\nTwo men who murdered four children by torching their home with petrol bombs have been given life sentences.\n\nZak Bolland, 23, and David Worrall, 26, were convicted of murdering Demi, Brandon, Lacie and Lia Pearson in Walkden, Salford in December.\n\nCourtney Brierley, 20, was cleared of their murders but found guilty of four counts of manslaughter following the blaze.\n\nBolland was jailed for a minimum of 40 years and Worrall for 37 years.\n\nA judge at Manchester Crown Court also sentenced Brierley to 21 years in a young offenders institution.\n\nMr Justice William Davis said the four children \"died a terrible death\".\n\nSandra Lever, the children's grandmother, said the offenders were \"evil\".\n\n\"To think and do anything like this with four babies in the house, and a woman, and two other children, it's just beyond me.\"\n\nLia, Demi, Brandon and Lacie died in the fire and their mother Michelle Pearson was left in a coma\n\nThe jury heard Bolland, who lived 300 yards from the Pearsons, was high on drink and drugs when he launched the fatal attack, which was motivated by a petty feud with the victims' 17-year-old brother Kyle Pearson.\n\nAlong with Worrall, he filled two glass bottles with £1.50 of petrol bought from a local garage, stuffing the tops with tissue paper as they prepared the attack shortly before 05:00 GMT.\n\nThey removed a fence panel from the garden of the family's home in Jackson Street, smashed a kitchen window and threw in the two lit petrol bombs.\n\nOne landed near the stairs, blocking the only exit to the ground floor and trapping the victims upstairs as flames engulfed the three-bedroom mid-terrace house.\n\nZak Bolland (left) and David Worrall were found guilty of the murders of four siblings\n\nDemi, 15, Brandon, eight, and Lacie, seven, all died in the blaze.\n\nTheir mother, Michelle Pearson, 36, was rescued, severely injured, along with her youngest daughter, Lia, aged three, who died in hospital two days later.\n\nNeighbour Karen Kormoss told the jury during the murder trial Mrs Pearson screamed \"not the kids\" as the flames took hold.\n\nShe said she saw the windows blown out and flames coming from upstairs and downstairs within two minutes.\n\nBolland and Worrall threw two lit petrol bombs at the family's home\n\nMrs Pearson dialled 999 but she was overcome with heat and smoke before completing the call.\n\nShe spent four months in a coma and still suffers with dreadful burns and has had several infections.\n\nShe has been told about the deaths of her children but \"it's questionable how much she's absorbed and is aware of what she's been told\", the court heard.\n\nBolland was found guilty of three counts of the attempted murder of Mrs Pearson, Kyle, and his friend Bobby Harris who was staying at their house.\n\nWorrall, of no fixed address, was found guilty of attempting to cause grievous bodily harm with intent.\n\nBolland's then-girlfriend Courtney Brierley was found guilty of four counts of manslaughter\n\nWorrall and Brierley broke down in tears as the verdicts were read out in court. Bolland blinked and looked down to the floor.\n\nThe court heard Bolland was friends with Kyle until the defendant's car was set on fire and his house windows smashed and he blamed the teenager.\n\nMrs Pearson had called police on at least five occasions in the two weeks before her children died, saying Bolland was threatening to use fire to harm her family.\n\nHe set their wheelie bin on fire two days before the fatal fire and threatened to \"kill 'em all\" four hours before he torched the house, the court heard.\n\nCCTV shown to the jury showed Bolland and Worrall at the address at 04:55 for one minute and five seconds. The cameras recorded a flash then a larger second one from the petrol bombs, before they fled.\n\nBolland, who admitted throwing the second petrol bomb but denied all other charges said he intended only to damage the house which he thought was not occupied.\n\n\"I heard like a big whoosh. I didn't look back,\" he told the jury.\n\nWorrall, who pleaded not guilty to all charges, said he thought they were only going to set fire to wheelie bins and denied throwing a petrol bomb.\n\nBrierley, from Walkden, said she did not know the two men had petrol bombs and claims Bolland had a \"controlling influence\" over her during their \"toxic\" relationship.\n\nDet Ch Insp Lewis Hughes said it was one of the \"most heartbreaking cases\" he had ever dealt with.\n\n\"I am glad that the sentences these three have received today reflect their atrocious acts, but nothing can change what has happened and nothing can bring back the children,\" he said.\n\nAn investigation into Greater Manchester Police by the Independent Office for Police Conduct was suspended pending the outcome of the trial.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "McDonald's shareholders have rejected a proposal asking the firm to report on its use of plastic straws, the latest part of a campaign pressing the firm to ban the items.\n\nThe idea, which was backed by activist group SumOfUs, won less than 8% of the vote at the company's annual meeting.\n\nMcDonald's had recommended against the measure saying it was \"unnecessary\" and \"redundant\".\n\nSumOfUs said the vote was \"not surprising\".\n\nSumOfUs has been pressing McDonald's to end its use of plastic straws due to the impact on the environment and wildlife. An online petition on the issue has attracted nearly 500,000 signatures.\n\nThe proposal, put forward by a small shareholder and published in an SEC filing in April, argued that McDonald's could face a consumer backlash on environmental grounds.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Five ways to break up with plastic\n\nIt said the company \"has an opportunity to improve its brand by demonstrating leadership in the elimination of plastic straws\".\n\nIt asked the firm to submit a report on efforts to find alternatives to plastic straws and to assess the business risks associated with continuing to use them.\n\nSondhya Gupta, senior campaigner at SumOfUs, said she has seen McDonald's take steps to address the issue since the campaign started.\n\n\"We hope McDonald's will continue to take this issue seriously and we look forward to them reporting back on a timeline for instituting these important reforms,\" she said.\n\nThere is growing consumer concern about the effects of plastic pollution, in part helped by TV programmes such as the BBC's Blue Planet II.\n\nEfforts targeting plastic straws in particular appear to be gaining traction.\n\nIn the UK, politicians have discussed the idea of a ban, while a growing number of cities in the US, including New York, are taking up the idea.\n\nCompanies are also taking action on their own. For example, Hilton on Wednesday pledged to eliminate plastic straws from the 650 hotels it manages directly around the world.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMcDonald's told shareholders that it already has a goal that by 2025, \"all of McDonald's guest packaging (including straws) will come from renewable, recycled or certified sources\".\n\n\"The requested report is unnecessary, redundant to our current practices and initiatives, and has the potential for a diversion of resources with no corresponding benefit to the company, our customers, and our shareholders,\" the McDonald's board said.\n\nThe firm has said it will start phasing out plastic straws in the UK. It is currently testing alternatives in the UK and Belgium.", "Sameeh was at the wedding in rural Yemen in April that his father Ali was performing at when he was killed by a Saudi airstrike.\n\nMore than 250 people have been killed in April and May this year.", "Rose McGowan, one of the movie mogul's accuser, reacts to Harvey Weinstein being arrested for sexual assault charges.\n\nMr Weinstein has denied engaging in any non-consensual sex acts.", "Mr Trump has made a number of controversial decisions around complicated global issues recently\n\nThe decision to pull out of the summit with North Korea rounds off a momentous six weeks for US foreign policy.\n\nIt has provided a window on President Trump's approach to foreign affairs; one that may worry friends and potential enemies alike.\n\nIn mid-April there were the US-led strikes on Syria as punishment for the Assad regime's use of chemical weapons.\n\nLess than a month later, President Trump pulled the US out of the nuclear agreement with Iran, known as the JCPOA - a deal he had always insisted was bad for the US and bad for its friends in the region.\n\nIn mid-May he followed through on another campaign promise when the US symbolically moved its embassy in Israel to Jerusalem.\n\nNow, some 10 days later, he has pulled out of the summit with the North Korean leader Kim Jong-un.\n\nOne thing that Mr Trump has certainly demonstrated is his willingness to follow through on commitments he made during the campaign.\n\nBut both the decision to pull out of the JCPOA and the embassy move in Israel were approached with little real consideration of the wider context or consequences.\n\nThe Jerusalem embassy decision was made in isolation; it was never seen as part of any broader effort to move ahead with Israel-Palestinian peace.\n\nIt came at a time of growing tension in the Gaza Strip and, along with heavy-handed Israeli security tactics and the cynicism of the Hamas leadership, it may well have inflamed the violence.\n\nOf the Trump administration's much-trumpeted peace plan there is simply no sign.\n\nOn the Iran deal, there was again no apparent strategic vision. Would this step ultimately make it harder to constrain Iran's nuclear programme? Might it further strain relations with Washington's key Nato allies? And would it not also add an additional level of tension between the US and other key international players like China and Russia?\n\nThe earlier bombing in Syria was supposed to send a message to President Assad that enough was enough.\n\nBut again where was the wider strategy? Mr Trump has spoken about wanting to pull all US troops out of Syria, but this seems to fly in the face of another of the administration's stated goals which is to contain and curb Iran's rising influence in Syria and beyond.\n\nWill there be a return to the vitriolic exchanges of last year between Kim and Trump?\n\nNow we have the decision to pull out of the Singapore summit with North Korea. The problem here was probably a different one; over-optimism and plain lack of experience or realism.\n\nNorth Korea is certainly a difficult country to deal with. Previous administrations have tried to get deals. Twice they have reached agreement and twice they have collapsed.\n\nThe Americans say that this time they had been reaching out to the North Koreans to discuss the details about what might have been agreed and received little response.\n\nIt looks as though the summit might have turned into a photo opportunity for Kim Jong-un and that was simply unacceptable in Washington.\n\nBut this tells us something else about the highly personalised and dysfunctional approach of this administration to foreign affairs.\n\nThe summit idea emerged almost out of nowhere. It came as a welcome antidote to the growing level of invective between Washington and Pyongyang, as each traded nuclear threats with the other.\n\nBut it was almost stillborn at birth. The timescale was just far too short. Little preliminary work had been done. The issues were just too complex and the gaps between the two sides seemingly unbridgeable.\n\nTo even set the summit hare running was a decision that in large part reflected Mr Trump's ego and his bombastic self-belief in his own powers as a deal-maker. But that, it should be clear, is not how diplomacy works.\n\nTo a large extent, the US foreign policy machine is running in a void. Senior western diplomats point to the almost empty floor at the state department where the essential assistant secretaries for this region or another should be sitting. But they have simply not been appointed yet.\n\nThis is why the European governments negotiating with the Americans on a follow-on deal for Iran were aghast when they found that their efforts were simply not heading upwards in the US foreign policy machine. Vital pieces of that machinery were simply not in place.\n\nThe problem of the malaise at the state department and tumbling morale there may well be resolved by the new Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. But all you can say is better late than never.\n\nAlready some momentous foreign policy decisions have been made and the US and the world will have to live with the consequences.", "Donald Trump called off the upcoming US-North Korea summit on Thursday morning, catching much of official Washington, and the world, by surprise. How he did it - in a personal letter to North Korean leader Kim Jong-un - offers revealing insight at Trump-style diplomacy and what might happen next.\n\nThe missive from Donald Trump - addressed to \"his excellency\", an unusual title for Mr Kim - begins a bit like a corporate form letter, thanking the North Korean leader for his \"time, patience and effort\".\n\nThere's a bit of a passive-aggressive dig at Mr Kim - pointing out that he was the one who wanted the meeting, even if that's \"totally irrelevant\" - and an emphasis that this was a \"long-planned meeting\" (the idea was first suggested in March and a date and time set just weeks ago).\n\nThe real meat of the letter comes at the end of the paragraph, however, as the president's pen turns poison.\n\nThe North Koreans announced Thursday morning that they had collapsed the tunnels at their nuclear test site, but they accompanied it with threats of nuclear war and a demeaning dig at Vice-President Mike Pence (called \"a political dummy\"). Mr Trump has shown time and time again that he won't abide verbal swipes from the North Koreans.\n\nHe responds to their nuclear sabre-rattling with another round of \"fire and fury\" style language, boasting about the massive and powerful US nuclear arsenal that Donald Trump prays to God will never be used. It's a return to the rhetoric of last summer, when it appeared the US and North Korea were headed toward a military confrontation. The start of the letter may be diplomat-speak, but this is Mr Trump's voice coming through.\n\nBy the second paragraph, the diplomatic gloves are back on. There's an emphasis on the recent thaw between the two nations (a \"wonderful dialogue\") and a hint that the door has not been fully slammed shut.\"\n\nThe president writes that he is still looking forward to meeting the North Korean strongman (nuclear apocalypse notwithstanding). And releasing three American prisoners, one of whom had been sentenced to forced labour in a sham trial, was a much-appreciated \"beautiful gesture\". There will certainly be some critics who question whether this is an appropriate place to turn on the charm.\n\nThe business letter template kicks in again in the closing paragraph, albeit with somewhat tortured prose. \"If you change your mind having to do with this most important summit, please do not hesitate to call me or write\". We have operators standing by!\n\nIt finishes on a wistful note. In his tweet announcing the time and place of the now-cancelled summit, the president had said the meeting could be a \"very special moment for World Peace\". His supporters broached the idea that he should win a Nobel Prize, which he acknowledged by saying \"everyone thinks so\", adding \"the prize I want is victory for the world\".\n\nInstead, it's a \"sad moment in history\".", "A 95-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of murder after a female carer died in north London.\n\nThe victim, 61, was taken to hospital with head injuries at 07:10 BST on 24 May. She died the following day.\n\nA murder investigation has been launched by the Metropolitan Police following the incident in Holloway.\n\nThe man, who is believed to suffer from dementia, was taken to hospital pending a \"transfer to a location where his complex needs can be managed\".\n\nDetectives say the woman's next-of-kin have been informed, and they are not looking for anyone else in connection with their investigation.\n\nThe woman who died was an employee of a care agency commissioned by Islington Council.\n\nTwo ambulance crews arrived at his first-floor flat in Islington, north London, on Thursday morning after a neighbour heard a scream at around 04:00 BST.\n\nColleagues said they were left \"devastated\" after the woman, 61, died in hospital on Friday morning.\n\nMax Wurr, senior spokesman for the woman's employer, said: \"We were devastated that a member of our care team in Islington has died in hospital after paramedics were called to the home of one of our customers overnight.\"\n\n\"Our thoughts are with her family and friends at this desperately sad time.\"\n\nA post-mortem examination will be held in due course, the Met said.\n\nThe best way to get news on the go \n\n\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Online payment problems are continuing for frustrated TSB customers - five weeks on from the IT switchover that has caused a crisis at the bank.\n\nSome current account customers and some business clients still face problems making internet or app payments.\n\nThe bank said experts from computing giant IBM, called in during the first week of the fiasco, would remain \"for as long as it takes\" to fix the errors.\n\nIt has not estimated how long it will be until services return to normal.\n\nThe ongoing problems come in a week when some customers have reported fraudsters emptying their accounts. In addition, some customers who have switched away from the bank have reported receiving letters suggesting they have died.\n\nTSB said it had teams \"working around the clock\" to fix the issues which began after the migration of data on TSB's five million customers from former owner Lloyds' IT system to a new one managed by current TSB owner Sabadell.\n\nAmong the most serious are the payment problems faced by business banking customers, such as Sam Watterson, who runs a lettings firm in Leeds.\n\nHe has spent recent weeks manually entering details into a spreadsheet, as it is impossible to download a file from his account. He is also struggling to set up new payments to landlords.\n\n\"This is creating a backlog of payments. We are muddling through, but it is taking forever to do something simple,\" he said.\n\nHe said he had reported the issues to TSB but had not heard anything back.\n\n\"We are asking business banking customers, who may be experiencing problems making payments online, to contact us so we can help them meet their payment obligations, such as salaries and invoicing to suppliers,\" a spokeswoman for TSB said.\n\n\"We are really sorry for any inconvenience this may cause and we understand how challenging the past few weeks may have been for some of our business customers. No customer will be left out of pocket as a result of any issues experienced.\"\n\nOn Friday, BBC Radio 4's You and Yours revealed how one TSB customer watched thousands of pounds in wedding savings being stolen from his internet account as he waited on hold for the bank's fraud department.\n\nBen Alford, from Weymouth in Dorset, said it took more than four and a half hours to get through to TSB, by which time most of the money had gone. TSB said it had put in \"additional resources\" to support customers.\n\nLetters received by former TSB customers who had switched created confusion\n\nFinancial website Moneysavingexpert also reported how some customers had received letters incorrectly suggesting account holders had died.\n\nSeveral former TSB customers reported receiving letters from various organisations including local councils saying they were sorry to hear of their passing. The letters also said that their direct debits had been cancelled. Customers had then got in contact with those who had sent them the letters, and been informed that TSB had told them that they had died.\n\n\"We are aware there was an issue with a small number of our customers switching from or closing their account with TSB, which resulted in an error in the cancellation or transfer of some of their direct debits,\" a TSB spokeswoman said.\n\n\"We are deeply sorry for any distress caused. We are working to rectify this issue and we are really sorry for the inconvenience caused.\"\n\nText message balance alerts, such as when customers are going into the red, are not working.\n\nMeanwhile, some customers are receiving redress.\n\nThe case of Lorna Connolly, formerly Lorna McHale, was raised with TSB chief executive Paul Pester during his appearance before the Treasury Committee of MPs after the BBC revealed how she was unable to access her account days before her wedding day.\n\nShe said she had to \"ring to grovel\" with suppliers for the wedding, including the DJ, the wedding car provider, and those doing her hair and make-up, all of which were small businesses.\n\nTSB rang the day before her wedding to offer her compensation.\n\n\"They gave me £100 as a gesture of goodwill, which didn't really alleviate any of the stress, but I was flustered and just accepted,\" she said.\n\nShe said her account was mostly back to normal - a conclusion yet to be the case for every TSB customer.\n\nThe best way to get news on the go", "The ban would be enforced from next summer\n\nA ban on smoking in outdoor grounds of hospitals, schools and playgrounds in Wales has moved a step closer.\n\nHealth Secretary Vaughan Gething has launched a consultation with the ban planned for summer 2019 and those who break it could face a fine.\n\nVoluntary bans are currently in place in some school and hospital grounds and also in public playgrounds.\n\nIf the new law is passed, it will mean patients and visitors will have to leave hospital grounds to smoke.\n\nThe consultation, which will help shape the final legislation, is also seeking views on plans to introduce additional changes to the existing smoking ban, which did not include hospital grounds or playgrounds.\n\nThe changes will be introduced under the Public Health (Wales) Act 2017, which was passed by Assembly Members last year.\n\nMr Gething launched the consultation at Glan Clwyd Hospital in Denbighshire. The hospital has received complaints about people ignoring the current voluntary ban in place, so mothers visiting the maternity unit have to bring babies in and out past people who are smoking.\n\nThe ban is part of moves to change the culture around smoking, by making it seen as unacceptable where children might be influenced or in places where good health is being promoted.\n\nMr Gething said: \"We have seen significant changes to the attitudes to smoking since 2007.\n\n\"Back then we received some resistance to change, but we have seen a remarkable culture change and I am pleased our plan to extend smoke-free areas to outdoor public spaces has received overwhelming public support.\"\n\n\"This is another step in the right direction to de-normalise smoking in Wales.\"\n\nAround 18% of people in Wales are smokers, while around 11,720 will quit this year, it is estimated.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nBut it could be 2025 at the current rate before a Welsh Government target of reducing smoking prevalence reaches 16%.\n\nPublic health experts believe smoking still accounts for more than 5,000 deaths in Wales each year, around one in every six of all deaths in people aged 35 and over.\n\nLyndsey Watson, communications officer for the British Lung Foundation in Wales said taking her 20-month-old son Thomas near to areas where people are smoking was a concern.\n\n\"I have an asthma cough, so pollution is high on my radar,\" she said. \"I really want the best start in life for Thomas, so I am really happy with this announcement.\"\n\nBut Simon Clark of smokers' group Forest said: \"Smoking outside poses no threat to public health, nor is there evidence that children start smoking because they witness complete strangers lighting up in public.\"\n\nHe also said threatening hospital patients, visitors and staff with fines was \"despicable\" when some of them may be at their most vulnerable.", "Voters in the Republic of Ireland are set to decide on the future of the country's abortion laws in a referendum on 25 May.\n\nBBC News NI looks at the background to the referendum and what the verdict may mean.", "Four web giants are accused of breaking the law\n\nComplaints have been filed against Facebook, Google, Instagram and WhatsApp within hours of the new GDPR data protection law taking effect.\n\nThe companies are accused of forcing users to consent to targeted advertising to use the services.\n\nPrivacy group noyb.eu led by activist Max Schrems said people were not being given a \"free choice\".\n\nIf the complaints are upheld, the websites may be forced to change how they operate, and they could be fined.\n\nThe General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is a new EU law that changes how personal data can be collected and used. Even companies based outside the EU must follow the new rules if offering their services in the EU.\n\nIn its four complaints, noyb.eu argues that the named companies are in breach of GDPR because they have adopted a \"take it or leave it approach\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe activist group says customers must agree to having their data collected, shared and used for targeted advertising, or delete their accounts.\n\nThis, the organisation suggests, falls foul of the new rules because forcing people to accept wide-ranging data collection in exchange for using a service is prohibited under GDPR.\n\n\"The GDPR explicitly allows any data processing that is strictly necessary for the service - but using the data additionally for advertisement or to sell it on needs the users' free opt-in consent,\" said noyb.eu in a statement.\n\n\"GDPR is very pragmatic on this point: whatever is really necessary for an app is legal without consent, the rest needs a free 'yes' or 'no' option.\"\n\nPrivacy advocate Max Schrems said: \"Many users do not know yet that this annoying way of pushing people to consent is actually forbidden under GDPR in most cases.\"\n\nThe complaints were filed by four EU citizens with local regulators in Austria, Belgium, France and Germany.\n\nAnalysts and regulators had expected complaints to be filed shortly after the introduction of the law, as organisations and privacy advocates argue over how the law should be interpreted.\n\nSome companies based outside the EU have temporarily blocked their services across Europe to avoid falling foul of the new legislation.\n\nHowever, others such as Twitter have introduced granular controls that let people opt out of targeted advertising.\n\nCompanies that fall foul of GDPR can be - in extreme cases - fined more than £17m.\n\nFacebook said in a statement that it had spent 18 months preparing to make sure it met the requirements of GDPR.\n\nGoogle told the BBC: \"We build privacy and security into our products from the very earliest stages and are committed to complying with the EU General Data Protection Regulation.\"\n\nWhatsApp has not yet responded to the BBC's request for comment.", "The way secondary school league tables in England are now devised is unfairly stigmatising schools in white working-class areas, head teachers say.\n\nThey say the format is \"toxic\" for schools with a combination of high levels of deprivation and few pupils speaking English as a second language.\n\n\"Disenfranchised\" communities will be even more disillusioned if their schools are unfairly blamed, say heads.\n\nThe Department for Education says the revised rankings have become \"fairer\".\n\nGeoff Barton, leader of the ASCL head teachers' union, said the league-table changes had been welcomed as an improvement but the patterns emerging meant it was \"definitely time to look at it again\" and talks with the Department for Education were expected.\n\nHundreds of thousands of teenagers are currently taking their GCSEs - and the results will be used in the next round of school league tables.\n\nBut there are complaints from heads in the North West that the measure for comparing schools, known as Progress 8, is skewed against schools serving deprived white communities.\n\n\"If this was any other ethnic group at the bottom, people would be unsettled,\" says James Eldon, principal of the Manchester Enterprise Academy, where 90% of the GCSE year are eligible for free school meals.\n\n\"But because it's the white working-class, it's somehow less controversial,\" says Mr Eldon, who chairs the secondary head teachers group in Manchester and is chief executive of an academy trust.\n\nHe warns of the \"disillusionment\" for communities already feeling \"socially isolated and disenfranchised\".\n\nWhite working-class boys have one of the lowest rates of entry to university of any group.\n\nMr Eldon says the new league table measurements were brought in with good intentions, but are having unintended consequences.\n\nProgress 8 was meant to move beyond comparing only final results - and instead measures the progress that pupils make between primary school and GCSEs.\n\nHeads have analysed the link between deprivation and scores in schools with few EAL pupils\n\nIt was introduced to be fairer, so that pupils who began secondary school from a low base would be measured on how much progress they had made.\n\nIan Butterfield, head of Hindley High School, in Wigan, says the flaw in the system is not taking deprivation into account.\n\nPupils in schools with a more deprived intake make less progress through secondary school - and will therefore be given a negative score in the league tables, he says.\n\nAnother factor is that \"English as an additional language\" (EAL) pupils, sometimes starting from a lower base, are likely to score higher on the measure of progress.\n\nThere are also cultural factors - with EAL pupils often migrants from families with strong support for their children's education.\n\nThe \"winners\" in this system are more affluent schools, where pupils on average make better progress, and those with more EAL pupils, Mr Butterfield says, with London the most successful example.\n\nLeague tables are based on progress rather than final results\n\nBut for white working-class schools, such as in parts of the North West and North East of England, with a very poor intake and few EAL pupils, Mr Butterfield says, it is \"almost impossible\" for them not to have a negative score.\n\nHe says the league tables are not measuring the achievements of schools in adversity but describing the demographics of their intake.\n\nProfessor Becky Allen, Director of the Centre for Education Improvement Science at UCL, said: \"The problem with school performance tables is that they assume that the schooling system is solely responsible for everything that children learn during their childhood.\n\n\"So, if white working-class students learn less than other students, the blame for this lesser progress is entirely placed on the schools. Of course, this notion is nonsense - learning is co-produced by the actions of schools, parents, communities and the students themselves.\n\n\"The dilemma for government is what we do about this. Should we just accept that schools serving white working-class communities will have less good exam results? And how can we be sure that these schools are working as hard as they can to provide a high-quality education?\"\n\nBut the head teachers' concerns have been backed by Dr Terry Wrigley, of the University of Northumbria, who has written a report for the National Education Union about why so many schools in north-east England are appearing to do so badly.\n\nAlmost twice as many are below the minimum \"floor\" standard, compared with the national average.\n\n\"This is not special pleading or complacency,\" says Dr Wrigley. \"Poorer areas are being unfairly penalised.\"\n\nAs pupils go through secondary school the impact of deprivation grows, with less well-educated parents not able to help as much with homework and higher risks of disaffection. The gap in vocabulary can also widen and poorer youngsters are less likely to have families making sure they are on course for university.\n\nDr Wrigley says that Progress 8 seems to mirror levels of affluence and poverty and is \"an unreliable identifier of school ineffectiveness\".\n\nHead teacher Mr Butterfield says there are serious consequences for schools - with Ofsted likely to intervene and schools' leaders at risk of losing their jobs.\n\nHe warns it is becoming a serious disincentive when trying to recruit staff.\n\n\"Start labelling all these schools as failing and you begin to destroy local communities and the confidence of those dedicated to improving the lives of these youngsters,\" says Mr Butterfield.\n\nMike Kane, shadow schools minister, has asked whether the rankings will be amended\n\nMr Eldon says teachers in such areas have worked hard to turn around attitudes where it was \"soaked into the bones\" that local schools were bad.\n\nLabour's shadow schools minister and MP for Wythenshawe, Mike Kane, has asked the government whether it will amend the league tables in the light of the impact on schools serving white working-class pupils.\n\nA Department for Education spokesman defended the league tables as making sure that schools focused on the results of all pupils, including low performers.\n\n\"Far from being unfair, our Progress 8 measure means that schools are now recognised for the progress made by all pupils, as every grade from every pupil contributes to the school's performance - taking into account their ability when they started school,\" said the spokesman.\n\n\"The measure has been broadly welcomed by the sector, as it is a fairer way to assess overall school effectiveness as it doesn't focus on the attainment at a particular grade threshold.\"", "Junk food is often promoted to kids on social media\n\nSocial media stars might be encouraging children to eat more unhealthy snacks, a new study suggests.\n\nIt found children who saw popular vloggers consuming sugary and fatty snacks went on to eat 26% more calories than those who did not.\n\nThe study, presented at the European Congress on Obesity, examined the responses of children to images from social media.\n\nThe findings come amid calls for tougher rules on junk food advertising.\n\nThe social media stars used in the study were Zoella, who has 10.9 million followers on Instagram, and Alfie Deyes, who has 4.6 million.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Zoella This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 176 children were split into three groups and shown either pictures of the personalities promoting unhealthy snacks, healthy foods or non-food products.\n\nThe children were then offered a range of healthy and unhealthy snacks to choose from, including grapes, carrot sticks, chocolate buttons or jelly sweets.\n\nThe children who had seen the unhealthy images consumed an average of 448 calories, while the others ate just 357.\n\nAlfie Deyes was one of the social media stars used in the study\n\nDr Emma Boyland, one of the researchers from the University of Liverpool, said that children consider vloggers to be \"everyday people\" just like their peers.\n\n\"They've earned a position of trust among young people and there has to be some responsibility along the line,\" she said.\n\nThe researchers called for more protection for children online, particularly on social media channels where it is unclear whether they understand the difference between an advert and genuine content.\n\nDr Boyland said: \"On TV there are more cues as to when it's advertising - there's an advert break, there's a jingle - whereas digitally it's a lot more embedded in the rest of the content.\"\n\nAnna Coates, the lead researcher on the study, said: \"We know that if you show children a traditional drink advert, then their preference for that drink rises. We wanted to test their reactions to this new type of celebrity, the social media star.\n\n\"Now that we've shown that children are influenced by online stars, our next study will look at whether they understand that, in many cases, celebrities are being paid to promote products.\"\n\nProf Russell Viner, president of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, called on the government to consider more regulation to protect children in its forthcoming childhood obesity strategy.\n\n\"It's vital that children are protected from the marketing of junk food, not only on TV but also online where they are increasingly spending time.\n\n\"Companies are able to target their adverts on social media, which does provide the opportunity for regulators to put restrictions in place.\"\n\nThe best way to get news on the go \n\n\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The update posted on the Worldchoice Sports website spoke of the firm's \"deep regret\"\n\nHundreds of Liverpool fans have been left stranded after flights to the Champions League final were cancelled.\n\nOperator Worldchoice Sports said it could not secure landing slots at Kiev's Boryspil Airport for three planes but it said it has secured an extra last minute three-night trip.\n\nDisappointed fans, who had paid up to £1,000 each for flights, were frantically trying to make alternative arrangements.\n\nAsif Badat, aged 32, from Leeds, is among those who fear being stranded in the UK despite having match tickets.\n\n\"As recently as this morning we were being given assurances about our tickets and then suddenly the flights were cancelled,\" he said.\n\n\"I'm now considering flying to Romania and driving 10 hours from there.\"\n\nIn its statement, Widnes-based Worldchoice Sports said it would start to issue refunds from Friday.\n\nIt said passengers would be notified by email.\n\nLiverpool FC said about 1,000 fans were involved and believed the issue was caused by a dispute over the size of aircraft.\n\nThe club said it would work with authorities until all avenues to get fans to the game had been exhausted.\n\nWorried Reds fans had shared concerns on Twitter before Worldchoice Sports issued a statement on its website at 15:00 BST on Thursday announcing the cancellations.\n\nIt said talks with authorities in Kiev, police and UEFA had not been able to find a resolution to a lack of landing slots.\n\nThe Liverpool squad has arrived in Kiev\n\nCity mayor Joe Anderson later said he had secured landing slots in Kiev for two planes.\n\nMr Anderson said he negotiated an agreement with Kiev mayor Vitali Klitschko - a former world heavyweight boxing champion - in a series of phone calls.\n\nBut a second statement from Worldchoice, issued at 20:00 BST, said the additional three-night trip was the the only flight the company was able to secure.\n\n\"With deep regret we cannot get a flight on 26 May from Liverpool or Manchester. Unfortunately we cannot put you on any other flights,\" the company said.\n\nJoe Anderson said he secured slots at Kiev's Boryspil Airport\n\nThe mayor tweeted that he was \"frustrated and angry\" for the fans.\n\n\"I can tell you I had six long calls today and sorted out slots for two planes to land. The airline said they could go ahead, so what's happened? Over to you Worldchoice,\" he said.\n\nWorldchoice Sports' website said the firm had \"worked extremely hard over the last 48 hours trying to resolve these issues\".\n\n\"We have exhausted all avenues to try and get landing slots. We have applied for slots in the correct manner and timeframe with the authorities.\"\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. Liverpool fans in Kiev speak of the frustration of fans being stranded at home\n\nLiverpool fans have spoken of their anger after their flights to the Champions League final were cancelled.\n\nOperator Worldchoice Sports said it could not secure landing slots at Kiev's Boryspil Airport for three planes but it said it had secured an extra last-minute three-night trip.\n\nDisappointed supporters had paid up to £2,000 to get to Ukraine.\n\nFan Chris Bolland said he was \"disgusted\" over the fiasco which means he now cannot get to the match.\n\nLiverpool play Real Madrid on Saturday in the Ukrainian capital in their first Champions League final in 11 years.\n\nThe Merseyside club said up to 1,000 fans had been affected by the flight problems, and it had offered a full refund on tickets for fans whose flights had been cancelled.\n\nChris Bolland said he watched his first game in 1966 when Liverpool beat Blackburn Rovers 4-1\n\nChris Bolland, who has supported Liverpool for 50 years, paid £2,000 to Worldchoice for a flight and ticket.\n\nBut his flight has been cancelled and he will now have to watch the game at home on the TV.\n\nHe told the BBC: \"I am gutted, to say the least. I am absolutely disgusted and there is nothing I can do about it.\n\n\"I will now have to watch it with my dear wife - but that's not a problem as she's a big Liverpool fan as well.\"\n\nIronically Mr Bolland had been in Poland, which shares a border with Ukraine, on a business trip and to came home to catch his flight.\n\nThe owner of Worldchoice Sports said he was \"devastated\" to have to cancel flights but vowed to keep trying to help stranded supporters.\n\nShay Soni blamed the airport authorities in Ukraine for the mess and confirmed all fans will be fully refunded.\n\n\"The past 24 hours have been an absolute nightmare. It really has been a very difficult time,\" he said.\n\n\"The issue started last Friday when the slot co-ordinators at Kiev airport were unable to give us slots for our aircraft.\"\n\nHe said they had gone through \"almost every avenue\" without success until the mayor of Liverpool, Joe Anderson, stepped in and one flight was reinstated.\n\nMr Soni said the company would keep working to get the remaining flights reinstated but added: \"I'm not very hopeful.\n\n\"I'm a Liverpool fan. I am really, really upset and sad... We have never had an issue like this before.\"\n\nLiverpool fan Rob Andrews had his flight cancelled but has now secured one from Dublin\n\nAsif Badat, 32, from Leeds, is also stranded despite having match tickets.\n\nHe said: \"We were being given assurances about our tickets and then suddenly the flights were cancelled.\n\n\"I'm now considering flying to Romania and driving 10 hours from there.\"\n\nRob Andrews had his Liverpool-Kiev flight cancelled but has now managed to secure a flight from Dublin.\n\nHe will fly back to Dublin via Istanbul.\n\nHe told the BBC: \"I don't even want to work out how much it's costing me. We got very little information from Worldchoice.\"\n\nOn Thursday, Mr Anderson said he had negotiated an agreement with Kiev mayor Vitali Klitschko - a former world heavyweight boxing champion - in a round of phone calls.\n\nIn a series of tweets on Friday, Liverpool's mayor said he was chasing an \"urgent update\" from Worldchoice on \"why we have a shambles regarding fans flights, after the concessions made by airport yesterday. Will keep searching for solutions until none left\".\n\nHe revealed he and Mayor Klitschko were exploring the possibility of another airport nearby being used.\n\nThe Liverpool squad was greeted by fans at the team hotel\n\nThe decision by Uefa - the governing body of European football - to stage its most prestigious club match in Kiev has been heavily criticised.\n\nLiverpool FC's head of club and supporter liaison Tony Barrett said: \"The decision to hold the final at a location which is so difficult and so extraordinarily expensive to get to is one that needs explaining by those who made it.\n\n\"To every Liverpool fan who is having a nightmare, and I use the word nightmare deliberately, arranging travel to Kiev I can only apologise.\n\n\"What should be one of the most exciting times of your lives is currently anything but and that, to me, is inexcusable.\"\n\nFans who have secured a means of making the final have complained of the complicated route they are having to take.\n\nIvan Mulla, 46, from Liverpool, said: \"It's been a nightmare, I'm flying from Leeds to Rome then from Rome to Kiev.\n\n\"The return is from Kiev to Ankara and then Ankara to Antalya then Antalya to Leeds.\"\n\nLiverpool FC said on its website: \"The decision to offer refunds has been made in response to the cancellation of two flights chartered by Widnes-based travel company World Choice Sport, leaving around 650 supporters without a flight to Kiev for the Champions League final.\"\n\nSeparately, a number of Liverpool supporters already in Kiev were caught up in trouble when they were seemingly attacked in a restaurant on Thursday night.\n\nMerseyside Police said two Liverpool fans suffered minor cuts and two Ukrainian men had been arrested on suspicion of assault.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Trump insisted to reporters that he had a \"wonderful dialogue\" with North Korea, and refused to say who was to blame for the breakdown in talks.\n\n\"The dialogue was good until recently,\" he said.\n\nHe added that he thought he knew what went wrong, but declined to explain it - \"Someday, I'll give it to you, you can write about it in a book,\" he said.\n\nTwo days ago, Trump suggested that China was to blame\n\nChinese President Xi Jinping is a \"world-class poker player\" Trump said, after Kim travelled to China for his second meeting there in recent weeks.\n\n\"There was a difference when Kim Jong-un left China a second time,\" he said two days ago.\n\n\"There was a somewhat difference attitude after that meeting, and I'm a little surprised.\"\n\n\"Now maybe nothing happened. I'm not blaming anybody. But I'm just saying maybe nothing happened and maybe it did.\"\n\n\"But there was a different attitude by the North Korean folks after that meeting.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The plaza where the attack took place was cordoned off as paramedics helped the injured\n\nA homemade bomb has exploded at a restaurant in Mississauga, Canada's sixth largest city, injuring 15 people.\n\nPolice said two suspects entered the Bombay Bhel restaurant in the Ontario city late on Thursday and detonated the improvised bomb.\n\nAmbulance services said that three of the 15 people taken to hospital had \"critical blast injuries\".\n\nTwo male suspects fled the scene immediately after the explosion in the city, which is near Toronto.\n\nPeel Regional Police said they had received a call about the incident at 22:32 local time (02:32 GMT).\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Peel Regional Police This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nPolice issued CCTV footage of the two suspects, describing them both as men around 5ft 10 in height with light or fair skin, and appealing for help identifying them.\n\nOne man was described as \"stocky\" and in his mid-20s, while the other was of thin build. Both wore blue jeans and dark hoodies, and had covered their faces.\n\nThe motive for the attack is unknown.\n\nSergeant Matt Bertram told the Associated Press the two men just \"dropped off this device, and took off right away\".\n\n\"We have no indication to call it a hate crime or any kind of terrorism act,\" he added.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Tony Smyth This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nCanadian broadcaster CBC reported a heavy police presence, complete with \"tactical teams\" - and said an officer on the scene could not say whether there was a further threat to public safety.\n\nOne eyewitness speaking to CBC said he was at a different restaurant nearby when the explosion happened. He suggested that a birthday party, possibly involving children, was taking place inside Bombay Bhel at the time of the blast.\n\nMeanwhile, Indian foreign minister Sushma Swaraj said she was in touch with the country's representatives in Canada following the attack on an Indian restaurant, promising \"our missions will work round the clock\".\n\nMississauga, a large city on the shore of Lake Ontario, borders the larger city of Toronto and is home to Toronto Pearson International Airport.", "A US court has ordered South Korea's Samsung Electronics pay $539m (£403m) in damages for copying features of Apple's original iPhone.\n\nThe jury's decision is the latest step in a long-running legal battle between the world's top smartphone makers.\n\nIt began in 2011 when Apple argued Samsung had infringed on some patents.\n\nApple was awarded $1.05bn in damages a year later but the rivals have fought over the final amount ever since.\n\nIn the latest court ruling, most of the damages payment - $533.3m - was awarded for infringing three Apple design patents. The remainder was for violating two patented functions.\n\nIn a statement, Apple said it was pleased that the members of the jury \"agree that Samsung should pay for copying our products.\"\n\n\"This case has always been about more than money,\" the tech giant said, adding that it was important that it continued to protect the \"hard work and innovation of so many people at Apple\".\n\nBut Samsung said the decision \"flies in the face\" of the unanimous Supreme Court ruling in its favour on the way the design patent damages are calculated.\n\nSamsung had argued that it should only have to pay $28m in damages - limiting the sum to profits directly related to the components or features covered by the patents.\n\nApple argued for a much bigger figure, calculated on the profits made from an entire iPhone.\n\n\"It is not a clear win for either firm because Apple had asked for $2.5bn in damages in its original claim\", according to Kiranjeet Kaur, tech analyst at research firm IDC in Singapore.\n\nAnd Ms Kaur added that the possibility of another appeal by Samsung \"cannot be eliminated\".\n\n\"It is clearly not the verdict Samsung wanted or expected, and apart from the damages it has to pay, it points out that indeed designs were copied,\" she said.\n\nShe added the ruling should serve as a warning to smaller players to be \"more wary of overstepping [patents], especially in markets like the US\".\n\nThe best way to get news on the go", "Excitement is building ahead of the Champions League final\n\nLiverpool supporters are gathering in Kiev for the Champions League final after a series of flight cancellations.\n\nTwo travel companies axed flights in the week, leaving some fans unable to make the game against Real Madrid.\n\nLiverpool John Lennon Airport said about 4,500 passengers flew to the Ukrainian capital on Saturday morning.\n\nOne fan said: \"Friends have had flights cancelled, they've managed to rearrange to get here - we're here, we're ready for it and we're going to win it.\"\n\nA total of 23 flights departed between 03:00 and 11:00 BST for Kiev.\n\nExcitement has been building ahead of Liverpool's first Champions League final in 11 years.\n\nOne supporter told BBC Breakfast: \"I'm really nervous but it's the whole day of it, it's the excitement, the buzz, the fans and and I can't wait to get to Kiev and join in with the atmosphere.\"\n\nIn Liverpool, fans have booked tickets to watch the match, which kicks off at 19:45, at big screens at Anfield stadium and city centre venues.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Liverpool fans in Kiev speak of the frustration of fans being stranded at home\n\nMyriad Travel said its flight on Friday had been cancelled by its supplier as the aircraft \"does not have the correct licence to fly\".\n\nThree other flights from the Liverpool-based company went ahead and affected customers will be refunded.\n\nThe company said it had been trying to source alternatives but had been unable to do so.\n\nThe flight was provided by aircraft charter company Air Partner Ltd.\n\nA spokesman for Air Partner said the company \"deeply regret\" that the original aircraft was unable to fly.\n\n\"On Thursday morning, we offered a number of alternative aircraft solutions to the travel agent that contracted us, but they declined them, and we fully refunded the travel agent,\" the spokesman added.\n\nIt is Liverpool's first Champions League final in 11 years\n\nOperator Worldchoice Sports cancelled three flights on Thursday but secured one extra three-night trip.\n\nLiverpool mayor Joe Anderson said his team had been \"working flat out\" to find alternative solutions for fans with cancelled flights.\n\n\"We now must accept the fact that some fans who have tickets may not be able to make the game.\"\n\nHe said he was \"hugely disappointed and frustrated at the utter shambles loyal fans have been put through\".\n\nCristiano Ronaldo (centre) and Gareth Bale (right) have scored 61 goals for Real this season\n\n\"UEFA and the companies involved will have questions to answer.\"\n\nLiverpool FC said it would offer a full refund on match tickets for those who had been booked on the cancelled flights.", "There's been a three-fold rise in the number of cases of sextortion being reported to police in the UK over the last three years, where criminals trick their victims into sexual activity online and then blackmail them.\n\nExperts say that Ivory Coast in West Africa has become a hotspot for the scammers, as Angus Crawford finds out.", "The sharp differences in household incomes across the UK have been set out in official government statistics.\n\nThe average disposable income per person (the ONS calls this household income), once taxes and benefits are accounted, was £19,432 in 2016.\n\nBut in Kensington & Chelsea and Hammersmith & Fulham in west London the average income was more than three times this at £58,816.\n\nIn contrast, in Nottingham - which has the lowest household income - the average income was £12,232.\n\nWe take a look at the figures in four charts which show the disparity in incomes depending on where people live across the UK.\n\nEngland had the highest disposable income in the UK in 2016 of £19,878. In contrast, Northern Ireland had the lowest disposable income of £15,719.\n\nEngland was also the only nation with a disposable income higher than the UK average.\n\nBut the strongest growth in incomes in 2016, compared to 2015, was in Scotland where incomes rose by 1.2%.\n\nIn contrast, England saw the slowest growth, with average incomes up by just 0.6% in 2016.\n\nAverage disposable income increased in all regions last year apart from in the North East and North West, which fell by 0.6% and 0.2% respectively.\n\nThe largest percentage increase was in the East of England at 1.3%, followed by Scotland at 1.2%.\n\nThe smallest percentage increase was in the South East at 0.3%, whilst the South West region remained flat.\n\nThe places with the highest disposable household income in 2016 are still in London and the south East.\n\nThe top seven places have remained unchanged since 2015, and the top five areas are all in London.\n\nDespite having the highest disposable income per head, Kensington & Chelsea and Hammersmith & Fulham showed a decline in growth between 2015 and 2016 of 1.3%.\n\nThe areas which had the least disposable income in 2016 were all within the north and midland regions of England, except for Derry City and Strabane in Northern Ireland.\n\nNottingham had the lowest disposable income per head in 2016, at 37.1% below the UK average. This was followed by Blackburn with Darwen and Leicester.\n\nThe best way to get news on the go", "Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein handed himself in to police in New York on Friday and was charged with rape and several other counts of sexual abuse.\n\nHe left the police station in handcuffs.", "When Hannah Springham's mother got dementia, eating out became \"quite a sad experience\" as, at times, she no longer knew her daughter.\n\nUpon becoming a restaurateur in Norwich, Ms Springham was determined her diners would still have the \"best possible time\", whether living with the condition or caring for those with it, and so introduced the dementia-friendly lunch service.", "Tesla boss Elon Musk has admitted there is a braking issue in its Model 3 cars but promised a firmware update to fix it \"in the next few days\".\n\nThe problems were flagged up in a review of the electric car by US website Consumer Reports.\n\n\"Our testers found flaws - big flaws - such as long stopping distances in our emergency braking test and difficult-to-use controls,\" wrote Patrick Olsen.\n\nTesla had at first disputed the findings.\n\nThe reviewer said braking distances on average were 152ft (46m), adding that that \"was far worse than any contemporary car we've tested\".\n\nIn response, Tesla released a statement which read: \"Tesla's own testing has found braking distances with an average of 133ft when conducting the 60-0 mph stops using the 18\" Michelin all season tyre and as low as 126ft with all tyres currently available.\"\n\nBut later Mr Musk tweeted that the issue would be dealt with before the end of the week.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Elon Musk This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nTesla's long-awaited successor to its Model S has had more than 400,000 pre-orders, making it one of the most anticipated mass-production vehicles ever.\n\nThe electric car comes with a starting price tag of $35,000 (£29,600) and has been described by Mr Musk as affordable for the mass market.\n\nIt has faced repeated production and manufacturing delays and when deliveries started in July, it was for a more expensive version that included a long-range battery package which cost an extra $9,000.\n\nRecently Mr Musk unveiled specifications for a faster and more powerful version of the Model 3 which will cost $78,000, which does not include the Autopilot driver-assist feature.\n\nConsumer Reports stopped short of recommending the Model 3, despite describing it as an \"impressive performance sedan\".\n\nIt also criticised over-reliance on touch-screen controls for everything from adjusting the mirrors to changing the direction of airflow, saying this could cause \"driver distraction\".\n\nPreviously another review from Car and Driver noted that there was \"a bizarre amount of variation\" in the car's emergency stopping distance.\n\nThe news comes as a driver was killed in a Tesla Model S, which veered off the road into a pond.\n\nIt is not yet clear whether the car's Autopilot mode was in use during the accident, which happened near the city of San Ramon in California on Sunday evening.\n\nThe semi-autonomous Autopilot can brake, accelerate and steer by itself under certain conditions but is not intended to operate independently and the driver is meant to have their hands on the wheel at all times.\n\nThe driver was identified as 34-year-old Keith Leung.\n\nIn March, a Model X car involved in a fatal crash in California was revealed to have been in Autopilot mode at the time.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA secret network of badger baiters has been exposed by an undercover BBC Wales investigation\n\nSecret filming shows two men pulling a cub from the ground and setting dogs on it before killing it with a spade.\n\nOther members of the network, including a convicted badger baiter banned from keeping dogs, were filmed illegally digging a sett in Pembrokeshire.\n\nRSPCA special operations unit head Ian Briggs said there was \"a particular problem\" with badger baiting in Wales.\n\nHe said this was because of \"remoteness and the ease of which they [badger baiters] can carry out their activities\".\n\nBBC Wales Investigates infiltrated two gangs as part of a six-month investigation into the violent and brutal blood sport.\n\nIt is the first time in more than 30 years a badger baiting group has been infiltrated in this way.\n\nUndercover filming saw men digging into a badger sett in Pembrokeshire\n\nIt discovered Wales and parts of the English borders were hotspots and uncovered a network of illegal hunters across south Wales.\n\nIt also revealed the brutal reality of how wild animals - and the dogs used to kill them - were treated.\n\nTomas Young from the Gwent valleys claimed he shot his dogs when they did not perform as he wanted.\n\nVet Mike Jessop, an expert witness for dozens of animal welfare prosecutions, said: \"The dog is just another working tool. They're just thrown down holes, they've got to do their job. If they're not doing their job they become a useless commodity.\n\n\"This is the classic blood sport activity that we all thought had been brought under some sort of control - this is showing clearly it hasn't.\"\n\nThe Protection of Badgers Act 1992 bans people from injuring, killing or taking the animal or disturbing their setts.\n\nBut police forces are not obliged to report incidents of badger baiting investigations - or outcomes - to the Home Office, meaning the scale of the crime is unknown.\n\nThe RSPCA's Ian Briggs said badger baiting was \"hugely prevalent across the whole of the UK\"\n\nThe Ministry of Justice said 13 people across England and Wales were convicted in 2016 - four were in Wales.\n\nBut information compiled by charities suggested there were 18 reports of badger baiting in Wales over 17 months ending in 2017 and four reports of dug badger setts.\n\nLabour's shadow environment secretary, Sue Hayman, said: \"If we're going to genuinely tackle something we need to know the extent of the problem and the only way we're going to properly know the extent of the problem is to record it effectively.\"\n\nMr Briggs said prosecutions relied on the RSPCA getting \"information from friends, family, neighbours, who are aware of what these people are doing\".\n\nThe investigation also uncovered a convicted badger baiter boasting on a closed Facebook group dedicated to Patterdale terriers about digs he had recently been on and puppies he was breeding.\n\nMr Young denies all allegations against him.\n\nA spokesman for RSPCA Cymru said: \"We have requested all material from the BBC in relation to their investigations related to alleged illegal badger baiting activity in Wales - and are awaiting this evidence.\n\n\"Badger baiting is a barbaric activity - and we will investigate thoroughly any evidence passed onto us which suggest crimes have been committed against these animals.\"\n\nExposed: The Secret World of Badger Baiters is on BBC One Wales at 22:35 BST on Tuesday 22 May and will also be available on BBC iPlayer\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The fire ripped through the west London tower block on 14 June last year\n\nThe insulation that burned out of control on Grenfell Tower had never passed the required safety test and should never have been on the building, a BBC investigation has discovered.\n\nPanorama understands the manufacturer, Celotex, used extra fire retardant in the product that qualified for the safety certificate.\n\nA more flammable version was then sold for public use, the programme believes.\n\nCelotex said it is co-operating with the police investigation and inquiry.\n\nThe company said it could not comment further but wished to express its deepest sympathies to everyone who was and remains affected by the fire. But it has not denied any of Panorama's allegations.\n\nPanorama also accused Celotex of mis-selling the insulation with misleading marketing.\n\nThe programme has been advised that the way Celotex tested and sold the insulation could amount to corporate manslaughter.\n\nThe RS5000 insulation, which was used in the refurbishment of Grenfell, gives off toxic fumes which contain cyanide when it burns. Panorama understands that almost all of the 72 people who died at Grenfell were killed by smoke.\n\nCelotex's plastic foam insulation has been used on hundreds of other buildings around the country.\n\nFire safety expert Arnold Tarling said he was shocked by the revelation: \"Well, words fail me. This is absolutely mind-blowing. This material is all over the place.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A University of Central Lancashire fire test for the BBC of the products used in Grenfell Tower shows the cladding core melting and lighting the insulation.\n\nThe change in formula was not the only problem with the fire safety test that the insulation passed.\n\nThe BS8414-2 test only showed RS5000 was safe to use on certain new build projects when it was combined with a specific fire-proof cladding panel.\n\nIts marketing suggested the insulation was suitable for use with other cladding panels and for tower block refurbishment projects like Grenfell. Neither was true.\n\nThe company was repeatedly warned that its marketing was misleading, but it carried on mis-selling the product anyway.\n\nPanorama has discovered Celotex targeted the contractors who were refurbishing Grenfell and specifically offered its flammable insulation - even though the company knew it was going to be combined with combustible cladding panels.\n\nMatt Wrack, general secretary of the Fire Brigades Union, said Panorama's allegations should be investigated: \"If there are breaches of the law then those people need to be held to account.\"\n\nCelotex said it wished to express its deepest sympathies to everyone who was and remains affected by the fire.\n\nIt said it was co-operating fully with all the inquiries into the Grenfell Tower fire, including the police investigation and the public inquiry.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"We believe that the right forum for considering and assessing the many, complex and inter-related issues which arise in relation to the fire - and which require consideration of the involvement of all relevant parties - is through these official investigations. We do not think it is appropriate to comment any further outside of or in advance of that process.\"\n\nWhen Panorama told Celotex that its actions might amount to corporate manslaughter, the company said: \"We fully recognise the seriousness of the Grenfell fire. It is for this reason that we believe the public inquiry and the police investigation are the right processes to consider the events leading up to the fire, and the night of the fire itself.\"\n\nPhase two of the public inquiry into the Grenfell Tower fire began on Monday\n\nThe programme also reveals for the first time that the cladding panels and insulation used at Grenfell were never tested together before the fire.\n\nRobert Bond, chief executive of the main contractor Rydon, tells the programme that testing of the cladding system wasn't required because \"it was deemed to comply\".\n\nBut Panorama understands the company had a legal responsibility to test the system for safety.\n\nGrenfell: Who is to Blame? will be broadcast on BBC One at 20:00 BST on 21 May.", "In the days and weeks after the Manchester Arena attack, people in the region came together to support each other.\n\nHere, members of the community remember the attack and talk about how it's affected their lives.\n\nClick here to listen to The City Remembers, a BBC Radio 5 live documentary.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nOver 3,500 singers have come together to lead a chorus of amateur voices in a mass sing-along to remember the Manchester Arena attack victims.\n\nTwenty-two people died and hundreds injured when a bomb was detonated outside a concert on 22 May 2017.\n\nManchester Together in Albert Square featured songs by Elbow and Oasis.\n\nIt follows a memorial service at Manchester Cathedral, which saw Prince William join political leaders and the families of the victims to remember.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Who were the 22 victims of the Manchester Arena attack?\n\nSome of those who have gathered have a connection to what happened on the night, while others have come to show their support.\n\nGina and Casey Hankey, from Stoke, said they were at the arena.\n\n\"We did the arena visits, so this is another step. The atmosphere has been good so far, but it's still a bit sad.\"\n\nRachel and Mia, from Bolton, said they had come \"to show we won't be beaten and show you carry on and remember those who died\".\n\nJulie, from Eccles, who came with her son Louis, said they wanted \"to pay our respects as it just touched everybody\".\n\n'This is the place' - At the scene: Kaleigh Watterson, BBC News\n\nLast year, a vigil was held in Albert Square with thousands gathering to honour those who lost their lives and to show solidarity in the face of hatred.\n\nThis year, thousands gathered again on the same spot in an atmosphere that was much more upbeat.\n\nTony Walsh's poem This Is The Place, which left many in tears a year ago was this time set to a dance beat, with the crowd clapping along, cheering and giving it a rapturous round of applause.\n\nTonight is emotional, there is no doubt about that, but it also feels like a celebration of Manchester's spirit, which guided the city in those dark days last May.\n\nAhead of the singing, the Bishop of Manchester, the Right Reverend David Walker, led those assembled in a minute's silence.\n\nHe also told the crowd that the 22 candles lit in tribute to the victims at Manchester Cathedral had been made from the remnants of the hundreds left around the city in the aftermath of the attack.\n\nThe crowd also heard from some of those singing, including two members of the A City United Choir, a one-off coming together of the signing groups attached to the city's Premier League football teams.\n\nNine-year-old Molly said she was taking part because it was \"a good thing to do for all the people who can't be here\", while Matty, 14, said the unity in singing \"is what Manchester's all about\".\n\nThousands crammed into Albert Square for the two-hour event\n\nThe sing-along saw performances from 10 singing groups, including the Manchester Survivors Choir, who sang a tearful version of Andra Day's Rise Up to rapturous applause, and the Parrs Wood High School Harmony Group.\n\nThe former is made up of people who were caught up the attack last year, while the latter saw their post-attack tribute - a version of Ariana Grande's My Everything - go viral and earn them the chance to perform with the star at the One Love Manchester concert.\n\nMany at the sing-along were wearing the bee emblem, a symbol of Manchester's defiance\n\nThat concert was held two weeks after the homemade device was detonated outside Grande's concert.\n\nDaren Buckley, who is in Manchester Survivors' Choir, said he had found comfort in singing, but that his recovery was far from complete.\n\n\"It's strange because I never used to have fear over anything. I have flashbacks,\" he said.\n\nThe two-hour event saw the choirs sing versions of many popular songs, including Labi Siffre's Something Inside So Strong, Simon and Garfunkel's Bridge Over Troubled Water, Emile Sande's Wonder, Clean Bandit's Symphony and Coldplay's Fix You.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Bells rang out at St Ann's Church, Manchester Town Hall and St Mary's Roman Catholic Church\n\nIt also saw poet Tony Walsh call for the crowd to join him in making a \"minute's noise for the 22\" and \"in solidarity with everyone that was injured, mentally and physically [and] for those who were first on the scene\".\n\nIt concluded with a mass sing-along of five songs - Oasis' Don't Look Back In Anger, Elbow's One Day Like This, Grande's One Last Time, Take That's Never Forget and The Beatles' All You Need Is Love.\n\nThe Oasis song, which was introduced via a video message by Noel Gallagher, became an anthem of defiance in the aftermath of the attack and was sung by a crowd in Manchester's St Ann's Square following a minute's silence on 25 May 2017.\n\nPeople have been writing tributes to those who died on St Ann's Square's paving stones\n\nAs happened a year ago, many people have once again left flowers in St Ann's Square\n\nFrom 21:30 BST, song lyrics chosen by members of the public will be projected onto its pavements and buildings.\n\nYou can view special coverage of the \"Manchester Together\" commemoration event between 19:00 and 21:00 BST on the BBC news channel or via the BBC News website.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A video of the flag was posted on the embassy's Instagram account\n\nBelarus has slammed the UK embassy in Minsk for flying a rainbow flag on the International Day Against Homophobia, calling LGBT relationships \"fake\".\n\nIn a lengthy statement, the Interior Ministry said the UK was challenging the country's \"traditional values\".\n\n\"The LGBT community, and all this fight for 'their rights', and the very day of the community are just a fake!\"\n\nA spokeswoman for the embassy said it would not comment. Homosexuality is not illegal in Belarus but it is a taboo.\n\nMarriage between same-sex people is not recognised and activists say the government has intensified a crackdown on the LGBT community.\n\nOften described as Europe's \"last dictatorship\", Belarus has been ruled with an iron fist by President Alexander Lukashenko since 1994.\n\nIn 2012, he famously declared it was \"better to be a dictator than gay\" after complaints of human rights abuses in the country.\n\nIn the statement issued on Sunday, the government accused the UK of creating \"problems where they do not exist\", saying the day against homophobia, celebrated on 17 May, had never been significant in the country.\n\n\"The reason for this is obvious - the overwhelming majority of Belarusians stick to traditional family values, including Christian ones. And such statements are a challenge to these values.\"\n\nRelationships between men and women were the \"only way of reproduction\", it added. \"No matter which way you look at it but a same-sex relationship is a fake. And the essence of the fake is always the same - the erosion of the truth.\"\n\nThe embassy posted a video of the flag on its Instagram account, using the hashtag #Idahobit, which stands for International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia, Intersexism and Transphobia.\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 ukinbelarus This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nA spokeswoman for the embassy told the BBC that the rainbow flag is usually flown in front of the building on 17 May and there had been no complaints from authorities in previous years.\n\nIn a video posted on the embassy's Twitter page on 17 May, Ambassador Fionna Gibb complained that a gay culture festival in Belarus had faced \"unwelcome pressure\" from officials.\n\nThe event was barred from two venues after last-minute inspections by authorities, who alleged safety violations, and was eventually held at a secret location, according to her.\n\nSarcastically, Ms Gibb said: \"It's so pleasing to see that the authorities showed such concern for the safety of the festival participants.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by UK in Belarus This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and 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 UK in Belarus\n\nIn a report last year, human rights group Amnesty International said the LGBT community faced growing discrimination in Belarus as a result of repressive government policies.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. There was amusement as Prince Harry's speech was interrupted by a bee\n\nThe Duke and Duchess of Sussex have attended a Buckingham Palace garden party for their first royal engagement as a married couple.\n\nThe duchess wore a dress by Goat and a hat by Irish milliner Philip Treacy to the party, which was part of the Prince of Wales' 70th birthday celebrations.\n\nShe and the Duchess of Cornwall started laughing when Prince Harry's speech was interrupted by a bee.\n\nPrince Harry, 33, and Meghan, 36, were married at Windsor Castle on Saturday.\n\nThe two duchesses and many guests broke into laughter when a bee distracted Prince Harry during his speech\n\nPrince Harry took to the podium to ask the crowd to show their thanks for Prince Charles' \"incredible work\" for nearly 50 years\n\nThe garden party, which is being held six months ahead of Prince Charles' actual 70th birthday in November, celebrated the future king's charity work, patronages and military affiliations.\n\nPrince Charles and the Duchess of Cornwall were joined by more than 6,000 people from charities he supports.\n\nAnd to mark the one year anniversary of the Manchester Arena bombing, emergency service workers who were on the scene on the night of the attack also attended.\n\nAs a member of the Royal Family, Meghan now has an official profile on the Royal Family website\n\nThe couple's honeymoon did not take place immediately after the wedding\n\nIn his speech, Prince Harry opened with a moment of remembrance for the Manchester attack victims before fondly paying tribute to his father's \"infectious\" energy and enthusiasm for his charity work.\n\n\"It has certainly inspired William and I to get involved in issues we care passionately about and to do whatever we can to make a difference,\" he said.\n\nHe added: \"Pa, while I know that you've asked that today not be about you, you must forgive me if I don't listen to you - much like when I was younger - and instead, I ask everyone here to say a huge thank you to you, for your incredible work over nearly 50 years.\"\n\nDuring the speech, Meghan and the Duchess of Cornwall started giggling when a bee flew close to Prince Harry and he said: \"That bee really got me.\"\n\nThe prince praised his father's \"remarkable\" passion and dedication for the charities he supports\n\nThe Duke and Duchess of Sussex mingled with guests following Prince Harry's speech\n\nThe Duchess of Sussex's dusky pink dress is from British fashion brand Goat - also a favourite of her sister-in-law, the Duchess of Cambridge.\n\nLondon-based milliner Philip Treacy - who made Meghan's saucer-shaped hat - is also popular among the royal family.\n\nMore than 110,000 people flocked to Windsor to watch the Duke and Duchess of Sussex marry\n\nPrince Charles will celebrate his actual 70th birthday in November\n\nAmong the guests at the party were soldiers from the 2nd Battalion, Irish Regiment of Canada, who flew over especially for the party.\n\nSecond Lieutenant Reid Killen said: \"It felt like talking to my youngest son, the Duke reminds me very much of him. He's always joking around and Harry has the same sense of humour.\"\n\nMeanwhile Jyoti Bahia, 25, a project manager who attended the party with four of his colleagues, said: \"There are no words to describe the feeling of meeting Harry and Meghan after their wedding.\"\n\nOn Monday, the newly-married royal couple released three official photographs - including of bridesmaids and close family - taken on their wedding day.\n\nThe couple have not yet celebrated their honeymoon and details of the location and date have not been revealed.\n\nTHE DUKE AND DUCHESS OF SUSSEX / ALEXI LUBOMIRSKI Meghan's mother Doria Ragland was the only member of her family to attend the wedding\n\nThe Duke and Duchess, who left Windsor on Sunday, also thanked everyone who took part in the celebrations, watched by an average of 11 million viewers on BBC or ITV at any one time.\n\nMore than 110,000 people also filled the streets of the town.\n\nFollowing a lunchtime reception, the celebrations continued with a black-tie dinner and a fireworks display at Frogmore House, near Windsor Castle.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The couple exchanged vows and rings before the Queen and 600 guests at St George's Chapel\n\nThe evening refreshments are said to have included themed cocktails, including one named \"When Harry met Meghan\" - referencing the romantic comedy starring Meg Ryan and Billy Crystal.\n\nGuests dined on posh burgers and candy floss, according to reports, and danced to music provided by a celebrity DJ.\n\nThe best way to get news on the go", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Tony Blair says he will \"go along\" with government apology to Abdul Hakim Belhaj\n\nTony Blair says he was not made aware of the abduction of Libyan dissident Abdul Hakim Belhaj until after he had left office in 2007.\n\nPrime Minister Theresa May has apologised to Mr Belhaj, who in 2004 was seized by the CIA and sent to Libya with the assistance of MI6.\n\nMr Belhaj says he was tortured by Col Muammar Gaddafi's forces.\n\nMr Blair - who was prime minister at the time - said he was \"content to go along\" with Mrs May's apology.\n\nMrs May said Mr Belhaj and his wife, Fatima Boudchar, had suffered \"appalling treatment\", in a letter of apology earlier this month.\n\nMs Boudchar, who was pregnant at the time, has accepted Mrs May's apology and will receive a £500,000 payout.\n\nThe couple say an MI6 tip-off helped the US kidnap them in Thailand.\n\nMr Belhaj was taken to Tripoli and says he was tortured by his Libyan jailers during a six-year spell in prison. Ms Boudchar was also detained but was released shortly before giving birth.\n\nAbdul Hakim Belhaj says he was tortured by his Libyan jailers\n\nMr Blair told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"I have gone along with what the government has done, which is to issue an apology.\n\n\"I didn't actually know about this case myself until I left office.\n\n\"So, I'm content to go along with that apology.\"\n\nHe added: \"I am sorry for any mistreatment that's been given to people.\n\n\"I have always been wholly and 100%, in all circumstances, opposed to the use of torture.\"", "The price of fuel has hit a three-and-a-half-year high as the price of oil continues to climb, putting more pressure on consumers.\n\nThe average price of petrol has risen to 127.22p a litre and diesel to 129.96p a litre, following a rapid rise in the oil price.\n\nRecent figures suggest a squeeze on incomes has begun to ease, with wages growing faster than prices.\n\n\"Things have started to look better for the UK consumer recently, with inflationary pressures easing and real wage growth finally started picking up,\" said George Salmon, equity analyst at Hargreaves Lansdown.\n\nHowever, he said, that drivers had noticed the impact of higher fuel prices at the pumps.\n\n\"Filling up the tank is a pretty essential expense for most of us, so the average consumer could find there's a few pounds less in the jar at the end of each month.\"\n\nEarlier this month, government figures indicated wages grew at an annual rate of 2.9% in the three months to March, whereas over the same period the inflation rate was 2.7%.\n\nAs a result, for the first time in a year, real incomes grew, although they remain lower than they were before the financial crisis.\n\n\"Official figures show that transport is routinely the single biggest area of household expenditure bar none and in most cases transport equals the car,\" said Philip Gomm of the RAC Foundation.\n\nHe said the poorest households tended to be hit hardest because they drive the oldest, least fuel-efficient vehicles.\n\nIn early 2016, fuel prices dipped almost to the £1 a litre mark as oil went below $30 a barrel. Since then both have risen fairly steadily.\n\nThis month the price of crude oil briefly reached $80 a barrel and is still at levels not seen since 2014. Last week, the chief executive of French oil company Total, Patrick Pouyanne, said he believed oil could reach $100 \"in the coming months\".\n\n\"If the boss of one of the world's largest oil companies is talking about $100 a barrel or more, then you have to think things are going to get worse before they get better,\" said Mr Gomm, pointing out that prices at the pumps lag behind prices in the wholesale market.\n\nHowever, Ruth Gregory, chief UK economist at Capital Economics said she expected the impact of higher fuel prices on the UK consumer to remain limited.\n\n\"We're expecting the oil price to drift lower by the end of next year. The recent rise mostly reflects geopolitical tension and the potential risk of supply disruption, factors we think should prove temporary.\"\n\nIn the meantime, the overall trend for rising wages would continue she said.\n\n\"We've seen clear signs of a revival of pay growth in recent figures and we are expecting a further tick up to around 3% towards the end of this year.\"\n\nAlan Clarke, UK economist at Scotiabank, said while filling the tank represents only around 3% of household expenditure on average, fuel price rises could still dent consumer confidence.\n\n\"The sentiment is important,\" he said. \"You really notice [price rises] for things you buy frequently like petrol and food.\"\n\nHe said by July, petrol and diesel prices were likely to be 14-15% higher than a year earlier.\n\nWhen prices rise for non-discretionary things such as fuel, there is less left for \"fun\" items such as holidays and eating out, Mr Clarke said.\n\nThe higher fuel price comes in the wake of higher crude oil prices.\n\nThe rise has been driven in part by President Trump's announcement that the US would re-impose sanctions on Iran, overturning the deal to curb Iran's nuclear ambitions and raising fears that Iran's energy exports would be affected.\n\nFresh US sanctions against Venezuela after the re-election of socialist leader, Nicolas Maduro, have also pushed the price of oil higher.\n\nDespite this, BP chief executive Bob Dudley has said he expects US shale and increased supply from members of oil producers group Opec to make up for lost production elsewhere.\n\nHe predicted the oil price would return to between $50 and $65 a barrel in the near future.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Speaker John Bercow admits muttering 'stupid' 'as an aside'\n\nCommons Speaker John Bercow has said he \"respects all his colleagues\" after admitting using the word \"stupid\" during Commons exchanges.\n\nHe said he used the word, reported to have been directed at Commons leader Andrea Leadsom, as a \"muttered aside\".\n\nHe told MPs he had the highest regard for Mrs Leadsom's \"political ability and personal character\".\n\nBut he said he would continue to speak openly and, at times, \"disagree\" with ministers on their Commons management.\n\nMr Bercow has faced calls to apologise amid reports he used the phrase \"stupid woman\" in connection with Commons leader Mrs Leadsom during a row over the scheduling of a government statement on the nationalisation of the East Coast rail franchise last week.\n\nIn an unscheduled statement to MPs on Monday as Mrs Leadsom was about to take part in a debate, Mr Bercow said he believed the timetabling of government business had been \"badly handled\" on the day by the government.\n\nThe decision to announce such a major development on the same day as Labour debates on Grenfell and Brexit was \"disrespectful\" to MPs wanting to speak on those issues, he said.\n\nExplaining what had happened, he said: \"Having expressed my displeasure on the matter quite forcefully from the chair, I used the word stupid in a muttered aside.\n\n\"The adjective simply summed up how I felt about the way that the day's business had been conducted.\"\n\nHe said he \"loved this place\" and held all his colleagues in the \"highest esteem\", adding: \"Anyone who knows the leader of the house at all well will not have the slightest doubt about her political ability and personal character.\"\n\nSpeaking later, Mrs Leadsom said she was committed to treating all her colleagues with courtesy and respect and expected the same pleasantries to be shown to all members.\n\n\"I take my responsibilities to this House very seriously. As you said last week Mr Speaker, we have a responsibility to safeguard the rights of this House.\"", "The funeral of television and radio presenter Dale Winton has taken place on what would have been his 63rd birthday.\n\nThe star was found dead at his north London home in April. His death is being treated by Scotland Yard as unexplained but not suspicious.\n\nA non-religious, humanist service was held in central London on Tuesday.\n\nAnthea Turner, David Walliams, Piers Morgan and Christopher Biggins were among those who attended.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nWinton rose to fame presenting ITV's daytime show Supermarket Sweep, which he hosted from 1993 to 2001 and again when it was rebooted in 2007.\n\nContestants on the show were tasked with running round a supermarket collecting items to win a cash prize.\n\nHe went on to work on prime-time shows including the National Lottery's In It To Win It and hosted his own Christmas specials and celebrity guest shows.\n\nWalliams has described the star as \"the best company, always outrageous and hilarious\", adding: \"He adored being in show business and loved meeting fans.\"\n\nHere are some of the mourners who attended Winton's funeral in London on Tuesday afternoon:\n\nIn 2016, Winton opened up about his battle with depression, triggered by a break-up.\n\n\"Listen, there are worse things in the world - but I had depression and I didn't realise,\" he told ITV's Loose Women.\n\n\"I always thought, 'Get over yourself.' But my mum died of it. It exists and anybody out there who has had it knows it exists. I didn't want to put one foot in front of the other - but for a couple of really good friends.\"\n\nOne of the friends he named on the show as supporting him was Walliams, with Winton saying \"he has kept me going\".\n\nWinton was absent from screens for a number of years keeping, what he called, \"a low profile\" following four surgeries for a shoulder and knee problem.\n\nHe returned in February this year with a show called Dale Winton's Florida Fly Drive. Channel 5 said the final episodes were due to air in June.\n\nDale meets Chip and Dale in Disney World, Florida. Only one episode of Dale Winton's Florida Fly Drive has aired so far\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "A man who was sexually abused by Catholic priest Paul Moore when he was just five years old has said the ordeal \"poisoned my life\".\n\nMr Lavery said the impact of the attacks was incalculable.\n\nHe has waived his right to anonymity and spoke out after Moore was jailed for nine years for sexually abusing him, two other children and a student priest.", "Grettel Landrove's mother, Amparo Font (C) spoke to the BBC outside hospital\n\nThe death toll of Cuba's deadliest air disaster in 30 years has risen to 111 after one of the survivors died of her injuries on Monday evening.\n\nThe news comes on the same day that Mexico's civil air authority suspended the operations of a company that owned the plane involved in the crash.\n\nOfficials said in a statement that Aerolíneas Damojh was under \"extraordinary verification\".\n\nThe charter company had leased the aeroplane in question to Cuban state airlines Cubana de Aviación.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC outside the hospital, Ms Landrove's mother, Amparo Font, described her daughter as a fighter. But her death was announced shortly afterwards.\n\nMs Landrove was one of three initial survivors of Friday's crash. The other two - Mailen Diaz, 19, and Emiley Sanchez, 39 - remain in a critical condition, according to reports.\n\nThe plane crashed in a field near Havana international airport\n\nThe plane was reportedly built in 1979. One former pilot said it had dropped off radar once, while another alleged that maintenance was poor.\n\nThe Mexican General Directorate of Civil Aviation (DGAC) statement, in Spanish, says the authority will seek information to help the crash investigation, and about whether the Mexican company continues to follow regulations.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Doctor Jose Luis Castellano described the crash site as \"very painful\" to behold\n\nIt says Aerolíneas Damojh was subject to previous investigations: in 2010, due to a crash in Puerto Vallarta, and in 2013 following a complaint from an airline pilot.\n\nThe authority has run \"annual checks\" on Aerolíneas Damojh, the statement reads, with the most recent in November 2017. All aircraft have to renew their airworthiness certificates every two years.\n\nThe head of Guyana's civil aviation body, Cpt Egbert Field, told the Associated Press news agency that the plane that crashed had been barred from using Guyanese airspace last year after authorities found its crew were overloading luggage on flights in Cuba.\n\nIn one instance, the news agency reports, Guyanese authorities had discovered suitcases stored in the plane's toilets.\n\nThe plane crashed after taking off from Havana airport. It was a scheduled internal flight to the Cuban town of Holguin.\n\nAll six crew members were Mexican, while the majority of passengers were Cuban.\n\nAn Argentine couple and two passengers from the dispute territory of Western Sahara were also killed, as was a Mexico tourist.", "Sony is buying a controlling stake in EMI Music Publishing, giving it control over two million songs by artists from Queen and Carole King to Alicia Keys and Pharrell Williams.\n\nThe $2.3bn (£1.7bn) deal will make Sony the world's biggest music publisher.\n\nSony chief executive Kenichiro Yoshida said streaming services had led to a \"resurgence\" in the music business.\n\n\"We are thrilled to bring EMI Music Publishing into the Sony family and maintain our number one position in the music publishing industry,\" he said.\n\n\"In the entertainment space, we are focusing on building a strong IP [intellectual property] portfolio, and I believe this acquisition will be a particularly significant milestone for our long-term growth.\"\n\nSony is raising its stake in EMI Music Publishing from 30% to 90% by buying the stake held by Mubadala Investment Company, Abu Dhabi's sovereign wealth fund. The Jackson Estate holds the other 10% stake.\n\nSony's purchase of EMI Music Publishing is the biggest move so far by Mr Yoshida, who took over the reins from former chief executive Kazuo Hirai earlier this year.\n\nMr Yoshida and Mr Hirai were together instrumental in reviving Sony's fortunes by selling its struggling PC business and launching the successful PlayStation 4 games console.\n\nSony said its PlayStation 4 console had sold 79 million units\n\nSony also unveiled its business strategy and financial targets for the next three years on Tuesday.\n\nThe Japanese giant said it would continue to focus on electronics, entertainment and financial services.\n\nThe hardware business - which includes home entertainment products, mobile communications and imaging and camera products - is expected to generate the most cash in the coming years.\n\nIn April, Sony reported net profit of 380bn yen for last year, a seven-fold increase on 2016.\n\nAlmost all of its divisions saw an improved performance, but sales in the PlayStation unit jumped almost 300%.", "A mass sing-along event, Manchester Together: With One Voice, was held to remember those who died in the Ariana Grande concert attack a year ago.", "Tesco plans to close its Tesco Direct website that sells general merchandise, putting 500 jobs at risk.\n\nThe retailer said the non-food website was a \"small, loss-making part of the business\" and had \"no route to profitability\".\n\nTesco said the site faced high delivery and marketing costs that meant it could not work as a standalone business.\n\nIt will close the Direct site on 9 July and the Fenny Lock distribution centre in Milton Keynes in late August.\n\nThe decision means about 500 workers are now at risk of redundancy.\n\nCharles Wilson, Tesco's UK chief, said the retailer wanted to focus on one website so that customers could buy groceries and non-food items in one place.\n\n\"This decision has been a very difficult one to make, but it is an essential step towards establishing a more sustainable non-food offer and growing our business for the future,\" he said.\n\nJoanne McGuinness, national officer for the Usdaw union, said the decision was devastating news for Tesco Direct staff.\n\n\"Our priorities will be to support, advise and represent our members through this difficult period and to get the best possible deal for them,\" she said.\n\nClive Black at Shore Capital said Tesco Direct had been a \"running sore\" and lost money since its inception in 2006.\n\n\"This is a clear signal that the company is taking decisive action and is the first demonstrable statement by Charles Wilson since he joined the group in early March,\" he added.\n\nAnika Newjoto, editor of shopperpoints.co.uk, a site that covers supermarket loyalty schemes, said the closure of Tesco Direct did not come as a surprise.\n\n\"Even with advantages such as Clubcard points and 'click and collect' delivery to Tesco stores it is incredibly difficult to compete with Amazon these days,\" she said.\n\n\"Sainsbury's closed its Entertainment site a couple of years ago and if Tesco can't make it work it is difficult to see who can. Whilst Tesco is promising to add non-food lines to the grocery website I would be very surprised if this is much more than a small selection.\"\n\nTesco Mobile products will remain available on Tesco.com, along with its uniform embroidery service.\n\nThe grocery-focused site is used by an average of 100,000 customers a day.\n• None Tesco removes some 'best before' dates", "Survivors from the Manchester Arena bombing have formed a choir to help them cope with the trauma of the night.", "Harley Davidson riders have hit the road to remember the youngest victim of the Manchester Arena attack.\n\nEight-year-old Saffie Roussos was a big fan of the iconic motorbike.", "Mr Zuckerberg stayed beyond the allotted 75 minutes but did not answer all questions put to him\n\nFacebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has apologised to EU lawmakers for the company's role in the Cambridge Analytica scandal and for allowing fake news to proliferate on its platform.\n\nMr Zuckerberg apologised for Facebook's tools being used \"for harm\".\n\nBut his testimony did not please all MEPs at the meeting, some of whom felt he had dodged their questions.\n\nOne leading UK politician later said the session at the European Parliament had been a \"missed opportunity\".\n\n\"Unfortunately the format of questioning allowed Mr Zuckerberg to cherry-pick his responses and not respond to each individual point,\" said Damian Collins, chair of the UK Parliament's Digital Culture Media and Sport Committee.\n\nThe format was very different from that of Mr Zuckerberg's testimony to US lawmakers in April.\n\nWhile the US politicians took turns to cross-examine the Facebook chief in a series of back-and-forth exchanges, the leaders of the European Parliament's various political groups each asked several questions apiece.\n\nThe tech chief had to wait until they were all delivered before responding.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Rory Cellan-Jones This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMr Zuckerberg spent 22 minutes going through the huge number of questions put to him during the session and was able to pick and choose which to give answers to.\n\nSeveral of the politicians expressed frustration at this, and one accused Mr Zuckerberg of having \"asked for this format for a reason\".\n\nA spokesman for Facebook later contacted the BBC to say it had not chosen the structure. This was subsequently confirmed by the parliament's president, Antonio Tajani.\n\nIn a follow-up press conference, Mr Tajani added that the MEPs had been aware Mr Zuckerberg's time was limited yet had decided to use up much of the allotted period speaking themselves.\n\nHe also drew attention to the fact that the chief executive had agreed to provide follow-up written answers.\n\nMr Zuckerberg did not address questions about whether Facebook was a monopoly and how it plans to use data from its WhatsApp division.\n\nNor did he directly answer questions about shadow profiles or whether non-Facebook users' data should be collected.\n\nGuy Verhofstadt had threatened not to attend when the event was set to be restricted from public view\n\nSeveral of the MEPs had also voiced scepticism about the business.\n\nGuy Verhofstadt MEP had asked Mr Zuckerberg if he wanted to be remembered as \"the genius who created a digital monster\", which the Facebook boss did not answer.\n\nBritish MEP and leading Brexiteer Nigel Farage expressed his view that Facebook was not a politically neutral platform, asking whether the social network \"wilfully discriminated\" against right-of-centre commentators.\n\nMr Zuckerberg did respond to this point, saying Facebook had \"never made a decision about what content was allowed on the basis of political orientation\".\n\nTackling other questions, he also said he expected to find other apps that had misused customer data and pointed out that an internal investigation into thousands of third-party developers to see if there similar cases to the Cambridge Analytica scandal would take \"many months\".\n\nSo far, he said, Facebook had suspended more than 200 apps.\n\nThe European Parliament has been left wanting more.\n\nThe format of the meeting meant that rather than tackle specific concerns - particularly about the tracking of non-Facebook users - Mr Zuckerberg was able to group the questions into broad areas.\n\nThat meant he could give broad answers.\n\nReading any blog from the company published in the past three months would give you much the same information as we heard today.\n\nThis clearly angered several MEPs, who expressed frustration over what they saw as insufficient responses to their concerns.\n\nThen again, how detailed can you be when you have been given less than half an hour to answer huge, almost existential, questions?\n\nFacebook is under close examination, but maybe so too should be the way politicians question these incredibly powerful figures.\n\nIf you're following along, here's a scorecard for Mr Zuckerberg's \"tough\" committee appearances: Congress achieved little, Europe even less.\n\nThe meeting between Mr Zuckerberg and the European Parliament's political group leaders had originally been planned to be held in private.\n\nBut that sparked a wave of criticism resulting it being livestreamed via the web.\n\nOne popular topic among the MEPs was an imminent shake-up of data privacy rules.\n\nFacebook recently transferred 1.5 billion of its international users from the jurisdiction of its European headquarters, in Ireland, to that of its US headquarters, with some speculating this was to avoid costly legal action resulting from breaches of the EU's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).\n\nThe sweeping changes to data laws will give consumers much more control over how their personal details are used.\n\nSeveral of the MEPs challenged Mr Zuckerberg over whether he was truly committed to obeying the regulation.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHe responded that he expected Facebook would be fully compliant with the law by the time it came into force on Friday.\n\nHe added that the app had already presented European members with the revised settings required and \"a large percentage\" of the users had already reviewed them.\n\nUK MPs are keen to pose their own questions to Mr Zuckerberg about the Cambridge Analytica scandal but the Facebook founder has so far declined to make a trip to the UK.", "Six members of the Choucair family spanning three generations died\n\nFamilies of those killed in the Grenfell Tower fire left an inquiry in tears after a video of the blaze was shown without a warning.\n\nOne woman was said to have collapsed outside the hearing after seeing the video, which included footage filmed from inside the burning building.\n\nAn inquiry official apologised, saying a warning system had failed.\n\nThe second day has been dedicated to commemorations of those killed, including six members of one family.\n\nA nephew of one of the 72 victims said the bereaved wanted \"the truth\" and \"those in power\" must \"listen to our stories and learn from your mistakes.\"\n\nKarim Mussily, whose uncle Hesham Rahman lived on the 23rd floor, earned a standing ovation from other relatives in the room when he told the inquiry: \"We've been censored enough, it's our time; whether you like it or not, you have to listen.\"\n\nTributes were paid to Hesham Rahman including by his sister Noha\n\nA video about the Choucair family started with clips of the fire in which people could be seen at windows surrounded by flames and screams could be heard.\n\nBetween 20 and 30 people left the room and wails could be heard outside.\n\nThe BBC's Emma Harrison said some were in extreme states of distress.\n\nThe inquiry at the Millennium Gloucester Hotel, South Kensington, paused while the person who collapsed received medical treatment.\n\nBernard Richmond QC, who is leading the presentations by bereaved family members, said he was sorry a warning had not been read out before the film was shown.\n\nHe said it had been a busy day and a system the inquiry had put in place for warning of troubling material had failed before this particular video was shown.\n\nWhen the hearing resumed, Mr Mussily said on a previous visit to his uncle the lift had been broken and the single staircase was narrow.\n\nHe said: \"I couldn't help but think how on earth would my uncle escape if there was a fire.\"\n\nMierna, Fatima and Zainab Choukair died along with their grandmother and parents\n\nHisam Choucair, who lost his mother, sister, brother-in-law and three nieces in the blaze on 14 June 2017, had earlier told the inquiry how he could only watch helplessly as they died.\n\nMr Choucair said the deaths of his mother Sirria, 60, sister Nadia, 30, her husband Bassem Choukair, 40, and their daughters Mierna, 13, Fatima, 11, and three-year-old Zainab was an \"atrocity\".\n\nHe said he had \"always had a bad feeling\" about the building.\n\nMr Choucair said when he got to the scene the building was \"completely engulfed in flames\" and he simply had to \"stand there for hours watching them all burn to death\".\n\nHe said his mother, who arrived from Lebanon as a teenager in the 1970s, was \"loving, kind and patient\" while his sister and her husband, who lived two doors away from her in the block, were very popular and hard-working.\n\nHe said his eldest niece, Mierna, had an \"excellent sense of humour\", loved sport, music and school and wanted to be a doctor or a lawyer.\n\nBassem Choukair and his wife Nadia were very popular, the inquiry was told\n\nHis sister Sawsam, who lived with their mother in the tower, also spoke of her grief.\n\nShe said she managed to speak to Bassem on the phone during the fire, adding: \"His first thoughts were to reassure me.\n\n\"He told me everything was alright, even though he was trapped with my family in a burning building.\"\n\nLaughter fills the room during lighter moments of the tributes, as family members recall funny stories or traits of their loved ones.\n\nBut the tears continue to flow as those reading emotional tributes struggle to maintain composure throughout their statements.\n\nThe support and empathy towards those talking is strong, and the audience shows appreciation for their bravery with applause.\n\nAs the first day had already witnessed, the common theme so far is how incomprehensible their deaths were and the need, as one family member put it, \"to find out the truth\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Grenfell Tower inquiry: What questions will be answered?\n\nThe second day of the inquiry also heard from the husband of Maria Del Pilar Burton, who is regarded as the final of the 72 victims.\n\nMrs Burton, 74, who had dementia, died in January after her health deteriorated following the fire.\n\nIn an emotional tribute, Nicholas Burton said it took away her \"dignity and everything we had in this world\".\n\nMrs Burton, known as Pily, was born in Spain in the 1940s and was one was one of the very first residents in Grenfell Tower.\n\nMr Burton, who was with his wife for 34 years, told the inquiry she was an \"extraordinary woman\".\n\nHe said: \"She was a unique, beautiful, exceptional person until this tragedy had taken it away.\"\n\nAlso commemorated were Rania Ibrahim, 30, and her daughters Fathia, five, and Hania, three, who lived on the 23rd floor of the building.\n\nRania Ibrahim and her daughters Fathia, known as Fou-Fou, and Hania, lived on the 23rd floor of Grenfell Tower\n\nRasha Ibrahim said her sister moved to the UK from Egypt in 2009 but the pair remained very close.\n\nIn a statement read to the inquiry by an interpreter, Mrs Ibrahim said: \"It is so important for me to understand how I have lost my beloved sister while my children have lost their little cousins.\"\n\nA tribute to Debbie Lamprell, a safety officer at Opera Holland Park, from her mother said the 45-year-old was \"always laughing\".\n\nMiriam Lamprell said she was \"bereft\" without her daughter and she felt a part of her had been \"ripped out\".\n\nA memorial stone has been placed at Opera Holland Park, where Debbie Lamprell worked\n\nRelatives of all 72 victims will be given the chance to commemorate loved ones during the inquiry, which will look into all the deaths.\n\nFamilies are being given as long as they need to tell the inquiry about their loved ones through a mixture of words, pictures and videos.\n\nA minute's silence was held at the start of the afternoon session to respect the anniversary of the Manchester terrorist attack.", "A woman drove her car into the path of runners at the Plymouth Half Marathon, saying she had a workshop to get to.\n\nThe move was widely criticised by onlookers and on social media.", "Marks and Spencer plans to close 100 stores by 2022, accelerating a reorganisation that it says is \"vital\" for the retailer's future.\n\nOf the 100 stores, 21 have already been shut and M&S has now revealed the location of 14 further sites to close.\n\nUnder its plan, M&S wants to move a third of its sales online and plans to have fewer, larger clothing and homeware stores in better locations.\n\nThe latest closures will affect a total of 872 employees.\n\n\"Closing stores isn't easy but it is vital for the future of M&S,\" said Sacha Berendji, its retail operations director.\n\nHe said that where stores have already closed, \"encouraging\" numbers of consumers were now shopping at nearby stores. The company has just over 1,000 UK stores.\n\nSince M&S first announced its closure programme in November 2016, 18 stores have shut and three have been relocated.\n\nThe 18 closures were in Andover, Basildon, Birkenhead, Bournemouth, Bridlington, London Covent Garden, Dover, Durham, Fareham, Fforestfach, Keighley, Portsmouth, London Putney, Redditch, Slough, Stockport, Warrington and Wokingham.\n\nThe three relocations were in Greenock, Newry and Crewe.\n\nM&S store closures are always big news, especially for the towns where the shops have been reassuring fixtures on the high street for decades.\n\nThis latest wave of closures will feel like a body blow to locations that are already under pressure. But the hard truth is that M&S has more stores than it needs, given our changing shopping habits.\n\nMany experts believe that closing a large swathe of stores is a tough but necessary step.\n\nOne key question is: will those lost fashion and home sales be recaptured online or in the fewer but better physical locations in the future?\n\nM&S says there are encouraging signs from towns such as Warrington where it closed a town centre store, but shoppers have since flocked to its new outlet in a retail park.\n\nBut this business still has a massive task in reviving its fortunes and tomorrow's annual results will be further proof of that.\n\nRetail veteran Archie Norman, who took over as M&S chairman last year, said the retailer has been \"drifting\" and promised to speed up changes.\n\nThose changes included scaling back ambitions for its Simply Food chain. It had intended to open 40 stores this financial year, but has cut that number to 25.\n\n\"M&S is repositioning itself for the new retail world,\" said Laith Khalaf, senior analyst at stockbrokers Hargreaves Lansdown. \"Having a huge store estate is no longer the powerful retail force that it once was.\"\n\nThe retailer is trying to spur growth after disappointing trading over the Christmas period.\n\nIn the three months to 30 December, M&S said like-for-like sales fell at its food business, where sales had been rising, as well as at its clothing and homeware division.\n\nInvestors will be looking for evidence of improvement in the company's annual results on Wednesday.\n\nM&S shares were down 2.6% at 292p in afternoon trading on Tuesday. They had been worth almost 400p a year ago.\n\nMaureen Hinton, from analytics firm GlobalData, said M&S was \"perilously close\" to losing its top spot in the UK clothing market to Primark.\n\nGlobalData has forecast that its clothing market share will be 7.6% this year - almost halving in two decades - despite opening more stores selling clothing, homewares and food under the one roof.\n\n''To make its space more productive M&S has to produce a compelling offer showcased in an inspiring environment,\" Ms Hinton said.\n\n\"Closing stores will make its space more productive and help to improve profitability, but it still has not solved its fundamental problem: top-line growth.\"", "After a historic summit, a replica of the Demilitarised Zone separating North and South Korea has drawn hordes of tourists with hopes for peace.", "Freya Lewis, who was seriously injured in the attack at an Ariana Grande concert last year, has taken part in the 2.5k-long Junior Great Manchester Run.\n\nThe 15-year-old is raising money for the hospital that treated her.\n\nHer father Nick said she had \"proven to be very remarkable... we're proud beyond words\".", "Mike Pence made the comments in a Fox News interview broadcast on Monday night\n\nUS Vice-President Mike Pence has warned North Korea's Kim Jong-un not to \"play\" President Donald Trump if they meet next month.\n\nMr Pence said in a Fox News interview that such a move would be a \"great mistake\" by the North Korean leader.\n\nHe also said there was \"no question\" that Mr Trump could walk away from the 12 June summit.\n\nNorth Korea has threatened to pull out of the meeting after comments by US National Security Adviser John Bolton.\n\nThe country reacted furiously when Mr Bolton suggested it would follow a \"Libya model\" of denuclearisation.\n\nLibya's former leader Muammar Gaddafi agreed with Western powers in 2003 to dismantle his programme in return for the lifting of sanctions. Eight years later he was killed at the hands of Western-backed rebels.\n\nNorth Korea is also angry at current US-South Korea military drills and has halted talks with the South in response.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Why North Korea is angry at this man\n\nSouth Korean President Moon Jae-in plans to meet Mr Trump in Washington on Tuesday to discuss plans for the summit.\n\nMr Pence said that Mr Trump would be willing to walk away from the planned Singapore meeting.\n\n\"I don't think President Trump is thinking about public relations, he's thinking about peace,\" the vice-president said.\n\nThe New York Times reported on Sunday that the US president is asking aides and advisers whether he should continue to go forward with the summit.\n\nMr Trump will meet South Korea's Moon Jae-in, right, on Tuesday\n\nMeanwhile, a group of journalists from the UK, US, Russia and China has flown in to North Korea from Beijing to cover the ceremony marking the dismantling of the country's nuclear test site later this week.\n\nThe exact date and timing for the ceremony at the Punggye-ri site has yet to be announced.\n\nThe Western, Russian and Chinese journalists are making their way to North Korea's remote Punggye-ri nuclear test site to witness its dismantling.\n\nThey have flown into the city of Wonsan. Tom Cheshire from the UK's Sky News says their onward journey will take in dirt roads and a two-hour hike to an observation area.\n\nThe site, in the country's mountainous north-east, is thought to be the North's main nuclear facility and the only active nuclear testing site in the world.\n\nTesting has taken place in a system of tunnels dug below nearby Mount Mantap.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or 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 Cheshire This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nNorth Korea presented its offer to scrap the site as a concession during diplomatic rapprochement with South Korea and the US.\n\nBut scientists believe the site partially collapsed after the latest test last September and may be unusable.\n\nOnly media are attending the ceremony, not expert monitors, and the invitation to South Korean reporters was withdrawn amid the ongoing spat over the military drills.\n\nThe best way to get news on the go", "London's main index, the FTSE 100, has surged to a fresh record high for the second time in less than a week.\n\nThe FTSE 100 index closed over 1% higher at 7,859.17, comfortably above its previous high of 7,787 on 17 May.\n\nAn easing of trade tensions between the US and China cheered investors, analysts said.\n\nThe dollar rose after the deal, boosting UK-listed miners, oil firms and banks which earn much of their money in dollars.\n\nThe pound was down 0.3% against both the dollar and the euro, trading at $1.3431 and €1.1406 respectively.\n\nNeil Wilson, chief market analyst at markets.com, credited the stronger dollar with driving most of the FTSE 100's gains.\n\nHe warned that the upbeat mood among investors may not last, given that the agreement between China and the US - which avoids a punishing trade war for now - lacked concrete details.\n\n\"The sides could return to blows quickly - there may not be much weight behind the move and the positivity could float off into the atmosphere on the emergence of any downbeat news,\" he said.\n\nMr Wilson said whether the FTSE continued to gain ground would depend largely on what happened to the pound, which was likely to be volatile with the start of a fresh round of Brexit talks on Tuesday.\n\nRetail firms were some of the biggest risers in the FTSE 100 on Monday.\n\nMarks and Spencer, Sainsbury and Next rose between 2 and 4%, putting them among the top ten biggest risers.\n\nThere were just eight firms on the FTSE 100 which ended the day lower.\n\nBT, drugs firm Shire and consumer goods firm Reckitt Benckiser were among the few shares to lose ground.", "Robby Potter and his girlfriend were waiting for their children in the foyer of Manchester Arena on 22 May 2017.\n\nDespite standing within a few metres of the bomber, they both survived - but Robby spent three weeks in a coma.\n\nOne year on, he spoke to Judith Moritz about his rehabilitation and his drive to play rugby again.", "In the early hours of 14 June 2017 a devastating fire engulfed the Grenfell tower block in North Kensington, west London.\n\nThe building burned for several hours and 72 people were eventually confirmed to have lost their lives.\n\nRelatives of many victims were given the chance to commemorate their loved ones at the public inquiry in London.", "SpaceX rocket: Climbing above California before heading south towards Antarctica\n\nA joint US-German mission has gone into orbit to weigh the water on Earth.\n\nThe Grace satellites are replacing a pair of highly successful spacecraft that stopped working last year.\n\nLike their predecessors, the new duo will circle the globe and sense tiny variations in the pull of gravity that result from movements in mass.\n\nThese could be a signal of the land swelling after prolonged rains, or of ice draining from the poles as they melt in a warming climate.\n\nThe satellites were launched on Tuesday aboard a SpaceX rocket from the Vandenberg Air Force base in California.\n\nIt will take a number of weeks to prepare and test the spacecraft before they can start gathering data.\n\nThe satellites were assembled in Europe by Airbus\n\nThe first Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (Grace), which ran from 2002 to 2017, was widely regarded as transformative in the type of information it was able to gather, and maintaining the capability is now seen as a top priority for the American space agency (Nasa).\n\nThe follow-on mission again draws heavily on expertise from Europe, in particular from the German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ). Europe's biggest space company, Airbus, assembled the satellites at its factory in Friedrichshafen.\n\nThe Grace duo will obtain their data by executing a carefully calibrated pursuit in orbit.\n\nAs the lead spacecraft lurches and drags through the Earth's uneven gravity field, the second satellite will follow 220km behind, measuring changes in their separation to the nearest micron (a thousandth of a millimetre).\n\n\"That is about a tenth of the width of a human hair over the distance between Los Angeles and San Diego,\" Prof Frank Flechtner, the Grace-FO project manager at GFZ, told BBC News.\n\nWhat the Grace concept is brilliant at sensing is the big changes that occur in the hydrological cycle.\n\nGrace data can show whether agriculture is using groundwater in a sustainable way\n\nThese could, for example, be major movements of water from the ocean to the land during precipitation events.\n\n\"There was a period in 2011 when sea-level rise slowed down and went in the other direction very briefly,\" explained Nasa project project scientist Dr Frank Webb.\n\n\"From the Grace data we could see there were heavy rain seasons in Australia and South America, and that equivalent of mass was going into storage on land. Eventually, it was released back to the oceans and sea-level rise continued.\"\n\nThe ice sheets are losing about 400 gigatonnes to the oceans every year\n\nOne of the great contributions from the first Grace mission was to confirm the scale of change at the poles - to essentially weigh the ice sheets year on year.\n\nSatellites carrying altimeters can do this by measuring the change in shape of Antarctica and Greenland - but Grace provided completely independent insight through its gravity assessments. Antarctica was seen to be losing some 120 billion tonnes of ice a year; for Greenland, the figure was 280 billion tonnes.\n\n\"Mass loss from the ice sheets is an increasing contribution to total sea-level rise and, even though the poles are remote, this mass loss will have large impacts all around the world,\" said Prof Helen Fricker from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography.\n\n\"With the launch of Grace-FO, we can now continue to detect changes in the ice mass, to determine the extent to which ice is being lost, and find out if there has been any acceleration,\" she told BBC News.\n\nThe previous Grace pair used a microwave-ranging instrument to measure their separation.\n\nThe new satellites carry the same technology, but have now a laser system incorporated as well. It should give a roughly 10 times improvement in precision.\n\nAnd although this is unlikely to deliver an equivalent jump in the resolution of the gravity field, scientists are still hopeful they can get significant gains in performance.\n\nThe new pair will use both microwave and laser-ranging to measure their separation\n\nThe total cost for Grace-FO is on the order of $520m (€440m; £390m). The mission should work for at least five years.\n\nAs to what follows the follow-on, there is already talk about trying to widen involvement to include more EU member states.\n\nThis could eventually see a future Grace-like gravity mission pulled into the European Commission's Sentinel Earth-observation programme.\n\nThe same has already happened with the US-French Jason series, which has been measuring sea-surface height since 1992.\n\nFuture Jasons will be known as the Sentinel-6 mission - a status that has helped secure long-term funding.\n\n\"I think it's important we get an operational mission,\" commented Prof Flechtner.\n\n\"The 'e' in Grace stands for 'experiment', but the data is now being used for services, such as flood monitoring. My strong opinion is that it could be a Sentinel.\"\n\nTo be clear, however, the EC does not have a gravity option among the possibilities it is currently scoping for Sentinel expansion.\n\nJonathan.Amos-INTERNET@bbc.co.uk and follow me on Twitter: @BBCAmos", "St Ann's Square became the focus for tributes\n\nPeople can mark the first anniversary of the Manchester Arena attack on a tree trail planted in the city.\n\nTwenty-two people were killed by a suicide bomber at an Ariana Grande concert on 22 May last year.\n\nMembers of the public are invited to attach messages to 28 trees planted between Victoria Station - near the concert venue - and St Ann's Square.\n\nSir Richard Leese, leader of Manchester City Council, said it would be a \"moving and memorable sight\".\n\nThe attack also left more than 800 people with physical and psychological injuries after suicide bomber Salman Abedi detonated a home-made device.\n\nHundreds were injured after the Ariana Grande pop concert\n\nKnown as Trees of Hope, the trail is part of a programme of events, including a cathedral service and national one-minute silence, to mark the first anniversary.\n\nMembers of the public can write messages on specially designed tags to be attached to the Japanese maple trees until the evening of 27 May.\n\nSir Richard said: \"It promises to be a moving and memorable sight, which will help people to reflect on last year's events.\"\n\nEvery message will be kept, along with last year's tributes, in an archive of the city's response to the attack, a council spokesperson said.\n\nThousands gathered for a vigil outside Manchester Town Hall after the attack\n\nCompost made from some of last year's floral tributes will be used to nurture the trees, which will remain in the city centre.\n\nAny other tributes left in public spaces will be taken to be displayed at Wythenshawe Park.\n\nA minute's silence is to be held at the start of the Great Manchester 10k Run on Sunday afternoon.\n\nSingers will also perform in Albert Square on the evening of 22 May, while song lyrics will be projected around St Ann's Square between 22 and 26 May.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Jada Pinkett Smith has opened up about her struggle with hair loss in the latest episode of her Facebook chat show, Red Table Talk.\n\n\"I've been getting a lot of questions about why I've been wearing this turban,\" said the US actress, 46.\n\n\"Well, I've been having issues with hair loss. And it was terrifying when it first started.\"\n\nDoctors have not identified a cause but Smith believes it may be stress-related.\n\nThe Girls Trip star says she first suspected she had the hair loss disease after \"handfuls of hair\" came loose in the shower.\n\n\"I was just like 'Oh my god am I going bald?' It was one of those times in my life where I was literally shaking with fear,\" she explained. \"That's why I cut my hair and continue to cut it.\"\n\nHer comments feature in the third episode of her Facebook mini-series, co-hosted by her mother Adrienne Canfield Norris, and teenage daughter Willow Smith.\n\nOther topics discussed have included coping with loss, motherhood and body image - with Willow previously disclosing she self-harmed as a child following the release of her debut single Whip My Hair in 2010.\n\nJada's daughter Willow had a hit single in 2010 with Whip My Hair\n\nSmith admitted she finds her hair loss \"difficult to talk about\" as taking care of it used to be a \"beautiful ritual\".\n\nHowever, she said, the fate of her body lies in a \"higher power\" and that accepting it has helped her find perspective to deal with the emotional impact of alopecia.\n\n\"People are out here with cancer, with sick children… I watch the higher power take things every day,\" she said, adding her hair loss pales by comparison.\n\n\"When I looked at it from that perspective it did settle me.\"\n\nAs a result of the physical changes, Smith begun wearing scarves on her head, which she said act as an empowering fashion choice.\n\n\"When my hair is wrapped, I feel like a queen,\" she 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.", "The Brexit vote has left households worse off, Bank of England governor Mark Carney has said.\n\nThe vote to leave the European Union had lowered growth by \"up to 2%\", he told MPs on Tuesday.\n\nHowever, there could be a \"sharp pick-up\" in business investment when a Brexit agreement is struck, he said.\n\nMeanwhile, new figures showed the government finances have continued to improve, potentially giving the Chancellor more Budget spending power.\n\nGiving evidence to the Treasury Committee, Mr Carney said: \"Real household incomes are about £900 lower than we forecast in 2016. The question is why and what drove that difference. Some of it is ascribed to Brexit.\"\n\nAsked about the governor's comments on a visit to Argentina, Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson said: \"I believe the Chancellor of the Exchequer [Philip Hammond] has given an authoritative opinion on this matter, which is that it is absolutely not the case that Brexit has damaged the interests of this country.\"\n\nMr Carney said business investment was still being held back, but there was a chance of a \"sharp pick-up\" when the Brexit agreement is finalised.\n\n\"It's understandable why businesses are holding back - there's some big decisions that are about to be made - why wouldn't they want to wait until the path becomes clearer?\" he told MPs.\n\nMeanwhile, the government borrowed £7.8bn in April - the lowest figure for April since 2008, according to official figures.\n\nThe Office for National Statistics (ONS) also revised the borrowing figure for last year to £40.5bn, down from its previous estimate of £42.6bn.\n\nThe deficit was 2% of GDP last year - the lowest rate since 2002.\n\nWhen George Osborne took over as Chancellor in 2010, borrowing stood at 9.9% of GDP.\n\nSeveral years of austerity helped cut that figure and a policy of restricted spending has continued under Mr Hammond.\n\n\"The public finances were boosted in April by strong income tax receipts, which was helped by the strong rise in employment over the early months of 2018,\" noted Howard Archer, chief economic adviser to the EY Item Club.\n\nHow much money the Chancellor will have to play with will depend on how the economy performs this year.\n\nThe year got off to a disappointing start when bad weather restricted growth to just 0.1% in the first quarter.\n\nHowever, Mr Carney has reiterated his view that the slowdown is temporary: \"Our view is not that circumstances changed in the first quarter. It's more likely to have been temporary and idiosyncratic factors that slowed the economy.\"\n\nWith public sector net borrowing now £4.7bn below the Office for Budget Responsibility's official forecast - record levels of employment are keeping tax receipts healthy - a little bit of \"wriggle room\" has certainly opened up in the public finances.\n\nIf the trend continues, the government could announce more spending in the autumn Budget and still be on course to hit its own target of balancing borrowing and spending by the middle of the next decade.\n\nOf course there are many - including in the Labour Party - who say the Conservative focus on \"balancing the books\" and eliminating the deficit is the wrong approach and the government should borrow more to invest.\n\nAs the deficit falls, colleagues could become bolder in their spending requests.\n\nAnd the balance between keeping \"control\" of the public finances and loosening the spending reins may tip towards the latter.\n\nThe government has already made it clear the NHS is set for a major Budget boost.\n\nDetails of that are expected imminently.\n\nIf the economy does bounce back from its stupor in the first three months, as the Bank of England expects, then the chancellor could be rather more generous on spending by the end of the year than he may originally have expected.\n\nCorrection 5 July 2018: This article has been amended following a complaint to the BBC's Editorial Complaints Unit.", "Camila Cabello has pulled out of performing at Taylor Swift's Reputation tour in Seattle due to dehydration.\n\nCamila says she was checked in hospital after performing at the Billboard Awards - and has been told she also has \"a low grade fever\".\n\nThe former Fifth Harmony star tweeted: \"I guess sometimes I just push myself too hard\".\n\nCamila is due to perform at the BBC's Biggest Weekend in Swansea this coming Sunday, 27 May.\n\nNewsbeat has contacted Camila's manager to see if her appearance is still going ahead.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by camila This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nCamila and Charli XCX are the support acts for Taylor's 51-date tour - which started on 8 May in Arizona.\n\nCamila continued in her statement: \"I'm so sorry to let you guys down and I promise I will make it up as soon as I can\".\n\nShe picked up the Billboard chart achievement award on Sunday night in Las Vegas.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Billboard Music 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.\n\nCamila says doctors have told her \"to get rest otherwise I won't get better\".\n\nSpeaking to the Radio 1 Breakfast Show with Nick Grimshaw in March, when her Biggest Weekend appearance was revealed, she said: \"I'm so excited. It's going to be my first time going there [Wales].\n\n\"Friends of mine have played at this before and it just takes over the internet and I've just watched from afar.\n\n\"I'm excited to be doing that and I'm excited to be going to Wales because I've never been before.\"\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.", "Video caption: A Parade of Sail is held with ships making their way up and down the River Mersey\n\nA Parade of Sail is held with ships making their way up and down the River Mersey", "Our modern germ-free life is the cause of the most common type of cancer in children, according to one of Britain's most eminent scientists.\n\nProf Mel Greaves, from the Institute of Cancer Research, has amassed 30 years of evidence to show the immune system can become cancerous if it does not \"see\" enough bugs early in life.\n\nIt means it may be possible to prevent the disease.\n\nThe type of blood cancer is more common in advanced, affluent societies, suggesting something about our modern lives might be causing the disease.\n\nThere have been wild claims linking power cables, electromagnetic waves and chemicals to the cancer.\n\nThat has been dismissed in this work published in Nature Reviews Cancer.\n\nInstead, Prof Greaves - who has collaborated with researchers around the world - says there are three stages to the disease.\n\nThis \"unified theory\" of leukaemia was not the result of a single study, rather a jigsaw puzzle of evidence that established the cause of the disease.\n\nProf Greaves said: \"The research strongly suggests that acute lymphoblastic leukaemia has a clear biological cause and is triggered by a variety of infections in predisposed children whose immune systems have not been properly primed.\"\n\nThis study is absolutely not about blaming parents for being too hygienic.\n\nRather it shows there is a price being paid for the progress we are making in society and medicine.\n\nComing into contact with beneficial bacteria is complicated, it's not just about embracing dirt.\n\nBut Prof Greaves adds: \"The most important implication is that most cases of childhood leukaemia are likely to be preventable.\"\n\nHis vision is giving children a safe cocktail of bacteria - such as in a yoghurt drink - that will help train their immune system.\n\nThis idea will still take further research.\n\nIn the meantime, Prof Greaves said parents could \"be less fussy about common or trivial infections and encourage social contact with other and older children\".\n\nDr Alasdair Rankin, the director of research at the blood cancer charity Bloodwise, said: \"We urge parents not to be alarmed by this study.\n\n\"While developing a strong immune system early in life may slightly further reduce risk, there is nothing that can be currently done to definitively prevent childhood leukaemia.\"\n\nThis study is part of a massive shift taking place in medicine.\n\nTo date we have treated microbes as the bad guys. Yet recognising their important role for our health and wellbeing is revolutionising the understanding of diseases from allergies to Parkinson's and depression and now leukaemia.\n\nProf Charles Swanton, Cancer Research UK's chief clinician, said: \"Childhood leukaemia is rare and it's currently not known what or if there is anything that can be done to prevent it by either medical professionals or parents.\n\n\"We want to assure any parents of a child who has or has had leukaemia, that there's nothing that we know of that could have been done to prevent their illness.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Coverage from BBC News as a memorial service is held in Manchester, one year on from the bombing at an Ariana Grande concert which left 22 people dead.", "A few officers are receiving specialist help for post traumatic stress disorder, Ian Hopkins said\n\nOfficers \"had to do things nobody should ever have to do\" during the Manchester Arena bombing, said Greater Manchester Police's chief constable.\n\nAbout 1,000 officers have been through the force's welfare programme with some \"badly affected\", Ian Hopkins said.\n\nHe also revealed he shed tears after talking with the families of the 22 victims murdered on 22 May last year.\n\nThe upcoming anniversary was a time to think about the victims' families and those \"massively traumatised\", he said.\n\nSuicide bomber Salman Abedi detonated a home-made device at 22:31 BST as 14,000 people streamed out of an Ariana Grande concert, leaving more than 700 injured.\n\nMr Hopkins, head of the force since 2015, said \"in moments of quietness\" he shed tears after meeting loved ones of the victims, many of them children.\n\nTwenty two people were killed in the blast on 22 May\n\n\"They are very courageous people... it was about hearing their hopes and aspirations that they had for their loved ones and those being torn away, brutally torn away, that was one of the most difficult periods, yes.\"\n\nHe said it was \"really terrible\" and some of his colleagues \"saw things and had to do things that nobody should ever have to do\" but \"don't want to speak about, certainly not publicly\".\n\nA very small number were receiving specialist help for post traumatic stress disorder, he said.\n\nSpeaking ahead of events planned to mark the first anniversary of the bombing next Tuesday, he said the murder investigation has been \"phenomenal in terms of its scale and complexity\".\n\n\"We've always had the resources... there was a time for about two weeks where we had about 220 officers a day helping us here.\n\n\"Not only at the time did we get the counter terrorist resources all around the country but we also got support from every single police force in England, Wales and Scotland,\" he said.\n\nMr Hopkins said his \"immediate reaction was just one of anger... I've been there with my family\"\n\nRemembering the night, he said his \"immediate reaction was just one of anger\" after he took a call at home from a deputy within minutes of the attack.\n\nHe said \"people were angry and I talked about my anger, but that very quickly turned to defiance and it turned to hope\" in the days and weeks after.\n\nEvery GMP officer has been given the Manchester bee tie pin to thank them\n\nMr Hopkins said he was proud of the way his officers dealt with the attack when there was \"so much uncertainty at the time, reports coming in of gunshots being heard, suspicious packages\".\n\n\"Some of the really memorable pictures from my perspective were people running away from the arena, and quite rightly, but my officers running towards it.\"\n\nHe said every member of staff has been given a Manchester bee tie pin to thank them for their work.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "THE DUKE AND DUCHESS OF SUSSEX / ALEXI LUBOMIRSKI The bride had 10 bridesmaids and pageboys including Princess Charlotte and Prince George\n\nThe Duke and Duchess of Sussex have released three official photographs taken on their wedding day.\n\nThe pictures, taken by Alexi Lubomirski, include a group photograph with bridesmaids and close family, including their parents and the Queen.\n\nThe couple would like to thank everyone who took part in the celebrations on Saturday, Kensington Palace said.\n\n\"Their Royal Highnesses are delighted with these official portraits,\" a statement added.\n\nTHE DUKE AND DUCHESS OF SUSSEX / ALEXI LUBOMIRSKI\n\nMr Lubomirski, who also took the couple's official engagement pictures, said it had been an \"incredible honour\" to document the Duke and Duchess of Sussex's \"inspiring journey of love\".\n\n\"This has been a beautiful chapter in my career and life, that I will happily never forget,\" he said.\n\nThousands of well-wishers gathered in Windsor as Prince Harry wed Meghan in St George's Chapel on Saturday afternoon.\n\nMore than 110,000 people filled the town's streets with about 67,000 train trips made in and out of Windsor's two stations on Saturday, according to the council.\n\nMeanwhile, an average of 11 million viewers watched on BBC or ITV at any one time.\n\nTHE DUKE AND DUCHESS OF SUSSEX / ALEXI LUBOMIRSKI Meghan's mother Doria Ragland was the only member of her family to attend the wedding\n\nMr Lubomirski is normally found shooting for fashion magazines like Vogue and Harpers Bazaar and can count celebrities including Beyoncé, Julia Roberts, Nicole Kidman and Scarlett Johansson among his subjects.\n\nAccording to his website, in 2014 he published a book called 'Princely advice for a happy life', written for his sons, about behaving like a 21st Century prince.\n\nAlexi Lubomirski (right) and his wife Giada were among the guests at the ceremony on Saturday\n\nMeghan's pure white, boat neck gown was designed by British designer Clare Waight Keller, the first female artistic director of French fashion house Givenchy.\n\nA five metre-long white silk veil - which covered her face as she entered the chapel - included embroidered floral detail representing all 53 countries of the Commonwealth.\n\nThis was kept in place by Queen Mary's diamond encrusted bandeau tiara, loaned to her by the Queen.\n\nFor the couple's private evening reception, the Duchess of Sussex changed into a lily white, silk crepe halter-neck dress designed by Stella McCartney.\n\nOn Monday, the British fashion designer shared an animated sketch of the gown and said making it was \"one of the most humbling moments of my career\".\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\nAs a member of the royal family, Meghan now has an official profile on the Royal Family website, which details her work for a number of charitable causes.\n\n\"I am proud to be a woman and a feminist,\" the Duchess of Sussex, said on the site.\n\nThe best way to get news on the go", "Publisher Epic Games has announced that it will be offering a prize pot of $100m (£74m) for Fortnite competitions.\n\nThe prize fund has been set aside for the first year of competitive play of the popular game due to start later this year.\n\nIt is believed to be the biggest sum of money offered for an e-sports tournament.\n\nIt said: \"Fortnite Competitors! Grab your gear, drop in and start training. Since the launch of Fortnite Battle Royale we've watched the passion for community competition grow and can't wait to empower you to battle with the best.\n\n\"In the 2018-19 season, Epic Games will provide $100m to fund prize pools for Fortnite competitions. We're getting behind competitive play in a big way, but our approach will be different - we plan to be more inclusive, and focused on the joy of playing and watching the game.\"\n\nFortnite is a survival shooting game that lets players build structures out of materials they scavenge from the game world.\n\nNo further details have been revealed at this stage but games industry experts believe the announcement is a smart marketing move by Epic.\n\n\"It is quite an impressive headline figure, but there is no detail on how the money is going to be divided, whether there will be a traditional tournament and a world champion player or lots of smaller tournaments.\" said Piers Harding-Rolls, director of games research at IHS Markit.\n\n\"China's Tencent, who own part of Epic, have said that they plan to launch Fortnite in China, so, in effect, this is a very large marketing budget.\n\n\"Launching the game into a competitive e-sports market like China means that it is less of a gamble than the headline suggests,\" added Mr Harding-Rolls.\n\nHe added that the game has not yet been established as an e-sports game so this would be a good way to try to \"establish itself as a major e-sports proposition\".\n\nE-sports is organised, competitive computer gaming and can be staged in front of a live audience and watched by millions more people online.\n\nFortnite first was launched in June 2017. Its most popular format is the Battle Royale mode, launched in September of that year, which pits 100 players against each other, some of whom are in small teams, to see who is the last person standing.\n\nThe game is free but players can spend real money on in-app purchases including skins to customise player avatars.\n\nAccording to games analytics firm Superdata, Fortnite made $126m in February this year from in-game purchases.", "Saffie-Rose Roussos was a \"beautiful, sensitive soul with an amazing magnetic personality\", her mother Lisa said.\n\nShe was at the arena with eight-year-old Saffie and was injured in the attack, as was Saffie’s elder sister, Ashlee Bromwich.\n\nShe said she would watch Saffie “with wonder”, adding that she loved to dance and make people laugh and would “leave little notes of 'I love you' everywhere”.\n\nSaffie’s father Andrew said she was his “perfect, precious beautiful daughter” who \"melted people's hearts\" with \"those big brown eyes\", adding: \"It's like the best artists got together and drew her from top to toe.\"", "Ed Sheeran has taken an aggressive stance against touts by cancelling more than 10,000 tickets for his upcoming stadium tour.\n\nAfter the tour went on sale, the star's team identified purchases by known touts and revoked their tickets.\n\nAny tickets listed for re-sale on sites like Viagogo were also cancelled.\n\nFans who'd bought from those sites - often at vastly inflated prices - were given assistance in claiming refunds and getting genuine tickets.\n\nSo far, more than £240,000 has been returned to fans who inadvertently bought invalid tickets.\n\n\"We're achieving exactly what Ed wanted, which is 'we want you to come in and pay this [fixed] price,'\" said Stuart Galbraith of concert promoters Kilimanjaro Live.\n\nA further 500 tickets are going to be cancelled this week, ahead of Sheeran's first night at Manchester's Etihad Stadium, he added.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video by BBC Radio 1 This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nSheeran's team decided to pursue touts after hundreds of tickets for a Teenage Cancer Trust gig were snapped up and sold for profit last March.\n\nHe imposed strict conditions on his 18-date stadium tour, including:\n\nIn addition, the on-sale date was a Saturday - rather than the traditional Friday - to make sure genuine fans had the greatest possible chance of being online.\n\nSheeran also partnered with Twickets - a site which allows fans to swap tickets at face value or less, in order to protect fans from the \"unethical practices\" of touts.\n\nGalbraith negotiated with ticket resellers Get Me In, Seatwave and StubHub to make sure they wouldn't list tickets for the tour - in some cases, using the threat of prosecution under the Consumer Rights Act to reinforce his point.\n\n\"The only agency which listed against our wishes and ignored all our correspondence was Viagogo,\" said Galbraith.\n\nOnce tickets had been sold, the promoters \"very laboriously\" went through all the transactions and \"identified known touts and multiple purchases\".\n\nThose tickets, and any listed on sites like Viagogo were immediately invalidated.\n\n\"We refunded everybody even though we know they're power sellers and touts, so we can't be accused of taking double income off a single ticket,\" said Galbraith.\n\nWhen the tour launches, anyone who turns up unaware their ticket has been cancelled will be met by a customer care team, he added.\n\n\"We'll have teams that say, 'your ticket is invalid' and it'll be stamped invalid. That's important because it will enable them to go back to Viagogo and claim a refund.\n\n\"What we'll also then do is... send them to the next window and sell them a ticket at face value.\"\n\nArctic Monkeys have also been battling touts on their upcoming UK tour\n\nHe added: \"We genuinely hope we turn away as few people as possible. Because at the end of the day, even the people who've bought in the secondary market, as far as Ed is concerned, are still his [fans].\"\n\nAt the time of writing, Viagogo was still offering tickets to the tour, with prices in excess of £400, compared to a face value of between £49 and £88.\n\nSheeran's ticketing system is not a first - Glastonbury and the West End musical Hamilton operate similar policies - but no-one has attempted it for a large-scale tour before.\n\nIt was conceived with the help of the FanFair Alliance, which lobbies against the \"black market\" in concert tickets, and has already been mimicked by the Arctic Monkeys for their upcoming UK tour.\n\nTheir manager, Ian McAndrew, said he and the band had grown tired of fans being \"misled, confused and, I believe, fraudulently led to spend large sums of money on tickets, even when tickets are actually still available\" at face value.\n\nIn total, the band sold 190,000 tickets with only a small percentage appearing on secondary resale sites. Again, only Viagogo refused a request not to list the tickets.\n\nThe Swiss-based site is currently facing legal action over its failure to comply with consumer protection laws.\n\nAsked for a response to this story, Viagogo directed the BBC to the FAQ section of its website, where it protests against concert promoters who deny entry to fans using resold tickets.\n\n\"These types of entry restrictions are highly unfair and in our view, unenforceable and illegal,\" it says.\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.", "Eight-year-old Saffie Roussos was one of 22 people killed in the Manchester arena attack. Her father Andrew says he wants her to be remembered with a special concert.", "New England captain Harry Kane says the team can win the World Cup in Russia and \"anything else is not good enough\".\n\nStriker Kane, 24, was informed about being made skipper by manager Gareth Southgate a few weeks ago and it was officially confirmed on Tuesday.\n\nKane scored 41 goals in all competitions last season as Tottenham finished third in the Premier League.\n\n\"It's impossible not to dream about lifting the World Cup. It's the biggest competition in the world,\" said Kane.\n\n\"I believe we can win it - anyone can. I cannot sit here and say we are not going to win it because we could do.\n\n\"It is my mindset and I want to win at everything I do. The players in the team want to as well. It is worth fighting for. I am sure we have all had dreams of lifting it and it is an opportunity for us.\n\n\"We are not favourites but you look at this season, no-one would have thought Liverpool getting to the Champions League final. You look at Manchester United back in the Sir Alex Ferguson days, they had a young team and dominated the Premier League for years to come.\n\n\"Being young is not an excuse - it could be a good thing. I believe we can and that is what we want to try and do. Anything else is not good enough.\"\n\nEngland head to Russia on 12 June and face Tunisia in their opening game on 18 June, followed by matches against Panama and Belgium.\n\nKane first captained England in last summer's 2-2 World Cup qualifier in Scotland, where he scored a late equaliser, before going on to wear the armband on a further three occasions.\n\nSpurs team-mate Eric Dier and Liverpool midfielder Jordan Henderson have also skippered England recently.\n\nKane, who has scored 12 goals in 23 appearances for his country, was described as a \"meticulous professional\" by Southgate.\n\n\"It is a massive day and a very proud day,\" he said. \"It is a dream come true. I found out a few weeks ago when I met Gareth Southgate. We were talking for an hour and he said he wanted me to be the captain.\n\n\"I have had to keep it quiet for a while now but it is fantastic. I filled up with pride and went home and told my family.\n\n\"Not much changes, I am someone who wants to lead by example on and off the pitch. That is what I will try to do.\n\n\"There are some young players in the squad who look up to players like that. There are some older players who I can learn from too.\"\n\nSouthgate, who told the England squad during a meeting at St George's Park on Monday night, added:\n\n\"Harry has some outstanding personal qualities. One of the most important things for a captain is that they set the standard every day.\n\n\"He has belief and high standards and it is a great message for the team to have a captain who has shown that it is possible to be one of the best in the world over a consistent period of time and that has been his drive.\n\n\"My feeling is that over the last 18 months in the camps that he's been with us he has shown that he has got the desire to take that into a team environment and he recognises the importance of bringing others with him.\"\n\nEngland manager Gareth Southgate was effectively making a choice from two as World Cup captain - Harry Kane or Jordan Henderson.\n\nSouthgate was clearly comfortable with either Tottenham's striker or Henderson, who has captained Liverpool to Saturday's Champions League Final against Real Madrid in Kiev.\n\nIn the end, he has gone with 24-year-old Kane and few who have seen him when he has worn the captain's armband for England would argue with the wisdom of that decision.\n\nKane has shown that he can not only cope with the extra responsibility but thrive upon it, especially when his late equaliser rescued England from a World Cup qualifier defeat in Scotland last June.\n\nHe is an undisputed first-choice, will literally lead from the front and has the calm, measured personality on and off the pitch to deal with the unique demands of leading England at a major tournament.\n\nThe only question marks expressed have been whether a striker is the best position for a captain - but Southgate has chosen Kane knowing full well it will not stop Henderson from imposing his own force of personality, with or without the armband.\n\nThe hardest thing in football is to score goals, why wasn't Gary Lineker a captain? Because basically he was a goalscorer, his responsibility was to get in that box to score goals and we're putting all that on Harry Kane,\n\nPeople are talking about him being our lone striker, I don't want to go along with that, Leicester's Jamie Vardy should be up there with him and give him some support.\n\nHaving said that, I think being a striker is a big responsibility, it's the ultimate, you've got to get goals and being so young he is the captain as well.\n\nHe hasn't been to a World Cup so it is a lot to ask from him but he's a strong character but are we asking too much?\n\nAt this moment in time I'd give it to Henderson in midfield - if he's going to be a regular - and let Harry get on with scoring goals.", "Jing Che of the Chinese Academy of Sciences lifts a giant salamander\n\nThe world's largest amphibian is in \"catastrophic\" decline, with possibly only a handful left in the wild.\n\nField surveys carried out over four years suggest the Chinese giant salamander has all but disappeared from its natural habitat.\n\nIn contrast, millions of the animals live in commercial farms, where they are sold to luxury restaurants.\n\nRemaining largely unchanged for 170 million years, this \"living fossil\" is seen as a global conservation priority.\n\n\"The overexploitation of these incredible animals for human consumption has had a catastrophic effect on their numbers in the wild over an amazingly short time-span,\" said study researcher Dr Samuel Turvey of the Institute of Zoology at the Zoological Society of London (ZSL).\n\n\"Unless co-ordinated conservation measures are put in place as a matter of urgency, the future of the world's largest amphibian is in serious jeopardy.\"\n\nThe giant salamander, which lives in freshwater rivers, was once common across China. Eating the creature was historically seen as taboo, but, in a reversal of fortunes, the giant salamander is now regarded as a delicacy, despite its status as an endangered species.\n\nIt is illegal to harvest wild giant salamanders, but commercial breeding farms are booming. The largest can fetch upwards of RMB 10,000 (US $1,500).\n\nThe amphibian can grow up to 1.8m long\n\nField surveys were carried out at 97 different sites in 16 of the country's 23 provinces in what is thought to be the largest wildlife survey carried out in China to date.\n\nGiant salamanders were found in wild conditions at four sites, but genetic analysis suggested they were not native to the local environment and had probably been released from commercial breeding farms.\n\nIt is illegal to harvest wild populations of giant salamander in China, but the country's Ministry of Agriculture supports widespread release of farmed animals as a conservation measure.\n\nIt appears this may be doing more harm than good. Researchers have just learned that giant salamanders aren't one species, but five, and possibly as many as eight.\n\nScientists from the Kunming Institute carry out a survey\n\nReleasing the amphibians back into the wild without taking these genetic differences into account may be putting their future at even greater risk.\n\n\"Together with addressing wider pressures such as poaching for commercial farms and habitat loss, it's essential that suitable safeguards are put in place to protect the unique genetic lineage of these amazing animals, which dates back to the time of the dinosaurs,\" said co-researcher Dr Fang Yan from the Kunming Institute of Zoology.\n\nDr Jing Che of the Chinese Academy of Sciences added: \"Conservation strategies for the Chinese giant salamander require urgent updating.\"\n\nThe giant salamander is listed as \"critically endangered\" on the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List and is a protected species in China.\n\nIt holds a special place in Chinese culture and is sometimes called \"wa wa yu\", or \"baby fish\", in Chinese because its distress call resembles the cry of a baby.", "Last updated on .From the section Arsenal\n\nArsenal are set to appoint Unai Emery as their new manager.\n\nManchester City assistant manager and former Gunners captain Mikel Arteta was strong favourite to succeed Arsene Wenger.\n\nEmery emerged as the unanimous choice following a recruitment process in which all candidates were spoken to.\n\nThe 46-year-old Spaniard is available after leaving Paris St-Germain where he won one Ligue 1 title and four domestic cups in two seasons in charge.\n\nPreviously he guided Sevilla to three consecutive Europa League triumphs between 2014 and 2016.\n• None Meticulous, experienced, successful - and still a risk: Phil McNulty on Arsenal's surprise choice\n\nEmery announced last month he would leave French champions PSG when his contract expired at the end of the season. He was replaced by former Borussia Dortmund boss Thomas Tuchel, who had also been linked with the Arsenal job.\n\nEmery's English is not completely fluent but the language barrier is not expected to be a problem.\n\nAn announcement and news conference are expected later this week.\n\nAfter Wenger's departure was announced, the betting odds on Emery replacing him were at one stage as long as 66-1 - placing him behind the likes of former Tottenham manager Tim Sherwood.\n\nOther candidates included Juventus manager Massimiliano Allegri and former Chelsea and Real Madrid boss Carlo Ancelotti, as well as former Arsenal players Arteta, Thierry Henry and Patrick Vieira.\n\nThe recruitment process was led by Arsenal chief executive Ivan Gazidis, head of football relations Raul Sanllehi and head of recruitment Sven Mislintat - though the final decision would be down to majority shareholder and owner Stan Kroenke.\n\nWenger, 68, left the Gunners at the end of season after 22 years in charge, during which he won three Premier League titles and seven FA Cups, including two Doubles.\n\nWhat's going on at Arsenal? Where's Unai Emery come from? I can't get it out of my head.\n\nYou'd have thought that by now they would have known exactly what's going on.\n\nEmery has had loads of money to spend at Paris St-Germain and now has to come to Arsenal with £50m with a bunch of players who have been playing in second gear.\n\nHis coaching ability will have to get going instantly and he will have to find some gems instantly.\n\nI wouldn't be disgruntled as an Arsenal fan about Unai Emery, I think the fact he's come out of left field when everyone's thinking 'it's going to be Arteta', that's the only problem. If we do see a difference in intensity, drive and consistency everybody will get onside and that's all Arsenal fans want to see.", "As a baby, Karen Trimnell was issued with three birth certificates, including one with numerous false details\n\nA BBC investigation has uncovered allegations of 'illegal' cross-border adoptions at a home run by Catholic nuns in Northern Ireland.\n\nEvidence suggests some children may have been moved out of the UK without their mothers' consent from Marianvale mother and baby home in Newry.\n\nOne woman was issued with three birth certificates in three countries.\n\nThe Catholic Good Shepherd Sisters said adoptions were \"conducted strictly in accordance with the legislation\".\n\nOne of the three birth certificates issued as part of Karen Trimnell's adoption to the USA contained many false details.\n\nKaren Trimnell was born in Newry but was adopted and grew up in Texas\n\nThe Marianvale mother and baby home in County Down operated between 1955 and 1984.\n\nIt was one of a network of institutions in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland, which offered women the voluntary option for those who were unmarried to give birth in private and give their babies up for adoption.\n\nHowever, BBC radio programme File on 4 has heard claims that some adoptions were not voluntary and uncovered evidence that laws may have been broken.\n\nThese include falsified details on official documents. Campaigners claim this may have been to facilitate the illegal movement of babies across state borders.\n\nThe former nuns' residence at the Marianvale mother and baby home in Newry, County Down\n\nKaren, 49, an English teacher in New York, was born in 1968.\n\nHer mother travelled to Marianvale and gave birth at a nearby hospital. Karen believes she was moved illegally from Northern Ireland to the Republic of Ireland - where she was cared for by another Catholic order - before being adopted by a couple from Texas in the USA.\n\nKaren's concerns are based on a stash of documents charting her early life which she passed to File on 4.\n\nThey revealed that she had been issued with a birth certificate in Northern Ireland which correctly recorded all the details of her birth.\n\nBut two days earlier, another birth certificate had been generated for her in the Republic of Ireland containing false information, including changing her date and place of birth as well as listing her future adopted parents as her natural parents.\n\nIt is not clear who was responsible for submitting this false information to the register.\n\nKaren was adopted by an older couple who died when she was just a teenager\n\nKaren's birth was then registered for a third time when she arrived in the USA and she is concerned that laws were broken to facilitate an adoption for a couple who were becoming too old to adopt in America.\n\n\"They died when I was a teenager and that was going to have an effect on anybody's life,\" she said.\n\n\"And the fact that their health and age was overlooked because of the desire of the people who ran the orphanage, I don't think is justifiable or acceptable.\"\n\nThe BBC has also seen the adoption consent form signed by Karen's birth mother which agreed she could be taken into the care of a Catholic adoption organisation in the Republic of Ireland.\n\nThis document appears to have been signed after the falsified birth certificate in the Republic of Ireland had been created.\n\nAt the time a baby could only be moved from Northern Ireland to the Republic of Ireland following a court order or with the express consent of the mother.\n\nToni Maguire, an archaeologist and anthropologist, believes Karen may have been taken illegally to the Republic of Ireland before her mother had consented to it.\n\n\"If you are taking a baby from one country basically to another country, I would call it trafficking,\" she said.\n\n\"If you then are giving that child or allowing that child to be adopted, how do we deal with that? Is that illegal?\"\n\nThe BBC has discovered that Karen is one of scores of babies who were born at Marianvale and taken out of Northern Ireland for adoption.\n\nFile on 4 accessed the home's baptism book, which revealed extensive movement of babies and women across state borders.\n\nThe ledger contained details of more than 800 babies born to Marianvale women.\n\nThe BBC has established at least 25 babies left Northern Ireland, mostly going to families in the Republic of Ireland, but at least two went to the USA.\n\nMeanwhile, at least 120 women came from outside Northern Ireland to Marianvale, from as far afield as Fife, London, Plymouth and Manchester.\n\nPatrick Corrigan, of Amnesty International, said: \"This now cries out for a thorough, independent investigation and I think what will certainly need to happen is that there is a strong cross-border cross-jurisdictional dimension to any investigation into what happened in Northern Ireland.\"\n\nIn response, the Sisters of Our Lady of Charity of the Good Shepherd said: \"We utterly reject any suggestion that illegal adoptions were conducted from Marianvale.\n\n\"All adoptions were conducted strictly in accordance with the legislation which then applied.\n\n\"Some women did not proceed with adoption, as was originally planned, and with the support of families, took their babies home.\"\n\nThe Lost Children of Marianvale is broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on Tuesday 22 May at 20:00 BST. You can also catch up on the BBC iPlayer.\n\nHave you got something you want File on 4 investigating? Email us: fileon4@bbc.co.uk or follow us on Twitter.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAn emotional memorial service marking the first anniversary of the Manchester Arena attack has been held.\n\nTwenty-two people were killed and hundreds injured when a bomb was detonated at the end of an Ariana Grande concert on 22 May 2017.\n\nPrince William and Prime Minister Theresa May joined families of victims at the Manchester Cathedral service.\n\nThe Dean of Manchester said it was for \"those whose lives were lost and those whose lives have been changed forever\".\n\nIt was broadcast to the crowds outside in Cathedral Gardens on a giant screen.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Who were the 22 victims of the Manchester Arena attack?\n\nWelcoming people to the service, the Very Reverend Rogers Govender said they had \"come together as people of different faiths and none\" to remember those affected by the attack.\n\nHe was followed by short addresses from a number of faith leaders, including Nidhi Sinha, Rabbi Warren Elf, Imam Irfan Chishti and Sukhbir Singh, and from humanist Dr Kevin Malone.\n\nThe Duke of Cambridge joined political leaders and the families of the victims at the service\n\nTwenty-two candles were lit in Manchester Cathedral for the victims\n\nA crowd also gathered in St Ann's Square, where tributes were laid a year ago\n\nIt also saw a bible reading from the Duke of Cambridge and performances from the Manchester Cathedral Choir and the Halle Youth Choir, who sang a rendition of Somewhere Over The Rainbow.\n\nThe service, which had been relayed live to screens in Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral, York Minster and Glasgow Cathedral, closed with a blessing from the Archbishop of York, Dr John Sentamu.\n\nAfter leaving the cathedral, Prince William, Mrs May and other political leaders, including Labour's Jeremy Corbyn, left messages on the \"Trees of Hope\" - a trail of trees which are being adorned with special tags for the anniversary.\n\nHundreds gathered in Cathedral Gardens to watch the service and those present spoke of love, not hate.\n\nTwo women hugged each other for support as two giant silver 22 balloons fluttered above them in the wind, while a teenage girl sobbed as photos of the victims were shown on a giant screen.\n\nTears rolled down a man's face behind his sunglasses, as he struggled to control his emotions.\n\nAnd as the Dean of Manchester announced the minute's silence, the whole crowd rose as one.\n\nPolice officers, firefighters, teens in Ariana Grande T-shirts and pensioners bowed their heads together and two men dressed in bee costumes stood next to a man waving an anti-IS banner.\n\nJust as it was a year ago, this was a city united.\n\nThe day of remembrance also included a national minute's silence at 14:30 BST and a mass sing-along in the city.\n\nAriana Grande, who recently called the attack \"the worst of humanity\", tweeted that she was \"thinking of you all\".\n\nThe singer, who headlined the One Love concert in Manchester less than two weeks after the terror attack, said on Twitter: \"I love you with all of me and am sending you all of the light and warmth I have to offer on this challenging day.\"\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\nRhiannon Graves, from Hull, was at the star's concert when the attack happened.\n\nJoining the throng outside the cathedral, the 17-year-old said she \"had to be here to show love and solidarity\".\n\n\"I had just left the concert arena when it went off - I'll never forget it.\"\n\nTributes to those who died have been left in a number of places across Manchester\n\nAfter the service, Prince William and Theresa May left messages on the Trees of Hope\n\nHer friend Lois Beaumont, 18, was also there and said she thought about it \"every day\".\n\n\"I wanted to come to show my respects for those who didn't make it or who were injured.\"\n\nA multi-faith group holding banners reading \"Manchester City United\" and \"Total Love\" were met with applause by those outside the cathedral.\n\nMohammed Khan, 66, said the group \"wanted to show solidarity with the victims\".\n\n\"We shall not be disunited. This attack was evil.\"\n\nCross-faith group #TurnToLove were greeted with applause outside the cathedral\n\nBefore the service, people who were caught up in what happened on the night have been sharing their reaction to the anniversary.\n\nAdam Lawler went to the concert with his friend Olivia Campbell-Hardy, who died in the suicide bombing.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'I'm going to try and live my best life'\n\nThe 16-year-old was hit by shrapnel and said he \"broke both my legs, lost seven teeth [and] nearly lost my right eye\".\n\n\"I regained vision in it, thanks to the amazing doctors. I nearly lost my tongue,\" he said.\n\n\"If I could go back in time, I would change everything. But I can't, so what I'm going to do is I'm going to try and live my best life.\n\n\"We won't be beaten because we're Manchester.\"\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\nDan Hett, whose brother Martyn died in the attack, told the BBC the support he had received had been \"overwhelming\".\n\nHe said he had been picked up off his feet and hugged by everyone from an \"old lady in a supermarket to a six-foot biker\".\n\nSpeaking before the memorial service, he said it illustrated the support which \"has come from every possible corner of Manchester\".\n\nHe also tweeted a photograph of him with his brother, which has been trending on social media, along with the hashtag #BeMoreMartyn.\n\nHundreds of people gathered outside the cathedral to watch the service\n\nElla McGovern, from Rossendale in Lancashire, suffered shrapnel wounds to her legs in the blast.\n\nThe 15-year-old has since climbed Ben Nevis and completed a 10k run.\n\nHer mother Louise McGovern said the anniversary would be \"extremely emotional\".\n\n\"I'm looking forward to being with everyone in Manchester - I think that will be very nice and positive - but I think I'm going to pack a few tissues.\"\n\nCath Hill says the Manchester Survivors' Choir want to \"make something positive out of this\"\n\nCath Hill, who is in Manchester Survivors' Choir, a group made up of people who were at the arena on the night of the concert, said while they had \"been through something really difficult... we do want to stand up and rise up and show everybody that we are carrying on\".\n\nDaren Buckley helped treat and comfort the wounded and dying\n\nDaren Buckley's life changed forever when the home-made device detonated metres away where he and his son were standing.\n\nYet the father of four's first instinct was not to flee, but to run to help the wounded.\n\nHe said: \"The scenes in the foyer I can't describe. It was like a nightmare.\"\n\nA year later he remains traumatised, saying: \"I have flashbacks. I must've died 200 times in my nightmares.\"\n\nGreater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham tweeted his support for everyone affected by the explosion.\n\n\"Today we come together, we remember each of the 22 people whose lives were taken,\" 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 3 by Andy Burnham This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nDan Smith, the second paramedic to arrive at the scene of the attack, said it would be a \"difficult day [as] this date will never be the same again\".\n\nHe said he did not want to dwell on the \"devastation\", but focus on the \"positives\" from the night, the lives that were saved and the amazing response from Manchester and beyond.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Eight-year-old Saffie Roussos was one of 22 people killed in the Manchester arena attack.\n\nIn a statement on Facebook issued ahead of her attending the service, Mrs May said the attack had been \"designed to strike at the heart of our values and our way of life, in one of our most vibrant cities, with the aim of breaking our resolve and dividing us. It failed\".\n\n\"As we gather in Manchester Cathedral... we will join in solidarity to remember the 22 children and adults who so tragically lost their lives that night.\n\n\"We will pause to think of their friends and family, of the many who were injured and to pay tribute to those who have come to their aid, offered support, expertise and kindness.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Diane Abbott This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 5 by Caroline Lucas This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nManchester United stars Ashley Young and Jesse Lingard were among the city's sports stars sharing their thoughts.\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\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nCommunities all over Manchester joined in the silence, including people at Didsbury Mosque\n\nEngland's cricketers paused to observe the silence during a practice session at Lord's\n\nPeople attending RHS Chelsea Flower Show also stopped to pay their respects\n\nYou can view special coverage of the \"Manchester Together\" commemoration event between 19:00 and 21:00 BST on the BBC news channel or via the BBC News website.\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. Ken Livingstone: \"It's better for Labour if I resign\"\n\nKen Livingstone has said he is resigning from the Labour Party.\n\nThe ex-London mayor has been suspended since 2016 in a row over allegations of anti-Semitism following comments he made about Hitler and Zionism.\n\nMr Livingstone said he did not accept he was guilty of anti-Semitism or bringing Labour into disrepute but his case had become a \"distraction\" for the party and its political ambitions.\n\nJeremy Corbyn said it was a sad moment but it was the \"right thing to do\".\n\nMr Livingstone, an ally of Mr Corbyn, has always maintained that comments he made about the Nazi leader supporting a Jewish homeland when he first came to power in the early 1930 were historically accurate.\n\nSpeaking in April 2016, Mr Livingstone, who was defending MP Naz Shah over claims she had made anti-Semitic social media posts, said: \"When Hitler won his election in 1932, his policy then was that Jews should be moved to Israel. He was supporting Zionism before he went mad and ended up killing six million Jews.\"\n\nDespite his decision to resign from the party, Mr Livingstone said on Monday he \"did not accept\" the allegation that he was \"in any way guilty of anti-Semitism\".\n\nHe added that he \"abhorred\" anti-Semitism and was \"truly sorry\" that his historical arguments had \"caused offence and upset in the Jewish community\".\n\n\"I am loyal to the Labour Party and to Jeremy Corbyn,\" he said in a statement. \"However, any further disciplinary action against me may drag on for months or even years, distracting attention from Jeremy's policies.\n\n\"I am therefore, with great sadness, leaving the Labour Party.\"\n\nA spokesman for the Campaign Against Antisemitism said Mr Corbyn's decision to describe Mr Livingstone's resignation as \"sad\" had merely \"rubbed salt into the wound\".\n\nThe group called for Mr Corbyn to apologise and added: \"The Labour Party's anti-Semitism problem seems to be growing, not receding.\"\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\nSpeaking later on BBC Radio 5 live, Mr Livingstone said his decision had come after he was warned \"some of the old right wingers\" in Labour's National Executive Committee had again been planning to call for his expulsion from the party.\n\nLabour MP Ruth Smeeth described Mr Livingstone's decision to resign as \"welcome\" but added his \"toxic views\" should have resulted in his expulsion from the party \"years ago\".\n\nIlford North Labour MP Wes Streeting added: \"We must now make it clear that he will never be welcome to return.\"\n\nLast week, shadow attorney general Baroness Chakrabarti called for Mr Livingstone's expulsion - signalling to some that the party leadership had now turned against him.\n\nHe was awaiting a fresh disciplinary process due to start this week.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Tulip Siddiq This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 Livingstone was expelled from Labour in 2000 after challenging the party's official candidate in the mayoral contest but returned to the fold later.\n\nBBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg said Mr Livingstone's departure from the party would be a relief to Mr Corbyn.\n\n\"Mr Corbyn wants people to believe that he is taking anti-Semitism seriously. While Mr Livingstone was still a member that was challenging to say the least,\" she said.\n\n\"Although he and Mr Corbyn were fellow political travellers for years, he had long passed the point of being helpful to his old friend.\"\n\n\"After much consideration, I have decided to resign from the Labour Party.\n\nThe ongoing issues around my suspension from the Labour Party have become a distraction from the key political issue of our time - which is to replace a Tory government overseeing falling living standards and spiralling poverty, while starving our schools and the NHS of the vital resources they need.\n\nWe live in dangerous times and there are many issues I wish to speak up on and contribute my experience from running London... from the need for real action to tackle climate change, to opposing Trump's war-mongering, to the need to end austerity and invest in our future here in Britain.\n\nI do not accept the allegation that I have brought the Labour Party into disrepute - nor that I am in any way guilty of anti-Semitism. I abhor anti-Semitism, I have fought it all my life and will continue to do so.\n\nI also recognise that the way I made a historical argument has caused offence and upset in the Jewish community. I am truly sorry for that.\n\nUnder Labour's new general secretary I am sure there will be rapid action to expel anyone who genuinely has anti-Semitic views.\n\nI am loyal to the Labour Party and to Jeremy Corbyn. However any further disciplinary action against me may drag on for months or even years, distracting attention from Jeremy's policies.\n\nI am therefore, with great sadness, leaving the Labour Party.\n\nWe desperately need an end to Tory rule, and a Corbyn-led government to transform Britain and end austerity.\n\nI will continue to work to this end, and I thank all those who share this aim and who have supported me in my own political career.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Mr Erdogan addressed an Istanbul crowd a year after the failed coup\n\nA Turkish court has sentenced 104 former military officers to life in prison for their involvement in a 2016 coup attempt, state media report.\n\nThey were given \"aggravated life sentences\", which come with tougher terms than a normal life sentence.\n\nThe country's president had previously said he backed reintroducing the death penalty for coup plotters.\n\nThe failed coup to overthrow President Recep Tayyip Erdogan left at least 260 dead and 2,200 injured on 15 July 2016.\n\nThe Turkish government has since led a crackdown on alleged coup supporters, with the dismissal of more than 150,000 state employees and the arrest of some 50,000 people.\n\nOf the 280 ex-military people on trial, the court in Izmir also served lesser sentences to a further 52 defendants.\n\nSitting in Izmir in western Turkey, the court gave 21 people 20 years in prison for \"assisting the assassination of the president\", while 31 others were sentenced to between seven and 11 years for \"membership of a terrorist organisation\", state news agency Anadolu reported.\n\nPresident Erdogan had backed reintroducing the death penalty for coup plotters. He also said they should wear Guantanamo Bay-style uniforms. Turkey abolished the death penalty in 2004.\n\nThe Turkish authorities accused a movement loyal to the Muslim cleric, Fethullah Gulen, of organising the 2016 plot.\n\nMr Gulen, who has been in self-imposed exile in the US since 1999, denies any involvement, and Washington has so far resisted calls from the Turkish authorities to extradite him.\n\nRebel soldiers had attempted to overthrow the government overnight and plotters tried to detain Mr Erdogan as he holidayed in an Aegean resort.\n\nHowever, he had left 15 minutes before and the coup was thwarted by civilians and soldiers loyal to the president.\n\nA purge followed the coup, in which thousands of public employees from police officers to teachers were sacked or arrested under suspicion of stirring up dissent.\n\nMr Erdogan's critics say he is using the purge to stifle political dissent.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "What do you do if a half-tonne racehorse is running straight at you?\n\nIf you are At The Races presenter Hayley Moore, you stand your ground and tackle the animal using your bare hands.\n\nMs Moore was working at Chepstow Racecourse when Give Em A Clump stumbled and unseated his rider.\n\nShe was knocked to the ground, but kept hold of the reins, unsaddled the gelding and then got back to her day job.\n\nFootage courtesy of At The Races TV.", "US President Donald Trump has said in a video message shown in Jerusalem that for many years there was a failure to acknowledge that the city was Israel's capital.\n\nHis daughter, Ivanka, unveiled a plaque on location before her husband, Jared Kushner, said in a speech that by moving the American embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem the US had shown that it could be trusted and that it would do what was right.", "This is how British television's famous faces made an entrance ahead of this year's Bafta TV Awards.\n\nThe trophies were handed out at a ceremony hosted by Sue Perkins at the Royal Festival Hall in London.", "Alan and Jean, a couple from Leeds, were being watched by thousands of people around the world and didn’t even know.\n\nPanorama's Hacked: Smart Home Secrets aired on BBC One and UK viewers can watch here", "Deadpool has apologised to David Beckham after making a joke about him in his first film.\n\nIn the 2016 movie Deadpool, the superhero said the former England captain sounds like he's been sucking helium.\n\nRyan Reynolds turned up at Becks' house to make a very over the top apology in a clip promoting the sequel.\n\nBecks did get his own back though, reeling off some films he thinks Ryan should apologise for instead.\n\nThe latest Deadpool is out later this month\n\nUnlike the other Marvel superheroes, Deadpool is all about breaking the rules.\n\nHe's x-rated, he looks directly into the camera to speak to the audience, and he loves to have a laugh.\n\nBeckham is just one of many to have been mocked by the character, but in the clips it appears to have got to the former footballer.\n\nThe video sees Becks watching the scene that mentions him in the first Deadpool film - and rewinding it to watch it again with an unimpressed look on his face.\n\nIt goes without saying that there will be some graphic language in the clip.\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\nDeadpool clearly feels bad that David's feelings have been hurt and sends him a text message asking for forgiveness.\n\nThen Deadpool turns up at Becks' door after the text is ignored - but milk and cookies, helium balloons and a mariachi band aren't enough to earn Beckham's forgiveness.\n\nTickets to a football match eventually do the job, with Beckham telling Deadpool: \"I can't stay mad at you\".\n\nBut then Becks gets a few digs in too.\n\nDeadpool reminds him about the voice joke but David seemingly doesn't know what he's talking about.\n\n\"What did you think I was apologising for?\" Deadpool asks.\n\nFans have been loving the promo from the two stars.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIt's just the latest bit of marketing of the new film - including this rejection note from the Avengers.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Ryan Reynolds This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 film is released in the UK on 15 May.\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. The crew called coastguards for assistance after sterilising and dressing the man's wounds\n\nA fisherman is in hospital after being bitten several times by a shark about 120 miles (197km) off Land's End.\n\nThe porbeagle shark had been hauled up in the nets of the Govenek of Ladram fishing boat early on Sunday.\n\nThe shark - thought to be up to 8ft (2.4m) long - bit the leg of fisherman Max Berryman as the crew tried to get it back in the water.\n\nHe was treated at the scene and winched by the coastguard to Truro's Royal Cornwall Hospital.\n\nMax Berryman was winched from the boat and taken to hospital\n\nAlex Greig from Falmouth Coastguard said the shark bites went down to the muscle.\n\n\"There were about four to five cuts altogether, one of which was extending about 10in (25cm) in length along the side of his knee,\" he said.\n\nThe Govenek of Ladram fishes out of Newlyn harbour in west Cornwall\n\nPhil Mitchell, the boat's skipper, said: \"His leg was badly gashed - I just had to do the best job I could dressing it.\n\n\"We got him stable and spoke to the doctor who recommended him being airlifted because of any bacteria that could have been on the teeth.\"\n\nMr Mitchell said he thought the shark weighed up to 20 stone (127kg).\n\nHe described the porbeagle as \"really big and powerful\" and said it was fortunate the shark had caught Mr Berryman with its top jaw but did not clamp its bottom jaw closed.\n\nAlthough a member of the great white family of sharks, the porbeagle is not usually thought to be a threat to humans.\n\nParamedic winchman Julian Williams was lowered to the vessel and praised the quick actions of the crew for treating the wounds.\n\n\"The crew had done a really good job of dressing the wounds before we arrived which meant that we were able to save time getting the casualty to hospital,\" he said.\n\nMr Berryman is understood to be in a stable condition.\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 prime minister says she hopes government funding for brain cancer research will create a \"lasting legacy\" for Baroness Jowell, who died on Saturday aged 70.\n\nTheresa May confirmed the government would double investment for research into tackling the disease, to £40m.\n\nThere will be a national roll-out in England of a \"gold standard dye\" test to identify the disease.\n\nBut Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt told the BBC: \"We need to do more.\"\n\nSpeaking to the Today programme, he said: \"We haven't had many good quality research projects on brain cancer, and this is what we're trying to put right with this new fund that we're announcing today.\"\n\nCharity Cancer Research UK is also contributing £25m to the fund, known as the Dame Tessa Jowell Brain Cancer Research Mission.\n\nThe UK will also host an annual global conference named after the politician.\n\nThe annual Tessa Jowell global symposium is aimed at bringing together clinicians, scientists, and academics together to discuss brain cancer treatment.\n\nIn the UK 11,400 people are diagnosed with a brain tumour each year, with only 14% of sufferers surviving the disease for 10 or more years.\n\nCurrently, the gold standard dye test is only used by half of brain cancer centres in England, but this will now be introduced across the country.\n\nDame Tessa helped bring the Olympic Games to London in 2012\n\nMrs May said: \"Baroness Tessa Jowell faced her illness with dignity and courage, and it was a privilege to host her in Downing Street recently to discuss what more we can do to tackle brain cancer.\n\n\"I hope that the actions we are taking now and in the future to improve care and research for those confronting a terrible disease will form part of the lasting legacy of an inspirational woman.\"\n\nLady Jowell, who held cabinet positions in the Blair and Brown governments, was diagnosed with brain cancer in May 2017.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Tessa Jowell gets a minute-long standing ovation in the House of Lords\n\nThe politician, who was also a member of the House of Lords, opened up about her illness earlier this year and called for adaptive trials.\n\nIf one treatment was not working, she argued, patients should be able to try something different - even if it hadn't been fully tested. The risks, she said, look different if \"the clock is ticking against you\".", "It's been the stuff of tabloid dreams - the exploits of holidaymakers and the reps on Club 18-30 holidays.\n\nFrom a low-key start in the 1960s, it became notorious, embracing that image with risqué advertising slogans.\n\nNow, Thomas Cook, which took over the brand in 1998, says it is considering its future, including a possible sale.\n\nIt wants to concentrate on its Cook's Club brand, which it launched last month and which it believes is of more appeal to its millennial customers.\n\nThe concept is centred on its own-brand hotels, which can accommodate 300-400 guests and features such attractions as poolside DJs and a sharper focus on food for, a spokesman told the BBC, the \"Instagram generation\".\n\nClub 18-30 was founded in the 1960s to offer package holidays targeted at young singles and couples to travel without families or children.\n\nThe first destination was Lloret de Mar on the Costa Brava. In 1973, it was bought out by the management, the first of a series of changes of ownership.\n\nIts controversial, playful image kept it in the public eye throughout the 1990s and 2000s.\n\nAdvertising slogans from the time included \"It's not all sex, sex, sex. There's a bit of sun and sea as well\".\n\nYoung, impressionable and on my first package holiday I chose a last-minute 18-30 with friends to Corfu. We'd worked all summer to pay for the trip and a week in the sun with plenty of fun sounded ideal. The reps were all focused on making sure you had \"fun\"'. That meant lots of bars, clubs, free drinks and games.\n\nI was terrified. But somehow managed to maintain the participation level to end up in the final of a game where the girls had to move an egg up the inside of a bloke's trousers and then down the other side.\n\nOnly one of the eggs was hard boiled. We lost, and I never took another 18-30.\n\n\"While Club 18-30 is easily the most-recognised brand in this sector, it is a tired and tarnished brand - people who went on its first holidays in the 1970s are now in their 70s!,\" said Simon Calder, travel editor at the Independent.\n\n\"'Hosting the wildest party holidays' (one of its marketing slogans) from Magaluf to Bulgaria is no longer especially popular with local authorities, who are cracking down on organised bar crawls.\n\n\"Thomas Cook is moving steadily upmarket, ditching cheap and nasty accommodation in favour of sophisticated all-inclusive properties.\"\n\nIn 2002, ITV made the programme Club Reps, based on the life of the workers. Full of salacious details, it is said to have boosted bookings significantly.\n\nIn 2005, Channel 5 showed a documentary called the Curse of Club 18-30. The company was not amused and complained to Ofcom.\n\nAlthough it is called Club 18-30, the actual target age range is 17-35.", "The John Lewis gift list service became inaccessible because of a glitch in renewing the website domain\n\nJohn Lewis has apologised to betrothed couples and other users of its gift list website after the service went offline over the weekend.\n\nVisitors were presented with error messages saying that the site's domain registration had expired.\n\nIn some cases they were invited to renew the lease themselves.\n\nOrganisations typically set active web domains to auto-renew to avoid such problems, but John Lewis says there was an \"issue\" with renewing its domain.\n\nSeveral customers had tweeted the business seeking an explanation, and had been told in response that users needed to phone staff while the matter was being addressed.\n\n\"Our wedding is on 19 May, and despite only having a week to go a lot of our friends had yet to visit [the site]\", bride-to-be Clare Briscoe told the BBC.\n\n\"The lack of information from John Lewis was concerning - I had to join Twitter to try to get more information.\n\n\"I had a lot of other bits of admin to get done rather than [having to] reassure guests that it would 'probably' be fine.\n\n\"I'm happy it seems to be sorted now, but not renewing a domain registration is fairly embarrassing.\"\n\nPinkNews chief executive Benjamin Cohen was also among those affected.\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 WhoIs database indicates that johnlewisgiftlist.com's domain registration expired last Thursday, but was subsequently renewed on Sunday to run until 2021.\n\n\"We would like offer our sincerest apologies to customers who have experienced difficulties accessing our gift list website,\" said a spokeswoman for the business.\n\n\"There was an issue renewing the domain name which has been fixed and most customers can once again access the site - though it may take a few more hours for some internet providers to update.\"", "In 1975, Xia Boyu handed his sleeping bag to a suffering teammate - and lost both feet to frostbite\n\nA Chinese climber who was crippled by frostbite on Everest more than 40 years ago has scaled the summit at the start of this year's climbing season.\n\nIn 1975, Xia Boyu lost his feet after giving his sleeping bag to a sick teammate during a high-altitude storm.\n\nNow aged 69, he became the second double amputee to scale Everest - and the first ever from the Nepalese side.\n\nAustralian Steve Plain, meanwhile, set the record for the fastest climb of the highest mountains on seven continents.\n\nPlain's achievement also features a story of overcoming physical challenge, coming four years after he broke his neck in a surfing accident.\n\nThe storm that caused Xia's frostbite struck in the \"death zone\" above 8,000m (26,200ft) and stranded his team for three nights, not far from the summit.\n\nAs a result, he needed to have his feet amputated. Then, in 1996, his legs were amputated above the knee as he battled lymphoma.\n\nDespite his injuries, he never abandoned the notion of reaching the summit.\n\n\"Climbing Mount Everest is my dream,\" he told AFP news agency in April. \"I have to realise it. It also represents a personal challenge, a challenge of fate.\"\n\nThis Facebook post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Facebook The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Facebook content may contain adverts. Skip facebook video by Mingma G 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\nAfter the disastrous 1975 climb, he made three more attempts, in 2014, 2015 and 2016. The 2016 attempt brought him close to the summit before a blizzard set in.\n\nHowever, a ban on climbers like Xia almost ended his attempts.\n\nNepalese authorities moved last year to ban double amputees - along with blind and solo climbers - from attempting to reach the summit.\n\nThe authorities said the new rules were a safety measure but they were struck down by the courts earlier this year as discriminatory.\n\nOn Monday, supported by a team of Sherpa guides, Xia reached the summit in what the Himalayan Times says is the first successful double amputee climb from the Nepal side.\n\nIt also makes him only the second double-amputee to ever reach the summit of the world's highest mountain. Mark Inglis, of New Zealand, became the first when he reached the summit in 2006.\n\nInglis also lost his limbs to frostbite in a climbing accident, after spending two weeks in an ice cave sheltering from a mountain storm.\n\nSteve Plain also took advantage of the first day possible to reach the summit, setting his four-month speed record for the seven continents.\n\nBoth Plain and Xia's teams had already begun their climb when Sherpa guides affixed ropes to the summit, opening the final leg of the route for the climbing season.\n\nThat meant that Plain could reach his seventh mountain peak on his seventh continent in just 117 days - shaving nine days off the previous record.\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 Project 7in4 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 seven summits Mr Plain scaled are, in order of completion:\n\nPlain was surfing in Western Australia in the summer of 2014 when a wave dumped him, head first, into the sand. He suffered a broken neck or \"hangman's fracture\" and said doctors had told him they were not sure if he would ever walk again.\n\n\"Three and a half years ago I was lying in hospital with a broken neck and at that time set myself the goal,\" he wrote on Facebook after reaching the summit.\n\nPlain has also been using his record attempt to raise money for charities the Surf Life Saving Association and SpinalCure Australia - two groups he has close associations with after his own injuries.", "Dozens of Palestinians have been killed and thousands wounded by Israeli troops, Palestinian officials say, on the deadliest day of violence since the 2014 Gaza war.\n\nThe violence came as the US opened its embassy in Jerusalem, a move that has infuriated Palestinians.", "An emergency services operator has said she is not to blame after she mocked a young mother who died hours after calling the service in acute distress.\n\nNaomi Musenga, 22, called Strasbourg's ambulance service with severe stomach pain and said: \"I'm going to die\".\n\n\"You'll definitely die one day, like everyone else,\" the operator replied.\n\nThe woman - who wishes to remain anonymous - told French TV on Sunday night that she was under pressure and the emergency services were overworked.\n\nAsked if she regretted what she had said, the operator replied: \"In the conditions... let's say it was inappropriate.\n\n\"We are constantly under pressure... I can be two or three hours hanging on my phone, I have no time to get up there's so much [demand] everywhere,\" she said. \"We hang up and we pick up.\"\n\nShe said some of her colleagues working in the medical emergency services had received threats since news of Musenga's death had emerged.\n\nNaomi Musenga's family has called for appeasement over the death of their daughter\n\nMusenga's family have refused to blame the operator, saying they recognise her poor working conditions, France's BFMTV reported.\n\nThe operator's lawyer told BFMTV last week said that she would normally field on average 2,000 calls a day.\n\n\"When... you hear: 'I have a stomach ache'... it is true that the first reflex is to think that there is no absolute emergency and that one has to go and see their GP,\" the lawyer said.\n\nThe head of France's association of emergency doctors said last week that the number of ambulance emergencies had mushroomed from eight million in 1988 to 21 million today, while the number of calls had trebled.\n\nStrasbourg's hospital said that on the day of the call, the operator had just returned from being on leave for two weeks and had begun her day at 07:30 that day. Ms Musenga called four hours later, at 11:30.\n\nIn the three-minute call, Musenga - in a very weak voice - appealed for help and struggled to describe her pain while speaking with the ambulance service, Samu.\n\nThe operator, sounding annoyed, replied: \"If you don't tell me what's going on, I'll hang up!\"\n\nThe operator eventually called SOS Médecins, which sends out doctors instead of an ambulance, and, after a five-hour wait, Musenga was taken to hospital by the ambulance service.\n\nShe suffered a stroke at the hospital and was transferred to the intensive care unit, but later died of multiple organ failure.\n\nThe case dates back to December, but only came to light when a recording of the call, obtained by the victim's family, was published by a local website.\n\nThe operator, who had worked for the Samu for four years and as an ambulance worker for 20, according to the Le Parisien newspaper, has been suspended, and the authorities have opened an investigation.\n\nA spokesman for the French government said authorities were looking at speeding up promised moves towards a single emergency number, after Ms Musenga called the wrong one when seeking help.\n\nFrance has separate numbers for police, ambulance, and the fire brigade, along with the European Union emergency number 112.\n\nSpokesman Benjamin Griveaux conceded that French people were more familiar with the American number 911 than their own array of numbers.", "A police officer has recalled a pursuit at more than 100mph as the \"scariest moment\" of his career.\n\nPC Sam Thompson was in one of a number of police cars trying to catch Michael Elmstrom through towns and villages in Cambridgeshire.\n\nThe 34-year-old of Dunnock Way, St Ives, was jailed for two years at Cambridge Crown Court.", "David Miliband has urged the UK to seek a \"safe harbour\" after Brexit by staying in the European Economic Area.\n\nThe ex-Labour foreign secretary said Jeremy Corbyn, who has ruled out the so-called Norway model, risked becoming the \"midwife of a hard Brexit\".\n\nMinisters say EEA membership would require the UK to accept most EU rules as well as freedom of movement.\n\nBut Mr Milband told the BBC that the UK must get real, saying that 60% of UK trade was \"under European aegis\".\n\nMr Miliband, who has worked for the International Rescue Committee in New York since 2013, joined politicians from other parties who favour retaining the closest links with the EU for a press conference on Monday.\n\nConservative MP Jacob Rees-Mogg, who backs a clean break with the EU after the end of the transition period in December 2020, said their actions were \"the last rearguard action to stop Brexit\".\n\nSpeaking at rice manufacturer Tilda's factory in Essex, Mr Miliband, former Lib Dem leader Sir Nick Clegg and Tory former education secretary Nicky Morgan urged Parliament to force the government's hand by voting for the UK to remain in some form of customs union as well as retaining full access to the single market.\n\nMrs Morgan said the \"differing and irreconcilable\" views of ministers meant Parliament \"had to step up to the plate\".\n\nUrging MPs to resist \"siren voices\" arguing the UK could replicate existing economic benefits outside the customs union and single market, she said the UK was being asked to \"experiment\" with a new trade policy without any idea of its costs.\n\nNicky Morgan said the referendum result was being wilfully distorted\n\n\"That is not a manifestation of democracy, it is a tyranny, a distortion of the referendum result and MPs should call it out,\" she said.\n\nAsked why after more than five years out of British politics, the public should listen to him, Mr Miliband said many of the complex, vital issues now being discussed simply did not feature in the Brexit referendum.\n\n\"I don't take the referendum result as the end of the story,\" he said. \"Democracy cannot be allowed to end on 23 June 2016, debate cannot be allowed to end.\"\n\nSir Nick Clegg said while Brexiteers \"parroted the language of global Britain\", their policies would result in the \"greatest introduction\" of trade barriers since World War Two.\n\nEarlier, Mr Miliband told BBC Radio 4's Today programme the move was about cross-party working in the national interest, not creating a new political movement or new centrist political party.\n\nMany Labour MPs, and some Tories, favour the so-called \"Norway model\" of remaining in the EEA - which is an economic grouping of all EU countries as well as Norway, Liechtenstein and Iceland.\n\nEEA membership would see the UK retain full access to the EU's internal market of 300 million consumers in return for making financial contributions and accepting most EU laws.\n\nFree movement laws would also apply - so EU citizens could move to all EEA countries to work and live.\n\nThe government says this would be counter to the EU referendum, which Mrs May has described as \"a vote to take control of our borders, laws and money\".\n\nMr Miliband said EEA membership would allow the UK to have \"structured\" trade relations with the EU in goods and services, citing support from Norway for the UK to be a member.\n\nWhile the EU accounted for 40% of the UK's direct trade with the EU, Mr Miliband said that if you took into account third-party EU trade agreements with other countries, the figure was about 60%.\n\n\"Membership of the EEA, as what I would call a safe harbour for Britain after Brexit, is on the table for every MP and party leader,\" he said.\n\nMr Miliband joined a growing chorus of senior Labour figures - including former Lord Kinnock - calling on Mr Corbyn to rethink his position ruling out the EEA option.\n\n\"If Jeremy Corbyn is not careful, he will be the midwife of a hard Brexit that will threaten the living standards of the very people that he says he wants to stand up to represent,\" he said.\n\nBut Mr Rees-Mogg, who chairs the influential European Research Group of Conservative MPs, said it was a \"last-gasp effort\" by those who want the UK to stay in the EU.\n\n\"The Remainers are fighting their last rear-guard action to try and stop Brexit,\" he told LBC Radio.\n\n\"They're doing it in the House of Lords and there's this grouping that's come out today. If that doesn't succeed... then we're on to what the negotiation says what is going to be implemented, and that, I think, will make the prime minister's position much easier.\"\n\nTheresa May is holding a series of meetings with Tory MPs in Downing Street to set out the two options for future customs arrangements proposed by the government.\n\nThe CBI employers group, which backs remaining in a full customs union with the EU, warned that the issue needed to be resolved \"within days\".\n\n\"If we don't break the impasse on this customs decision, everybody will be affected - manufacturers, services companies, retailers,\" said its director Carolyn Fairbairn. \"An awful lot hangs on this now.\"", "There has been a sharp rise in the number of children under 11 referred for mental health treatment by schools in the last four years, figures show.\n\nData obtained by children's charity the NSPCC shows that schools in England have made a total of 123,713 referrals for specialist help since 2014-15.\n\nBut more than half of these came from primary schools. The youngest child referred for help was three years old.\n\nThe government says its reforms will transform services for children.\n\nThe figures were released under Freedom of Information laws to the NSPCC by 53 of the 66 health trusts known to provide mental health support to children.\n\nIssues children were referred for included depression and anxiety, sometimes these were so severe that it can lead them to the brink of suicide, said Esther Rantzen founder and president of NSPCC's Childline.\n\nIn 2017-18, some 18,870 children aged under 11 were referred for specialist support. This was a rise of 5,183, or more than a third, on those referred in 2014-15.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Child mental health: When it feels like no-one is listening\n\nThe statistics also reveal that one-third of those referred to Child Adolescent Mental Health Services (Camhs) were declined help.\n\nThe NSPCC said increased demand for support was placing the system under real pressure, and jeopardising the well-being of thousands of children.\n\nIts chief executive Peter Wanless said: \"Our research shows schools are increasingly referring children for specialist mental health treatment, often when the child is at crisis point.\"\n\nSarah Hannafin, senior policy adviser at the National Association of Head Teachers, said: \"More pupils are suffering from mental health issues and there is much more awareness in schools for spotting potential problems and intervening early to get support.\n\n\"However, more than a third of referrals are not accepted - schools have referred these pupils because they are concerned about their mental health and know that the child needs more specialist support than could (and should) be offered by school staff.\n\n\"However, many of these children are not meeting the thresholds set by Camhs - many are concerned about how high these thresholds are.\n\n\"The other concern is about what support those children can then get if they have been turned down by Camhs.\"\n\nA government spokeswoman said they had pledged £1.7bn to young people's mental health and wellbeing.\n\n\"Making sure children and young people get the right support when they need it is imperative,\" she said.\n\n\"That is why are allocating £300 million, over and above the additional £1.4bn being invested in specialist services, to provide more support linked to schools.\n\n\"This includes new mental health support teams to provide trained mental health workers to work closely with schools -including primary schools - to provide quicker support to children.\n\n\"We know we need to do more which is why we have extended our schools and NHS link pilot to deliver training in 20 more areas of the country this year.\n\n\"This will improve links between up to 1,200 schools and their local specialist mental health service.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The pair were abducted north of the city of Goma, North Kivu province\n\nTwo Britons kidnapped in a national park in DR Congo have said they are \"very grateful\" after their release.\n\nBethan Davies and Robert Jesty were among three people held when their vehicle was ambushed in Virunga National Park on Friday.\n\nThey paid tribute to the \"excellent support\" they had received and said they would not comment any further.\n\nPark ranger Rachel Masika Baraka was killed by the kidnappers; a driver was injured and released.\n\nThe 25-year-old ranger is the eighth to be murdered at the park this year.\n\nPark director Emmanuel de Merode said: \"Ranger Baraka's life was tragically cut short in service to Virunga National Park.\n\n\"She was one of the park's 26 female rangers and was highly committed, showing true bravery in her work.\n\n\"We wish to extend our sincerest condolences to her family, and our thoughts are with all those affected by this incident.\"\n\nThe park declined to say how the two Britons came to be released and if the kidnappers had been detained.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or 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 ross This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. End of twitter post by will ross\n\nMs Davies and Mr Jesty said in a statement released by the Foreign Office: \"We are very relieved that there has been a positive outcome to the kidnapping and are very grateful for the excellent support we have received. We do not plan to comment further.\"\n\nVirunga National Park covers some 3,000 sq miles (7,800 sq km) and runs along the border with Uganda and Rwanda.\n\nThe park, which is a Unesco world heritage site, is home to critically-endangered mountain gorillas, lions, elephants and hippos.\n\nThe Foreign Office currently - and before the kidnapping - advises against travelling to the area.\n\n\"The opportunities for gorilla trekking in the Virunga National Park in North Kivu are limited, and armed groups are sometimes active within the park,\" the advice says.\n\n\"Tourists in eastern DRC have been known to be left very vulnerable as a result of trying to travel independently without escorted transport, and the risk of kidnap or injury as a result of armed or criminal activity remains high.\"", "Year 6 students sitting their SATs this week are striking a power pose in a bid to improve their results.\n\nStaff at the Flying Bull Academy in Portsmouth spotted the phenomenon, popular amongst some politicians, and introduced it into classes.\n\nAlthough studies suggest posing makes little difference, students at the school say their results have improved.", "The Palestinian representative at the United Nations, Riyad Mansour, has called for an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council to stop the \"savage onslaught\" against civilians in Gaza.\n\n\"We condemn in the strongest terms this atrocity by the Israeli occupying forces, using this massive firepower against civilians who have the right to demonstrate peacefully and they have been demonstrating peacefully,\" he told reporters.\n\nMr Manous also warned that the US embassy move would deepen \"the resentment and atmosphere of hatred between people instead of moving in the direction of peace\".", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nMohamed Salah broke the Premier League scoring record for a 38-game season as Liverpool qualified for the Champions League on a busy final day of the season.\n\nSalah's 32nd goal - taking him past Alan Shearer, Cristiano Ronaldo and Luis Suarez, a Dejan Lovren header, Dominic Solanke's first goal for the club and Andrew Robertson's goal secured victory.\n\nThey needed only a point to head off Chelsea and seal the fourth remaining spot in Europe's premier club competition next season.\n\nVictory was not enough to take Liverpool up to third place, which was claimed by Tottenham with a stunning 5-4 win over Leicester in what may be their final game at Wembley before moving to their new stadium at White Hart Lane.\n\nMauricio Pochettino's side trailed three times, but a brace each for Erik Lamela and Harry Kane - the latter reached 30 goals for the league season as a result - along with an own goal from Christian Fuchs gave them victory.\n\nKane's England team-mate Jamie Vardy scored two of Leicester's four goals.\n\nIf Liverpool had lost to Brighton, they would not have missed out on the top four as a result of Chelsea's 3-0 loss at Newcastle.\n\nAyoze Perez scored twice after Dwight Gayle's opener to ensure Rafael Benitez's Newcastle finished 10th in the table, while Antonio Conte's side had to settle for fifth and a shot at the FA Cup in Saturday's final against Manchester United.\n\nSwansea needed to win, Southampton lose to Man City and there be a 10-goal swing to avoid being relegated on the final day. Swansea took the lead against Stoke but fell to a 2-1 defeat and a place in the Championship next season.\n\nAn injury-time goal from Gabriel Jesus consigned Southampton to defeat but, more significantly, gave champions Manchester City the win they needed to end their remarkable season with a record 100 points.\n\nArsene Wenger's final game of his 22-season Arsenal career was a victorious one as Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang's first-half goal gave them a win at Huddersfield.\n\nBoth sets of fans applauded Wenger in the 22nd minute of the game and two planes flew overhead dragging messages of support for the Frenchman.\n\nWest Brom's stay in the Premier League ended with a 2-0 defeat at Crystal Palace, for whom Wilfried Zaha and Patrick van Aanholt scored.\n\nIn a game between two sides managed by a former boss of the other team, David Moyes' West Ham came out on top against Sam Allardyce's Everton, with Manuel Lanzini scoring twice in a 3-1 win.\n\nMarcus Rashford scored the only goal in Manchester United's 1-0 home win over Watford, while Callum Wilson's 93rd-minute strike gave Bournemouth a 2-1 comeback win at Burnley.\n\nIn Scotland, Rangers and Hibernian shared 10 goals in a superb game at Easter Road.\n\nHibs took a 3-0 lead inside 22 minutes but Rangers levelled the score before the break. The away side looked on course for victory, leading 5-4 going in to the last five minutes but Jason Holt's sending-off left them vulnerable and Jamie Maclaren completed his hat-trick to rescue a point for Hibs.\n\nAberdeen became the first Scottish team to inflict a home defeat on Brendan Rodgers' Celtic as the Dons secured second place in the Premiership and limited Rangers to third.\n\nLee Erwin's early goal was enough to give Kilmarnock a 1-0 win over Hearts and seal fifth place with their highest Premiership points tally of 59.", "Meghan Markle will spend her last night before her marrying Prince Harry at a luxury Buckinghamshire hotel.\n\nMs Markle and her mother Doria Ragland will stay at the Cliveden House Hotel, about nine miles north of Windsor Castle, the venue for her big day.\n\nThe prince will stay at the Dorchester Collection's Coworth Park in Ascot, with his brother and best man, the Duke of Cambridge.\n\nThe details were released five days before Saturday's wedding.\n\nCliveden House, where Ms Markle will stay, is on the National Trust's Cliveden Estate in Taplow.\n\nIt has 34 bedroom and nine suites, including one named the Prince of Wales Suite - which costs from £1,535 a night.\n\nIts website describes how, for more than 350 years, the hotel has hosted \"powerful personalities, debaucherous parties and scandalous affairs\".\n\nCliveden was linked to a 1960s political scandal - the Profumo affair - as it was where war minister John Profumo first met Christine Keeler and started a relationship.\n\nCliveden House is surrounded by 376 acres of National Trust grounds\n\nThe privately owned stately home was built in 1666 by the 2nd Duke of Buckingham as a gift to his mistress.\n\nFormer England footballer Steven Gerrard married Alex Curran at the hotel in 2007.\n\nPrince Harry will stay with his brother, Prince William, at Coworth Park in Ascot\n\nMeanwhile, Prince Harry will be staying 15 miles away at Coworth Park, located about seven miles from Windsor.\n\nIt says it offers guests \"an experience to refresh every sense within our welcoming oasis of calm\".\n\nA hotel spokeswoman said rates were only available \"on application\" but hotel suites cost from £558 per night.\n\nPrince Harry and his brother regularly play on the hotel's polo grounds - and Ms Markle was among the spectators last year.\n\nOne of the suites at the hotel where Prince Harry will be staying the night before his wedding\n\nPrince William and Harry play polo on Coworth Park's grounds every year\n\nCoworth Park describes itself as the \"scenic route to five-star bliss\"\n\nEarlier this month it was revealed that Ms Markle will travel with her mother to the church by car while Prince Harry will arrive with his brother.\n\nMs Markle will then meet her father, Thomas Markle, at St George's Chapel, where he will walk her down the aisle.\n\nWith five days to go, Kensington Palace also announced the couple's first official engagement as a married couple.\n\nThree days after their wedding they will attend a garden party in honour of the Prince of Wales at Buckingham Palace.\n\nThe event on 22 May - the Prince of Wales's 70th Birthday Patronage Celebration - will be Ms Markle's first royal garden party in the grounds of the Queen's London residence.", "This video can not be played\n\nTo play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "Celebrity chef and food campaigner Jamie Oliver says he is encouraged by Scotland's healthy eating plans.\n\nHis backing came as First Minister Nicola Sturgeon set a target to slash childhood obesity by 2030.", "The controversial US embassy move to Jerusalem is going ahead amid celebration and protest. The BBC's Yolande Knell explains why the city is so important.", "A 26-year-old man died in hospital in the Sri Lankan capital Colombo\n\nA British amateur rugby player has died and a team mate is critically ill after complaining of breathing difficulties on returning from a nightclub in Sri Lanka.\n\nThe pair had been touring the country with Durham-based Clems Pirates RFC when they visited the club in Colombo.\n\nThomas Howard, 25 from Durham, died shortly after being admitted to hospital on Sunday.\n\nTom Baty, 26, also from Durham, remains in hospital.\n\nDurham City Rugby Football Club, which oversees the team, confirmed Mr Howard had died after \"suffering breathing problems\" and that Mr Baty was still receiving treatment.\n\nThe team arrived in Sri Lanka on Wednesday and began the tour with a game against Ceylonese Rugby and Football Club (CR & FC) in Colombo.\n\nAccording to police in Sri Lanka, some British players went to a nightclub after the match and returned to their hotel in the early hours of Sunday.\n\nThe two players complained of breathing difficulties to the hotel management at about 10:00 on Sunday.\n\nPolice said a post-mortem examination would be carried out later.\n\nA police spokesman told the BBC: \"Both men had returned from a nightclub and had complained of breathing difficulties, and they were admitted to the hospital, one died and another is in very critical condition.\"\n\nDurham City Rugby Club said in a statement the pair suffered \"non-rugby related breathing problems\".\n\n\"Subsequently, one of the two has died and one remains in hospital,\" the statement said.\n\nSri Lanka Rugby Football Union director Rohan Gunerathne said the organisation was looking into the matter, but confirmed nothing happened on the rugby pitch during the match.\n\nA British High Commission spokesman in Colombo said both families were being supported, and they were in contact with the Sri Lankan medical services.\n\nA spokeswoman for the Foreign Office said: \"Our staff are supporting the family of a British man following his death in Sri Lanka, and are in contact with the Sri Lankan hospital services.\n\n\"We are assisting the family of a British man who has been hospitalised in Sri Lanka, and are in contact with the Sri Lankan medical services.\"\n\nDurham County councillor Dr David Boyes said Durham City RFC was a very well organised, well equipped organisation and oversaw a number of teams.\n\nDr Boyes added that the club had organised numerous tours abroad in the past and had never had any problems before.\n\n\"I really feel for the families, being that far away and knowing that a family member has died must be terrible,\" he said.\n\nClem's Pirates tours regularly across Europe and further afield. It is a well known club in the area especially for its fundraising efforts and tours.\n\nFellow Durham County councillor Richard Ormerod said it was \"very sad news\" for all those involved.\n\n\"My thoughts are with the families and friends and team mates.\n\n\"They do a lot of good work raising money for charity and introducing people to rugby.\"\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. About 20 signs have appeared in Oxford and the council claims they make the city hard to navigate\n\nFake signs like Facebook Row and Snapchat End are causing confusion around the streets of Oxford.\n\nThe social media-inspired signage was installed by the same mysterious artist who put up Middle Earth and Narnia signs in nearby Didcot.\n\nThe new signs include Twitter Lane, Emoji Alley, Instagram Ave, Google Walk, Selfie Passage, and WTF Lane.\n\nOxford City Council said the signs would be removed as they make the city hard to navigate.\n\nAbout 20 of them have appeared in the city so far.\n\nThe artist said he wanted to highlight the public's obsession with social media\n\nThe city council said the signs would make Oxford harder to navigate\n\nThe man responsible, who spoke to BBC News on condition of anonymity, said he wanted to highlight the public's obsession with social media.\n\n\"There's a lot said about what is real and what's not on social media, and so these signs of mine kind of reflect that climate,\" he said.\n\n\"My signs are not real. However, if you take a picture of them and when you see them in 2D photographs, they appear real.\"\n\nHe denied the prank was disruptive.\n\nHe said: \"I'm not destroying property, I'm not a vandal. I'm just merely somebody who is creating and helping people enjoy art.\"\n\nHis previous work in Didcot was subsequently removed by Oxfordshire County Council because of its distracting nature.\n\nRegarding the new signs, a council spokesman said they made the city \"harder to navigate, particularly for those who do not have a smartphone\".\n\nHe added: \"We do encourage street art and have a number of graffiti-free walls across Oxford.\n\n\"We would encourage the artist to get in touch with us, so we can point them towards our free walls - and they can put their obvious talent to less wasteful use.\"\n\nAuthorities felt a previous prank on signage in Didcot could distract drivers\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Athletics\n\nBritish former Olympic champion Darren Campbell says he is \"relieved to be alive\" as he recovers in hospital after suffering a bleed in the brain.\n\nThe 44-year-old had to be resuscitated when he was rushed to hospital last Tuesday after having a seizure at home.\n\nCampbell, who won 4x100m relay gold at the 2004 Olympics, told BBC Sport he had a pituitary apoplexy - a bleed into the gland at the base of the brain.\n\n\"I nearly died,\" he said. \"You have to give thanks. That is how close it was.\"\n\nCampbell says he now wants to be \"left alone\" while he recovers from the trauma of an episode that left him needing a ventilator to breathe.\n\n\"I don't want to be Darren Campbell at the moment,\" he said.\n\nThe BBC Radio 5 live presenter and pundit had never previously had a seizure but had several during his first few days in hospital.\n\nHis wife and three children are now with him, after it was initially decided his two youngest children should not visit until he had shown signs of recovery.\n\n\"It's only when I see the fear in my kids' eyes that you realise,\" said the two-time Commonwealth Games gold medallist.\n\n\"When they first told me I was on a ventilator, I didn't believe them. I've got other people filling in blanks. If you can't breathe by yourself, you are not in a good place.\n\n\"I have to be relieved as I nearly died.\"\n\nCampbell initially needed three injections a day to stabilise the function of his pituitary gland, which releases hormones that help control bodily functions including growth, blood pressure, energy management and metabolism.\n\nBut he now hopes to leave hospital on Tuesday.\n\n\"It was scary for the family as they are used to seeing this strong character,\" said the Manchester-born former sprinter.\n\n\"All of a sudden I couldn't control my body. My oldest son has been a rock and kept everything together.\n\n\"The doctors have said if I wasn't so fit, I wouldn't be here. I was always going to fight. As long as the doctors were fighting, I'd fight.\"\n\nCampbell says lying in his hospital bed has made him \"appreciate life\" more, and has urged people to make regular visits to their doctor.\n\nHe said: \"I've been thinking about my kids, and all I was thinking is I have to keep fighting as I want to see my 10-year-old daughter get married one day. I grabbed onto that and the medical people have been absolutely unbelievable.\n\n\"My daughter had been watching a programme called Say Yes to the Dress. She had come downstairs a couple of days earlier saying: 'Dad, I know what budget I want for my wedding dress.' She said: 'I want £5,000 for my dress.' You grab onto little things like that.\"\n\nCampbell says he feels \"extremely lucky\" and now wants to spend time with his family.\n\n\"I'm not working this summer,\" he said. \"I always work but I am taking time off. Each minute and moment I'm trying to take things in and give thanks.\n\n\"I'm calm. What can I panic about? I'm alive. The fact I can talk to you and be calm, I have to be thankful.\"", "Dr Dre (not to be confused with Dr Drai)\n\nHip-hop star Dr Dre has lost a long-running trademark dispute against a gynaecologist with a similar name.\n\nThe case was first lodged in 2015, when Pennsylvania-based gynaecologist Draion M Burch tried to trademark the name Dr Drai.\n\nDr Dre objected, saying the similarity could cause \"confusion\", especially as his near-namesake wanted to sell audio books and seminars under the moniker.\n\nBut the US trademark office has disagreed and dismissed Dr Dre's case.\n\nIn a ruling made last week, it said that, while the two names were similar, Dr Dre had failed to show that people would be misled into buying by Dr Drai's products.\n\nGiven that the doctor's typical fee for a speaking engagement is $5,000 (£3,700), the consumer would be likely to exercise a \"higher degree of care\" than someone making a casual purchase, it said.\n\nMr Burch had also argued that consumers would be unlikely to confuse the two names \"because Dr Dre is not a medical doctor nor is he qualified to provide any type of medical services or sell products specifically in the medical or healthcare industry\".\n\nHe further testified that he did not seek to trade on Dr Dre's reputation because the association would be \"a bad reflection on me as a doctor\" - citing lyrics he characterised as misogynistic and homophobic.\n\nThe gynaecologist is the author of books such as 20 Things You May Not Know About A Vagina and describes himself as one of America's top health experts.\n\nDr Dre can currently be seen in the Netflix documentary The Defiant Ones, which charts his rise from the streets of Compton to the multi-millionaire executive in charge of Beats 1.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "A Montana funeral home says the actress died at her home on Sunday\n\nActress Margot Kidder, best known for her role as Lois Lane in Superman, has died aged 69.\n\nA funeral home in Livingston, Montana, where the actress lived, said Kidder died at her home on Sunday.\n\nShe rose to fame starring alongside Christopher Reeve in the Superman films of the 1970s and 1980s.\n\nThe Canadian-born actress acquired American citizenship in 2005, and became a political and women's rights activist alongside her acting.\n\nThe cause of her death is not yet known.\n\nKidder starred alongside Reeve in the 1978 film Superman and its sequels, as well as horror classics Black Christmas and The Amityville Horror.\n\nThe actress was also an outspoken critic of the Gulf War, of fracking by energy companies, and was at times a vocal supporter of Democratic party candidates.\n\nAfter settling in the US state of Montana, she became a supporter of Montana Women For, a non-profit organisation which describes its goals as the \"participation and empowerment of women in our democracy through education and advocacy on critical issues\".\n\nAs an activist, she was arrested in 2011 while taking part in a protest at the White House against the Keystone XL pipeline, which remains controversial today.\n\nKidder also suffered from mental health problems, which resulted in her high-profile disappearance for several days in 1996.\n\nKidder, seen here in 2009, continued to work alongside her activism\n\nIn an interview with People magazine later that year, she referred to her disappearance as \"the most public freak-out in history\".\n\nWhile working on her memoirs, a computer virus destroyed all of her work, she told the magazine - something she concluded was deliberate, and involved her former husband and the CIA.\n\nShe was eventually found safe, and would talk openly about her experience of manic episodes and of depression in the years ahead, raising awareness about bipolar disorder while advocating the use of alternative medicine as a treatment.\n\nOn social media, film and superhero fans paid tribute to the actress. DC Comics, publisher of the Superman comic books, said Kidder was \"the Lois Lane so many of us grew up with\".\n\nEric Goldman, editor at rival comic book maker Marvel, said Kidder \"made sure my generation knew just how awesome Lois Lane was\" - a sentiment echoed by famed comic book writer Mark Millar, who said she was \"my Lois Lane\".\n\nTeri Hatcher, who played Lois Lane in the 1990s TV show Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman, wrote that it had been \"a privilege\" to step into Kidder's role - while her co-star Dean Cain also tweeted his 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 by Teri Hatcher This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nEnglish actress Sarah Douglas - who played supervillain Ursa, famously sucker-punched by the plucky Lane - tweeted that Kidder had been \"a joy to be around\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Sarah Douglas This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSome fans recalled the landmark cinematic moments from the original 1978 Superman film, while others applauded the actress' open discussion of mental health issues at a time when it was unpopular to make such things public.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by David Axelrod This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nActor Cameron Cuffe, currently starring in Superman spin-off TV series Krypton, wrote: \"On screen there are few who have brought a legend to life in the same way Margot Kidder did. As a person there are few who have been as honest and brave when it came to being open about mental health.\"\n\nKidder married and divorced three times. She is survived by her only child, Maggie, and two grandchildren.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Lawyer Sulaiha Ali says victims of crime are being treated as criminals because of their immigration status\n\nMore than half of UK police forces are handing over victims of crime to the Home Office for immigration enforcement, new figures show.\n\nOne woman who was beaten by her partner was then herself arrested by police.\n\nThere are fears the approach is stopping vulnerable people - including rape victims - reporting crimes, playing into the hands of traffickers.\n\nThe Home Office said it would support vulnerable migrants \"regardless of their immigration status\".\n\n\"Victims of crime must be treated first and foremost as victims,\" a spokesperson said.\n\nThe BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme asked 45 UK police forces, via a Freedom of Information request, if they referred victims and witnesses of crime to the Home Office for immigration enforcement.\n\nTwenty-seven said they did. Some gave a straight \"yes\", others had caveats such as \"not routinely\" or \"it's rare\".\n\nThree - including Police Scotland - said they did not, and the rest were unclear, did not reply or said they had no data.\n\n\"Sara\" came to the UK with her partner - a British citizen. But she says she was treated like a slave.\n\n\"He told me, 'That's why I brought you here, so you can cook and clean for me,'\" she explains.\n\n\"He beat me with a belt and a cable.\"\n\nShe was brought into the UK illegally, so she could not go to the police in case she was arrested - \"a common feature in all domestic violence and trafficking cases\", according to Sara's lawyer Sulaiha Ali, of Duncan Lewis Solicitors.\n\nShe ran out on to the street, when her partner chased after her and beat her in front of a member of the public, who then called the police.\n\nThey arrested the perpetrator and took Sara to hospital because of the severity of her injuries.\n\nSara was arrested and taken to Yarl's Wood detention centre\n\nShe was then taken to a hostel, where she was later arrested and sent to Yarl's Wood immigration removal centre to be deported.\n\nMs Ali thinks Sara should never have been arrested at all.\n\n\"It's shocking to know that victims of crime are being seen and treated as criminals just because of their status.\"\n\nMs Ali has now stopped Sara's deportation order, and Sara has applied for asylum in the UK.\n\nBut Ms Ali says she's doing \"quite bad\", and has not been given the support \"she is entitled to\" as a victim, because \"the focus has been completely on her immigration status\".\n\nPragna Patel from Southall Black Sisters - which campaigns on the issue - says she is extremely worried that referring victims of crime for immigration enforcement is \"in conflict with the government's stated aim to protect all women from violence\".\n\n\"Since 2014, we've seen a steady rise in cases where the police have arrested women or reported women to the Home Office as potential illegals rather than deal with their reports of violence and rape.\"\n\nShe fears vulnerable women will be deterred from speaking out about the violence and abuse they have suffered because they are frightened of being arrested, detained and deported.\n\nPragna Patel says there has been a rise in cases since 2014\n\nGreen Party leader Caroline Lucas told the Victoria Derbyshire programme she has heard of rape victims \"being afraid to come forward to report that rape, which means that the perpetrator is still at large\".\n\nShe called for a \"firewall\" - a blocking of information between police operations and immigration officials - so the two do not become mixed up, and justice is not \"jeopardised\".\n\nLast November, a case was uncovered in which a woman reported to the police that she had been kidnapped and raped over a six-month period.\n\nShe was taken to a sexual assault centre by police, but then she was arrested.\n\nGuidance from the National Police Chiefs Council (NPCC) issued in December says that \"immediate arrest will not be made\" of victims of crime, relating to their immigration status, unless there is \"an immediate risk of harm to a specific individual\".\n\nOnly three police forces said they were following this guidance.\n\nFormer Ch Supt Dal Babu says it is \"easier\" for officers to send vulnerable people to a detention centre\n\nFormer Ch Supt Dal Babu has called for more specific regulations for officers to follow.\n\nHe said victims of crime \"were low-hanging fruit\" amid the government's hostile environment policy, which included immigration removal targets.\n\n\"These are vulnerable people... so it's much easier when a woman comes forward who has been raped to then say, 'We're investigating this', and go and arrest [her] and [she'll] be sent to a detention centre.\"\n\nThe NPCC said it was \"unequivocal that victims of crime should be treated as victims first and foremost.\n\n\"Each case is considered very carefully but there will be instances where police need to exchange information with the Home Office.\"\n\nThe Home Office said: \"When individuals are found to have no basis in the UK, we carefully consider the details of the case before taking an enforcement action.\"\n\nWatch the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme on weekdays between 09:00 and 11:00 on BBC Two and the BBC News channel.\n• None The college cleaner no-one knew was a slave", "UK scientists believe they may have found a way to combat the common cold.\n\nRather than attacking the virus itself, which comes in hundreds of versions, the treatment targets the human host.\n\nIt blocks a key protein in the body's cells that cold viruses normally hijack to self-replicate and spread.\n\nThis should stop any cold virus in its tracks if given early enough, lab studies suggest. Safety trials in people could start within two years.\n\nThe Imperial College London researchers are working on making a form of the drug that can be inhaled, to reduce the chance of side-effects.\n\nIn the lab, it worked within minutes of being applied to human lung cells, targeting a human protein called NMT, Nature Chemistry journal reports.\n\nAll strains of cold virus need this human protein to make new copies of themselves.\n\nResearcher Prof Ed Tate said: \"The idea is that we could give it to someone when they first become infected and it would stop the virus being able to replicate and spread.\n\n\"Even if the cold has taken hold, it still might help lessen the symptoms.\n\n\"This could be really helpful for people with health conditions like asthma, who can get quite ill when they catch a cold.\"\n\nHe said targeting the host rather than the infection was \"a bit radical\" but made sense because the viral target was such a tricky one.\n\nCold viruses are not only plentiful and diverse, they also evolve rapidly, meaning they can quickly develop resistance to drugs.\n\nThe test drug completely blocked several strains of cold virus without appearing to harm the human cells in the lab. Further studies are needed to make sure it is not toxic in the body though.\n\nDr Peter Barlow of the British Society for Immunology said: \"While this study was conducted entirely in vitro - using cells to model Rhinovirus infection in the laboratory - it shows great promise in terms of eventually developing a drug treatment to combat the effects of this virus in patients.\"\n\nColds spread very easily from person to person. And the viruses that cause the infections can live on hands and surfaces for 24 hours.\n\nPainkillers and cold remedies might help ease the symptoms. But currently there is nothing that will halt the infection.\n\nSymptoms - a runny or blocked nose, sneezing and sore throat - usually come on quickly and peak after a couple of days. Most people will feel better after a week or so. But a mild cough can persist for a few weeks.\n• None What to do if you have a cold or flu\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 Eurovision Song Contest stage invader gained access to the stage by climbing into a camera run and going over a bridge, organisers have said.\n\nThe man interrupted the UK's singer SuRie, who finished third from bottom at the event in Lisbon on Saturday.\n\nThe European Broadcasting Union said an internal investigation was under way.\n\nThe EBU said he was pursued by security over the bridge, adding: \"He was removed off stage after seven seconds and is being questioned by police.\"\n\nThe statement continued: \"We take security very seriously and an investigation into what happened is already under way.\"\n\nThe stage invader took the microphone off SuRie, before being dragged off stage\n\nSuRie was singing her song Storm when a man with a rucksack ran onto the stage, grabbed her microphone, and appeared to say: \"Nazis of the UK media, we demand freedom.\"\n\nHe was swiftly dragged off stage and SuRie continued performing the song.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'We all felt so sorry for SuRie'\n\nIt is thought the same man invaded the stage at the National Television Awards this year, and The Voice in 2017.\n\nSuRie was given the chance to perform again, but declined. The BBC said: \"SuRie and her team are extremely proud of her performance and have together decided that there is absolutely no reason to perform the song again.\"\n\nShe later wrote on Twitter: \"Well, I've always said anything can happen at Eurovision...\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by SuRie This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 Sunday, she wrote: \"I've been told the security agent who intervened last night is ok and thank goodness for that.\n\n\"Thank you everybody for your messages of love and support and huge congrats to @NettaBarzilai, I'm so, so proud of you x\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 SuRie This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nNetta, representing Israel, won the contest with 520 points, triggering jubilation in her home country.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIsraeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu even imitated Netta's now-famous chicken dance in his own tribute to the winner, and confirmed that next year's contest would be held in Jerusalem.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Benjamin Netanyahu This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Two people were still in the plane when it crashed\n\nThe boy who was killed in a light aircraft crash in the Republic of Ireland was the son of one of the parachutists who jumped from the plane a short time before.\n\nThe pilot of the plane was also killed in the crash in County Offaly.\n\nGardaí (Irish police) said the aircraft, which had 16 parachutists on board, took off from Clonbullogue Airfield at 14:45 BST.\n\nAll 16 jumped from the plane, but it crashed in bogland shortly afterwards.\n\nIt has been reported that the pilot was from the UK. The bodies were recovered from the wreckage on Sunday night.\n\nThe light aircraft took off from Clonbullogue Airfield on Sunday afternoon\n\nThe Air Accident Investigation Unit has confirmed it is investigating the circumstances of the crash.\n\nGardaí have called in the peat digging company Bord na Móna to assist them with large track machinery as they try to recover the single engine Cessna Caravan aircraft.\n\nSpeaking on RTÉ radio's Morning Ireland programme, Offaly County Councillor Martin O'Reilly said that the seriousness of the incident is only just setting in.\n\nHe said: \"There was a sense of disbelief, shock and horror at such an incident in our area, particularly associated with the parachute club. We're only waking up to this shocking news and it's only setting in, how serious it's been.\"\n\nMr O'Reilly said the area the plane crashed into gets quite a lot of footfall with walkers and cyclists.\n\n\"You'd have a lot of people going out to the club doing fundraisers, parachute jumps for local charities and stuff. And there was never an incident, never has been an incident,\" he said.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nTessa Jowell once said she'd \"jump under a bus\" for Tony Blair. She was probably only half-joking. However, her loyalty to New Labour was more than simply tactical or careerist.\n\nShe was pro-European and in favour of a mixed-economy when both were deeply unfashionable on the left. Her belief that Labour should \"modernise\" was passionately held - forged at the coal face of a decade of Labour local activism.\n\nBaroness Jowell will be remembered at Westminster as someone who managed to be ideologically committed to her cause without overt sectarian bitterness.\n\nTessa Jane Helen Douglas Palmer began her life in London in September 1947 - the oldest of three siblings. Like Blair, hers was a middle-class family of Conservative voters.\n\nHer childhood was spent in Aberdeen - where her father, Kenneth, was a chest specialist at the university medical school. Her radiographer mother, Rosemary, bridled against the social snobbery of university life - where lecturers' wives did not have coffee with the professors' wives.\n\nSt Margaret's School for Girls was fee-paying and traditional - occasionally described as \"Scotland's Roedean\". Age 14, she saw Stanley Kubrick's film Spartacus - which \"moved me hugely with its themes of exploitation, courageous revolt and the heroism of the slave uprising\".\n\nShe abandoned notions of a career in medicine and qualified as a psychiatric social worker. A friend recalled meeting her for lunch at London's Maudsley Hospital - finding her physically shaking after an encounter with an aggressive patient.\n\nFighting the Ilford North by-election in 1978. \"It was the worst three weeks of my life\", she said.\n\nShe was elected to Camden Council - chairing its Social Services Committee at just 25 - a standard bearer of Labour \"sensiblism\" against \"loony left\" activists bent on confrontation with Margaret Thatcher. Once, she ended up covered with chicken livers hurled from the floor.\n\nShe fought the Ilford North by-election in 1978 - only to lose Labour's majority. \"It was the worst three weeks of my life,\" she said, targeted by the National Front and the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children, which sent her pictures of foetuses.\n\nThe press also hounded her - smelling scandal. She'd left her first husband - statistician Roger Jowell - and was living with corporate lawyer, David Mills. They later married. It was another 13 years before she made it to Westminster - as MP for Dulwich & West Norwood in 1992.\n\nTessa Jowell was Labour moderniser and supporter of Tony Blair\n\nShe arrived determined to play her part in the New Labour revolution. A fierce loyalty to Tony Blair never dimmed.\n\nFriends included Margaret Hodge, Harriet Harman, David Blunkett and the Blairs themselves - a Who's Who list of the movement. Peter Mandelson and Alastair Campbell became god parents to her children.\n\nIn Opposition, Blair made her a whip - dealing with a party dominated by northern men. They found her direct, thoughtful - but with sharp political elbows. \"If there is someone powerful in the room she has an almost subconscious locking on device,\" said one source.\n\nDavid Mills' business affairs were controversial and the couple split. They were later reconciled.\n\nHer marriage to David Mills sustained for nearly 40 years. But his business affairs twice badly damaged her political career.\n\nShe became minister for public health in Blair's first government. A promise to be the \"scourge of the tobacco industry\" rebounded when it was discovered that Formula One had been given an exemption from a ban on tobacco advertising.\n\nIt was discovered that Bernie Ecclestone - Formula One's boss - had donated a million pounds to the party. Blair pleaded he \"was a pretty straight kind of guy\". For Tessa Jowell the problem was her husband's connections to the company that owned the Benetton racing team. She only just survived..\n\nA decade later, a second scandal was far worse.\n\nIn 2006, by now secretary of state for culture, media and sport, her marriage came under renewed scrutiny. David Mills was accused of once taking money from Silvio Berlusconi, the controversial Italian prime minister, in return for illegally helping fight corruption charges.\n\nThe money had paid down the couple's mortgage. Mills furiously disputed the allegations and would spend years fighting the charges. Blair decided Jowell was free from wrong-doing - but she was politically damaged and the couple separated.\n\nOpponents on the left felt all this was somehow emblematic of the New Labour project and its love affair with the ultra-rich.\n\nTessa Jowell admitted she hoped to restore the relationship over time. After she'd left office, she told Woman's Hour that they were seeing each other regularly and had \"reached a state of stability which I never thought possible\".\n\nA hug from David Beckham to celebrate the announcement that London would host the 2012 Summer Olympics\n\nHer department was shocked when she insisted the UK should bid for the 2012 Olympics. There was a concerted attempt to talk her out of it. She sold it to Blair in a seven-minute meeting on the Downing Street veranda - despite his real reservations.\n\nWhen London won - after a Herculean lobbying effort - delivery fell to her. By the night of the opening ceremony, Labour was out of office - although she had remained a key member of the organising committee alongside Seb Coe and Jeremy Hunt.\n\nShe travelled to the stadium on the inevitable red London bus - only for the driver to get hopelessly lost. Boris Johnson and Ed Miliband teased her as they crossed the same roundabout for the third time. But she recognised that magical night as the high point of her career.\n\nInevitably, her political star waned after Blair left office. She never had the same affinity with Gordon Brown or Ed Miliband - although neither dispensed with her altogether. She left Westminster at the 2015 general election.\n\nCongratulating Sadiq Khan after she lost the nomination to be Labour's candidate for mayor of London\n\nDame Tessa Jowell, as she now was, fought hard to become Labour's candidate for London mayor in 2016. She had high hopes - the Olympics had been successfully delivered and, as minister for London, she had handled the aftermath of the 7/7 bombings well - remaining close to the families of many victims.\n\nShe won the most votes from party members in the first round of voting. But among registered supporters - who could now pay £3 to vote - the most New Labour candidate was well beaten by both Sadiq Khan and Diane Abbott. The winds of change were blowing through the party.\n\nIn May 2017, and by now a member of the House of Lords - Baroness Jowell of Brixton - she was on her way to give a speech about Sure Start children's centres - one of her proudest achievements as a minister and one she would herself highlight. She got into a taxi and suddenly found she couldn't speak.\n\nLords Speech: \"I am not afraid\", she said - to a standing ovation\n\nTwo days later she was diagnosed with a rare form of brain cancer. She knew the prognosis wasn't good. She could only have the operation and wait.\n\nLater, in a moving speech to the House of Lords, she called for adaptive trials. If one treatment wasn't working, she argued, patients should be able to try something different - even if it hadn't been fully tested. The risks, she said, look different if the clock's ticking against you.\n\n\"In the end what gives life meaning is not only how it is lived, but how it draws to a close,\" she said.\n\nTo a standing ovation Baroness Jowell quoted the last words of the poet Seamus Heaney... \"Noli timere\" - meaning \"do not be afraid\".\n\n\"I am not,\" she said, \"afraid.\"", "Once built, the UK will have seven Astute hunter-killer submarines\n\nThe defence secretary is expected to announce a £2.5bn investment in the UK's nuclear submarine programme.\n\nUnder the plans, an Astute hunter-killer submarine will be built costing £1.5bn, and £960m will go towards completing a fleet of four nuclear-armed Dreadnought submarines.\n\nGavin Williamson will say it is part of a commitment to secure the UK \"from intensifying threats\".\n\nThe Ministry of Defence says the deal will help to sustain thousands of jobs.\n\nMr Williamson will announce the plans during a visit to defence giant BAE Systems' shipyard in Barrow-in-Furness in Cumbria.\n\nHe will say the Astute submarine - which will complete the Royal Navy's seven-strong fleet of hunter-killer attack subs - will be called Agincourt.\n\nThe deal with BAE will also help with the second phase of construction for the UK's Dreadnought submarines.\n\nWhile at the factory, Mr Williamson will unveil a plaque and officially open a new £100m sub-construction building which will be used to outfit and test the submarines.\n\nHe will say: \"This multibillion-pound investment in our nuclear submarines shows our unwavering commitment to keeping the UK safe and secure from intensifying threats.\n\n\"Agincourt will complete the Royal Navy's seven-strong fleet of hunter-killer attack subs, the most powerful to ever enter British service, whilst our nuclear deterrent is the ultimate defence against the most extreme dangers we could possibly face.\"\n\nHe will also stress the importance of the boost for Barrow - \"the heart of sub-building in this country\".\n\n\"Today's news supports 8,000 BAE Systems' submarine jobs, as well as thousands more in the supply chain, protecting prosperity and providing opportunity right across the country,\" Mr Williamson will say.\n\nThe announcement comes days after MPs criticised the Ministry of Defence for its \"unrealistic\" spending plans.", "Customers had to queue for up to an hour to get a single slice of pizza after a broken oven slowed the flow of food.\n\nOrganisers of an all-you-can-eat pizza festival have apologised after repeatedly running out of pizza slices.\n\nCustomers had to queue for up to an hour to get a single slice of pizza after an oven broke at the Notting Hill Pizza Festival on Saturday.\n\nGuests were promised \"the opportunity to sample unlimited amounts of pizza\" by organisers Bellmonte Life.\n\nThe \"high-end luxury lifestyle brand\" blamed \"overzealous appetites\" as well as the broken oven for slow service.\n\nTim Swabey said he waited 30 minutes for a pizza that \"looked like something that had already passed through a cat's digestive system\"\n\nThe firm said: \"Despite the best efforts of our team preparing the pizzas in the smaller ovens, the flow of pizzas was slower than intended.\n\n\"In contrast to claims that there were not enough pizzas, this was not the case. Our team was hard at work to ensure that everyone was able to sample pizzas.\n\n\"However, it was unfortunate that the queues grew due to some overzealous appetites, preventing others to be able to enjoy the food.\"\n\nThe event promised a \"pizza for every palate\" at the Porchester Hall, in west London.\n\nAlex White, 28, said she abandoned the festival to go to a pizza restaurant having only eaten two slices in one-and-a-half hours.\n\n\"I'm definitely annoyed, it was clearly very badly thought through,\" said Ms White.\n\nCustomers reported queuing for up to an hour to get a single slice of pizza at Porchester Hall, in Notting Hill\n\nTim Swabey, 24, said: \"When we arrived at the festival we were immediately surprised by the long queues for pizza at each stall.\n\nWhen pizza did arrive it \"looked like something that had already passed through a cat's digestive system\", Mr Swabey added.\n\nFestival-goers were given complimentary drinks when it became clear pizzas were not reaching everyone.\n\nBellmonte Life has offered pizza festival ticket-holders complimentary VIP passes for an upcoming barbecue festival in July.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Melania Trump is due to stay in hospital for a week\n\nUS First Lady Melania Trump has undergone surgery for what the White House described as a benign kidney condition.\n\nHer office said surgeons had performed an embolisation procedure at the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center.\n\nThe surgery was successful and there were no complications, her spokeswoman added.\n\nMrs Trump, 48, is expected to spend the rest of the week recovering at the medical centre, in Bethesda, Maryland.\n\nPresident Donald Trump tweeted that he was on his way to visit 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 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\nEmbolisation is most often used to block the blood supply to a tumour, benign or cancerous.\n\n\"The first lady looks forward to a full recovery so she can continue her work on behalf of children everywhere,\" Mrs Trump's spokeswoman Stephanie Grisham said in a statement.\n\nLast week, Mrs Trump unveiled a \"Be Best\" initiative aimed at teaching children the importance of social, emotional and physical health.\n\nShe said the campaign aimed to promote healthy living and to combat opioid abuse.\n\nIt was also announced on Monday that former US Democratic Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, 78, had undergone surgery for pancreatic cancer.\n\nMr Reid's family said surgeons at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore were \"confident that the surgery was a success and that the prognosis for his recovery is good\".\n\nDoctors had caught the problem early during a routine screening, the statement said.\n\nUS Republican Senator John McCain, 81, who is battling a rare form of brain cancer, was among those who sent Mr Reid his best wishes, tweeting: \"From one cantankerous senator to another, sending my prayers and best wishes to @SenatorReid as he recovers from a successful surgery.\"", "The prime minister has raised the cases of the dual nationals being held in Iran with the country's president.\n\nIn a telephone call, Theresa May urged Hassan Rouhani to make further progress over the release of British-Iranians \"on humanitarian grounds\".\n\nMrs May also reiterated the UK's commitment to the Iran nuclear deal, which the US pulled out of last week.\n\nDowning Street said both leaders agreed to keep in contact about both topics ahead of a Brussels meeting on Tuesday.\n\nThere are nearly 30 dual nationals being held by the Iranian authorities - many of whom are accused of security offences.\n\nLast month, London's Imperial College professor Abbas Edalat was detained while reportedly attending an academic workshop in Tehran.\n\nAnother case is that of Nazanin Zaghari Ratcliffe, who is currently serving a five-year prison sentence, after being convicted of spying charges. She has always denied the claims.\n\nMrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe was arrested in 2016 during a holiday to introduce her baby daughter Gabriella to her parents.\n\nMeanwhile, Mrs May also used the phone call to bolster the European support for the Iran nuclear deal - designed to prevent the country developing atomic weapons.\n\nUS President Donald Trump withdrew from the deal, which was one of his election pledges, but the UK, Germany and France remain \"firmly committed\" to upholding it.\n\nA Downing Street spokesman said: \"[Mrs May said] it is in both the UK and Iran's national security interests to maintain the deal and welcomed president Rouhani's public commitment to abide by its terms, adding that it is essential that Iran continues to meet its obligations.\n\n\"The prime minister made clear that the UK condemns the Iranian missile attacks against Israeli forces and called on Iran to refrain from any further attacks.\n\n\"She said it was important to avoid provocative actions to ensure peace and security in the region.\"", "Safaa Boular denies two counts of preparing acts of terrorism\n\nA teenage girl fantasised about killing Barack Obama in online chats with her Islamic State fighter fiance, an Old Bailey jury has been told.\n\nSafaa Boular, 18, sent Naweed Hussain an image of an explosion when he asked how she would kill the then US president, the court heard.\n\nProsecutors say after he died in Syria before she could join him, she planned an attack at London's British Museum.\n\nHer lawyer, Joel Bennathan QC, says she was \"groomed to be radicalised\" by her fiancé, and her family had encouraged and celebrated it.\n\nProsecutor Duncan Atkinson QC told the jury that Ms Boular chatted online with Hussain over a three-month period.\n\nShe had to wanted to marry Hussain, who was in his 30s, and wear suicide belts together, he told the court.\n\nDescribing the online conversations between the pair, he said they had exchanged pictures of a Kalashnikov rifle, grenades and a handgun in August 2016.\n\nThe jury heard Ms Boular sent Hussain a picture of Mr Obama and asked \"So what, is it us Vs...\"\n\nHe allegedly replied \"Yeah\" and called Mr Obama a \"filthy kalb\" [Arabic for dog].\n\nThe prosecutor said Hussain asked how she would kill him \"if u had da choice\", prompting Ms Boular to send the image of an explosion and say \"shake my hand with Mr President\".\n\nTwo days later they declared their love for each other after talking about how they liked British television game shows Deal Or No Deal, The Chase and Family Fortunes, Mr Atkinson added.\n\nThe jury heard Ms Boular, who was still 17 when she was arrested, told police she had wanted to go to Syria because everyone dies sometime, and she \"might as well die with honour\".\n\nMs Boular said Hussain, a Briton from Coventry, had approached her on Instagram.\n\nShe had connected with IS supporters on the photo-sharing website through a woman based in Aleppo, Syria, she had met on Twitter, the court heard.\n\nHer interest had been sparked by the Paris attacks and she was \"curious\" to find out \"why people do the things they do\", she said.\n\nThe court heard Ms Boular decided to carry out a grenade and gun ambush on people at the British Museum after Hussain was killed.\n\nBut when Ms Boular was charged with planning to travel to IS territory, she is alleged to have encouraged her older sister to \"carry the torch forward\".\n\nThe court heard that Rizlaine Boular, 21, of Clerkenwell, central London, has admitted planning a knife attack, while their mother Mina Dich, 43, has admitted assisting her.\n\nIn telephone calls to her sister from jail, Safaa Boular is alleged to have talked about an Alice in Wonderland-themed tea party - said by the prosecution to be code for the attack her sister was to carry out.\n\nBased on her reconnaissance and discussion, it appears Rizlaine Boular planned a knife attack in Westminster, the prosecution says.\n\nThe court heard Safaa Boular told police Hussain had raised £3,000 to help her and Rizlaine travel to Syria.\n\nThe trial was adjourned until Tuesday.", "It will be the American star's only UK appearance this year\n\nMariah Carey has told Blackpool \"I'll Be There\" after agreeing to make her only UK appearance this year in the seaside town.\n\nThe American diva will jet over from Las Vegas to perform at the Tower Festival Headland Arena as part of the town's Livewire Festival.\n\nThe 23-27 August event will also feature Matt Goss and Boyz II Men.\n\nCarey is one of the best-selling artists of all time, having sold more than 200 million records worldwide.\n\nGillian Campbell, deputy leader of Blackpool Council, said: \"We are thrilled at the prospect of Mariah Carey performing live in Blackpool.\n\n\"She is a world-class artist and this promises to be another sensational Livewire event over the August Bank Holiday weekend.\"\n\nLivewire Festival launched last year and saw acts including Will Smith and DJ Jazzy Jeff, and The Jacksons perform.\n\nIn April, the event suffered a blow as country music star Kenny Rogers was forced to pull out of his Saturday headline slot due to ill health.\n\nCarey will not be the only star with a Las Vegas residency bringing their show to the town in the summer - a week after her performance, Britney Spears will take to the stage on the promenade at Blackpool Tower Festival Headland.\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\nSuRie has revealed she has some bruises on her hands after a man invaded the stage during her Eurovision performance on Saturday.\n\nThe man grabbed the microphone while the singer, representing the UK in the contest, was performing Storm.\n\nSuRie told ITV's This Morning: \"There's a couple of bruises from where I was holding the mic. But I'm OK.\"\n\nShe said she was also hurt on her shoulder from where the man had barged into her.\n\n\"There wasn't any time to feel fear,\" she said.\n\n\"He was suddenly there, security were on him as quick as he was on me, he got the mic for a few seconds, that was out of my hands, but the song was still going.\n\nSuRie was speaking on ITV's This Morning on Monday\n\n\"The backing vocalists were still singing, the crowd was still chanting, so I just turned upstage for a moment but I was still clapping and cheering with the crowd, I just didn't have the mic.\n\n\"I turned back and saw the mic on the floor, and I thought, 'well that's mine', I'll finish this song.\"\n\nShe added that the invasion gave her a new lease of life to finish the song.\n\n\"You can see it in my eyes for the last part of the song,\" SuRie told hosts Phillip Schofield and Holly Willoughby. \"You can see the determination to finish the song.\n\n\"As you say, the lyrics took on a new meaning - 'Hold your head up, don't give up' - and the crowd, the surge from then, that's my lasting memory from this.\"\n\nThe singer was offered the chance to perform the song again, but declined after discussing it with her team.\n\n\"We had that conversation, but I was really proud of that performance,\" she explained. \"And you work up to that moment.\n\n\"You don't get to do the 100m sprint at the Olympics again because your shoelace is untied or something. You had that one shot and that was my moment, and we didn't need to repeat that.\n\n\"We had those conversations backstage, I saw the reaction and faces of my team, who were very proud of the recovery and the power of that, and we didn't need to go again.\"\n\nSchofield commented he was expecting the singer to benefit from a \"sympathy vote\" after her performance was interrupted, adding he was surprised she finished 24th out of 26.\n\n\"The point of the Eurovision Song Contest is it began a few years after World War Two when everyone's reeling from grief and sadness and fear, and they bring nations together to sing their way out of it.\n\n\"It's such an amazing thing to be a part of, it really is. And my leaderboard for the night is the Twitter feed, the Instagram feed that I've had, with the love and support from so many people.\n\n\"And especially the UK crowd who have rallied around me and said 'We've got your back, we're proud of you, we support you'.\"\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.", "Michel Barnier is leading the negotiations for the EU side\n\nBrexit talks have made \"little\" progress since March, the EU's chief negotiator has said.\n\nMichel Barnier said there was a \"risk of failure\" in two key areas - Northern Ireland, and how the agreement will be governed.\n\nHe said June's EU summit was a \"key rendezvous\" to reach a deal that can be ratified before the UK leaves.\n\nAnd he defended the EU's stance over the UK's involvement in the new Galileo sat-nav system.\n\nThe UK has played a key role in the programme's development so far, but faces being shut out of key elements of the programme after Brexit.\n\nUK ministers are now considering setting up a rival version.\n\nMr Barnier said there had been \"misunderstandings\" in the coverage of the story, adding: \"We are not kicking the UK out of Galileo. The UK decided unilaterally and autonomously to withdraw from the EU. This implies leaving its programmes as well.\"\n\nEU rules mean the UK and its companies cannot participate in the \"development of security sensitive matters\", he said, adding that this did not mean the UK could not use an encrypted signal from the system as a third country.\n\nEarlier Science Minister Sam Gyimah said the EU's position was \"extremely disappointing\".\n\n\"The EU is playing hard ball with us,\" he told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.\n\n\"We have helped to develop the Galileo system. We want to be part of the secure elements of the system and we want UK industry to be able to bid for contracts on a fair basis.\n\n\"It is only on those terms that it makes sense for the UK to be involved in the project.\"\n\nMr Barnier was speaking after updating the remaining EU member states on the latest in the Brexit negotiations.\n\nAsked about the progress that had been made since March, he said: \"I would say little, not very little.\"\n\nHe said the transition period that is expected to follow Brexit day in March 2019 depended on \"operational solutions\" being found on the issue of Northern Ireland's border with the Republic.\n\n\"The clock is ticking\" to reach an agreement before October or November which can be ratified by the UK and European Parliaments and the EU Council, he said.\n\n\"So, little progress but we are working on technical issues which is always useful.\n\n\"None of these issues are negligible. The two key points which remain, where there is risk of failure, are the governance of the agreement and the Ireland-Northern Ireland issue.\"\n\nThe UK government has yet to settle on the model it wants to replace the customs union in order to avoid checks at Northern Ireland's border with the EU.\n\nPrime Minister Theresa May met Conservative MPs at Downing Street to set out the government's two proposals.\n\nEarlier Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt warned Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson - who has described one, a customs partnership, as \"crazy\" - to keep discussions private.\n\n\"On the EU side, if they see divisions in the open, they will exploit that,\" Mr Hunt said.\n\nAt a press conference with his French counterpart, Mr Johnson was asked why he had not resigned given his differences with the prime minister - but he did not repeat his criticism of the partnership option and said he thought Mrs May's position was \"completely right\".\n\nMrs May's key Brexit committee of senior ministers - which is divided over the customs issue - meets again on Tuesday.", "\"Sometimes bigger is better.\"\n\nThe majority of adults in the UK are classified as overweight or obese according to national health surveys.\n\nBut a plus-size model, a professional rugby player and one of the UK's strongest women tell Newsbeat it doesn't bother them that they are classed as obese or morbidly obese.\n\nThey say being bigger helps them in their life and they need to be bigger for their jobs.\n\nThere are question marks about the reliability and effectiveness of BMI (Body Mass Index), the measurement used to classify people's weight.\n\nHowever, most doctors say it works for the vast majority of people the vast majority of the time.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nRebecca says she didn't like being bigger when she was at school.\n\n\"I was called the green giant in primary school and secondary school. It made me feel really different from everyone else, I didn't embrace it, I wanted to be thinner and I wanted to be smaller.\"\n\nBut a few years ago she realised her size could be a good thing.\n\n\"It was [first] through rugby I started utilising my strength, then I started weightlifting and that's when I really knew I could use my height and weight to my advantage.\n\nRebecca now enters lots of weightlifting competitions and has been winning.\n\n\"I don't care being classified as morbidly obese because I have the opportunity to be the strongest woman that ever lived.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"If I wasn't this size I wouldn't have a job.\"\n\nFelicity was dancing to Diana Ross in an east London bar when she was scouted to model.\n\nShe's worked for brands such as Mac Cosmetics, ASOS, Accessorize, Ann Summers, Boohoo, New Look, River Island and Missguided.\n\n\"I'm a plus-size model and I have to maintain being this size as it is the sample size for all the brands that I work for.\"\n\nFelicity says she's healthy and doesn't worry about being classified as obese.\n\nShe says people always want to talk to her about her weight.\n\n\"Everyone wants to be a doctor.\n\n\"The thing is, I swim, I work out, my body is fine and I've carried this weight my whole life.\"\n\nFelicity says at school everyone was hanging up posters of Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera on their walls.\n\n\"I was always the girl with the bigger bum and I remember being in PE and being the girl that had to wear the boys' shorts.\"\n\nFelicity has this message for men and women.\n\n\"Your weight does not define you, there are so many amazing opportunities for you.\n\n\"You need to remember self-love, brings beauty.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe 20-year-old is a tighthead prop for Northampton Saints.\n\n\"Being big helps me in scrums, it means I have more momentum on the hits and means that the weight baring down on the other loose head is greater.\"\n\nGrowing up, Ehren says he embraced being bigger.\n\n\"I wasn't a big baby, but by the time I went to school I was bigger than everyone else.\n\n\"I was never self-conscious about my size because my dad always told me bigger is better.\"\n\nEhren says he doesn't care about being classified as obese.\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 NHS is \"one of our country's greatest treasures\", Prince William will say on Monday in a video message to those working in the health service.\n\nIn a special recording to be played at an awards ceremony for NHS staff, the prince will say they are the \"most wonderful thing\" about the service.\n\nHe will describe their \"skill, care, and dedication\" as \"inspirational\".\n\nThe event, honouring staff and the public, coincides with the 70th anniversary of the health service.\n\nThe \"hero doctor\" award will go to Martin Griffiths, a trauma surgeon who saved the life of the first person to be stabbed during the London Bridge terror attack.\n\nBy chance, he had also performed life-saving heart surgery on the victim's father several years earlier.\n\nAnd a sexual health worker credited with uncovering the widespread grooming of underage girls in Rochdale will also receive an award.\n\nSara Rowbotham's evidence helped lead to the conviction of nine abusers. She is to receive special recognition for her work with vulnerable children.\n\nThe Duchess of Cornwall is expected to attend the event to present a special award, organisers said.\n\nOther guests include Sir Tom Jones, Dame Shirley Bassey, Jamie Oliver and Paul O'Grady, who will host the ceremony.\n\nElsewhere, the \"young fundraising hero\" award will go to 15-year-old Freya Lewis - a survivor of the Manchester Arena bombing, who helped raise £40,000 for the Royal Manchester Children's Hospital, where she was treated for serious injuries.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Freya Lewis was in a wheelchair for three months after the Manchester attack\n\nIn a video message played to the audience, Prince William will say: \"The National Health Service is one of our country's greatest treasures, and something we should all be immensely proud of.\n\n\"Perhaps the most wonderful thing about the NHS is its people. The skill, care, and dedication that they provide every day is truly inspirational.\"\n\nHe will also \"pay tribute to every member of NHS staff, and the wonderful volunteers who do so much to support them\".\n\n\"We owe you all a huge thank you.\"\n\nThe NHS Heroes Awards will be broadcast by ITV at 20:30 on 21 May.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nRussia is seeking to undermine European democracies with \"malign activities\", the MI5 chief has warned.\n\nSpeaking to security chiefs in Berlin, Andrew Parker also condemned Russia for the \"reckless\" poisoning of the Skripals in Salisbury.\n\nRussia has denied involvement in the poisoning of Russian ex-spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia.\n\nMr Parker also warned Islamic State aspires to commit \"devastating\" and \"more complex\" attacks in Europe.\n\nIn his first public comments about the nerve agent attack in March, Mr Parker accused the Kremlin of \"flagrant breaches of international rules\".\n\n\"The reckless attempted assassination of Sergei Skripal, using a highly lethal nerve agent, put numerous lives at risk, including that of his daughter,\" he said.\n\n\"It was only through near-miraculous medical intervention that his and his daughter's lives were saved, and wider preventive action was able to be taken.\"\n\nYulia and Sergei Skripal were found collapsed on a bench in the centre of Salisbury\n\nThe Russian government has repeatedly rejected accusations it was involved in the attack. It has been the subject of condemnation and diplomatic sanctions from the West over its alleged involvement.\n\nMr Parker said the Kremlin was taking part in \"deliberate, targeted, malign activity intended to undermine our free, open and democratic societies\".\n\nHe criticised Russia's invasion of Crimea and its alleged interference in Western elections.\n\nAnd he condemned Moscow by calling for the need \"to shine a light through the fog of lies, half-truths and obfuscation that pours out of their propaganda machine\".\n\n\"One of the Kremlin's central and entirely admirable aims is to build Russian greatness on the world stage,\" he said.\n\n\"But its repeated choices have been to pursue that aim through aggressive and pernicious actions by its military and intelligence services.\n\n\"Instead of becoming a respected great nation, it risks becoming a more isolated pariah.\"\n\nThe Russian embassy responded to the speech by tweeting a newspaper article highlighting Mr Parker's \"fog of lies\" line and saying: \"By the way, it's Britain that is notorious for fogs.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Russian Embassy, UK This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMr Parker also revealed 12 terror attacks have been stopped in the UK since the Westminster attack in 2017.\n\nHe warned that the threat from Islamic State - which he referred to as Daesh - would continue.\n\n\"Whilst Daesh has now lost its false caliphate in its strongholds in Syria and Iraq, tackling the group as a movement will require sustained international focus for years to come,\" he said.\n\n\"As I speak today, they are seeking to regroup, and the threat seems likely to persist.\"\n\nMr Parker's speech comes after one person was killed and four others were injured by a knifeman in Paris on Saturday. The attack was claimed by IS.\n\nIn December last year, Mr Parker reported that nine terrorist attacks had been prevented by the security services and police in 2017.\n\nMonday's updated total brings the number of disrupted attacks in the UK to 25 since 2013.", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nBarcelona's dream of going a whole La Liga season unbeaten ended in their penultimate game as they were beaten by lowly Levante in a remarkable match.\n\nThe hosts moved into a 5-1 lead, with Emmanuel Boateng scoring a hat-trick and Enis Bardhi netting twice.\n\nBarca's Philippe Coutinho scored a hat-trick of his own and Luis Suarez netted a penalty to set up a tense finale.\n\nBut the champions could not find an equaliser as they fell to a first La Liga defeat in 44 games.\n\nErnesto Valverde, beaten in the league for the first time as Barcelona boss, may regret his decision to rest top scorer Lionel Messi for the trip to 15th-placed Levante.\n\nAfter coming through their game against Real Madrid unbeaten last weekend, it looked as though history beckoned for Barcelona.\n\nNo side have gone an entire Spanish top flight season unbeaten since the 1930s, when there were only 18 games in a season.\n\nBut they fell just short in a match that almost defied logic - they had only conceded 24 goals in their opening 36 games.\n\nWith the league and cup double already wrapped up, and their Champions League run long over, it makes next Sunday's final game against Real Sociedad largely irrelevant - except to send off departing captain Andres Iniesta.\n\n9 mins: 1-0 - Boateng opens the scoring, via the crossbar, after good play by Jose Luis Morales\n\n13 mins: Almost a second goal as Bardhi hits the post from close range\n\n30 mins: 2-0 - with Thomas Vermaelen off the pitch injured, Boateng goes round goalkeeper Marc-Andre ter Stegen and slams into an empty net after evading defender Nelson Semedo\n\n38 mins: 2-1 - Luis Suarez finds Coutinho, whose 20-yard shot is deflected into the net\n\n46 mins: 3-1 - less than a minute into the second half Bardhi curls a fabulous effort home from the edge of the box\n\n49 mins: 4-1 - Boateng scores the first hat-trick of his career as he smashes home a first-time effort from former Aston Villa defender Antonio Luna's pass\n\n56 mins: 5-1 - Levante are in dreamland. Barcelona leave too much space at the back and Roger Marti plays the ball to Bardhi, who smashes home\n\n59 mins: 5-2 - Coutinho slams home from close range after Suarez's shot is blocked, but surely they cannot come back?\n\n64 mins: 5-3 - Coutinho joins Boateng in the hat-trick club with another deflected shot from outside the box - but they still need two more\n\n71 mins: 5-4 - Suarez scores a penalty after Sergio Busquets is fouled, and at this stage a comeback looks likely\n\n90 mins: Levante should make it 6-4 as Busquets' backpass does not find his keeper - but Ruben Rochina puts it wide from close range\n\n94 mins: The full-time whistle goes to spark huge celebrations at the Estadi Ciutat de Valencia, and probably in Madrid too\n\nBarcelona should have expected a difficult evening at Levante, who have had a dramatic revival under boss Paco Lopez.\n\nWhen he was promoted from his role as reserve-team boss in March, the club were only one point above the relegation zone.\n\nBut they have now won eight of their 10 games since his appointment - to take them 17 points clear of the bottom three.\n\nLopez said it would be \"historic\" for Levante, in their first season back in the top flight following promotion, to beat Barcelona and there were big celebrations at the final whistle on a famous night for the club nicknamed the Frogs.\n• None Yerry Mina (Barcelona) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt missed. Rubén Rochina (Levante) left footed shot from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the right.\n• None Offside, Levante. Rubén Rochina tries a through ball, but Enis Bardhi is caught offside.\n• None Attempt missed. Coutinho (Barcelona) right footed shot from outside the box is too high. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Crowds of well-wishers have lined the streets in Liverpool to pay their respects to Alfie Evans who was at the centre of a High Court battle over his care.\n\nSeveral hundred mourners and supporters of the 23-month-old, from Bootle, Merseyside, gathered outside Everton's Goodison Park stadium as the procession passed following a private funeral service.", "How do you get ready for unprecedented meeting between two wildly unpredictable men. And is there time?\n\nBack in September, North Korean leader Kim Jong-un vowed to \"tame\" Donald Trump, deriding the president as a \"mentally deranged US dotard\".\n\nPresident Trump replied by calling Mr Kim a \"maniac\" and a \"madman\", and warning he would be \"tested like never before\". Later they traded barbs over who had a bigger nuclear button.\n\nSix months on, those high-stakes playground spats form part of a bizarre diplomatic backdrop to a summit no-one saw coming. Mr Trump surprised the world on Thursday when he announced, via a South Korean official, that he had agreed to meet Mr Kim.\n\nThe major negotiating point of their meeting will be de-nuclearisation of the North Korean regime. Beyond that, little is yet known about potential objectives and concessions on either side.\n\nIt is a remarkable gamble by the US president, one that would make him the first American leader to meet a North Korean counterpart. The careful choreography and delicate diplomacy required by international talks have not always come naturally to the Trump team, and now its staff have on their hands one of the most high-profile bilateral summits in US history.\n\nThe talks are scheduled to take place within two months. For both sides, preparation will be key, but how do you prepare for an unprecedented meeting between two wildly unpredictable men?\n\nThe US will begin with key Korea positions in the state department vacant. Chief North Korea envoy Joseph Yun resigned in February and the widely expected appointment of Victor Cha as ambassador to Seoul fell through the same month, over a policy disagreement.\n\n\"I expect they are going to face a few problems,\" said Jim Hoare, a former British charge d'affaires in Pyongyang, of the American effort.\n\n\"If they had a proper apparatus to deal with East Asia, it might be different. But they have only an acting officer in charge of East Asian matters, the state department has been battered and there's no ambassador in South Korea. So I don't know who Trump is talking to about North Korea, I'm not sure anybody does.\"\n\nThe decision to agree to the historic meeting is said to have unfolded in an impulsive and haphazard way not uncommon to the new administration. The New York Times reports that the president, upon hearing that South Korean official Chung Eui-yong was in the White House, summoned Mr Chung to the Oval office and asked about Mr Kim.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The South's Chung Eui-yong talks to reporters at the White House\n\nWhen Mr Chung said the North Korean leader wanted to meet Mr Trump, the president immediately agreed and told the South Korean official to make the announcement to the press.\n\nNot for the first time, Mr Trump's own Secretary of State, Rex Tillerson, was caught on the hop. \"In terms of direct talks... we're a long ways from negotiations,\" Mr Tillerson had told reporters just hours before the surprise announcement.\n\nPrevious presidents have resisted visiting North Korea, leery of conferring prestige on the regime. Bill Clinton reportedly considered a trip to Pyongyang in late 2000, shortly after a visit by then-Secretary of State Madeleine Albright had laid potential groundwork, but ultimately focused on late-term priorities elsewhere.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The unlikely triangle: Trump, Rodman and Kim Jong-un\n\n\"A meeting with the US president is the coin of the realm,\" said Christopher Hill, a former US ambassador to South Korea, \"and here we have a president just prepared to do it without too many details of what the North Koreans have in mind.\"\n\nBut the president's oft-derided impulsiveness may prove to be an asset in this case, said Stephen Hadley, a former national security adviser to George W Bush.\n\n\"His style has already produced a breakthrough,\" said Mr Hadley.\n\n\"He was much criticised for rhetoric on North Korea that was viewed as irresponsible and bellicose but it got both North Korea's attention and China's attention.\n\n\"The trick now is to convince China that the status quo is not sustainable and convince North Korea that holding on to nuclear weapons might be more of a risk to their security than giving them up.\n\n\"And I think Trump's approach has had a pretty good impact in both of those directions already.\"\n\nThe speed of the decision leaves significant details up in the air. The location presents an interesting conundrum. Mr Kim has not left North Korea since becoming leader and is unlikely to accept an invitation to Washington. A visit by Mr Trump to Pyongyang would be a considerable PR gift to the North Koreans and is equally unlikely.\n\n\"It's going to be difficult getting the protocol right, who defers to who and under what circumstances etc, so it's important to find a place that's neutral,\" said Mr Hoare.\n\nPossible contenders include China, the demilitarised zone between the two Koreas and somewhere in international waters. In 1989, George HW Bush met the Soviet leader, Mikhail Gorbachev, on a Soviet cruise ship off the coast of Malta.\n\nMore important still than the location for Mr Trump will be a meticulous understanding of both the US and North Korean objectives. For a president known to struggle with dense briefing papers - preferring instead short, image-led presentations - preparation could be a challenge.\n\n\"If he doesn't do the homework he's going to have a problem,\" said Mr Hoare. \"He will be facing people who have been working on US matters for years and years and years. They won't speak but they will have briefed Mr Kim very thoroughly.\"\n\nAnother key consideration will be the way things look. The summit will take place in a media ecosystem completely different to that of 1961, when President John Kennedy met Nikita Khrushchev in Vienna, or of 1972 when Richard Nixon made his famous overture to China. Every word will be covered in real time on cable news, every stray bit of body language subjected to rigorous analysis.\n\nBut if Mr Trump can avoid diplomatic gaffes and get along well enough with Mr Kim, his straight-shooting style of politics may prove to be as much of an asset in dealing with North Korea as it has been a liability elsewhere.\n\n\"He has already surprised a lot of people by bringing Kim to the table,\" said Mr Hadley. \"It just might be that his unconventional style produces a surprising result from the meeting.\"", "It's been a tough week for Corrie fans - watching the storyline involving Aidan Connor taking his own life.\n\nBut actor Shayne Ward, who plays the character, says it has already helped people considering suicide.\n\nThere's been a huge reaction online too, with one fan tweeting: \"We need to listen, people need to talk about it. Thanks for raising awareness.\"\n\nThe charity Samaritans worked with Corrie on the script and says it's important to highlight the issue.\n\nAidan's dad in Corrie, Johnny, found a note from his son\n\nWednesday night's episode saw Aidan's friends and family struggle with their grief after discovering he had killed himself.\n\nThe soap has been praised for raising awareness of mental health issues and male suicide.\n\nShayne says he has been overwhelmed by the response he has received.\n\nHe told the Sun: \"A lot of people who are considering attempting suicide have got in touch to say 'I'm calling somebody now. I was attempting it and you've helped me'.\n\n\"The response has been truly overwhelming.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Shayne Ward This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nViewers also shared their thoughts and feelings about the show on social media.\n\nOne person wrote: \"Storylines don't get much tougher than this and #corrie are doing a fab job.\"\n\n\"Coronation Street is hitting me hard tonight so gone out for a walk. Well done for tackling such a hard storyline,\" another said.\n\nOther fans tweeted they were in tears watching the soap.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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. End of twitter post 3 by I'm not perfect. I'm flawed ❤\n\nThe producers of Corrie say the plot \"is designed to give people who hide their feelings of desperation a chance to start a conversation\".\n\nThey've been working closely with mental health charities on the storyline - including Samaritans and Calm.\n\nLorna Fraser from Samaritans told Newsbeat: \"Someone calls the Samaritans every six seconds.\n\n\"Showing a story like Aidan's in soaps is really important and people do usually calls us to say they've been touched by the storyline.\"\n\nIf you've been affected by any of the issues in this article, you can find help at BBC Advice.\n\nFor details of organisations which offer advice and support, click here. In the UK you can call for free, at any time, to hear recorded information on 0800 066 066.\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 every weekday on BBC Radio 1 and 1Xtra - if you miss us you can listen back here.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Everton\n\nWayne Rooney has agreed a deal in principle that could see him leave Everton for Major League Soccer side DC United this summer in a £12.5m deal.\n\nRooney's representatives have been in the US to negotiate terms and the former England skipper is willing to leave the Premier League club.\n\nNothing has been signed yet and uncertainty over Everton boss Sam Allardyce's position means the forward, 32, could stay at Goodison Park.\n\nHe spent 13 seasons at Manchester United after signing from Everton as an 18-year-old, becoming their record goalscorer and winning five Premier League titles and the Champions League.\n\nIt is understood Rooney has been offered a contract until the end of the 2020 MLS season. The US transfer window does not open until July.\n\nEarlier this week, Allardyce said Rooney wants to stay and dismissed suggestions England's record goalscorer is frustrated with his role.\n\n\"It would have to be massive for him to want leave Everton,\" the former England manager told Talksport. \"I've not had a problem from day one with Wayne (but) the Wayne Rooney saga continues on doesn't it?\"\n• None Listen: It's too soon for Rooney to leave Premier League - Winter\n• None Listen: 'Everton might be better off without Rooney & Allardyce'\n\nAllardyce's future is also uncertain at the club, with fans not happy with his style of play.\n\nRooney, who is halfway through a two-year deal at Goodison Park, has played 31 times in the league this season with four appearances from the bench.\n\nHe reacted angrily to being substituted against Liverpool in a 0-0 draw last month.\n\nRooney is Everton's top scorer with 11 goals this season.\n\nRooney's return to his beloved Everton last summer was meant to provide an emotional final flourish to a magnificent career.\n\nIt did not turn into the fairytale he and Everton wanted when he was paraded in front of hundreds of flashbulbs in July - but it should not be painted as a failure either.\n\nThe 32-year-old returned to the club he left in summer 2004 intent on driving Everton forward into a new era of success under then manager Ronald Koeman.\n\nKoeman was sacked in October after a nightmare start but when Rooney's final campaign in the Premier League is remembered, he was still involved in Everton's best moments this season.\n\nA spectacular headed winner on the opening day at home to Stoke City, his first Merseyside derby goal in a 1-1 draw at Liverpool and a hat-trick in Everton's 4-0 win against West Ham United, capped with a spectacular strike from his own half, watched by Sam Allardyce as he prepared to succeed Koeman.\n\nIt was all downhill from there, sadly, with Rooney's appearances restricted under Allardyce in a reined-in midfield role and his frustrations made public when he was clearly furious to be substituted in the goalless derby draw with Liverpool at Goodison.\n\nRooney was never going to be the explosive talent of his earlier years - but he still provided the odd moment to treasure in a desperate season for Everton.", "The Golan Heights is a rocky plateau in south-western Syria, about 60km (40 miles) south-west of Damascus and covers about 1,000 sq km. It has a political and strategic significance which belies its size.\n\nIsrael seized the Golan Heights from Syria in the closing stages of the 1967 Six-Day War. Most of the Syrian Arab inhabitants fled the area during the conflict.\n\nAn armistice line was established and the region came under Israeli military control. Almost immediately Israel began to settle the Golan.\n\nSyria tried to retake the Golan Heights during the 1973 Middle East war. Despite inflicting heavy losses on Israeli forces, the surprise assault was thwarted. Both countries signed an armistice in 1974 and a UN observer force has been in place on the ceasefire line since 1974.\n\nIsrael unilaterally annexed the Golan Heights in 1981. The move was not recognised internationally, although the US Trump Administration did so unilaterally in March 2019.\n\nThere are more than 30 Israeli settlements in the Golan, which are home to an estimated 20,000 people. The settlements are considered illegal under international law, although Israel disputes this.\n\nThe settlers live alongside some 20,000 Syrians, most of them Druze Arabs, who did not flee when the Golan was captured.\n\nSyria has always insisted that it will not agree a peace deal with Israel unless it withdraws from the whole of the Golan.\n\nWhile still under Syrian control, the Golan Heights were used to bombard Israeli territory below\n\nSouthern Syria and the capital Damascus, about 60 km (40 miles) north, are clearly visible from the top of the Heights while Syrian artillery regularly shelled the whole of northern Israel from 1948 to 1967 when Syria controlled the Heights.\n\nThe heights give Israel an excellent vantage point for monitoring Syrian movements. The topography provides a natural buffer against any military thrust from Syria.\n\nThe area is also a key source of water for an arid region. Rainwater from the Golan's catchment feeds into the Jordan River.\n\nThe land is fertile, and the volcanic soil is used to cultivate vineyards and orchards and raise cattle. The Golan is also home to Israel's only ski resort.\n\nIsrael captured the Golan Heights from Syria in 1967\n\nSyria wants to secure the return of the Golan Heights as part of any peace deal. In late 2003, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said he was ready to revive peace talks with Israel.\n\nIn Israel, the principle of returning the territory in return for peace is already established. During US-brokered peace talks in 1999-2000, then Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak had offered to return most of the Golan to Syria.\n\nBut the main sticking point during the 1999 talks is also likely to bedevil any future discussions. Syria wants a full Israeli withdrawal to the pre-1967 border. This would give Damascus control of the eastern shore of the Sea of Galilee - Israel's main source of fresh water.\n\nIsraeli troops exercise on Mount Hermon, which Israelis enjoy using for winter sports\n\nIsrael wishes to retain control of Galilee and says the border is located a few hundred metres to the east of the shore.\n\nA deal with Syria would also involve the dismantling of Jewish settlements in the territory.\n\nPublic opinion in Israel has generally not favoured withdrawal, saying the Heights are too strategically important to be returned.\n\nIndirect talks between Israel and Syria resumed in 2008, through Turkish government intermediaries, but were suspended following the resignation of Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert over a corruption inquiry.\n\nThe Israeli government under Binyamin Netanyahu elected in February 2009 indicated that it was determined to take a tougher line over the Golan, and in June 2009 Syria said there was no partner for talks on the Israeli side.\n\nThe US administration of President Barack Obama declared the restarting of talks between Israel and Syria to be one of its main foreign policy goals, but the advent of civil war in Syria in 2011 put paid to any progress.\n\nSyrian fighting reached the Golan ceasefire lines in 2013, but the resurgent Syrian government felt confident enough to reopen its Golan border crossing to UN observers in October 2018.\n\nIn 2019, US President Donald Trump officially recognised Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights. Syria criticised the move as \"a blatant attack on its sovereignty\".\n\nUnited Nations peacekeepers have been in the Golan Heights since 1974 supervising a ceasefire between Israel and Syria", "The UK imports roughly half its food - nearly a third of which originates from the EU\n\nFood bills could rise sharply if there is no free trade deal with the European Union after Brexit, peers have warned.\n\nThe Lords EU Environment Committee said it was \"inconceivable\" there would be no impact on EU produce, which makes up 30% of the UK's food imports.\n\nWhile better-off customers could afford to buy more expensive home-grown goods, it said, those on lower incomes could be left with lower-quality imports.\n\nOfficials said the UK's aim was to ensure the \"smooth flow\" of goods.\n\nBrexit-supporting MPs say leaving the EU could reduce food prices by removing unnecessary regulation on UK farmers and cutting tariffs on imports from the rest of the world.\n\nBut the cross-party committee said it was unclear whether the government's primary goal after Brexit was reducing food prices, or maintaining high animal welfare and food safety standards.\n\nIn the event of the UK leaving the EU in March 2019 without any deal, it said, the UK could face an average 22% tariff on food imports from the Continent.\n\n\"While this would not equate to a 22% increase in food prices for consumers, there can be no doubt that prices paid at the checkout would rise,\" it said.\n\n\"To counteract this, the government could cut tariffs on all food imports, EU and non-EU, but this would pose a serious risk of undermining UK food producers who could not compete on price.\"\n\nThe cabinet's Brexit sub-committee is expected to discuss issues relating to agriculture and food production on Thursday. Half the UK's food is imported, with 30% from the EU, 11% from countries with EU trade deals and the rest from other countries.\n\nThe committee said there was a \"striking\" contrast between the government's apparent confidence over the risk of disruption to food supplies and the \"vocal\" concerns of industry and consumer bodies.\n\nThe UK has said it wants a comprehensive trade deal with the EU and a customs arrangement that continues to ensure \"frictionless\" trade.\n\nFew freight companies are aware of what will happen after Brexit, the industry suggests\n\nBut the government has not yet said what post-Brexit customs arrangement it wants with the EU, with divisions in the cabinet over whether to seek a close \"customs partnership\" that would not need new border checks or a looser model that would lead to some new checks.\n\nThe committee warned the UK's ports would be clogged up if EU goods were subject to the same border checks as other imported produce.\n\nYet, it said, allowing produce through with few checks would raise safety concerns.\n\nLord Teverson, the Lib Dem peer who chairs the committee, said food producers and customs officials must be given time to prepare for any changes and consumers reassured that supplies would continue as normal.\n\nAfter Brexit, British farmers will continue to receive the same level of subsidies they currently get through the EU's Common Agricultural Policy. This will continue until 2022.\n\nBut the committee said it would not be possible to increase food production in time to meet any shortfall caused by Brexit.\n\nIt said any reductions in EU workers could lead to an increase in recruitment or higher wages for domestic workers but the costs may have to be passed on to customers or some businesses \"may cease to be viable\".\n\nThe Freight Transport Association said the \"paralysis\" at Dover and on the surrounding road network caused by the French ferry workers' strike in 2015 could be repeated if no customs solutions were found.\n\n\"The government understands this... so it must be why they are taking so long to make up their minds,\" said Pauline Bastidon, the organisation's head of European Policy.\n\nMost companies had no idea what the impact of Brexit would be on their business, she said.\n\n\"It's surprising to see how little advanced companies are in terms of mapping their flows and looking at what their exposure is,\" said Ms Bastidon.\n\n\"Only a few are starting to fully realise the impact that Brexit will have on their business.\"\n\nA government spokeswoman said the cost of food depended on range of factors, including commodity prices, exchange rates and oil prices, and this would still apply after Brexit.\n\nShe added: \"But we also want to ensure consumers have access to a wide range of food, which is why we are considering how we best manage border checks and controls when we leave the EU without impacting the smooth flow of trade.\"", "Secret footage was taken of the South Herefordshire Hunt's kennels\n\nFive people are to be charged with animal cruelty offences after the BBC broadcast pictures appearing to show fox cubs being taken into a kennel of hunting hounds.\n\nThe police investigation began after anti-hunting activists installed hidden cameras at the South Herefordshire Hunt kennels in 2016.\n\nThe video appears to show a man then dumping a dead fox cub in a bin.\n\nThe activists say the cubs were used to give hounds a taste for killing.\n\nAnti-hunt investigators found some of the foxes alive\n\nCampaigners had been expected to protest outside a police station later this week over how long the investigation was taking.\n\nDet Insp Jonathan Roberts, of West Mercia Police, said the three men and two women, aged between 29 and 54, would face multiple charges of animal cruelty.\n\n\"This follows a complex investigation in South Herefordshire. The individuals will appear at Birmingham Magistrates Court on Tuesday May 15,\" he said.\n\n\"Cases of animal cruelty are treated very seriously by West Mercia Police and we actively seek to protect animals from cruelty and to prevent their suffering.\"\n• None Are we tough enough on animal cruelty?", "Asif Naseem moved his wife and five children into the house two months ago\n\nA family has been told to tear down their new home or spend £200,000 on a new roof after it was found to be 30 inches (76cm) too tall.\n\nAsif Naseem moved into the property in Lightwood, Staffordshire, two months ago with his wife and five children.\n\nStoke-on-Trent council turned down two retrospective planning applications for the £500,000 house due to complaints over the height and dormer windows.\n\nThe family said they had nowhere else to go, and no funds for a new roof.\n\nThe family was told the roof ridge was too high and there were complaints about the dormer windows\n\nThirty one objections to the family's retrospective planning application were sent to the council, along with seven letters of support, said the Local Democracy Reporting Service (LDRS).\n\nCouncil planners recommended enforcement action being taken, which would mean demolishing the house.\n\nAt a planning meeting on Wednesday, Shazad Hussein, Mr Naseem's brother, said reducing the house's height \"isn't going to make any visual difference\".\n\n\"We have spent all the money on the house,\" he said. \"There are seven people who have nowhere else to go. They sold their other house to fund the new one.\"\n\nLocal reaction to the \"enormous\" house has been \"mixed\", a neighbour said\n\nThe family's representative said demolition would be \"excessive\" and \"draconian\", leaving the planning committee divided.\n\nVice-chairman Andy Platt said it was \"wrong\" that the house had been built too tall, but to knock it down would be \"a little over the top\".\n\nHowever councillor Janine Bridges said it would \"set a precedent\" for developers to \"build what they like\" and ask permission later.\n\nYou may also be interested in:\n\nNeighbour Robert Wakefield said local reaction to the \"enormous\" house had been \"mixed\", but it was a \"fair and just judgement\" to refuse planning permission.\n\nMr Naseem \"should have thought about this before he started\", Mr Wakefield said.\n\nThe family has been given three months to allow for talks to continue.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A woman is suing Chris Brown after claiming she was raped during a party at his home last year.\n\nThe victim alleges she went to the singer's house after a concert at a nightclub - and was assaulted by rapper Lowell Grissom Jr - aka Young Lo.\n\nThe woman's lawyer called it \"one of the most horrific cases\" she had seen.\n\nNewsbeat has contacted Chris Brown's representatives for a comment. We've been unable to contact a representative for Young Lo.\n\nA lawsuit was filed at the Los Angeles County Superior Court on Wednesday.\n\nIt alleges the woman, known only as Jane Doe, went to 1 Oak nightclub on 23 February last year.\n\n\"At some point our client was invited to attend an 'after party' at a recording studio to meet Young Lo and Chris Brown,\" lawyer Gloria Allred said at a press conference.\n\nGloria Allred read out details of the lawsuit to journalists on Wednesday\n\nThe lawsuit alleges the woman's phone was taken away from her and when she asked to leave she was told she couldn't have it back as the party was moving to Chris Brown's home.\n\nIt claims the singer provided alcohol and illegal drugs and was also seen with guns in front of guests at his home.\n\n\"The lawsuit alleges that while she was at Brown's house the plaintiff became the victim of horrific sexual assault,\" Ms Allred said.\n\nIt claims the woman was raped by Young Lo and sexually assaulted by another woman.\n\nThe lawsuit accuses Chris Brown and others of several allegations including sexual battery, assault and gender violence - and says the victim is seeking damages.\n\n\"This is one of the most horrific sexual assault cases that I have ever seen,\" said Ms Allred.\n\n\"Our client Jane Doe has been severely traumatised by what she was forced to suffer.\"\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.", "Last updated on .From the section Man Utd\n\nSir Alex Ferguson no longer needs intensive care after having emergency surgery on Saturday for a brain haemorrhage, Manchester United have announced.\n\nFerguson, 76, will continue his rehabilitation as an inpatient at Salford Royal Hospital.\n\nThe Scot retired as United manager in May 2013 after winning 38 trophies during 26 years in charge.\n\n\"His family have been overwhelmed by the level of support,\" the club added.\n\nThe family continue to request \"vital\" privacy as Ferguson enters the next stage of his recovery.\n\nHe was last seen in public at Old Trafford last month when he presented outgoing Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger with a commemorative trophy.\n\nReacting to the update on his condition, Wenger said: \"It's fantastic news. He has worked very hard and deserves a long period of enjoying life. I hope he's back soon and in good shape.\"\n\nYaya Toure wished Ferguson a speedy recovery before the midfielder gave a farewell speech following his final game for Manchester City.\n\nThe most successful manager in the history of the British game, Ferguson's trophy haul at Old Trafford included 13 Premier League titles, two Champions League crowns, five FA Cups and four League Cups.\n\nFerguson famously won the Treble of Premier League, FA Cup and Champions League in 1999, the year in which he was knighted.\n\nA host of Premier League managers, including Wenger and Manchester City's Pep Guardiola, sent their good wishes over the weekend to Ferguson.\n\nWenger described Ferguson as \"an optimistic man\" with Guardiola saying his thoughts were with Ferguson's wife Cathy and the rest of his family.\n\nGuardiola said on Wednesday night it was \"amazing news\" that he had left intensive care.\n\nFerguson became United manager in November 1986 after spells in charge of Scotland, Aberdeen, St Mirren and East Stirlingshire.", "The inquiry being held at the High Court has already attracted criticism from campaigners\n\nCampaigners have been left \"dismayed\" after it was revealed the public inquiry into undercover policing will not deliver its final report until at least 2023.\n\nThe inquiry was launched in 2015, has already cost about £10m and was originally due to finish this year.\n\nIt is investigating undercover operations in England and Wales since 1968 after a string of allegations of wrong-doing by officers.\n\nUnite said justice was \"being denied\".\n\nGary Cartmail, assistant general secretary of the union, said the government needs to explain the delays.\n\nThe union is involved in the inquiry as Ucatt (now a part of Unite) was allegedly infiltrated by an undercover officer.\n\nHe said: \"Victims of undercover policing have had their lives wrecked and yet they are still being denied answers.\"\n\nA woman known as Andrea from campaign group Police Spies Out of Lives was allegedly duped into a relationship with an undercover officer.\n\nShe said she was \"dismayed\" at how long it would take, adding: \"We have lost years of our lives due to the harm caused to us by these undercover officers.\"\n\nShe said: \"Our health, relationships and careers have suffered.\n\n\"We want to make sure this state-sponsored abuse cannot happen again.\"\n\nDonal O'Driscoll, who claims he was spied on by undercover officers, said the delay was caused by \"ongoing heel-dragging and obstruction by the police\".\n\nThe inquiry was set up by the then home secretary Theresa May after allegations about the activities of undercover units.\n\nThe inquiry is being led by Sir John Mitting\n\nThese included claims officers from the Metropolitan Police's Special Demonstration Squad had sexual relationships with women and used the names of dead children to create fake identities.\n\nThe Met Police has apologised and paid compensation to seven women tricked into relationships by undercover officers.\n\nIt will also investigate claims Scotland Yard spied on campaigners fighting for justice for murdered teenager Stephen Lawrence and how officers infiltrated unions and other organisations.\n\nThe inquiry chaired by Sir John Mitting has now set out an \"ambitious timeline\" with the final report expected before the home secretary in 2023.\n\nIt has tens of thousands of documents to go through and will hear evidence from at least 250 police witnesses.\n\nThe inquiry will investigate the alleged spying on a campaign fighting for Stephen Lawrence\n\nIn March, at least 60 campaigners and their legal teams walked out after former undercover officers were granted anonymity.\n\nCritics also want to see the inquiry led by a panel rather than a single judge.\n\nWriting in the strategic review, inquiry chairman Sir John rejected calls to appoint panel members until after the fact-finding stage in 2021.\n\nHe said appointing a panel would \"impose a heavy cost in both time and money\".\n\nThe chairman said: \"Once the facts have been found, it would be both practicable and desirable for a wider panel to be recruited to investigate and consider the state of undercover policing and to make recommendations to the home secretary for the future.\"\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. Gender pay gap: What do women think?\n\nHundreds of companies face legal action after failing to meet an extended deadline to report their gender pay gap, Britain's equality watchdog said.\n\nCompanies with more than 250 staff must now publish the details on their own websites and on a government site.\n\nMany did this only after the Equality and Human Rights Commission began enforcement action last month.\n\nEHRC head Rebecca Hilsenrath said there would be \"zero tolerance\" of firms that failed to comply.\n\nMs Hilsenrath said: \"Last month, we contacted almost 1,500 businesses to commence enforcement proceedings and as a result the number of employers facing investigation is now under 500.\"\n\n\"Breach of these regulations is breaking the law and we've always been clear we will enforce with zero tolerance.\"\n\nThe Commission did not give an exact figure for the number of companies it was still chasing.\n\nAbout 11,000 employers had published their pay details by the extended deadline, which expired on Monday.\n\nThe disclosure law, introduced last year, requires firms and charities with 250 or more staff - covering almost half the population - to report their gender pay gap each year by April 4.\n\nThe EHRC statement came as think tank the Institute for Public Policy Research published a report on the UK's gender pay gap and suggested employers should urge more men to work fewer hours or work flexibly.\n\nIPRR's research found 81% of occupations had a pay gap. The biggest difference between men's and women's pay was for those over 40 - a difference which then continues for the rest of their working lives.\n\nThe report says changing men's working behaviour is \"crucial\" to closing the gender pay gap, recommending employers introduce \"use it or lose it\" paid paternity leave and encourage more men to take up job shares.\n\nTo help women - who it says have a \"lower propensity\" to negotiate their pay - the report suggests employers either rule out salary negotiation altogether or explicitly state in job adverts that pay is negotiable.\n\nMale workers earn on average 18.4% more than women, according to government data published last year.\n\nCompanies are not required to break down the data in detail, leading to criticism that the average figures could obscure or exaggerate demographic explanations for disparities.\n\nThe Fawcett Society, which lobbies for gender equality, said last month that reporting was \"a game changer in terms of workplace culture and practices\".\n\nBut it warned that enforcement would be a \"disproportionately drawn-out process\".", "Drinks from three of the UK's largest cinema chains have been found to contain unacceptably high levels of bacteria, a BBC investigation has found.\n\nFizzy drinks from Cineworld, Odeon and Vue were tested in 30 cinemas, for BBC One's Watchdog programme.\n\nEnvironmental health expert Tony Lewis said he was \"concerned\" it was \"an indicator of hygiene failure\".\n\nTraces of the bacteria salmonella, which can cause food poisoning, were reportedly discovered in two drinks from branches of Odeon cinemas. Listeria had also been found, in a drinks holder, Watchdog said.\n\nThe investigation tested drinks at 10 branches of each company. It also looked for bacteria on the seat fabric, on the cup holder and in ice cubes.\n\nThe results were sent to London Metropolitan University's \"superlab\" to be tested.\n\nAccording to Watchdog, out of the seven cinemas with drinks with high bacteria levels:\n\nMr Lewis, head of policy at the Chartered Institute of Environmental Health, said: \"That's the highest I've seen. And that is an indicator of equipment not being kept clean. That's a worry.\"\n\nSalmonella bacteria can cause vomiting, stomach cramps and fever\n\nHe said high bacteria levels in fizzy drinks were particularly concerning because they were ingested immediately.\n\nIce containing bacteria levels above an acceptable level - more than 1,000 units of bacteria per one millilitre of liquid - were found in nine cinemas, Watchdog said.\n\nFour of those ice samples were from Cineworld branches, two were from Vue, and three from Odeon.\n\nThe highest bacteria count in ice was 10 million bacteria in one millilitre of liquid, and was found in the same Odeon branch as the highest bacteria-filled drink.\n\nMr Lewis said: \"Ultimately, it's about people cutting corners And it's also about managers, owners of cinemas, managers of cinemas, not taking their responsibilities seriously and potentially keeping on top of the issues.\"\n\nWatchdog reported mixed results on bacteria on the seats and in drinks holders. Since those bacteria are unlikely to reach your mouth, they are thought to be less of a concern.\n\nThe cinema chains have all told the programme they take hygiene \"incredibly seriously\" and have robust cleaning procedures in place.\n\nOdeon and Cineworld said seats, drinks holders and drink dispensers were thoroughly cleaned daily, with the ice machines emptied and fully cleaned weekly.\n\nOdeon said it was therefore \"surprised and disappointed at the Watchdog findings\" and had immediately launched its own investigation, adding it had \"taken immediate steps\" and \"further strengthened procedures\" across the UK.\n\nCineworld said the branches tested \"have all been awarded the maximum food hygiene rating of five by their local authority\" and its cleaning procedures were compulsory for all branches.\n\nVue rejected the findings, saying it \"follows strict hygiene procedures daily\".\n\nIt also said it undertook its own independent tests regularly, \"conducted by a qualified clinical microbiologist with nationally recognised accredited training\", and worked with \"third-party water experts, exceeding the requirements for water testing\".\n\nThe full report can be seen on Watchdog Live at 20.00 on Wednesday, 9 May, on BBC One.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Mahathir had previously served as the country's prime minister from 1981 to 2003\n\nAt the age of 97, Mahathir Mohamad is a name that has dominated Malaysian politics for decades.\n\nMr Mahathir first served as the country's prime minister for 22 years, from 1981 to 2003.\n\nHe is widely credited for Malaysia's rapid economic development and transformation from the 1980s.\n\nIn 2018, he came out of retirement in a bid to take down former prime minister Najib Razak - who had been accused of embezzling hundreds of millions in state funds.\n\nWith the help of former rival Anwar Ibrahim, Mr Mahathir was voted in again as the country's prime minister, while Mr Najib was charged and eventually jailed on charges of money laundering and abuse of power.\n\nBut the alliance proved unable to withstand the weight of internal rivalries, and in February 2020 Mr Mahathir found himself ousted in a twist of events that saw the collapse of the governing Pakatan Harapan coalition.\n\nHowever, the two-time premier continues to be an influential figure in the country, although his legacy has been mixed.\n\nMr Mahathir joined political party United Malays National Organisation at the age of 21 and ran a medical practice for seven years in his home state of Kedah before becoming a member of parliament in 1964.\n\nIn 1969 he lost his seat and was expelled from the party after writing an open letter attacking the then Prime Minister Tunku Abdul Rahman.\n\nHe later wrote a controversial book entitled The Malay Dilemma. In it, he argued that the country's Malay population had been marginalised, but also castigated them for apathetically accepting a second-class status.\n\nIt struck a chord with younger UMNO leaders and he was invited back into the party, re-elected to parliament in 1974, and appointed minister of education. Within four years he had become UMNO's deputy leader and, in 1981, he became prime minister.\n\nUnder his rule, Malaysia transformed into one of the Asian economic tigers of the 1990s - prestige projects such as the Petronas Twin Towers demonstrated the extent of his ambitions.\n\nHis authoritarian but pragmatic policies won him popular support at home, though this was tempered by his scant regard for human rights.\n\nOpposition politicians were jailed without trial under a much-criticised Internal Security Act.\n\nMost infamously, his deputy prime minister, Anwar Ibrahim, was sacked, accused of corruption and sodomy and later jailed on the latter charge, when he called for economic and political reforms in 1998.\n\nThe opposition Pakatan Harapan logo is an eye - a reference to the black eye Anwar Ibrahim received while in custody\n\nFrequent barbed comments about the West also earned Mr Mahathir a reputation abroad. Days before he resigned in October 2003, for example, he angered several foreign governments and Jewish groups by claiming a Jewish cabal \"ruled the world\".\n\nHe said he left his post \"disappointed... because I have achieved too little in my principal task of making my race a successful race, a race that is respected\".\n\nEven in retirement, he never really left the political arena.\n\nHe publicly criticised his successor Abdullah Badawi and, after lacklustre election results for the ruling coalition in 2008, quit the party in what many saw as a way to pressure Mr Abdullah to go.\n\nThat paved the way for Mr Najib to come to power.\n\nMr Mahathir's initial support for Mr Najib changed, however, as accusations of corruption against him surfaced in regard to a heavily indebted state investment fund called 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB).\n\nHe commanded enough loyalty from supporters within UMNO to press the case against Mr Najib from within the party and government.\n\nWhen they got nowhere, however, he, and several high-profile supporters quit UMNO and crossed over to the opposition in 2016.\n\nIn January 2018, he announced his intention to contest the election, at the age of 92.\n\nMr Mahathir was one of the oldest country leaders in the world\n\nOn 9 May, he won a historic victory, ousting his former allies after more than 60 years in power.\n\nHe, together with Mr Anwar and several other parties, formed the Pakatan Harapan coalition, which ruled the country for two years before it collapsed.\n\nMr Mahathir threw the country's politics into turmoil in late February 2020 when he resigned, breaking his alliance with Mr Anwar.\n\nAfter his resignation, he and Mr Anwar later announced that they had, in fact, reunited again and commanded majority support.\n\nBut the king, Sultan Abdullah Sultan Ahmad Shah, who had ultimate say on who should form a government, chose Mr Muhyiddin.\n\nA former interior minister, Mr Muhyiddin once controversially described himself as \"Malay first\" and Malaysian second.\n\nHe, too, did not stay in power long - resigning in August last year after just 17 months in power and yielding his place to current premier Ismail Sabri Yaakob because he had lost majority support in parliament.\n\nBBC Monitoring reports and analyses news from TV, radio, web and print media around the world. You can follow BBC Monitoring on Twitter and Facebook.", "Mr Mahathir said he hoped a swearing-in ceremony would be held on Thursday\n\nFormer Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad has scored a historic victory in the general election.\n\nAt the age of 92, Mr Mahathir defeated the Barisan Nasional coalition, which has been in power 60 years.\n\nHe had come out of retirement to take on his former protege Najib Razak, who has been beset by allegations of corruption and cronyism.\n\nMr Mahathir told reporters: \"We are not seeking revenge, we want to restore the rule of law\".\n\nThe election commission said Mr Mahathir's opposition alliance had won 115 seats, over the threshold of 112 seats needed to form a government.\n\nHe said he hoped a swearing-in ceremony would be held on Thursday. Mr Mahathir will become the oldest elected leader in the world.\n\nA government spokesman later declared nationwide public holidays for Thursday and Friday.\n\nWith only a few seats left to count, official results showed Mr Mahathir's Pakatan Harapan alliance, along with an ally in Sabah state, Borneo, had won 115 seats with BN on 79 seats.\n\nOpposition supporters poured on to the streets in celebration as the results became clear.\n\nMahathir Mohamad's supporters took to the streets of Kuala Lumpur in celebration\n\nThe campaign pitted Mr Mahathir's opposition group against the BN, led by incumbent Prime Minister Najib Razak.\n\nThe BN and its major party, the United Malays National Organisation (UMNO), have dominated Malaysian politics since the country won independence from Britain in 1957, but the once-powerful coalition has seen its popularity decline in recent years.\n\nIn the previous election, in 2013, the opposition made unprecedented gains, winning the popular vote, but it failed to win enough seats to form a government.\n\nIn a dramatic turn of events, then-opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim was sentenced to five years jail on sodomy charges, which he said were part of a political smear campaign.\n\nMr Mahathir, who was once an integral part of BN and a mentor to Mr Najib, abandoned the coalition in 2016.\n\nAs he left, he said he was \"embarrassed\" to be associated with a party \"that is seen as supporting corruption\".\n\nMr Najib has been embroiled in a corruption scandal, which saw him accused of pocketing some $700m from the 1Malaysian Development Berhad, a state investment fund. He has vehemently denied all allegations and been cleared by Malaysian authorities.\n\nThe fund is still being investigated by several countries and Mr Najib has been accused of stifling Malaysian investigations by removing key officials.\n\nMr Najib (L) was a former protege of Mr Mahathir (C)\n\nThe government recently passed a law redrawing election boundaries, leading to accusations that it had gerrymandered constituencies to ensure they were filled by Malay Muslims, who are traditionally BN supporters.\n\nIn the days before the poll, election reform group Bersih 2.0 accused the Election Commission (EC) of multiple \"electoral crimes\", including irregularities in postal voting and failing to remove dead people from the electoral roll.\n\nA controversial fake news law was also recently introduced, which critics say could be used by the authorities to muffle dissent.\n\nMr Mahathir is himself being investigated under that law after alleging that his plane had been sabotaged.\n\nMalaysians had their fingers marked with indelible ink, showing that they had voted\n\nThe government had insisted the election would be free and fair, with Mr Najib saying that the EC acted \"for the good of all\".\n\nVoters were electing 222 members of parliament as well as state assembly members in 12 of the 13 states.\n\nMalaysia uses a first-past-the-post electoral system, where the party that gets the most seats in parliament wins even if it does not win the popular vote.", "Abdul Hakim Belhaj spent six years in jail in Libya where, he says, he was tortured\n\nThe British government has made an unprecedented apology to a former Libyan dissident and his wife who were abducted with crucial assistance from MI6.\n\nAbdul Hakim Belhaj said MI6 helped the US seize him in Thailand in 2004 to return him and his Moroccan wife, Fatima Boudchar, to Libya, where he says he was tortured.\n\nThe government has accepted the couple's account of what happened - and the settlement is the first time ministers have apologised for a specific act involving British security agencies.\n\nThe legal battle came about because documents discovered in Tripoli, Libya - during the fall of the dictator Colonel Muammar Gaddafi in 2011 - revealed how MI6 became involved in the couple's rendition.\n\nWhile the government's apology maintains a denial of legal liability, the settlement leaves questions unanswered about how much others in government were involved in what happened.\n\nThis is how the affair developed.\n\nIn the wake of the 9/11 terror attacks in 2001, the US and its allies were in a race to understand jihadist groups they had previously not done enough to track.\n\nBritish intelligence agencies wanted to know more about Libyan dissidents who had been living under UK protection - mostly families linked to the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG).\n\nFatima Boudchar, wife of Abdul Hakim Belhadj, and their son, Abderrahim\n\nThe group had attempted armed overthrows of Gaddafi's regime in the 1990s and its defeated leaders had scattered around the world.\n\nThe UK's plan was to convince Colonel Gaddafi to not only stop threatening the West, but to also provide intelligence on these LIFG members and their potential links to al-Qaeda.\n\nIn September 2011, a team from Human Rights Watch raided the abandoned headquarters of Libyan's External Security Organisation (ESO) after the dictator's eventual downfall - and the documents they found made jaws drop.\n\nSir Mark Allen, whose communications reveal the UK's role in handling Mr Belhaj\n\nThe papers included evidence of how MI6 and the CIA had groomed Gaddafi and his henchmen to come in from the cold - and one senior MI6 officer, Sir Mark Allen, was at the centre of the operation.\n\nFrom 2001 he sought to convince Moussa Koussa - his Libyan counterpart and a man who had been widely accused of torture and other human rights abuses - to work with the West.\n\nMr Koussa wanted two things: international recognition for Libya and respect for Gaddafi - and intelligence leading to the capture of LIFG leaders on the run.\n\nThe Tripoli documents show the pair met on 20 September 2001 and agreed that each country's counter-terrorism teams should work together against common enemies.\n\nMI6 asked if the Libyans would help operations to penetrate jihadist groups.\n\nThe next document - from the British side - is the first that referred to Mr Belhaj, albeit through one of his aliases and, confusingly, apparently mixing up some of his details with another dissident who was also later abducted.\n\nA later secret conference, also including the German and Austrian intelligence services, was detailed in a memo circulated among ESO chiefs.\n\nIt said that the British and others were \"willing to co-operate\" - but the UK had stressed that any co-operation on tracking down what the Libyans called \"heretics\" would need to be lawful.\n\nThe MI6 team promised to help the Libyans and began suggesting they had information that could be useful.\n\nThe breakthrough in relations appears to have come in 2002 when Sir Mark finally convinced Libya to work properly with the UK - leading to the then Foreign Office minister Mike O'Brien visiting the country in August.\n\nLater that year, the Libyans came to London and, according to their records, attended a \"banquet dinner\" hosted by MI6 at the £500-a-night Goring Hotel.\n\nThe agency was pressing for more - telling the Libyans they had to move faster and further in co-operating with the West if they were going to get the recognition they sought.\n\nAll of this diplomacy ultimately led to what became known as the 2004 \"deal in the desert\" - in which Prime Minister Tony Blair sealed what looked like a remarkable turnaround in Colonel Gaddafi's attitude.\n\nBut it came at a price. And that price was, according to the documents at least, the UK's willingness to provide information on the whereabouts of the regime's enemies.\n\nIn June 2003, the ESO received a memo from the British setting out the extent of operations to date.\n\nAnother document contained the first proof that the UK was apparently willing to provide information on what it knew about Mr Belhaj.\n\nThe British agencies thought he was in China - and initially MI6 didn't confirm that to the Libyans.\n\nBut in November, a new communication to Tripoli confirmed the British had \"embarked on a project\" relating to the dissident:\n\nBy the end of 2003, the UK was pretty confident the Libyan's were co-operating and on the road to a comprehensive deal for Libya to give up its chemical weapons.\n\nOn Christmas Eve of that year, Sir Mark sent a memo to Mr Koussa, thanking him for his efforts:\n\nThe UK and US were confident they were getting a deal - and it was now time for the UK to settle the intelligence bill.\n\nOn 1 March, London told Tripoli that Mr Belhaj, travelling under a pseudonym, had been apprehended by the Chinese authorities as he tried to board a flight to London with his wife, Fatima Boudchar, who was four months pregnant.\n\nThe couple were deported to Malaysia and were being held in detention. An MI6 cable listed all the false names Mr Belhaj was thought to be using, such as Abdullah Sadeq, to evade capture.\n\nLibya fired off a series of urgent requests to Malaysia's government, requesting that it hand over the \"dangerous\" dissident who it considered \"the prince of the LIFG\".\n\nThe US intervened and told Tripoli it was going to help secure Mr Belhaj and bring him to Libya - providing that it would get a chance to interrogate him once he was behind bars.\n\nOn 6 March, the plan was in place.\n\nMalaysian authorities put Mr Belhaj and Mrs Boudchar on a flight to Bangkok where, instead of being transferred on to a connection for London, the Thai authorities detained them and, according to their lawyers, they were tortured.\n\nThe following day, a US rendition flight team picked up the pair and flew them to Tripoli.\n\nOn 18 March, Sir Mark sent this congratulatory message to Mr Koussa - making clear that he believed the capture of Mr Belhaj, referred to here by his nom de guerre Abu 'Abd Allsh, was down to the British alone:\n\nMr Belhaj, one of Gaddafi's greatest enemies, was tortured over six years and given a death sentence, which was never carried out.\n\nHis wife was released before she gave birth - and the son she was carrying at the time was in the House of Commons to hear the historic apology from the UK.\n\nAttorney General Jeremy Wright said the settlement with the couple included a £500,000 payment to Ms Boudchar.\n\n\"It is clear that you were both subjected to appalling treatment and that you suffered greatly,\" Theresa May said in a letter to the pair.\n\n\"We should have done more to reduce the risk that you would be mistreated,\" she added. \"We accept this was a failing on our part.\"\n\nSir Mark Allen has never spoken publicly about the affair. He, along with former foreign secretary Jack Straw, and all the agencies involved, denied individual wrongdoing.", "Chief executive of Severn Trent, Liv Garfield, was praised for her strong focus on customers\n\nThe boss of a water company and the founder of a luxury sex toy company have won top awards for businesswomen.\n\nLiv Garfield, the chief executive of Severn Trent, was crowned Business Woman of the Year at the Veuve Clicquot awards ceremony.\n\nHer company's share price has risen 15% since Ms Garfield took the helm in 2014 and judges hailed her business acumen.\n\nStephanie Alys, the creator of MysteryVibe, won the New Generation award for \"breaking down barriers\".\n\nThe Veuve Clicquot Business Woman awards were created in 1972 as a tribute to Madame Clicquot, who single-handedly took over her husband's champagne business after he died.\n\nPrevious winners of the UK ceremony include Anya Hindmarch and Alison Brittain, chief executive of Whitbread.\n\nMs Garfield, 42, who is a working mother with two young sons, worked at BT and Accenture before joining Severn Trent.\n\nStephanie Alys (L) won the New Generation award while Amanda Nevill (R) received the Social Purpose Award\n\nShe said: \"My ideal is to see the boys in the morning before I go to work, or in the evening, but either way we share lots of video messages during the day.\"\n\nShe added that she tried to create \"an awesome place to work\" so others enjoyed their jobs, adding: \"You have to love your job to get on with it.\"\n\nShe told the BBC's Today programme: \"The menopause is a hugely important topic if we're going to have more women in the workplace. It's something that 97% of women will go through and yet it's a taboo subject.\n\n\"We believe at Severn Trent that great companies are based on the right culture, and that means topics like menopause being discussed and making sure that you train your whole workforce in all that will mean for women in the workplace.\"\n\nMs Alys, 28, whose company, MysteryVibe, sells its vibrator, called Crescendo, in 58 countries, was praised by the judges for her aim \"to close the pleasure gap by bringing equality to sex\".\n\n\"She is leading the revolution in sex-tech,\" the judges said. \"Demonstrating the same characteristics of Madame Clicquot over 200 years ago, Stephanie is breaking down barriers and social taboos.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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\nMs Alys said: \"People find it very difficult to start a conversation about sex but it gets easier once it starts.\n\n\"Creating any business is really hard but creating one in this industry is even harder.\"\n\nAlso receiving a gong at the awards ceremony was Amanda Nevill, the chief executive of the British Film Institute, who received the Social Purpose Award.\n\nJudges chose Ms Nevill, 61, because of her focus on future talent and action to tackle harassment and bullying in the film industry.\n\nShe said: \"When I started out in the 1980s we thought we had cracked this, but we so haven't. There a whole new momentum now so the situation is very different.\"", "Ed Sheeran, Rita Ora and Calvin Harris have all risen up the Sunday Times Rich List after enjoying huge chart success.\n\nSheeran made £28m last year - taking his total estimated wealth to £80m.\n\nBut that still only puts him at 35th on the list of the UK's richest musicians, which is dominated by golden oldies. Sir Paul McCartney is top on £820m.\n\nCalvin Harris is the only new entry in the top 20 on £140m, up £20m. And Rita Ora has joined the list of the wealthiest young musicians, with £16m.\n\nAdele is worth £140m, according to the Sunday Times Rich List, an increase of £15m on last year, meaning she stayed at the top of the rich list for young musicians.\n\nAs well as having four UK top 10 singles in the past 12 months, Rita Ora has appeared in the Fifty Shades films and has had lucrative deals with Adidas, lingerie firm Tezenis, Rimmel, DKNY and Marks & Spencer.\n\nRobert Watts, who compiles the Sunday Times Rich List, said: \"For years our music millionaires list has been dominated by older acts, such as the Rolling Stones and Sir Elton John, who have an older audiences able to pay a premium to see their favourite acts.\n\n\"But some of the biggest risers over the past year have been amongst younger acts such as Ed Sheeran, Adele and Calvin Harris.\n\n\"Streaming services, the internet and income from endorsements are helping today's young musicians build an international following - and with it their fortunes - far quicker than the older rockers.\"\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.", "Royal Bank of Scotland has agreed a $4.9bn (£3.6bn) penalty with US regulators, paving the way for the government to sell down its 70% stake.\n\nThe long-running probe focused on the sale of financial products including toxic mortgage bonds in 2005-7, ahead of the financial crisis.\n\nRBS was bailed out by the government at the height of the financial crisis.\n\nChief executive Ross McEwan said the settlement will create a \"cleaner bank\" that is easier to sell.\n\nChancellor Philip Hammond said the agreement \"marks another significant milestone in RBS's work to resolve its legacy issues, and will help pave the way to a sale of taxpayer-owned shares\".\n\nShares in RBS rose 4.3% in morning trading to 287.9p.\n\nThe settling of the outstanding penalty for RBS' role in the financial crisis was the last obstacle standing in the way of selling the government's enormous 71% stake back to the private sector in what will be the biggest privatisation in UK history.\n\nThe government owns over £20bn worth of shares. That is a colossal amount to sell and will take several years.\n\nThe first sales will be at a loss, but the government will hope that over time, as the huge overhang of shares to sell dwindles and profits continue to rise, the public may get more money back.\n\nThe public though are unlikely to ever recoup the £45bn poured into the biggest banking debacle in UK corporate history.\n\nRBS said about $3.6bn of the penalty would be covered by funds already set aside. Many analysts had forecast that the settlement could be larger than $4.9bn.\n\nLast July, RBS paid another hefty penalty of $5.5bn to the US Federal Housing Finance Agency.\n\nThe US Department of Justice said further details must be negotiated with RBS before a final deal is done. But Mr McEwan called the settlement a \"milestone moment\" for the bank.\n\n\"Removing the uncertainty over the scale of this settlement means that the investment case for this bank is much clearer,\" he said.\n\nJane Sydenham, from Rathbone Investment Management, told the BBC: \"Removing this final cloud will make a difference, it will mean the government can press ahead with a sale and it can start to look forward, rather than spending all their time worrying about what happened in the past.\"\n\nRBS is the last in a line of major banks to pay penalties to the DoJ for their activities ahead of the financial crisis.\n\nIn March, Barclays agreed a $2bn settlement with US regulators, and Deutsche Bank paid $7.2bn.\n\nRivals also charged by the DoJ include Citigroup, JPMorgan Chase, Credit Suisse, Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs and Bank of America.", "Cancer patients are being put at risk by immigration rules, say specialist doctors.\n\nNHS hospital trusts are struggling to recruit genetic counsellors, who identify people at risk of hereditary cancer and other serious conditions.\n\nSome hospitals rely on foreign workers, who now find it difficult to get visas as immigration rules have tightened.\n\nThe Home Office said priority was given to people working in occupations with shortages.\n\nSteph Burcher, a genetic counsellor from New Zealand, has been working at an NHS trust in London for the past two years.\n\nHaving arrived on a young person's working visa which was about to run out, she applied for a sponsored work visa in order to stay.\n\nLast month, she was refused the document and has now moved back to New Zealand, with the option to reapply each month.\n\nShe said: \"It was really disappointing to get confirmation. I really enjoy my job and would like to continue doing it but unfortunately I can't without a visa.\n\n\"I'm aware of a lot of NHS workers who are struggling to get their visas at the moment. There's a lot of uncertainty.\n\n\"It's really difficult for my employers. At the moment they've said they will hold the job open for me but I can't expect them to do that indefinitely.\n\n\"It has a huge impact on my team members - we're already two members of the team down, so they're already operating at capacity and really struggling with the workload.\"\n\nMs Burcher added: \"It's having a huge impact on our patients as well. There are already huge waitlists for them and it's only going to get worse.\"\n\nForeign workers who are offered a job in the UK have to apply for a tier 2 visa. These are granted up to a monthly limit, with priority given to applicants in a \"shortage occupation\" like nursing and those earning high salaries.\n\nCancer specialists are now calling for genetic counselling to be placed on the shortage occupation list, to increase the chances of rota gaps being filled.\n\nDr Katie Snape, a consultant cancer geneticist, told the BBC some patients were now waiting months for outpatient appointments, outside the NHS's 18-week target to be seen.\n\nShe said: \"There is a nationwide shortage of genetic counsellors at the moment. We have advertised posts and been unable to appoint either UK or EU-trained genetic counsellors into those positions.\n\nGenetic analysis can give an early warning of who is at risk of cancer\n\n\"The problem has now been compounded because we have highly skilled professionals from other countries that are unable to get work visas, effectively because they don't earn enough money to get the points needed for the visa.\n\nDr Snape said there was no doubt waits were getting longer. \"It varies depending on hospital trust and where you are in the UK. People can wait now six, nine, 12 months, and we know of even longer in some cases.\n\n\"It's absolutely devastating when someone gets a diagnosis of an advanced and incurable cancer. We absolutely know that assessing genetic risk can enable us to early-detect and prevent and cure cancers.\n\n\"So the fact that we are unable to provide safe genetic cancer services in this country I think is awful.\"\n\nThe impact of these delays could have a profound effect on patients, according to Prof Jayant Vaidya, a leading breast cancer surgeon.\n\nHe said: \"This is important for cancer, because in a small proportion of breast cancers, women can be identified as being predisposed to developing cancer.\n\n\"If they can be given preventative treatment, they have a much better outcome than if they develop the cancer later on, and that's why it's so important to identify such women and give treatment, in which case they can be cured.\"\n\nA spokesperson for the Home Office said: \"The shortage occupation list is set following advice from the independent Migration Advisory Committee and kept under regular review.\n\n\"It is important that our immigration system works in the national interest, ensuring that employers look first to the UK resident labour market before recruiting from overseas.\n\n\"When demand exceeds the monthly available allocation of tier 2 (general) places, priority is given to applicants filling a shortage or PhD-level occupations.\"\n\nHealth and Social Care Secretary Jeremy Hunt told the Health Service Journal he supported the idea of a dedicated visa category for health and social care workers - which would enable more to come into the UK.\n\nHe said: \"I think it is a really interesting idea. And it's something I should probably raise with the new home secretary.\"", "Ms Lewinsky said the magazine offered her an article after disinviting her from the event\n\nA US magazine has apologised to Monica Lewinsky, the ex-White House intern who had an affair with former president Bill Clinton, after an apparent snub.\n\nMs Lewinsky caused a stir on social media after tweeting about how she was disinvited to a \"social change\" event after Mr Clinton decided to attend.\n\nShe said the magazine, which she did not name, offered to remedy the situation by giving her an article.\n\nLifestyle magazine Town & Country apologised to her a day later.\n\n\"We apologise to Ms. Lewinsky and regret the way the situation was handled,\" the magazine said in a tweet on Thursday. The magazine did not offer any other details.\n\nThe apology came a day after Ms Lewinsky posted a vague tweet about the apparent invitation snub.\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\"Don't try to ameliorate the situation by insulting me with an offer of an article in your mag,\" Ms Lewinsky added.\n\nThe event in question appeared to refer to the magazine's annual philanthropic summit - an invite-only event described as a gathering of activists and social leaders, according to the Huffington Post, which first named the magazine.\n\nThe news website reported that Mr Clinton attended the summit on Wednesday to introduce Emma Gonzalez, a survivor of the Parkland, Florida school shooting and gun control advocate.\n\nMr Clinton's press secretary said he was unaware Ms Lewinsky's invitation was rescinded.\n\nThe former president's press secretary, Angel Ureña said he \"gladly accepted\" the invite to address the summit and \"neither he nor his staff knew anything\" about Ms Lewinsky's invitation.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMs Lewinsky's affair with Mr Clinton when she was a White House intern was a key issue that led to impeachment proceedings against him.", "The UK government has apologised to a Libyan dissident and his wife after its actions contributed to their detention, transfer to Libya and his torture by Colonel Gaddafi's forces in 2004.\n\nPrime Minister Theresa May said Abdul Hakim Belhaj and Fatima Boudchar had suffered \"appalling treatment\".\n\nMs Boudchar said the apology was \"historic\" after what they had been through.", "Harvey Weinstein and Georgina Chapman have been married since 2007\n\nHarvey Weinstein's estranged wife has given her first interview since he was engulfed in scandal, and said she was \"never\" suspicious about his behaviour.\n\nAsked by Vogue magazine whether she had suspicions, fashion designer Georgina Chapman replied: \"Absolutely not.\"\n\nThe interview comes seven months after the first of dozens of women accused him of sexual assault and harassment.\n\nChapman admitted she had been \"so naive\", and was \"so humiliated and so broken\" when the scandal unfolded.\n\nWeinstein and Chapman married in 2007 and she announced that she was leaving him days after the allegations emerged. Vogue described him as her \"soon-to-be ex-husband\".\n\nThe movie mogul has denied all allegations of \"non-consensual sex\".\n\nThe British designer, who founded the Marchesa label, said she didn't go out in public for five months after the story broke.\n\nGeorgina Chapman: \"I had what I thought was a very happy marriage\"\n\n\"I was so humiliated and so broken that I didn't think it was respectful to go out,\" she told US Vogue.\n\n\"I thought, 'who am I to be parading around with all of this going on?'. It's still so very, very raw. I was walking up the stairs the other day and I stopped. It was like all the air had been punched out of my lungs.\"\n\nThe couple have two children, who are aged seven and five.\n\nShe said: \"There was a part of me that was terribly naive - clearly, so naive.\n\n\"I have moments of rage, I have moments of confusion, I have moments of disbelief. And I have moments when I just cry for my children. What are their lives going to be?\"\n\nVogue said she broke down in loud sobs during the interview. \"What are people going to say to them? It's like, they love their dad. They love him. I just can't bear it for them.\"\n\nChapman said she lost 10lb in five days after the first allegations emerged because she \"couldn't keep food down\".\n\nShe said: \"My head was spinning. And it was difficult because the first article was about a time long before I'd ever met him, so there was a minute where I couldn't make an informed decision.\n\n\"And then the stories expanded and I realised that this wasn't an isolated incident. And I knew that I needed to step away and take the kids out of here.\"\n\nWith the children, she went to stay with actor David Oyelowo, a longtime friend.\n\n\"I had what I thought was a very happy marriage. I loved my life,\" she said.\n\nWeinstein was \"a wonderful partner\", Chapman said, adding: \"He was a friend and a confidant and a supporter. Yes, he's a big personality... but... I don't know. I wish I had the answers. But I don't.\"\n\nScarlett Johansson was the first celebrity in months to wear Marchesa at a high-profile event when she wore one of the firm's creations to the Met Ball on Monday.\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.", "One of the three men who have been reportedly relocated, Kim Dong-chul, was sentenced to 10 years' hard labour after appearing before the media to confess in March 2016\n\nThree Americans detained in North Korea are on their way home after being released in what is likely to be a goodwill gesture ahead of unprecedented talks between the leaders of US and North Korea.\n\nUS President Donald Trump tweeted: \"I am pleased to inform you that Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is in the air and on his way back from North Korea with the 3 wonderful gentlemen that everyone is looking so forward to meeting.\"\n\nTheir release came after a meeting between Mr Pompeo and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un.\n\nA White House statement said the three men appeared to be in good health and were able to walk on to their plane unassisted.\n\nThe only other US prisoner to be released by North Korea under Donald Trump's presidency was university student Otto Warmbier, who returned to the US in a coma and died days later.\n\nTwo of the newly released detainees were jailed in 2017, after Mr Trump became president. Here is what we know about the three men.\n\nKim Hak-song worked at the Pyongyang University of Science and Technology (PUST) and was held on suspicion of \"hostile acts\" on 6 May 2017. He was reportedly detained while in Pyongyang Station.\n\nThe university, which mostly teaches the children of North Korea's elite, was founded in 2010 by a Korean-American Christian entrepreneur, with much of the costs funded by US and South Korea Christian charities.\n\nSeveral foreign lecturers are thought to teach there.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un: From enemies to frenemies\n\nKim Hak-song had previously described himself as a Christian missionary who intended to start an experimental farm at PUST, Reuters news agency reported, citing an online post by Mr Kim.\n\nHe is, reports say, an ethnic Korean born just across the North Korean border in China who emigrated to the US in the 1990s. He is said to have gone on to study agriculture in Yanbian, a Chinese prefecture which borders North Korea, before moving to Pyongyang.\n\nTwo weeks before Kim Hak-song was arrested, Kim Sang-duk - also known as Tony Kim - was detained on espionage charges.\n\nHe was trying to leave the country after spending a month working at PUST. South Korean media said he was 55 and had been involved in humanitarian work in the North.\n\n\"Some officials at PUST told me his arrest was not related to his work at PUST,\" the chancellor of the university, Chan-Mo Park, told Reuters news agency.\n\n\"He had been involved with some other activities outside PUST, such as helping an orphanage.\"\n\nMr Kim studied accounting at two American universities and had worked as an accountant in the US for more than a decade, his Facebook page says.\n\nHe had also taught in Yanbian.\n\nA South Korea-born US citizen, Kim Dong-chul is a pastor in his early 60s.\n\nHe was detained in 2015 on spying charges and sentenced to 10 years' hard labour in 2016.\n\nBefore his trial, he was presented at a government-arranged press conference, where he apparently confessed to stealing military secrets in collusion with South Korea - a claim rejected by Seoul.\n\nIn an interview with CNN in January 2016, Mr Kim said he lived in Fairfax, Virginia.\n\nHe said he used to run a trading and hotel services company in Rason, a special economic zone near the border zone in north-east North Korea.\n\nHe told CNN he had left a wife and two daughters behind in China, but had had no contact with them since his detention.", "Three Americans released by North Korea have arrived at Andrews Air Force Base near Washington where they have been met by President Donald Trump.", "England fans were targeted by Russian supporters at a Euro 2016 match in Marseilles\n\nRussian authorities have given their \"assurance\" fans will be safe from violence at the World Cup finals.\n\nOfficials have a \"blacklist\" of known hooligans and have banned anyone responsible for trouble at Euro 2016 from attending, the Foreign Affairs Committee heard.\n\nForeign Office minister Harriett Baldwin was responding to concerns of other MPs.\n\nAbout 10,000 England fans are expected to travel to Russia in June.\n\nThere were violent clashes when Russian fans charged England supporters in the stadium when the two countries played each other in Marseille at Euro 2016.\n\nTrouble was also reported in the city's streets between England, Russia and France fans.\n\nFights involving football fans also broke out in the streets of Marseille\n\nMs Baldwin told the committee that Russia was \"responsible\" for running a safe World Cup in June and had given its \"assurances\" to Fifa and the UK government.\n\nShe said the threat of hooliganism had been a focus of two years of planning ahead of the event.\n\nThe deployment of police officers who will be based in the country during the tournament was \"at least as large as any other country\" and co-operation with Russian authorities was \"strong\", Ms Baldwin said.\n\nConservative MP Priti Patel questioned the minister about whether she was concerned there would be a repeat of the violence against England fans in Marseille.\n\nHarriet Baldwin said she had been given \"assurances\" by Russian officials\n\nMs Baldwin said it had been a \"specific focus\" of authorities and she welcomed the banning of hooligans.\n\nShe said: \"I think this is an area where the police co-operation has been extensive but clearly as with any football event this is a risk that does need to be closely worked on and the risk of violence needs to be mitigated.\"\n\nAsked if there were particular groups England fans should be aware of, Ms Baldwin said there is a \"blacklist of known troublemakers\" numbering about 1,800 people.\n\nThe committee also heard that a \"mobile embassy\" will tour the cities hosting England games to assist fans.\n\nShe said the Foreign Office's preparations had been affected by the expulsion of 23 UK diplomats from Russia in the wake of the poisoning of Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia in Salisbury in March.\n\nBut Ms Baldwin said her department had adapted to meet the challenge.\n\nCommittee chairman Tom Tugendhat questioned the advice that fans from LGBT communities should exercise caution, and he suggested they could not rely on the assurances that Russian police would protect them.\n\nHe said: \"We are not talking about fans being a little bit cautious, we're talking about fans realising that the police force there may not be on their side.\n\n\"That the law enforcement authorities may actually be working against them and that the state that they would expect to turn to in terms of protection may be the organisation that is going to repress them the harshest.\"\n\nMs Baldwin said she \"accepts\" Mr Tugendhat's comments but there had been \"assurances\".\n\nShe urged fans to check the Foreign Office's dedicated website as well as the general travel advice for Russia before making their decision whether to travel.", "Four breeds are banned in the UK: the pit bull terrier, Japanese tosa, dogo Argentino and fila Brasileiro\n\nMPs are to investigate the effectiveness of the 1991 Dangerous Dogs Act amid figures suggesting there has been an increase in attacks.\n\nHospital admissions for dog attacks rose by 76% in a decade, according to the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee.\n\nIt will examine whether the public is being properly protected and look at animal welfare concerns.\n\nThe RSPCA says the law is \"ineffective and unjust\" and needs replacing.\n\nBreeds banned by the act are the:\n\nOwners can get a certificate of exemption if a court believes the dog is not dangerous.\n\nThe 1991 act also makes it an offence for an owner to allow any dog \"to be dangerously out of control\".\n\nThe legislation was aimed at reducing dog attacks, but figures from 2015 suggested hospital admissions related to them had risen 76% from the same period 10 years previously.\n\nAnd the committee pointed to RSPCA figures suggesting that of the 30 people killed by dogs between 1991 and 2016, 21 had been attacked by dogs that were not banned.\n\nThe charity has since updated this figure to 37 deaths, of which 28 involved non-banned breeds.\n\nThe Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee will investigate:\n\nNeil Parish, who chairs the committee, said: \"Four types of dog were banned in the UK in 1991, but since then 70% of dog-related deaths have been caused by those not prohibited by legislation.\n\n\"There is evidence to suggest that we should account for the temperament of the dog when assessing its danger to society.\n\n\"There is also the view that some banned dog breeds can be suitable pets in certain circumstances.\n\n\"Our inquiry will look at whether the government should be taking a more individualised approach to judging the threat posed by dogs, or whether blanket bans remain the most appropriate means of regulation.\"\n\nAmong those who have criticised the legislation are the Kennel Club and Battersea Dogs & Cats Home.\n\nConservative MP Andrew Rosindell called for a review two years ago, arguing the act was \"simply not effective\" and that the problem was not with the dogs but with their owners.\n\nThe RSPCA has campaigned against \"breed specific\" legislation, arguing that the evidence is not there to suggest the banned breeds are more aggressive.\n\nRSPCA dog welfare expert Samantha Gaines said she was pleased MPs had \"listened to the serious concerns of animal welfare organisations\".\n\n\"We strongly believe that breed-specific legislation is ineffective at protecting the public and compromises dog welfare,\" she said.\n\n\"The fact is that the way a dog looks and his breed is not a predictor of whether he or she is likely to be aggressive.\"\n\nShe said thousands of dogs had been put down or \"kennelled unnecessarily\", while fatal dog attacks had continued.\n\nThe Dangerous Dogs Act has been amended over time.\n\nIn 2014, sentencing guidelines in England and Wales were changed to raise the maximum jail sentence for a fatal dog attack from two years to 14.\n\nThe law was also extended to include attacks on private property. And the police and authorities were given powers to require owners to attend dog training classes or muzzle their dog in public.", "More than 2,500 patients have been recalled following a case review by the Belfast Health and Social Care Trust\n\nAn independent inquiry has been set up to review the recall of more than 2,500 neurology patients by the Belfast Health Trust.\n\nThe recall was announced last week after an examination of the work of neurology consultant Dr Michael Watt.\n\nNeurology is the treatment of brain conditions including MS, Parkinson's Disease and Motor Neurone Disease.\n\nThe Department of Health announced earlier that the inquiry panel will be chaired by barrister Brett Lockhart QC.\n\nConcerns about potential misdiagnoses of Dr Watt's patients were formally raised in December 2016 by a GP.\n\nThe inquiry will examine the actions taken by the Belfast Trust after concerns were raised and whether or not there were grounds for \"earlier intervention\".\n\nMelissa McCullough, a non-executive director for the Health and Social Care Board NI, who made an official complaint after Dr Watt incorrectly diagnosed her with multiple sclerosis (MS) instead of neurological Lyme disease in 2010, said on Friday she hoped the inquiry would build \"some trust in the system\".\n\n\"I am just concerned that we get to the bottom of what the issue is, whether it is systemic or not systemic,\" she told BBC Radio Ulster's Good Morning Ulster.\n\n\"Whether the Belfast Trust could have done everything right, we don't know.\n\n\"I think that is why the inquiry is so vitally important, because I think that will go some way in helping to understand what went wrong, but hopefully be building some trust in the system.\"\n\nLouise Skelly, head of operations at Patient and Client Council (Northern Ireland), has welcomed the inquiry and said it was important that the complaints process was in the terms of reference.\n\n\"I think it is important that they are looking at how lessons can be learned from this exercise and in particular how lessons can be learned from the complaints process,\" she said.\n\n\"Contrary to popular opinion, people are very reluctant to complain and when they do so they should be reassured that they are listened to, taken seriously, and that lessons are genuinely learned.\"\n\nThis inquiry reflects the seriousness of the neurology crisis. It also reflects the differing and conflicting accounts we have been hearing from the public and doctors.\n\nQuestions have been raised about patients being misdiagnosed as far back as 10 years ago - and not just in a couple of cases. Questions are also being asked about why the warning signs were not picked up sooner by the Belfast Trust.\n\nDoctors don't work in isolation. Neurology is a speciality where in the health trust just 10 consultants worked together.\n\nThere are regular meetings held between specialists especially over complex cases.\n\nWhy, it will be asked, were they not aware of concerns regarding Dr Watt? And if and when concerns were raised did management act quickly enough?\n\nPost 2016 and the Harold Shipman Inquiry, the General Medical Council reported that doctors should adhere to a strict annual appraisal system.\n\nThat should include doctors being assessed and their caseload reviewed. Problematic cases and any concerns should be discussed and reviewed.\n\nThe inquiry panel will endeavour to find out if this was happening. Meanwhile patients will wait.\n\nDepartment of Health permanent secretary, Richard Pengelly, said: \"The focus since last week has rightly been on establishing a robust patient recall process. That remains the first priority.\n\n\"However, it is clear that a rigorous review is also required - given the seriousness of the situation and the impact on patients. The public needs to be assured that this issue has been properly and appropriately handled by the trust, and that any lessons for the future are learned.\"\n\nSome patients included in the major neurology recall say their appointments have been changed at short notice.\n\nThe trust said \"the vast majority\" of appointments will go ahead as planned.\n\nPatients have also said they have not been getting adequate aftercare and counselling after attending recall clinics over the last few days.\n\nThe trust said: \"We know this is an anxious time for patients and while there are opportunities at clinics to speak to trust staff, we recognise the need to offer additional counselling and we are working hard to address this.\"\n\nIn addition to Thursday's announcement, the Department of Health has asked the Regulation Quality and Improvement Authority (RQIA) to review the records of all patients or former patients of Dr Watt who have died over the past 10 years.\n\nWelcoming the inquiry, the SDLP's Nichola Mallon said: \"Patients and their families, and the general public, will be relieved to see that the department has stepped up.\n\n\"It is absolutely vital that this review establishes exactly how this was allowed to happen and what changes are required to prevent the possibility of this happening again.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Mark Carney says the UK economy will pick up\n\nThe Bank of England said the UK economy has hit a \"temporary soft patch\" as it kept interest rates on hold at 0.5%.\n\nThe Bank cut its growth forecast for the year to 1.4%, down from the forecast of 1.8% made in February.\n\nThe Bank says that cut is almost entirely due to the disruption to the economy caused by bad weather in March.\n\nHowever, Bank governor Mark Carney said in an interview with BBC economics editor Kamal Ahmed that \"it's likely\" rates will rise this year.\n\nIn a press conference after the rates decision was announced, Mr Carney said the \"underlying pace of growth remains more resilient than the headline data suggests\".\n\nAs recently as February economists were expecting the Bank to raise interest rates this month.\n\nThat view changed after figures released last month showed that the economy grew by just 0.1% in the first three months of the year.\n\nThe slowdown was caused by the Beast from the East - severe weather which shut down construction sites, kept shoppers at home and caused transport chaos.\n\nHowever, the Bank described that as a \"temporary soft patch\" with \"few implications\" for the outlook for the economy.\n\nThe financial markets are now indicating there will be an interest rate increase towards the end of the year followed by another in 2019, and a further one in 2020.\n\nMovements in the Bank's official rates can have big effects on UK households. A rise would mean that about four million households with variable or tracker rate mortgages would see an increase in their monthly payments, while an increase would benefit the nation's 45 million savers.\n\nMr Carney sets interest rates with a team of eight other experts that form the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC).\n\nAt the latest meeting, seven members voted to keep interest rates on hold and two, Ian McCafferty and Michael Saunders, voted for an increase.\n\n\"It looks like the 2018 rate hike has been delayed not cancelled,\" Fitch Ratings chief economist Brian Coulton said.\n\nHowever, former MPC member Andrew Sentance said the Bank had \"totally misunderstood\" the economic slowdown. He said persistent low interest rates and uncertainty over their future direction were undermining the pound and hurting consumers by causing inflation.\n\nIs Mr Carney revealing once again his \"unreliable boyfriend\" tendencies, promising that interest rate rises are just around the corner, only to pull back?\n\nHe might suggest that he and the other eight members of the MPC are less the unreliable partners, more the \"sensitive\" listeners.\n\nSensitive to changes in the data which effect a decision based on fine margins and delicate judgements.\n\nIt was John Maynard Keynes who said that when the facts changed, so, sir, did he.\n\nToday the Bank has changed tone. Let's wait and see, it is saying.\n\nLet's wait and see how the economy develops until we give any firm guidance on the path of interest rates beyond the Bank's often used formulation of some limited rises \"over the forecast period\" of the next three years.\n\nYes, they will rise at some point. But the chances of that happening sooner rather than later has receded.\n\nThe minutes from the meeting show the MPC wants to wait and see how the economy performs over the coming months.\n\nWhile they expect it to recover from a weak start to the year, there is a risk that the slowdown could be more persistent.\n\nThe Office for National Statistics appears to be more pessimistic than the Bank of England.\n\nThe ONS released data today showing that industrial production expanded just 0.1% in March from February. It said the economy was \"sluggish\" in the first quarter, but said the bad weather had \"little impact overall\", suggesting it thinks the economy has underlying problems.\n\nLater on Thursday, in an interview with the BBC's economics editor, Mr Carney said: \"It's likely over the course of the next year rates will go up... that's the most likely thing to happen.\"\n\nBut any rate rises would be at a \"gentle pace\", the governor said. He added that there could be shocks to the UK economy from protectionist trade policies or from Brexit, in which case: \"If the economy slows... then we will adjust policy.\"\n\nThe course of interest rates depends on inflation falling in line with the Bank's expectations.\n\nIn March, inflation was running at an annual rate of 2.5%, which is above the Bank's target of 2%.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What exactly is the Bank of England interest rate?\n\nBut in its most recent Quarterly Inflation Report, the Bank blames above-target inflation on higher prices of imported goods caused by a weaker pound.\n\nThe Bank expects that effect to fade over the coming years, bringing inflation back to 2% by early 2021.\n\nIt also forecast that the unemployment rate would fall further, to 4% by 2020, the Bank's lowest forecast since the financial crisis.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Heather Ward: \"I was fined £60 for taking my daughter skiing\"\n\nFining parents for taking children out of school in term time in Wales has had no effect on overall absence rates, a review has found.\n\nIt shows the number of unauthorised family holidays actually increased after fixed penalty notices were introduced in 2013.\n\nThe Welsh Government, which commissioned the report, said it would consider the proposals put forward.\n\nCardiff saw the most fixed penalty notices issued in 2015-16 at 1,531, while Rhondda Cynon Taf (RCT) had 1,063 issued, 90% of which were fines for term-time holidays.\n\nAt the other end of the scale, Torfaen, Monmouthshire and Carmarthenshire councils issued no notices.\n\nIn Wales ministers have advised head teachers to use discretion to allow parents to take their children out of school for holidays, with fixed penalty notices being issued by councils to those who do so without permission from the school. But there are wide variations in policy of imposing fines in different council areas.\n\nMeanwhile in England head teachers can allow term-time breaks in \"exceptional circumstances\" with parents facing the threat of being taken to court if they break the rules.\n\nIn Scotland fines are not issued but education authorities can issue \"attendance orders\" to make a parent explain a pupil's absence - if no reasonable excuse is given they can be taken to court.\n\nIn Northern Ireland no fines are issued, with children's attendance being monitored instead.\n\nFines for unauthorised absences in Wales were introduced in 2013\n\nThe report - which surveyed teachers and staff of local authorities and local education consortiums - found the biggest decline in overall absence was in the two years before the Welsh Government brought in the fines.\n\nSeveral respondents said that the level of the fine was too low to encourage behaviour change.\n\nThey said this was particularly the case for unauthorised absences for holidays in term time because some parents preferred to pay a £60 fine compared to the price of going away in the school holidays.\n\nOne respondent said \"in this deprived area many families cannot afford the costs of a holiday out of term time. If they can, they soak up the cost of the fine as part of the holiday cost (which means the fine has zero effect)\".\n\nInterviewees also shared stories of travel agents paying fines as part of a holiday deal or of a social worker paying fines for families that they support to ensure the family's wellbeing is not adversely affected. Some also speculated that parents did not pay fines because they did not believe the local authority would proceed to prosecution.\n\nThe report notes there are inconsistencies across Wales in when fines are triggered - while 90% of RCT's fixed penalty notices in 2015-16 were issued for holidays, none were given in the Vale of Glamorgan, Caerphilly and Ceredigion for this reason.\n\nHeather Ward from Cardiff said she had seen the inconsistencies even within the same local authority area.\n\n\"I took my daughter skiing for five days out of school and I was fined £60 for taking her out,\" she said.\n\n\"We went with a group of 11 people. Two other children, same age different school a mile down the road, they weren't fined and we were. So it's not consistent.\"\n\nThe report suggests strengthening the guidance or establishing a single national policy for Wales - where all local authorities would be told to have the same rules about when a fine should be given, rather than abolishing them.\n\nA Welsh Government spokesman said: \"We will consider the proposals in the report alongside other evidence gathered as part of our broader review of attendance policy in Wales.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Summer Grant died when the bouncy castle blew away while she was still inside\n\nTwo fairground workers have been found guilty of manslaughter by gross negligence after a bouncy castle blew away with a young girl still inside.\n\nSummer Grant, seven, died in hospital after she was rescued from the inflatable - which bounced for 300m - in Harlow, Essex, on 26 March 2016.\n\nWilliam Thurston, 29, and his wife Shelby, 26, failed to ensure the bouncy castle was \"adequately anchored\" to the ground, the court heard.\n\nThey will be sentenced in June.\n\nThe three-week trial heard Summer only had \"a few minutes\" left of her turn on the bouncy castle, but Mrs Thurston said she decided to \"let them finish their go\" before taking the inflatable down.\n\nProsecutor Tracy Ayling QC said: \"While Summer was in the bouncy castle, it blew away from its moorings and bounced 300 metres down a hill. Having hit a tree, it came to rest.\"\n\nShe said the Thurstons, of Whitecross Road, Wilburton, Cambridgeshire, did not monitor weather conditions to ensure it was safe to use on the day.\n\nShelby and William Thurston have been found guilty of manslaughter by gross negligence\n\nMr Thurston said he was aware that Storm Katie was due to arrive two days later, but believed it was \"not hugely significant\".\n\nChelmsford Crown Court had heard the bouncy castle - called Circus Superdome - had lifted \"suddenly\" while Summer was inside.\n\nMr Thurston said he felt \"a sense of disbelief\" and \"froze for a second\" before giving chase.\n\nHe told the court how he unzipped an emergency exit on the inflatable, carried Summer out and placed her in the recovery position, describing it as \"the worst thing I'd ever seen\".\n\nSummer suffered \"multiple traumatic injuries to the head, neck and chest\" and died later in hospital.\n\nCordons were set up at the fairground at Harlow Town Park after the incident\n\nDet Ch Insp Daniel Stoten, from the Kent and Essex serious crime directorate, said the Thurstons had acted \"disgracefully\" putting up a bouncy castle in 36mph winds.\n\n\"The Thurstons held a huge responsibility to ensure the safety of the children that used their rides.\n\n\"They treated this responsibility with total disregard, putting profit before safety,\" he said.\n\n\"Summer Grant was a beautiful little girl with a beaming smile and a caring nature. Her parents Cara and Lee, her sister Lily and her wider family have suffered an unspeakable loss.\"\n\nDavid Kerr-Sheppard, the Essex Air Ambulance pilot who attended the scene, told the trial conditions were squally with \"sudden, sometimes violent bursts of wind that could easily change direction\".\n\nHe said the weather was not suitable to fly Summer to a London hospital and she was instead taken by road to Princess Alexandra Hospital in Harlow.\n\nJenny Hopkins, of the East of England Crown Prosecution Service, said after the verdicts: \"This should have been a happy, family day out at a funfair.\n\n\"It resulted in Summer's death. I hope that these convictions today will be of a small comfort to Summer's family.\"\n\nThe couple were also found guilty of a health and safety offence. They were convicted by majority verdicts of ten to two after 11 hours of deliberations by the jury.\n\nJudge Mr Justice Garnham, who delayed sentencing for four weeks, said he would be \"seriously considering imprisonment\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A new app which allows air ambulance services to view patients before they arrive to treat them is being trialled in two areas of England.\n\nThe GoodSam app sends a link to the 999 caller's mobile phone, which opens live streaming.\n\nMedics can then assess how seriously ill a patient is before setting off.\n\nKent, Surrey and Sussex Air Ambulance and Great North Air Ambulance Service are currently testing the system, and results so far have been promising.\n\nProf Richard Lyon, associate medical director of Kent, Surrey and Sussex Air Ambulance, said: \"It's game-changing.\"\n\nHe added: \"Time is critical in saving a person's life or reducing long-term disability, and often we have limited information from bystanders about a patient's or multiple patients' injuries to make decisions.\n\n\"Being able to see the scene of the incident, not only the patients, but how many cars are involved for example, can help us decide what additional resources we might need to send, assess who we might need to treat first or what medication we might need to give,\" he said.\n\nThe trial of the app has been running for two months.\n\nProf Mark Wilson, medical director of the company which made the app, said they did not yet have hard data on results.\n\nHowever, he said giving doctors the opportunity to see someone's burn, for example, would allow them to make an early assessment.\n\nHe added: \"The data doesn't remain on the patients' mobile phone. It only streams when they give permission and then once streamed it has gone.\"\n\nCurrently there are no plans to expand the service in the UK, but discussions are under way to trial the technology in remote locations in Africa, where emergency services can be hours away.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Haspel: 'I would never take CIA back to interrogation programme'\n\nThe self-proclaimed mastermind of the 9/11 attacks has asked for permission to share information about Gina Haspel, nominee for CIA director, at her confirmation hearing.\n\nKhalid Sheikh Mohammed, who is held at Guantanamo Bay, has asked a judge if he can share six paragraphs of information, the New York Times says.\n\nMr Mohammed was tortured by the CIA following his capture in 2003.\n\nMs Haspel is facing a grilling from senators at the hearing.\n\nHer nomination has faced opposition over her role at a secret CIA prison in Thailand where detainees were waterboarded in 2002.\n\nMs Haspel told the Senate intelligence committee that under her leadership the agency would not restart a secret detention and interrogation programme under which suspects were tortured.\n\nShe told committee members that, in retrospect, \"it is clear... that CIA was not prepared to conduct a detention and interrogation programme\".\n\n\"Having served in that tumultuous time, I can offer you my personal commitment, clearly and without reservation, that under my leadership the CIA will not restart such a detention and interrogation programme,\" she added.\n\nMs Haspel declined to confirm whether she had overseen waterboarding sessions. She told the committee she supported the CIA's decision to destroy videotapes of the interrogations, saying it was to protect the identities of agents.\n\nSenator Kamala Harris asked Ms Haspel if she agreed with a statement made by President Trump that torture works as an interrogation method.\n\nShe replied: \"Senator, I don't believe that torture works.\"\n\nThe hearing was briefly interrupted by a protester who was escorted out by police.\n\nKhalid Sheikh Mohammed, pictured here in a 2012 courtroom sketch, is accused with others of executing the attacks of 11 September 2001\n\nThe request by Mr Mohammed to supply information to the intelligence committee was submitted to army judge Col James Pohl, according to one of Mr Mohammed's lawyers, Lt Col Derek Poteet.\n\nThe request includes an attachment called \"Additional Facts, Law and Argument in Support\", which includes the six paragraphs, the New York Times reported. Col Poteet said he was not able to describe the information.\n\nIt is not clear if the request has been allowed.\n\nKhalid Sheikh Mohammed, who is of Pakistani origin but was born in Kuwait, was captured in Pakistan in 2003 and transferred to Guantanamo, in Cuba, in 2006.\n\nCIA documents confirm that he was subjected to waterboarding - simulated drowning - 183 times.\n\nMs Haspel, who is President Donald Trump's choice to replace now Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, is facing a tough hearing in the Senate where the narrow Republican majority makes her confirmation uncertain.\n\nMany Democrats have spoken out against her nomination.\n\nShe is a career intelligence officer with more than 30 years of experience but controversially ran a prison in Thailand where suspected al-Qaeda members were subjected to waterboarding in 2002. Correspondents say she was known for her harsh views.\n\nThe so-called \"black sites\", where the CIA carried out \"enhanced interrogation\" techniques, were closed by former US President Barack Obama.\n\nHowever, President Trump has since spoken out in favour of the harsh interrogation of suspects.\n\nProtesters gathered outside the Senate in Washington ahead of Ms Haspel's testimony", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What exactly is the Bank of England interest rate?\n\nThe Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee is set to decide later whether to raise rates from 0.5%.\n\nEconomists believe the Bank will not increase the cost of borrowing after a slowdown in UK economic growth in the first quarter of the year.\n\nLast month, Bank governor Mark Carney said \"mixed\" economic data could delay any increase.\n\nRates rose for the first time in more than 10 years in November, from 0.25%.\n\nThe Bank is also expected to downgrade its economic growth forecasts.\n\nThe economy expanded at its slowest pace in five years in the first three months of 2018.\n\nGross domestic product grew by 0.1%, down from a rate of 0.4% in the previous three months, with the severe weather caused by the Beast from the East affecting the retail and construction sectors in particular.\n\nThe prediction would signal a change of thinking for the Bank.\n\nLast month, one forecasting body, the EY Item Club, had predicted two rate rises this year.\n\nThe Bank is expected to cut its 2018 growth forecast from the 1.8% predicted in its quarterly report in February and also lower inflation predictions.\n\nWages have started to overtake inflation and Howard Archer, the EY Item Club's chief economic adviser, believes an August rise may be the only one this year, if it happens.\n\n\"If the Bank of England does cut the near-term GDP growth and inflation forecasts, but leave the longer-term projections unchanged, it would point to the gradual tightening of monetary policy being delayed rather than abandoned,\" he said.\n\nGloom on the High Street is likely to stay the Bank's hand\n\nIn an interview with the BBC in April, Mr Carney all but extinguished expectations of a rate rise by saying that some of the economic data had shown signs of weakening.\n\n\"I am sure there will be some differences of view but it is a view we will take in early May [at the next meeting of the Bank's Monetary Policy Committee], conscious that there are other meetings over the course of this year,\" he said.\n\nInvestment firm Investec believes any decision to hold rates will not be unanimous among the MPC members.\n\nIt predicts a 7-2 vote in favour of no rise, with Ian McCafferty and Michael Saunders the only committee members expected to want an increase after calling for one in March.\n\n\"With a rate hike now seemingly off the table, the market will be focused on the rationale for the BoE's abrupt U-turn, having signalled a rate hike in March,\" said Investec.\n\n\"Softer data looks to have played a part, but with the first quarter seemingly impacted by poor weather, investors will be keenly waiting to see if the BoE believes there is a more fundamental slowdown afoot and what the chances are for a rate hike later this year.\"\n• None Interest rates 'to rise twice this year'", "Hawaii resident Keith Brock had a surprise when he returned home after fleeing the Kilauea volcano eruption.", "BT is to cut 13,000 jobs over three years, about 12% of its workforce, as it seeks to slim down its management and back-office roles.\n\nThe telecoms giant said that the job cuts and other measures would help it to reduce costs by £1.5bn.\n\nIt added that it would be hiring about 6,000 employees to \"support network deployment and customer service\".\n\nA third of the job reductions will come from outside the UK in its Global Services division.\n\nLast year, BT was forced to write down the value of the Italian part of Global Services after an accounting scandal that cost the firm more than £500m.\n\nThe company also said it intended to move out of its existing central London headquarters and into smaller premises.\n\nBT forecast a fall in revenue of about 2% for the 2018-19 financial year. It also said it was keeping its full-year dividend unchanged from last year at 15.4p a share and would freeze it for the next two years.\n\nShares in BT fell nearly 8% in early trading.\n\nPhilippa Childs, national secretary of the Prospect union, said the announcement was \"a devastating blow to managers and professionals represented by Prospect\".\n\nShe said Prospect had been working closely with BT on looking at the impact of organisational changes, but the number of job cuts sounded \"unrealistic\".\n\nBT said it was responding to changes in the telecoms market, including \"increasing competitive intensity from established companies and new entrants\".\n\n\"It is critical that BT transforms its operating model to build a lean and agile organisation that delivers sustained improvement in customer experience and productivity,\" it said.\n\nThe announcements came as BT disclosed that its annual pre-tax profits rose 11% to £2.6bn in the year to March.\n\nThe firm also announced a 13-year plan to plug its £11.3bn pension fund deficit, including regular payments into the scheme and a bond issue.\n\nChief executive Gavin Patterson said BT was in a unique position: \"We have the UK's leading fixed and mobile access networks, a portfolio of strong and well segmented brands, and close strategic partnerships.\n\n\"This position of strength will enable us to build on the disciplined delivery and risk reduction of the last financial year, a period in which we delivered overall in line with our financial and operational commitments whilst addressing many uncertainties.\"\n\nGeorge Salmon, equity analyst at Hargreaves Lansdown, said the job cuts and HQ move were \"drastic actions\", but added that they \"still aren't going to be enough to dig BT out the hole it's in\".\n\n\"The dividend, which was rising 10% a year not so long ago, is set to freeze for the foreseeable future, and next year's profits look likely to fall again,\" he added.\n\n\"There are silver linings here and there. For example, EE and the consumer businesses continue to grow. However, these improvements are being more than offset by challenging conditions elsewhere.\n\n\"Openreach terms are getting tougher, and the business-to-business and global divisions are having a torrid time. Gavin Patterson will have his work cut out if he's to steady the ship.\"\n\nBT's share price has halved over the past two years. Investors have become less convinced about the company's ability to make them money, after an accounting scandal, a profits warning and a regulatory fine.\n\nBT clearly thinks it has too many staff doing jobs not needed in the digital world. Its wide-ranging corporate shake-up is an attempt to simplify the business, to squeeze more profit out of each pound it spends.\n\nIt's under pressure to pump more money into fibre optic and super-fast mobile networks and to fill the black hole in its pension scheme. It has made more efforts on those fronts today.\n\nThousands of new hires will be engineers and cyber-experts, focusing not on copper cables, but on building the physical and mobile networks of the future. It's also trying to improve its customer service and mend relations with the regulator.\n\nIt's a big job, turning a former monopoly into a consumer-focused TV and phone company. Shares are down sharply, suggesting investors are yet to be convinced by BT's plan.", "Israel's Netta Barzilai is one of the big favourites to win at this year's Eurovision Song Contest.\n\nShe talks about finding empowerment and acceptance as a pop star who breaks stereotypes.", "Medical experts have told Natalie's parents that the birthmark is not causing any damage to her vision\n\nA baby girl has been dubbed a \"little superhero\" due to the Batman mask-like birthmark covering a third of her face.\n\nFour-month-old Natalie Jackson was born with the black birthmark which is expected to grow as she gets older.\n\nParents Lacey and Andrew said instead of getting it removed they would encourage Natalie to be proud of it.\n\nHer mum said: \"People tell us how amazing her birthmark is and how gorgeous she is and we couldn't agree more.\"\n\nMrs Jackson and her husband Andrew, who is originally from Hull, said they were initially \"filled with panic\" when they first saw the distinctive mark across her daughter's face.\n\nThe superhero nickname came about after baby Natalie met her brothers for the first time\n\nNatalie was born on 9 January at Sanford USD Medical Centre in South Dakota in the US, where the family now live.\n\n\"She was so beautiful but it looked like a bruise and I was worried in case it was something I had done to her during my pregnancy,\" said Mrs Jackson.\n\n\"Medics said it was just a birthmark though, and she was breathing and healthy.\"\n\nHer superhero nickname came after her brothers Elliot, seven and Devin, four, met their sister for the first time.\n\nMrs Jackson said: \"One of the boys asked, 'What's that on her face mum? What's that black mark?'\n\n\"I told him it was her superhero mask. I told them that, because of it, she could achieve anything.\"\n\nAlthough her parents worry the birthmark may attract cruel comments, they are determined their daughter will embrace her uniqueness.\n\n\"We'll always tell her it's a part of who she is and who she is supposed to be,\" Mrs Jackson said.\n\n\"We know she will come up against some difficulties, but her mark means she is going to be stronger no matter what life throws at her.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Spotify has removed R Kelly from its playlists as part of a new \"Hate Content & Hateful Conduct\" policy.\n\nUsers of the streaming service will still be able to find the R&B singer's music, but Spotify will no longer actively promote it.\n\nHis music will be removed from all Spotify-owned and operated playlists and recommendations.\n\nSpotify told Newsbeat: \"We want our editorial decisions - what we choose to program - to reflect our values.\"\n\nDespite R Kelly's music still being available on the service, Spotify told Newsbeat: \"We are removing R Kelly's music from all Spotify-owned and operated playlists and algorithmic recommendations, such as Discover Weekly.\"\n\nOfficial Spotify playlists are labelled \"by Spotify\".\n\nR Kelly's removal comes under the new \"Hate Content & Hateful Conduct\" policy, which is designed to \"be consistent with our distinct roles in music and media\".\n\nThe company describes hate content as: \"Content that expressly and principally promotes, advocates, or incites hatred or violence against a group or individual based on characteristics, including, race, religion, gender identity, sex, ethnicity, nationality, sexual orientation, veteran status, or disability.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Why people are calling to #MuteRKelly... again\n\n\"We don't censor content because of an artist's or creator's behaviour,\" a representative told Newsbeat.\n\n\"But we want our editorial decisions - what we choose to program - to reflect our values.\n\n\"When an artist or creator does something that is especially harmful or hateful, it may affect the ways we work with or support that artist or creator.\"\n\nSpotify says it has been working on the global policy for \"some months\" and has invited its users to report content that it feels violates its hate content policy.\n\nR Kelly was recently the centre of the #MuteRKelly campaign, which called for the singer to be boycotted after years of sexual assault allegations.\n\nThe hashtag was coined by Kinyette Tisha Barnes and co-founded by Oronike Odeleye, who organised protests to get the musician's concerts cancelled.\n\nA recent BBC Three documentary, R Kelly: Sex, Girls and Videotapes, sees filmmaker Ben Zand try to break down the alleged \"wall of silence\" around historical sexual abuse allegations involving the singer.\n\nR Kelly has denied the claims against him.\n\nIn a statement given to Variety, his management said they would \"vigorously resist this attempted public lynching of a black man\".\n\n#MuteRKelly was backed by the Time's Up movement and supported by Lupita Nyong'o and John Legend.\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.", "Gordon McKay arrived at the High Court in Edinburgh for sentencing on Thursday\n\nA former soldier who shook his girlfriend's five-month-old daughter to death has been jailed for seven-and-a-half years.\n\nHayley Davidson died in hospital from a serious brain injury after being found at a house in Buckhaven, Fife, on 14 February 2016.\n\nGordon McKay, 38, had originally been charged with her murder.\n\nHowever, during his trial he pleaded guilty to a lesser charge of culpable homicide.\n\nSentencing McKay at the High Court in Edinburgh, judge Lord Uist told him his victim was an \"innocent, defenceless child\" and that he was guilty of an \"extremely grave crime\".\n\nMcKay, who had been looking after the infant, claimed he had found her cold to the touch on a beanbag in his living room.\n\nHe said he shook her three or four times to try to revive her.\n\nThree days after she was found, Hayley died from a head injury in hospital.\n\nHayley's case is one of a string of high profile child deaths in Fife in recent years:\n\nLast year, BBC Scotland documentary Fife's Child Killings: The Untold Story investigated why the three children died despite social work involvement and revealed new evidence about the killings.\n\nHer mother, Catherine Davidson, lived a few doors away from McKay and formed an \"obsessive\" relationship with him.\n\nShe left Hayley alone with him so she could get her other two daughters ready for a planned day out.\n\nThe court heard that Hayley had previously had hospital treatment for a broken arm on New Year's Day 2016 - three months into McKay's relationship with her mother.\n\nMcKay took responsibility for what he called the accident that caused it, and medics did not view the injury as suspicious.\n\nAnd though social services were notified they did not intervene.\n\nProtocol for Fife authorities has been changed as a result of Hayley's case.", "A new generation of Oxford and Cambridge colleges should be opened to create more places for disadvantaged youngsters, says a report into widening access to university.\n\nThe Higher Education Policy Institute (Hepi) has published ideas from MPs, think tanks and academics to make university more inclusive.\n\nThe report wants more Oxbridge places, as other universities have expanded.\n\nOxford and Cambridge both said they had \"no plans\" to create new colleges.\n\nThe report, Reaching the Parts of Society Universities Have Missed, makes recommendations for tackling unequal access to higher education.\n\n\"People from rich households are more likely to reach the most prestigious institutions, white working-class boys rarely make it to higher education and there is a big black attainment gap,\" said Hepi director Nick Hillman.\n\nEntry to Oxford and Cambridge is described as \"hyper-selective\" and the report suggests a practical response would be to create more places, in the way that many other universities have expanded.\n\nA project in Manchester is trying to recruit students whose families have not been to university\n\n\"If existing colleges are reluctant to increase their undergraduate entry, then it is time to consider founding a number of entirely new Oxbridge colleges to boost the number of students from under-represented groups at our oldest, richest and most prestigious universities,\" said Mr Hillman.\n\nFigures from the Higher Education Statistics Agency (Hesa) show many leading universities have expanded rapidly in recent years in their undergraduate intake, some by more than 50%.\n\nBut Cambridge has seen only a much more modest rise in first-year numbers - up by 4%.\n\nAccording to the figures from the higher education data body, Oxford has reduced its first-year intake, down by 21% over the past five years.\n\nOxford challenges the figures used by Hesa, saying the university's own figures suggest full-time undergraduate numbers have remained broadly similar, with a 2% increase.\n\nThere are calls for university applications to come after students know their exam results\n\nBut this is far behind a pattern of expansion at many other institutions - the University of Bristol's intake has grown by 22%, University College London by 36%, Queen Mary University of London by 46% and University of Surrey by 57%.\n\nA spokeswoman from the University of Oxford said there were \"no plans to expand overall undergraduate numbers or create new colleges\".\n\nOxford's colleges already face \"major challenges\" over accommodation and the university runs many \"initiatives which are expanding the number of students from under-represented backgrounds\", said the spokeswoman.\n\nThe University of Cambridge also said it did not have any plans to significantly increase undergraduate numbers.\n\nProf Graham Virgo, pro-vice-chancellor for education, said: \"Our biggest problem at Cambridge is convincing people they should apply and making it clear to them that they are welcome here.\n\n\"What message about inclusivity would be sent out by setting up a new college for this purpose?\"\n\nConor Ryan of the Sutton Trust social mobility charity suggests changing the admissions process so students apply after they know their exam results, rather than relying on predicted grades.\n\n\"Bright but poor students consistently have their grades underestimated,\" says Mr Ryan.\n\nAnne-Marie Canning of King's College London says improving access for white working-class boys should be the \"top priority\", as they are the \"most under-represented group in higher education\".\n\nEnding the \"obsession\" with academic degrees and providing a more balanced approach to vocational qualifications is recommended by Robert Halfon, Conservative chair of the Commons education select committee.\n\n\"Our labour market does not need an ever-growing supply of academic degrees. There are not the jobs available and for many graduates the return on their investment is paltry,\" says Mr Halfon.\n\nProf Kalwant Bhopal of the University of Birmingham believes \"radical change is needed in higher education to support black and minority ethnic students\".\n\nShe says there should be \"mandatory unconscious bias training for staff\".\n\nPaul Clarke, of the mentoring charity Brightside, which co-produced the report with Hepi, highlighted the need to tackle the \"precipitous decline in part-time students\".\n\nMany of these would have been from disadvantaged backgrounds, he says.\n\nMr Clarke also warned that much of the \"heavy lifting\" on recruiting students from disadvantaged backgrounds depended on a small number of universities.\n\nThe recommendations will be sent to the new director for fair access and participation, Chris Millward.\n\nMr Millward welcomed the report, saying: \"Despite the progress made in access and participation for some groups, there are still wide gaps for mature students, for white males from the lowest income groups, and at the universities with the highest admissions requirements.\n\n\"And when students do enter higher education, certain groups also face real barriers to succeeding during and after their studies, particularly black and Asian students and those with disabilities,\" he said.", "Dame Barbara Windsor with her husband Scott Mitchell pictured together in December 2017\n\nThe actress Dame Barbara Windsor has been diagnosed with Alzheimer's, her husband has said.\n\nScott Mitchell, 55, confirmed to the BBC that his 80-year-old wife had been given the news in April 2014.\n\nHe said the EastEnders star had been taking medication to manage her condition but that symptoms had worsened in recent weeks.\n\nThe veteran of film and TV was made an MBE in 2000 and a dame in 2015 for services to drama.\n\nIn an interview with The Sun, Mr Mitchell said: \"Since her 80th birthday last August, a definite continual confusion has set in, so it's becoming a lot more difficult for us to hide.\n\n\"I'm doing this because I want us to be able to go out and, if something isn't quite right, it will be OK because people will now know that she has Alzheimer's and will accept it for what it is.\"\n\nDame Barbara, pictured in April 2018, was diagnosed four years ago\n\nDame Barbara played Peggy Mitchell in EastEnders - a character who became known for her cry \"Get outta my pub!\"\n\n\"I hope speaking out will help other families dealing with loved ones who have this cruel disease. Secondly, I want the public to know because they are naturally very drawn to Barb­ara and she loves talking to them,\" he added.\n\nMr Mitchell said his wife was aware that he was making her diagnosis public.\n\n\"She often asks me, 'Do the public know that I'm not well?' And she asked me again this morning,\" he said.\n\n\"I said they didn't yet, but we were going to have to let them know because so many people are talking now. But if she forgets that she gave me her blessing, well, I'll just have to deal with that.\"\n\nDame Barbara received her honour at Buckingham Palace in 2016\n\nRoss Kemp, who played Dame Barbara's on-screen son Grant Mitchell in EastEnders, spoke of his love for the actress and her husband on Twitter.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Ross Kemp This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nKemp said he hoped that talking about the condition openly \"will make it easier for others\" to do so.\n\nHappy times: The couple are pictured in 2000\n\nMr Mitchell said he noticed his wife found it difficult to learn her lines in 2009, just before she left EastEnders for the first time, but they didn't think anything of it.\n\nBy early 2012, she had started repeating certain sentences and stories, he said.\n\nFollowing a series of mental agility tests and a brain scan, he said, she was diagnosed.\n\nHe recalls that on hearing the news, his wife mouthed the words \"I'm so sorry\" to her husband.\n\n\"I squeezed her hand back and said, 'Don't worry, we'll be OK'\", he told the newspaper.\n\nCarey Mulligan, who is an ambassador for the Alzheimer's Society and spoke about the disease at the UN last year, praised Dame Barbara's family's decision.\n\nSpeaking at the Cannes film festival, she told the BBC: \"I think it's really wonderful and brave for the family and Dame Barbara Windsor to come out publicly and speak about Alzheimer's.\n\n\"It's so important as a society that we become more aware of dementia and we become more accepting as a community.\n\n\"For so many years there's been such a misunderstanding about what it is - that it's not a natural part of ageing, that it is a disease of the brain.\"\n\nMulligan became a spokesperson for the organisation because her late grandmother had Alzheimer's for the last 16 years of her life.\n\nShe added that education was important \"so society can become more dementia-friendly\", saying: \"Whenever a public figure speaks out, it's a great advantage for everyone.\"\n\nThe actress appeared in sitcoms including One Foot in the Grave\n\nDame Barbara appeared in nine Carry On films and played the pub landlord Peggy Mitchell in EastEnders.\n\nThe actress first appeared on stage at the age of 13 in a pantomime and was soon performing in the West End musical Love From Judy.\n\nIn 1964 she worked on her first Carry On film - Carry on Spying.\n\nShe was also in sitcoms including Dad's Army and One Foot in the Grave.\n\nIn 2009 she was given a Lifetime Achievement Award at The British Soap Awards.\n\nTim Parry, director at Alzheimer's Research UK, said: \"We are saddened to hear of Dame Barbara's diagnosis with Alzheimer's. It's to be congratulated that Scott is speaking out to encourage other affected individuals and families to do the same when it's right for them.\n\n\"It's important to bring the disease out into the open as a crucial step towards us tackling it. Alzheimer's is a physical disease, in the same way that cancer or heart disease are, and there shouldn't be stigma in being open about it.\"\n\nHe described Dame Barbara as a \"much-loved figure on our screens and in public life\", adding: \"Our hearts go out to her and her family. We hope she is able to maintain and enjoy her quality of life for as long as possible.\"\n\nAlzheimer's disease is the most common cause of dementia - a syndrome associated with an ongoing decline of brain functioning.\n\nThere are currently around 850,000 people in the UK with dementia.\n\nSymptoms of Alzheimer's disease include memory loss, confusion and problems with speech, but the disease can start years before patients display such symptoms.\n\nNone of the treatments currently available can stop the disease, however they can help to temporarily reduce the symptoms.", "Faster, more frequent trains are being promised by Network Rail as it embarks on a digital overhaul to cope with rising passenger numbers, ageing equipment and the construction of HS2.\n\nThe aim is for 70% of journeys to benefit from digital technology by the time HS2 reaches Manchester in 2033.\n\nRoutes into various London mainline stations and across the Pennines will be the first to benefit.\n\nNetwork Rail described it as \"a turning point in the history of our railways\".\n\nMore than half the UK's analogue signalling systems will need to be replaced in the next 15 years.\n\nThat would cost about £20bn but deliver very little benefit to passengers, said Network Rail chief executive Mark Carne.\n\n\"New digital signalling offers a more cost-effective alternative that also brings significant benefit for rail users, such as more capacity, speed and reliability,\" he said.\n\n\"Not since the railway transformed from steam to diesel in the 1960s has a technological breakthrough held such promise to vastly improve our railway.\"\n\nDigital train control is already a reality on Crossrail and on Thameslink services through London Bridge, which uses \"fly-by-wire\" automatically operated trains.\n\nIn the five years to 2024 the industry is planning to introduce it across the Pennines, the southern end of the East Coast main line into King's Cross and on some major commuter routes into Waterloo.\n\nThe digital technology will safely allow more services to operate every hour by running trains closer together, improving frequency and capacity and reducing signal failures.\n\nTrack is currently divided into long sections separated by traffic lights, but these will become shorter and the signalling system will be visible in the train's cab.\n\nThe programme will be launched at an event in York on Thursday to be attended by Transport Secretary Chris Grayling.\n\nHe said: \"We're not going to transform a Victorian system overnight - there's been not enough done for many, many years.\n\n\"Passenger numbers have doubled, the railways are bursting at the seams. We're now spending £20bn over the next five years to try and create a more reliable network.\"", "Jojo Moyes said it was \"vital\" that Quick Reads kept going\n\nAuthor Jojo Moyes has stumped up funds to save an adult literacy scheme from closure after it lost its sponsorship.\n\nMoyes, whose books include the best-selling Me Before You, will fund the £360,000 budget to keep the Quick Reads scheme going for another three years.\n\nThe initiative has distributed 4.8 million copies of short novels by big-name authors since it began in 2006.\n\nShe said: \"Every now and then you have to make a decision about whether you're going to make a difference somewhere.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jojo Moyes: \"They're really good books, they're just a little bit more accessible.\"\n\nQuick Reads commissions high-profile authors to write novels that are aimed at people with lower literacy levels as well as those who may have little time for reading or have fallen out of the habit.\n\nThey are sold for £1 and are distributed to libraries, prisons, colleges, hospitals and adult learning organisations.\n\nMoyes contributed a story, Paris For One, in 2015, and other authors who have taken part include Andy McNab, Jeffrey Archer, Malala, Roddy Doyle, Mark Billingham and Fern Britton.\n\nMoyes told BBC News it was a \"really effective low-cost method of improving the reading skills and enjoyment\" of less confident readers and others.\n\nShe said the decision to end it was \"a really short-sighted measure at a time when libraries are closing\".\n\nQuick Reads was sponsored by chocolate company Galaxy from 2010-16. They provided limited support last year but then pulled out completely, and publishers and private donors chipped in to keep it going this year.\n\nBut a search for a new sponsor proved fruitless and the scheme was due to be wound up.\n\nHowever, with Moyes' backing, it will now resume from 2020-23.\n\nShe said: \"I talked to my husband over a long weekend and did some diligence, but the more we spoke to people who had been involved in it, the more we felt it was vital that it continued.\n\n\"My aim is to buy them a window, if you like, so we can put other long-term funding in place at the end of three years.\n\n\"I just don't think this is a scheme should fail because it's a win for authors, it's a win for publishers and it's certainly a win for readers.\"\n\nThe scheme is run by The Reading Agency, whose chief executive Sue Wilkinson said: \"It was with a heavy heart that we announced the end of Quick Reads last month, after seeking ongoing support for the initiative for 18 months.\n\n\"We couldn't be more thankful to Jojo for recognising the importance of the scheme and so generously providing the funding to enable it to continue.\n\n\"The moving testimonies from the public, authors and all of our partners last month demonstrated how much they value these wonderful books and how Quick Reads have touched so many people's lives.\"\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 soldiers have been rehearsing for the big day\n\nPrince Harry's ex-Army comrades have spoken of their nerves at being given a ceremonial role at his wedding to Meghan Markle.\n\nSome of the soldiers who trained and served with Harry will have \"pride of place\" outside St George's Chapel in Windsor Castle.\n\nMore than 250 members of the armed forces will perform ceremonial duties at the 19 May wedding.\n\nPrince Harry was an Apache helicopter pilot in Afghanistan in 2012.\n\nHe was known as Capt Wales while with the 662 Squadron, 3 Regiment Army Air Corps, in Helmand Province.\n\nTwenty-three soldiers, one sergeant and one officer from the regiment will line the street outside the chapel.\n\nCapt William Calder, 32, who will lead his soldiers in a royal salute, said he reacted with \"stunned surprise\" when he was told he would be going.\n\nHe said: \"It makes me a little bit nervous that we will be front and centre - the Queen and the senior members of the royal family will be stepping out the door right beside us.\"\n\nThe officer said his family are \"pretty excited\".\n\nCapt William Calder will lead the troops at the wedding\n\nCapt Calder said his only meeting with the prince was at a cafe at the Army Aviation Centre in Middle Wallop, Hampshire, when Harry asked if he could join the officer's table.\n\nHe said: \"I knew he looked familiar, finally it dawned on me it was Prince Harry and of course he was utterly natural and charming and friendly and just like any other officer in the regiment.\"\n\nPreparations are well under way at Windsor Castle\n\nCpl Stuart Armstrong, 27, a communications specialist who worked with the prince \"day-to-day\" during Apache training, said it was an \"honour\" to be nominated and the soldiers had been busy preparing.\n\nThey will form a guard of honour for the royal couple with a half company of 25 personnel from RAF Honington in Suffolk, where the prince is Honorary Air Commandant.\n• None Royal wedding: All you need to know", "The video filmed covertly by anti-hunt activities allegedly shows a terrierman carrying a fox cub into a shed housing hunting hounds\n\nA police inquiry into the alleged killing of fox cubs by hunting hounds stalled for nearly two years while the officer in charge was himself investigated, the BBC can reveal.\n\nWest Mercia PC Richard Barradale-Smith has now been cleared of the allegations against him - including that he had had affairs with anti-hunting activists.\n\nAt least one claim was made by somebody with links to the hunt in the case.\n\nPolice have now said five people are to be charged with animal cruelty.\n\nThree men and one woman aged between 29 and 54 will appear at Birmingham Magistrates' Court next week.\n\nIn May 2016, activists from the Hunt Investigation Team used hidden cameras to film a South Herefordshire Hunt terrierman apparently taking the young foxes into a shed of barking hounds before emerging with their lifeless bodies.\n\nThe anti-hunting activists believe the terriermen were training the dogs to see foxes as prey.\n\nThe footage and the bodies of two cubs were handed to PC Barradale-Smith who had investigated previous allegations made by animal rights campaigners.\n\nBut West Mercia Police then began an investigation into the officer after receiving an allegation that PC Barradale-Smith had been in a relationship with two anti-hunting activists, including the woman who brought him the evidence.\n\nThis would have been misconduct in public office.\n\nPolice searched both his house and that of the anti-hunting activist, who has asked the BBC not to use her name.\n\nAnonymous threatening letters were sent to another woman who has campaigned against fox-hunting, also accusing her of having an affair with the officer. She passed them to the police.\n\nThe person who made the allegation works in the farming community and has close links to the South Herefordshire Hunt. He is not one of those charged.\n\nThe BBC understands he did not name the officer and told the force he did not want to get further involved.\n\nAnti-hunt investigators said the foxes were alive in a cage before later being filmed lifeless\n\nMr Barradale-Smith's family believes it was a \"smear campaign\" aimed at disrupting the case.\n\nFurther allegations against the officer were made in October 2016 by a senior prosecutor who said PC Barradale-Smith had leaked confidential information to the activist who gave him the video evidence.\n\nHe was also accused of bombarding the CPS with emails.\n\nThis triggered a separate misconduct investigation and he was taken off the fox cubs case.\n\nIn January 2017, the officer went on sick leave and is yet to return to work.\n\nBy March this year both investigations had been resolved and he has been cleared of any wrong-doing.\n\nNow, within weeks, the decision to prosecute has been taken, two years after the investigation began.\n\nThe video allegedly shows a hunt worker taking foxes out of a cage in a lorry and into the home of the hounds\n\nThe Hunt Investigation Team described the force's response as a scandal and claimed the police seemed more interested in \"harassing\" the officer who investigated the allegations than examining the allegations themselves.\n\nThe activist alleged to have been involved with the PC asked to remain anonymous but said: \"The police are there to investigate without fear or favour when evidence of a crime is brought to their attention.\"\n\n\"For two years they've been investigating an unsubstantiated allegation that I had an affair with a police officer that I've met once. It would have been very easy to show that was completely false and what you would have expected West Mercia to do is say, given the source, 'is there a conflict of interest here'.\"\n\nIn a joint statement, West Mercia Police and the CPS said the fox cub inquiry had involved a number of \"complex factors\".\n\nThe force refused to comment about PC Barradale-Smith.", "Israel says its forces have struck almost all of Iran's infrastructure in Syria, in response to an Iranian rocket attack on the occupied Golan Heights.", "But in 2018, the then prime minister lost a general election to his former mentor, 92-year-old Mahathir Mohamad. The Barisan Nasional coalition, which had governed the country since its independence in 1957, was voted out of power.\n\nFollowing the defeat, Najib's properties were raided, and both he and his wife were charged with a string of offences.\n\nHe has since been found guilty on seven charges of corruption linked to the multibillion-dollar state investment fund, 1MDB. Najib could face decades in prison.\n\nNajib has always denied the allegations and while still in office had been cleared by the country's authorities.\n\nBut his time in office will likely be remembered as an era plagued with scandal and a strengthening of central power.\n\nNajib Razak is the eldest son of Abdul Razak, Malaysia's second prime minister and the nephew of Hussein Onn, its third prime minister.\n\nAfter earning an industrial economics degree from the University of Nottingham in the UK, Najib returned to Malaysia in 1974 and worked for the state oil firm Petronas.\n\nNajib and his wife have both denied accusations linking them to 1MDB corruption\n\nWhen he moved into politics, Najib held numerous cabinet posts - as minister for energy, telecommunications, education, finance and defence - before becoming deputy prime minister to Abdullah Badawi in 2004.\n\nWhen Mr Abdullah stepped down in 2009, he handed power to Najib.\n\nNajib initially promised a more liberal political approach, but did not really follow through.\n\nWhile he reformed tough laws on public gatherings and repealed the controversial Internal Security Act in 2011, he later reinstated detention without trial.\n\nThe following year, he also went back on a pledge to repeal a controversial sedition law and instead strengthened it.\n\nNajib set up the 1MDB state investment fund in 2009 to help develop the economy\n\nCritics say the laws were a way for Najib to silence his political opponents and to pander to the ethnic Malay-Muslim majority who formed his political party's largest support base.\n\nOpposition leader and former deputy prime minister Anwar Ibrahim was convicted of sodomy for a second time in 2015, charges Mr Anwar maintained were politically motivated.\n\nThe opposition politician has since been pardoned by the new prime minister and is seen as a likely successor to Mr Mahathir.\n\nIn 2016, a security act aimed at combating terrorism was used to detain electoral reform activists.\n\nAhead of the 2018 election, Najib's government set up a law against spreading \"fake news\".\n\nThe real blight of Najib's political career has been accusations of corruption and mismanagement over the state investment fund, 1Malaysia Development Berhad.\n\nNajib, members of his family and several allies are accused of embezzling huge sums allegedly used to buy everything from artwork to high-end real estate around the globe.\n\nRaids on properties linked to Najib uncovered luxury goods worth millions of dollars\n\nIn July 2015 he replaced his deputy, who had criticised his handling of the affair, and the attorney-general investigating the case was dismissed for health reasons.\n\nIn January 2016 the new attorney-general cleared Najib of wrongdoing but the criticism remained.\n\nAhead of the 2018 election, mass demonstrations in Kuala Lumpur called on him to resign.\n\nAfter his defeat, authorities reopened their investigation and charged the former PM with money laundering, breach of trust and abusing his position.\n\nOn 28 July he was found guilty of money laundering, abuse of power and criminal breach of trust. He had pleaded not guilty to all seven charges.\n\nNajib said he would appeal and his lawyers are seeking a delay to his sentencing.\n\nThe former prime minister also faces a separate trial that began last August and looks at accusations that he illicitly obtained 2.28bn ringgit ($550m, £448m) from 1MDB between 2011 and 2014.\n\nHe faces 21 counts of money-laundering and four of abuse of power. He denies any wrongdoing.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The search-and-rescue effort is under way in Kenya\n\nAt least 41 people have died after heavy rains caused a dam to burst in Kenya, sweeping away homes across a vast area of farmland.\n\nThe breach happened on Wednesday near the town of Solai, 190km (120 miles) north-west of the capital, Nairobi.\n\nThe dead are thought to include children and women trapped in mud. The Kenyan Red Cross says it has rescued about 40 people so far.\n\nMore than 2,000 people are said to have been left homeless.\n\nLocal officials say the full extent of the damage is not yet clear. There are fears the death toll could rise as the search-and-rescue operation continues.\n\nThe heavy rains in Kenya and other regional states come after a severe drought which left millions of people in need of food aid.\n\nThe dead included children and women trapped in the mud\n\nEleven bodies, mostly of women and children, were recovered at a coffee plantation, an unnamed police officer told AFP news agency.\n\nIt seemed that they had been fleeing but \"could not make it due to the force and speed of the water from the flooded dam\", the officer added.\n\nMore than 2,000 people are said to have been left homeless\n\nThe Patel dam, located on private farmland, and reportedly used for irrigation and fish farming, broke its walls and swept away hundreds of homes downstream.\n\nMuch of the area was completely devastated as power lines, homes and buildings were carried away by the fast-running water.\n\nA secondary school was also flooded, while a primary school was swept away.\n\nTorrential rains are continuing to fall, hampering rescue efforts. Shocked and grieving survivors are sheltering under the canopies of remaining buildings.\n\nFoundation slabs of the swept away buildings are lying exposed along a wide path, created by the raging water.\n\nThere is a deep gully running down the hill from where Patel dam burst. Household items, boulders and mangled iron sheets are strewn across the flood path.\n\nKenya Red Cross volunteers, the police, and military officers are at the scene.\n\nIt is being described as the biggest tragedy in Kenya since heavy rain started nearly two months ago.\n\nThe bodies of two women were discovered several miles away from the area affected by the bursting of the dam, the Reuters news agency reported.\n\nWitnesses said they heard a loud bang before the waves swept through nearly 2km (1.2 miles) of farmland where many people live and work.\n\nOn Thursday, rescue workers brandishing shovels scoured through the rubble and mud, searching for survivors and victims\n\n\"The water has caused huge destruction of both life and property. The extent of the damage has yet to be ascertained,\" said Lee Kinyajui, governor of Nakuru County.\n\nMiriam Karimi told AFP she had not been able to find her three children in the aftermath, including her four-year-old son.\n\n\"I'm so confused. I hope they are alive,\" she said.\n\nSurvivor Veronica Wanjiku Ngigi, 67, told Reuters that she was at home brewing tea when her son's wife rushed in to say they needed to get to higher ground as the dam had burst.\n\n\"It was a sea of water. My neighbour was killed when the water smashed through the wall of his house. He was blind so he could not run. They found his body in the morning,\" she was quoted as saying.\n\n\"My other neighbours also died. All our houses have been ruined,\" Ms Ngigi added.\n\nThe Patel dam is one of three reservoirs owned by a large-scale farmer in the area.\n\nIts walls are said to have caved in due to the high volumes of water following heavy rains that have been pounding the country.\n\nThe flood swept through farmland, wrecking homes in its wake\n\nThe burst dam was \"a sea of water,\" one survivor said\n\nLocal leaders are now seeking to find out whether the farmer was licensed to erect those dams, amid concerns about the condition of the remaining two which are also said to be full, reports the BBC's Ferdinand Omondi in the capital, Nairobi.\n\nHe has not yet commented.\n\nBefore Wednesday's disaster, 132 people have died countrywide as a result of heavy rains since March, according to official statistics.\n\nMore than 220,000 people have also had their homes destroyed.", "A dazzling neon blue tide in San Diego, California, has filled its beaches with electric aqua colours.\n\nBy day the plankton turn the water red, but come nightfall they radiate a blue glow when the algae are disturbed by movement, such as waves crashing on to the shoreline.\n\nBioluminescent light shows are not uncommon globally, but the last red tide in San Diego was in 2013 - and it's no less beautiful each time they grace the oceans.\n\nSee more images here", "Safaa Boular was \"sincere and determined\" in her intentions, prosecutors said\n\nA teenage girl plotted a gun and grenade attack at the British Museum after her attempts to become a jihadi bride were thwarted, a court has heard.\n\nSafaa Boular was 17 when she allegedly decided to be a \"martyr\" after her Islamic State fighter fiancé was killed in Syria, the Old Bailey was told.\n\nMs Boular, now 18, denies two counts of preparing acts of terrorism.\n\nHer sister Rizlaine Boular, 21, has admitted planning an attack with knives in Westminster.\n\nShe was given assistance and support by her mother, Mina Dich, the jury was told.\n\nMina Dich (left) provided assistance and support to her daughter Rizlaine Boular, court heard\n\nProsecutor Duncan Atkinson QC said Safaa Boular, who lived with her mother in Vauxhall, London, wanted to \"unleash violence and terror in the heart of London\".\n\nBut Joel Bennathan QC, representing Ms Boular, said the teenager had been \"sexually groomed\" and \"groomed to be radicalised\" online by IS fighter Naweed Hussain.\n\nHe said her family had \"encouraged\" and \"celebrated\" it.\n\nMr Atkinson said she declared her love for Hussain in August 2016 after three months of chatting on social media.\n\nThe prosecutor told jurors she wanted to join Hussain in Syria where they would wear suicide belts and, in Hussain's words, \"depart the world holding hands and taking others with them\".\n\nThe court heard Rizlaine Boular had also tried to go to Syria two years before.\n\nAfter Safaa Boular's plan was uncovered, she allegedly switched her attention to Britain, contacting Hussain by phone through encrypted Telegram chat.\n\nBut British security services had deployed officers to engage in online communication with the pair, jurors heard.\n\nMr Atkinson said: \"It was clear that Hussain had been planning an act of terrorism with Safaa Boular in which she could engage if she remained in this country. Both Hussain and Safaa Boular talked of a planned ambush involving grenades and or firearms.\"\n\nShe also told an officer posing as an IS fighter that all she needed was a \"car and a knife to get what I want to achieve\", the court heard.\n\nMr Atkinson said: \"Based on her preparation and discussion, it appears she planned to launch an attack against members of the public selected largely at random in the environs of that cultural jewel and most popular of tourist attractions, the British Museum in central London.\"\n\nAn attack would have created at least \"widespread panic\" and was intended to cause injury and death, it was claimed.\n\nWhen she learned Hussain had been killed in April 2017, Ms Boular's determination was strengthened, the court heard.\n\nBut within days, she was charged with planning to go to Syria so was unable to carry out her \"chilling intentions\", the prosecutor said.\n\nHe said: \"That those intentions were not just chilling but sincere and determined is demonstrated by the fact that she did not abandon them even when she was unable to put them into effect herself.\n\n\"Rather, she sought to encourage her sister Rizlaine to carry the torch forward in her stead.\"\n\nIn calls to her sister from jail, Safaa Boular referenced an Alice in Wonderland-themed tea party which was code for an attack, the court heard.\n\nMr Atkinson told jurors the older sibling had admitted preparing acts of terrorism.\n\nRizlaine Boular spent three days carrying out reconnaissance of major landmarks in Westminster and bought knives and a rucksack, the court heard.\n\nBased on her reconnaissance and discussion, it appears she planned a knife attack in Westminster, Mr Atkinson said.\n\nShe was arrested on 27 April last year, the day of the planned attack, the court heard.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Andy Murray is doing \"everything he can\" to return from injury in time for Wimbledon, says his mother Judy.\n\nThe former world number one, a two-time winner at the All England Club, has not played competitively since last year's championships.\n\n\"His goal was always to be ready for the grass-court season and, fingers crossed, that will happen,\" Judy Murray told the Victoria Derbyshire show.\n\n\"I'm sure when he's got some news he will share that.\"\n\nDoubts had emerged this week about Murray's return, with news that he is unlikely to feature in a tournament at Loughborough this month.\n\nThe first event Murray has publicly committed to is the grass-court tournament in Rosmalen in the Netherlands, from 11 to 17 June.\n\n\"The strength and depth of men's tennis is so great that I don't think anybody would want to come back into that environment unless you are 100%,\" said Judy, adding that it had been \"a long, frustrating lay-off\" for her youngest son, who is now the British number two.\n\nAsked if she had any fears about his career being over, the former Fed Cup captain dismissed the notion, saying: \"I don't think so; he's still got a lot of things he wants to achieve in the game.\"", "A 66-year-old man has been robbed of a five-figure sum after a group of men burst into his home and stole a safe.\n\nPolice have described the attack, which took place on Friday at about 14:15 in Shields Road in Galston, near Kilmarnock, as \"incredible callous\".\n\nThey said they believed the raid was pre-planned by about four or five men.\n\nIt follows the theft of a safe from a family home in Paisley, in which two men forced their way into a house while a couple and a young child were inside.\n\nFollowing the theft in Kilmarnock, the men made off in a silver coloured Lexus GS300 car, which had a broken rear windscreen, heading towards the centre of Galston.\n\nDet Sgt Ewan Bell said: \"Although the man was not physically injured, this robbery was a terrifying experience for him to have to go through and he has been left shaken.\n\n\"Nobody should be afraid in their own home and it is vital that we find the men responsible for this incredibly callous and forceful crime.\"\n\nMr Bell said officers were going through CCTV and making door-to-door inquiries in an effort to find the men responsible.\n\nHe added: \"We believe that the man we have described may have been in the area in the days leading up to the robbery and that it was a pre-planned, targeted attack.\"\n\nOne of the men was wearing a grey balaclava while another is described as being 5ft 10in tall, of stocky build with pale skin. He is described as having short cropped hair that was either blond or red and stubble on his face.\n\nMeanwhile, police are investigating an armed robbery at a family home in Paisley in which a safe was also stolen.\n\nA 27-year-old woman answered her door to two men in the town's Dee Crescent, at about 11:50 on Friday, when they forced their way in.\n\nThe woman was in the house with her young child and 31-year-old partner. Police said the men managed to get into one of the rooms where they stole the safe.\n\nOne of the suspects dropped a \"bladed weapon\" after being chased away from the scene by the 31-year-old man.\n\nDet Con John Sharkey said the two suspects were dressed entirely in black and would have \"looked completely out of place\".\n\nHe added: \"Although thankfully not injured, this was very distressing for both the man and woman involved especially as their young child was also in the house at the time.\n\n\"The man gave chase after the suspects along Dee Crescent and managed to recover one of the weapons used, but the men got away.\n\n\"At this time we do not know why their house was targeted.\"\n\nThe suspects, who made off on foot towards Fulbar Road, are described as both white, between 30 and 40 years of age and wearing almost identical clothing.", "Marchers made their way through Glasgow city centre\n\nTens of thousands of people have taken part in a march through Glasgow in support of Scottish independence.\n\nThe All Under One Banner march left Kelvingrove Park at 13:30 BST and made its way through the city centre before ending with a rally at Glasgow Green.\n\nSome people joined in with the crowds of marchers waving Saltires as the event passed along the city streets.\n\nThe March For Independence is one of a series of events taking place across Scotland between May and October.\n\nPolice Scotland said that about 30,000-35,000 people had attended the rally at Glasgow Green.\n\nEvent organiser Neil Mackay said the march was not a \"political party march\".\n\nHe added: \"Obviously independence has got political ramifications, but it's a moral cause, that is not a political cause.\n\n\"This is a moral cause and so this movement, this march, is open to everybody who desires an independent Scotland, whether they are Scottish or they are not Scottish.\n\n\"There's people here from across the world who have travelled, and obviously from across the UK.\"\n\nMarchers prepare to set off from Kelvingorve Park in Glasgow\n\nThe All Under One Banner describes itself as a pro-independence organisation\n\nAll Under One Banner describes itself as a \"pro-independence organisation whose core aim is to march at regular intervals until Scotland is free\" and says it is open to \"everyone who desires to live in an independent nation\".\n\nA number of speakers and musical acts took part in the rally on a stage in the park, alongside a selection of pro-independence community stalls.\n\nThe event saw a series of traffic management measures put in place around the M8, with the closure of the westbound carriageway from the junction 15 on-slip at Townhead and a lane closure in place through to junction 18 off-slip at Charing Cross.", "Last updated on .From the section Scottish Premiership\n\nCeltic secured an eighth consecutive title in style with a convincing win away to wasteful Aberdeen.\n\nNeil Lennon's side are now two-thirds of the way towards a third consecutive clean sweep of domestic trophies after already lifting the League Cup.\n\nThe Dons' James Wilson fired wastefully against a post before Mikael Lustig's diving header opened the scoring.\n\nJozo Simunovic rose to meet a Callum McGregor corner after half-time before Odsonne Edouard fired the third.\n\nFor Celtic not to have finished the weekend as champions for a 50th time, Aberdeen would have had to have ended the visitors' 11-game unbeaten run, combined with a win for second-placed Rangers at home to Hibernian on Sunday.\n\nBut the Glasgow side's sixth consecutive win at Pittodrie means they have now won eight domestic trophies in a row before their Scottish Cup final against Heart of Midlothian on 25 May.\n\nCeltic will now eye matching the nine titles in a row they last achieved in 1974 and which was matched by city rivals Rangers in 1997.\n\nAberdeen remain in a battle for fourth with Kilmarnock, the Ayrshire side later going above the Dons on goal difference with victory at Tynecastle.\n• None Who did you vote man of the match?\n• None Games, goals & eight in a row - How does Celtic's latest title stack up?\n\nAs a club, Celtic have experienced great sadness in recent weeks with the loss of two of their precious Lisbon Lions. The tributes have flooded in from all corners for Billy McNeill and Stevie Chalmers. The lives of two great footballers who helped lift the European Cup have been celebrated in word and song and that carried on at Pittodrie.\n\nAnother minute's applause but most importantly, given what these men represented, another victory and another league title secured. Eight in a row was never in doubt, but it was banked here.\n\nCeltic survived a few scares but cantered away to win handily. Indeed, that could be the story of their season. Some wobbles but easy enough in the end, a league won largely in third gear.\n\nThe Dons could have delayed the inevitability of the title party, but teams don't tend to beat Celtic in domestic competition while spurning big moments. How the Dons will rue the early chances they had. How Derek McInnes, sitting in the purgatory of the stand while serving his touchline ban, will have suffered angst at what might have been.\n\nThese weren't half chances or 50-50 affairs. These were borderline sitters, both of them falling to James Wilson, a striker who finished like strikers tend to do when they're not used to scoring goals. Wilson, big on reputation but low on end product, can only boast 13 goals in a career that spans almost 90 games.\n\nCeltic had the lion's share of possession, but it was the Dons who carved out the most interesting opportunities before Lustig got the Celtic party started. The first of them came when Scott Brown was hustled and harried and gave the ball away in the process.\n\nAberdeen swept left and, when Greg Stewart's cross came in it fell to Wilson, standing all alone and so close to Scott Bain that he could have heard him gulp. His volley was thumped into the ground and bounced up and over the Celtic goalkeeper's crossbar.\n\nEdouard wasted a decent chance soon after, but another huge moment followed. This was the second act of wastefulness from Wilson. Scott McKenna did wonderfully to win the ball before bombing down the left and curling a gorgeous ball across goal and into the path of Sam Cosgrove.\n\nThe striker's shot was beaten away by Bain, but when the loose ball broke to Wilson, it looked certain that the Dons were about to take the lead. Instead, Wilson struck his shot off the outside of Bain's right-hand post and wide.\n\nIt was a calamitous miss and, sure enough, Aberdeen were made to pay for it, just as Kilmarnock were made to pay for not executing at Celtic Park last week when the game was still goalless. Looking gift horses in the mouth is not the best plan against the champions.\n\nSeven minutes after Wilson's miss, Lustig got away from Stevie May and dived to head in McGregor's excellent delivery from the left. It was yet another assist for McGregor, a titan of this team - and there'd be a second one later on.\n\nLustig's terrific finish was the cue for the celebrations. Celtic only needed a point to lock down the title. They cruised on to take all three.\n\nCeltic doubled their lead eight minutes into the new half. An out-swinging McGregor corner was headed home by Simunovic, the centre-half who, over the last few weeks, has showed the centre-forwards how to do it.\n\nThe hosts had a chance or two to halve the deficit but couldn't produce Celtic's efficiency in front of goal. They worked hard and got frustrated at times.\n\nCosgrove was fortunate not to be sent off when he brought down Jonny Hayes, who had appeared for Kieran Tierney. The full-back, still slightly diminished by injury, will now surely be wrapped in cotton wool before the cup final and that tilt for the treble treble.\n\nCeltic's title day had a last flourish when they broke free and Edouard added a third, and a 21st for the season. That well and truly sent the visitors into raptures.\n\nCeltic interim manager Neil Lennon: \"It's a great way to get over the line and now we can enjoy it.\n\n\"I'm really delighted with my defence. Simunovic has come back in beside Ajer and has been outstanding, Lustig outstanding, Kieran already a Celtic great, and my goalkeeper has been unbelievable.\n\n\"He was unbelievable today when we got sloppy and put a bit of pressure on ourselves, but the second half was comprehensive.\"\n\nAberdeen manager Derek McInnes: \"I thought we were well in the game. Celtic started the game in charge, which is understandable as we had one or two playing out of position.\n\n\"But I thought that, once we got a foothold in the game, we had good opportunities and looked a threat on the counter-attack.\n\n\"The only thing we were guilty of is not putting the ball into the net. If you don't take your chances against a team like Celtic, it comes back to bite you and it certainly did.\"\n• None Substitution, Celtic. Scott Sinclair replaces Mikael Lustig because of an injury.\n• None Scott Brown (Celtic) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt missed. James Wilson (Aberdeen) left footed shot from outside the box is too high.\n• None Attempt blocked. James Forrest (Celtic) right footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked.\n• None Goal! Aberdeen 0, Celtic 3. Odsonne Edouard (Celtic) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Tomas Rogic.\n• None Attempt saved. Scott McKenna (Aberdeen) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.\n• None Substitution, Aberdeen. Ethan Ross replaces Greg Halford because of an injury.\n• None Attempt missed. Greg Stewart (Aberdeen) left footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses the top left corner.\n• None Attempt missed. Odsonne Edouard (Celtic) left footed shot from outside the box is just a bit too high. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "On Thursday, voters will go to the polls to elect 462 councillors to Northern Ireland's 11 councils.\n\nBut who are the young people who want your vote?\n\nBBC News NI met the youngest candidates from each of Northern Ireland's largest parties.\n\nTwo of them are canvassing while studying for their A-level exams and one is in her final week of university.\n\nThey spoke to the BBC's Erinn Kerr about moustaches, memes and making a difference.\n\nFull lists of the candidates standing in each council area can be found on the Electoral Office's website.", "Theresa May must resign or the Conservatives should force her out, after the party's heavy local election losses, Iain Duncan Smith has said.\n\nThe former Tory leader called Mrs May a \"caretaker PM\" and described her attempts to reach a Brexit deal with Labour as \"absurd\".\n\nThe party suffered its worst local election result in England since 1995.\n\nOther senior Conservatives have urged Tory MPs to compromise with Labour to ensure Brexit is delivered.\n\nElections were held on Thursday for 248 English councils, six mayors, and all 11 councils in Northern Ireland. No elections took place in Scotland or Wales.\n\nThe Conservatives lost 1,334 councillors, while Labour failed to make expected gains, instead losing 82 seats.\n\nThe Liberal Democrats benefited from Tory losses, gaining 703 seats, with the Greens and independents also making gains.\n\nFollowing the results, Mrs May and Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn both insisted they would push ahead with talks seeking cross-party agreement on leaving the EU.\n\nMrs May said it was clear the public wanted \"to see the issue of Brexit resolved\".\n\nBut Mr Duncan Smith, a leading Brexiteer, said many Conservatives would refuse to back any deal reached between the two parties.\n\nMrs May must announce her departure \"very soon\", he said, and if she did not go, the 1922 Committee of backbench MPs would have to force her to do so.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC, he said: \"As a result of the devastating election result, the PM has in effect become a caretaker.\n\n\"As such, she is not empowered to make any deal with the Labour Party which itself suffered a very similar result. Two discredited administrations making a discredited deal is not the answer to the electorate.\"\n\nIn December, Mrs May survived a vote of no-confidence in her leadership of the Conservative Party, but in March she pledged to stand down if and when Parliament ratified her Brexit withdrawal agreement with the EU.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or 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\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe UK had been due to leave the EU on 29 March, but the deadline was pushed back to 31 October after Parliament was unable to agree a way forward.\n\nRuth Davidson warned the parties would suffer the wrath of voters in the EU elections over Brexit\n\nIn the wake of the Conservatives' local election losses, senior Tories have called for the party to compromise in order to reach an agreement with Labour to end the Brexit deadlock.\n\nScottish Tory leader Ruth Davidson called for the negotiating teams of both parties - who are currently locked in talks - to \"get Brexit sorted, get a deal over the line and let Britain move on\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Theresa May on local election results: \"Simple message... just get on and deliver Brexit\"\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock said the Conservative Party needed to listen to the election results and be \"in the mood for compromise\".\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio 4's Today programme, he said the Conservatives might have to move towards Labour's proposal of a permanent customs union - a move many Brexiteers in the party oppose - in order to solve the impasse in Westminster.\n\nMrs May's government has previously ruled out remaining in a customs union after the UK leaves the EU, arguing it would prevent the UK from setting its own trade policy.\n\nLabour has said the EU may show flexibility over the issue and allow the UK \"a say\" in future trade deals.\n\nMr Hancock suggested \"coming up with something in-between\", and called for \"an open dialogue in which we can make an agreement\".\n\nBut Mr Duncan Smith said a customs union was \"the worst of all worlds because you lose your decision-making capacity\".\n\nMeanwhile, Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt said there was a \"glimmer of hope\" that a compromise between the Conservative and Labour \"core-voters\" could be reached.\n\nHe added that while he supported the withdrawal deal reached between the EU and Mrs May, there might be things that could be done to make it \"more acceptable\" to Labour without compromising on the \"things that we think are essential\".\n\nBut he also warned that a customs union would not be a \"long-term solution\".\n\nShadow Brexit secretary Sir Keir Starmer said Mr Hunt's remarks on a customs union provided \"yet more evidence\" that many in the cabinet believed the \"most important thing right now\" was the race to be Mrs May's successor.\n\nLabour's MP for Redcar, Anna Turley, also reacted to Mr Hunt's comments that a customs union was not a long-term solution, tweeting: \"This is why we can't trust the Tories by doing a deal stitched up in Number 10 which they will seek to unravel under their next leader.\"", "Dr Julia Crummy believes we still have much to learn about eruptions\n\nResearch at the British Geological Survey (BGS) in Edinburgh is warning that we still don't know enough when it comes to predicting and preparing for major volcanic eruptions.\n\nDr Julia Crummy has based her conclusion on years spent researching the Volcán de Colima in Mexico.\n\nStanding over 12,470ft (3,800m) high, it is one of the most active volcanoes in North America.\n\nColima has erupted every other year, on average, since 1900. Its last phase of eruptions lasted from 2013 to 2017.\n\nIn 2015 the fall of ash was so severe that hundreds of people were evacuated from their homes and the local airport was closed temporarily. There were more evacuations the following year.\n\nOne Colima eruption was mistaken for the sound of cavalry\n\nDr Crummy says the last really big explosion was in 1913.\n\n\"There was a civil war going on at the time and they actually thought it was cavalry,\" she says. \"It produced a really huge ash cloud that rose up to about 23km (14 miles).\n\n\"Pyroclastic flows travelled 15km (9 miles) from the volcano and ash fall was reported in Guadalajara. That's about 160km (99 miles) away.\"\n\nToday, more than 500,000 people live within 30km (17 miles) of Colima. Extensive plans are in place to safeguard them in the event of another big explosion.\n\nBut how big will that be?\n\nThe historical record of Colima's activity only begins after the Spanish conquistadors arrived in 1519.\n\nDr Crummy has been using geology to look back further by examining layers of ash left behind by prehistoric eruptions.\n\n\"Charcoal samples for dating have enabled us to identify that these span the past 30,000 years.\n\n\"By looking at the minerals in the samples we can look at how behaviour has changed over time.\"\n\nEyjafjallajökull in Iceland reminded the world of the potential disruption from volcanoes\n\nBy establishing the thickness of each layer Dr Crummy was able to build a numerical model of how large the eruptions had been.\n\nShe modelled the volume and magnitude of five prehistoric explosive events between 4,400 and 6,000 years ago.\n\nHer most surprising finding is that some were an order of magnitude bigger than previously thought.\n\nInstead of throwing a cubic kilometre of debris into the atmosphere it was 10 times as much.\n\nThat is 10 times larger than the explosions on which the current plans and hazard maps are based.\n\n\"That's not to say the hazard maps are wrong,\" Dr Crummy says.\n\n\"They're based on a worst case scenario using known historical data, which is absolutely fine.\n\n\"But what we're doing is highlighting the fact that actually, if you look at the geological record and extend beyond the historical over the last 10,000 years or so, we can see there have been much larger eruptions.\n\n\"So it's about awareness.\"\n\nAn eruption of the Fuego volcano in Guatemala last year is thought to have killed 190 people\n\nThis study of single volcano has far wider implications.\n\nAn estimated 800 million people live within 100km (62 miles) of a potentially active volcano.\n\nWriting in the Journal of Applied Volcanology, Dr Crummy says it means science's understanding of past volcanic eruptions is still limited.\n\nAnd in many places the geological record is less well preserved than at Colima.\n\nThe eruption of Eyjafjallajökull in Iceland disrupted air traffic as recently as 2010 but much of the geological evidence has already been washed away.\n\nDr Crummy's research was funded by the Natural Environment Research Council, the BGS and the Smithsonian Institute.\n\nColima's cone is closely monitored - you can do it yourself on a live webcam.\n\nThis week increasing seismic activity raised the alert state from green to yellow.\n\nThat means people are not being allowed within 8km (5 miles) of the volcano.\n\nSo, for the time being, tourists are prevented from taking snaps of Colima's vivid contrast between snow and fire.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Rockets were seen in the sky above Ashkelon in Israel\n\nMilitants in the Gaza Strip have fired more than 250 rockets into Israel, the army says, prompting air strikes and tank fire on the Palestinian territory.\n\nOne Israeli was killed by shrapnel, while Israeli fire killed four Palestinians, including a mother and her baby daughter, Gaza officials say.\n\nHowever, Israel said the mother and baby were killed by a Palestinian rocket that fell short of its target.\n\nThe flare-up over the weekend followed a truce agreed last month.\n\nFour Palestinians, including two Hamas militants, were killed on Friday after an attack injured two Israeli soldiers.\n\nThe latest violence marks yet another increase in hostilities despite attempts by Egypt and the United Nations to broker a longer-term ceasefire, says the BBC's Tom Bateman in Jerusalem.\n\nOne of the air strikes has hit the offices of Turkish news agency Anadolu, prompting condemnation from Istanbul.\n\nAn Israeli man died early on Sunday in Ashkelon, 10km (six miles) north of Gaza, after being wounded by shrapnel when a rocket hit his house.\n\nThe rocket barrage began at 10:00 (07:00 GMT) on Saturday, and 250 rockets have now been fired into Israel from Gaza, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) say.\n\nA number of homes in parts of Israel bordering the Gaza Strip have been hit. Many residents rushed to bomb shelters.\n\nAn 80-year-old woman was seriously injured by shrapnel in Kiryat Gat.\n\nThe country's Iron Dome missile defence system shot down dozens of the rockets, the IDF said.\n\nIn response the IDF said it had launched air and artillery strikes against 120 Gaza sites belonging to Hamas, a militant group that controls the Gaza Strip, and against groups including Islamic Jihad. It blamed both for the attacks.\n\nPalestinian officials say a 22-year-old man was killed. Reuters news agency quotes a small pro-Hamas militant group as saying he was one of their fighters.\n\nThe other deaths included those of a 37-year-old woman and her 14-month-old daughter who were killed in an air strike in the east of the Gaza Strip, according to Palestinian officials.\n\nHowever, Israel questioned whether an air strike had killed the mother and baby.\n\n\"According to indications the baby and her mother died as a result of the terrorist activities of Palestinian saboteurs and not as a result of an Israeli strike,\" tweeted Avichay Adraee, without giving further details.\n\nIsrael's Consul General in New York, Dani Dayan, tweeted that the pair were killed by a Palestinian rocket which fell short.\n\nTurkey's Foreign Minister, Mevlut Cavusoglu, condemned the attacks against civilians as \"a crime against humanity\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nTurkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan also issued a condemnation of the Anadolu strike.\n\nThe Israeli military defended targeting the building in a statement, saying the structure was used by Hamas's West Bank task force and as an office for senior members of the Islamic Jihad.\n\nThe violence began during weekly Friday protests in Gaza against the tight blockade of the area. Israel says this is needed to stop weapons reaching Gaza.\n\nA Palestinian gunman shot and wounded two Israeli soldiers at the boundary fence. The IDF blamed Islamic Jihad for the shooting.\n\nRafah was one of the Gaza locations targeted by Israel\n\nThe Israeli air strike in response killed two Hamas militants. Another two Palestinians were killed by Israeli fire at the fence.\n\nIslamic Jihad said it had launched the rocket attacks on Saturday in response to Friday's violence.\n\nIts statement also accused Israel of failing to implement last month's ceasefire deal, which was brokered by Egypt.\n\nSaturday's rocket attacks coincided with Palestinians burying the two militants.\n\n\"The resistance will continue to respond to the crimes by the occupation and it will not allow it to shed the blood of our people,\" Hamas spokesman Abdel-Latif al-Qanoua said in a statement on Saturday. He made no explicit claim for Hamas firing the rockets.\n\nAbout two million Palestinians live in Gaza, which has suffered economically from the Israeli and Egyptian blockade as well as recent foreign aid cuts.", "The motorcyclist was travelling away from Lockerbie on the A709 when the crash happened\n\nA man has died after his motorbike collided with a lorry and a car in Dumfries and Galloway.\n\nThe man was on a black motorbike travelling near Lockerbie on the A709 when the accident happened at about 10:45.\n\nEmergency services attended but the man was pronounced dead at the scene.\n\nThe road was closed for a time to allow accident investigations but has since reopened. Police have appealed for witnesses to come forward.\n\nSgt Leigh McCulloch, said: \"We have spoken to a number of drivers who stopped at the time of the incident, however we are appealing for anyone who has not spoken to us to get in touch.\n\n\"We would also ask anyone who may have dash-cam footage from the A709, or in that area, to get come forward. You may have information that can help us establish exactly what happened here.\"", "Snowdon is the busiest mountain in the UK\n\nCrowds queuing at the peaks of Snowdon and Pen y Fan highlight the need to invest in infrastructure around Wales' mountains, authorities say.\n\nMore people are visiting the peaks in north and south Wales, with pictures showing crowds at the summits over the Easter holiday.\n\nBut the British Mountaineering Council (BMC) said money must be spent on better facilities.\n\nThe Welsh Government said £2m was being spent on improvements.\n\nTrain tickets to the summit of Snowdon sold out in advance of last month's 10th anniversary of the Hafod Eryri visitor centre.\n\nPhotos on social media also showed crowds and queues of people waiting patiently to take photos at the best vantage spots - with similar scenes at Pen y Fan in the Brecon Beacons.\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\nThat has given rise to concerns that tourists are being affected by overflowing car parks, a lack of toilets and limited transport.\n\nAnd with visitor numbers expected to rise in the coming months, there are fears over the impact tourism will have on the local environment and community.\n\n\"We've got a problem with infrastructure here in Wales,\" said Elfyn Jones, of the BMC.\n\n\"It's great to see tens, if not hundreds of thousands of people enjoying the Welsh countryside - but how can we cope and deal with so many people?\n\n\"Footpaths are being eroded, car parks are overflowing and we don't have enough facilities for litter or toilets.\n\n\"We need to invest in our infrastructure if we are to maintain this growth in people coming here.\n\n\"It's also absolute chaos for the locals trying to live amongst it.\"\n\nElfyn Jones said it was great to see so many people out enjoying the countryside\n\nThe Snowdon Partnership Plan has been set up to improve and protect \"what makes the area truly unique and special\".\n\nLast year, volunteers removed 400 bags of litter from the mountain.\n\nHowever the Snowdonia National Park Authority said popular tourist spots were still in \"desperate need of major investment\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHelen Pye, head of engagement, said: \"Visitors bring an estimated £69m of economic benefit annually to the Snowdon area alone. But it is also having significant impacts on the local community, the mountain and the environment of the area.\n\n\"We're also increasingly concerned that the current standard of infrastructure is beginning to affect people's experience of Snowdonia and of Wales as a destination.\n\n\"We and other partners are doing our best with the limited resources we have. Snowdonia National Park Authority has half the resources it had 20 years ago [but] visitor numbers have at least doubled.\"\n\nIt has called for investment in visitor infrastructure at Pen Y Pass and Llanberis, in particular, and urged a \"major review and overhaul\" of car parks and transport in the area.\n\nAll revenue from car parks in Snowdonia is reinvested into managing footpaths and facilities\n\nPolice have previously warned visitors to Pen y Fan in the Brecon Beacons not to park illegally along the busy A470.\n\nHowever the Easter crowds were good news for Kay Jones, the owner of Kay's Kitchen at the bottom of the mountain, who said: \"It's been busier than it has been, ever.\"\n\nThe Brecon Beacons National Park Authority admitted \"more needs to be done\" but that they faced financial pressures.\n\n\"It's important that visitors have a positive experience and support the local economy,\" delivery director Steve Gray said.\n\n\"It's great to see people visiting the park and enjoying the health and well-being benefits on offer. However, high levels of visitor numbers can sometimes cause problems.\n\n\"The images we saw over the Easter weekend highlight the need for further investment in improving visitor infrastructure.\"\n\nA Welsh Government spokesman said: \"Earlier this year we announced £2.2m to improve our tourism infrastructure, including improvements to parking, cycle paths and toilets, and we'll continue to work with our national parks and local authorities to make access to our most popular destinations even better.\"", "Nadia Sparkes had a \"brilliant\" first day at Reepham High after being bullied at her previous school\n\nA 13-year-old nicknamed \"Trash Girl\" by bullies for picking litter has changed schools after pupils assaulted her.\n\nNadia Sparkes won international praise and awards for gathering litter on her journey to and from school, and refused to let the taunts deter her.\n\nPolice got involved last term when she was shown a knife and punched at school, her mother said.\n\nHer old school, Hellesdon High School near Norwich, said pupils' safety and welfare was of paramount importance.\n\nSince 2017, Nadia has set off for school an hour early each day to pick up litter and put it in her bicycle basket.\n\nShe turned the \"Trash Girl\" slur on its head and embraced the nickname because it made her feel \"like a superhero\" - attracting more than 4,000 followers on social media.\n\nNadia Sparkes said the \"Trash Girl\" nickname made her feel \"like a superhero\"\n\nBut Paula Sparkes said her daughter was not championed at her school.\n\n\"The staff were not on her side to help and support her and we felt it was not appropriate for her to be there any more,\" she said.\n\nShe said police became involved last term when Nadia was allegedly shown a knife and shortly afterwards chased and punched by a pupil.\n\nNorfolk Police confirmed it was called to an incident at the school and had referred a teenager to the Youth Offending Team, which was providing support.\n\n\"Officers also provided extra knife crime prevention presentations to all years groups,\" a spokeswoman added.\n\nNadia was depicted as a superhero in a cartoon by Creative Nation in January last year\n\nIn a separate incident, Nadia had to sit through a class covered in orange juice that had been thrown in her face, her mother said.\n\n\"Nadia picked up a [volunteering] award from the prime minister earlier this month - it's a shame when you think what the school could have achieved with this, and they haven't.\"\n\nShe met one of her new teachers, Reepham High School's Matt Willer, when the pair were both nominated for an eco hero award.\n\nMr Willer, who runs an allotment project, said: \"I'd heard of the amazing work she was doing collecting rubbish and how, very sadly, she was being bullied because she was doing something different.\n\n\"This hit a nerve with me and we discussed how Nadia might like to come and have a look at Reepham High.\"\n\nNadia had a \"brilliant\" start at Reepham after the Easter break and proudly wore her uniform made from recycled plastic bottles.\n\n\"She is literally wearing litter, it's like it's meant to be,\" said Mrs Sparkes.\n\nNadia's new school is about 11 miles from her home but she hopes to continue litter-picking en route to the bus stop.\n\nMr Willer said the teenager would be a \"huge asset\" to the allotment project.\n\n\"All the volunteers look forward to working with her as we all set a sound example about respecting the environment and living more sustainably.\"\n\nMatt Willer, pictured at the school allotment, said Nadia would be a huge asset to Reepham High\n\nHellesdon principal Tom Rolfe said the school did not tolerate bullying and would not actively discourage a pupil from pursuing their passion.\n\n\"We promote an ethos that reflects high moral standards, a culture of social responsibility and fosters a safe learning environment for all students,\" he added.\n\n\"All students are respected and their individuality is valued.\"\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 on local election results: \"Simple message... just get on and deliver Brexit\"\n\nThe Conservatives have lost 1,334 councillors, with Theresa May saying voters wanted the main parties to \"get on\" with Brexit.\n\nLabour also lost 82 seats in the English local elections, in which it had been expected to make gains.\n\nBut the strongly pro-EU Lib Dems gained 703 seats, with leader Sir Vince Cable calling every vote received \"a vote for stopping Brexit\".\n\nThe Greens and independents also made gains, as UKIP lost seats.\n\nAll 248 English councils holding elections have now announced their full results.\n\nWhile the scale of the Conservative election losses is larger than expected, Labour had predicted it would gain seats, having suffered losses the last time these council seats were contested, in 2015.\n\nThe Green Party has added 194 councillors, while the number of independent councillors has risen by 612.\n\nResults from Northern Ireland's 11 councils are also being announced. No local elections are taking place in Scotland and Wales.\n\nAfter nine years in government it's not surprising that the Conservatives have lost a significant chunk of seats.\n\nBut the sheer number that have disappeared and the loss of control of authorities will hurt - especially with so many activists identifying Theresa May's handling of Brexit as a root of the problem, not just a general malaise.\n\nThe perceived personal nature of the failure is more of an indignity than an encounter with a heckler in tweeds.\n\nAnd for Jeremy Corbyn, it is surprising and disappointing that Labour has simply failed to make any significant capital from such a divided and chaotic government.\n\nHowever ardently his devotees swear loyalty, the party has fallen back - on this set of results at least - seeming further, rather than closer, from winning power in a general election he so often claims to crave.\n\nRead more from Laura here.\n\nMPs have yet to agree on a deal for leaving the European Union, and, as a result, the deadline of Brexit has been pushed back from 29 March to 31 October.\n\nWhile local elections give voters the chance to choose the decision-makers who affect their communities, the national issue has loomed large on the doorstep.\n\nMrs May, appearing at the Welsh Conservative conference, said voters had sent the \"simple message\" that her party and Labour had to \"get on\" with delivering Brexit.\n\n\"These were always going to be difficult elections for us,\" the prime minister added, \"and there were some challenging results for us last night, but it was a bad night for Labour, too.\"\n\nA heckler shouted at the prime minister: \"Why don't you resign?\" He was then ushered out of the conference hall in Llangollen, North Wales, as the audience chanted: \"Out, out, out.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Vince Cable: Lib Dems are \"success story of the night\"\n\nBBC political correspondent Iain Watson said that while the Conservatives had lost \"more than 10 times as many councillors\", it was \"remarkable\" that Labour, \"around the mid-term of a not-very-popular government - has not made net gains\".\n\nSpeaking in Greater Manchester, Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn said he \"wanted to do better\" and conceded voters who disagreed with its backing for Brexit had deserted the party.\n\nBut Lib Dem leader Sir Vince, attending a rally in Chelmsford, Essex, where his party took control of the council, said it had been a \"brilliant\" result and that \"every vote for the Liberal Democrats was a vote for stopping Brexit\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe BBC projects that, if the local election results it analysed were replicated across Britain, both the Conservatives and Labour would get 28% of the total vote.\n\nThe data, based on 650 wards in which detailed voting figures were collected, suggests the Lib Dems would get 19% and other parties and independents 25%.\n\nPolling expert Prof Sir John Curtice said the days of the Conservatives and Labour dominating the electoral landscape, as happened in the 2017 election when they won 80% of the vote between them, \"may be over\".\n\nHe said it was only the second time in history that the two main parties' projected national share of the vote had fallen below 30%.\n\nThe only other occasion was in 2013, when UKIP performed strongly in local elections.\n\nProf Curtice also said the Conservatives and Labour had both lost ground since last year's local elections when both were estimated to be on 35%.\n\nWhile the Lib Dem figure was the highest since 2010, when they agreed to join the coalition government with the Conservatives, he said it was still well below the 24% the party regularly achieved in the 1990s and 2000s.\n\nGreen Party co-leader Sian Berry told the BBC the Greens were not simply benefiting from a protest vote over Brexit - their gains reflected \"huge new concerns\" about climate change as well as the strength of their local campaigning on a range of issues.\n\nFor UKIP, Lawrence Webb, a former London mayoral candidate who is standing in this month's European elections, said the party's \"fortunes were on the up\", despite the fall in its number of councillors.\n\nThis is the biggest set of local elections in England's four-year electoral cycle, with more than 8,400 seats being contested. A further 462 seats are up for grabs in Northern Ireland.\n\nSix mayoral elections have also taken place, with Labour's Jamie Driscoll winning the contest to become the first ever North of Tyne mayor.\n\nLabour candidates also won in Leicester and Mansfield but the party out lost to independents in Middlesbrough and Copeland.\n\nEither search using your postcode or council name or click around the map to show local results.", "Theresa May was heckled at the Welsh Conservative conference\n\nNeither the prime minister nor the Labour leader has anywhere to hide.\n\nAfter nine years in government it's not surprising that the Conservatives have lost a significant chunk of seats.\n\nBut the sheer number that have disappeared and the loss of control of authorities will hurt - especially with so many activists identifying Theresa May's handling of Brexit as a root of the problem, not just a general malaise.\n\nThe perceived personal nature of the failure is more of an indignity than an encounter with a heckler in tweeds.\n\nAnd for Jeremy Corbyn, it IS surprising and disappointing that Labour has simply failed to make any significant capital from such a divided and chaotic government.\n\nHowever ardently his devotees swear loyalty, the party has fallen back - on this set of results at least - seeming further rather than closer from winning power in a general election he so often claims to crave.\n\nTake a breath. Local ballots do not translate directly into the next general election. It bears repeating time and again that specific rows over green belt building, local party spats, even simple quirks of geography all apply too.\n\nBut such an enormous set of results does give a sense of the public's political taste at this moment. And it provides a bitter flavour for the two big UK parties - locked in an uncomfortable embrace with historically feeble levels of support.\n\nThe public will also have given both of them anxiety about the potential of the Lib Dems to creep back into their territory after a strong show. And the sour mood around Brexit adds more pressure to Labour and the Tories in their own ranks too.\n\nFor Mrs May it directly and overtly gives ammunition for convinced Tory Eurosceptics to demand a more rapid departure from the EU, whatever happens.\n\nThe delay, they believe has been toxic, so the solution is to speed on. And for Labour's many supporters of a second referendum, the significant advance of the Lib Dems and the Greens is evidence that a clear demand for another say is the only way to carve out a convincing identity.\n\nThat geographical pattern is very marked, although unwise maybe to assume it can last, or a howl for another referendum is what it overwhelmingly means.\n\nBecause while our departure from the EU has just shaped yet another chapter of our politics in an unconventional way, two of the old rules do still apply.\n\nAfter months of grisly pantomime, the rejection of both parties may well also be a simple judgement on both main parties' competence.\n\nVoters quite plainly like politicians who look like they know what they are doing. And the public does not like parties that spend vast amounts of time fighting amongst themselves.\n\nWhether government or opposition, we want them to care about us, rather than be expected to care about them.\n\nNo surprise for today at least, that the Labour and Tory leaderships are both outwardly trying to push harder for a joint deal that could find a way out for them both - damned or saved together.\n\nBut their local election anguish doesn't make a deal any easier to achieve.\n\nSo our two big political parties are both finding there's been a cost to conflict and messy internal compromise.\n\nAnd will look ahead nervously to the European elections when two new parties created specifically to advance clear ways out of the Brexit stalemate could divide the public more cleanly, and mete out a much more painful punishment to them.", "The local election results are disappointing for both the Conservatives and for Labour, while the Liberal Democrats, Greens and independents prospered, writes Prof Sir John Curtice and colleagues on the BBC's local elections team.\n\n\"A plague on both your houses.\" That seems to have been the key message to emerge from the ballot boxes.\n\nOn the basis of the detailed voting figures in 40 local authorities, we estimate that if the pattern of voting in the local council elections were to be replicated across the whole of Great Britain, both the Conservatives and Labour would have won 28% of the vote. This is only the second time that this calculation has put both those parties below 30%.\n\nThe elections always looked set to be difficult for the Conservatives. The party was defending seats that were mostly last up for grabs four years ago, on the same day David Cameron won the 2015 general election. That, coupled with the party's recent freefall in the polls, clearly pointed to significant Conservative losses.\n\nAnd that proved to be the case. The party has suffered net losses of more than 1300 seats. On average the party's share of the vote was down by six points, both compared with 2015 and with last year's local election results.\n\nHowever, despite the government's difficulties, Labour also slipped back - on average, by no less than seven points compared with last year's local election results. As a result, the party has found itself suffering net losses of around 80 seats, when opposition parties are normally expected to post gains.\n\nThe party's performance would seem to confirm the message of a number of polls that Labour's support has been slipping in the wake of the Brexit impasse, a fall in Jeremy Corbyn's popularity, and a continuing row about anti-Semitism. Compared with last year, the party lost ground more heavily in Leave-voting areas than in Remain-voting ones, a pattern that it shared with the Conservatives (who in previous years have tended to perform better in such areas). This has been seized on by pro-Leave Labour MPs as evidence that the party should reach an agreement with the government which would pave the way for the UK to leave the EU.\n\nWhat the two parties also had in common was a tendency for their support to fall more heavily in their heartlands. Labour's vote fell back most heavily in the north, the Conservatives in the south. Equally, Labour's vote fell more heavily in wards where it was previously strong, while the Conservative vote fell most heavily where they were strongest.\n\nIt was as though voters vented their frustration with the Brexit process by punishing whichever party represented the political establishment locally.\n\nThis mood perhaps also helps account for the remarkable success of independent candidates. Those not standing on a party label were on average winning as much as a quarter of the vote where they stood. More than 900 independent councillors have been elected - a net gain of more than 500.\n\nMeanwhile the Liberal Democrats, who before they entered into coalition with the Conservatives in 2010 were often a vehicle for protest votes, also appear to have profited from voters' disenchantment with the two largest parties.\n\nThe party, which has made net gains of more than 600 seats, advanced particularly strongly in Conservative-held wards where it was previously in second place. Double digit swings from the Conservatives to the Liberal Democrats were common in such seats. The party seemed to be successful in reinvigorating some of the bastions of local strength where its support had been badly eroded in the wake of the coalition government. This pattern added significantly to the tally of Conservative losses.\n\nTheresa May insisted the local election results showed voters wanted the main parties to \"get on\" with Brexit.\n\nIn contrast, and despite the party's pro-Remain stance, there was only limited evidence that the Lib Dems' advance was stronger in areas that voted heavily for Remain in the 2016 referendum. For example, while support for the party rose on average by three points on last year in areas where more than half voted for Remain, it also increased by two points in areas where the Remain vote was less than 45%.\n\nThanks in part to the fact that in 2015 the Liberal Democrats had recorded its worst ever local election performance, the party was able to make so many gains, due to an increase in its vote since then, of eight points. More significant, perhaps, was the fact that its vote was also up by three points on last year's local elections.\n\nWhen the party's performance is projected into a national vote, it is estimated to be worth 19% of the vote. This represents its best local election performance since the party entered into coalition in 2010, but was still well below the party's performance in any round of local votes between 1993 and 2010. Overall, the party's performance is best seen as evidence of a partial recovery from the depths to which the party sank during the coalition years.\n\nAt the same time, the Greens had one of their best local election results ever. The party made net gains of more than 180 seats. The Greens posted an average of 12% of the vote in the wards they contested, up five points on their performance where they stood four years ago. That equals the party's previous highest average, 12% in 2009, when local elections were held on the same day as European Parliament elections. The party may have been helped by the recent protests about climate change.\n\nFighting just one in six wards, there was little opportunity for UKIP to make much impact on these elections. Where it did stand, the party's vote was down by four points on its relative high point of 2015, but up eight points on its poor position last year. However, the challenge from the Eurosceptic parties may be more formidable in the European elections in three weeks time, when Nigel Farage's Brexit Party is on the ballot paper.\n\nFind the result of your council election Enter your postcode or council name to find out By-elections can take place in some council wards even if that council is not scheduled for elections this year. Check your council website for details.\n\nThis analysis piece was commissioned by the BBC from an expert working for an outside organisation.", "Angela Collingbourne (top left) and seven other members of the drugs gang were jailed on Friday\n\nA grandmother has been jailed for six years after becoming \"second in command\" to a drugs gang headed by her two sons.\n\nAngela Collingbourne, 51, helped the group to sell more than £2.7m of cocaine in Newport, with her son directing operations from prison.\n\nSeven other members were also jailed for conspiracy to supply class A drugs on Friday at Newport Crown Court.\n\nAnother eight had already been jailed in March, bringing the total to 16.\n\nThe gang, from Newport, dealt the drug from a garage called NP19 Tyres, with video showing thousands of pounds passing through but only a handful of cars being repaired.\n\nThe court was told Collingbourne, who is a grandmother, racked up a \"number of convictions\" for shoplifting, driving and a public order offence before becoming responsible for managing the gang's funds and facilitating - and maintaining control of the mobile telephone trading line with 4,000 customers.\n\nProsecutor Andrew Jones said: \"She was a middle tier manager of the organisation.\"\n\nAnother eight members, including Angela Collingbourne's sons, were jailed in March\n\nShe denied being \"a trusted lieutenant of this organised crime group, the second-in-command\" - but was convicted by a jury.\n\nRichard Barton, defending, said Collingbourne was acting out of \"mother's love\" and trying to provide for her three sons - the youngest of which has now lost \"three fifths of his remaining family\" following the convictions.\n\nThe court was told Collingbourne became estranged from her \"racist\" parents after they did not approve of her relationship.\n\nJudge Daniel Williams told Collingbourne: \"During your trial you portrayed yourself as a victim, fighting bigotry and injustice - but the jury saw through you.\n\n\"You dismissed your crimes as evidence of your own victim-hood.\n\n\"You were counting and banking the vast profits from this operation.\n\nAngela Collingbourne was captured on CCTV counting cash from drugs sales\n\n\"You began to believe that you were unstoppable.\"\n\nThe gang was arrested following a year-long investigation, Operation Finch, which involved surveillance and secret recordings.\n\nCollingbourne's son Jerome Nunes, 28, and Blaine Nunes, 26, were jailed for 12 and 14 years.\n\nJudge Williams said it was \"depressing\" that Jerome Nunes was able to direct the operation from his prison cell using hidden mobile phones, while serving a sentence for possession of cocaine with intent to supply.\n\nThe gang sourced drugs from Merseyside, with Matthew Croft regularly visiting Liverpool to meet \"up-stream suppliers\", the court heard.\n\nShe would accompany her partner Thomas Allison to drug deals in her pyjamas and had ambitions of buying a £500,000 house with him. A raid recovered Versace, Prada, Bulgari and Louis Vuitton clothing.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The body was found in a house in Springfield Drive\n\nA teenager has been arrested on suspicion of murder after the body of a teenage girl was found in a house.\n\nWiltshire Police said officers were called to a residential address in Springfield Drive, Calne, Wiltshire, just before 15:15 BST on Friday.\n\n\"Despite attempts from the ambulance crew, she was sadly pronounced dead at the scene,\" a spokesperson said.\n\nA 17-year-old boy was arrested in the Chippenham area on Friday afternoon, and remains in police custody.\n\nPolice said he was known to the girl, and that a post-mortem examination to determine the cause of death would be held on Sunday.\n\nSupt Conway Duncan said there would be a \"significant police presence\" in the area over the weekend as inquiries continued.\n\n\"This investigation is still in its early stages but I would like to reassure the local community that a robust police response was launched yesterday and will continue in the days to come.\"\n\nHe added that the victim's family was receiving support from \"specially trained officers\".\n\nPolice have not disclosed the age of the girl.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Conservative councillors tried to distance themselves from Theresa May and the government\n\nConservative councillors have criticised Theresa May after losing hundreds of seats in the local elections.\n\nA council leader who lost his majority said the prime minister should \"consider her position\" and others said they made gains \"despite\" the government.\n\nThe Conservatives and Labour lost out to smaller parties and independents.\n\nThere are reports of spoilt ballots referring to Brexit in some areas.\n\nElections for more than 8,400 seats on 248 councils took place amid widespread criticism of MPs and the government over the handling of Brexit.\n\nThe Conservatives, who were defending council seats they won in 2015, alongside the party's general election victory, were at pains to stress the vote was about local services and council tax rather than what was happening at Westminster.\n\nHowever, by Friday morning they had lost out mainly to the Liberal Democrats and independents on councils such as Cotswold, Winchester and North Kesteven.\n\nThe Greens have also won dozens of seats including in Folkestone and Hythe, where they have six new councillors.\n\nLabour have also been losing seats, including in strongholds such as Bolsover, where they lost their majority amid a surge in support for independents.\n\nParty leader Jeremy Corbyn has said he is \"very sorry\" it lost three of its councils in the North West, despite winning control in Trafford.\n\nTony Berry wants Theresa May to consider her position after losing control of Cotswold District Council\n\nThe Tories lost Cotswold District Council after 16 years, with the Liberal Democrats now in charge.\n\nConservative group leader Tony Berry said it was a \"very unusual set of circumstances\".\n\nHe blamed Brexit and \"professional politicians who are basically working for themselves rather than necessarily what is best for the country\".\n\nAsked his message to Theresa May, he said: \"I would ask her to consider her position very carefully.\"\n\nA voter in Worcester posted a picture of his spoilt paper\n\nHundreds of ballot papers were spoiled in Rugby, according to the borough's returning officer.\n\nAdam Norburn said many had \"Brexit\" scrawled across them.\n\nAnd a voter in Worcester posted a picture of his spoilt paper on Twitter.\n\nJordan said he was a Conservative party member but that the major parties had been \"lying for three years straight about Brexit\".\n\nThere were also reports of a \"larger than normal\" number of spoilt ballots in Ipswich.\n\nAnd in one ward in Broxtowe, Nottinghamshire, almost one in 20 ballots was spoilt.\n\nCandidates at the count told the Local Democracy Reporting Service many comments written on the papers related to Brexit.\n\nThere were 33 spoilt votes out of 673 in the Eastwood Hall ward.\n\nIt is not illegal to spoil a ballot paper, but filling it out incorrectly or covering it with graffiti will render it invalid.\n\nIn Bath and North East Somerset, where the Liberal Democrats won control, Tory casualties included the council leader Tim Warren.\n\nMr Warren said councillors had been \"given a kicking for something that wasn't our fault\".\n\nAsked whether there needed to be changes in leadership or policies at the top of the Conservative Party, Mr Warren replied: \"There needs to be a change in action.\"\n\nMike Bird said the Conservatives won control at Walsall \"despite\" the government\n\nIn Walsall, the Conservatives took control of the council after winning seats from Labour, having run the authority for a year without a majority.\n\nCouncil leader Mike Bird said the Tories won \"despite\" the Conservative government and Theresa May.\n\n\"She hasn't helped us make any gains at all - far from it - we made the gains despite the prime minister.\"\n\nIn North East Lincolnshire, another Tory gain, group leader Philip Jackson said the party \"managed to disengage national politics from what was happening locally\".\n\nLabour's leader in Leeds said councillors were bearing the brunt of \"anger and frustration\" about national politics.\n\nJudith Blake said the party had been \"punished locally\" after losing four seats on the city council, while retaining control.\n\nLabour also lost seats in Wakefield to the Liberal Democrats and independents. Councillor Graham Isherwood said the party was \"paying the price for that lot in Westminster\".\n\nIn Ashfield, Nottinghamshire, a group of independents won an overall majority, a month after taking control from Labour.\n\nJason Zadrozny, leader of the Ashfield Independents, said politics had been \"a bit of a mess\".\n\nIn North Devon, where the Lib Dems won control of the council from the Conservatives and independents, the group's leader David Worden said: \"It was a tremendous night for us and shows that the Lib Dem fight back is well and truly happening.\"\n\nThe Lib Dems also won a 20-seat majority in North Norfolk, something the party's leader in the district Sarah Butikofer said was beyond the party's \"wildest dreams\".\n\nEither search using your postcode or council name or click around the map to show local results.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "George Perrot, 50, was jailed for life for rape in 1987\n\nA man whose rape conviction was quashed after he had served 30 years in jail has been accused of sexually assaulting a woman this year, reports say.\n\nGeorge Perrot, 50, is due to appear in court accused of rape and other charges, the Republican newspaper reports.\n\nHe has pleaded not guilty to all charges in relation to an incident on 4 January in Lawrence, Massachusetts.\n\nMr Perrot is being held without bail until his case is heard on Monday.\n\nThe allegations against Mr Perrot come three years after he was freed from prison by a judge who ruled he was wrongly convicted of rape in 1987.\n\nGeorge Perrot was arrested in 1985, aged 17, accused of raping 78-year-old Mary Prekop at her home in Springfield, Massachusetts.\n\nHe was found guilty and sentenced to life in prison, but was freed in 2016 after the Supreme Court exonerated him because of flawed evidence.\n\nThe prosecution's case rested on faulty FBI analysis of a single hair found at the crime scene, the court ruled.\n\nMr Perrot's release, after a decades-long legal battle to clear his name, generated media attention worldwide.\n\nThe new charges against him allege rape, open and gross lewdness, resisting arrest, and assault and battery on a police officer, according to the Republican.\n\nThe newspaper reports that police found Mr Perrot lying unconscious on the ground, with his face between a partially naked and unconscious woman's legs.\n\nWhen interviewed by police, the woman claimed she did not consent to sex with Mr Perrot, it reports.\n\nThe last thing she remembered before losing consciousness, she reportedly told police, was snorting some powder she claims Mr Perrot gave her.", "Last updated on .From the section Fulham\n\nFulham's Harvey Elliott has become the youngest ever Premier League player at 16 years and 30 days.\n\nThe England under-17 midfielder made his debut in the 88th minute of Saturday's 1-0 defeat by Wolves.\n\nFormer Fulham left-back Matthew Briggs held the previous record, set on 13 May 2007 at 16 years and 68 days.\n\nElliott, born on 4 April 2003, became Fulham's youngest player with a substitute appearance in the Carabao Cup third round in September, aged 15.\n• None Quiz: Can you name the Premier League's youngest players?\n\n\"Harvey is on the bench and gets on the pitch because he deserves to,\" said Fulham's caretaker boss Scott Parker. \"He's been outstanding in training over the past three weeks. He's a special talent and we want to nurture him the best we can.\"\n\nThe youngster, who will be sitting his GCSEs in just a few weeks' time, was born in a year that saw Black Eyed Peas dominate the charts with Where Is the Love?\n\nThe Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, Finding Nemo and The Matrix Reloaded ruled at the cinema box office.\n\nNumber one in the charts on the day Elliott was born was Gareth Gates and The Kumars' charity song Spirit in the Sky.\n\nElliott was born 10 months after Ronaldo and Ronaldinho inspired Brazil to World Cup glory and nine months after Manchester United broke the British transfer record with the £30m signing of Rio Ferdinand from Leeds in July 2002.\n\nHe was just three months old when Roman Abramovich took over at Chelsea, two months old when David Beckham joined Real Madrid from Manchester United for £24.5m and four months old when Cristiano Ronaldo made his debut for United.\n\nManchester United won their eighth Premier League title and 15th top-flight league title in the 2002-03 season, while AC Milan were the Champions League winners, beating Juventus on penalties at Old Trafford.\n\nLeon Osman, Wayne Rooney and James Milner were among those to make their debuts earlier that season, while Danish goalkeeper Peter Schmeichel, who won the Treble with Manchester United, retired from playing in May 2003.", "To say Sky/HBO's new mini-series Chernobyl is thought-provoking would be like describing Usain Bolt as quite a fast runner, or the water under the Antarctic sea ice as a bit chilly.\n\nThis is TV that doesn't just get you thinking, it stops you sleeping.\n\nThe catastrophic disaster that began with an explosion at around 01:15 at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Soviet Ukraine on 26 April 1986, is graphically played out over the course of five one-hour episodes.\n\nBy the end of the third episode I was craving something a little lighter: re-watching the Towering Inferno maybe or a double helping of Luther.\n\nAnything actually, that wasn't real.\n\nBecause when the reality of the dangers that lurk in our nuclear age are played back in such forensic, chilling detail as they are here it is just too frightening to bear.\n\nIf the rumour is true that governments around the world played down the horror of what happened that night in the new town of Pripyat (now abandoned) in order to safeguard their own nuclear power plans, then this series makes you understand why.\n\nAt least 31 people were killed and many more were injured in what was the world's worst nuclear power accident\n\nThe action starts two years after the event in the small, tatty apartment of physicist Valery Legasov (Jared Harris).\n\nThe man who led the commission investigating the accident is sitting at his kitchen table in front of a microphone and cassette player listening back to a recording he has made detailing everything he knows about what happened before, during and after that cataclysmic night when Chernobyl's No 4 reactor exploded following a safety test.\n\nValery Legasov (Jared Harris) headed the commission that investigated the Chernobyl nuclear power accident\n\nThe mood is sombre and eerie.\n\nYou can sense the menacing threat from the KGB officers watching silently in a car across the street.\n\nThis is a world in which people have forgotten how to smile.\n\nAnd then it gets much worse…\n\nWe spool back 24 months and one hour to another modest apartment, this time in Pripyat. A young woman (Jessie Buckley) is walking back to bed having been sick.\n\nShe looks lovingly at her sleeping husband (Adam Nagaitis). He is oblivious. She walks towards the window. And then stops in her tracks when a huge bang shakes the building. It's enough to wake up her fella.\n\nHe jumps out of bed, walks to the window and sees a spire of phosphorescent light and flames rising from the centre of the concrete building. He turns to his wife, tells her there's nothing to worry about, puts on his firefighter's kit and leaves to join the rest of his crew at the scene.\n\nLyudmilla Ignatenko (Jessie Buckley) is worried about her husband, Vasily, who was one of the first firefighters at the scene\n\nVasily Ignatenko (Adam Nagaitis) was a newly married firefighter, who died a slow, painful death because of high radiation levels at the site\n\nWhat follows is an intensely told tale of bureaucratic cover-ups, skin-melting levels of toxic radiation, and a great tragedy that would have taken on apocalyptic proportions if it wasn't for the sacrificial courage of those who wittingly or unwittingly laid down their lives to limit the scale of the disaster.\n\nKnowing what happens makes it hard to watch sometimes.\n\nSeeing the whole town standing on a bridge with children still in their pyjamas watching the fire through a haze of radioactive ash is ghastly. It could become mawkish.\n\nBut the pressure-cooker atmosphere of the production, the pacing of the scene changes, and the excellent acting throughout (there are no fake Russian accents) gives us something different, special even: a truly exceptional, important piece of dramatised non-fiction.\n\nStellan Skarsgård plays Boris Shcherbina, a gruff career politician who starts off toeing a party line based on ignorance and complacency, until he arrives at the scene and sees for himself that Valery Legasov's grave appraisal of the situation is horrifyingly accurate.\n\nSoviet Deputy Chairman Boris Shcherbina (Stellan Skarsgård) was forced to choose between the state and the facts; here with Valery Legasov (Jared Harris)\n\nEnter Emily Watson, a Belarusian nuclear physicist called Ulyana Khomyuk who grasps the magnitude of what has happened from her office in Minsk before those on the ground have worked out what's going on.\n\nShe arrives (uninvited) and offers Legasov advice (unsolicited) on how to navigate the crisis. With him sorted she sets about trying to get to the truth of what caused the accident knowing it must never happen again.\n\nUlana Khomyuk (Emily Watson) tries to establish how the tragedy happened\n\nAll three actors turn in memorable performances, with emotions dialled all the way down to 1980s Soviet levels.\n\nThey portray a colourless world, mirrored in Johan Renck's superb direction, which rarely moves beyond a grim green-grey-brown palette.\n\nWhen I sat down to watch Chernobyl I thought I knew the story.\n\nNot the way Craig Mazin has described it in his taut and precise scripts. He takes you there, drags you inside, spares you nothing. Not to entertain or titillate, but to make you feel. And to make you think. Think what it must have been like. Think what it might be like if any one of the national governments currently running nuclear reactors start cutting costs and corners.\n\nAnd therein lies one small irony of this big series. If an equivalent amount of time, trouble, and money had been spent on maintaining and upgrading the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant as has been lavished on this series, it might never have been made.\n\nLast month the people of Chernobyl remembered those who lost their lives 33 years ago", "Candidates had to draw lots after a tie in the local elections in North Yorkshire.\n\nLabour candidate Gerald Ramsden was elected to the Northallerton South seat on Hambleton District Council after drawing with the Conservative candidate on 527 votes.\n\nThe returning officer then had to randomly choose between two blank envelopes with one candidate's name in each.\n\nMr Ramsden is the first Labour councillor in Hambleton in more than a decade.", "That's the end of our coverage on this live page. Thanks for sticking with us over the past two days.\n\nThe election has produced an intriguing set of results. Stay tuned to the BBC News NI website over the coming days for more reaction and analysis.", "Kim Jong-un held talks with the US president in February\n\nNorth Korea has tested several short-range missiles, according to reports from South Korea.\n\nThey were fired from the Hodo peninsula in the east of the country, said South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff.\n\nIf confirmed, it will be the first missile launch since Pyongyang tested an intercontinental ballistic missile in November 2017.\n\nLast month Pyongyang said it had tested what it described as a new \"tactical guided weapon\".\n\nThat was the first test since the Vietnam summit between the North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un, and US President Donald Trump, which ended without agreement.\n\nPresident Trump walked away from what he described as a bad deal offered by Kim Jong-un in Hanoi in February.\n\nOn Saturday, the US president tweeted that he believed the North Korean leader would not do anything that could jeopardise his country's path towards better relations and economic normalisation.\n\n\"He also knows that I am with him and does not want to break his promise to me,\" President Trump wrote in the social media post.\n\nThe second summit between President Trump and Mr Kim ended without agreement\n\nFiring a short range missile would not violate North Korea's promise not to test long range or nuclear missiles.\n\nBut Pyongyang appears to be growing impatient with Washington's insistence that full economic sanctions remain until Mr Kim takes serious steps to dismantle his nuclear weapons programme, says the BBC's Laura Bicker.\n\n\"We are aware of North Korea's actions tonight,\" said White House spokeswoman Sarah Sanders. \"We will continue to monitor as necessary.\"\n\nNorth Korea \"fired a number of short-range missiles from its Hodo peninsula near the east coast town of Wonsan to the north-eastern direction from 09:06 (00:06 GMT) to 09:27,\" the South's Joint Chiefs of Staff said in a statement.\n\nThe missiles flew for between 70km and 200km (45-125 miles) before landing in the Sea of Japan, they added.\n\nHodo has been used in the past for launching cruise missiles and long-range artillery testing.\n\nAccording to the North Korea news agency (KCNA), April's test of a new \"tactical guided weapon\" was overseen by Mr Kim himself. It said the test was \"conducted in various modes of firing at different targets\", which analysts believe means the weapon could be launched from land, sea or air.\n\nIt is unclear if that weapon was a missile, but most observers agree that it was probably a short-range weapon.\n\nLast year, Mr Kim said he would stop nuclear testing and would no longer launch intercontinental ballistic missiles.\n\nNuclear activity appears to be continuing, however, and satellite images of North Korea's main nuclear site last month showed movement, suggesting the country could be reprocessing radioactive material into bomb fuel.\n\nThe country claims it has developed a nuclear bomb small enough to fit on a long-range missile, as well as ballistic missiles that could potentially reach the mainland US.", "Last updated on .From the section Women's Football\n\nManchester City completed a domestic cup double as they eventually overpowered West Ham at Wembley to lift the Women's FA Cup for a second time in three years.\n\nEngland midfielder Keira Walsh's bouncing strike from outside the area put City ahead in the second period, after major final debutants West Ham had initially defied their underdog status with an impressive first-half display.\n\nLate goals from City youngsters Georgia Stanway and Lauren Hemp completed the win, securing the club's sixth major trophy.\n\nVictory also saw Nick Cushing's side move within one match of completing an entire domestic season unbeaten, as they added to February's League Cup success.\n\nThe Hammers, who reached the final in their first season as a professional side - less than a year after leaping up from the third division with a successful top-tier licence application last summer - had threatened to pull off a shock win, creating the best chance of the first half.\n\nBut City - who had not conceded a goal in the FA Cup this season - showed their class and experience after the break and could have added to their tally in the final moments.\n\nThe crowd of 43,264 at England's national stadium fell just short of last season's competition record of 45,423, but was nevertheless still one of the largest for a club-level women's game in Europe in the modern era.\n\nAll of City's six major trophies have come since 2014 under the management of Nick Cushing and they will finish the season without losing a single domestic game if they can avoid defeat away at Women's Super League winners Arsenal next Saturday.\n\nEngland and City goalkeeper Karen Bardsley had produced a superb save to keep out Scotland striker Jane Ross' bouncing header from Erin Simon's right-wing cross, in the best moment of the first half, after a cagey start.\n\nThe Hammers then wanted a penalty when midfielder Alisha Lehmann went down in the box under Jill Scott's challenge, but the officials felt the City midfielder had not made contact with Lehmann.\n\nBut City - who won the cup for the first time in 2017 - were more energetic after the break and Scotland's Caroline Weir blazed over from inside the area shortly before Walsh opened the scoring with only her second goal of the season.\n\nThe holding midfielder's swerving effort bounced just in front of goal and caught out West Ham keeper Anna Moorhouse, who later saved well from Tessa Wullaert and Nikita Parris.\n\nThe Hammers' best chance of the second half came on the counter attack, but Switzerland's Lehmann fired straight at Bardsley, as City began to dominate, and 20-year-old Stanway doubled the lead with a low, deflected strike.\n\nSubstitute Hemp - who turned 18 in August - then showed a calmness in front of goal that defied her youthfulness as she supplied a cool finish, and she almost added City's fourth but she struck the post late on.\n\nDespite the result, West Ham - who beat Reading on penalties in their semi-final - have impressed many during their maiden WSL campaign and appear to be building a growing fanbase, with their fans appearing to significantly outnumber City supporters at Wembley.\n\nThe East London club had asked the Premier League to move the kick-off time of their men's team's league match at home to Southampton earlier on Saturday, but the plea was denied, much to the Hammers' disappointment.\n\nOn the pitch, they initially surpassed the bookmakers' pre-match expectations, frustrating City early on, at odds with their 10-2 aggregate loss from this season's two league meetings, but Ross' first-half header was the best chance.\n\nUltimately, City's clean sheet saw Cushing's side - lead by talismanic England captain Steph Houghton at the back - finish their five-game cup run without conceding a goal.\n\n\"West Ham were excellent, but I expected them to be good, play on the counter-attack and cause us problems.\n\n\"I thought we were just a little bit emotional [in the first half]. The occasion affected our offensive play.\n\n\"We asked the players to just settle down, play logically and be controlled. In the second half they looked comfortable.\n\n\"I'm so proud of the players. I hope they will go now and spend so much time with their family. They've put in so much effort to make this team successful again, they deserve everything they get.\"\n\n\"It was a game of two halves, wasn't it? We created the better chances in the first half.\n\n\"The first goal changes the game. When you go behind against Manchester City, they're a very good team, and Man City deserved to win it on their second-half performance.\n\n\"But when we walked around at the end, with the fans, and you look at what we've created in such a short space of time as a club, this team is only going to get better and our fanbase is only going to grow. It's been really tough but, to be here, speaks volumes for what we're trying to do.\n\n\"We have a lot of young players who will learn from this and become better players because of it.\"\n• None Attempt saved. Stephanie Houghton (Manchester City Women) header from the centre of the box is saved in the top centre of the goal. Assisted by Claire Emslie with a cross.\n• None Attempt missed. Claire Emslie (Manchester City Women) right footed shot from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by Lauren Hemp.\n• None Attempt missed. Adriana Leon (West Ham United Women FC) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the left. Assisted by Cho So-Hyun.\n• None Attempt missed. Lauren Hemp (Manchester City Women) right footed shot from the left side of the box is high and wide to the right.\n• None Lauren Hemp (Manchester City Women) hits the right post with a left footed shot from the left side of the box. Assisted by Claire Emslie.\n• None Attempt missed. Brianna Visalli (West Ham United Women FC) header from the centre of the box is too high. Assisted by Rosie Kmita with a cross.\n• None Goal! Manchester City Women 3, West Ham United Women FC 0. Lauren Hemp (Manchester City Women) left footed shot from long range on the left to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Jennifer Beattie.\n• None Attempt missed. Gilly Flaherty (West Ham United Women FC) header from the centre of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Adriana Leon with a cross.\n• None Attempt missed. Lauren Hemp (Manchester City Women) left footed shot from the centre of the box is too high. Assisted by Abbie McManus following a corner.\n• None Attempt saved. Georgia Stanway (Manchester City Women) left footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Keira Walsh with a through ball.\n• None Goal! Manchester City Women 2, West Ham United Women FC 0. 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Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Ruth Davidson has returned to politics after spending the past seven months on maternity leave\n\nRuth Davidson has warned that the two main Westminster parties will suffer the wrath of voters in the EU elections unless they \"get Brexit sorted\".\n\nThe Scottish Conservative leader admitted that the Tories and Labour had been given an \"almighty kicking\" in English local elections.\n\nBut she predicted that they will be given an even bigger \"wake-up call\" in the European election on 23 May.\n\nShe urged the two parties to find a compromise so the UK can \"move on\".\n\nHer speech to the conference was her first major public appearance since the birth of her son Finn in October.\n\nThe Conservatives lost more than 1,300 seats in the council election and Labour lost 82 as the Liberal Democrats, Greens and independents surged across England.\n\nThe two major UK parties have been locked in talks aimed at finding a way forward on Brexit for the past month, but it is not clear how much progress has been made.\n\nSpeaking at the Scottish Conservative conference in Aberdeen, Ms Davidson said the solution lay in finding a compromise that respects the result of the EU referendum.\n\nShe told delegates: \"The solution doesn't lie in the trenches of one extreme or another - of overturning the referendum, or of crashing out with no deal.\n\n\"It lies in those colleagues currently round the table, taking the difficult first steps towards each other.\n\n\"So I say to the negotiating teams of our party and the Labour Party, who are currently locked in talks - get Brexit sorted, get a deal over the line and let Britain move on.\"\n\nMs Davidson added: \"If we thought yesterday's results were a wake up call, just wait for the European elections on 23 May.\n\n\"A vote the public was promised would never take place, to elect people to a parliament they were told we would already have left. You don't have to be John Curtice to foresee what could happen.\"\n\nTheresa May made her keynote speech to the conference on Friday\n\nMs Davidson was a staunch Remainer ahead of the referendum, but argued it would be undemocratic hold another vote on EU membership.\n\nShe said that if a decision was so big that it had to be handed to the people to decide, then \"we have to listen to the answer they give\" and politicians \"don't get to pick and choose\" which votes are upheld and are ignored.\n\nScotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has said she wants to hold a second independence referendum in the next two years if the UK leaves the EU.\n\nBut Ms Davidson argued that the country is not being held back as part of the UK, and is already capable of \"taking on the world\".\n\nShe also accused the SNP of using the constitution as an excuse for inaction, and pledged to \"build a better Scotland now\" if her party wins the next Holyrood election.\n\nNicola Sturgeon says she wants another independence referendum within the next two years\n\nShe told delegates that the country has had enough of the SNP's \"agitating for independence\" as she accused the party of \"searching the horizon for a dark cloud and then blaming it on Westminster\".\n\nMs Davidson added: \"I have a more positive view of Scotland's future. I reject their mantra that says we have to have a break-up before we can possibly hope to prosper. I don't see Scotland as subjugated, put upon or as held back.\n\n\"Our message is that we can prosper now. That we can back our businesses, build up our institutions and give future generations the skills to take on all comers.\n\n\"That right here, right now, Scotland can take on the world. There's nothing stopping us.\"\n\nMs Sturgeon's SNP won 63 seats in the last Scottish Parliament election and the Conservatives won 31 - with opinion polls suggesting the SNP continues to hold a commanding lead ahead of the next vote in 2021.\n\nBut Ms Davidson insisted it is realistic for her party to win the election and form the next Scottish government.\n\nShe said: \"As first minister, I won't use every engagement with the UK government as a chance to sow division. I'll use it as a chance to deliver better government for the people who live here.\n\n\"And I'll make a firm guarantee now: If I am elected Scotland's next first minister, there will be no more constitutional games and no more referenda. We've had enough to last a lifetime.\n\n\"So we're not fighting each other - but fighting for each other.\"\n\nMs Davidson was overheard questioning whether she needed to mention the European elections as she rehearsed her speech in the conference hall on Friday evening.\n\nThe rehearsal was apparently caught on a live microphone without Ms Davidson realising, and has since appeared online.\n\nMs Davidson joked in her conference speech that the recording was made after she told her baby son that \"this is the button that broadcasts mummy's rehearsal to the whole press room\".\n\nThe conference heard from Prime Minister Theresa May on Friday, who told delegates that she remained determined to deliver a Brexit deal despite facing fresh calls to quit.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Senior Conservatives have called for the party to pull together after it suffered its worst results in English local elections since 1995.\n\nHome Secretary Sajid Javid admitted voters had \"issues of trust\" over Brexit, and said the European elections would \"be even more challenging\".\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock said the party needed to listen to the results and be \"in the mood for compromise\".\n\nBoth PM Theresa May and Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn have insisted they will push ahead with seeking a cross-party agreement on Brexit, following the results.\n\nLabour had been expected to make gains but lost 82 seats in the elections, while the Liberal Democrats - who have campaigned for a further vote on leaving the EU - were the main beneficiary of Tory losses, gaining 703 seats.\n\nThe Greens and independents also made gains, as UKIP lost seats.\n\nElections were held for 248 English councils, six mayors, and all 11 councils in Northern Ireland - where a second day of counting is continuing. No elections took place in Scotland or Wales.\n\nVince Cable claimed Liberal success \"reflected the unpopularity of the government\"\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio 4's Today programme, Mr Hancock said \"the mood of the nation is, 'get on, deliver Brexit, and then move on'\".\n\nBut he said the Tories might have to move towards Labour's proposal of a permanent customs union - in order to solve the current impasse in Westminster over Brexit.\n\nThe EU customs union means that once goods have cleared customs in one country and the commonly agreed tariffs (charges on imports) have been paid, they can be shipped to others in the union without further charges.\n\nA country does not have to be a member of the EU to be part of the customs union, but members cannot negotiate their own independent trade deals with countries from the rest of the world.\n\nMrs May's government has previously ruled out remaining in a customs union after the UK leaves the EU, arguing it would prevent the UK from setting its own trade policy.\n\nLabour has suggested the EU may show flexibility over the issue and allow the UK \"a say\" in future trade deals.\n\nMr Hancock suggested \"coming up with something in-between\", and called for \"an open dialogue in which we can make an agreement\".\n\nForeign Secretary Jeremy Hunt also said there was a \"glimmer of hope\" that a compromise between the Conservative and Labour \"core-voters\" could be reached.\n\n\"If we can find a solution that delivers the benefits of the customs union without signing up to the current arrangements, then I think there will be potential,\" he said.\n\nJustice Secretary David Gauke told BBC News that the local election results should be seen as a \"punishment\" to both the Conservatives and the Labour Party \"for failing to find a way through\" the Brexit conundrum.\n\nHe added: \"We have to persevere with the talks with the Labour Party. I think that is the best opportunity to find a way through here.\"\n\nThe MP for Hertfordshire South West also rejected calls to oust Mrs May, saying: \"We should back the prime minister... so that we can bring the country together again - we can unite the Conservative Party and find a practical way through.\"\n\nThe UK was due to leave the EU on 29 March, but the deadline has been pushed back to 31 October.\n\nMr Javid said this was a big factor in the Conservative Party losing control of 45 councils on Thursday - in its worst performance since John Major's party lost 2,000 councillors in 1995.\n\nIn a rallying cry to Conservatives in Aberdeen, he said that \"a divided party cannot unite a divided nation\".\n\nThe home secretary said the party risked losing voters' trust after \"not delivering on a promise at the heart of our last manifesto\".\n\nAnd, speaking about the European elections, due to take place on 23 May, he said: \"We shouldn't be surprised if people tick the protest box on the ballot paper.\"\n\nEither search using your postcode or council name or click around the map to show local results.\n\nLisa Nandy, Labour MP for Wigan, also said the results reflected the public's frustration with the two main parties' \"perceived inability... to get our act together\".\n\nShe told the Today programme there was \"no single magic bullet\" to solving Brexit, but \"the fact that people are not clear on what our policy is, is harming us in both Remain and Leave areas alike\".\n\nMs Nandy said failing to leave the European Union would be a \"final breach of trust\" and her party must respect the referendum result.\n\nHowever, she said she believed the Brexit effect on the election results had been \"enormously overstated\" and many in towns like Wigan \"just didn't feel like Labour spoke for them\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Theresa May on local election results: \"Simple message... just get on and deliver Brexit\"\n\nThe BBC projects that, if the local election results it analysed were replicated across Britain, both the Conservatives and Labour would get 28% of the total vote.\n\nPolling expert Prof Sir John Curtice said the days of the Conservatives and Labour dominating - as happened in the 2017 election when they won 80% of the vote between them - \"may be over\".\n\nHe said it was only the second time in history that the two main parties' projected national share of the vote had fallen below 30%.\n\nThe only other occasion was in 2013, when UKIP performed strongly in local elections.", "Mr Trump and Mr Putin at their controversial meeting in Helsinki\n\nUS President Donald Trump has said he spoke with Russian President Vladimir Putin in an hour-long call, covering issues including the \"Russian hoax\".\n\n\"Had a long and very good conversation with President Putin,\" the US president tweeted.\n\nMr Trump rebuked a reporter who asked whether he had warned Mr Putin against meddling in the 2020 elections.\n\nIt was the leaders' first conversation since the Mueller report cleared Mr Trump of colluding with Russia.\n\nThe Kremlin confirmed in a statement the two had spoken, saying the call had been initiated by the White House.\n\nMr Trump and Mr Putin last spoke informally at December's G20 Summit in Buenos Aires.\n\nThe US president tweeted on Friday about their latest conversation: \"As I have always said, long before the Witch Hunt started, getting along with Russia, China, and everyone is a good thing not a bad thing.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or 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\nWhen asked in the White House on Friday whether he had warned Mr Putin that Moscow should not interfere in the next US presidential election, Mr Trump told the reporter she was \"very rude\".\n\n\"We didn't discuss that,\" he said.\n\n\"Getting along with countries is a good thing and we want to have good relations with everybody.\"\n\nBut the White House said the matter of alleged Russian meddling had been broached in the call.\n\nMr Trump has defended Russia in the past over claims of interference in the 2016 election\n\nPress secretary Sarah Sanders said: \"Very, very briefly it was discussed, essentially in the context of that it's over and there was no collusion, which I'm pretty sure both leaders were very well aware of long before this call took place.\"\n\nMrs Sanders also said Mr Trump and Mr Putin had briefly discussed the investigation by US Special Counsel Robert Mueller into alleged Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election.\n\nThe White House press secretary described the call as an \"overall positive conversation\".\n\nA redacted version of the special counsel's report was made public last month. It concluded that Russia had interfered in the 2016 presidential election \"in sweeping and systematic fashion\".\n\nThe interference took the form of an extensive social media campaign and hacking into Democratic Party servers by Russian military intelligence, it said. The inquiry did not determine the Trump campaign had conspired with Russia.\n\nOn Friday, Mr Trump and Mr Putin also discussed thorny foreign policy issues:", "Unless a rich benefactor steps in, the role of human-induced climate change in Cyclone Idai is unlikely to be clearly determined.\n\nThe scientists with the expertise simply don't have the resources to do the large amount of computer modelling required.\n\nHowever, there are a number of conclusions about rising temperatures that researchers have gleaned from previous studies on tropical cyclones in the region.\n\nWhile Cyclone Idai is the seventh such major storm of the Indian Ocean season - more than double the average for this time of year - the long-term trend does not support the idea that these type of events are now more frequent.\n\n\"The interesting thing for the area is that the frequency of tropical cyclones has decreased ever so slightly over the last 70 years,\" said Dr Jennifer Fitchett from the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa who has studied the question.\n\n\"Instead, we are getting a much higher frequency of high-intensity storms.\"\n\nClimate change is also changing a number of factors in the background that are contributing to making the impact of these storms worse.\n\n\"There is absolutely no doubt that when there is a tropical cyclone like this, then because of climate change the rainfall intensities are higher,\" said Dr Friederike Otto, from the University of Oxford, who has carried a number of studies looking at the influence of warming on specific events.\n\n\"And also because of sea-level rise, the resulting flooding is more intense than it would be without human-induced climate change.\"\n\nA poor country with a long coastline, Mozambique is especially vulnerable to storms sweeping in from the Indian Ocean.\n\nMore than 700 lives were lost during a devastating flood there nearly 20 years ago. I was one of many journalists reporting on the plight of communities submerged. One woman, stranded in a tree, was forced to give birth among the branches.\n\nA huge international response saw the Royal Air Force send six helicopters to rescue survivors. Back then, the priority was to save lives. Little thought was given to rebuilding homes and infrastructure with new designs to help them withstand future storms.\n\nDevelopment experts have long argued that reconstruction should enshrine the principle of resilience, with roads raised high enough to stay dry in floods and houses made robust enough to resist cyclone-strength winds.\n\nThere are plenty of examples of how this forward-thinking can help. In low-lying Bangladesh, there are schools built on high ground which can serve as refuges during storms. And as the potential effects of climate change become better understood, there's growing recognition of the need for communities to adapt to what could be tougher conditions ahead.\n\nOne critical factor in the Southern Indian Ocean that is having an impact on these storms is sea-surface temperatures. Warmer seas mean there is more energy available for cyclones, which only form when the water reaches 26 degrees C.\n\nThese storms also need help from the Earth's rotation to get them spinning. This rotating effect gets stronger the further you move away from the Equator and towards the poles.\n\nHowever, in previous decades, the further away you were from the Equator meant the cooler the seas became and so any tropical cyclones that formed didn't have the energy to keep going. Now climate change is impacting that relationship.\n\n\"Under increasing sea-surface temperatures, we are seeing the line of constant temperature required for these storms to form moving further and further towards the South Pole,\" said Dr Fitchett.\n\n\"So it is increasing the range in which these storms can form and that's then allowing them to intensify so quickly.\"\n\nBut it's not just a simple equation. Higher sea-surface temperatures can also work against the formation of cyclones.\n\n\"On the one hand, you have the higher ocean temperatures and that lends more energy for tropical cyclones to form,\" said Dr Otto. \"But you also have higher temperatures in the atmosphere which leads to more wind shear, which weakens hurricanes.\"\n\nAccording to researchers, about seven different ocean or atmospheric conditions are required for cyclone formation and normally only a couple of these occur. However, because of climate change, more and more of these conditions are coinciding with each other and that's why these big storms happen very quickly.\n\nWhatever arguments about the impacts of climate change on tropical cyclones, the damage caused in Mozambique has much more to do with the vulnerability of people on the ground than rising temperatures.\n\n\"If you look at North America, they are experiencing Category 5 cyclones quite regularly now, and they don't experience the level of damage that Mozambique is seeing,\" said Dr Fitchett.\n\n\"When a storm like this comes along, the potential for devastation is infinitely higher. A city like Beria is at much higher risk, because not only have you many more people there, it's also so much more difficult for them to get out.\"", "Thailand's new king has started three days of ceremonial rites, as the country crowns its first monarch in nearly seven decades.\n\nThe rituals he goes through are a mixture of Buddhist and Hindu Brahmin traditions and date back centuries.\n\nKing Vajiralongkorn's crown weighed 7.3kg (16lb), and symbolised Mount Meru, the home of the Hindu god Indra.", "Alliance leader Naomi Long has hailed her party's \"incredible result\" in the council elections as a watershed moment for Northern Ireland politics.\n\nWith all 462 seats declared, Alliance saw a 65% rise in its representation. It had 32 councillors five years ago but now it has 53.\n\nOther smaller parties and independents also made significant gains.\n\nThe DUP and Sinn Féin were returned as the two biggest parties, but the DUP lost eight seats.\n\nIn terms of first preference votes the DUP saw a marginal increase to 24.1% but Sinn Féin's was 23.2%, a slight drop on its 2014 results.\n\nAlliance saw its share of the vote increase from 6.7% to 11.5%.\n\nA sister party of the Liberal Democrats in Great Britain, Alliance is Northern Ireland's main centrist cross-community party, seeking to attract support from both Protestants and Catholics.\n\nIt won 10 seats in Belfast and will continue to hold the balance of power between unionists and nationalists.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIt also doubled its representation in Mid and East Antrim from three councillors to six, and for the first time in decades, it has representation in the north west with two seats on Derry and Strabane Council.\n\n\"Crucially, we've broken outside the Greater Belfast area for the first time in I would say 30 years,\" Alliance leader Naomi Long told the BBC.\n\nShe said it had been a breakthrough election for her party and other cross-community candidates, with many voters choosing to reject the \"tribal politics\" of unionism and nationalism.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Alliance leader Naomi Long explains why she thinks voters rewarded the party at the polls\n\nSinn Féin's results have been mixed - it won six out of seven seats in Blackmountain District Electoral Area (DEA) and for the first time, it has representation on Lisburn and Castlereagh City Council with two seats.\n\nHowever, the party lost five sitting councillors from Derry City and Strabane Council.\n\nFormer Sinn Féin MP Barry McElduff, who resigned his Westminster seat over a Twitter controversy, has been elected to Fermanagh and Omagh District Council.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Darran Marshall This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nHe quit as West Tyrone MP last year after he was accused of mocking victims of the Kingsmills massacre - 10 Protestant workmen were shot dead by the IRA.\n\nMr McElduff maintained that the video - published on the 42nd anniversary of the murders - was meant as a joke and the timing was coincidental.\n\nThe DUP has also carved out some new territory, gaining two new seats in Belfast, and electing its first ever openly gay candidate, Alison Bennington in Antrim and Newtownabbey.\n\nBut the party lost its leader on Belfast City Council, Lee Reynolds, after a low turnout in its east Belfast heartland.\n\nThe Green Party had some notable successes with four seats in Belfast, where Áine Groogan topped the poll in the Botanic DEA.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Jayne McCormack This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nPeople Before Profit won three seats in Belfast while its former Stormont MLA Eamon McCann returns to frontline politics with a seat on Derry City and Strabane.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Veteran socialist Eamon McCann is \"looking forward\" to his new role as a councillor\n\nMatt Collins topped the poll in the Black Mountain DEA and takes a seat at Belfast City Hall alongside his brother Michael and newcomer Fiona Ferguson.\n\nBrothers Matt and Michael Collins will sit together on Belfast City Council\n\nThe Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) lost 13 seats including those of its Belfast councillors Jeff Dudgeon, a well-known campaigner for LGTB rights, and veteran David Browne, who was first elected 26 years ago.\n\nIndependents have also taken support from larger parties.\n\nIn Newry, Mourne and Down, independent candidate Gavin Malone, a former council worker himself, topped the poll in the Newry District Electoral Area (DEA).\n\nThe first-time candidate, who quit his 20-year career to run for election, got 2,296 first preferences, beating his nearest Sinn Féin rival by more than 900 votes.\n\nIn the same DEA, former SDLP turned independent Dr Josephine Deehan polled 728 first preference votes, more than both of her SDLP rivals put together.\n\nThe GP was elected in the eighth round.\n\nElsewhere in the Fermanagh and Omagh Council area, an anti-gold mining campaigner was the first person to be elected in the Mid-Tyrone DEA.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Darran Marshall This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nEmmet McAleer, who stood as an independent, polled almost 900 first preferences and won a seat in the fifth round.\n\nBut not everyone can go it alone.\n\nIn Belfast, three independents who left the SDLP over a row about abortion policy, all lost their seats.\n\nPat Convery, Kate Mullan and Declan Boyle quit the party in 2017.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 5 by Mark 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\nSinn Féin's John Finucane was elected on the first count.\n\nHe is the son of murdered solicitor Pat Finucane who was shot dead in front of his wife and three children in 1989.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. John Finucane says he wants to \"change Belfast for the positive\"\n\nThe DUP made some gains in Belfast with Nicola Verner taking a seat in Court, from former TUV candidate Jolene Bunting.\n\nMs Bunting, who had been involved in a number of controversies during her five-year tenure, ran as an independent this time but only polled 351 first preferences.\n\nIn Derry and Strabane District Council, independent Gary Donnelly topped the poll in the Moor electoral area - where journalist Lyra McKee was killed last month by dissident republicans.\n\nHe had refused to condemn violent dissident republicanism but in the wake of her murder he called on the New IRA to desist from further attacks.\n\nIt has been a similar theme to day one, which is that of Alliance victories, they have the most to be pleased about as the result of this election.\n\nClearly different voters vote for them for different reasons, but it may well reflect a disenchantment with the political paralysis up at Stormont.\n\nThe DUP will be pleased that they have held their own and actually increased their vote slightly at the expense of the Traditional Unionist Voice (TUV), which had a good election five years ago but has not been able to replicate that performance.\n\nI think Sinn Féin will be disappointed, they missed a number of their targets and their vote has slid slightly.\n\nOne interesting development tonight is that it looks like Fermanagh and Omagh District Council might slip into no overall control, rather than being a nationalist majority council.\n\nThat is because there has been a wave of independents who won through there.\n\nThose independents may actually be nationalist in their outlooks but it is a sign of changing times both there and in Belfast where some of the smaller parties have also come through.\n\nMeanwhile, an independent candidate - who only stood for election after a Facebook post suggestion posted on 1 April garnered online support - has been elected to Antrim and Newtownabbey District council.\n\nMichael Stewart, who runs the Love Ballyclare Facebook page, said: \"I wasn't aware there would be this massive surge to independents, the Greens and Alliance. I didn't know I was part of anything.\"\n\nHe added: \"I am one of those people who voted for me, who've no interest in politics - they care about holes in their roads, no paper in their schools and that they can't get an appointment with their health centre.\"\n\nIt has been a long election for candidates, counters and commentators.\n\nIn Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon District Council, Brian Pope of Alliance was elected following a marathon count that went on until 06:00 on Saturday morning.\n\nFind the result of your council election Enter your postcode or council name to find out By-elections can take place in some council wards even if that council is not scheduled for elections this year. Check your council website for details.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'We don't exclude members of the gay community'\n\nUnsurprisingly, the story that made headlines on Friday was the success of Alison Bennington, the DUP's first openly gay representative.\n\nBelfast East MP Gavin Robinson said it was a \"good news story\", despite assembly member Jim Wells claiming members were \"shocked by the decision\" to let her run.\n\nDUP leader Arlene Foster said she was delighted by Ms Bennington's electoral performance.\n\nShe said the party will consider comments made by Mr Wells post-election and said he should have raised any concerns \"through the normal routes\".\n\nThe first results started to come in after 11:00 on Friday\n\nBBC News NI is covering the latest election results and analysis on our website, mobile app and on Facebook and Twitter pages.\n\nA dedicated live page will keep you up to date as the results are announced.\n\nThere is an hour-long Sunday Politics programme on BBC One Northern Ireland at 11:00 on Sunday and a special Sunday News election special on BBC Radio Ulster on Sunday at 13:00.\n\nThe final results are not expected to be confirmed until Saturday night", "The British Antarctic Survey are monitoring the droppings of some of the higher predators on the island of South Georgia in the Antarctic.\n\nThey say it helps them keep track of what's happening in the environment.", "Last updated on .From the section Athletics\n\nCoverage: TV highlights on Saturday, 4 May, BBC One at 13:15 BST\n\nCaster Semenya said \"no human can stop me from running\" after winning the 800m at the Doha Diamond League meet amid speculation over her future.\n\nIt comes just two days after the South African, 28, lost a landmark case against athletics' governing body.\n\nSemenya challenged IAAF rules designed to limit testosterone levels in female runners but the Court of Arbitration for Sport (Cas) rejected her appeal.\n\n\"When you are a great champion, you always deliver.\n\n\"It's up to God. God has decided my life, God will end my life; God has decided my career, God will end my career. No man, or any other human, can stop me from running.\"\n\nThe Doha meet was Semenya's final race before the IAAF's new rules come into force on 8 May.\n\nShe added: \"How am I going to retire when I'm 28? I still feel young, energetic. I still have 10 years or more in athletics.\n\n\"It doesn't matter how I'm going to do it, what matters is I'll still be here. I am never going anywhere.\n\n\"I'm going to keep on doing what I do best - which is running.\"\n• None Semenya Q&A: Why is her case pivotal?\n• None 'Nobody has truly won in Semenya case - one side has just lost less than the other'\n\nUnder the new IAAF rules Semenya - and other athletes with differences of sexual development (DSD) - must either take medication in order to compete in track events from 400m to the mile, or change to another distance.\n\nOn Thursday, Semenya posted a cryptic tweet that suggested she could quit athletics, including a quote which referred to knowing when to walk away.\n\nAsked by reporters whether she would take medication to allow her to run in the 800m, she replied: \"Hell no.\"\n\nAnd she insisted she would be running in Doha again at the World Championships in September - though she did not know if that would be in the 800m or 5,000m races.\n\n\"With a situation like this you can never tell the future but the only thing you know is that you will be running,\" she said.\n\nVictory in the opening Diamond League event of the season was her 30th in a row at 800m.\n\nThe double Olympic champion showed no emotion as she crossed the finish line in the fastest time of the year and a meeting record of one minute 54.98 seconds, having dominated the race from the start.\n\nBurundi's Francine Niyonsaba finished second with the United States' Ajee Wilson third. Britain's Lynsey Sharp finished ninth.\n\nSharp, 28, told BBC Sport she had received death threats as a result of previous comments she had made about Semenya's \"advantage\".\n\n\"I've known Caster since 2008, it's something I've been familiar with over the past 11 years,\" she said.\n\n\"No-one benefits from this situation - of course she doesn't benefit, but it's not me versus her, it's not us versus them.\n\n\"I've had death threats. I've had threats against my family and that's not a position I want to be in. It's really unfortunate the way it's played out.\n\n\"By no means am I over the moon about this, it's just been a long 11 years for everyone.\"\n\nSemenya can appeal against the Cas ruling to the Swiss Tribunal Courts within 30 days of the ruling.", "Karanbir Cheema died almost two weeks after cheese was flicked at him at school, the inquest heard\n\nThe death of a schoolboy who collapsed after cheese was thrown at him was \"unprecedented\", an inquest has heard.\n\nKaranbir Cheema, 13, died after having a severe reaction at his school in west London on 28 June 2017.\n\nSpecialist Dr Adam Fox said severe reactions from skin contact were \"very, very uncommon\" and he was \"not aware of any fatal cases\".\n\nThe boy who threw the cheese previously told the inquest he had been \"playing around\".\n\nKaranbir, who had multiple allergies including to dairy products, was taken to hospital in a life-threatening condition after falling ill at Perkin Church of England High School in Greenford.\n\nHe died almost two weeks later at Great Ormond Street Hospital of post-cardiac arrest syndrome.\n\nSt Pancras Coroner's Court heard Karanbir's Epipen, which was kept at the school, was 11 months out of date and was the only adrenaline administered before the teenager suffered cardiac arrest.\n\nHe displayed signs of anaphylaxis such as scratching for several minutes before receiving the adrenaline, the inquest heard.\n\nDr Fox, a paediatric allergy consultant at Evelina London Children's Hospital, told the court it is \"an important learning point\" that \"at the first sign of anaphylaxis it's 'get the adrenaline out and make sure they get it as soon as possible'.\"\n\nBut Dr Fox said the pen \"probably had less potency\" as it was past its expiry date.\n\nKaranbir's Epipen, kept in the school welfare room, was out of date\n\nDr Fox said the cause of the reaction was what made it \"extraordinarily unusual\".\n\n\"If it was skin contact alone that caused, in this case fatal, anaphylaxis, I believe that to be unprecedented,\" he said.\n\nThe inquest has heard Karanbir, who also suffered from eczema, had scratched at his neck so much that blood was visible.\n\nDr Fox said \"further scratching and degrading of the skin barrier\" could have added to the reaction.\n\nA paramedic admitted she had \"probably\" panicked when treating him, when asked by the coroner.\n\nAlexandra Ulrich said she thought Karanbir had suffered an asthma attack and gave him two grams of magnesium sulfate, a drug which is used to treat muscle spasms during severe asthma attacks but is not meant for children.\n\n\"If I had known about the specific details of the history about the allergens, I wouldn't have given it,\" she said.\n\nMs Ulrich added a pocketbook given to ambulance staff had since been updated to make explicit the substance was not meant for under 18s.\n\nAndrew Jones, paediatric intensive care consultant at Great Ormond Street Hospital, said Karanbir's brain had been severely deprived of oxygen and over days it became apparent he \"had no chance of survival\".\n\nPathologist Liina Palm told the inquest the death was caused by anaphylactic shock and cited multiple food allergies as the underlying cause.\n\nDame Alice Hudson, executive head teacher of the Twyford Trust - which encompasses William Perkin school, said she believed there had been \"a very good general awareness\" of Karanbir's allergies among pupils.\n\nThe coroner is due to deliver her conclusion on 10 May.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Both Labour and the Conservatives have suffered losses in the local elections, with voters turning to smaller parties and independents in a backlash against the Brexit deadlock. But beyond the immediate headlines lie smaller storylines you may have missed - here are seven of them.\n\nA poll on Hambleton Council was decided by lot - and the result saw Labour take its first seat there in more than a decade.\n\nThe seat, Northallerton South, was tied on 527 votes for Labour and the Conservatives - so the seat was settled by the returning officer choosing between two blank envelopes, one candidate's name in each.\n\nLabour's Gerald Ramsden was the lucky winner of the draw.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Gerald Ramsden was elected after a dead heat in Hambleton.\n\nThe Tories won the Tetbury Town ward by just one vote - after officials looked through the spoiled ballots and accepted one where the voter had put \"Brexit\" and an arrow to the Conservative Party candidate.\n\nStephen Hirst retained his seat in the Cotswolds town after defeating independent Kevin Painter by 232 votes to 231.\n\nThe Conservatives and the independents had been tied before the returning officer, who is in charge of overseeing elections, decided to settle the matter by using the rejected ballot paper.\n\nMr Painter has confirmed he contacted the Electoral Commission for advice and he will be taking legal action over the decision.\n\nCotswold District Council said it had consulted the guidelines in the Electoral Commission's booklet on doubtful papers and examples within election law books.\n\nLeading Brexiteer MP Jacob Rees-Mogg now has a Liberal Democrat councillor representing him in Somerset.\n\nLiberal Democrat candidate Dave Wood defeated Conservative Tim Warren, leader of Bath and North East Somerset Council, in the Mendip ward.\n\nWera Hobhouse, Lib Dem MP for Bath, tweeted: \"Congratulations to Cllr Dave Wood, who moments ago beat B&NES council leader Tim Warren. He's now @Jacob_Rees_Mogg's local councillor!\"\n\nThe Democratic Unionist Party's first openly gay election candidate has been elected.\n\nAlison Bennington hugged supporters at a Belfast count centre for Antrim and Newtownabbey Borough Council.\n\nShe attracted 1,053 votes as part of her campaign for the pro-union and Christian party, and praised her supporters' \"good, hard work and good teamwork\".\n\nThe DUP's founder, the late Rev Ian Paisley, once led a campaign to, in his words, \"Save Ulster from Sodomy\" and prevent the decriminalisation of homosexuality.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or 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 Simpson This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nHas Extinction Rebellion led to a Green surge in the polls?\n\nThe Green Party has been one of the elections' biggest winners, picking up 265 seats - an increase of 194 compared to 2015.\n\nWith the local elections coming just after weeks of protests by Extinction Rebellion, should the environmental group be seen as having had an impact on voters' decisions?\n\nJonathan Bartley, the Green Party's co-leader, certainly thinks so.\n\nHe told the BBC he had \"no doubt\" the Extinction Rebellion group had contributed towards the party's election success, adding it was a \"powerful force in building awareness of the urgency of climate change\".\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 little-known Yorkshire Party has won council seats for the first time in its history.\n\nThe party, which was set up in 2014 and campaigns for regional devolution (among other things), has previously had councillors defect to it - but had never actually won an election.\n\nNow, the party has won six - with successes in both the East Riding of Yorkshire and Selby councils.\n\n#Dogsatpollingstations proved such a hit on election day it has even emerged as a muse for professional poets.\n\nBrian Bilston's effort, posted on Twitter, proved almost as popular as the dogs themselves.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Brian Bilston This article contains content provided by Twitter. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo is already the second deadliest in history\n\nThe death toll from the Ebola epidemic in the Democratic Republic of Congo has passed 1,000, the health ministry says.\n\nDRC's Ebola outbreak began in August and is the second deadliest in history.\n\nWorld Health Organization deputy director Dr Michael Ryan said mistrust and violence was harming efforts to tackle the disease as it spread through the east of the country.\n\nThere have been 119 documented attacks on medical centres and staff since January, Dr Ryan said.\n\nWHO staff anticipated \"continued intense transmission\", he added, in a briefing to reporters in Geneva.\n\nHealth workers have plenty of vaccines - more than 100,000 people have already been given the treatment. But continuing violence in the east of the country where militias are present, as well as mistrust of doctors, was hindering their programme, Dr Ryan said.\n\n\"We still face major issues of community acceptance and trust,\" he said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe DRC is also suffering from an outbreak of measles which has killed more than 1,000 people, with 50,000 cases reported. WHO staff have confirmed measles in 14 of the country's 26 provinces, in both rural and urban areas.\n\nEbola is still contained within two provinces in the DRC but it is becoming harder to monitor the spread of the virus because of violence. The WHO said the risk of a global spread is low, but it was very likely cases would spread into neighbouring countries.\n\nMost Ebola outbreaks are over quickly and affect small numbers of people. Only once before has an outbreak been still growing more than eight months after it began - that was the epidemic in West Africa between 2013 and 2016, which killed 11,310 people.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Alison Bennington was congratulated by DUP colleagues after her election\n\nNorthern Ireland's council elections have seen the acreage occupied by the smaller parties grow.\n\nThe polls have ushered in some new faces... and bid farewell to some familiar ones.\n\nIn a weekend full of shocks and surprises, there were notable gains for the Greens, Alliance and People Before Profit.\n\nAs the dust settles on the count, BBC News NI looks at some of the winners and losers.\n\nIn a move some saw as the DUP testing the water on legalising gay marriage, the party's first openly gay politician contested the vote in Antrim and Newtownabbey.\n\nAlison Bennington's success was hailed by Belfast East MP Gavin Robinson as a \"good news story\",\n\nHowever, the fact assembly member Jim Wells claimed former party leader, the late Ian Paisley, would be \"aghast\" at the decision to run a gay candidate points to the internal divisions that remain over same-sex relationships.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nFor her part, Ms Bennington, who runs a consultancy firm, chose to say nothing following her success - preferring to let the dust settle.\n\nThat could take some time considering what a seismic shift her elevation represents for the Presbyterian wing of the DUP.\n\nSitting alongside the DUP groundbreaker on Antrim and Newtownabbey District Council will be an independent whose candidacy was sparked by an April Fool's Facebook post.\n\nA suggestion that Michael Stewart take on the big boys and girls at the ballot box garnered enough support to persuade the advertising agency owner to do just that.\n\nThe man behind the Love Ballyclare Facebook page, said: \"I wasn't aware there would be this massive surge to independents, the Greens and Alliance. I didn't know I was part of anything.\n\n\"I am one of those people who voted for me, who've no interest in politics - they care about holes in their roads, no paper in their schools and that they can't get an appointment with their health centre.\"\n\nNot all superheroes wear capes - just ask A&E doctor and new mum Vikki McAuley.\n\nWith a five-month-old tot to take care of, she could be forgiven for having other things on her mind than representing the good people of Antrim and Newtownabbey Borough Council.\n\nBut as Benjamin Franklin once said: \"If you want something done, ask a busy person.\"\n\n\"The other thing that I'm doing at the minute - I'm on maternity leave, but I'm also studying, doing a part-time law degree at Jordanstown,\" she said.\n\n\"It's fair to say I like to keep busy - very busy.\n\n\"I was aiming for a career change to the law, but now I've ended up in politics. I've an exam on Thursday as well.\"\n\nShe added: \"It's been a busy time in my family, we say we don't do anything by halves, we've always a lot going on.\n\n\"It's been a real family effort, all three children - they're aged nine, four and nearly six months - we've all been out at some stage canvassing.\"\n\nWhile there was plenty of new blood elected to local authorities across Northern Ireland, there were some famous and infamous names bidding adieu.\n\nAlan Graham was pictured in front of his barn, where a Bible verse was painted\n\nAs the singer filmed the promo for her 2011 hit We Found Love, it all got a bit too much for Mr Graham who shut down the shoot as things were heating up.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"I thought it was inappropriate. I requested them to stop and they did,\" he explained at the time.\n\n\"I wish no ill will against Rihanna and her friends. Perhaps they could acquaint themselves with a greater God.\"\n\nFirst-time candidate Áine Groogan topped the poll in the Botanic DEA and has become the Greens' first councillor in that area.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Áine Groogan: 'People are fed up with old-style politics'\n\nShe told BBC News NI her party had made gains because voters were \"fed up with old-style politics\".\n\nPeople Before Profit was raising a glass of Champagne or perhaps a well-priced cava, to some fine electoral successes - not least in Belfast where Michael Collins joins his brother Matthew in the chamber.\n\nMichael will represent Collin which takes in the Dunmurry, Ladybrook, Lagmore, Poleglass, Stewartstown and Twinbrook wards.\n\nMatt, meanwhile, is an old hand at the game, having been elected to Black Mountain in 2016.\n\nWhile the brothers Collins may be the youthful face of People Before Profit, Eamonn McCann is very much the veteran campaigner (despite the leather jacket).\n\nIn 1968, he earned the reputation of a fiery speaker at the forefront of the civil rights movement in Northern Ireland.\n\nAnd after standing unsuccessfully for more than five decades, he was eventually elected in March 2016, at the age of 73, to the Stormont Assembly as a People Before Profit politician.\n\nBy March 2017, he had lost his seat in a snap election, but with plenty of fire still in his belly the Derry City fan is back on the political terraces having secured a berth on Derry City and Strabane District Council.\n\nFind the result of your council election Enter your postcode or council name to find out By-elections can take place in some council wards even if that council is not scheduled for elections this year. Check your council website for details.\n\nBBC News NI is covering the latest election results and analysis on our website, mobile app and on Facebook and Twitter until the last seat is filled.\n\nA dedicated live page will keep you up to date as the results are announced.", "Demonstrators outside Birmingham primary schools wanted an end to LGBT lessons\n\nHead teachers have challenged ministers to deliver better support for schools facing criticism from parents over lessons on same-sex relationships.\n\nThe move follows weeks of protests outside schools in Birmingham.\n\nHead Sarah Hewitt-Clarkson told the National Association of Head Teachers' conference that official teaching guidance on LGBT love was unclear.\n\nEducation Secretary Damian Hinds has said no child should have to walk past demonstrations to go to school.\n\nMs Hewitt-Clarkson told the annual meeting there had been five weeks of protests over equality lessons outside her school, Anderton Park primary.\n\n\"The lead protestors have no children at my school,\" she said.\n\nShe highlighted photographs of some of the banners displayed outside the grounds, declaring slogans such as \"Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve\" and \"We have a say in what they learn\".\n\nAddressing the conference, Ms Hewitt-Clarkson asked: \"How have we got to this beyond awful state of affairs?\"\n\nShe said the government's new draft relationships education policy - due to come in next year - stated that primary school children should know that marriage, both to same-sex and opposite sex couples was a life-long commitment.\n\nIt also stated that families could be single parents, LGBT parents, grandparents and so on.\n\n\"This is excellent and clear,\" she said.\n\nBut she said she believed official guidance to heads did not make it sufficiently clear that the policy did not specifically seek to promote LGBT relationships or indeed heterosexual relationships, but rather \"love and care\" more generally.\n\nMs Hewitt-Clarkson said she also objected to suggestions in the guidance that it was up to primary schools to decide whether teaching about LGBT relationships specifically was age-appropriate for their pupils.\n\nMs Hewitt-Clarkson said this made \"a policy that is meant to be the same for all, different for all\", with individual head teachers like herself left having to sort out the confusion.\n\nShe called on Mr Hinds to work with her and the NAHT \"to sort out this unequal mess\".\n\nThe conference motion for \"a more robust and legally enforceable policy and support for schools as they carry out their public sector equality duty\", was carried unanimously.\n\nA Department for Education spokesperson said the guidance was clear that schools would have \"flexibility to deliver the content of relationships, sex and health education in a way that is age-appropriate and sensitive to the needs of their pupils.\n\n\"It is also unequivocal that these subjects do not promote anything, they educate.\n\n\"Ultimately it is for the school to decide what is taught in the curriculum and we trust them to make reasonable decisions based on the feedback they receive from parents,\" said the spokesperson.", "Former Alliance Party leader David Ford has hailed the party's performance so far in the council election.\n\nHe said the strong numbers was testament to the party's leader Naomi Long and deputy leader Stephen Farry.", "A hit-and-run victim has released CCTV footage of the crash in a bid to track down a driver after being disappointed by the police response to his case.\n\nMedical student Josh Dey suffered a bleed on the brain when he was knocked off his bike on Swain's Lane in Highgate, north London, on 21 April.\n\nA local restaurant gave him its CCTV video to help him with his public appeal to find the driver.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police said it was investigating, but no one has been arrested.", "Police say the group known as ‘Saoradh’ are the political voice of the New IRA.\n\nThey’ve been the focus of a backlash in Northern Ireland following Lyra McKee’s death.\n\nThey say they played no role in her death.\n\nThe BBC's Emma Vardy tried to ask questions of Thomas Ashe Mellon, a prominent member of the group.", "Voters have delivered a stinging rebuke to the two main parties at Westminster in the local elections in England, with ballots still being counted in Northern Ireland.\n\nSee the results below in our interactive map.\n\nEither search using your postcode or council name or click around the map to show local results.\n\nBy-elections can take place in some council wards even if that council is not scheduled for elections this year. Check your council website for details.\n\nWith all the results declared in England the Conservatives have lost over 1,300 councillors while Labour has also seen dozens of losses. The Lib Dems and Greens have both made significant gains, with the Lib Dems gaining more than 700 councillors and the Greens nearly 200.\n\nIndependent candidates have also made unusually large gains, as shown by the rise of \"Others\" in the above chart.\n\nProfessor Sir John Curtice has calculated how Thursday's vote would translate across Britain. This projection of the national vote share puts Labour and the Conservatives both on 28%.\n\nThe Lib Dems were the big winners in terms of councils, taking over 10, seven of which were at the expense of the Conservatives. Their most impressive victory was in Chelmsford where they flipped a majority of 23.\n\nThe Conservatives saw big losses in the south west, particularly the new councils of Bournemouth, Christchurch & Poole and Somerset West & Taunton. Labour suffered its biggest loss in Ashfield, where it lost 20 councillors and the control of the council passed to Independents.\n\nLabour won seats in many parts of the country, and the party's largest gain was 16 councillors in the former UKIP stronghold of Thanet. The Conservatives' largest gain was in North East Derbyshire.\n\nSupport for the major parties fell more heavily in their heartlands, according to Prof Curtice, with Tories losing most seats in the south of England and Labour in the north.\n\nThe Green Party were one of the beneficiaries of the main parties' misfortune, gaining nearly 200 new councillors across the country and only failing to defend seats in two areas.\n\nMeanwhile, UKIP lost councillors in many areas. The biggest loss came in their old heartland of Thanet, where former-leader Nigel Farage campaigned unsuccessfully to become an MP in 2015.\n\nSeveral mayoral elections have also taken place across England. Middlesbrough and Copeland returned independent mayors, while the North of Tyne returned a Labour mayor as did Leicester. Bedford re-elected its Liberal Democrat mayor.\n\nData journalism, development and design by Daniel Dunford, Joe Reed, Sean Willmott, John Walton, Wesley Stephenson, Mike Hills, Clara Guibourg, Ed Lowther, Alison Benjamin, Tom Francis-Winnington, Katia Artsenkova, Shilpa Saraf and Adam Allen.", "Alliance's Ross McMullan (centre) got almost 1,000 votes over the quota when he was elected to Belfast City Council\n\nPR elections in Northern Ireland are always more of a marathon than a sprint, so it's wise not to overanalyse the results at the halfway mark.\n\nThe protracted drama of single transferable voting means that both candidates and parties who looked like hares early on turn into tortoises as the white tape approaches.\n\nConversely some early stragglers eventually crawl on their hands and knees towards the finishing line.\n\nSo with that caveat, where are we after day one of the count?\n\nAlliance's surge is undeniably the most striking development.\n\nSo with inter-party talks due to get under way on Tuesday, what lessons might the party leaders be mulling over from the local council elections?\n\nAs day one of the count drew to a close the most striking development was the strong showing for Alliance.\n\nAt the halfway point their vote share was up by five percentage points, and they had broken out of their Greater Belfast heartlands by taking seats in places like the ABC council (Armagh, Banbridge & Craigavon) and Derry & Strabane where they previously had no representation.\n\nWhat has fuelled the Alliance success?\n\nWell since its inception in 1970 the party has stood for compromise between Orange and Green, so it seems plausible that the public's disenchantment with the paralysis at Stormont must have been an important factor.\n\nAlso on Brexit, Alliance reflects a widespread anxiety about the potential impact on the border and business.\n\nWith the parties due to resume talks next Tuesday, maybe the British and Irish governments could do worse than to re-read the Alliance blueprint \"Next Steps Forward\" which suggested a variety of ways to break the deadlock including the appointment of an independent talks facilitator.\n\nAlliance haven't been the only winners - the strong performances of Green and left wing People Before Profit candidates appear to indicate generational change.\n\nAnd the election of the DUP's first openly gay candidate shows that times are changing, even within the party which used to be regarded as the political wing of Ian Paisley's Free Presbyterian Church.\n\nBut the maverick South Down MLA Jim Wells isn't the only DUP traditionalist unnerved by the election of Alison Bennington.\n\nIn private, other DUP figures think the leadership is testing the water as part of a process of incremental change.\n\nAlison Bennington (centre, with thumbs up) celebrates her election to Antrim and Newtownabbey Borough Council\n\nThe draft deal which the DUP failed to sign off on in February of last year sidelined the issue of same sex marriage (something Sinn Féin took some criticism over).\n\nBut as the former Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams made clear in a blog published on polling day it will be back near the top of the talks agenda in the coming weeks.\n\nThe DUP seem fairly relaxed about their performance, with their vote share up and the Traditional Unionist Voice well down.\n\nBut both big parties will no doubt be annoyed that they have failed to take overall control of a single council.\n\nOn a good day, Sinn Féin might have hoped to seize either Fermanagh & Omagh or Derry & Strabane, whilst the DUP could have had a similar aspiration in Lisburn & Castlereagh.\n\nIn the event, none of these targets were hit.\n\nSinn Féin did make a breakthrough in Lisburn & Castlereagh, where they got two councillors in a chamber in which they were previously unrepresented.\n\nBut some of the party's other gambits failed to pay off - notably moving Patrice Hardy into Ballymena in the hope of inheriting some SDLP votes.\n\nSo far the Ulster Unionists look like the losers with a fall of two percentage points.\n\nThat's partly because the former leader Mike Nesbitt had a successful council election five years ago, and under Robin Swann's leadership the party seems to lack firm direction, uncomfortably straddling a divide between its liberal and hardline unionists.\n\nThe SDLP has experienced problems, with breakaway councillors in some districts and arguments over its new link with Fianna Fáil.\n\nHowever, it has proved resilient, especially in its Derry & Strabane home turf, with impressive debuts from Cara Hunter and Mary Durkan, who is keeping the family political dynasty going.\n\nAnd last but not least we have a new kid on the block - the pro-life republican Aontú with its first councillor, recently retired GP Anne McCloskey, also in Derry & Strabane.\n\nDay two and the political marathon continues.\n\nThe day after the counting stops, the real runners will take to the streets of Belfast for a real marathon.\n\nIt's the first time the race has taken place in the city on a Sunday, another reminder of how much the times have changed for those who still remember the days when some Northern Ireland councils used to tie up the swings in their play parks in the name of observing the Lord's Day.", "Police stopped the car when an officer recognised the driver\n\nA \"prolific road traffic offender\" pulled over by police was driving while disqualified and with 51 points on his licence.\n\nOfficers stopped a car in Lincoln Road, Peterborough, on Friday after they recognised the man behind the wheel as a banned driver.\n\nOn Twitter, Beds Cambs and Herts Road Policing said: \"He has 51 points on his licence. Yes, that is 51.\"\n\nThe driver was reported to court and his car seized, police said.\n\n\"He's clearly a prolific road traffic offender and has amassed a significant number of points in a relatively short period of time,\" a police spokesman said.\n\n\"He was recognised by one of the officers who had given him points previously and knew he was disqualified.\n\n\"If he continues to commit offences we will continue to put him in front of the courts and allow them to hand over whatever sentence they deem appropriate.\"\n\nA driver is usually banned after amassing 12 points.\n• None Driver with 62 points still on the road\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Hundreds of people may have missed out on voting in this year's council elections because of pilot schemes requiring them to prove their identity.\n\nThe Electoral Commission said the trial project saw 2,083 voters refused a ballot paper because they weren't carrying the necessary ID, with up to 758 of them not returning to cast their vote.\n\nBroxtowe, Derby and North West Leicestershire were three of the 10 areas involved in the pilot.\n\nCraig Westwood, director of communications, policy and research for the Electoral Commission, said \"nearly everyone\" in the pilot areas was able to vote and showed the correct ID \"without difficulty\", but said government needs to \"consider carefully the available evidence about the impact of different approaches\".\n\nQuote Message: Important questions remain about how an ID requirement would work in practice, particularly at a national poll with higher levels of turnout.\" from Craig Westwood Electoral Commission director of communications, policy and research Important questions remain about how an ID requirement would work in practice, particularly at a national poll with higher levels of turnout.\"", "Alan Simpson was an experienced pilot, his family said\n\nA poultry farmer from Shropshire has died in a plane crash in Canada.\n\nAlan Simpson, 72, from Prees, was one of two pilots in the aircraft which crashed into a mountain in the Labrador region during \"poor weather\" on 1 May.\n\nThe other pilot, from Belgium, was injured and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police said it was working with the Transportation Safety Board of Canada to determine the cause of the crash.\n\nMr Simpson's family said he would be \"deeply missed\".\n\nThey said he had been flying for over 35 years and had been travelling from the US to the UK with another experienced pilot at the time of the crash.\n\nThey added they were \"eternally grateful\" to the search and rescue teams that helped locate the plane.\n\n\"Alan was a vibrant character who lived life to the max and will be deeply missed by the extensive group of family and friends he has left behind,\" his family said.\n\nThe Royal Canadian Mounted Police said weather conditions were poor at the time of the crash\n\nMajor Mark Norris, from the Canadian Armed Forces Joint Rescue Coordination Centre in Halifax, and who was part of the search and rescue operation, said it was \"very complex and challenging\" as the plane crashed in an area \"beyond remote\".\n\nHe said they received an alert from the single-engine aircraft's emergency transmitting beacon at 09:30 local time (13:30 BST) and teams were deployed to a mountain near Makkovik.\n\nHe said one of the men was able to send text messages to rescue teams, and, despite the weather conditions, the pair were extracted several hours later. Mr Simpson was pronounced dead in a clinic in Makkovik.\n\nPolice added both men were pilots and an investigation was taking place to determine \"who was actively piloting\" at the time.\n\nOliver Cartwright, a spokesman for the National Farmers' Union, said the organisation was \"deeply saddened\" by Mr Simpson's death.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Police say one of the women found in a flat in east London was mother-of-three Mihrican Mustafa\n\nA woman who was found in a freezer along with another female has been formally identified as mother-of-three Mihrican Mustafa.\n\nThe two bodies were found frozen, clothed and on top of each other at the flat in Vandome Close, Canning Town, east London, on 26 April.\n\nThe Met confirmed they had been able to identify the 38-year-old but have not yet identified the other woman.\n\nA man has been charged with two counts of preventing a lawful burial.\n\nZahid Younis, 34, of Vandome Close, is due to appear at Kingston Crown Court on 29 May.\n\nThe two bodies were found in Canning Town on 26 April\n\nMs Mustafa, who was also known as MJ, had been reported missing on 10 May last year, according to police.\n\nDet Ch Insp Simon Harding said investigators did not yet know how she died, adding post-mortem tests were \"ongoing\".\n\nHe said the death had been \"devastating\" for the 38-year-old's family and urged anybody who knew what happened to her to come forward.\n\nHe added that since Ms Mustafa was a missing person, the Met had referred itself to the Independent Office for Police Conduct \"in accordance with agreed protocols\".\n\nA 50-year-old man arrested on suspicion of murder has been released while inquiries continue.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Health secretary Matt Hancock has said he is willing to look at \"all options\" to boost England's vaccination levels, including compulsory immunisation.\n\nMr Hancock told the BBC he did not want to \"reach the point\" of imposing jabs, but would \"rule nothing out\".\n\nMore than half a million children in the UK were unvaccinated against measles from 2010 to 2017, Unicef says.\n\nIn March, the head of NHS England warned \"vaccination deniers\" were gaining traction on social media.\n\nThe health secretary was speaking after a report in The Times claimed almost 40,000 British parents had joined an online group calling for children to be left unimmunised against potentially fatal diseases such as tetanus.\n\nAnd in England, the proportion of children receiving both doses of the Measles, Mumps and Rubella (MMR) jab by their fifth birthday has fallen over the last four years to 87.2%.\n\nThis is below the 95% said by the World Health Organisation (WHO) to be the level necessary to protect a population from a disease.\n\nThe UK was declared free of the highly contagious measles disease for the first time by the WHO in 2017.\n\nBut in 2018, it experienced small outbreaks, and in March this year there was a sharp increase of cases across Greater Manchester.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC investigated in 2018 why there's been a measles outbreak in Europe\n\nSpeaking on Radio 4's Today programme, Mr Hancock said: \"Failure to vaccinate when there isn't a good reason is wrong.\n\n\"These people who campaign against vaccinations are campaigning against science - the science is settled.\n\n\"I don't want to have to reach the point of compulsory vaccination, and I don't think we are near there, but I will rule nothing out.\"\n\nHe said the failure to vaccinate children put at risk those who could not be vaccinated for medical reasons.\n\n\"Vaccination is good for you, good for your child, good for your neighbour and your community,\" he added.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Stormzy has beaten Taylor Swift to the UK's number one spot - giving him his first chart-topping single.\n\nThe grime artist's comeback track Vossi Bop amassed 94,500 first-week combined sales to clinch victory over Swift's Me!, which ultimately entered third behind Lil Nas X's Old Town Road.\n\nStormzy also broke the UK's weekly streaming record for a rap song, with 12.7 million listens.\n\nThe star said he was \"speechless\" at the chart result.\n\nVossi Bop's sales are the second highest of the year so far, behind Ariana Grande's 7 Rings, which opened with 126,000 combined sales in January.\n\nStormzy, who is set to headline Glastonbury this summer, told the Official Charts Company: \"Words don't really do it justice. My supporters have had my back like crazy - this is all you guys, thank you so much.\"\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video by BBC Radio 1Xtra 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\nVossi Bop was just 530 sales ahead of Taylor Swift's single in the chart update on Monday, but Stormzy held on to pole position and Swift slipped back to number three.\n\nMe!, featuring Panic! At The Disco's Brendon Urie, is her ninth UK top five hit.\n\nEarlier this week the video for the single broke the YouTube record for most views in the opening 24 hours of release.\n\nElsewhere in the chart, a track consisting only of birdsong - Let Nature Sing, released by the RSPB - is a new entry at number 18.\n\nPop star Pink saw her eighth studio album Hurts 2B Human enter at the top of the album chart, more than 22,000 sales ahead of its nearest rival, Catfish and the Bottlemen's The Balance.\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.", "Actor Sir Tony Robinson, a former member of Labour's governing National Executive Committee, says he has quit the party over its current direction.\n\nHe said he was leaving after nearly 45 years because of Labour's stance on Brexit, its handling of anti-Semitism allegations and its poor leadership.\n\nSir Tony, 72, is best known for playing Baldrick in the comedy Blackadder.\n\nThe political activist has spoken at rallies for the People's Vote campaign, which is calling for a public vote on the final Brexit deal.\n\nHis decision comes as Labour lost seats in Thursday's local elections, with voters turning to smaller parties and independents.\n\nAnnouncing his move on Twitter, Sir Tony said it was partly down to the party's \"continued duplicity on Brexit\".\n\nHe has previously written a tweet to deputy leader Tom Watson, saying: \"Our party members are overwhelmingly in favour of a second referendum. To campaign on a platform of constructive ambiguity would be unprincipled, duplicitous and rather sinister.\"\n\nLabour has refused to fully endorse a further referendum on Brexit - as supported by many ordinary members - instead saying it would do so under certain circumstances.\n\nSir Tony, who has frequently criticised Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn on Twitter, also raised the issue of anti-Semitism and swore when describing the leadership in his tweet.\n\nLabour has been dogged by criticism of how it has handled allegations of anti-Semitism since Mr Corbyn became leader.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Tony Robinson This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 Time Team presenter, who campaigned at several general elections, served on Labour's National Executive Committee between 2000-04.\n\nLabour did not want to comment on his departure.", "Liberal Democrat leader Vince Cable has called his party's local election results the \"big success story of the night\".\n\nThe party saw gains across the country, taking seats from both Conservative and Labour-run councils.\n\nSpeaking in Chelmsford, where the Lib Dems took control of the local council from the Conservatives, Mr Cable said the result demonstrated \"we are now very much part of three-party politics\".", "Ms Begum left Bethnal Green, east London, in 2015 to join the Islamic State group in Syria\n\nIS bride Shamima Begum would \"face the death penalty\" for terrorism if she came to Bangladesh, the country's foreign minister has said.\n\nAbdul Momen told the BBC that Ms Begum has \"nothing to do\" with his country.\n\nThe 19-year-old, who left east London to join the Islamic State group in 2015, was stripped of her British citizenship in February.\n\nHer claim to Bangladeshi nationality through her mother is believed to have informed the Home Office's decision.\n\nUnder international law, it is illegal to deprive nationals of citizenship if to do so would leave them stateless.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC, Ms Begum's lawyer, Tasnime Akunjee, told the BBC \"in no way is she Bangladesh's problem\".\n\nMs Begum is appealing against the Home Office's decision.\n\nMr Momen said there was \"no question\" of giving Ms Begum Bangladeshi citizenship or allowing her into the country, piling pressure on Home Secretary Sajid Javid to settle her status.\n\n\"She has never sought Bangladeshi citizenship and her parents are also British citizens,\" he told the BBC.\n\n\"The British government is responsible for her. They'll have to deal with her.\"\n\nHe added that, if she did end up coming to Bangladesh, she would fall foul of the country's \"zero tolerance policy\" towards terrorism.\n\n\"Bangladeshi law is very clear. Terrorists will have to face the death penalty,\" he said.\n\nAlthough Ms Begum travelled to Syria to join the IS group, she has not admitted any terror offences.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Tasnime Akunjee, the lawyer for the family of Shamima Begum, expects her to be \"damaged\" by her ordeal\n\nThe Home Office could reverse its decision \"at any time\" and doing so would \"save British taxpayers a lot of money\" in court costs and legal aid, Mr Akunjee said.\n\n\"What Sajid Javid did in stripping Shamima of her citizenship is human fly tipping - taking our problems and dumping them on other countries,\" he said.\n\nThe Home Office told the BBC it would not respond to Mr Momen's comments and had nothing further to add to its previous statement.\n\nMs Begum left the UK with two school friends at the age of 15 before being found by a journalist from the Times in a Syrian refugee camp in mid-February this year.\n\nHeavily pregnant with her third child, she pleaded to return to the UK, claiming she had been \"brainwashed\" by Islamic State and now \"regrets everything\".\n\nShe said she did not regret travelling to Syria but did not agree with everything the IS group had done.\n\nMr Javid did not acquiesce to her pleas, telling MPs he \"won't hesitate\" to revoke her citizenship in the interests of national security.\n\n\"If you back terror, there must be consequences,\" he said.\n\nMs Begum was 15 and living in Bethnal Green, London, when she left the UK in 2015\n\nSoon afterwards, she gave birth to a boy called Jarrah. He died of pneumonia in March at less than three weeks of age. She had two other children who also died.\n\nIn the wake of the boy's death, Mr Javid was criticised over the decision to strip Ms Begum of her British citizenship.\n\nThree weeks prior to the death, Ms Begum's sister, Renu Begum, had written to Mr Javid asking him to help her bring the baby to the UK.\n\nUnder the 1981 British Nationality Act, a person can be deprived of their citizenship if the home secretary is satisfied it would be \"conducive to the public good\" and they would not become stateless as a result.", "None of the 21 people who were injured sustained serious injuries\n\nA passenger plane slid off a runway in the US state of Florida on Friday night, ending up in a river after landing during a thunderstorm.\n\nTwenty-one people were taken to hospital with minor injuries, officials said.\n\nThe chartered Boeing 737, operated by Miami Air International, had flown from Guantanamo Bay in Cuba to a military base in the city of Jacksonville.\n\nPassengers say it landed heavily in the storm, skidding into St John's River.\n\nThe 136 passengers and seven crew members on board evacuated the Boeing 737-800 via its wings.\n\n\"No fatalities reported. We are all in this together,\" Jacksonville Mayor Lenny Curry wrote on Twitter after the incident.\n\nHe also said President Donald Trump had offered assistance as the situation was developing.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Jax Sheriff's Office This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nOn Saturday a spokeswoman for the US Navy in Jacksonville said that at least four pets checked into the luggage area were presumed to have died due to flooding.\n\n\"There's water in the cargo hold,\" Kaylee LaRocque told USA Today.\n\n\"We are so sad about this situation, that there are animals that unfortunately passed away.\"\n\nOne passenger on the plane, Cheryl Bormann, described the \"terrifying\" moment it slid off the runway.\n\n\"The plane literally hit the ground and bounced - it was clear the pilot did not have total control of the plane, it bounced again,\" she told CNN.\n\nThe airliner is contracted by the US military to travel to Guantanamo Bay\n\nThe passengers and crew were evaluated in a nearby aircraft hangar\n\n\"We were in the water. We couldn't tell where we were, whether it was a river or an ocean,\" she said, adding that she could smell jet fuel leaking into the river.\n\nIn a news conference, Captain Michael Connor, commanding officer at Naval Air Station Jacksonville, said it was a \"miracle\" that there had been no serious injuries or fatalities.\n\nMiami Air International is contracted by the US military for its twice-weekly \"rotator\" service between the US mainland and Guantanamo Bay, Bill Dougherty, a base spokesman said.\n\nA National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) investigator is seen with flight data recorder\n\nOfficials say the people on Friday's flight included civilian and military personnel.\n\nIt said it was providing technical assistance to the US National Transportation Safety Board, which is investigating the incident.\n\nThe aerospace giant has been under increased scrutiny following two fatal crashes involving its 737 Max 8 planes - a different model to the one involved in the incident on Friday.", "Veteran socialist Eamonn McCann has returned to politics, two years after losing his seat in the Northern Ireland Assembly.\n\nThe People Before Profit man was elected to Derry City and Strabane District Council on Saturday.\n\nHe said his party's performance in the Northern Ireland council elections showed that there is an appetite for politicians who want to represent \"the interests of all the people at the bottom of society\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Alison Bennington was congratulated by DUP colleagues after her election\n\nThe election of the DUP's first openly gay politician was welcomed by one of the party's senior politicians.\n\nAlison Bennington was elected to Antrim and Newtownabbey.\n\nBelfast East MP Gavin Robinson said it was a \"good news story\", despite assembly member Jim Wells claiming members were \"shocked by the decision\" to let her run.\n\nElsewhere there were some surprising gains for Alliance and some smaller parties.\n\nSinn Féin had a mixed set of results on the first day of counting, while the Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) lost a number of seats.\n\nThere are 11 councils in Northern Ireland and a total of 462 seats up for grabs.\n\nAlison Bennington has been elected as a councillor for the party which has consistently opposed the legalisation of same-sex marriage. It remains against the law in Northern Ireland.\n\nThe DUP's founder and leader for almost 40 years, Ian Paisley, was also the founder of the Free Presbyterian Church of Ulster, a fundamentalist and evangelical denomination which many DUP politicians are still associated with.\n\nDUP leader Arlene Foster said Ms Bennington's election did not necessarily mean a shift in the party's policy.\n\nJim Wells, who has been one of the party's most vocal opponents of same-sex marriage, said: \"This marks a watershed change in DUP party policy and none of the members were consulted about it.\n\n\"Many thousands of people in Northern Ireland are depending on the DUP to hold the line on these moral issues.\n\n\"They feel very let down and very concerned about what has happened.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or 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 Simpson This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 DUP MP for East Belfast, Gavin Robinson, said: \"If you believe in our party's principles, if you stand for our values, if you are prepared to go forward and seek selection and you are selected and elected by the people - then get on and do the job.\n\n\"We're not a theocracy, we're a political party.\"\n\nFormer DUP special advisor Timothy Cairns said he felt he spoke for many in the party who were \"quite angry\" at Mr Well's comments.\n\nHe said: \"Most right-thinking people are disgusted at Jim Well's comments.\n\n\"It is time for the leadership to take action. It is beyond time.\n\n\"What Jim has said this evening about a fellow colleague is wrong\".\n\nThere were a number of gains for the Alliance Party and smaller parties including the Greens and People Before Profit.\n\nAlliance won three seats in the Ormiston district electoral area (DEA) in Belfast and took a seat from Sinn Féin in Titanic, securing a second councillor in that DEA.\n\nThe party also topped the poll in every DEA in Lisburn and Castlereagh - with all nine candidates being elected - and won seats outside its traditional greater Belfast heartlands with victories in Coleraine, Lurgan and Faughan.\n\nAlliance's Ross McMullan (centre) got almost 1,000 votes over the quota\n\nThe Green Party's Áine Groogan topped the poll in the Botanic DEA and has become her party's first councillor in that area.\n\nMs Groogan, who was a first-time candidate in the local government elections, told BBC News NI her party had made gains because voters were \"fed up with old-style politics\".\n\nElsewhere in Belfast another smaller party, People Before Profit took a seat from Sinn Féin in Collin and also gained a councillor in Oldpark.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Áine Groogan: 'People are fed up with old-style politics'\n\nHowever the Progressive Unionist Party lost a seat as Julie-Anne Corr-Johnston was defeated in Oldpark.\n\nAs well as losing out to People Before Profit in Collin and Alliance in Titanic, Sinn Féin's former Derry and Strabane mayor Maolíosa McHugh lost his seat.\n\nSinn Féin assembly member Raymond McCartney said his party was set to lose \"a couple of seats\" on that council.\n\nMr McCartney said the party fought a strong campaign but that the absence of devolved government at Stormont was an issue on the doorsteps.\n\nHe said it would inform Sinn Féin's position going into talks aimed at restoring devolution which are due to start on Tuesday.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Voters have shown that they want equality, says Mary Lou McDonald\n\nParty president Mary Lou McDonald added that the election had demonstrated to her that the political deadlock was \"unacceptable\".\n\nThe SDLP's Mary Durkan has been elected in the Foyleside District of Derry and Strabane Council after her first foray into politics. The barrister is the sister of assembly member Mark H Durkan.\n\nSDLP leader Colum Eastwood said his party had done \"very, very well\" in Derry and Strabane and was pleased with the performance overall.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The SDLP's \"renewal project\" is working \"very well\", says Colum Eastwood\n\nHe said: \"We are very happy, we have had some difficult years but I think this is a positive day for the party.\n\n\"What we are seeing is that new candidates with good campaigns and hard work on the ground are actually winning and winning well.\"\n\nThe UUP lost a number of seats on Friday, including in Ormiston, where Peter Johnston lost out and in Botanic.\n\nSo far the party's first preference vote share is down by 2% compared to the last council election in 2014, but this could improve after more results are declared on Saturday.\n\nThe UUP enjoyed a better day in Lisburn and Castlereagh, where their first preference vote share rose by 1.9%.\n\nThey also had a narrow victory in Cusher DEA in Armagh, Banbridge and Craigavon where Gordon Kennedy beat DUP candidate Quincey Dougan to the last seat by 1.84 votes.\n\nWhere else would you find such electoral excitement on a Friday night?\n\nThere have been gains for the smaller parties including Alliance, the Greens and People Before Profit at the expense of the DUP and Sinn Féin.\n\nThe two biggest parties say their vote has held up - and even improved - in some of their traditional stronghold areas.\n\nBut there's no denying both have taken gambles that haven't paid off, running more candidates in some areas in a bid to increase their presence only for it not to work out.\n\nThe SDLP are pleased with their performance in some areas, but across the board the UUP vote looks much poorer than the strong result they polled in 2014.\n\nAs ever, transfers are key for those final nail-biter seats in each area. As one candidate put it to me: \"Every transfer matters, it's like Game of Thrones!\"\n\nIn Mid-Ulster, Kyle Black, the son of prison officer David Black who was murdered by dissident republicans, was elected in Carntogher.\n\nHe said: \"Out of absolutely devastating circumstance that will impact out lives forever, I wanted to try and do something positive - to give back to the community.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Kyle Black says he entered politics after his father's murder showed him the \"worst\" of Northern Ireland\n\nIt will be late on Saturday before the full results are confirmed.\n\nAs of Friday night, turnout was recorded as 52%, but this is not the final figure.\n\nThursday's good weather appears to have boosted voter numbers, but there is a wide variation across the different District Electoral Areas (DEAs).\n\nIn County Fermanagh, the turnout was almost 72% in the Erne East DEA.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Darran Marshall This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nHowever, in east Belfast, just over 42% of eligible voters cast their ballot in the Titanic DEA.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Belfast City Council This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIt has been two decades since a council election was held on its own, and not in conjunction with another poll.\n\nThe official turnout in 2014's council election, which was held alongside the European election, was 51%, and the DUP secured the highest number of seats.\n\nFind the result of your council election Enter your postcode or council name to find out By-elections can take place in some council wards even if that council is not scheduled for elections this year. Check your council website for details.\n\nThe first results started to come in after 11:00 on Friday\n\nBBC News NI will cover the latest election results and analysis on our website, mobile app and on Facebook and Twitter throughout the weekend.\n\nA dedicated live page will keep you up to date as the results are announced.\n\nThere will also be special election programmes on BBC Radio Ulster from 10:00 on Saturday.\n\nTelevision coverage will be on BBC Two Northern Ireland at 10:00 on Saturday, with an hour-long Sunday Politics programme on the same channel at 11:00 on Sunday.", "A former Conservative councillor heckled the prime minister when she addressed the Welsh Tory conference in Llangollen.\n\nStuart Davies shouted to Theresa May: \"We don't want you\", and called on her to resign, before he was escorted away.\n\nMrs May was speaking about Thursday's local election results and Brexit.", "Cyclone Fani has slammed into India's eastern coastline. More than a million people have been evacuated from the state of Orissa, also known as Odisha.", "Scar and Hayley arrived to the wildlife park from the UK's only crocodile zoo in Oxford\n\nStaff at a wildlife park have managed to recover eggs laid by a pair of endangered Siamese crocodiles.\n\nWoodside Wildlife Park in Lincolnshire is part of an international breeding programme for the animals.\n\nKeeper Ben Pascoe said it was the second attempt at recovering the eggs after they were spotted on Thursday.\n\nCrocodiles Scar and Hayley were lured into a pool before it was drained, allowing keepers to move the eggs to an incubated and controlled environment.\n\nThey said it would give the eggs the best chance of hatching.\n\nMr Pascoe said: \"We got in and out and I still have both my arms and legs!\"\n\nStaff at Woodside Wildlife Park drained a pool leaving the crocodiles stranded in order to recover newly-laid eggs\n\nHe added that the Siamese crocodiles - native to parts of Asia - were very rare and it was vital to do everything possible to help the survival of the species.\n\nThe eggs were in a flower bed in the enclosure, and would now have a much better chance.\n\n\"It will be a massive thing for us if we get some baby crocodiles,\" he said.\n\nThere are thought to be less than 1,000 mature adults left in the wild.\n\nIf successful, any offspring will be allocated to other collections as the crocodiles are part of an international breeding programme.\n\nThe crocodiles are housed in a glasshouse built in honour of British explorer Sir Joseph Banks, which was moved from its original site in Lincoln in 2016.\n\nIt houses numerous exotic animals and plants associated with the travels of the explorer.\n\nFollow BBC East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nDivock Origi's late winner sent Liverpool top of the Premier League with victory at Newcastle United to put the pressure back on Manchester City and ensure the title race will go to the final game.\n\nOrigi - on as substitute for Mohamed Salah after he was taken off on a stretcher with a head injury sustained in a collision with Newcastle keeper Martin Dubravka - headed in Xherdan Shaqiri's free-kick in the 86th minute.\n\nIt gave Liverpool three points after a topsy-turvy night on Tyneside.\n\nNow Manchester City must beat Leicester City at Etihad Stadium on Monday to ensure they retain the initiative going into the final round of games next Sunday.\n\nLiverpool went ahead after 13 minutes when Virgil van Dijk arrived unmarked on the end of Trent Alexander-Arnold's free-kick.\n\nNewcastle were quickly level when Christian Atsu scored from close range after Alexander-Arnold handled Salomon Rondon's shot on the line but Salah took advantage of more poor marking to volley home another fine delivery from the young defender.\n\nRondon, a handful all night, drew Newcastle level once more nine minutes after the break when Liverpool failed to clear a corner and Jurgen Klopp's side suffered another blow when Salah was taken off after a lengthy delay.\n\nOrigi was introduced and made the decisive contribution that keeps the title race alive - although Salah's injury is a worry with Liverpool attempting to claw back a 3-0 deficit against Barcelona in the Champions League semi-final second leg at Anfield on Tuesday.\n• None 'Liverpool survive night laced with danger – and now look to Rodgers for helping hand'\n• None We have qualified for our final - Klopp\n• None Salah could face Barca but Firmino out\n• None How the title race could still go to a 39th game play-off\n\nLiverpool refuse to go away\n\nLiverpool simply refuse to buckle in their pursuit of Manchester City - no matter how long they have to wait to get the victories they require.\n\nKlopp's side are showing remarkable drive and resilience, illustrated by the manner in which they have won so many games in the closing stages, especially when the pressure has been on.\n\nThere have been prime examples at home to Everton and Tottenham but in recent weeks they have stayed the course to outlast opponents such as Fulham, Southampton and now Newcastle away from home.\n\nAnd here, in this unforgiving Tyneside atmosphere, they overcame adversity and a Newcastle side who were in no mood to stand meekly aside despite Premier League safety being assured.\n\nLiverpool were vulnerable in defence but this is a side that carries a persistent threat and it was the introduction of the likes of Shaqiri and Origi that made the difference.\n\nLiverpool could have been forgiven for thinking the fates were against them when Salah took that sickening blow in an accidental aerial collision with Dubravka, the Egyptian lying on the floor for several minutes before being taken away on a stretcher to sympathetic applause from the entire stadium.\n\nAnd yet they responded once more, digging deep to secure three points with Origi's glancing header and this means Manchester City know the stakes are huge when they face Brendan Rodgers' in-form side on Monday.\n\nWhat next for Newcastle and Benitez?\n\nRafael Benitez spent the entire night taking the acclaim of the Toon Army, from before kick-off to a post-match lap of honour when the supporters chanted long and loud for the Spaniard to agree a new deal to stay at St James' Park.\n\nThe messages are still mixed but not here among Newcastle's fanbase. There is only one outcome these fans, who idolise Benitez, want.\n\nWhether Benitez gives them what they desire remains to be seen but once again he has kept a workmanlike squad in the Premier League with room to spare and now wants the investment to send them into the top 10.\n\nIronically, on this night, some of the Benitez trademarks were missing as wretched defensive organisation allowed Liverpool to cash in on each of their goals.\n\nBut, as he led the players around St James' Park to take the supporters' applause it was clear that those fans now want the final line of this season's story to be written with Benitez's name on a new deal.\n\nWhen asked about his future, Benitez said: \"We have been talking the last week and hopefully in one or two weeks will have more news.\"\n\nLiverpool boss Jurgen Klopp, speaking to BBC Sport: \"I know what kind of boys I have - who doesn't know after the game today? If anyone thought Newcastle weren't playing for anything, wow, that was competitive - but we deserved to win.\n\n\"I only have to help the boys. I don't feel pressure. If we are champions then we are champions, you can't feel pressure when you do your best.\n\nOn Divock Origi's winning goal: \"That's nearly a fairytale. And now we are qualified for our final on Sunday against Wolves. Of course before that we play Barcelona but I'm not thinking of that yet and then we will see.\"\n\nNewcastle boss Rafael Benitez, speaking to BBC Sport: \"I'm really proud because it was a difficult game against a very good team but the players gave everything. The fans appreciate that and were behind the team, we couldn't ask for more.\n\n\"We made a few mistakes at set pieces but in terms of effort and desire we did quite well. We are trying to make sure we don't make so many mistakes. I don't know about the third goal but the first two we can do much better.\n\n\"We have been quite consistent, working really hard as a team and as a unit, staying very compact. It was a great performance from us.\"\n• None Liverpool have scored 18 headed goals in the Premier League this season and 12 goals via substitutes, more than any other team in both categories.\n• None The Reds have scored more goals against Newcastle in the Premier League than against any other team (98).\n• None Liverpool's Mohamed Salah scored his 100th league goal in European top-flight football, with 56 of those coming in the Premier League (also 35 in Italian Serie A and 9 in Swiss Super League).\n• None Liverpool are the first team in Premier League history to have at least two defenders provide 10+ assists each in a single campaign (Trent Alexander-Arnold 11, Andy Robertson 11).\n• None Newcastle's Salomon Rondon has hit double figures for goals in a Premier League season for the first time.\n• None Only Chelsea's Eden Hazard (48%) has had a hand in a higher proportion of his team's goals in the Premier League this season than Rondon (45% - scoring 10 goals and assisting 7 of 38).\n\nLiverpool host Wolves at Anfield on the final day of the season - Sunday, 12 May - while Newcastle are away at Fulham, with both matches kicking off at 15:00 BST.\n• None Offside, Newcastle United. Salomón Rondón tries a through ball, but Yoshinori Muto is caught offside.\n• None Attempt blocked. Salomón Rondón (Newcastle United) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.\n• None James Milner (Liverpool) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Goal! Newcastle United 2, Liverpool 3. Divock Origi (Liverpool) header from very close range to the top left corner. Assisted by Xherdan Shaqiri with a cross following a set piece situation.\n• None Fabinho (Liverpool) wins a free kick on the right wing. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Leonardo da Vinci could have experienced nerve damage in a fall, impeding his ability to paint in later life, Italian doctors suggest.\n\nThey diagnosed ulnar palsy, or \"claw hand\", by analysing the depiction of his right hand in two artworks.\n\nIt had been suggested that Leonardo's hand impairment was caused by a stroke.\n\nBut in the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, the doctors suggest it was nerve damage that meant he could no longer hold a palette and brush.\n\nLeonardo da Vinci, who lived from 1452-1519, was an artist and inventor whose talents included architecture, anatomy, engineering and sculpture, as well as painting.\n\nBut art historians have debated which hand he used to draw and paint with.\n\nAnalysis of his drawing shows shading sloping from the upper left to lower right, suggesting left-handedness. But all historical biographical documents suggest Leonardo used his right hand when he was creating other kinds of works.\n\nFor this research, two artworks - showing Leonardo da Vinci in the latter stages of his life - were analysed. One is a portrait of the artist, drawn with red chalk, attributed to the 16th-century Lombard artist Giovanni Ambrogio Figino.\n\nUnusually, it shows his right arm largely concealed in folds of clothing. His hand is visible, but in a \"stiff, contracted position\".\n\nDr Davide Lazzeri, a specialist in plastic reconstructive and aesthetic surgery at the Villa Salaria Clinic in Rome, who led the analysis, said: \"Rather than depicting the typical clenched hand seen in post-stroke muscular spasticity, the picture suggests an alternative diagnosis such as ulnar palsy, commonly known as 'claw hand'.\"\n\nThe ulnar nerve runs from the shoulder to the little finger, and manages almost all the intrinsic hand muscles that allow fine motor movements, so a fall could have caused trauma to his upper arm, leading to the palsy, or weakness.\n\nThere are no reports of any cognitive decline or other motor impairment, which offers further evidence that a stroke was an unlikely cause of Leonardo's impairment. Dr Lazzeri said.\n\nHe added: \"This may explain why he left numerous paintings incomplete, including the Mona Lisa, during the last five years of his career as a painter, while he continued teaching and drawing.\"\n\nA further image, an engraving of a man playing a lira da braccio - a Renaissance string instrument - was examined. The man in the engraving was recently identified as Leonardo da Vinci. Further evidence was obtained from a diary entry by a Cardinal's assistant about a visit to the artist's house in 1517.\n\nThe assistant, Antonio de Beatis wrote: \"One cannot indeed expect any more good work from him as a certain paralysis has crippled his right hand... And although Messer Leonardo can no longer paint with the sweetness which was peculiar to him, he can still design and instruct others.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nLabour has suffered a net loss of council seats - starting from the low base of 2015 in many cases.\n\nThe Conservatives have lost more than 10 times as many councillors, but what is remarkable is that the main party of opposition - around the mid-term of a not-very-popular government - has not made net gains.\n\nIt seems reasonable to assume that some votes have been lost by Labour in Leave areas because - as the leader of Sunderland City Council Graeme Miller has said - the party hasn't decisively ruled out another referendum.\n\n(It has retained it as an option, if the Conservatives are unwilling to change their deal).\n\nBut if you take a close look at the figures in Sunderland, the complexity of Labour's political problems are revealed.\n\nIts vote fell by nearly 17 points there - while UKIP's went up by 4.5.\n\nThe pro-Remain Lib Dems saw their vote rise by nearly 10 points and the Greens by 8.5.\n\nIndeed, the combined vote of the Lib Dems and Greens was 21.4%, not far off UKIP's 23.9%.\n\nThe swing from Labour to the Lib Dems was about 13% and to the Greens 10%.\n\nThose in Labour's ranks who wanted a stronger commitment to another referendum on any Brexit deal are arguing now that the party is losing support in some Leave areas by failing to appeal enough to those who voted Remain.\n\nDefections to the Lib Dems and the Greens suppressed the Labour vote, and further flatters UKIP's performance.\n\nIn leave-supporting Derby, where Jeremy Corbyn's party lost six seats and UKIP gained two, the swing from Labour to Lib Dems was 6%.\n\nBut those who support Labour's current policy - a heavily caveated commitment to a referendum on Brexit under certain circumstances rather than a public vote in all circumstances - say this is too simplistic an analysis.\n\nIn truth, we can't discern the underlying motives of Labour/Lib Dem switchers in every part of the country unless we ask them.\n\nThere are genuinely local factors at play in some areas - unsurprising, perhaps, as these are indeed local elections.\n\nAnd some on Labour's left have another theory. They say the party is vulnerable to a protest vote because some Labour councils have had to cut services due to constrained budgets.\n\nIn some cases the Lib Dems are the beneficiaries\n\nOthers on the left say the party can't get a hearing for its anti-austerity message as the Brexit debate muffles all else.\n\nThey are actually quite keen for their party leadership to reach a deal with the government soon to get Brexit over the line and - they believe - this will then neutralise the political toxicity of the issue.\n\nBut there is little doubt politicians will proclaim to know the will of the people, without necessarily exploring deeper motivations - and the results will be interpreted in a way which advances their own arguments.", "(L-R) Kevin Keegan, Patsy Kensit, Lord Archer, Michelle Collins, Joe Swash, and Denise Van Outen settled claims with the Mirror group in 2017\n\nThe publishers of the Sun and now-defunct News of the World, along with the publishers of the Mirror Group newspapers, could face a total bill for phone hacking of up to £1bn, says the group representing the victims.\n\nSettlements to victims, plus legal costs, already total nearly £500m.\n\nThere are hundreds more claims already under way and many thousands more victims who could potentially claim.\n\n\"More and more victims contact us each year,\" said Hacked Off's Nathan Sparks.\n\nHe told the BBC that this suggested there could be many hundreds or thousands more still to come.\n\n\"The apparent willingness of the Mirror Group Newspapers and Sun owners News UK to settle cases at seemingly any price indicates a desperation to avoid having these claims heard in open court - which would expose multiple allegations of corporate wrongdoing and criminality to the public gaze,\" he added.\n\n\"With the expenditure of all publishers taken into account, the total cost of the scandal could exceed £1bn - with virtually no accountability for the executives who have presided over it.\"\n\nA spokesperson for News UK simply said: \"We can't comment on active litigation.\" The Mirror Group also declined to comment.\n\nThe revelation that News of the World employee Glenn Mulcaire hacked the phone of murdered teenager Milly Dowler caused national outrage and led to a public inquiry into the behaviour of the press, the police and politicians, chaired by Lord Justice Sir Brian Leveson.\n\nThat inquiry was split into two parts, with part two deferred until after criminal prosecutions had been concluded - which they were in 2016.\n\nThe government then closed down the second part of the inquiry, meaning many of the claims of the victims were never heard in an open forum.\n\nPhone-hacking campaigners had hoped that a series of civil trials involving hundreds of victims would see fresh claims of wrongdoing by journalists, editors and owners at the Sun, the Mirror and the Sunday Mirror tested in reportable court proceedings.\n\nNews UK has always insisted that the illegality was confined to the News of the World.\n\nIt is true that the original Leveson inquiry led to criminal convictions mainly of people employed by the News of the World, with one journalist, Dan Evans, pleading guilty to hacking at both that paper and at the Sunday Mirror.\n\nThe convictions included that of Glenn Mulcaire, the man who hacked Milly Dowler's phone. He never testified in Leveson 1 because of his involvement in a criminal trial that resulted in him being sentenced to nine months in prison.\n\nHowever, the judge in a civil trial against the Mirror that subsequently DID make it all the way to court ruled that phone-hacking at the Mirror was \"widespread, institutionalised and long-standing\".\n\nA spokesperson for the publishers of the Mirror said: \"We don't believe there would be any merit in spending public money to hold a Leveson 2 inquiry today. The practices of the past which gave rise to the original Leveson inquiry have long since been banished from our newsrooms.\"\n\nSo far, News Group has paid out £400m and the Mirror's owners £75m.\n\nThese settlements are entered into voluntarily by the claimants, but even if they are satisfied with the money they received, many activists remain unsatisfied that the full extent of phone-hacking and other press intrusion was never explored in public.\n\nThe government has defended its decision to shut down Leveson 2, saying that because of significant changes in the media landscape since Leveson 1, proceeding further \"was no longer appropriate, proportionate, or in the public interest\".\n\nSir Brian Leveson himself strongly rejected that conclusion in a letter to the government.\n\nActor and phone-hacking victim Hugh Grant told the BBC the conclusion was deeply unsatisfactory.\n\nHe said: \"The vast majority of people who were running the press pre-Leveson are still in place to this day and they got away scot-free, precisely because the Leveson inquiry was always supposed to be split into 2 parts, because the second part - who did what to who - the precise gradual stuff had to be delayed until after the civil criminal trials.\n\n\"And once they did finish, Theresa May completely backed down.\"\n\nThe press, the police and the politicians tell the public Leveson 1 forced everyone to clean up their act. But many activists and victims feel that an awful lot of dirty linen remains unwashed.\n\nThe newspaper owners involved have paid hundreds of millions of pounds to keep it that way.\n\nThe Press, the Police, the Politicians and their Public airs on Radio 4 on Sunday 5 May at 13:30.", "Leo Varadkar in the aftermath of the result: \"For me this is also a day when we say 'no more'.\n\n\"No more to doctors telling their patients that there is nothing can be done for them in their own country.\n\n\"No more lonely journeys across the Irish Sea.\n\n\"No more stigma as the veil of secrecy is lifted and no more isolation as the burden of shame is gone.\"", "Sir Richard will be one of the first to ride on his company's SpaceShipTwo vehicle\n\nSir Richard Branson says he's training to be an astronaut and will take his first trip into space soon.\n\nHe told BBC Radio 4's You and Yours programme: \"We're talking about months away, not years away - so it's close. There are exciting times ahead.\n\n\"I'm going for astronaut training; I'm going for fitness training, centrifuge and other training, so that my body will hopefully cope well when I go to space.\"\n\nThe 67-year-old multi-millionaire has been investing in commercial space travel since 2004, when he founded space tourism company Virgin Galactic.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sir Richard: \"We're talking about months away, not years away\"\n\nSir Richard, tech entrepreneur Elon Musk and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos are now in a race to get fare-paying passengers into space.\n\nThe British entrepreneur said: \"Elon is doing fantastically well getting cargo into space, and he's building bigger and bigger rockets.\"\n\nBut the commercial travel space race is between Branson and Bezos, the UK businessman believes.\n\n\"I think we're both neck and neck as to who will put people into space first,\" Sir Richard said.\n\n\"Ultimately, we have to do it safely. It's more a race with ourselves to make sure we have the craft that are safe to put people up there.\"\n\nJeff Bezos' Blue Origin company has developed the New Shepard rocket and capsule\n\nSir Richard hopes to be one of those first space tourists. He said his astronaut training was going well so far, and he has increased his fitness by playing tennis four times a day.\n\n\"Instead of doing one set of tennis every morning and every evening, I'm doing two sets. I'm going kiting and biking - doing whatever it takes to make me as fit as possible.\"\n\nThe Virgin founder is also taking part in gruelling centrifuge training which recreates the pressures the human body experiences during spaceflight. All astronauts endure G-force training, which simulates the experience of lift-off and travel through the Earth's atmosphere.\n\nHe added: \"If you're going to really enjoy the experience, the fitter you can be the better.\"\n\nEarlier this year, Virgin Galactic completed a supersonic test flight of its SpaceShipTwo passenger rocket ship.\n\nIt was the first powered flight for the company's new vehicle following the break-up of the previous craft high over the Californian desert.\n\nThe incident, in 2014, resulted in the death of one pilot and left the other seriously injured.\n\nMonday's You and Yours programme is about future transport technology. It broadcasts at 12:15 BST and will then be available on the BBC Radio iPlayer.\n\nThe best way to get news on the go", "Serena Alexander-Benson left the UK on a Eurotunnel train at Folkestone, police said\n\nA search has been launched for a 13-year-old girl who left the UK on a Eurotunnel train.\n\nSerena Alexander-Benson was last seen by her father leaving her home address in Wimbledon at about 07:50 BST on Friday.\n\nShe was wearing her green school uniform and told her father she was going to school - however she did not arrive and has not been seen since.\n\nScotland Yard said it was concerned for the girl's welfare.\n\nIt is believed that the girl left the country on Friday morning via Eurotunnel at Folkestone, Kent, \"probably in the company of an older person\", the force said.\n\nPolice added that although Serena lives with her father in London, her mother lives in Poland.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Irish Republic has voted by a large majority to repeal a part of the constitution that banned abortions.\n\nReturning Officer Barry Ryan delivered the results in Irish and English at Dublin Castle.", "Junk food is often promoted to kids on social media\n\nSocial media stars might be encouraging children to eat more unhealthy snacks, a new study suggests.\n\nIt found children who saw popular vloggers consuming sugary and fatty snacks went on to eat 26% more calories than those who did not.\n\nThe study, presented at the European Congress on Obesity, examined the responses of children to images from social media.\n\nThe findings come amid calls for tougher rules on junk food advertising.\n\nThe social media stars used in the study were Zoella, who has 10.9 million followers on Instagram, and Alfie Deyes, who has 4.6 million.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Zoella This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 176 children were split into three groups and shown either pictures of the personalities promoting unhealthy snacks, healthy foods or non-food products.\n\nThe children were then offered a range of healthy and unhealthy snacks to choose from, including grapes, carrot sticks, chocolate buttons or jelly sweets.\n\nThe children who had seen the unhealthy images consumed an average of 448 calories, while the others ate just 357.\n\nAlfie Deyes was one of the social media stars used in the study\n\nDr Emma Boyland, one of the researchers from the University of Liverpool, said that children consider vloggers to be \"everyday people\" just like their peers.\n\n\"They've earned a position of trust among young people and there has to be some responsibility along the line,\" she said.\n\nThe researchers called for more protection for children online, particularly on social media channels where it is unclear whether they understand the difference between an advert and genuine content.\n\nDr Boyland said: \"On TV there are more cues as to when it's advertising - there's an advert break, there's a jingle - whereas digitally it's a lot more embedded in the rest of the content.\"\n\nAnna Coates, the lead researcher on the study, said: \"We know that if you show children a traditional drink advert, then their preference for that drink rises. We wanted to test their reactions to this new type of celebrity, the social media star.\n\n\"Now that we've shown that children are influenced by online stars, our next study will look at whether they understand that, in many cases, celebrities are being paid to promote products.\"\n\nProf Russell Viner, president of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, called on the government to consider more regulation to protect children in its forthcoming childhood obesity strategy.\n\n\"It's vital that children are protected from the marketing of junk food, not only on TV but also online where they are increasingly spending time.\n\n\"Companies are able to target their adverts on social media, which does provide the opportunity for regulators to put restrictions in place.\"\n\nThe best way to get news on the go \n\n\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. As Harvey Weinstein turns himself in, an accuser, Rose McGowan, reacts\n\nFormer Hollywood film mogul Harvey Weinstein has been released on $1m (£751,000) bail after being charged in New York with rape and sexual abuse.\n\nMr Weinstein, 66, also agreed to wear a GPS tracker and to surrender his passport after turning himself in to police on Friday.\n\nHe denies non-consensual sex and his lawyer said he would plead not guilty.\n\nThe actress Rose McGowan, who accused Mr Weinstein of rape, told the BBC it was an \"amazing day for his survivors\".\n\n\"It's a very significant moment, it's a concrete slap in the face of abusive power,\" she said. \"It's just the beginning of that process and if we can see this through to the end, I hope we emerge victorious.\"\n\nThe allegations against the disgraced film producer triggered the #MeToo movement, which sought to demonstrate and draw attention to the widespread prevalence of sexual abuse and harassment.\n\nHarvey Weinstein did not speak during his brief appearance at Manhattan Criminal Court\n\nMore than 70 women have accused Mr Weinstein of sexual misconduct although the charges relate to only two of them. Some allegations date back decades.\n\nNew York City police said on Friday that Mr Weinstein had been charged with rape, sex abuse, sexual misconduct and a criminal sex act. The charges related to incidents involving two women, who were not identified.\n\nHe had arrived at a police station in lower Manhattan during the morning, carrying three books. After having his mugshot and fingerprints taken, he was led out in handcuffs and taken to court.\n\nIn the brief court appearance, prosecutor Joan Illuzzi said the former studio boss had \"used his position, money and power to lure young women into situations where he was able to violate them sexually\".\n\nWitnesses say Mr Weinstein appeared pale and stared into space while prosecutors outlined the bail agreement.\n\nThe case was then adjourned until 30 July.\n\nOutside the court, Mr Weinstein's lawyer, Ben Brafman, told reporters his client would enter a not guilty plea.\n\n\"We intend to move very quickly to dismiss these charges,\" Mr Brafman said. \"We believe that they are constitutionally flawed. We believe that they are not factually supported by the evidence.\"\n\nThe New York Police Department issued a statement thanking \"these brave survivors for their courage to come forward and seek justice\".\n\nThe identity of one of the women whose accusations prompted the charges was confirmed by her lawyer on Friday. Former actress Lucia Evans had already publicly accused Mr Weinstein of forcing her into oral sex in 2004.\n\nLucia Evans is thought to be one of the accusers who prompted Friday's charges\n\n\"This is an emotional moment,\" her lawyer, Carrie Golberg, said in a statement. \"Today is big. But sexual violence is still happening. A victim or offender's fame should not matter. These cases must be prosecuted.\"\n\nThese are the first criminal charges against Mr Weinstein, who already faces a raft of civil lawsuits.\n\nMr Weinstein was fired last year from his production firm, the Weinstein Company, which later filed for bankruptcy. He has been condemned by top industry figures, and the organisation behind the Oscars expelled him from its membership.", "Joshua Holt went straight to the White House to be welcomed by President Trump\n\nUS Vice-President Mike Pence says sanctions will remain on Venezuela despite the release of a US prisoner and his wife on Saturday.\n\nJoshua Holt and his Venezuelan wife Thamy arrived in the US accompanied by Senator Bob Corker, who helped negotiate their release.\n\nMr Holt later met President Donald Trump at the White House.\n\nMr Holt and his wife had been imprisoned in Venezuela for two years on charges of concealing weapons.\n\n\"Very glad that Josh Holt is now back home with his family - where he has always belonged,\" Mr Pence wrote in a tweet. \"Sanctions continue until democracy returns to Venezuela.\"\n\nThe couple were detained in 2016 at her family's house in the capital Caracas while waiting for US visas, and accused of hiding weapons. Both were jailed for two years.\n\nMr Corker had held talks on Friday with Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro.\n\nThe US senator shared a picture of himself with the couple after their release, adding: \"We are on our way home.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Senator Bob Corker This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSitting alongside Mr Holt in the Oval Office, President Trump told him he had been \"incredibly brave.\"\n\n\"It's amazing that you were able to take it... that was a tough situation,\" he said with Mr Holt's family looking on.\n\nMr Holt said he was \"overwhelmed\" to be back home.\n\n\"I'm just so grateful for what you guys have done, and for thinking about me, and caring about me, just a normal person,\" he added. \"It really touches me.\"\n\nJoshua Holt's parents, his wife Thamy and her daughter Marian Leal were also guests at the White House\n\nA spokesman for Mr Maduro said the couple's release was a \"gesture\" aimed at improving dialogue between Venezuela and the US.\n\nMr Maduro was re-elected to a six-year term last week, but Washington has refused to recognise the outcome. The election was marred by an opposition boycott and allegations of vote-rigging.\n\nThe US had previously accused Venezuela of using Mr Holt as a bargaining chip towards changing Washington's sanctions policy on the country.\n\nVenezuela has not discussed the nature of the talks with Mr Corker, the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, but said they were \"good news for the Venezuelan people\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 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’. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMr Holt is a former Mormon missionary from Utah who had travelled to Caracas in June 2016 to marry his Venezuelan girlfriend, Thamy Caleno.\n\nShe is also a Mormon and the couple intended that Ms Caleno and her children would move with Mr Holt to the US following the marriage, but they were arrested instead.\n\nUtah Senator Orrin Hatch, who said he had worked with two presidential administrations and various contacts, including President Maduro, on the release, said that he \"could not be more honoured to be able to reunite Josh with his sweet, long-suffering family\".\n\nJoshua Holt had travelled to Caracas to marry his Venezuelan girlfriend Thamy Caleno\n\nMr Maduro has frequently accused the US of trying to overthrow him and the US has tightened sanctions recently. Only on Tuesday, he expelled the senior US representative in the country, Todd Robinson.\n\nVenezuela is five years into an economic crisis, suffering from hyperinflation and severe shortages in food and medicine.\n\nTurnout was low in last Sunday's election, boycotted by much of the opposition. Mr Maduro was credited with winning 68% of the vote.", "Last updated on .From the section Cricket\n\nJos Buttler and Dom Bess both made fifties to give England a lead of 56 in the first Test against Pakistan.\n\nThe recalled Buttler and debutant Bess came together when England still needed 69 to make Pakistan bat again and shared an unbroken stand of 125.\n\nButtler reached 66 not out and Bess an unbeaten 55 to take England to 235-6.\n\nDespite 68 from captain Joe Root, a collapse of four wickets for 19 runs had earlier left England in danger of losing by an innings inside three days.\n\nPakistan remain strong favourites, but further occupation by England's seventh-wicket pair and healthy contributions from the tail could give the hosts an outside chance of pulling off a remarkable victory.\n\nPoor weather is forecast at Lord's on Sunday, when Pakistan are due to have the second new ball available.\n\nThe tourists have dominated the majority of the match, showing superiority with bat, ball and in the field until late on day three.\n\nHowever, for as long as Buttler and Bess remain together, England's slim hopes will continue to grow.\n• None Relive video clips and text coverage of the day's play\n\nButtler, who played his last Test at the end of 2016, was given a surprise recall to bat at number seven on the strength of his form in the Indian Premier League.\n\nOff-spinner Bess was handed a first cap after Somerset team-mate Jack Leach suffered a broken thumb. The 20-year-old made his maiden first-class hundred for the MCC against county champions Essex in March.\n\nWhen they came together, England were in disarray and Pakistan were rampant. However, in glorious sunshine and on a pitch suited to batting, they absorbed the pressure before cashing in as the shadows lengthened.\n\nButtler, so destructive in limited-overs cricket, showed restraint to nudge and work the ball into gaps. He played occasional drives or hooks on the way to only his second first-class half-century in three years.\n\nBess showed the maturity of a player far beyond his years and experience, playing some classical cover drives when the bowlers over-pitched.\n\nBetween them, they showed the patience, discipline and control that had been beyond the majority of England's batsmen during the rest of the Test. By the end batting was being made to look easy.\n\nThough Pakistan enjoyed helpful conditions after England opted to bat on day one, the home side gifted wickets away to be bowled out for 184.\n\nIn the second innings England's top-order were again found wanting on a surface that held no demons bar the occasional uneven bounce.\n\nRoot, who played an awful drive in the first innings, looked to have learned from his mistake to compile a half-century of deft touches and flicks. The rest crumbled.\n\nAlastair Cook was lbw to a Mohammad Abbas inswinger. His opening partner Mark Stoneman somehow scratched to nine before going back to leg-spinner Shadab Khan to be bowled. His place is under serious threat.\n\nThe collapse came after Root and Dawid Malan added 60 for the third wicket.\n\nMalan and Jonny Bairstow fell in the same Mohammad Amir over. Malan poked at the ball to be well caught by wicketkeeper Sarfraz Ahmed and Bairstow loosely pushed at a good ball that took his off stump.\n\nBen Stokes chipped Shadab to mid-wicket and, when Root was trapped in front by Abbas, England had lost four wickets in 37 balls. The game looked gone, but then came Buttler and Bess.\n\nUntil Buttler and Bess dominated the final session on day three, Pakistan had been in firm control of this match.\n\nThey have reaped the benefits of an extended period of preparation and, for so long, have played the English conditions better than England.\n\nWithout injured batsman Babar Azam, the tourists took their overnight 350-8 to 363 when the ninth and final wicket of Abbas fell. Then, they set about the England batting.\n\nAbbas and Amir were excellent, leading an attack that not only carried a constant threat but also starved England of any early opportunities to score.\n\nLeg-spinner Shadab twirled away from the Pavilion End, turning the ball down the slope and playing tricks out of the rough - the delivery that bowled Stoneman scuttled through without bouncing.\n\nLate in the day they were forced to retreat and the body language of some of the fielders began to look a little despondent.\n\nStill, the bowling remained wholehearted and the prospect of the second new ball on Sunday means that Pakistan could still wrap up victory very quickly.\n\nAnalysis - England top six has to do better\n\nEngland's top order always seem to find ways of getting out and there is always a little collapse around the corner with this England team. Your top six has to be consistent and Joe Root is too good a player to keep getting out for fifty.\n\nHe was really fighting today because he was in no sort of rhythm. Malan is a concern for me, he does seem to hang back and there were too many dot balls, and Stoneman went back to a ball he should have been forward to.\n\nEngland always seem to find themselves 100-5 and that's always a concern for the Test team.\n\nI look at the top order, in white ball cricket they all know their roles. The Test top-order I don't see any partnerships I look at with any confidence.\n\nBess and Buttler timed the ball nicely and ran hard, I haven't seen that from the top order in a long time. If they get out of this with anything it will be a miracle.\n• None Bess - aged 20 and 308 days - is the third youngest to score fifty on debut for England, after Denis Compton and Haseeb Hameed\n• None Pakistan have gone three Test series unbeaten against England; winning twice in the United Arab Emirates before holding the hosts to a 2-2 draw in England in 2016\n• None England haven't suffered a Test series defeat to Pakistan on home soil since 1996; they have recorded two victories and two draws since then\n• None England last lost a home Test series in June 2014 (v Sri Lanka); claiming five wins and two draws since", "A stag was photographed with rope and buoy tangled in its antlers\n\nImages have been released showing red deer stags on a Scottish island with marine pollution tangled in their antlers.\n\nTwo of the animals on the Isle of Rum died after becoming snarled up together in discarded fishing rope.\n\nAnother of the deer was photographed with rope and an orange buoy in its antlers.\n\nThe images have been published by Scottish Natural Heritage (SNH), which manages Rum National Nature Reserve.\n\nThe photographs were taken a year ago, but only released now following rising concerns about marine pollution.\n\nTwo of the deer died after becoming snarled up in rope\n\nLesley Watt, reserve manager on Rum for SNH, said: \"Marine litter is a huge international problem. But small actions can make a big difference, and everyone has a part to play.\n\n\"Along with many organisations, SNH recently joined the campaign to bin plastic straws; and we're cutting down on disposable plastics by providing our staff with re-useable travel cups.\n\n\"If you use your own bag for life when shopping, or take litter home after a day at the beach, you could help save an animal's life.\"\n\nThe island's population of red deer have been the subject of scientific research since the 1950s.\n\nResearchers study the animals to better understand their behaviour and the effects of climate change on deer.\n\nDr Richard Dixon, of Friends of the Earth Scotland, said the photographs of the red deer were a \"strong Scottish symbol of a wasteful attitude\" to the world's resources.\n\nHe said: \"We are used to some of the images of seabirds and some marine mammals and turtles being affected by plastic waste, but this is very much closer to home.\n\n\"These are big mammals being affected by stuff that people have just discarded in the marine environment.\"\n\nConcerns about the level of pollution in the sea off Scotland, and along its coast are increasingly being raised.\n\nThis week, a group of volunteers gathered more than 600kgs of rubbish from the shore at Red Point, Gairloch, in Wester Ross.\n\nLast summer, scientists said some of the world's deepest living sea creatures had been found to have eaten microscopic pieces of plastic waste.\n\nResearchers at the Scottish Association for Marine Science (SAMS) in Oban sampled starfish and snails from the Rockall Trough off the Western Isles.\n\nTiny pieces of plastic were found in 48% of the sample animals that live more than 2,000m (6,561.8ft) down.\n\nGannet chick with plastic in its nest\n\nAlso last year, researchers said most of the seabirds examined for a study into the effects of marine plastic pollution had swallowed plastic.\n\nThey found 74% of them had ingested plastic.\n\nThe research involved seabird colonies in northern Europe, Russia, Scandinavia, Greenland, Svalbard, the Faroes and Iceland.\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 Irish prime minister has hailed his country's \"quiet revolution\" as early results point to a \"resounding\" vote for overturning the abortion ban.\n\nLeo Varadkar was speaking after exit polls suggested a landslide vote in favour of reforming the law.\n\n\"The people have spoken. They have said we need a modern constitution for a modern country,\" he said.\n\nExit polls suggest about 69% voted to repeal a part of the constitution that effectively bans terminations.\n\nMr Varadkar, who campaigned in favour of liberalisation, said: \"What we've seen is the culmination of a quiet revolution that's been taking place in Ireland over the past 20 years.\"\n\nThe taoiseach (prime minister) added that Irish voters \"trust and respect women to make the right choices and decisions about their own healthcare\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThose taking part in Friday's referendum were asked whether they wanted to repeal or retain a part of the constitution known as the Eighth Amendment, which says an unborn child has the same right to life as a pregnant woman.\n\nA vote in favour of repeal paves the way for the Dáil (Irish Parliament) to legislate for change which would see the introduction of a much more liberal regime.\n\nCurrently, abortion is only allowed when a woman's life is at risk, but not in cases of rape, incest or fatal foetal abnormality.\n\nMr Varadkar said he hoped to have a new abortion law enacted by the end of this year.\n\nCounting began at 09:00 local time and the confirmed result is expected by Saturday evening.\n\nHowever, the exit poll run by Irish broadcaster RTÉ suggested 69.4% in favour of the Yes side and 30.6% for No.\n\nIn Dublin, 79% of people voted for repeal, according to the RTÉ poll.\n\nAn exit poll released by The Irish Times points to 68% Yes to 32% for No.\n\nHours after the polls were published, one of the main anti-abortion campaigns conceded it had lost the vote.\n\nThe Save The 8th campaign described the result as a \"tragedy of historic proportions\".\n\n\"The unborn child no longer has a right to life recognised by the Irish state,\" said its spokesman John McGuirk.\n\nHowever, he vowed that No campaigners would continue to protest, \"if and when abortion clinics are opened in Ireland\".\n\nYoung and old have been turning out at count centres\n\nThe leader of the main Irish opposition party, Micheál Martin of Fianna Fáil, said the vote was the \"dawn of a new era\".\n\nHe said he had wrestled with the issue, but added the people had made the right decision and it would mean better care for women in Irish hospitals.\n\nSinn Féin president Mary Lou McDonald, whose party campaigned in favour of a Yes vote, said: \"We have without doubt done right by Irish women for this generation and many to come.\"\n\nAmnesty International hailed the result as a \"momentous win for women's rights\" that \"marks the beginning of a new Ireland\".\n\nThe vote will have repercussions for women north of the border, as Northern Ireland has the strictest abortion laws in the UK.\n\nCases of rape, incest and fatal foetal abnormality are not considered grounds for a legal termination.\n\nThe UK's Women and Equalities Minister Penny Mordaunt said the predicted landslide vote gave \"hope\" to Northern Ireland.\n\nAmnesty's Northern Ireland campaigns manager, Grainne Teggart, called for abortion reform across the whole island.\n\nIt has been an emotive campaign with harrowing stories on both sides\n\n\"It's hypocritical, degrading and insulting to Northern Irish women that we are forced to travel for vital healthcare services but cannot access them at home,\" she said.\n\n\"We cannot be left behind in a corner of the UK and on the island of Ireland as second-class citizens.\"\n\nFormer Northern Ireland health minister Jim Wells said the expected result was a \"grave threat\" to the unborn child in Northern Ireland.\n\nMr Wells, a Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) politician, claimed it was \"inevitable\" that abortion clinics would be set up in border towns to \"promote their services to Northern Ireland women\".\n\n\"It will be much easier to terminate a child's life if this can be done at a clinic in Dundalk or Letterkenny rather than flying to London or Manchester,\" he added.", "Britain's first-ever Dota 2 major tournament wants to \"offer inspiration\" to UK fans, organisers say.\n\nThe event, being held in Birmingham this weekend, see teams from across the world compete for a $1m (£750,000) prize pool.\n\nThere are only a few top level British players of the game, but tickets for the event sold out in 24 hours.\n\nJames Dean, from event organiser ESL, says: \"We're hoping the major will offer inspiration to the UK community.\"\n\nHe hopes that seeing the world's best players up close and personal will help drive more UK-based players to compete at the top level.\n\nHe told Newsbeat: \"If there was a full UK team on the roster, the event would have more of a significant impact and that is an exciting prospect.\n\n\"On the international scene there are very few PC teams in e-sports that are British, but that is slowly changing.\n\n\"We're finding that UK-based players are getting there, but not a full British team yet.\"\n\nConsole-based games like Call of Duty, FIFA and Halo have more British representation at top tier esports events.\n\nBritish team Splyce reached the final of the Call of Duty World League in 2016 for example.\n\nJames says that ESL is working to grow the UK's esports scene for console and PC gamers.\n\nHosting major events like this is a key part of their strategy.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by ESL Dota2 This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nJames says: \"This really marks a big achievement for the UK.\n\n\"We finally bought an ESL One, of the biggest events that the ESL hosts across the globe, here.\"\n\nHe says the event will have a \"significant impact around the world\" because it's a major tournament backed by Valve - the makers of the game.\n\n\"We also put it up in the midlands rather than the usual location, which is London.\"\n\nThis major is a qualifying tournament for Dota 2's biggest event called The International.\n\nThat is often called the biggest e-sports event in the world with a prize pool of $24m (around £18.5m).\n\nThe online battle arena game is one of the most popular in the world with millions of players worldwide.\n\nIt is considered one of the big three esports alongside League of Legends and CS:GO.\n\nSome of the tournament's action, which started on Friday, will be shown on BBC Three's channel on the iPlayer.\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.", "Fulham have been promoted to the Premier League after beating Aston Villa in the Championship play-off final at Wembley.\n\nCaptain Tom Cairney was their goalscorer, finishing neatly underneath Villa goalkeeper Sam Johnstone after latching onto Ryan Sessegnon's pass midway through the first half.\n\nA fractious game ended with Fulham down to 10 men after centre-back Denis Odoi was sent off for two bookable offences - both for fouls on Jack Grealish.\n\nVilla were furious that Ryan Fredericks escaped a card during a first-half tangle with Grealish, the Fulham right-back landing studs first on Grealish's leg, while the Villa man was later booked for a lunging tackle on Cairney.\n\nSeveral Villa penalty appeals were also waved away by referee Anthony Taylor, including one in second-half stoppage time when Grealish fell under a challenge from Matt Targett.\n\nThe game opened up after the interval, with Villa much more incisive and Grealish looking most likely to find a reply.\n\nHowever, the midfielder headed over the bar under pressure from Marcus Bettinelli and then saw his mazy run thwarted by a combination of the Fulham goalkeeper and Kevin McDonald.\n\nOdoi's red card invited further pressure, but Fulham held firm during a late Villa onslaught to clinch a win that is worth an estimated £160m - a figure which financial experts Deloitte say could rise to as much as £280m if the Whites survive for more than one season in the top flight.\n\nIt was perhaps fitting that Sessegnon and Cairney, the two shining lights in an impressive Fulham team this season, combined to score the goal that sent them back to the top flight after a four-year absence.\n\nThe pair were two of the three nominees for the EFL's Championship Player of the Season award, which was won by teenager Sessegnon.\n\nThe 18-year-old winger had been largely anonymous early on, but he found space in the centre of the Villa half and picked his pass perfectly to find the onrushing Cairney, who slotted coolly into the net.\n\nSessegnon could have doubled Fulham's lead before half-time but his back-post header was directed straight at Johnstone, while he almost set up Stefan Johansen for a second goal midway through the second period.\n\n\"We've suffered for three years, not just in the second half,\" said Fulham head coach Slavisa Jokanovic, who won promotion as Watford boss in 2015 but left the Hornets before he got the chance to take charge of them in the Premier League.\n\n\"It's not been easy since I've been at this place. We've shown with our style that we can be one of the best Championship teams, and we've shown we can be solid, organised and fighting altogether for a clean sheet.\"\n\nFulham's transformation from mid-table underperformers to promotion winners has been one of the feature points of the Championship season.\n\nDefeat at struggling Sunderland on 16 December left them 12th in the table, 18 points behind the top two. Twenty-three unbeaten matches later, they were on the brink of automatic promotion and, had they won their final game at Birmingham, they would have finished second behind champions Wolves.\n\nThere was to be no repeat of last season's play-off disappointment, though. The Whites saw off Derby over two legs in their semi-final before beating Villa at Wembley.\n\nWhile many have played their part, two January loan additions have been critical to their success. Newcastle striker Aleksandar Mitrovic has netted 12 goals in 20 appearances and given the team a physical presence up front, while the arrival of Southampton left-back Targett has allowed Sessegnon to push further forward and excel in a more advanced position.\n\nFulham spent 13 successive seasons in the top flight before their relegation in 2014 and the hope is that the nucleus of this team, helped by the financial backing of owner Shahid Khan, can see them become an established Premier League club again.\n\nTheir possession-based style has been as eye-catching as anything on show in the second tier and that brand of football should transfer well to the higher level, although there is very little top-flight experience in Fulham's ranks and that is likely to be an area that Jokanovic will look to address in the next couple of months.\n\nFredericks should have been sent off - Bruce\n\nOn another day, Villa could have been awarded at least one penalty and had a man advantage for more than an hour.\n\nIn particular it was the Fredericks incident, which occurred right in front of the two dugouts immediately after Cairney's winning goal, that most angered Villa boss Steve Bruce.\n\n\"There were big decisions that went against us,\" said the former Manchester United captain, who failed to win a record fifth promotion from the second tier.\n\n\"For me, the boy should have had a red card very early. It was right in front of the referee and the fourth official, and for me he stamps on him.\n\n\"Nobody wants to see people sent off, but when it's as deliberate as that, he deserved a red card.\n\n\"There might have been a penalty in the second half, but what we can't disguise is that we didn't do enough in the first half.\n\n\"You just need a break and unfortunately we didn't get it.\"\n\nWhat next for Villa?\n\nMany Villa fans will look back at this season and wonder what might have been.\n\nWhat if talismanic midfielder Grealish had not sustained a freakish kidney injury that caused him to miss the first three months of the campaign?\n\nWhat if striker Jonathan Kodjia had not suffered another long-term injury that wrecked his second season with the club?\n\nAnd what if a possible season-defining 4-1 win over leaders Wolves in March, which left them four points off second place with 10 matches remaining and looked to have kick-started an automatic promotion push, had not been followed by miserable defeats by lowly QPR and Bolton?\n\nVilla have spent heavily in the past two seasons in their bid to return to the top flight, but they will have to cut their cloth accordingly as they prepare for a third successive season in the second tier.\n\nGrealish was their stand-out performer at Wembley. He was outstanding, almost scored one of the best goals ever in a play-off final and did not deserve to be on the losing side.\n\nHis consistent form in the second half of the campaign has been a huge positive for Villa and he is sure to be a target for Premier League clubs this summer, so keeping the 22-year-old at Villa Park will be paramount to Bruce's side mounting another challenge for promotion next season.\n\n\"The discussions have got to be had above me to say what we've got and what we haven't got,\" said Bruce, who added it is up to veteran captain John Terry to decide whether he will play on at Villa Park next season.\n\n\"Of course there will be speculation about Jack. Personally, I would like him to stay. Another year with us would do him the world of good.\n\n\"We'd love to have given him the platform of the Premier League and we haven't, but he's playing regular football week in and week out. We'll see what happens.\"\n• None Attempt missed. Scott Hogan (Aston Villa) header from the centre of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Albert Adomah with a cross.\n• None Attempt missed. Robert Snodgrass (Aston Villa) left footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the right from a direct free kick.\n• None Alan Hutton (Aston Villa) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Offside, Aston Villa. Robert Snodgrass tries a through ball, but Scott Hogan is caught offside.\n• None Attempt blocked. Josh Onomah (Aston Villa) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Jack Grealish. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "In three months time, Pope Francis will travel to Ireland and find a country undoing part of the legacy of a previous papal visit.\n\nIn 1983, four years after the triumphal visit of Pope John Paul II, the Irish people put the Eighth Amendment into their constitution.\n\nThe amendment gave equal rights to life to both the mother and the unborn.\n\nFriday's vote, which paves the way for parliamentarians to liberalise abortion law, represents a seismic shift.\n\nIt also represents another sign of the societal change that has taken place in the Republic, coming just three years after the country officially passed the same sex marriage referendum with 62% in favour.\n\nThe Republic of Ireland, in the words of Taoiseach (Prime Minister) Leo Varadkar, will no longer export its abortion problem to Britain or import its solution.\n\nIt is estimated that nine women travel to Great Britain every day for terminations, while four women buy abortion pills over the internet without medical supervision, risking a jail term of up to 14 years.\n\nThe hopes of 1983 that Ireland could become a beacon light in the fight against abortion were never realised.\n\nIn the intervening years, more than 170,000 Irish women have left the state to end their pregnancies.\n\nWhile hard cases may make for bad law, over the years they certainly changed public opinion on this most controversial and sensitive of issues.\n\nA young woman leaves flowers at the Savita Halappanavar mural in Dublin\n\nControversial cases have included rape and incest, in which victims were told they were not entitled to a legal termination.\n\nThere was also the case of a brain-dead pregnant woman who was briefly kept alive against the wishes of her family until a court decided the foetus or unborn would not survive after a caesarean section.\n\nAnd many women who were given a diagnosis of fatal foetal abnormality, where doctors believe the unborn will not survive outside the womb, have shared their stories of travelling to Britain to end their pregnancies.\n\nThe 2012 case of the Indian dentist Savita Halappanavar brought world attention to the country's laws.\n\nShe pleaded for an abortion in a Galway hospital as her health deteriorated because of sepsis, but was denied it because her life was not in danger at the time and there was still a foetal heartbeat.\n\nBy the time Mrs Halappanavar's life was in danger, it was too late.\n\nPope John Paul II was the first pontiff to visit Ireland in 1979\n\nOpinion polls had suggested that those seeking the repeal of the Eighth amendment would win - but by nowhere near the overwhelming margin it turned out to be.\n\nJust one constituency - Donegal - voted against repeal.\n\nIt was carried across the class divide and in every age group, apart from the over 65s.\n\nBut the biggest support was from young urban women.\n\nSinn Féin, the republican party has a well-known slogan - Tiocfaidh ár lá - which, in Irish, means 'Our Day Will Come'.\n\nNow, there is a new Irish political slogan - Tiocfaidh ár mná - which translates as 'Here Come our Women'.\n\nSinn Féin leader, Mary Lou McDonald, and pro-choice abortion groups in Northern Ireland have said they would like to see both parts of the island allow pregnancy termination.\n\nNorthern Ireland is the only part of the UK that does not allow for unrestricted abortion.\n\nMake no mistake this is a major setback for those, including the Catholic Church, who urged the people to save the Eighth Amendment.\n\nThe people voted knowing that if the there was a Yes vote, the government planned to introduce legislation later this year to allow for unrestricted access to abortion during the first 12 weeks of a pregnancy.\n\nDespite the reservations of many about this proposal, they still voted for it unpersuaded by arguments that human life began at the moment of conception and that the right to life of the unborn took precedence over the health of the woman.\n\nIn 1983, the Catholic hierarchy played no little role in the passing of the Eighth Amendment.\n\nHowever, in the intervening years, it has seen its standing greatly diminished with revelations about bishops not reporting paedophile priests to the civil authorities.\n\nThere have also been revelations about what happened in mother-and-baby homes run by nuns for unmarried pregnant women.\n\nIn one notorious case in Tuam, County Galway, the bodies of infants were discovered in an unmarked mass grave last year.\n\nA state-appointed inquiry said investigators recovered \"significant quantities\" of human remains at the site, many of which dated back to the 1950s.\n\nThere have also been allegations of forced adoptions, in some cases in exchange for money from rich Catholic Irish-Americans.\n\nSo, it was little surprise then the bishops played a less prominent role in a referendum about what they see as being about life and children' rights.", "The crab has a square-shaped shell and is covered in tiny bristles\n\nA colony of exploding ants, a shrimp that's been named after prog rockers Pink Floyd, four types of miniature night frog and a coconut-cracking giant rat - these are just some of the new species discovered in the past year.\n\nWhile all of these exotic creatures were found many thousands of miles away from Britain, such discoveries aren't the preserve of scientists in the remotest part of some far-flung wilderness. In fact, it's estimated there are thousands of species yet to be identified in the UK alone - and many millions globally.\n\nThe hairy crab that's potentially the latest new-to-science domestic discovery was collected by naturalist and photographer Steve Trewhella on Chesil Beach, near Weymouth, in Dorset.\n\nThe 2cm-wide creature was found living inside a polystyrene buoy that washed ashore following a storm and is suspected to have travelled across the Atlantic from the Caribbean.\n\nMr Trewhella, who has sent the crab to the Natural History Museum for identification, hopes the tiny crustacean could prove to be his greatest success story.\n\nSteve Trewhella keeps many of the live creatures he finds in tanks at home in order to study them\n\n\"I was ungraded in every single subject I took at school - I failed miserably,\" says Mr Trewhella, who runs a cleaning business to help fund his passion for nature.\n\n\"I was that geeky kid by the pond or with my head in a rock pool.\"\n\nHe's been waiting patiently to discover if his fascination with nature might cause his name to be recorded in posterity.\n\n\"They're now looking for samples of DNA from other Caribbean hairy crab species to try and eliminate or compare, but it's a long process,\" Mr Trewhella says.\n\n\"It'd be nice to have an elephant named after you but elephants are easy to find and hairy crabs aren't, so the more obscure the better.\"\n\nIn 2016, Mr Trewhella found a springtail that hadn't been recorded in the UK for 34 years\n\nScientists estimate there are about 8.7 million species on Earth, yet only a surprisingly small number - 1.2 million - have been formally identified.\n\nIn the UK, more than 70,000 species of animals, plants, fungi and single-celled organisms have been recorded.\n\nDr Peter Shaw, the UK's official recorder for springtail bugs, says some domestic habitats remain \"remarkably unexplored\".\n\n\"There are many microscopic creatures that haven't yet been recorded, not because they're not there but simply because people aren't looking for them,\" he says.\n\n\"Humans are more interested in the bigger, more conventionally attractive animals.\"\n\nThis newly discovered worm has provisionally been given the snappy title \"Emits Yellow Muscus A\"\n\nBritish nature lovers who like the idea of making their mark on taxonomy might be missing a trick as, according to the Natural History Museum, \"small, less easy to identify organisms will no doubt turn out to be new species to Britain and even to science\".\n\nFor example, a new species of beetle is discovered in the UK about once a decade, says Max Barclay, senior curator at the museum.\n\nQuedius lyszkowskii Lott and Mirosternomorphus heali Bercedo & Arnaiz were the last two to be found, in 2010, in Kent and parts of Scotland.\n\nDr David Agassiz wrote the original paper on a pale grey moth with brown speckles, Prays peregrina, first discovered in London in 2003.\n\nIt has since been spotted in Cambridge, Kent and Sussex, but there are no records of it anywhere else in the world, he says.\n\n\"Either they must be breeding locally or else emerging from imported plant material or foodstuffs,\" he adds.\n\nBut he says the lack of records from any other country is \"surprising\" and the fact they were not found prior to 2003 is \"puzzling\".\n\nGoose barnacles are among the crustaceans from US waters that Mr Trewhella has found on the Dorset coast\n\nThis pale grey moth with brown speckles was first discovered in London in 2003\n\nIn 2014, Dr Andrew Polaszek published the description of a new species of parasitoid wasp.\n\nThese delightful creatures lay their eggs on or in other insects, which are then eaten alive by their larvae.\n\nThe wasp, Encarsia harrisoni, was found in a school playground in suburban Sevenoaks, Kent.\n\nIt was one of the first new UK species to be confirmed using DNA sequencing technology, Dr Polaszek says.\n\nMirosternomorphus heali Bercedo & Arnaiz (left) and Quedius lyszkowskii Lott are the most recently discovered species of beetle in the UK\n\nDavid Fenwick, who produces photographic wildlife identification guides of marine life, recently unearthed a worm in Penzance, which he provisionally gave the snappy title \"Emits Yellow Muscus A\".\n\nIt's related to Eulalia clavigera - the common green leaf worm - which is found on rocky shores but emits a clear, rather than yellow mucus, he says.\n\nHe argues we could be discovering many more new-to-science species, but they're not deemed \"commercially important\".\n\n\"If a species was important for cod, for example, it might get supported but, sadly, small microscopic, obscure species are largely being left in obscurity.\"\n\nNew plant life is also being identified - this seaweed was collected in Devon last month by National History Museum researcher Prof Juliet Brodie\n\nAs well as those species that were previously unknown to science, others are new introductions to Britain or haven't been seen for a while, the Natural History Museum's identification team says.\n\nMr Trewhella is a dab hand at finding creatures such as tropical worms, crustaceans and molluscs that have made it to our shores from overseas on plastic - which he describes as an \"artificial conveyor\".\n\n\"Some objects can be a real treasure trove. I found six new species to northern Europe on one little polystyrene buoy the size of a football,\" the 54-year-old says.\n\nHe's also found bugs that haven't been seen in the UK for a long time, including a 2mm springtail he collected on the seaweed-strewn strandline at Chesil Fleet in 2016 that hadn't been recorded in the UK for 34 years.\n\nGoggles with microscope lenses are \"a must\" when bug hunting\n\nMr Trewhella keeps many of the creatures he finds in tanks at home so he can study them - luckily for him his wife is a marine biologist.\n\nIt's particularly important that we learn more about species coming to the UK from abroad, Mr Trewhella believes.\n\n\"It's speculative at the moment but as our seas potentially warm due to climate change, then there's a possibility that these animals could break the barrier of being able to survive in our waters, which would potentially be catastrophic.\n\n\"Invasive species always have a detrimental effect, no matter what size they are.\n\n\"Just look at the effect grey squirrels have had on our reds and the introduction of the rhododendron that has strangled our native trees and plants.\"\n\nEncarsia harrisoni larvae inside a whitefly (above) and an emerged adult\n\nHe says his main aim is \"to inspire others to get out and engage with the natural world\".\n\n\"We are in danger of assuming we know everything and have found all the animals that occupy the planet, but of course this is not the case.\n\n\"New species are found quite often and genetic work is rewriting many classifications of ones we are familiar with,\" he says.\n\n\"It doesn't have to be new or rare, it's just about understanding why things are there, the role they play and what would happen if they did not exist.\n\n\"Once you sit back and just observe, it all starts to make sense.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The teenagers were in a field in Rochdale\n\nA teenage boy has died and three other teenagers have been released from hospital following an \"incident\" in a field, police have said.\n\nThey received reports about the boy's welfare near Dewhirst Road, Rochdale, shortly before 11:15 BST on Saturday.\n\n\"Inquiries into whether there were any suspicious circumstances around this boy's death are ongoing,\" a Greater Manchester Police spokeswoman said.\n\nAnyone with information has been asked to contact police.\n\nA post-mortem examination is due to take place later this week.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The billboard features images of local Olympic heroes the Brownlee brothers\n\nA bride-to-be says her wedding photos will be ruined by a huge advert across the front of the venue.\n\nSarah Dooley is due to marry fiancé, Andy Dodds, at Leeds Town Hall - outside which couples traditionally pose for photos - at the weekend.\n\nBut they were unaware they would be sharing the stage with the advert for next month's World Triathlon.\n\nLeeds City Council said the Town Hall was \"important for promoting major events\" and the banner would remain.\n\nThe sandstone facade of the picturesque Victorian building is currently hidden behind the endurance event billboard.\n\nMs Dooley, who met her partner while at university in Leeds, said the couple would have chosen another venue if they had known.\n\n\"We looked at tipis, castles, tree-houses, but picked Leeds Town Hall because it's iconic and we wanted our photos taken outside,\" she said.\n\n\"Leeds is really important to us, we brought our children up here and we wanted something that represented our relationship.\"\n\nSarah Dooley said she is \"disappointed\" to not have their wedding photos outside the Town Hall\n\nMs Dooley said she did not want compensation but was \"disappointed\" that the couple were not told in advance about the banner.\n\nInstead of photos outside the town hall, the wedding party will walk to nearby Park Square.\n\nA spokesperson for Leeds City Council, which owns the town hall, said it \"understands Miss Dooley's disappointment\" but the banners would not be removed.\n\n\"Leeds Town Hall is the venue for hundreds of weddings each year and we always do our absolute best to make sure every couple's day is as special as possible\", he said.\n\n\"Banners promoting next month's World Triathlon Leeds are scheduled to be in place for several weeks and unfortunately, it isn't possible to remove them for a day.\"\n\nThe triathlon will be held on 9-10 June.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "On Friday 25 May, people in the Republic of Ireland voted on whether they want to make changes to the country's strict abortion laws, upheld in the Eighth Amendment of the Irish constitution.\n\nSo where does the law currently stand?\n\nSince 2013, terminations have been allowed in Ireland but only when the life of the mother is at risk, including from suicide. The maximum penalty for accessing an illegal abortion is 14 years in prison.\n\nIn 2016, the Irish Department of Health said there were 25 legal abortions carried out in Ireland.\n\nIn the same year, 3,265 women travelled from Ireland to the UK for a termination.\n\nAfter independence, Ireland retained many UK laws, one of which was the Offences Against the Person Act 1861 which criminalised abortion.\n\nHowever, in the early 1980s, following legal cases in other jurisdictions allowing the introduction of less restrictive abortion laws, some people became concerned that something similar could happen in Ireland.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The background and potential outcomes to the Republic of Ireland's abortion referendum\n\nIn 1983, after a referendum, an eighth amendment was added to the country's constitution known as Article 40.3.3.\n\nIn it, the state acknowledged \"the right to life of the unborn and, with due regard to the equal right to life of the mother, guarantees in its laws to respect, and, as far as practicable, by its laws to defend and vindicate that right\".\n\nAfter a further referendum in 1992, two other changes were made to the constitution in relation to women seeking to access terminations.\n\nThe Thirteenth Amendment said women were free to travel to other countries to access abortion services.\n\nThe Fourteenth Amendment stated that the constitution would not prevent people accessing information relating to \"services lawfully available in another state\".\n\nIn 2013, the law was changed when the Dáil (Irish parliament) voted to allow abortions under limited circumstances.\n\nThe Protection of Life During Pregnancy Act allowed terminations to be carried out where there is a threat to the life of the mother. They would also be allowed where there is medical consensus that the expectant mother will take her own life over her pregnancy.\n\nIn 2017, the Citizens' Assembly, a body set up advise the Irish government on constitutional change, voted to replace or amend the part of Ireland's Constitution which strictly limits the availability of abortion.\n\nSo on 25 May, 2018, the Irish people were asked if they wanted to remove the Eighth Amendment and allow politicians to set the country's abortion laws in the future.\n\nThe wording on the ballot paper read: \"Provision may be made by law for the regulation of termination of pregnancies.\n\nIn March, Health Minister Simon Harris outlined what would be in the government legislation if the people voted to repeal the Eighth Amendment.\n\nIf passed, women could access a termination within the first 12 weeks of pregnancy.\n\nHowever, beyond 12 weeks, abortions would only be permitted where there is a risk to a woman's life or of serious harm to the physical or mental health of a woman, up until the 24th week of pregnancy.\n\nTerminations would also be permitted in cases of fatal foetal abnormality.", "Rose McGowan, one of the movie mogul's accuser, reacts to Harvey Weinstein being arrested for sexual assault charges.\n\nMr Weinstein has denied engaging in any non-consensual sex acts.", "Marcel Campbell, 30, was pronounced dead at the scene\n\nA man has been charged with murder after a man was stabbed to death in a north London high street.\n\nMarcel Campbell, 30, from Haringey died from his wounds in the incident in Upper Street, Islington, on 21 May.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police said Reece Daniel Williams, aged 21, of Islington, was charged with murder on Saturday.\n\nHe has been remanded in custody to appear at Haringey Magistrates' Court on 28 May. Police have continued to appeal for witnesses.\n• None The faces of those killed in London\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Talks between the UK and the European Union need to \"speed up\" if a deal on a future relationship can be made in time for Brexit, the EU's negotiator says.\n\nSpeaking in Lisbon, Michel Barnier said the UK needed to stop playing \"hide and seek\" and instead clarify its demands.\n\nIt comes as the EU Withdrawal Bill is due to return to the House of Commons, having suffered defeats in the Lords.\n\nThe PM faces a rebellion over her move to rule out any future membership of the customs union and single market.\n\nThe government fears MPs may follow suit and attempt to amend the bill.\n\nEarlier this week, UK officials warned the EU that its approach to Brexit negotiations risked damaging its security and economic relationship.\n\nAddressing a gathering of jurists in Portugal on Saturday, Mr Barnier called for more clarity on the UK's position, saying an effective negotiation was dependent on knowing what the other side wanted.\n\nHe said the EU would be ready to accept movement on Theresa May's \"red lines\" that insist Brexit must see the UK leave both the European single market and customs union.\n\n\"The UK can change its mind,\" he said, but stressed that \"time is tight\".\n\n\"If the UK wishes to modify its red lines, it will have to tell us so - the sooner the better,\" he added.\n\nReferencing a row over the UK's potential exclusion from the EU's Galileo project - a multibillion euro plan to build a European GPS system - Mr Barnier said the EU would not be influenced by a \"blame game\" which seeks to hold the organisation responsible for Brexit's \"negative consequences\".\n\nThe UK said on Friday that it wanted the EU to repay £1bn if it was excluded from the Galileo satellite system,.\n\n\"It is the UK which is leaving the EU. It cannot, in the act of leaving, ask us to change what we are and how we function,\" Mr Barnier said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Why is there a row about Galileo?\n\nThe best way to get news on the go", "The taoiseach (Irish prime minister) has hailed his country's \"quiet revolution\" as early results point to a \"resounding\" vote for overturning the abortion ban.\n\nLeo Varadkar was speaking after exit polls suggested a landslide vote in favour of reforming the law.\n\n\"The people have spoken. They have said we need a modern constitution for a modern country,\" he said.\n\nExit polls suggest about 69% voted to repeal a part of the constitution that effectively bans terminations.", "Donald Trump called off the upcoming US-North Korea summit on Thursday morning, catching much of official Washington, and the world, by surprise. How he did it - in a personal letter to North Korean leader Kim Jong-un - offers revealing insight at Trump-style diplomacy and what might happen next.\n\nThe missive from Donald Trump - addressed to \"his excellency\", an unusual title for Mr Kim - begins a bit like a corporate form letter, thanking the North Korean leader for his \"time, patience and effort\".\n\nThere's a bit of a passive-aggressive dig at Mr Kim - pointing out that he was the one who wanted the meeting, even if that's \"totally irrelevant\" - and an emphasis that this was a \"long-planned meeting\" (the idea was first suggested in March and a date and time set just weeks ago).\n\nThe real meat of the letter comes at the end of the paragraph, however, as the president's pen turns poison.\n\nThe North Koreans announced Thursday morning that they had collapsed the tunnels at their nuclear test site, but they accompanied it with threats of nuclear war and a demeaning dig at Vice-President Mike Pence (called \"a political dummy\"). Mr Trump has shown time and time again that he won't abide verbal swipes from the North Koreans.\n\nHe responds to their nuclear sabre-rattling with another round of \"fire and fury\" style language, boasting about the massive and powerful US nuclear arsenal that Donald Trump prays to God will never be used. It's a return to the rhetoric of last summer, when it appeared the US and North Korea were headed toward a military confrontation. The start of the letter may be diplomat-speak, but this is Mr Trump's voice coming through.\n\nBy the second paragraph, the diplomatic gloves are back on. There's an emphasis on the recent thaw between the two nations (a \"wonderful dialogue\") and a hint that the door has not been fully slammed shut.\"\n\nThe president writes that he is still looking forward to meeting the North Korean strongman (nuclear apocalypse notwithstanding). And releasing three American prisoners, one of whom had been sentenced to forced labour in a sham trial, was a much-appreciated \"beautiful gesture\". There will certainly be some critics who question whether this is an appropriate place to turn on the charm.\n\nThe business letter template kicks in again in the closing paragraph, albeit with somewhat tortured prose. \"If you change your mind having to do with this most important summit, please do not hesitate to call me or write\". We have operators standing by!\n\nIt finishes on a wistful note. In his tweet announcing the time and place of the now-cancelled summit, the president had said the meeting could be a \"very special moment for World Peace\". His supporters broached the idea that he should win a Nobel Prize, which he acknowledged by saying \"everyone thinks so\", adding \"the prize I want is victory for the world\".\n\nInstead, it's a \"sad moment in history\".", "A coat of arms created for the Duchess of Sussex that reflects her Californian background has been unveiled.\n\nIt includes a shield containing the colour blue, representing the Pacific Ocean, and rays, symbolising sunshine.\n\nThe duchess worked closely with the College of Arms in London to create the design, Kensington Palace said.\n\nThe lion supporting the shield on the left is an image that dates back to early medieval times and relates to her husband, the Duke of Sussex.\n\nThe songbird supporting the shield on the right relates to the Duchess of Sussex.\n\nTraditionally wives of members of the Royal Family have two - one of their husband's supporters on the shield and one relating to themselves.\n\nBeneath the shield is California's state flower - the golden poppy - and Wintersweet, a flower that grows at Kensington Palace and was also depicted on the duchess' wedding veil.\n\nThe three quills illustrate the power of words and communication.\n\nThe duchess has also been assigned a coronet bearing fleurs-de-lys and strawberry leaves.\n\nWintersweet also featured on the Duchess of Sussex's wedding veil\n\nGarter King of Arms Thomas Woodcock, who is based at the College of Arms said: \"The Duchess of Sussex took a great interest in the design.\n\n\"Good heraldic design is nearly always simple and the Arms of The Duchess of Sussex stand well beside the historic beauty of the quartered British Royal Arms.\n\n\"Heraldry as a means of identification has flourished in Europe for almost nine hundred years and is associated with both individual people and great corporate bodies such as cities, universities and, for instance, the livery companies in the City of London.\"\n\nThe Duchess of Sussex's coat of arms reflects her Californian background\n\nIn 2011 a coat of arms was designed for the family of the Duchess of Cambridge - then Kate Middleton - which featured white chevronels symbolising mountains representing the family's love of the Lake District and skiing.\n\nAs the grant was made to the Middleton family, the Duchess of Cambridge's siblings are also allowed to use the coat of arms.\n\nThe Duke and Duchess of Cambridge's coat of arms combined the shields of Prince William and the Middleton family.\n\nThe conjugal coat of arms for the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge\n\nSamantha Grant, a half sister of the duchess, told the Telegraph it was \"a huge insult\" that their father Thomas Markle had not been given a coat of arms.\n\nAs an American, Mr Markle could apply for honorary arms - in addition to meeting the standard criteria of eligibility, however, he would also have to demonstrate his descent from a subject of the British Crown.\n\nThis could include ancestors dating back to before 1783, when Britain recognised American independence.\n\nFor any British person to have a legal right to a coat of arms it must have been granted to them or they must be descended in the male line from a person to whom arms were awarded. Organisations can also be granted a coat of arms.\n\nCoats of arms date back to 12th Century and were traditionally worn over armour in tournaments so participants could identify their opponents.", "Last updated on .From the section Cycling\n\nChris Froome launched a devastating attack to win stage 19 of the Giro d'Italia and take the leader's pink jersey from fellow Briton Simon Yates.\n\nYates finished almost 39 minutes behind Team Sky's Froome, who attacked 80km from the finish in Bardonecchia.\n\nFroome, 33, was fourth prior to Friday's 184km run from Venaria Reale.\n\nBut, with two days remaining, he now has a 40-second lead over Tom Dumoulin as he attempts to become the first British man to win the Giro d'Italia.\n• None BeSpoke podcast - 'One of the best rides of all time'\n\nThe four-time Tour de France champion is also attempting to become only the seventh man to win all three Grand Tours, and just the third to win three in succession.\n\n\"I don't think I've ever attacked like that before on my own,\" he said.\n\n\"The team did such a fantastic job to set it up for me.\n\n\"It was going to take something really special to get rid of Simon and get away from Dumoulin. It was now or never. I just had to try.\"\n\nFroome is involved in an ongoing anti-doping case after being found to have double the allowed level of a legal asthma drug in his urine after a test at last year's Vuelta a Espana.\n\nHad it slipped to the back of his mind, he was reminded during Friday's stage as a spectator ran alongside him holding a giant inhaler.\n\nMitchelton-Scott's Yates had his lead halved on Thursday, losing 28 seconds to Team Sunweb's Dumoulin.\n\nIt was the first time he had struggled since first taking the race lead in stage six.\n\nThe Giro finishes on Sunday with a flat 115km route into Rome.\n\nA breakaway with 120km remaining saw a 15-man group open a one-minute lead, and Yates' team had no-one in the leading group.\n\nIt was reeled in on the lengthy ascent of the Colle delle Finestre as Froome's Team Sky team-mates set a ferocious pace that saw Yates dropped and all but sealed his fate as he eventually reached the summit 10 minutes after his fellow Briton.\n\nDumoulin - the 2017 winner - led the chase behind Froome, and was the virtual race leader with 70km remaining.\n\nBut Froome showed no sign of slowing and held a two-minute lead over Dumoulin's chasing group on the ascent of the Sestriere.\n\nThat extended further as Froome crested the climb, taking the King of the Mountains jersey from Yates in the process.\n\nThe pink jersey soon followed as he moved into the virtual lead with a gap of two minutes and 58 seconds at 32km remaining.\n\nHe eventually crossed the line three minutes ahead of Movistar's Richard Carapaz, with Dumoulin fifth.\n\nDid Yates see this coming?\n\nPrior to the start of the race, Yates wrote a stage-by-stage guide for BBC Sport, detailing how he expected each day to pan out.\n\nHe predicted day 19 would be the hardest, adding \"if you have good legs\" it could make the \"difference\". How right he was.\n\n\"This is the hardest day of the race - the Queen stage - and I expect it to be won by a general classification rider, although you could see big gaps between them,\" Yates said.\n\n\"There's a lot of GC players starting the Giro who need to be aggressive and if you have good legs you can really make a difference on a day like today.\n\n\"The break might go to collect King of the Mountain points but I predict it will most likely come back together on the final ascent.\"\n\nAnd who did he predict would win the stage? Chris Froome.\n\nShould Froome retain the leader's jersey after Saturday's stage, he will have all but sealed the Giro title as Sunday's stage is traditionally a procession.\n\nSaturday's 214km ride from Susa to Cervinia features three big climbs towards the climax.\n\nVictory would mark an astounding comeback from Froome following an injury-hit first two weeks of the Tour.\n\n\"It will be a really hard day, but the legs are feeling good and I've been feeling better and better as the race has gone on,\" Froome said.\n\n\"Hopefully we can finish this off.\"\n\nFroome won his first ever Giro stage on day 14, holding off Yates in a thrilling finish on Monte Zoncolan - known as the hardest climb in European cycling.\n\nLast year he became the first British winner of the Vuelta a Espana, and only the third man to complete the Tour de France-Vuelta double in the same year.\n\nAnd victory in Italy would mean he emulates Eddy Merckx and Bernard Hinault, the only riders to have won three Grand Tours in succession.", "A 95-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of murder after a female carer died in north London.\n\nThe victim, 61, was taken to hospital with head injuries at 07:10 BST on 24 May. She died the following day.\n\nA murder investigation has been launched by the Metropolitan Police following the incident in Holloway.\n\nThe man, who is believed to suffer from dementia, was taken to hospital pending a \"transfer to a location where his complex needs can be managed\".\n\nDetectives say the woman's next-of-kin have been informed, and they are not looking for anyone else in connection with their investigation.\n\nThe woman who died was an employee of a care agency commissioned by Islington Council.\n\nTwo ambulance crews arrived at his first-floor flat in Islington, north London, on Thursday morning after a neighbour heard a scream at around 04:00 BST.\n\nColleagues said they were left \"devastated\" after the woman, 61, died in hospital on Friday morning.\n\nMax Wurr, senior spokesman for the woman's employer, said: \"We were devastated that a member of our care team in Islington has died in hospital after paramedics were called to the home of one of our customers overnight.\"\n\n\"Our thoughts are with her family and friends at this desperately sad time.\"\n\nA post-mortem examination will be held in due course, the Met said.\n\nThe best way to get news on the go \n\n\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The owner of Boots has rejected claims it overcharged the NHS for a mouthwash used by cancer patients.\n\nAn investigation by the Times newspaper said the high street chemist charged the NHS £3,220 for the medicinal mouthwash, which can cost £93.\n\nWalgreens Boots Alliance said its businesses complied with the law.\n\nNHS England said pharmacies should seek to secure best value, while ministers have asked the Competition and Markets Authority to consider investigating.\n\nThe mouthwash - used by patients with sores caused by chemotherapy - is among a group of drugs known as specials.\n\nThe Times claims Boots has benefitted from a legal loophole that allows suppliers to set their own prices for these drugs.\n\nThe paper says the mouthwash was ordered from Alliance Healthcare - a supplier owned by Boots' parent company.\n\nFrom 2013-2017, the paper says Boots charged £3,219 to supply three 200ml bottles, then £3,220 for the same amount, £1,843 for an 800ml treatment, £1,989.12 for 800ml and £6,374.25 for 2,600ml.\n\nMeanwhile in 2016, a pharmacy in West Sussex charged £31.14 for one 200ml bottle, the equivalent of £93.42 for 600ml.\n\nSpecials are unlicensed medicines that do not have central marketing authorisation either in the UK or Europe.\n\nThey have not been assessed by the regulatory authority for safety, or efficacy in the same way as licensed medicines.\n\nThey are manufactured, imported or distributed to meet the needs of an individual patient.\n\nThey are only supposed to be prescribed when there is no alternative licensed medicine available.\n\nMore than 75,000 different formulations of specials are prescribed each year.\n\nThey make up about 1% of all prescriptions.\n\nWalgreens Boots Alliance has not disputed the figures, but says it has not over-charged the health service.\n\nThe company said the bespoke nature of specials - often ordered at short notice - results in the final cost.\n\n\"We firmly reject accusations of overcharging the NHS,\" a Walgreens Boots Alliance spokesperson said.\n\n\"Our senior company leaders have already recently met with officials from the Department of Health to discuss the specials products.\"\n\nThe statement added that specials make up \"an extremely small proportion of the total items dispensed in the UK\".\n\nThe Times reports that specials cost the health service about £75m a year. The NHS in England spends around £16bn a year on drugs.\n\nHealth minister Steve Brine said the public would take \"an extremely dim view of any company found to be exploiting our NHS and patients\".\n\n\"Where there is evidence of collusion between pharmacies and suppliers, swift action will be taken to claw back funds and penalise offenders,\" he added.\n\nThe newspaper also reported that the NHS had paid various pharmacies £2,645 for basic sleeping pills that can cost £1 and £3,200 for arthritis painkillers that have been charged at less than £1 per pack.\n\nAn NHS England spokesperson said: \"Local GP groups are right to clamp down on situations where a company is attempting to rip off patients and taxpayers. Any company that does so should get the full force of civil and where appropriate criminal enforcement.\"\n\nThe best way to get news on the go", "Manic Street Preachers played a triumphant set on the opening night of the BBC's Biggest Weekend festival - despite losing their bassist.\n\nNicky Wire was forced to pull out of the show earlier in the day due to a family illness.\n\n\"We wish him and his mother all the love in the world,\" frontman James Dean Bradfield told the crowd in Belfast.\n\nThe band's guitar technician Richard stood in, ably delivering hits like Motorcycle Emptiness and You Love Us.\n\nThe only major difference was that he didn't share Wire's penchant for cross-dressing.\n\n\"We tried to get him into a leopard skin skirt but it wasn't happening,\" joked Bradfield. \"Though he's got great calves and he's a great bass player.\"\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 Manics were followed on stage by US star Beck, who played an energetic, crowd-pleasing set that mixed his own hits with covers like Prince's Raspberry Beret, Talking Heads' Once In A Lifetime and Chic's Good Times.\n\n\"We're not trying to be the wedding band,\" he joked. \"These songs helped us reach a little higher up there.\"\n\nBut the biggest applause of the night was reserved for the star's 1993 slacker anthem, Loser.\n\n\"That's the loudest we've heard all year - that's going to be hard to beat,\" he told the 15,000-strong audience.\n\nClosing the night were iconic dance act Orbital, who brought their stunning light show - and a touch of middle-aged rave - to Belfast's Titanic Slipway.\n\nAs well as the classics like Satan and Halcyon, the duo played their 1991 hit Belfast, dedicating to the \"all of you who've lived through terrible experiences\" during the sectarian violence in Northern Ireland.\n\nThey also played a new song, The End Is Nigh, before rounding off their set with Doctor - a repurposed version of the Doctor Who theme tune.\n\nOrbital lit up the evening sky with their spectacular light show\n\nBeck's band formed an orderly queue for the ice cream van\n\nThe band attracted the biggest audience of the day in Belfast\n\nThe Breeders received a huge cheer as they rolled out the 90s grunge classic Cannonball\n\nThe Biggest Weekend is designed as the BBC's \"replacement\" for Glastonbury - which is taking a fallow year in 2018.\n\nAs well as the 6 Music stage in Belfast, there are events taking place in Swansea, Perth and Coventry across the Bank Holiday weekend.\n\nThe Scottish National Jazz Orchestra got the Scottish leg of the event off to a swinging start, followed by sets from Jamie Cullum, Eddi Reader and percussionist Evelyn Glennie.\n\nPerth's Scone Palace provided a dramatic backdrop as Nigel Kennedy headlined the event, playing Bach's double violin concerto in D minor with the Scottish Symphony Orchestra, as well as a selection of Gershwin classics.\n\n\"Thank you for listening to this stuff in not ideal conditions,\" he told the audience.\n\nEvelyn Glennie transfixed the audience with her performance of Michael Daucherty's Da Vinci's Wings\n\nThe Pipes & Drums of the Black Watch brought some traditional Scottish music to the show\n\nOther highlights on the opening day of the festival included:\n\nSaturday will see Radio 1's contribution to the festival kick off in Swansea with an early-morning set by Ed Sheeran - who then has to high-tail it to his own headline gig in Manchester.\n\nOther artists due to play over the weekend include Sam Smith, Florence + The Machine, Rita Ora, Liam Gallagher, Paloma Faith, Simple Minds, Craig David, Jess Glynne and Taylor Swift.\n\nMonday will also see a \"Strictly Spectacular\" at Coventry's War Memorial Park, with the show's professional dancers - including Gorka Marquez and Amy Dowden - accompanied by the BBC Concert Orchestra and Radio 3's Katie Derham.\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.", "Ed Sheeran says his \"strong\" approach on secondary tickets for his gigs will benefit fans in the long run.\n\nPeople who turned up to the first dates of his UK tour in Manchester with resold tickets were told they were invalid and had to buy new ones.\n\n\"The only people it is going to harm in the end is the touts,\" Ed told Newsbeat at the Biggest Weekend in Swansea.\n\n\"I hate the idea of people paying more than face value for tickets when you can get them at face value.\"\n\nEd spoke to Newsbeat at the Biggest Weekend in Swansea\n\nSome fans were angry at their tickets not being valid, including one woman who said she was \"fuming\" after apparently paying £400 for two tickets.\n\nSecondary ticketing is when people buy tickets for a gig and resell them - usually using sites like Viagogo, StubHub, GetMeIn and Seatwave.\n\nConsumer rights group the Fan Fair Alliance says these sites are used by ticket touts, resulting in something which is \"hugely damaging\" to the music business.\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\nWhen Ed Sheeran's latest tour dates went on sale, he stated that secondary tickets would not be valid.\n\nHis promoters have cancelled more than 10,000 tickets that were resold on Viagogo - often at vastly inflated prices - for 18 dates in the star's sold-out tour.\n\nEd Sheeran on stage at the Biggest Weekend in Swansea\n\nIn Manchester, fans with resold tickets were asked to pay £80, which is the face value of a ticket.\n\nTheir original ticket was then stamped invalid.\n\nEd says those people are legally able to get a refund from the secondary ticket site.\n\n\"It's all being done properly I'm not trying to stitch fans up,\" he told us.\n\n\"People just need to start taking a stance and within two or three years companies like Viagogo are going to be kaput (no longer in business).\n\n\"Loads of acts are doing it, Arctic Monkeys, Adele, no one is OK with it.\n\n\"The fans are not OK with secondary tickets. Sometimes you can spend all that money and it is a fake ticket.\n\n\"I think it is just about being strong and not giving in.\"\n\nEd Sheeran was the opening act at the Biggest Weekend in Swansea\n\nEd's manager Stuart Galbraith agreed, telling Newsbeat: \"Everyone who has been through this process has been really grateful\".\n\n\"We've had no complaints, we are just trying to make sure people don't get ripped off.\n\n\"We will help you get your refund off Viagogo and other secondary 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 BBC Radio 1 This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as 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\nViagogo directed the BBC to the FAQ section of its website when asked for a response to this story.\n\nIt says it protests against concert promoters who deny entry to fans using resold tickets.\n\n\"These types of entry restrictions are highly unfair and in our view, unenforceable and illegal,\" it says.\n\nNewsbeat has put Ed Sheeran's comments to Viagogo and is awaiting a response.\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 every weekday on BBC Radio 1 and 1Xtra - if you miss us you can listen back here.\n\nYou can find out how to watch and listen on the official Biggest Weekend site.", "South Korea has released a Hollywood-style video of the meeting between its President Moon Jae-in and the North's Kim Jong-un in the demilitarised zone on the border between the two countries.\n\nThe slickly produced, minute-long film shows the two leaders meeting, warmly shaking hands, holding talks and embracing as they part - all to a stirring soundtrack.", "Theresa May has been urged to stick to the government's timetable for having a vote on Heathrow expansion.\n\nA number of business lobby groups have signed a letter saying the government needs to \"get on with expanding the UK's airport capacity\".\n\nThe BBC understands that the idea for the letter came from Heathrow itself.\n\nTransport Secretary Chris Grayling has also been asking business groups to support the expansion plans, the BBC has learned.\n\nThe business organisations that signed the letter have all come out in favour of Heathrow expansion in the past.\n\nThe letter sent to Number 10 said: \"As Brexit approaches, Heathrow expansion is crucial to making sure the UK remains an outward-looking trading nation and is well-equipped to compete on the world stage.\n\n\"For British businesses, the benefits of expansion have always been clear: connections to new markets and trading opportunities, with better links with regional airports across the UK a boost to British exports, and a skills legacy for future generations.\"\n\nThe letter adds that the UK is losing ground to competition from European airports.\n\n\"There are many unknowns for businesses surrounding Britain's future trading arrangements, but what is absolutely certain is that our economic success depends on securing Heathrow's future as a leading international airport,\" it adds.\n\nThe groups that put their name to the letter were the Confederation of British Industry, the British Chambers of Commerce, the Institute of Directors, the Federation of Small Businesses, the EEF - The Manufacturers' Organisation, the London Chamber of Commerce and Industry, and airport expansion lobby group London First.\n\nThe BBC understands that these organisations were asked by Heathrow to lobby the government collectively via the letter.\n\nThe timing of the letter, which has been published by Heathrow, is particularly important.\n\nThe government is due to timetable a vote on the Airports National Policy Statement, which is going to set out its airport infrastructure policy - including Heathrow expansion - in the first half of the year.\n\nHeathrow regularly has meetings with the business lobby groups, and its position is that the groups sent the letter out of a mutual desire to get the vote tabled, the BBC understands.\n\nIt was expected that the vote would happen before the summer recess, which runs from 24 July to 4 September.\n\nThe business lobby groups and Heathrow want the vote to go ahead as planned before September because then MPs will be more pre-occupied with Brexit.\n\nThe terms for Britain to leave the EU need to be concluded by 30 September 2018 under a timetable set by the EU's chief negotiator Michel Barnier.\n\nThe UK vote on the Airports National Policy Statement will be tabled after a process is set in motion by Transport Secretary Chris Grayling.\n\nHe in turn has been lobbying business groups for support for the government's Heathrow expansion plans to try to get MPs to vote in favour.\n\nConservative MPs are likely to vote with the government. Unions and many Labour MPs also support expansion, but the Labour leadership in the past has come out against Heathrow expansion on environmental grounds.\n\nThe best way to get news on the go", "Teenagers at the Discovery Academy in Stoke-on-Trent, which has introduced free sanitary towels, tackle the stigma around \"that time of the month\".", "Back in 1977 when a sneering, snarling Sid Vicious joined the Sex Pistols to take the band's punk aesthetic up a notch or two, there was another young man making his own arty entrance on to the public stage.\n\nI have no idea if Peter Murray has ever worn a padlocked chain around his neck or sported a red T-shirt emblazoned with a swastika, but I'm guessing not. He doesn't strike me as the type.\n\nBut that doesn't mean the mark he has made on the cultural landscape of Great Britain is any less indelible or incredible than the nihilistic sound of the late Sex Pistol.\n\nWhile Sid was being vicious, Peter Murray wasn't.\n\nHe was hanging out at Bretton Hall near Wakefield teaching art teachers to teach art. The building was set in a nice location, the epitome of William Blake's \"green and pleasant land\" with rolling hills and all that.\n\nIt was the perfect landscape, the enterprising Murray thought, in which to exhibit some modern art.\n\nBlack and Blue The Invisible Men and the Masque of Blackness, by Zak Ove\n\nAnd so, with a £1,000 grant from a regional arts agency, he put on a group show of contemporary sculptors that included Mike Lyons, William Tucker, Kenneth Armitage (all male line-ups were de rigueur in the 1970s. And the '80s. And the '90s. And the noughties).\n\nThat was then. Today, Murray's Yorkshire Sculpture Park spans 500 eye-popping acres, welcomes around half a million people a year, boasts one of the finest displays of sculpture you will ever rest your eyes upon, and has spawned copycat art parks across the world.\n\nYou can go there and see - for free - grade A, five-star art by Barbara Hepworth, Henry Moore, Phyllida Barlow, Joan Miró and Ai Weiwei, among many others. Their work is dotted about in fields and woods, where even the trees start to morph into sculptures.\n\nThat's not me coming over all dewy-eyed and poetic, by the way. Some of the trees really are sculptures: great big bronze trunks and branches that look just like the real thing until you give them a hug and feel cold metal rather than warm bark.\n\nThey are the work of the respected septuagenarian Italian artist, Giuseppe Penone, the subject of a new special exhibition at YSP. He is the David Attenborough of art, an observer of nature who makes work to heighten our awareness of the beauty and power of the natural world.\n\nHe says he is particularly keen on trees as he sees them as the \"perfect sculpture\" - an exquisitely balanced form with roots that dive deep into the watery underworld, and branches that reach up towards the light in the sky.\n\nHe talks a lot about the \"forces of gravity\" (often expressed through placing one-tonne balls of concrete in his trees' branches) and the \"weight of life we are part of\".\n\nI asked him if his sculptures were a comment on the concept of a tree of life. He looked on me with benevolent pity, knotted his eyebrows, and replied with a winning smile: \"Err…yeah…if you want it to. It's possible.\"\n\nIn other words, no they aren't. What then, are they about beyond the obvious homage to nature?\n\nGetting an answer to that question from any artist is always tricky, and Signor Penone is no different.\n\nHe speaks philosophically about how we can only truly relate to the material world by seeing objects as an extension of ourselves. Which is why in a pile of real potatoes arranged against a wall in the indoor gallery space, he has added three bronze spuds onto which human facial features have been subtly moulded.\n\nThe idea of anthropomorphising nature is repeated in a marble wall sculpture called Corpo di Pietra - Rami (2016), in which the artist interprets the natural ridges on the marble's surface as the veins on the back of a human hand.\n\nSometimes, for me at least, he is a little too obvious when making the point about Man simply being a part of nature as opposed to being a separate or superior living entity.\n\nThere are, for instance, a series of bronze casts called Trattenere Anni di Crescita (2004-16) that consist of a tree trunk with a hand embedded in it, from which a severed arm protrudes like a branch.\n\nThey looked a bit surreal to me, but the artist repeated his charming knotted eyebrow routine again when I dared to share that thought with him. They are what they are and no more, he explained: a meditation on nature, art, and life.\n\nIt's an approach that also happens to eloquently sum up the YSP, which is why Giuseppe Penone is such a good choice for a special exhibition. Frankly, I think his outdoor pieces in the landscape are superior to those in the brightly lit gallery building, but they are all worthy of some time spent.\n\nWhat's more, if they are not quite your thing, you can always set off and explore the rest of the park, which, over the last 41 years has developed into one of the great jewels of the English countryside.", "Former US astronaut Alan Bean, who was the fourth man to walk on the Moon, has died in Texas aged 86, his family has said.\n\nIn later life he became an accomplished artist, producing paintings that were inspired by space.\n\nHis family said he had fallen ill two weeks ago in Indiana and died peacefully at a hospital in Houston.\n\nAstronaut Mike Massimino described Bean as \"the most extraordinary person I ever met\".\n\n\"He was a one-of-a-kind combination of technical achievement as an astronaut and artistic achievement as a painter,\" said Massimino, who flew on two space shuttle missions.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by NASA This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAlan Bean, a former US Navy test pilot, was selected by Nasa as a trainee in 1963.\n\nHe went into space twice, the first time in November 1969 as the lunar module pilot on the Apollo 12 Moon-landing mission.\n\nHe later described how complex and risky the mission had been: \"It was more science fiction to us, I think, than it was to the average public.\n\n\"We knew how difficult it was. We knew how many things had to go right. This is like going half way across the Sahara Desert and stopping your car and getting out and camping out for a couple of days and then hoping when you start it up the battery works because if doesn't you're up creek.\"\n\nIn 1973 he was commander of the second crewed flight to Skylab - America's first space station.\n\nHe retired from Nasa in 1981 and carved a successful career as an artist. His paintings, inspired by space travel, featured lunar boot prints as well as small pieces of his mission patches which were stained by Moon dust.\n\n\"While he captured these great scenes from history, and scenes that never could be captured by a camera, and only in painting, he would also basically sprinkle them with moon dust,\" space history specialist Robert Z Pearlman told the BBC.\n\n\"And so they are a tremendous legacy for not just him but the Apollo programme in general.\"\n\nThe three astronauts who preceded Alan Bean to the moon's surface were Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin on Apollo 11 in July 1969, and Charles Conrad who was also on the Apollo 12 mission.\n\nOf the four men, only Aldrin is still alive, now aged 88.\n\nIn all, 24 people have flown to the Moon and 12 have set foot on it.\n\nAlan Bean is survived by his wife Leslie, a sister and two children from a previous marriage.", "The bunker was partially flooded and had to be cleared of water\n\nA hidden World War Two bunker has been discovered under the back garden of a house in Middlesbrough.\n\nChris Scott was having his Marton Avenue home renovated when he decided to investigate what he thought was a drain cover.\n\nBut it turned out to be the entrance to a concrete-lined, two-room bunker, big enough for more than 50 people.\n\nThe married father-of-one, 40, said he plans to turn the bunker into a wine cellar or an office.\n\n\"Our neighbours had mentioned something about a bunker, but to be honest we didn't think any more about it,\" Mr Scott said.\n\n\"When my builder suggested having a look at what was under the cover, we opened it up and saw a 10ft metal ladder leading down into the darkness.\n\n\"We initially used our mobile phones to look round and couldn't believe what we saw.\"\n\nMr Scott thought he had a drain cover in his garden\n\nMr Scott says the bunker is big enough for at least 50 people\n\nA makeshift wooden table was found in one of the rooms\n\nThe bunker was partially filled with water, but after it was drained two rooms measuring about 4m x 4m were revealed, which were separated by a wooden door.\n\nMr Scott added: \"We expected it to be quite small, but once we got through the metal blast door were were very surprised.\n\n\"There were still a lot of electrics in place and some snorkel-type devices which must have there to help people breathe.\"\n\nIt is thought the bunker was used to hold people during bombing raids.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Melissa McCarthy has a puppet partner in the cop-buddy film\n\nThe creators of the famous children's TV show Sesame Street have launched a lawsuit against an upcoming sex, drugs and violence-laden puppet-based movie called the Happytime Murders.\n\nThe movie uses the tagline \"No Sesame. All Street\" on promotional material.\n\nThe lawsuit says this tarnishes the Sesame Street brand and confuses people into thinking the two are linked.\n\nMelissa McCarthy stars in the film, slated for August release, where humans and puppets co-exist.\n\nShe is given a new puppet partner in the R-rated film to try to solve a string of murders.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Happytime Murders This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSesame Workshop, the educational organisation behind the TV show, filed the lawsuit against the film's producers, STX Productions, in New York. The lawsuit calls for punitive damages and a jury trial.\n\nSesame Workshop says that although the trailer for the movie is \"indescribably crude\", it is not seeking to block the film's promotion.\n\n\"It is only [the] defendants' deliberate choice to invoke and commercially misappropriate 'Sesame's' name and goodwill in marketing the movie - and thereby cause consumers to conclude that 'Sesame' is somehow associated with the movie - that has infringed on and tarnished the 'Sesame Street' mark and goodwill.\"\n\nJust what Bert and Ernie would make of the new flick is anybody's guess\n\nIt says the '\"No Sesame. All Street' tagline has confused and appalled viewers\".\n\nThe film is directed by Brian Henson, son of the late Jim Henson, who helped develop Sesame Street characters for its launch in 1969 and later went on to create the Muppet Show.\n\nSTX issued a response via a character from the film, a lawyer called Fred, saying the movie was \"the untold story of the active lives of Henson puppets when they're not performing in front of children\".\n\nIt continued: \"While we're disappointed that Sesame Street does not share in the fun, we are confident in our legal position.\"", "South Korea has made a movie-style video showing its president, Moon Jae-in, meet his North Korean counterpart, Kim Jong-un, for only the second time.\n\nIt comes as the two sides continue efforts to put a historic US-North Korea summit back on track.\n\nOn Thursday US President Donald Trump cancelled the summit, scheduled for 12 June, but later suggested it might still go ahead.", "Online payment problems are continuing for frustrated TSB customers - five weeks on from the IT switchover that has caused a crisis at the bank.\n\nSome current account customers and some business clients still face problems making internet or app payments.\n\nThe bank said experts from computing giant IBM, called in during the first week of the fiasco, would remain \"for as long as it takes\" to fix the errors.\n\nIt has not estimated how long it will be until services return to normal.\n\nThe ongoing problems come in a week when some customers have reported fraudsters emptying their accounts. In addition, some customers who have switched away from the bank have reported receiving letters suggesting they have died.\n\nTSB said it had teams \"working around the clock\" to fix the issues which began after the migration of data on TSB's five million customers from former owner Lloyds' IT system to a new one managed by current TSB owner Sabadell.\n\nAmong the most serious are the payment problems faced by business banking customers, such as Sam Watterson, who runs a lettings firm in Leeds.\n\nHe has spent recent weeks manually entering details into a spreadsheet, as it is impossible to download a file from his account. He is also struggling to set up new payments to landlords.\n\n\"This is creating a backlog of payments. We are muddling through, but it is taking forever to do something simple,\" he said.\n\nHe said he had reported the issues to TSB but had not heard anything back.\n\n\"We are asking business banking customers, who may be experiencing problems making payments online, to contact us so we can help them meet their payment obligations, such as salaries and invoicing to suppliers,\" a spokeswoman for TSB said.\n\n\"We are really sorry for any inconvenience this may cause and we understand how challenging the past few weeks may have been for some of our business customers. No customer will be left out of pocket as a result of any issues experienced.\"\n\nOn Friday, BBC Radio 4's You and Yours revealed how one TSB customer watched thousands of pounds in wedding savings being stolen from his internet account as he waited on hold for the bank's fraud department.\n\nBen Alford, from Weymouth in Dorset, said it took more than four and a half hours to get through to TSB, by which time most of the money had gone. TSB said it had put in \"additional resources\" to support customers.\n\nLetters received by former TSB customers who had switched created confusion\n\nFinancial website Moneysavingexpert also reported how some customers had received letters incorrectly suggesting account holders had died.\n\nSeveral former TSB customers reported receiving letters from various organisations including local councils saying they were sorry to hear of their passing. The letters also said that their direct debits had been cancelled. Customers had then got in contact with those who had sent them the letters, and been informed that TSB had told them that they had died.\n\n\"We are aware there was an issue with a small number of our customers switching from or closing their account with TSB, which resulted in an error in the cancellation or transfer of some of their direct debits,\" a TSB spokeswoman said.\n\n\"We are deeply sorry for any distress caused. We are working to rectify this issue and we are really sorry for the inconvenience caused.\"\n\nText message balance alerts, such as when customers are going into the red, are not working.\n\nMeanwhile, some customers are receiving redress.\n\nThe case of Lorna Connolly, formerly Lorna McHale, was raised with TSB chief executive Paul Pester during his appearance before the Treasury Committee of MPs after the BBC revealed how she was unable to access her account days before her wedding day.\n\nShe said she had to \"ring to grovel\" with suppliers for the wedding, including the DJ, the wedding car provider, and those doing her hair and make-up, all of which were small businesses.\n\nTSB rang the day before her wedding to offer her compensation.\n\n\"They gave me £100 as a gesture of goodwill, which didn't really alleviate any of the stress, but I was flustered and just accepted,\" she said.\n\nShe said her account was mostly back to normal - a conclusion yet to be the case for every TSB customer.\n\nThe best way to get news on the go", "Excitement is building ahead of the Champions League final\n\nLiverpool supporters are gathering in Kiev for the Champions League final after a series of flight cancellations.\n\nTwo travel companies axed flights in the week, leaving some fans unable to make the game against Real Madrid.\n\nLiverpool John Lennon Airport said about 4,500 passengers flew to the Ukrainian capital on Saturday morning.\n\nOne fan said: \"Friends have had flights cancelled, they've managed to rearrange to get here - we're here, we're ready for it and we're going to win it.\"\n\nA total of 23 flights departed between 03:00 and 11:00 BST for Kiev.\n\nExcitement has been building ahead of Liverpool's first Champions League final in 11 years.\n\nOne supporter told BBC Breakfast: \"I'm really nervous but it's the whole day of it, it's the excitement, the buzz, the fans and and I can't wait to get to Kiev and join in with the atmosphere.\"\n\nIn Liverpool, fans have booked tickets to watch the match, which kicks off at 19:45, at big screens at Anfield stadium and city centre venues.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Liverpool fans in Kiev speak of the frustration of fans being stranded at home\n\nMyriad Travel said its flight on Friday had been cancelled by its supplier as the aircraft \"does not have the correct licence to fly\".\n\nThree other flights from the Liverpool-based company went ahead and affected customers will be refunded.\n\nThe company said it had been trying to source alternatives but had been unable to do so.\n\nThe flight was provided by aircraft charter company Air Partner Ltd.\n\nA spokesman for Air Partner said the company \"deeply regret\" that the original aircraft was unable to fly.\n\n\"On Thursday morning, we offered a number of alternative aircraft solutions to the travel agent that contracted us, but they declined them, and we fully refunded the travel agent,\" the spokesman added.\n\nIt is Liverpool's first Champions League final in 11 years\n\nOperator Worldchoice Sports cancelled three flights on Thursday but secured one extra three-night trip.\n\nLiverpool mayor Joe Anderson said his team had been \"working flat out\" to find alternative solutions for fans with cancelled flights.\n\n\"We now must accept the fact that some fans who have tickets may not be able to make the game.\"\n\nHe said he was \"hugely disappointed and frustrated at the utter shambles loyal fans have been put through\".\n\nCristiano Ronaldo (centre) and Gareth Bale (right) have scored 61 goals for Real this season\n\n\"UEFA and the companies involved will have questions to answer.\"\n\nLiverpool FC said it would offer a full refund on match tickets for those who had been booked on the cancelled flights.", "Voters in the Republic of Ireland are set to decide on the future of the country's abortion laws in a referendum on 25 May.\n\nBBC News NI looks at the background to the referendum and what the verdict may mean.", "Hayden, nine, from Bromsgrove won the chance to be Aston Villa's mascot at Wembley for their Championship play-off final game against Fulham, on Saturday.\n\nHis parents, who filmed his lovely reaction, told their son he would be leading out the team alongside one of his heroes, club captain John Terry.", "Yes, you are definitely stuck...\n\nA man had to be rescued by police and the fire service after getting stuck in a child's swing in a play park.\n\nThe 20-year-old had been firmly wedged in the child-sized seat for three hours before police were called to Landseer Park in Ipswich at 07:50 BST.\n\nWhen a \"shove and pull\" method of swing-release failed, the fire service arrived with a trusty screwdriver.\n\nThe swing was taken apart and the \"grateful but embarrassed\" grown-up was freed unharmed.\n\nA Suffolk police community support officer quickly realised the man - who complained he had been in there for three hours - was definitely stuck.\n\nIf a shove does not work, there's always the trusty screwdriver\n\nThere was no shifting him as the girth of his rear was clearly too wide for the child-sized swing.\n\nAfter taking the swing to pieces and releasing the man, crews from Suffolk Fire and Rescue Service put it back together so it could be safely used by someone of the right size.\n\nIpswich Police gave this advice to all swing enthusiasts via Twitter\n\nThe swing was reconstructed after its ordeal with the overgrown occupant\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Ireland has voted decisively in a referendum to reform the country's strict abortion laws, which had effectively banned all terminations.\n\nIt was Ireland's sixth referendum on the issue, and the country's younger voters led it in a two-thirds landslide in favour of ending the ban.\n\nHere we look back at how one of the most controversial legal issues in Irish history unfolded over more than a century-and-a-half.\n\nAbortion is first banned in Ireland in 1861 by the Offences Against the Person Act, and stays in place after Irish independence.\n\nOpponents of repealing the amendment say the mother and the unborn have an equal right to life\n\nThe Eighth Amendment to the Republic's constitution, or Article 40.3.3, is introduced after a referendum.\n\nIt \"acknowledges the right to life of the unborn and, with due regard to the equal right to life of the mother, guarantees in its laws to respect, and, as far as practicable, by its laws to defend and vindicate that right\".\n\nIt means the life of the woman and the unborn are seen as equal.\n\n1992 - The X case, and another referendum\n\nA 14-year-old suicidal rape victim is initially prevented by the courts from travelling to England to terminate her pregnancy. It is a controversy that will become known as the X Case.\n\nThe ruling prompts demonstrations by both anti-abortion and pro-choice campaigners across Ireland, in New York and London.\n\nHowever, the ruling is later overturned by Ireland's Supreme Court. It says the credible threat of suicide is grounds for an abortion in Ireland.\n\nNo government since then has enacted legislation to give medical practitioners legal certainty as to when terminations can be carried out.\n\nIn November that year, as a result of the X case and the judgement in the Supreme Court appeal, the government put forward three possible amendments to the constitution.\n\nA woman holds 'repeal the Eighth' badges up in front of her eyes at a pro-choice rally\n\nThey are enumerated as the twelfth, thirteenth and fourteenth amendments. Two of them are passed.\n\nThe Thirteenth Amendment said the abortion ban would not limit freedom of travel from Ireland to other countries for a legal abortion.\n\nThe Fourteenth Amendment said Irish citizens had the freedom to learn about abortion services in other countries.\n\nHowever, the Twelfth Amendment is rejected. It had proposed that the possibility of suicide was not a sufficient threat to justify an abortion.\n\nAnother referendum is held and the people of Ireland are asked if the threat of suicide as a ground for legal abortion should be removed.\n\nIt is again rejected (this time marginally) by voters.\n\nAfter three women take a case against Ireland, the European Court of Human Rights rules the state has failed to provide clarity on the legal availability of abortion in circumstances where the mother's life is at risk.\n\nA campaign to liberalise abortion gathers momentum, after Indian woman Savita Halappanavar dies in a Galway hospital after she is refused an abortion during a miscarriage.\n\nHer husband, Praveen Halappanavar, says she repeatedly asked for a termination but was refused because there was a foetal heartbeat.\n\nA vigil for Savita Halappanavar, who died in 2012 after being denied an abortion\n\nWhen asked if he thought his wife would still be alive if the termination had been allowed, Mr Halappanavar told the BBC: \"Of course, no doubt about it.\"\n\nFollowing her death, about 2,000 protesters assemble outside the Irish parliament in Dublin to call for the Irish government to urgently reform the Republic's abortion laws.\n\nCandle-lit vigils are held around the country.\n\nAbortion legislation is again amended to allow terminations under certain conditions - the Protection of Life During Pregnancy Act is signed into law.\n\nIt legalises abortion when doctors deem that a woman's life is at risk due to medical complications, or at risk of taking her life.\n\nIt also introduces a maximum penalty of 14 years imprisonment for having or assisting in an unlawful abortion.\n\nThis law gives effect to the 1992 Supreme Court ruling that abortion is permitted where the mother's life, as opposed to her health, is at risk.\n\nAnti-abortion groups argue that two sets of human rights are at stake\n\n2015 - The UN calls for another referendum\n\nThe United Nations Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights recommends a referendum on abortion, saying it is concerned at Ireland's \"highly restrictive legislation\" and calls for a referendum to repeal Article 40.3.3 of the Constitution.\n\nIt says it's \"particularly concerned at the criminalization of abortion, including in the cases of rape and incest and of risk to the health of a pregnant woman; the lack of legal and procedural clarity on what constitutes a real substantive risk to the life, as opposed to the health, of the pregnant woman; and the discriminatory impact on women who cannot afford to obtain an abortion abroad or access to the necessary information\".\n\nThe committee calls for a revision of the 2013 Protection of Life During Pregnancy Act and urges the adoption of guidelines to clarify what constitutes \"a real substantive risk\" to a woman's life.\n\nTens of thousands rallied in Dublin in September for constitutional change\n\n2016 - The United Nations weighs in on human rights\n\nThe United Nations Human Rights Committee says that Ireland's ban on abortion subjected a woman carrying a foetus with a fatal abnormality to discrimination and cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment.\n\nIt calls for the strict prohibition to be reversed, including reforming the right to life of the unborn in the constitution if necessary, to allow women to voluntarily terminate a pregnancy safely.\n\nThe case involves a woman called Amanda Mellet who had to travel abroad for an abortion.\n\nThe UN committee says the hospital where she was treated did not provide any options regarding the foetus's remains and she had to leave them behind.\n\nThree weeks later, the ashes are unexpectedly delivered to her by courier.\n\nMs Mellet files a complaint with the UN over her experiences.\n\nAnti-abortion campaigners say the unborn should have rights to life\n\nShe is later awarded compensation by the Irish government - thought to be the first time this had happened.\n\nThe move is hailed as \"highly significant\" by pro-choice campaigners.\n\nMeanwhile, the terms of reference are outlined for a Citizens' Assembly to begin examining the Eighth amendment. This is a public body set up to advise the Irish government on a number of ethical and political dilemmas facing the Irish people.\n\nThe Citizens' Assembly votes to recommend the introduction of unrestricted access to abortion.\n\nIt votes 64% to 36% in favour of having no restrictions in early pregnancy.\n\nRecent years have seen demonstrations both for and against repealing the Eighth Amendment\n\nThe chairperson, Justice Mary Laffoy, said: \"The members voted that they wanted to remove Article 40.3.3 from the constitution, and for the avoidance of doubt, to replace it with a provision in the constitution, which would make it clear that termination of pregnancy, any rights of the unborn, and any rights of the pregnant woman are matters for the Oireachtas (Irish Parliament).\n\n\"In other words, it would be solely a matter for the Oireachtas to decide how to legislate on these issues.\"\n\nHowever, anti-abortion campaigners dismiss the results of the ballots as a \"muddled and confused farce\".\n\nAn Oireachtas committee in 2017 also recommends substantial reform of the law.\n\nThe committee's chair, Senator Catherine Noone, concludes that \"we need some change\" and in order to effect that the constitution needed to be amended to remove Article 40.3.3.\n\nThe Irish government says it will hold a referendum in 2018 on whether to change the abortion laws.\n\nIn March, Irish Housing Minister Eoghan Murphy signs an order to set the date for an abortion referendum. The wording is then finalised, giving the go-ahead for voters to have their say on the issue.\n\nOn 25 May, voters go to the polls, where the ballot asks if they wish to approve the 36th Amendment to Ireland's constitution - a bill which would repeal the Eighth Amendment, the ban on abortion.\n\nTurnout is 64.51%, and the result is just short of two-thirds in favour of ending the country's ban on abortion: 66.4% yes to 33.6% no.\n\nThe Yes vote allows the government in Dublin to introduce legislation allowing abortion in the first 12 weeks of pregnancy, and between 12 and 24 weeks in exceptional circumstances.\n\n\"What we have seen today really is a culmination of a quiet revolution that's been taking place in Ireland for the past 10 or 20 years,\" says Prime Minister Leo Varadkar.", "There's been a three-fold rise in the number of cases of sextortion being reported to police in the UK over the last three years, where criminals trick their victims into sexual activity online and then blackmail them.\n\nExperts say that Ivory Coast in West Africa has become a hotspot for the scammers, as Angus Crawford finds out.", "The recall notice is in relation to glass bottles of AG Barr drinks, including Irn Bru\n\nSoft drinks maker AG Barr is recalling 750ml glass bottles due to concerns the caps may pop off unexpectedly and could cause injury.\n\nThe company said 11 of its fizzy drinks products - including Irn Bru, cola, and lemonade - were affected.\n\nIt said it has taken steps to remove the products from the market.\n\nCustomers who have bought the bottles were urged to open them at arm's length to release the pressure then return them to the shop or contact AG Barr.\n\nThe firm blamed a \"manufacturing fault\" for the issue and said it had taken the decision to recall 750ml glass bottles on a precautionary basis because there had been a small number of reports that the bottle caps pop off unexpectedly.\n\nThey have a use by date up to and including May 2019.\n\nPoint-of-sale notices will be displayed in all retail stores that are selling the products explaining to customers why the bottles are being recalled and telling them what to do if they have bought the product.\n\nA recall information notice from Food Standards Scotland said: \"If you have bought any of the above products carefully release the pressure from the bottle by pointing away from the body at arm's length as you would when opening a bottle of sparkling wine and then return to store or contact AG Barr.\"\n\nNo other AG Barr products are known to be affected.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Cycling\n\nChris Froome is set for a historic Giro d'Italia victory after he held off late attacks from nearest rival Tom Dumoulin on the penultimate stage into Cervinia.\n\nThe Team Sky rider, 33, extended his advantage over the Dutchman to 46 seconds with Sunday's final stage in Rome traditionally a procession.\n\nFroome will be the first British man to win the Giro in its 101-year history.\n\nAnd he will hold all three Grand Tours simultaneously after wins last year at the Tour de France and Vuelta a Espana.\n\nBarring any incident or accident on Sunday, the four-time Tour de France winner will be the seventh man to complete the set of Grand Tours.\n\nSpain's Mikel Nieve won the stage on his 34th birthday, attacking with 32km to go in the mountains to finish two minutes 17 seconds clear of Dutchman Robert Gesink.\n\nIt is a remarkable turnaround for Froome, who had barely been in contention a few days ago after an injury-hit first two weeks.\n\nHe set up victory with Friday's stunning stage 19 win that saw him jump from fourth to take the pink jersey.\n\nHe had a 40-second lead over reigning champion Dumoulin going into stage 20, a 214km ride from Susa to Cervinia in the Alps in northern Italy,\n\nBoth riders had been content to sit in the peloton with Froome protected by his team-mates.\n\nBut with the pink jersey at stake, Dumoulin made his first attack 6km out on the last of three category one climbs.\n\nFroome responded immediately, going on the attack himself to rein Dumoulin back in.\n\nIt became a cat-and-mouse fight between the pair with Froome's legs showing no ill-effects from Friday's heroics.\n\nDumoulin cracked with 3km remaining as his challenge faded and Froome finished with a sprint, six seconds ahead of his rival to retain the maglia rosa in the shadow of the Matterhorn.\n\n\"I felt in control,\" said Froome, who would join Eddy Merckx and Bernard Hinault in holding all three Grand Tours at the same time.\n\n\"Everyone had such a hard day yesterday, no-one had the extra legs to go anywhere.\"\n\nPraising the support from his team, Froome added: \"It was amazing to able to repay them after three weeks of hard work, they believed in me.\"\n\nFroome garnered support from the crowds lining the route although one fan appeared to spit at him 3km from the finish line.\n\nWhen asked about that after the race, Froome said he did not see the incident.\n\nIt is not clear why the fan may have spat at Froome, but the Briton does have his detractors after showing elevated levels of the asthma drug salbutamol at last year's Vuelta a Espana.\n\nFroome does have a therapeutic use exemption allowing him to take the drug for medical reasons, though the investigation into why his levels were above those allowed in September's race has still to be concluded.\n\nSpeaking about the race, Dumoulin said: \"I tried everything I could and Froome was a better rider. I was just tired today and wasn't sure I'd have the legs to try, but I would always have regretted it if I hadn't.\"\n\nFrance's Thibaut Pinot blew a chance for a place on the podium. Having been in third place at the start of Saturday's stage, he was left behind on the second climb up Col de St-Pantaleon.\n\nAstana's Miguel Angel Lopez took advantage as he took third place overall, four minutes 57 seconds behind Froome.\n\nIt's a remarkable reversal and an incredible turnaround, perhaps the most extraordinary in Chris Froome's career. It will become a really famous episode in his long story and one of the most remarkable episodes in the history of the Giro - in fact, in the history of all the grand tours of Italy, France and Spain.\n\nI thought he was going to quit at one stage, he looked like he was going backwards fast. But if you look back at the results he's always been there or thereabouts.", "Helicopter footage shows lava destroying dozens of houses, which residents were told to evacuate, on Hawaii's Big Island.", "The Republic of Ireland has voted overwhelmingly to overturn the abortion ban by 66.4% to 33.6%.\n\nCurrently, abortion is only allowed when a woman's life is at risk, but not in cases of rape, incest or fatal foetal abnormality.\n\nHere's how people on the streets of Ireland reacted to the vote.", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nGareth Bale scored one of European football's great goals to help Real Madrid overcome Liverpool and win their third successive Champions League title as goalkeeper Loris Karius suffered a personal nightmare.\n\nBale made his mark on another Champions League final with a magnificent overhead kick to put Real 2-1 up after 64 minutes.\n\nLiverpool had already suffered the devastating blow of losing top scorer Mohamed Salah midway through the first half - with a shoulder injury sustained in a challenge with Real Madrid captain Sergio Ramos - when calamity struck for Karius.\n\nSix minutes after half-time, the German inexplicably threw the ball against Karim Benzema, who was not even challenging with urgency, and watched in horror as the ball rolled behind him into the net.\n\nLiverpool recovered from the shock to equalise through Sadio Mane before Bale stepped off the bench to score his wonder goal.\n\nThere was to be no comeback from Liverpool this time and Karius's misery was complete when he fumbled Bale's hopeful 30-yard shot behind him to seal Real's win.\n\nIt sealed Real's record 13th win in this competition, and their fourth in five seasons to give coach Zinedine Zidane this third triumph in three years.\n\nFor Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp, it was disappointment again - he lost his third successive final since arriving at Anfield, having suffered defeats in the League Cup and Europa League finals of 2016.\n• None Bale to have talks about Real future\n• None Bale the best I've seen - Giggs\n\nWhen the story of this Champions League final is told from a Liverpool perspective, it will be the tale of Karius' nightmare alongside that of Salah's injury.\n\nThe 24-year-old German has been shown huge faith by Klopp, who brought him in from Mainz and made him first choice ahead of Simon Mignolet.\n\nHe has never fully convinced and on this, the biggest night in Liverpool's recent history, he had the sort of night to leave you wondering how he will rebuild his Anfield career.\n\nKarius inexplicably threw a clearance against Benzema for Real Madrid's opener before fumbling Bale's speculative, long-range effort into the net to snuff out any hopes of a comeback.\n\nThe keeper lay flat on the turf at the final whistle, being consoled by Real Madrid's players before apologising tearfully in front of Liverpool's fans.\n\nKlopp clearly rates Karius but there are too many holes in his technique. That, along with his temperament, must be questioned after a complete horror show here in Kiev.\n\nThe whole emphasis of the final shifted as Salah slumped to the turf for a second time after realising he could not carry on with the shoulder injury sustained in the tangle with Ramos.\n\nLiverpool had started well and Real's deep defending hinted at the apprehension they were felt faced with the attacking trio of Salah, Roberto Firmino and Sadio Mane.\n\nAs Salah left the pitch, inconsolable and in tears, even Liverpool's fans were temporarily hushed and it was clear Real had suddenly been given fresh impetus.\n\nLiverpool, with the magnificent Mane leading the fight, showed commendable heart but they had been robbed of their world-class talisman who, before his substitution, had scored 33% of their goals in all competitions.\n\nIt will be the great unknown as to what might have happened had Salah stayed on but there is no question his departure was a savage blow to Liverpool and a lift for Real Madrid.\n\nBale's Real Madrid future has been under constant scrutiny this season - a quirk at a club that lives by its own rules.\n\nThe Welshman did not even make the starting line-up here and only emerged just after the hour - but within two minutes he scored one of the great Champions League goals, an overhead kick that was a triumph of athleticism and technique, and begged the question as to how Real could even contemplate life without him.\n\nAs for Bale's second goal, make no mistake - when he took on that long-range shot, he would have been street-smart enough to know Karius was living on his nerves after his earlier error.\n\nBale delivered a reminder, if it were needed that he remains a world-class player.\n\nIt may just have been an expensive night for suitors such as Manchester United as his display here will have added millions to any potential transfer fee.\n\nWhen asked about his future after the game, Bale told BT Sport: \"I need to be playing week in, week out and that has not happened this season.\n\n\"I had an injury five, six weeks in but have been fit ever since. I have to sit down with my agent in the summer and discuss it.\"\n\nZinedine Zidane has joined Liverpool's Bob Paisley and his Real Madrid predecessor Carlo Ancelotti in the elite ranks of managers to win this tournament three times - but added extra gloss by becoming the first to win it in three successive seasons.\n\nZidane has often been damned with faint praise about his abilities and record, despite his Champions League invincibility, by those who claim he simply keeps an outstanding team on track but he makes a nonsense of that with his tactical approach, handling of world-class players (and world-class egos) and a very happy knack of making decisive substitutions.\n\nThree Champions League wins in three seasons ends all argument about his greatness as a coach. He is in charge of a team who know how to get the job done.\n\n'This team is magnificent' - what they said\n\nReal Madrid boss Zinedine Zidane, speaking to BT Sport: \"Great emotions. To lift three Champions League trophies with this club, this team is magnificent. We don't quite realise what we have achieved yet.\n\n\"We are going to enjoy the moment. We had a complicated season but to finish with this makes us really happy.\n\n\"I have had a little bit of time to think about what this means. This is the status of this club. It is a legendary club, one that has won 13 Champions Leagues and I am happy to be a part of its history too.\"\n\nLiverpool manager Jurgen Klopp: \"The plan is only to play to win, nothing else, not a lot to say. We started well and played exactly like we wanted to.\n\n\"The situation with Sergio Ramos [and Mohamed Salah] looked really bad and it was a shock for the team, we lost the positive momentum and they immediately came up.\n\n\"We dropped deep and we could not get to Luka Modric or Toni Kroos. We had to run and work, we did that and half-time came. What can I say about the goals? We scored one, they scored three.\"\n\nA first in 42 years - the stats\n• None English teams have suffered a defeat in their past seven UEFA club competition finals against Spanish opposition (four Champions League finals and three UEFA Cup/Europa League finals).\n• None Jurgen Klopp has lost six of his seven major finals as manager, only winning the DFB-Pokal with Borussia Dortmund in 2012.\n• None Real Madrid started with the same XI as in the 2016-17 Champions League final; the first time a team has started with the same 11 players in different European Cup/Champions League finals (excluding replays).\n• None Karim Benzema has scored four goals against Liverpool in the Champions League; no player has managed more (also four for Didier Drogba).\n• None Liverpool became the first team in history to see three players score 10-plus goals in a single Champions League season (Salah 10, Firmino 10, Mane 10).\n• None Sadio Mane is only the fourth African player to score in a European Cup/Champions League final and the first since Didier Drogba for Chelsea v Bayern Munich in 2012. The other two were by Samuel Eto'o for Barcelona in both 2009 and 2006, and Rabah Madjer for Porto in 1987.\n• None Mane became the third Liverpool player to score 20-plus goals in all competitions this season (Salah 44 goals and Firmino 27 goals); the last time that three players hit the 20-goal mark for the club in a single campagn was 1981-82 (Dalglish, McDermott and Rush).\n• None Attempt blocked. Adam Lallana (Liverpool) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.\n• None Goal! Real Madrid 3, Liverpool 1. Gareth Bale (Real Madrid) left footed shot from outside the box to the top right corner. Assisted by Marcelo. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "A landslide vote in favour of overturning Ireland's abortion ban gives \"hope\" to Northern Ireland, UK minister Penny Mordaunt has said.\n\nThe referendum result has sparked calls for the issue to be reassessed in Northern Ireland, where laws are much stricter than the rest of the UK.\n\nBut Democratic Unionist MP Ian Paisley said it \"should not be bullied into accepting abortion on demand\".\n\nVoters in the Irish referendum backed a law change by 66.4% to 33.6%.\n\nFollowing that result, Northern Ireland will soon become the only part of Britain and Ireland where terminations are all but outlawed.\n\nThose taking part in Ireland's referendum were asked whether they wanted to repeal or retain a part of the constitution known as the Eighth Amendment, which says an unborn child has the same right to life as a pregnant woman.\n\nThe vote in favour of repeal paves the way for the Dáil (Irish Parliament) to legislate for change which would see the introduction of a much more liberal regime.\n\nLabour leader Jeremy Corbyn said the referendum result was \"a fantastic victory for women's rights\".\n\nAfter early results suggested a landslide, women and equalities minister Ms Mordaunt tweeted that it was a \"historic\" day for Ireland and a \"hopeful\" day for Northern Ireland, adding \"that hope must be met\".\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\nAbortions are only allowed in Northern Ireland if a woman's life is at risk or there is a permanent or serious risk to her physical or mental health.\n\nRape, incest and fatal foetal abnormalities are not circumstances in which they can be performed legally.\n\nLiberal Democrat leader Sir Vince Cable said the UK government should take advantage of the current lack of a devolved administration in Northern Ireland.\n\nHe said: \"Since there is, effectively, direct rule from Westminster, the government has responsibility and it can and should take the opportunity to deal with this issue properly.\n\n\"The position in Northern Ireland is now highly anomalous and I think, probably, action will now have to be taken.\"\n\nThe leader of the Alliance Party in Northern Ireland, Naomi Long, responded to Ms Mordaunt by saying she could \"effect change\" in Northern Ireland and should use her \"influence with others to ensure this happens\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nLabour MP Stella Creasy also responded, tweeting that she hoped Ms Mordaunt would \"stand up to colleagues in government stopping reform of our UK abortion laws\".\n\nThe United Nations said in a report published in February that the UK frequently violated women's rights in Northern Ireland by restricting access to abortion.\n\nAnd Amnesty International, which campaigned for the yes vote in the Republic, said nearly \"three-quarters of people\" in Northern Ireland wanted to see a change in abortion laws.\n\nColm O'Gorman, of Amnesty International Ireland, told Radio 4's Today programme: \"It's entirely unacceptable that women and girls there still have to travel over to Britain to access abortion care.\"\n\nThe British Pregnancy Advisory Service, a charity which provides abortions, said the UK government \"cannot continue to try and absolve itself of their responsibility to these women\".\n\nClare Murphy, a director of the charity, said: \"While the government can say that abortion is a devolved issue, human rights are not, and the collapse of the NI Assembly means that the power to right this wrong lies solely in Westminster.\"\n\nThe best way to get news on the go", "Whether or not the talks will take place appears to be anyone's guess\n\nUS President Donald Trump says \"very productive talks\" have been held with North Korea on reinstating the summit with leader Kim Jong-un.\n\nIn a tweet, Mr Trump said the meeting could still take place on 12 June in Singapore \"and if necessary will be extended beyond that date\".\n\nHe cancelled the summit on Thursday, blaming the North's \"open hostility\".\n\nBut North Korea later appeared conciliatory, saying it was willing to talk \"at any time in any form\".\n\nShortly before Mr Trump's tweet, the South Korean presidency said it was thankful that the \"summit embers are not put out and it is coming back to life\".\n\nWhether or not the talks will take place in just over two weeks' time is, frankly, anyone's guess, the BBC's David Willis reports from Washington.\n\nSummit meetings of this kind usually involve months of detailed planning and some analysts have expressed disquiet that private discussion of policy differences appears to have been replaced by \"diplomacy by tweet\", our correspondent adds.\n\nPresident Moon Jae-in had earlier said he was \"very perplexed\" and that it was \"very regrettable\" that the summit was not going ahead.\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 summit planned for Singapore would have been the first time a sitting US president had met a North Korean leader.\n\nAlthough the precise agenda was unclear, it was expected that the two leaders would discuss ways of reducing tensions and denuclearising the Korean peninsula.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIt was South Korean officials who first informed the US earlier this year that Mr Kim was prepared to discuss potential nuclear disarmament.\n\nIn April, the leaders of both Koreas had a historic meeting at the border, promising to end hostilities and work towards the denuclearisation of the peninsula.\n\nUS Secretary of State Mike Pompeo visited North Korea for preliminary talks with Mr Kim and plans for the historic summit were announced.\n\nHowever, the North quickly became angered by comments from senior US officials who made comparisons with Libya. There, former leader Colonel Gaddafi gave up his nascent nuclear programme only for him to be killed by Western-backed rebels a few years later.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAfter some fiery North Korean rhetoric, Mr Trump announced the summit would not be held.\n\nBut the North's Vice-Foreign Minister, Kim Kye-gwan, then struck a more conciliatory tone, calling Mr Trump's decision \"unexpected\" and \"extremely regrettable\". He said Pyongyang was willing \"to sit face to face at any time\".\n\nEarlier on Friday, speaking to reporters outside the White House in Washington, the US president indicated that the summit could still be salvaged, saying: \"We're gonna see what happens. We're talking to them [North Korea] now. It was a very nice statement they put out.\"\n\nThe best way to get news on the go", "Which? said consumers had been let down by false speed claims for broadband services\n\nWhich? says many UK households get half the broadband speed they pay for.\n\nCustomers on a 38Mbps service received average speeds of 19Mbps, according to its findings, taken from 235,000 uses of its broadband speed checker tool.\n\nAnd those on super-fast packages of up to 200Mbps were on average only able to receive speeds of 52Mbps.\n\nFrom 23 May, broadband providers will no longer be able to advertise \"up to\" speeds unless that speed is received by 50% of their customers at peak times.\n\n\"This change in the rules is good news for customers who have been continuously let down by unrealistic adverts and broadband speeds that won't ever live up to expectations,\" said Alex Neill, Which?'s managing director of home services.\n\n\"We know that speed and reliability of service really matter to customers.\n\n\"And we will be keeping a close eye on providers to make sure they follow these new rules and finally deliver the service that people pay for.\"\n\nOthers felt that the changes, which were demanded following a study by the Advertising Standards Authority, did not go far enough.\n\nCityFibre is one of a handful of providers that want the ASA to ban providers from using the word \"fibre\" in adverts if the connections they offer partially rely on a copper connection from the street cabinet to the home.\n\nFounder and chief executive Greg Mesch said: \"Although we welcome the new rules on advertising speeds coming into force, the ASA hasn't gone far enough to stop consumers from being misled by broadband adverts.\n\n\"Fundamentally, the service you get is about more than speed, as capacity and reliability are now as just critical.\n\n\"The current rules do not distinguish how fibre and copper-based services are described, despite the experience they deliver being worlds apart.\"", "Five English pubs built after the Second World War have been given Grade II listed status by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport on the advice of Historic England.\n\nThe pubs are valued for their architecture and history, including one designed around the nursery rhyme \"This is the House that Jack Built\", and one themed around the Romans in Britain.\n\nTheir new listed status means they will receive special protection, so they can be enjoyed by current and future generations.\n\nIn post-war years, thousands of pubs were built in areas such as housing estates, next to shops, community halls, churches and in cities damaged by wartime bombing.\n\nFrom the 1960s onwards, themed pubs became increasingly popular.\n\nNewly-listed pub The Centurion in Bath was built in 1965 and features a large bronze figure of a Roman Centurion on its exterior and a statue of Julius Caesar in the lounge bar.\n\nThe building is a rectangular block of four floors, clad in reconstituted Bath stone, and retains many of its original fittings, including aluminium doors and rubber seals which formed part of a pressuring system to counteract draughts.\n\nThe Never Turn Back pub, built in 1957, is the only pub in the country with the name. It was chosen as a memorial to the Caister Lifeboat disaster of 1901 in which nine lifeboatmen died.\n\nThe pub's designer, AW Ecclestone, focused on using traditional materials like flint and cobbles, in a Moderne and Art Deco architecture styles that references its coastal location and association with the local lifeboat service.\n\nThe tower is designed to resemble a ship's wheelhouse and a lookout tower.\n\nEstate pub The Crumpled Horn in Swindon was built in 1975, designed by Roy Wilson-Smith and based on the theme of the nursery rhyme 'This is the House that Jack Built'.\n\nThe pub was built as an irregular eight-sided polygon and contains a single bar area with the layout of a spiralling \"nautilus shell\", reflecting the horn in the nursery rhyme the pub is named after.\n\nThe asymmetrical roof and ramshackle brickwork reflects the eccentric craftsmanship given by the architect.\n\nThe Wheatsheaf pub, built in 1970 under direction from pub designers John and Sylvia Reid, served the new residential estate Heatherside.\n\nThe stepped roof profile creates spaces filled with glazed panels, forming a series of windows at high level.\n\nToday the pub still has its 1970s features: woodwool ceiling panels, exposed brick, and quarry tiles.\n\nThe Queen Bess pub, named after a record-breaking blast furnace at the nearby Appleby-Frodingham steelworks, is one of the best-preserved surviving examples of a post-war pub built by a major brewery.\n\nBrewery Samuel Smith's of Tadcaster opened The Queen Bess in 1959 and designed the pub to be compatible with the new housing developments nearby.\n\nThe building has a modest exterior of brick, with a plain tile roof covering, designed to be compatible with the new housing developments nearby.\n\nThe pub retains a high proportion of original interior fixtures and fittings, including bar counters, back bars, fixed seating and door joinery and furniture.", "The government is considering sending hundreds more British troops to Afghanistan, the BBC understands.\n\nThe defence secretary has written to Theresa May recommending the UK boosts its military presence in the country - but no decision has been made.\n\nThe UK currently has more than 600 troops in capital Kabul helping train Afghan security forces.\n\nIt follows calls by US President Donald Trump and Nato for allies to join him in sending more troops to the country.\n\nBBC defence correspondent Jonathan Beale said he understood that Defence Secretary Gavin Williamson recommended sending up to 400 more army personnel into Afghanistan, joining the 600 already there training Afghan soldiers.\n\nThe UK troops would help train Afghan forces and not be in combat.\n\nAny announcement was likely to coincide with the Nato summit in July, our correspondent added.\n\nIn 2017, the US announced a plan to send in thousands more troops, which would bring the US total to about 15,000.\n\nIt is part of a strategy to help fight the Taliban and deal with the rising threat from the Islamic State group.\n\nThe last UK combat troops left Afghanistan in 2014 after being involved in the conflict since 2001.\n\nGeneral Sir Richard Barrons, a former commander of joint forces command who led campaigns in Afghanistan, said the UK \"has to recognise that the decision to leave in 2014... hasn't worked\".\n\nHe told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that the national army and air force in Afghanistan were \"not strong enough\" to defeat the Taliban alone.\n\nThe decision to increase troops would \"send an important message to our allies, and the Taliban,\" he added.\n\n\"The only way this war is going to end is when the Taliban realise they can't fight their way back to government. They have to resort to dialogue.\"\n\nIn a statement, the Ministry of Defence said the UK's military contribution was kept under constant review.\n\nIt said Britain's support to Afghanistan on security, development and governance was \"crucial to building a stable state and reducing the terrorist threat to the UK\".\n\nThe reports come as Ministry of Defence figures, published on Thursday, show the size of the Army is at its smallest for more than 200 years.\n\nThe UK's regular army has just over 77,000 troops - well short of its target strength of 82,000.\n\nAccording to Labour, the figures mark a \"shocking failure\" by the government to recruit and retain the personnel needed by the UK. But the MoD said it remains committed to ensuring Britain's Armed Forces have the right skills to face intensifying global threats.\n\nJonathan Beale said the struggle to fill ranks was due to factors including a pay freeze, the end of combat operations in Afghanistan and the Army's recruitment process, which has seen glitches and delays in its computer application system.", "The BBC meets couples across the UK sharing their big day with Harry and Meghan.", "On Saturday 19 May, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle will walk down the aisle. Test your knowledge of past royal weddings with our archive-inspired quiz.\n\nIf you cannot see the quiz, click here.\n\nFor the weekly news quiz, click here", "Police were called to the Crows Road/Harts Lane area of Barking\n\nA 24-year-old man has been stabbed to death in east London.\n\nPolice were called to Crows Road, Barking, at 23:31 BST on Thursday and found the injured victim.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police said: \"He was given first aid by officers prior to the arrival of paramedics but sadly was pronounced dead at the scene.\"\n\nFormal identification is still to take place but the victim's next of kin have been informed. No arrests have been made.\n\nLondon Mayor Sadiq Khan described the stabbing as \"devastating\" and said his thoughts are with the victim's friends and family.\n\n\"There is no honour in staying silent. To stop stabbings and violent crime, we must work together,\" he said.\n\nMP for Barking Dame Margaret Hodge offered her \"deepest condolences to the young man's family\" in a post on Twitter.\n\nThis year, the Met Police has recorded more than 60 murders, of which 39 involved knives and 10 involved guns.\n\nEarlier this month, an urgent investigation into the recent surge in violent crime in the capital was launched by members of the London Assembly.\n\nAnd on Tuesday, Metropolitan Police assistant commissioner Helen Ball told the assembly there were signs the increase in violent crime in London was \"stabilising\".\n\nMurder rates in April and May were \"considerably lower\" than in February and March, she said at a meeting of the Police and Crime Committee.\n\nThe Met Commissioner Cressida Dick said the murder rate in New York is now \"well ahead\" of London again.\n\nShe said there had been \"28 murders in 29 days\" in New York after a period when killings in London edged ahead of those in the US city.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The body of 85-year-old Rosina Coleman was found at her home in Romford\n\nA 65-year-old man has been arrested over the murder of an 85-year-old woman in her home in Romford.\n\nRosina Coleman was found beaten to death in Ashmour Gardens in Romford, east London, at about 11:30 BST on Tuesday.\n\nPolice described the killing as a \"cowardly assault\". A post mortem gave the cause of death as blunt force trauma to the head and neck.\n\nThe man was held on suspicion of murder at an address in Romford on Friday.\n\nPolice believe Mrs Coleman was attacked between 07:30 and 11:30 on 15 May.\n\nDet Ins Paul Considine said: \"Every fragment of information is beneficial to our investigation and it is imperative that we gather as much evidence as we can against the person responsible for this horrendous offence.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Ten people were killed and another 10 wounded when a gunman opened fire at Santa Fe High School in Texas. This is what happened.", "Sir Eric Pickles is among those going to the House of Lords\n\nDowning Street has nominated nine new Conservative peers, including a number of former ministers, to sit in the House of Lords.\n\nAmong those put forward for a peerage are former communities secretary Sir Eric Pickles and former trade and industry secretary Peter Lilley.\n\nThe move follows a series of government defeats in the Lords, where Theresa May does not have a majority, over Brexit.\n\nThe Democratic Unionists will get one new peer while Labour will get three.\n\nThe Lib Dems, which have more than 100 peers in the unelected chamber, said it was a \"desperate bid\" by Theresa May to quell opposition to her Brexit policy.\n\nThe full list of Conservative nominations is:\n\nAll six of the MPs on the list stood down at the 2015 and 2017 general elections. Of the former MPs nominated, Mr Lilley is the only prominent Brexiteer.\n\nThe government has suffered 15 defeats in the Lords during the passage of its flagship EU Withdrawal Bill, by majorities ranging from about 30 votes to more than 100.\n\nPeers have snubbed Theresa May by calling for negotiations on remaining within a customs union with the EU and staying within the European Economic Area.\n\nPeter Lilley and Sir Edward Garnier are among other Tory nominees\n\nThey could be asked to vote on these issues again if their amendments to the Bill are overturned by MPs.\n\nOther crucial Brexit legislation, relating to subjects such as trade and immigration, has yet to be considered by Parliament.\n\nAt the moment, 244 of the 780 peers in the House of Lords take the Conservative whip, more than any other party but well short of the number required to give the government a majority.\n\nAmanda Sater is a former Tory deputy chair and unsuccessful parliamentary candidate\n\nLabour leader Jeremy Corbyn has nominated the party's former longstanding general secretary Iain McNicol, veteran campaigner and ex-councillor Martha Osamor - whose daughter Kate is a member of the shadow cabinet - and socialist author and activist Pauline Bryan.\n\nThe list, which has to be approved by the Queen, is completed by former DUP MP Dr William McCrea, a Free Presbyterian minister who was MP for Mid Ulster between 1983 and 1997 and for South Antrim between 2000 and 2015.\n\nFriday's appointments have to be vetted by the House of Lords Appointments Commission although the body does not have the powers to reject individuals.\n\nSir Eric, a former leader of Bradford Council who served as MP for Brentwood and Ongar for 25 years and in the cabinet for five years, tweeted that he was \"looking forward to returning to Westminster\".\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\nLord Newby, the leader of the Lib Dems in the House of Lords, said it was a \"cynical response\" from the PM to losing a string of votes in recent weeks. \"The PM is running scared of the mounting criticism of her disastrous handling of Brexit,\" he said.\n\nThe PM has faced calls to limit the number of new peers she appoints amid anger at the size of the unelected chamber, which has 130 more members than the Commons.\n\nLord Fowler, the former Conservative cabinet minister who is now Lords Speaker, said he welcomed the PM's \"restraint\" in keeping numbers down - pointing out that 35 peers had either retired or died since the 2017 general election.\n\n\"The size of the House is falling, and our aim is to continue that progress,\" he said. \"The relatively modest size of today's list when compared with those under several previous prime ministers has demonstrated a welcome commitment to that pledge.\"", "The host of Catfish has been accused of sexual misconduct by someone who appeared on the show in 2015\n\nProduction of MTV show Catfish has been suspended following claims of sexual harassment against its host, Nev Schulman.\n\nThe allegations surfaced after a former participant on the show posted a YouTube video last week claiming she was harassed.\n\nNev denies the allegations, saying what he's been accused of \"did not happen\".\n\nIn a statement to the New York Daily News, MTV said it's conducting a \"thorough investigation\".\n\nFor those who don't watch the show, Catfish follows Nev Schulman as he investigates people using fake online profiles.\n\nHe's being accused of inappropriate conduct by a woman who appeared on the cyber-dating series in 2015.\n\nIn a YouTube video uploaded on 12 May, the woman claims Nev \"picked apart\" her sexuality as a lesbian and propositioned her for sex.\n\n\"The behaviour described in this video did not happen,\" Nev said in a statement.\n\n\"I'm fortunate that there are a number of former colleagues who were present during this time period who are willing to speak up with the truth.\n\n\"I have always been transparent about my life and would always take responsibility for my actions - but these claims are false,\" he added.\n\nNev originally shot to fame with his 2010 documentary Catfish.\n\nThe film follows Nev's story as he builds a relationship with a woman who uses fake social media profiles to interact with him.\n\nThe concept became the basis for the MTV reality show, which began in 2012. Its seventh season came out in January.\n\nMTV is working with third party production company Critical Content to investigate the claims against Nev Schulman.\n\nFilming is suspended until the investigation is completed.\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.", "Charlie Deutsch was found to be a little less than one and a half times the legal alcohol limit\n\nA top jockey who drove away from police at up to 114mph after a roadside breath test has been jailed for 10 months.\n\nThe drama unfolded when Charlie Deutsch, 21, was pulled over in Cheltenham after a night out in March.\n\nHe took six attempts to blow into a breathalyser before he was arrested, Gloucester Crown Court heard.\n\nAt this point Deutsch ran back to his Audi, which had other jockeys inside, and sped off. He was then pursued by police for nearly five miles.\n\nThe court heard how Sgt Marcus Forbes-George had tried to stop him at the roadside by smashing the driver's door to take the ignition key, and the officer hurt his arm during his attempt to immobilise the fleeing jockey.\n\nDeutsch's vehicle was eventually stopped with a stinger, the court heard.\n\nDuring the chase, in the early hours of 30 March, he drove the wrong way around a roundabout and on the wrong side of the road.\n\nDeutsch (in red), who has ridden 90 winners as a jump jockey, fell at Becher's Brook in this year's Grand National\n\nThe jockey, from Beckford Road in Tewkesbury, pleaded guilty to dangerous driving while over the legal alcohol limit and escaping from police custody.\n\nIn mitigation, the court was told by Deutsch's lawyer he was a \"sensible young man\" who had \"done something remarkably stupid\".\n\nSentencing the young horseman, Recorder James Watson QC told him his conduct had been \"outrageous\".\n\n\"Those who resist arrest involving violent struggles and cause injury to police officers must not expect a custodial sentence to be suspended,\" he said.\n\nDeutsch, who fell while riding Houblon Des Obeaux in this Year's Grand National, was also disqualified from driving for 17 months.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Student Rome Shubert, who pitches on the school's baseball team and has already committed to playing for the University of Texas in the autumn, was injured in today's attack.\n\nHe told the Houston Chronicle that the bullet \"missed everything vital\".\n\n\"I was just scared for my life and my adrenaline was so high I had no idea I was shot,\" he said.\n\n\"I was sitting doing my work and he walked in, tossed something on the desks behind me,\" he told the paper \"and then three loud pops and I jumped under my table and flipped it in front of me and I guess he ran out in the hall and I took off out the back door and when I was running I realised I was shot in the back of my head.\"", "Those behind the call were disappointed but not surprised when it failed\n\nGuernsey's government has rejected proposals that may have seen assisted dying legalised in the future.\n\nHad it been approved, the island could have become the first place in the British Isles to allow assisted dying.\n\nAfter a three-day debate, the proposals were rejected.\n\nThe plans would have prompted a lengthy consultation period before a legal framework was presented back to the island's politicians.\n\nHowever, politicians did agree to a review of palliative and end-of-life care due to an anticipated \"substantial increase\" in healthcare needs for the island's ageing population.\n\n\"Measures necessary to improve quality of life and health outcomes for all islanders towards the end of their lives\" will be investigated.\n\nPoliticians who supported the introduction of assisted dying said they were \"disappointed\" with the result, although described it as \"not entirely unexpected\".\n\nSarah Wootton, chief executive of Dignity in Dying which campaigns for assisted dying in the UK, said despite the defeat the debate had shown there was \"immense public support for change\".\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\nCommenting on social media, Sarah Griffith who runs the charity Bridge2 in Guernsey, said she would be becoming a member of Dignitas as a result of the vote, adding \"I was hoping I would not have to make that decision but now I have to.\"\n\nShe added that it was a shame it had taken assisted dying proposals to prompt the States of Guernsey to improve its palliative care programme.\n\nAnti-euthanasia campaign group Care Not Killing said it welcomed the \"powerful rejection\" of the proposals.\n\nThe group's campaign director Dr Peter Saunders described the plans for assisted dying as \"dangerous\" and said island politicians had recognised \"the erosion of so called safeguards\" in other places which had allowed assisted dying, including the US.\n\nDeputy Gavin St Pier, the island's most senior politician and champion of the proposals, said: \"The important thing is we've brought this topic up the agenda, it hasn't been debated (in Guernsey) for 14 years, we've now had a debate, a conclusion has been reached - we accept that result.\"\n\nHeidi Soulsby, president of the Committee for Health and Social Care, said although rejecting the proposals was right, she does not know anyone who would be \"pleased\" with the result of the emotive debate.\n\nDuring the debate she said she was sure an assisted dying regime \"would eventually come to pass\" in the island, but now was not the time.\n\nThe best way to get news on the go \n\n\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "John Bercow has been Speaker since 2009\n\nCommons Speaker John Bercow has acknowledged that \"strong and differing views were expressed\" in the House of Commons, after claims he called a cabinet minister \"a stupid woman\".\n\nThe Daily Telegraph reported he made the comments about Commons Leader Andrea Leadsom under his breath.\n\nMr Bercow's office said it would not comment on \"suggested accounts of private conversations\".\n\nNo 10 said the remarks, if proven to be true, would be \"unacceptable\".\n\nDowning Street said that if an official complaint was made, it should be properly investigated.\n\nMrs Leadsom said, in her role as the government's representative in Parliament, she was focused on ensuring that \"anyone who is bullied or treated unfairly\" was \"able to come forward and have their concerns and complaints dealt with in a rigorous and fair manner\".\n\nBBC political correspondent Alex Forsyth said the allegations would add to pressure on Mr Bercow following allegations of bullying from former members of staff, which he has denied.\n\nThe story in the Telegraph and the Sun suggests Mr Bercow muttered insults under his breath following prime minister's questions on Wednesday.\n\nAsked to respond, the Speaker's office said: \"Wednesday was an unusual and controversial day in how business was handled in the House by the government and some strong and differing views were expressed on all sides on the subject.\n\nMs Leadsom is in charge of scheduling government business in the Commons\n\n\"The Speaker treats his colleagues with respect and strives at every turn to facilitate the House of Commons.\"\n\nOn Wednesday, the Commons Standards Committee voted against an investigation by Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards Kathryn Stone into the allegations of bullying made against Mr Bercow.\n\nThe Speaker's former private secretary, Angus Sinclair, has said Mr Bercow shouted and swore at him, and attempted to physically intimidate him.\n\nAllegations have also been made about Mr Bercow's behaviour towards Kate Emms, who worked as his private secretary in 2010-2011.\n\nIn recent weeks Mr Bercow has faced calls to resign because of allegations of bullying staff who worked for him; they are claims he has firmly denied.\n\nBut separately there is talk in Westminster about how long he'll stay on in the job. That's because when he was voted into the post in June 2009, Mr Bercow said he'd do the role for no more than nine years.\n\nHis critics are quick to point out that date is fast approaching. Added together, it all means questions are being asked about when exactly he will go.\n\nIn reality, it is very difficult to force the Speaker out. Unless they go voluntarily it would likely come down to a case of whether or not the individual maintains the confidence of MPs.\n\nIt means if they weren't shamed into walking, a critical mass of MPs backing a motion of no confidence would be needed to see them go. It's not clear at this stage that Mr Bercow is under that kind of threat.\n\nA spokesman for Mr Bercow has said there is \"no substance\" to these allegations.\n\nMr Bercow's alleged comments about Mrs Leadsom came following a row between Labour and ministers over the scheduling of a Commons statement on the state takeover of the East Coast Main Line rail franchise.\n\nLabour complained to Mr Bercow that the statement had been deliberately scheduled to limit time for its own \"opposition day\" debates on the legacy of the Grenfell Tower fire and the release of Brexit documents.\n\nIn response, Mr Bercow chided Mrs Leadsom and Transport Secretary Chris Grayling, saying nothing would stop him from upholding the rights of backbenchers to hold the government to account.\n\nAs Commons leader, Mrs Leadsom is responsible for scheduling government business in the Commons.\n\nSome Labour MPs, including veteran Barry Sheerman, have come to the defence of the Speaker, arguing that ministers were to blame for breaching parliamentary protocol.\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 Bercow claims 'concerning', says No 10", "Prince Charles will walk Meghan Markle down the aisle on Saturday when she marries Prince Harry, Kensington Palace has said.\n\nMs Markle's father, Thomas, is unable to attend the wedding, after undergoing heart surgery.\n\nThe Prince of Wales was \"pleased to be able to welcome Ms Markle to the Royal Family in this way\", the palace added.\n\nPrince Harry's grandfather, the Duke of Edinburgh, will also attend the wedding, Buckingham Palace confirmed.\n\nPrince Philip, 96, has been recovering from a hip operation.\n\nMs Markle's mother, Doria Ragland, will take her daughter to the wedding at St George's Chapel in Windsor.\n\nMs Ragland has arrived at Windsor Castle to meet the Queen for the first time, accompanied by Ms Markle, 36, and Prince Harry, 33.\n\nShe has already been introduced to Prince Charles and the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge.\n\nThe ceremony begins at 12:00 BST and will be broadcast to the world.\n\nThe Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, who will marry the prince and Ms Markle, said he thought it was \"wonderful\" Prince Charles will walk Ms Markle down the aisle.\n\n\"He's a very warm person and that he's doing this is a sign of his love and concern and support,\" he said.\n\nPrince Harry and Meghan Markle arrive at Windsor Castle a day before their wedding to meet the Queen\n\nMr Markle had been due to arrive in the UK earlier this week, but became caught up in controversy over the apparent staging of photographs with the paparazzi.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC from Windsor, American celebrity news site TMZ's Sean Mandell said he had spoken to Mr Markle on Wednesday and that he was \"doing well\" and \"recovering from surgery\".\n\nMr Mandell - who broke the story - said Mr Markle realised on Tuesday that he would not be travelling to Windsor.\n\n\"Chest pains were really being exacerbated by the emotional strain he was under,\" he said.\n\n\"When doctors told him he needed to have surgery, he decided he needed to heed that advice, despite the fact he wanted to be here in Windsor for Meghan.\"\n\n\"He definitely feels he's been mis-characterised,\" Mr Mandell added. \"That's why he felt the need to speak out when I reached him.\"\n\nMs Markle released a statement on Thursday saying she hoped her father could be given space to focus on his health.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. TMZ's Sean Mandell says Thomas Markle thinks \"news reports are not accurate\"\n\nMs Markle's mother met William and Catherine and their eldest children, Prince George and Princess Charlotte, at Windsor Castle on Thursday afternoon.\n\nShe took tea with Prince Charles and Camilla at Clarence House in London on Wednesday.\n\nMs Markle's mother, Doria Ragland (left) had been rumoured to be walking her daughter down the aisle\n\nMs Markle will have 10 bridesmaids and pageboys, who are all under the age of eight.\n\nShe decided against having a maid of honour, saying she wanted to avoid choosing between her closest friends.\n\nThe two women, dressed in union jack gear, summed up the mood for one of the many TV crews.\n\n\"Excited, excited, excited is what we are!\" they said.\n\nBehind them, the castle; in front of them, a line of shops that, for the past few days, have been bound together by bunting.\n\nOn top of the stores, lucky residents sit beside open windows, drinks in hand, looking at the view that many have been camping out for: the road leading to the castle gate.\n\nOther buildings have bright lights and correspondents' backs lining their balconies. On a sunny day, the lights seem unexpectedly stark.\n\nAll eyes peer inside every car that drives by, looking for - hoping for - a glimpse of the royal couple.\n\nIn front of the castle, two women take a defiant selfie - despite the best efforts of an officer. \"Keep it moving please!\" he says.\n\nMs Markle will spend her last night before the wedding with her mother at the luxury Cliveden House Hotel, in Buckinghamshire, about nine miles north of Windsor Castle.\n\nPrince Harry will be staying 15 miles away at the Dorchester Collection's Coworth Park in Ascot, with his brother, the Duke of Cambridge.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIn Windsor, royal fans have been arriving throughout the week, with the rehearsal of the carriage procession on Thursday drawing hundreds of children, parents and pets keen to embrace the party mood.\n\nAbout 250 members of the armed forces are expected to take part on Saturday and up to 100,000 people are expected to line the procession route.\n\nThe finishing touches, including a white, elderflower Swiss meringue buttercream, are being applied to the wedding cake.\n\nThames Valley Police has said it expects the town to be full to capacity by 09:00.\n\nFull coverage of the day will be on BBC One from 09:00-14:00 on Saturday and streamed live on the BBC News website or on BBC iPlayer.\n\nThe best way to get news on the go", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nFinal preparations are taking place on the eve of Saturday's royal wedding between Prince Harry and Meghan Markle.\n\nMs Markle's mother, Doria Ragland, will meet the Queen for the first time at Windsor Castle later, accompanied by her daughter and future son-in-law.\n\nMs Ragland has already been introduced to some of the Windsors - including Prince Charles and Prince William.\n\nIt remains unclear who will walk Ms Markle down the aisle of St George's Chapel, as her father will not attend.\n\nThe ceremony begins at 12:00 BST and will be broadcast to the world.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. TMZ's Sean Mandell says Thomas Markle thinks \"news reports are not accurate\"\n\nMs Markle, 36, released a statement on Thursday confirming her father would not attend her wedding to Prince Harry, 33, and said she hoped he could be given space to focus on his health.\n\nSean Mandell, from US celebrity news website TMZ, was the reporter who broke the news about Thomas Markle not attending the wedding.\n\nHaving spoken to Mr Markle on Wednesday, he said he was \"doing well\" and \"recovering from surgery\".\n\nFurther details on the wedding cake have been revealed.\n\nIts baker, Claire Ptak said it would be presented in a \"non-traditional\" way, displayed in a special \"installation\".\n\nThe layered lemon and elderflower cake will be served to 600 guests at the afternoon reception at Windsor Castle.\n\nThe cake is being decorated with a white, elderflower Swiss meringue buttercream\n\nThe owner of Violet Bakery in east London described the cake as \"a slight shift from tradition\".\n\nShe has been baking with the help of a team of six people for five days in the Buckingham Palace kitchens.\n\nSome 200 Amalfi lemons are being used in the recipe, as well as 10 bottles of cordial made using elderflower from the Queen's Sandringham estate.\n\nShe has not made a back up cake in case of a disaster - \"It's cake. It can't go that wrong,\" she said.\n\nMs Markle's mother, Doria Ragland (left) could walk her daughter down the aisle on Saturday\n\nOther members of the Royal Family are also in Windsor ahead of the wedding, including the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and Prince of Wales and Duchess of Cornwall.\n\nMs Markle's mother met William and Catherine and their eldest children, Prince George and Princess Charlotte, at Windsor Castle on Thursday afternoon.\n\nShe took tea with Prince Charles and Camilla at Clarence House in London on Wednesday.\n\n\"I have always been a daddy's girl,\" Ms Markle has said of her dad, Thomas\n\nThomas Markle's absence leaves a question mark over who will walk Ms Markle down the aisle.\n\nHer mother is one option; Harry's father, Prince Charles, is another - or she could choose to walk alone.\n\nMr Markle had been due to arrive in the UK in the days before the wedding but became caught up in controversy over the apparent staging of photographs with the paparazzi.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC from Windsor, TMZ's Sean Mandell said it became clear for Mr Markle that he would not be travelling to Windsor on Tuesday.\n\n\"Chest pains were really being exacerbated by the emotional strain he was under,\" he said. \"When doctors told him he needed to have surgery, he decided he needed to heed that advice, despite the fact he wanted to be here in Windsor for Meghan.\"\n\n\"He definitely feels he's been miss-characterised,\" Mr Mandell added. \"That's why he felt the need to speak out when I reached him.\"\n\nMs Markle will have 10 bridesmaids and pageboys, who are all under the age of eight.\n\nShe decided against having a maid of honour, saying she wanted to avoid choosing between her closest friends.\n\nMs Markle will spend her last night before the wedding with her mother at the luxury Cliveden House Hotel, in Buckinghamshire, about nine miles north of Windsor Castle.\n\nPrince Harry will be staying 15 miles away at the Dorchester Collection's Coworth Park in Ascot, with his brother, the Duke of Cambridge.\n\nThe sun was shining for the rehearsal of the carriage procession\n\nThe rehearsal of the carriage procession in Windsor on Thursday drew hundreds of children, parents and pets keen to embrace the party mood.\n\nIt went largely without a hitch - although some horses were seen veering out of line.\n\nThe Royal couple were seen being driven along the procession route, accompanied by a police escort.\n\nAbout 250 members of the armed forces are expected to take part on Saturday and up to 100,000 people are expected to travel to Windsor to line the route.\n\nThames Valley Police has said it expects the town to be full to capacity by 09:00 BST.\n\nThe rehearsal in Windsor drew hundreds of people keen to get into the party mood early\n\nFull coverage of the day will be on BBC One from 09:00-14:00 BST on Saturday and streamed live on the BBC News website or on BBC iPlayer.\n\nWith just one day to go, BBC Weather is forecasting a sunny, breezy day with temperatures reaching 21C (70F) in the late afternoon.\n\nThe best way to get news on the go", "LGIM's Helena Morrissey says the fund \"empowers us all to use our money to help firms to progress\"\n\nThe first investment fund aimed at encouraging gender diversity among UK firms has been launched by Legal and General Investment Management (LGIM).\n\nThe L&G Future World Gender in Leadership UK Index Fund (GIRL) will favour shares in firms that have the best record on gender diversity.\n\nIt will score and rank companies according to four different measures, including women on the board.\n\nOnly one of the UK's biggest 350 firms achieved full marks for diversity.\n\nRenewables Infrastructure Group, the investment specialist, achieved a top score of 100 for the number of women on its board, among its executives, in management and in the workforce.\n\nCompanies are expected to reach a minimum of 30% representation of women in these four measures, said LGIM.\n\nOther companies in the index, which was devised by LGIM, to score 85 or above were Merlin Entertainments, information company Ascential, JD Williams-owner N Brown, Next and Marks & Spencer.\n\nLGIM said the fund was expected to \"raise gender diversity standards in companies across the UK equity market, by allocating more to companies that have achieved higher levels of gender diversity\".\n\n\"The fund aims to empower investors to make a difference to the companies in which they invest and wider society,\" it added.\n\nHelena Morrissey, head of personal investing at LGIM, \"Gender inequality is one of the key issues of our time - and one that generates so much frustration.\n\n\"Rather than feeling trapped or despondent, let's do something about it. I'm excited about the launch of the GIRL Fund, which empowers us all to use our money to help companies to progress.\n\n\"When we invest in the success of women, we are investing in the success of business. Collectively, we can help achieve gender equality and improve gender diversity in the UK,\" she added.\n\nLGIM will put £50m of its own money into the fund, which will be open to both institutional and retail investors.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prince Harry meets the crowds in Windsor and Meghan Markle arrives at her hotel\n\nPrince Harry was greeted with shouts of \"good luck!\" from well-wishers as he carried out a surprise walkabout in Windsor on the eve of his wedding.\n\nWith his brother and best man Prince William, he spent nearly 10 minutes chatting to the crowds.\n\nJust before he went back into Windsor Castle, he was asked how he was feeling and said: \"Relaxed, of course.\"\n\nMeanwhile, Meghan Markle and her mother, Doria Ragland, arrived at nearby Cliveden House Hotel.\n\nAs she arrived at the hotel following tea with the Queen, Ms Markle said she was feeling \"wonderful\" on the eve of her wedding.\n\nDuring his walkabout, Prince Harry asked people where they were from, and whether they had been waiting long. He was also given a small teddy bear as a gift.\n\nAs he returned to Windsor Castle, the prince spotted his friend, Dean Stott - a former special forces soldier who trained with him for six weeks in 2007 - in the crowd.\n\nThe 41-year-old, who had just returned from a 14,000-mile Pan American Highway cycling trip to attend the wedding, said the prince told him he was \"looking skinny\" as he had lost weight.\n\n\"If he (Prince Harry) is nervous, he's hiding it very well,\" Mr Stott said.\n\nEarlier, Kensington Palace said Prince Charles will walk Ms Markle down the aisle on Saturday.\n\nMs Markle's father, Thomas, is unable to attend the wedding, after undergoing heart surgery.\n\nThe Prince of Wales was \"pleased to be able to welcome Ms Markle to the Royal Family in this way\", the palace added.\n\nPrince Harry's grandfather, the Duke of Edinburgh, will also attend the wedding, Buckingham Palace confirmed.\n\nPrince Philip, 96, has been recovering from a hip operation.\n\nMeghan Markle and her mother, Doria Ragland, arrived at Cliveden House Hotel after meeting the Queen\n\nPrince Harry gave a thumbs up to the crowd\n\nPrince William accompanied Prince Harry on the walkabout in Windsor\n\nMs Markle's mother, Doria Ragland, will take her daughter to the wedding at St George's Chapel in Windsor.\n\nMs Ragland met the Queen for the first time at Windsor Castle, accompanied by Ms Markle, 36, and Prince Harry, 33.\n\nShe has already been introduced to Prince Charles and the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge.\n\nThe ceremony begins at 12:00 BST and will be broadcast to the world.\n\nThe Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, who will marry the prince and Ms Markle, said he thought it was \"wonderful\" Prince Charles will walk Ms Markle down the aisle.\n\n\"He's a very warm person and that he's doing this is a sign of his love and concern and support,\" he said.\n\nPrince Harry and Meghan Markle arrive at Windsor Castle a day before their wedding to meet the Queen\n\nMr Markle had been due to arrive in the UK earlier this week, but became caught up in controversy over the apparent staging of photographs with the paparazzi.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC from Windsor, American celebrity news site TMZ's Sean Mandell said he had spoken to Mr Markle on Wednesday and that he was \"doing well\" and \"recovering from surgery\".\n\nMr Mandell - who broke the story - said Mr Markle realised on Tuesday that he would not be travelling to Windsor.\n\n\"Chest pains were really being exacerbated by the emotional strain he was under,\" he said.\n\n\"When doctors told him he needed to have surgery, he decided he needed to heed that advice, despite the fact he wanted to be here in Windsor for Meghan.\"\n\nMs Markle released a statement on Thursday saying she hoped her father could be given space to focus on his health.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. TMZ's Sean Mandell says Thomas Markle thinks \"news reports are not accurate\"\n\nMs Markle's mother met William and Catherine and their eldest children, Prince George and Princess Charlotte, at Windsor Castle on Thursday afternoon.\n\nShe took tea with Prince Charles and Camilla at Clarence House in London on Wednesday.\n\nMs Markle's mother, Doria Ragland (left) had been rumoured to be walking her daughter down the aisle\n\nMs Markle will have 10 bridesmaids and pageboys, who are all under the age of eight.\n\nShe decided against having a maid of honour, saying she wanted to avoid choosing between her closest friends.\n\nGeoffrey Somers, from Gent in Belgium, shared this selfie with Prince Harry\n\nDuring the walkabout, lucky royal fan Jane Toffolo not only spoke to Prince William - but found herself a new job.\n\nAs Prince Harry shook as many hands as he could, greeting well-wishers who had camped out since Tuesday, his elder brother had a cheeky request for Jane.\n\n\"He said he was after a new babysitter and asked if we could do it - he said it to all of us,\" Jane recounted afterwards.\n\nAnd what did she reply? \"Of course!\"\n\nRick Dormer and Nicola Dormer from Salisbury stood next to a young royal fan, also called William, who spoke at length to Prince William - and got a royal high five.\n\n\"When Prince William found out the young boy's name was also William, he said 'well you're the most important person here!'\" said Mrs Dormer.\n\nMs Markle will spend her last night before the wedding with her mother at Cliveden House Hotel, which is in Buckinghamshire, about nine miles north of Windsor Castle.\n\nPrince Harry will be staying 15 miles away at the Dorchester Collection's Coworth Park in Ascot, with his brother.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nUp to 100,000 people are expected to line the procession route on Saturday. Thames Valley Police has said it expects the town to be full to capacity by 09:00.\n\nFull coverage of the day will be on BBC One from 09:00-14:00 on Saturday and streamed live on the BBC News website or on BBC iPlayer.\n\nThe best way to get news on the go", "Since their first public appearance in September, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have undertaken numerous royal engagements.\n\nHere are some moments you might have missed.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nCharlotte Hogg has spoken of learning lessons after the \"mistake\" that ended her career at the Bank of England.\n\nA former deputy governor - and tipped to take the top job - she says in her first interview that the experience made her a \"different kind of leader\".\n\nShe left the bank for not declaring her brother was a senior executive at Barclays, something that might be perceived as a conflict of interest.\n\nIt was a difficult time and \"I wouldn't wish it on anybody\", she told the BBC.\n\nSince her resignation in March 2017, Ms Hogg has remained out of the public eye.\n\nIn the interview Ms Hogg reveals she has learned lessons from the \"mistake\", and argues it is important that people are allowed to move on after making errors - and still be successful.\n\n\"I wouldn't wish it on anybody, but there are many worse things that happen to us in life,\" Ms Hogg, who is now the chief executive of Visa Europe, told me.\n\n\"I think all the experiences one goes through in life, you learn something from.\n\n\"When something very difficult happens and you are enormously well supported by your colleagues who are wonderful and also by your friends, that enables you to bounce back.\n\n\"I think it also has made me a different kind of leader in the organisation I'm in today.\n\n\"I hope it makes me a more positive one actually, because when something bad happens and you bounce back you see the possibilities in life and that's a wonderful place to be.\n\n\"The other thing is whenever I see someone going through a rough time, I try to reach out.\n\n\"I hoped I did it before, but I'm pretty certain I'd do it every time now.\"\n\nMs Hogg repeated her apology from her resignation letter which was published at the time she quit.\n\n\"I think I've said everything I needed to when I resigned but I apologise for the mistake I made and I apologised to my colleagues and you know, we all moved on,\" she said.\n\n\"I owned up to having made a mistake and I set the bar for what I thought the consequences of that should be.\"\n\nHer departure was a blow for the governor, Mark Carney, and his drive for a more diverse bank.\n\nThe Monetary Policy Committee, the Bank's interest rate setting body of which she was a member, now has only one woman among its nine rate setters.\n\nAnd earlier this week Ben Broadbent, one of the four male deputy governors at the Bank, apologised after describing the economy as \"menopausal\", a word he admitted had ageist and sexist overtones.\n\nAt the time of her resignation, George Osborne, the former chancellor, asked whether a senior male executive at the Bank would have been treated the same way if he failed to register that his sister worked in the financial services sector.\n\n\"I don't think it profits anybody, or it certainly doesn't profit me, to think about that,\" she replied.\n\n\"It's more how do you set the rules for yourself and how do you live by them, and how do you learn from that, and I'm very happy to be where I am.\"\n\nI asked Ms Hogg what message she might give her 20-year-old-self - and younger women now just starting their careers.\n\n\"We need to give women in our society the opportunity to contribute in any way they want, whether it's financial services or in schools,\" she said.\n\n\"And if by seeing one person who's gone through a bit of a bump, but has learnt through that, helps them to find whatever their path is in life, then that would be a good thing.\n\n\"I doubt any of us could look through all of our lives and say that it's entirely without mistakes, or could we say that those mistakes haven't helped us to grow perhaps more than things that have gone well for us.\"\n\nMs Hogg said that Visa - which has a gender pay gap of 10%, low compared with many banks for example - has made improving diversity a key challenge.\n\n\"As a leader of Visa, I want it to be a more diverse organisation.\n\n\"It already is - last year it was 25% senior women, today it's 33% and we're going up from there.\n\n\"It's not just about gender, it's about all forms of opinion and all forms of protected characteristics, but it's a good start, so I think I have a responsibility and I hope I live up to that.\"", "The two leaders are due to meet in Singapore on 12 June\n\nNorth Korea is making its demands clear. This has very little to do with military drills and more to do with the Sunday talk shows in the US during which John Bolton, President Donald Trump's national security adviser, and Mike Pompeo, the secretary of state, outlined what might be on offer if Kim Jong-un gave up his nuclear weapons.\n\nThe North Koreans have been watching and they do not like what they have heard.\n\nThe whole reason the state has spent years building up a nuclear arsenal, at such a great cost, is for survival.\n\nSo to compare denuclearisation in North Korea with Libya - as John Bolton did on Sunday - is not going to offer much comfort. The regime collapsed and its leader did not survive.\n\nThe root of the problem is one of language and interpretation.\n\nFor months, the world has heard that North Korea is willing to denuclearise and many analysts in South Korea raised their eyebrows.\n\nThey warned that there was a gap between what the US and North Korea would mean by that.\n\nAmerica wants North Korea to give up its weapons over a set period of time and only then will it be given economic rewards.\n\nThey also want the process to be quick, perhaps over a couple of years.\n\nNorth Korea's definition of denuclearisation is very different. It has always talked in terms of the entire peninsula.\n\nThat means the US has to act too - perhaps cutting the number of troops based in South Korea or also getting rid of the nuclear umbrella it uses to protect the region. If the state is going to give up its weapons it will also want security guarantees\n\nGo Myong-Hyun from the Asan Institute thinks Donald Trump has \"finally met his match\" when it comes to geopolitical negotiations.\n\n\"The US appears to have been coming up with additional and more stringent demands that North Korea didn't like. What they're saying is if you keep giving demands that we don't like, we are willing to walk way.\"\n\nThere are, however, signs some sort of a deal can still be done.\n\nJohn Delury, professor of history at Yonsei University, is optimistic. He described this as a \"hiccup\" but believes the situation could be defused with the right message.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Why North Korea is angry at this man\n\n\"North Korea didn't say it wasn't going to give up its nukes. It said we are not going to denuclearise if you're going to hold a gun to our head. They're not going to give up this deterrent for nothing. They're saying this process is going to have to be reciprocal and you're going to have to do stuff just like we do stuff.\"\n\nThis announcement is a warning shot to the Trump administration.\n\nNorth Korea is obviously aware how much President Trump wants this summit, as Go Myong-Hyun points out.\n\n\"He's been spending a couple of weeks taking credit for the positive outcome. North Korea has realised President Trump's political capital is invested in this. Another way of putting it is he is trapped in this process. If President Trump doesn't stop making demands and not offering anything in return then he's going to lose his summit.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un: From enemies to frenemies\n\nThe \"taking credit' part has also irritated Pyongyang. There were signs of it during the US secretary of state's latest visit to the North Korean capital.\n\nAt one point, a senior official turned to Mike Pompeo after a warm toast and reminded him that this process had not come about due to the Trump administration's maximum pressure strategy or sanctions.\n\nThe release of three Americans from prison was a major concession by North Korea\n\nNorth Korea wants the world to know that it is coming to the negotiating table from a position of strength. It may also feel that it is making all the concessions.\n\nIt has suspended all missile tests and released the three US detainees. Kim Jong-un met President Moon and the pair signed a declaration, and they are about to dismantle a nuclear test site in front of international media.\n\nSo to hear the Trump administration claiming credit for a deal it does not like has been a step too far.\n\nMany will say this move is straight out the Pyongyang playbook. That North Korea has a history of walking away from talks and deals. It does. It also has a lot more experience at this kind of diplomacy than the current US administration.\n\nThe development will hand sceptics more ammunition to say that this time is not different, as so many had hoped. And that after all the smiles and handshakes and walks in the garden with President Moon, Kim Jong-un remains untrustworthy.\n\nThat makes the next few steps even more difficult. South Korea and the US must decide how to respond.\n\nDo they cave in and offer a concession? Perhaps scale down the military exercises? Or do they tough this one out and hope Kim Jong-un wants this historic summit with the US president just as much as the other way around?", "Corey (left) and Casper Platt-May were described by Corey's head teacher as \"lovely boys\"\n\nThe father of two boys killed in a hit-and-run crash in Coventry has been found dead in a hotel in Greece.\n\nReece Platt-May's body was discovered on the island of Corfu in the early hours of Thursday. His death is not being treated as suspicious.\n\nCasper Platt-May, two, and his brother Corey, six, were struck while on their way to a park by a speeding driver high on cocaine in February.\n\nRobert Brown, 53, was jailed for nine years last month.\n\nRobert Brown and Gwendoline Harrison showed no emotion as they were sentenced\n\nIn a statement, West Midlands Police said: \"Mr Platt-May was found dead in a hotel room in Corfu, Greece, during the early hours of Thursday 17 May.\n\n\"His death is not being treated as suspicious.\n\n\"His family has been notified and the matter will be passed to the coroner.\n\n\"Our condolences go to the family who have asked for the media to respect their privacy at this difficult time.\"\n\nCanon Katherine Fleming led a memorial service for the boys at Coventry Cathedral on 19 March.\n\nShe told the BBC Mr Platt-May was \"very natural talking about his children. He and their mum were sharing stories and bringing them back to life in those stories\".\n\n\"It was obvious there was so much love there,\" she added.\n\nWarwick Crown Court heard Brown had 30 previous convictions for driving without a licence or insurance.\n\nGwendoline Harrison, 42, of Triumph Close, Wyken, who was a passenger in the car, was sentenced to six months' imprisonment.\n\nShe had admitted a charge of assault intending to resist arrest and trying to leave the scene when she \"knew two children lay dying\".\n\nJurors heard how the boys were crossing Longfellow Road when they were hit by Brown, with Corey being thrown into the air by the impact of the collision.\n\nIn court Mr Platt-May had to read his emotional wife's statement which read: \"I can't work, my heart is broken, and time will never heal this. I will miss them forever. This monstrous act will haunt me.\"\n\nA request has been made to the Attorney General's office asking for Brown's sentence to be considered under the unduly lenient sentence scheme.\n\nThe scene of the crash was \"like a bomb had gone off\", the boys' grandfather said\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Like many couples tying the knot, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle asked well-wishers to donate to charity, instead of sending gifts.\n\nBut, more unusually, everything from mugs and biscuit tins to swimsuits and candles has been made in honour of this couple's big day.\n\nSo Reality Check wants to know - how much do we spend on souvenirs for big royal occasions?\n\nThe prince and Ms Markle are to marry in Windsor, and visitors from around the world, as well as the UK and US, are expected to travel to the town to wish the couple well. The wedding has already been attracting global attention.\n\nAccording to the Centre for Retail Research, an estimated £30m will be spent on memorabilia (including overseas sales) in the run-up to the royal wedding.\n\nThis estimate is based on a survey of 1,200 UK shoppers, with results analysed by retailers and suppliers of memorabilia.\n\nThe bride and groom have also approved a range of official merchandise, produced and sold by the Royal Collection Trust.\n\nThe decorative border on Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's official china is inspired by the ironwork of the Gilebertus door of St George's Chapel, where they will be married.\n\nIn spring 2011, when the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge married, more than 190,000 items of wedding-related merchandise were sold, according to the Royal Collection Trust, worth almost £4m.\n\nThat was followed by the Queen celebrating her Diamond Jubilee, and by the end of the 2011-12 financial year, the Royal Collection Trust had sold 60,000 items of memorabilia. In both cases, commemorative china - manufactured in Stoke-on-Trent - was the most popular in the collection.\n\nThe numbers show that spending on royal merchandise has increased in recent years.\n\nIn 2006-07, retail sales were £9.1m, which had more than doubled by 2016-17, when sales were over £19m.\n\nOver that same time period, visitors to the royal properties - including Windsor Castle, Buckingham Palace and Holyrood Palace - grew from 2 million to 2.7 million.\n\nA younger generation of royals has taken centre stage over the past decade, from the wedding of Prince William and Catherine to the birth of three royal babies and the wedding of Prince Harry and Ms Markle.\n\nBut experts say that memorabilia is now just that - for the memories. Because it is now mass-produced, the collectables won't be as valuable in the foreseeable future.\n\n\"To be valuable, it has to have age or be rare or personal,\" says Roo Irvine, a BBC antiques expert.\n\n\"Each item used to be handmade and hand-painted - it told the story of someone in that time.\n\n\"Now, because it's mass-produced, it's more like royal merchandise than memorabilia. People collect it because they have a love for the Royal Family.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA woman has been cleared of murdering her former partner in an acid attack which led him to end his life.\n\nBerlinah Wallace, 48, hurled the corrosive fluid at Dutch engineer Mark van Dongen in Bristol in 2015.\n\nFifteen months later he ended his life by euthanasia in a Belgian hospital. He was paralysed from the neck down and had lost a leg, ear and eye.\n\nAt Bristol Crown Court, Wallace was found guilty of throwing a corrosive substance with intent.\n\nThe fashion student, originally from South Africa, was cleared by the jury of both murder and manslaughter.\n\nDuring the three-week trial Wallace told the jury Mr van Dongen, 29, had put the acid in a glass for her to drink.\n\nThe pair had met five years earlier on a dating website for people with HIV, as both had the condition.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMr van Dongen had returned to her flat in Ladysmith Road, Westbury Park, on the night of 22 September 2015 to reiterate that their turbulent relationship was over but decided to stay the night.\n\nThe trial heard Wallace threw a glass of acid over him as he lay in his boxer shorts on their bed, and shouted: \"If I can't have you no-one will.\"\n\nScreaming in agony, he staggered out on to the street where he was found by alarmed neighbours who dialled 999.\n\nThe bed where Mark van Dongen was lying when Wallace threw the acid at him\n\nHarrowing recordings of his suffering as they attempted to help him were played to the court during the trial.\n\nMeanwhile, instead of calling an ambulance, Wallace sat on the sofa in her flat and called another ex-boyfriend.\n\nShe will be sentenced on Wednesday.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Mark van Dongen's family talk about the impact of an acid attack\n\nSpeaking through an interpreter outside court, Mark's father Cornelius van Dongen described his son as his \"best friend\" and \"a loving brother\" who had made the family proud with the good results he achieved as a civil engineer.\n\n\"Mark was so brave when confronted with the hellish pain and disabilities inflicted on him but eventually it all became too much for him to bear,\" he said.\n\n\"He died in dignity and will live on in the hearts of his family and friends.\"\n\nHe said the court process had been \"a difficult and emotional experience\".\n\nMr van Dongen added: \"I am very disappointed in the outcome of this trial. There are only losers in this case. I hope that Mark can now rest in peace.\"\n\nSpeaking outside Bristol Crown Court, Cornelius van Dongen said there were \"only losers in this case\"\n\nDet Insp Paul Catton, who led the investigation for Avon and Somerset Police, said the attack was borne out of jealousy, resulting in Mr van Dongen suffering \"the most inconceivable pain imaginable\".\n\n\"He went from being a healthy young man with his whole life ahead of him to having extensive and repeated surgery on the most hideous injuries just to keep him alive.\n\n\"In the end, his pain was so devastating, so catastrophic, he sought the assistance of doctors to help him die.\"\n\nThe force has announced a Domestic Homicide Review will take place to examine the circumstances which led up to Mr van Dongen's death.\n\nWallace said she thought the substance she threw was water\n\nProsecutor Adam Vaitilingam acknowledged this was not a typical murder case but said it needed to be tried because Mr van Dongen's suffering had led him to end his own life.\n\nEuthanasia is legal in Belgium, where his family live.\n\nMr Vaitilingam said: \"It was exactly why she did it, to scar him for life, to make him less of a man and unable to have a relationship with another woman.\n\n\"It's the first time a jury has had to decide if an attacker is guilty of the murder where the victim has chosen to end his own life by euthanasia because of the terrible condition he was left in by the attack.\n\n\"Murder is made out if the attacker intended to kill them or cause them really serious harm.\n\n\"The doctors in Belgium granted euthanasia because of his unbearable physical and psychological suffering.\"\n\nWhat was the basis of bringing a murder charge in this extraordinary case? The answer lies in the way the law of murder applies the concept of causation.\n\nIf an accused person attacks a victim, intending to kill or cause serious harm, their actions alone may not result in death.\n\nHowever, they can be convicted of murder if their acts can fairly be said to have made a \"significant\" contribution to the victim's death.\n\nFor example if someone stabs a person in a shop and they run across the road to escape, but are hit and killed by an oncoming car, the attacker can be found guilty of murder.\n\nThe intentional stabbing is a \"significant\" cause of death even though it is the car driver that ends the victim's life.\n\nIf the jury had found Berlinah Wallace had thrown the acid intending to kill or seriously harm Mark Van Dongen, and that her act was a significant cause of his death, it would have been open to them to find her guilty of murder.\n\nClearly they did not find this to be the case.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "BBC royal correspondent Nicholas Witchell says the new Duke and Duchess of Sussex offer the potential to reach audiences who instinctively might not identity with the royal family.\n\nThe intensity of the feelings they have for each other was very visible at their wedding, he said.\n\nThe service itself was \"very Harry and Meghan\" with the gospel choir and \"passionate\" address by the Most Rev Bishop Michael Curry breaking new ground.\n\nHe added the couple will be pleased and relieved the day went so smoothly and successfully,", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. PIP: 'What is going on with the welfare system?'\n\nThree-quarters of disabled people who challenged a decision to stop or reduce their main benefit were successful in Wales last year, figures have shown.\n\nA charity said the 8,000 successes \"clearly demonstrates fundamental flaws\" in assessing disabled people's needs were not being addressed.\n\nThe Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) said new evidence could be provided at tribunals.\n\nBut one successful claimant warned the issue could drive people to suicide.\n\nSteven Evans from Newport has cerebral palsy, osteoarthritis and is a wheelchair user.\n\nHe was sent a letter in January from the DWP advising him to apply for Personal Independence Payment (PIP), which was replacing Disability Living Allowance (DLA).\n\nHe said his first application was lost in the post, so a friend helped him fill in a second one.\n\nThe DWP said he was sent another three letters advising him to attend an assessment, but he did not see the letters, and even if he had, could not have opened them because of his cerebral palsy.\n\nWhen his benefits were stopped he asked for all correspondence to be sent to a local charity, so he did not miss any further letters.\n\nBut Mr Evans said his Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) payments were also then halted because there were two addresses for him on their system.\n\nAs part of his appeal against both sets of payments, his GP said his medical notes stating his abilities meant it was \"unethical\" that he should endure further investigation relating to welfare payments.\n\nDuring that time, Mr Evans racked up more than £3,500 of debt as a result of the stopped payments, but has now received all of the money he is owed by the DWP.\n\nHowever, he feels other disabled people will be at risk of serious mental health problems if the DWP does not do more to check whether removing benefits is appropriate.\n\n\"What the hell is going on with the welfare system that is meant to be supporting me as a vulnerable person?\" Mr Evans said.\n\n\"It's not doing that. People will commit suicide because they're not listening, they're not doing their job with common sense.\"\n\nThe figures, obtained by BBC Wales showed only the south west of England had higher success rates (76%) than Wales while other places around the UK varied between 59% and 68% but had higher numbers appealing.\n\nMark Atkinson, chief executive at disability charity Scope, called on the UK government to \"get a grip\" on the situation.\n\nHe said: \"Disabled people rely on these financial lifelines to live independently and be part of their community.\n\n\"Without urgent action, vast numbers will continue to be denied this support unfairly.\"\n\nA DWP spokesman said: \"Decisions are made following consideration of all the information provided by the claimant, including supporting evidence from their GP or medical specialist.\n\n\"In the majority of successful appeals, decisions are overturned because people have submitted more oral or written evidence.\"\n\nPIPs are for those who need help with extra costs associated with long-term illness or disability and pays up to £139.75 per week.\n\nESAs, worth up to £73.10 per week, is designed to replace older forms of support, such as incapacity benefit.\n\nBoth benefits require an assessment of the claimant - which can include a face-to-face appointment - to decide how someone's illness or disability impacts on the cost of their day-to-day lives.\n\nThe DWP said said many people on the old DLA benefit were not assessed for years, whereas PIP assesses people regularly to ensure they receive the right level of help.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Monday was Gaza's deadliest day of violence in years\n\nThe UN human rights chief says Israel used \"wholly disproportionate\" force against Palestinian border protests which have left over 100 people dead.\n\nZeid Raad al-Hussein told a meeting in Geneva that Gazans were effectively \"caged in a toxic slum\" and Gaza's occupation by Israel had to end.\n\nIsrael's ambassador said Gaza's militant Islamist rulers had deliberately put people in harm's way.\n\nThe UN's Human Rights Council voted to set up an independent investigation.\n\nSome 60 Palestinians were killed by Israeli forces on Monday in the seventh consecutive week of border protests, largely orchestrated by Hamas, which politically controls the Gaza Strip.\n\nIt was the deadliest day in Gaza since a 2014 war between Israel and militants there.\n\nThe protests had been dubbed the Great March of Return, in support of the declared right of Palestinian refugees to return to land they or their ancestors fled from or were forced to leave in the war which followed Israel's founding in 1948.\n\nThe Israeli government, which has long ruled out a mass return of Palestinians, said terrorists wanted to use the protests as cover to cross into its territory and carry out attacks.\n\nWhile most Palestinians have demonstrated at a distance from the border, others threw rocks and incendiary devices towards the fence and tried to break through.\n\nIsrael's troops responded with what it calls \"riot dispersal means\", such as tear gas, and live fire which Israel permits under certain circumstances. This includes when there is a threat to soldiers' lives and when attempts are made to break down the fence.\n\nMr Zeid told the emergency session on Gaza that the \"stark contrast in casualties on both sides is... suggestive of a wholly disproportionate response\" by Israel.\n\nAn Israeli soldier was \"reportedly wounded, slightly, by a stone\" on Monday, he said, while 43 Palestinians were killed at the site of the protests. Seventeen more Palestinians were killed away from what he called the \"hot spots\".\n\nIsrael and the Palestinians have blamed each other for the deaths\n\nHe said there had been \"little evidence of any [Israeli] attempt to minimise casualties\". Israel's actions might, he said, \"constitute 'wilful killings' - a grave breach of the Fourth Geneva Convention\", an international law designed to protect civilians under occupation.\n\nMr Zeid said he supported a call for an \"international, independent and impartial\" investigation into the violence in Gaza, adding that \"those responsible for violations must in the end be held accountable\".\n\n\"The occupation must end,\" he said, \"so the people of Palestine can be liberated, and the people of Israel liberated from it.\n\n\"End the occupation, and the violence and insecurity will largely disappear.\"\n\nIsrael occupied Gaza in the 1967 Middle East war. Although it withdrew its forces and settlers in 2005, the UN still considers the territory occupied because Israel retains control over the territory's air space, coastal waters and shared border.\n\nIsrael's Ambassador Aviva Raz Shechter rejected the blame, saying it was \"Israel, certainly not Hamas\" which tried to avoid harming civilians.\n\nIsrael's ambassador accused the Council of bias against her country\n\nShe said the UN Human Rights Council had returned to its \"worst form of anti-Israel obsession\".\n\nThe US Chargé d'Affaires Theodore Allegra agreed, saying the \"one-sided action proposed by the Council today only further shows that the Human Rights Council is indeed a broken body\".\n\nTens of thousands of Palestinians have held weekly protests at the border in the lead-up to the 15 May anniversary of the mass displacement of Palestinians from land which became Israel in the war which followed Israel's founding in 1948.\n\nA senior member of Hamas, Salah Bardawil, has said 50 of those killed on Monday \"were from Hamas\". Israel has said it knew of \"at least 24 terrorists\" killed that day. It said most were \"active operatives\" from Hamas, and some from the Islamic Jihad militant group.", "This video can not be played\n\nTo play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "Every royal wedding is different. But every royal wedding is an opportunity, in some way, to relaunch the Royal Family.\n\nBig weddings like this come along pretty rarely and they are now the object of global fascination.\n\nSo it represents a great opportunity to say: \"This is who the Royal Family are these days.\"\n\nBut this is a very different royal wedding.\n\nIt's different because of the style of the arrangements for the day itself.\n\nFrom small things, like the cake (not a traditional big heavy fruitcake covered with bullet-proof icing), to bigger things, like a gospel choir performing at the service.\n\nTo more remarkable decisions, like the invitation to 1,200 members of the public to enjoy the occasion in the grounds of Windsor Castle.\n\nThe Royal Wedding is being embraced as a people's celebration\n\nAfter the death in 1997 of Prince Harry's mother, Diana, Princess of Wales, she was described by the-then Prime Minister Tony Blair as \"the people's princess\".\n\nThis may not be \"the people's wedding\", but it is about as close to it as any royal wedding has got.\n\nRight from the start, the couple said they wanted to make this a more inclusive event - and they have done a fair bit, by royal standards, to make that happen.\n\nIt will look and feel different from the royal weddings that came before. And, of course, the wedding is also different because of the bride - very different.\n\nIt's not that she is a commoner. There have now been a fair few non-aristocrats marrying into the family over the years.\n\nNor is it that she is divorced, although it was only 82 years ago that a future king abdicated so that he could marry a divorcee - and 50-odd years ago that the late Princess Margaret relinquished the love of her life because he was divorced.\n\nMeghan Markle's family is not accustomed to the royal way of doing things\n\nNor is it that Meghan is American - marrying foreigners is par for the course for the British Royal Family.\n\nThe shambles over who would walk Ms Markle down the aisle is reminder of another, stark, difference - hers is a family, who don't appear to know the rules about becoming a member of the Royal Family, or - if they do - clearly couldn't care less.\n\nBut it is the fact that she is, in her own words, \"biracial\" - that her mother is African American - that is breathtaking, some might say revolutionary, for the Royal Family.\n\nAnd there's more. She has (or had) a job! She has (or had) a public profile! She is a very effective communicator, arguably better than any member of the Royal Family.\n\nWhat's more, she is a self-confessed feminist, a high-profile member of the #MeToo generation.\n\nSo the arrival of Meghan Markle marks a huge change for what is still a clearly traditional and, some would say, pretty hidebound institution.\n\nThere has been talk of her modernising - or even saving - the monarchy. The Royal Family continuously needs to renew itself, and it has proved pretty adept at that.\n\nMs Markle is certainly dragging them into the Instagram age, but just how much she can change it we will have to wait and see.\n\nShe has said previously: \"I never wanted to be a lady who lunches, I always wanted to be a lady who works.\"\n\nWell, the royal role is lunches. And teas. And opening hospitals and attending charity functions.\n\nAnd looking good, and nodding a lot, and not saying much beyond asking what people do and commenting on the weather.\n\nDon't get me wrong, it is important work - hard work, at times, often boring work, I imagine. But it is not what she is used to.\n\nSo we wait to see - does Meghan change the Royal Family? Or does the Royal Family change her?", "Authorities will hold a post mortem examination to find out what led to the girl's death (file pic)\n\nA two-year-old girl was found with fatal injuries after a van carrying 30 Kurdish migrants was chased by police for an hour in southern Belgium.\n\nPolice say the girl died soon afterwards and have revealed that there was a scuffle and shots were fired.\n\nThe chase began on the E42 motorway outside the town of Namur.\n\nThe van drove west for several kilometres, evading police. Eventually it collided with another vehicle near Mons and the girl was found.\n\nIt took 15 police cars and some 30 police to bring the incident to an end at around 03:00 (01:00 GMT) on Thursday.\n\nBelgian media have reported that the girl, who was with her mother, had been held out of a van window apparently to keep the police at a distance. Local prosecutors told the BBC they could not confirm the reports.\n\nWhen the van finally stopped police said people emerged from the vehicle and moved towards them. After a struggle, officials said that police fired shots but stressed the girl was not hit by gunfire.\n\nAt least 30 people were inside the van, including children, they said. Police in France say people smugglers were involved, but that was not confirmed by local officials.\n\nHours after the incident in the early hours of Thursday, a group of some 60 migrants reacted by blocking a motorway near Dunkirk, south of the Belgian border in France.\n\nMigrants staying at the nearby Grande-Synthe camp had known the girl who had died as she was part of a family who had been staying in the gym, said French 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 Elisa Perrigueur This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nTwenty people were detained and the migrants then returned to Grande-Synthe, where some were searched by French CRS riot police.\n\nBelgian authorities said a post mortem examination would take place to find out what had caused her death. It was not clear whether the driver had got away but a number of the passengers would be interviewed, they said.\n\nA police patrol had tried to stop the van because it was being driven in a strange manner. A police check then indicated it was carrying false number plates, reports said.\n\nA minister in the French-speaking Wallonia-Brussels government, André Flahaut, sent his condolences to the girl's family. \"The politics of chasing migrants is bound to end in drama,\" he said on Twitter.\n\nA note on terminology: The BBC uses the term migrant to refer to all people on the move who have yet to complete the legal process of claiming asylum. This group includes people fleeing war-torn countries such as Syria, who are likely to be granted refugee status, as well as people who are seeking jobs and better lives, who governments are likely to rule are economic migrants.", "This video can not be played\n\nTo play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "GQ has poked fun at its print rival Vanity Fair with its latest cover.\n\nGQ's \"comedy issue\" features Saturday Night Live's Kate McKinnon, comedian Sarah Silverman and actress Issa Rae with their arms and legs misplaced in an apparent Photoshop disaster.\n\nIt's a clear reference to Vanity Fair's Oscars cover earlier this year, where Reese Witherspoon appeared to have been given an extra leg.\n\nBut both magazines are owned by the same company, Conde Nast.\n\n\"GQ would like to apologize to Kate McKinnon, Issa Rae, and Sarah Silverman for the egregious mistakes made in the process of creating the cover for our 2018 comedy issue,\" the magazine said in a statement.\n\n\"We deeply regret that the results violated GQ's rigorous standards of editorial excellence and the laws of nature.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAn explosive eruption at Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano has sent ash 30,000ft (9,100m) into the sky.\n\nThe eruption took place at 04:15 local time (14:15 GMT) on Thursday, and scientists say further activity is likely in the near future.\n\nStaff at the volcano observatory and the national park had been evacuated.\n\nSince a new zone of Kilauea began erupting almost two weeks ago, lava has wrecked dozens of homes and forced hundreds of people to be evacuated.\n\nNational Guard soldiers in Hawaii sought protection from ash and volcanic gases\n\nA red aviation code had already been issued, warning pilots to avoid the potentially damaging ash cloud.\n\nThe US Geological Survey had warned that an explosive eruption at Kilauea was becoming more likely as the volcano's lava lake was lowering.\n\nThis increases the risk of steam-powered explosions as the magma meets underground water.\n\n\"We may have additional larger, powerful events,\" USGS geologist Michelle Coombs told reporters after Thursday's eruption.\n\nHawaii's emergency management agency advised people in the area affected by ash to stay in their homes if possible.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nKilauea is one of five volcanoes on the island of Hawaii - three of them active.\n\nIt is one of the most active in the world and has been erupting continuously, though not explosively, for more than 30 years.\n\nIts last explosive eruption took place in 1924.\n\nEven before Thursday morning's explosive eruption, the ash plume from the volcano could be seen from the International Space Station.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by A.J. (Drew) Feustel This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as 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.", "An autopsy carried out on the infant has revealed she died from a gunshot wound (file picture)\n\nA two-year-old girl found with fatal injuries in Belgium after a police chase on Thursday died from a gunshot wound to the face, prosecutors say.\n\nThe girl was in a van carrying 30 Kurdish migrants which had been pursued for an hour in southern Belgium.\n\nThe chase, which began on a motorway near the town of Namur, involved a scuffle, police said.\n\nA police spokesman said they did not know whether the fatal shot had been fired by a police officer.\n\nA police investigation has been launched into how the girl died, including whether there were guns in the van.\n\nAn initial report from the emergency services had stated mistakenly that the cause of death was a head injury.\n\n\"The autopsy determined the cause of death was a bullet that entered the cheek,\" prosecutor Frederic Bariseau told the AFP news agency.\n\nBelgian media reported that the girl, who was with her mother, had been held out of a van window -apparently to keep the police at a distance. Local prosecutors told the BBC they could not confirm the reports.\n\nGroups advocating for asylum seekers' rights held a protest in Brussels condemning the police\n\nThe chase began just outside Namur in the early hours of Thursday morning.\n\nThe van drove west for several kilometres, evading police. Eventually it collided with another vehicle near Mons.\n\nPolice say the driver had jumped out to avoid being identified, and allowed the van to come to a stop itself.\n\nIt took 15 police cars and some 30 police to bring the incident to an end at around 03:00 (01:00 GMT) on Thursday. Police believe the van was linked to a people smuggling operation.\n\nThe dead girl belonged to a family housed in a migrant community at Grande-Synthe, near Dunkirk in France, French authorities said.\n\nThe 30 migrants found in the vehicle, 26 of whom are adults, are in custody and are still being interviewed.\n\nA note on terminology: The BBC uses the term migrant to refer to all people on the move who have yet to complete the legal process of claiming asylum. This group includes people fleeing war-torn countries such as Syria, who are likely to be granted refugee status, as well as people who are seeking jobs and better lives, who governments are likely to rule are economic migrants.", "Victim Ozell Pemberton's former school released a tribute to the 16-year-old\n\nA 17-year-old has been arrested on suspicion of murdering a boy who was stabbed on a busy shopping street.\n\nThe victim, named locally as Ozell Pemberton, 16, was found injured at about 15:30 BST on Thursday at Lower Parade in the main shopping area of Sutton Coldfield, north of Birmingham.\n\nWest Midlands Police said the suspect handed himself into a police station in the early hours and remains in custody.\n\nThe attack reportedly took place near a McDonald's and a group of bus stops.\n\nPolice said there had been disorder in the area at the time and several people were seen fleeing.\n\nThe ambulance service said despite its \"tremendous efforts\", Ozell was confirmed dead at the scene.\n\nPolice said he has has not yet been formally identified and a post-mortem examination will be held in due course.\n\nBut a tribute to Ozell was released by his former school earlier.\n\nOzell was stabbed at 15:30 BST on Thursday in a busy shopping area\n\n\"We were deeply saddened to hear about the tragic death of one of our former pupils and our thoughts and prayers are with his family,\" a spokesperson for Greenwood Academy, Castle Vale, said.\n\n\"For our part, we are providing counselling and support to our pupils and staff to help them through this difficult time.\"\n\nStaff said he last attended the school in November 2015.\n\nLower Parade is the main shopping street in Sutton Coldfield\n\nCouncillor David Pears, who represents the Sutton Trinity ward, described the violence as \"appalling\".\n\nHe added: \"My sympathies go out to this person's family and their friends.\n\n\"I think people want to feel safe; it's really important that police take action very quickly.\"\n\nUnfortunately fatal stabbings in Birmingham are nothing new.\n\nThis crime happened in the affluent area of Sutton Coldfield and in the middle of the afternoon.\n\nThe age of the victim is also unnerving; just 16 and killed as a result of what officers call \"disorder\" involving several people.\n\nAt a time when police resources are stretched in the region and crime rates are soaring, there is a palpable fear among some residents who are repeatedly saying that they just don't feel safe anymore.\n\nThat fear is particularly prevalent among the older generation, but the victims in many of these violent cases are young men and boys.\n\nPart of Lower Parade remains sealed off for investigations to be carried out.\n\nWest Midlands Police Assistant Chief Constable, Alex Murray, said: \"This is a tragic set of circumstances and our thoughts, and I'm sure the thoughts of everyone in the community, are with the boy's family at this truly devastating time.\n\n\"A dedicated team of homicide detectives has worked non-stop on the investigation since yesterday and has made good progress.\"\n\nMr Murray added: \"We need parents, community leaders, schools and young people themselves to pass the message that it is never OK to carry or use a knife.\"\n\nDavid Jamieson, the West Midlands Police and Crime Commissioner, said \"much more needs to be done\".\n\n\"This is another stark reminder of the importance and responsibility we all have in ending violence in our communities,\" he said.\n\nMr Jamieson said he was spending an extra £2m \"tackling violence\" over the next two years.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "From choosing the cake to the flowers and even the chair-covers, anyone who's ever planned a wedding knows it can be eye-wateringly expensive.\n\nBut when it comes to royal weddings - with all the VIPs, security and extra extravagance - the bill runs into millions.\n\nSo what do we know about the expected cost of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's wedding, and how much will the taxpayer be paying towards it?\n\nThe wedding will be held in Windsor. And crowds in excess of 100,000 people are expected to descend on the town.\n\nInvitations have been sent to 600 guests, with a further 200 invited to the couple's evening reception\n\nOn top of that, 1,200 members of the public will attend the grounds of Windsor Castle.\n\nAnd security will almost certainly be the biggest single cost.\n\nIn 2011, £6.35m was spent on security for the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge's wedding\n\nThe Home Office wouldn't comment when Reality Check contacted it, saying revealing policing costs could compromise \"national security\".\n\nLikewise, when we rang Thames Valley Police, it said: \"We aren't going to give you any data I'm afraid - even though we know you love numbers.\"\n\nHowever, we do know £6.35m was spent by the Metropolitan Police (ie the taxpayer) on security for Duke and Duchess of Cambridge's wedding.\n\nThat's based on a Freedom of Information request released to the Press Association.\n\nBut it's difficult to draw a direct comparison with Prince Harry and Ms Markle's wedding - the location and guest numbers are different.\n\nKensington Palace hasn't released any details of what it plans to spend on the wedding.\n\nThat's not really a surprise given that the official cost of Prince William and Catherine's wedding has never been revealed.\n\nThat leaves us with unofficial estimates and as such they need to be treated with some caution.\n\nBridebook.co.uk, a wedding planning service, says the total cost of the wedding could be £32m - including the cost of security.\n\nIt put the cost of the cake at £50,000, the florist at £110,000, the catering at £286,000, and so on and so on.\n\nReality Check contacted the company's owner, Hamish Shephard, to ask about the methodology used to arrive at the estimate.\n\nHe said the £32m figure had been based on the assumption that the Royal Family had paid for everything at market rate.\n\nBut in the absence of any official data, this is still guesswork - however well informed.\n\nFor example, we don't know if suppliers would offer a substantial discount for the privilege of providing their services for a royal wedding.\n\nMs Markle will walk down the aisle of St George's Chapel at Windsor Castle\n\nThe cost of security for the wedding will be met by the taxpayer.\n\nInitially, Thames Valley Police will have to absorb the cost itself.\n\nBut the force will be eligible to apply for special grant funding from the Home Office after the event in order to claim back some of the costs.\n\nSpecial grant funding is a separate pool of money forces can apply for if they have to police events outside their usual remit.\n\nAs for the rest of the total, the Royal Family has said it will be paying for the private elements of the wedding.\n\nEvery year the Royal Family gets a chunk of money from the annual Sovereign Grant, paid directly by the Treasury.\n\nThe grant is calculated on a percentage of the profits from the Crown Estate portfolio, which includes much of London's West End.\n\nSome members of the Royal Family benefit from additional income.\n\nFor example, Prince Charles gets money from the Duchy of Cornwall estate, a portfolio of land, property and financial investments.\n\nBut it's not clear which \"pots\" the palace will choose to fund the wedding from.\n\nRepublic, which campaigns for an elected head of state, and claims the overall cost of the monarchy is far higher than £82m, has submitted a petition against taxpayers' money being spent on the wedding.", "As global rates of short-sightedness - or myopia - increase around the world, Singapore is hoping to buck the trend with three simple but innovative solutions. Could these help to reduce the development of myopia in young children elsewhere?\n\nMore stories from Crowdscience on BBC World Service", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A survivor of the Manchester attack invites a victim's grandmother to the royal wedding.\n\nA Sheffield schoolgirl who survived the Manchester Arena attack has invited the grandmother of one of the victims to attend the royal wedding with her.\n\nInstead of asking her mother, 12-year-old Amelia Thompson asked Sharon Goodman to attend Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's wedding this weekend.\n\nMrs Goodman lost her granddaughter Olivia Campbell-Hardy in the bombing at an Ariana Grande concert in May 2017.\n\nAmelia said she made the gesture \"just to put a smile on her face\".\n\nHer mother Lisa Newton said she didn't mind her daughter not inviting her if it would make someone else happy.\n\n\"Obviously the 22 people that died can never be forgotten,\" Mrs Newton said.\n\n\"Their family lost something so precious and I've still got Amelia, we can still experience things like that on Saturday.\"\n\nLisa Newton said she was proud of her daughter Amelia Thompson's decision\n\nMrs Newton said her daughter would take a candle to Windsor Castle and light it in St George's Chapel on 22 May to mark a year since the attack.\n\nSuicide bomber Salman Abedi detonated a home-made device as 14,000 people streamed out of the concert. More than 700 people were injured.\n\nAmelia is one of 1,200 public invitees to Saturday's wedding.\n\nThose present will be able to watch the arrival and departure of the bride and groom, Kensington Palace has said.\n\nPrince Harry and Meghan Markle wedding begins at 12:00 BST on Saturday\n\nIn total, 2,640 people will be given access to the grounds for the wedding.\n\nCharity workers, school children, royal household members and Windsor residents are among those invited.\n\nA statement from Kensington Palace said Ms Markle and Prince Harry wanted \"members of the public to feel part of the celebrations too\".\n\nIt added: \"This wedding, like all weddings, will be a moment of fun and joy that will reflect the characters and values of the bride and groom.\"\n• None Going to the wedding - BBC News", "In 2016-17, a total of 19% of students in higher education in the UK were from outside the country, according to official figures\n\nA Home Office advisory committee has ditched research assessing the impact of international students after academics labelled it \"unethical\".\n\nThe survey, set up by the Migration Advisory Committee (Mac), which informs Home Office policy, asked for students' views on international classmates.\n\nBut it could be completed by anyone and some said it posed \"loaded\" questions.\n\nA Mac spokesman stressed the survey was \"not designed to be discriminatory\", but confirmed it was being withdrawn.\n\n\"Following online commentary it has become apparent to us that we will be unable to use the responses to the survey,\" the spokesman said.\n\nThe committee defended the survey, saying it was \"simply an attempt to ask students for their experiences\" and \"had the potential to show a very positive view of international students in the UK\".\n\nHowever, on Thursday, it concluded the survey \"cannot now be used to add to our evidence base\".\n\nProf Tanja Bueltmann‏, a professor of migration history at Northumbria University, said the survey was \"completely invalid and must never be used as evidence to inform policy\".\n\nShe said she had urged the Home Office and the committee to scrap it or disregard it.\n\n\"Initially, I thought it must be some sort of fake thing - because of the nature of the questions,\" she said.\n\nIt asked students to assess whether the impact of international students on their course was negative, positive or neutral.\n\nIt also asked if students lived with any international students or studied with any on their course.\n\nThe survey was being posted by universities, who were encouraging students to fill it in and was due to close at the end of May.\n\nIt was also being shared on Twitter, by vice-chancellors from the Universities UK group, which later announced that it would no longer be sharing 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\nA Universities UK spokesman said: \"Due to legitimate concerns raised about a Migration Advisory Committee survey on international students, we will not be sharing it further.\n\n\"While it's important that policy-makers hear from students about international students' positive impact, views must be sought appropriately.\"\n\nUUK vice-chancellors will also be deleting all tweets of the survey.\n\nProf Bueltmann said: \"In principle there's nothing wrong with a survey on the impact of international students, but say you look Asian and you're actually British, but the student standing next to you thinks you're Asian?\"\n\nThis could mean the person is basing their views on the wrong information, she suggested.\n\nAn online message replaced the survey after it had been closed\n\nHer view was mirrored by the Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants, which questioned whether the survey was \"encouraging baseless speculation about those who seem different?\".\n\nThe National Union of Students called the survey \"inherently flawed\".\n\nThe Union's international students' officer, Yinbo Yu, said asking students to gauge international student numbers \"seemingly based on appearance\" was \"not only shockingly insensitive, but it does not reflect the reality of our diverse yet cohesive university communities\".\n\nProf Bueltmann‏ also suggested that those who had a view that immigration was a bad thing would have been more likely to fill it in.\n\n\"It's a bit like with Tripadvisor, you're more likely to fill it in if you've had a bad experience,\" she said.\n\n\"The survey unquestionably contains loaded/leading questions that force respondents to problematise international students in a way that they may never have naturally done.\n\n\"If I had done this as a research project, I'd be in trouble with my ethics committee now.\"\n\nShe added that the whole design of the survey was flawed because anyone could fill it in, and repeatedly if they used different computers.\n\nPosting on Twitter, Matthias Eberl, engagement lead at Cardiff University's Systems Immunity Research Institute, said: \"A student survey that's openly accessible to anyone and can be filled in multiple times. Whatever the results from this survey, they are utterly meaningless.\"\n\nA lawyer, Ewan Kennedy‏, also completed the survey, saying he found it \"very odd\".\n\nHe said he \"went through it as an experiment and it shot off at the end without needing any identifier - oops!\"\n\nThe survey was part of work commissioned by former Home Secretary Amber Rudd, after the government came under pressure to remove international students from net migration targets.\n\nIn her commissioning letter of August 2017, she said the committee had never undertaken a full assessment of the impact of international students.\n\n\"We would like to have an objective assessment of the impact of international students which includes consideration of both EU and non-EU students at all levels of education,\" the letter said.\n\n\"This assessment should go beyond the direct impact of students in the form of tuition fees and spending, including consideration of their impact on the labour market and the provision and quality of education provided to domestic students.\n\n\"This should give the government an improved evidence base for any future decisions whilst the ONS goes through the process of reviewing the contribution it thinks students are making to net migration.\"\n\nBefore the survey was decommissioned, a spokesman for the Mac had said it was part of its ongoing work looking at the impact of international students in the UK.", "BBC World News hosts Katty Kay and Christian Fraser roll out the bunting as they browse a dizzying array of merchandise.", "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.", "The suspect has been booked into the Galveston County Jail\n\nHe was in a church dance club. He played on the school football team. He was a high-achieving student. And yet he allegedly opened fire on classmates, killing 10 people.\n\nOfficials say there were few red flags from Dimitrios Pagourtzis, the 17-year-old facing capital murder charges over Friday's Santa Fe High School shooting in Texas.\n\nTexas Governor Greg Abbott said a photo on the suspect's now-deleted Facebook page showing a T-shirt with the phrase Born to Kill may be the only warning sign.\n\n\"But as far as investigations by law enforcement agencies, as far as arrests or confrontation with law enforcement, as far as having a criminal history, he has none,\" he told a news conference.\n\n\"His slate is pretty clean. There simply were not the same type of warning signs that we've seen in so many other shootings.\"\n\nHowever, hours before he allegedly stormed into an art class armed with a shotgun and revolver the teenager made a weird post on social media, a law enforcement source told CBS News.\n\nAccompanied by an occult symbol, it said simply, \"Dangerous Days\".\n\nHe had also previously posted an image of a trench coat pinned with various insignia, including the Iron Cross used by the Nazis, which the teen wrote represented \"bravery\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe Communist hammer and sickle pin, he said, stood for \"rebellion\", and a depiction of the idol Baphomet symbolised \"Evil\".\n\nStudent Dustin Severin told KPRC-TV that he saw the teen in the hall before the shooting wearing his usual outfit of black boots and a trench coat.\n\nHe said the suspect had been picked on by school coaches \"for smelling bad\", and had mostly kept to himself.\n\nOne of his teachers told the New York Times: \"He was quiet, but he wasn't quiet in a creepy way.\"\n\nPolice say the teenager detailed his plans to carry out the school shooting in a diary, on his computer and on a mobile phone.\n\nThe suspect had planned to take his own life, say investigators, but he ultimately gave himself up.\n\nAnd yet there were many other signs that Dimitrios Pagourtzis was a regular, outgoing teenager full of promise.\n\nSchool officials say he was previously on the school's \"honour roll\" of high-achievers, and was expected to graduate in 2019.\n\nAccording to local media, he was a member of a dance squad with a local Greek Orthodox church.\n\nHe had also played for the Santa Fe High School Indians American football team for the 2015-16 season.\n\nSuch wholesome extracurricular activities only add more emphasis to the question bewildered members of his community are asking in the aftermath of the rampage:", "Sergei Skripal was exposed to a nerve agent from the Novichok group in Salisbury\n\nRussian ex-spy Sergei Skripal has been discharged from hospital, two months after being poisoned with a nerve agent in Salisbury.\n\nThe 66-year-old was found slumped on a park bench in the city on 4 March, with his daughter Yulia.\n\nThey were taken to Salisbury District Hospital's intensive care unit, where they were stabilised after being exposed to Novichok.\n\nMs Skripal was released on 9 April and was moved to a secure location.\n\nIt is not known whether Mr Skripal has been taken to the same location as his daughter.\n\nBBC home affairs correspondent Daniel Sandford said he understood that Mr Skripal is able to walk, and has talked to police at length, but is not completely recovered.\n\nHe said police sources indicated that the investigation could take months of carefully piecing together movements of people and cars from mobile phone records, CCTV, automatic number plate recognition and passenger flight records.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police said its investigation into the attack continued and it would not \"be discussing any protective or security arrangements that are in place\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. BBC Rewind looks back at cases of high-profile Russians targeted on foreign soil\n\nDirector of nursing Lorna Wilkinson said treating the Skripals had been \"a huge and unprecedented challenge\".\n\nShe added: \"This is an important stage in his recovery, which will now take place away from the hospital.\"\n\nRussian ambassador to the UK Alexander Yakovenko welcomed the news that Mr Skripal had been discharged, and repeated his demand for consular access to the former spy and his daughter.\n\nAt a news conference at his official residence in London, Mr Yakovenko said: \"We are happy that he is all right.\"\n\nThe Russian ambassador has previously claimed the UK is violating international law by not granting access to the Skripals.\n\n\"If they don't want our assistance, that's fine, but we want to see them physically,\" he said.\n\nBritain expelled 23 Russian diplomats in response to the attack in Salisbury, but Mr Yakovenko and others remain.\n\nDS Nick Bailey - the police officer who first attended the Skripals on the day of the poisoning - was also treated for exposure to the nerve agent, but was discharged in March.\n\nClinicians at the hospital had to keep the Skripals alive while their bodies could produce more enzymes to replace those that had been poisoned.\n\nWhen Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia were left in a critical condition, it seemed improbable that the two would survive.\n\nNow, less than three months on, both have been discharged from hospital.\n\nTheir personal safety will be a priority for the police - the two have been taken to a secure location.\n\nDetectives are continuing to investigate the attempted murder of the Skripals, though so far no suspects have been named.\n\nThey will have spoken at length to both Sergei and Yulia about what happened and why they may have been targeted.\n\nBut police say they are still working to establish the full facts of the attack.\n\nThe UK government has blamed Russia for the attack, with Prime Minister Theresa May describing the incident as \"brazen\" and \"despicable\".\n\nBut the Russian government denied any involvement and has accused the UK of inventing a \"fake story\".\n\nForeign Secretary Boris Johnson is due to speak at a conference in Paris on Friday intended to fight against impunity for the use of chemical weapons.\n\nSpeaking before the conference, he said: \"Assad's brutality in Syria and the attempted murders in Salisbury pose a grave threat to the Chemical Weapons Convention and to the rules-based order that keeps us all safe.\"\n\nYulia and Sergei Skripal were taken to Salisbury District Hospital after being found slumped on a bench\n\nIn 2006 Mr Skripal, a former Russian colonel, was jailed in Russia for 13 years for passing on the identities of Russian spies in Europe to the UK intelligence services.\n\nBut in 2010 he was part of a prisoner swap between Moscow and the United States. He eventually settled in Salisbury.\n\nWhen Ms Skripal was released she refused assistance from the Russian embassy, who claim they had been denied consular access to a Russian national.\n\nRecently the director general of MI5, Andrew Parker, publicly blamed Russia for the \"reckless\" poisoning, accusing the Kremlin of \"flagrant breaches of international rules\".\n\nSpecialist officers in protective suits retrieved samples from multiple sites in Salisbury\n\nThe investigation into the nerve agent attack saw the closure of areas of Salisbury, as police and specialist investigators identified where the Skripals were poisoned.\n\nThe highest concentration of the Novichok was found at the Skripals' front door.\n\nA multimillion pound operation to decontaminate nine locations in the city is under way. Two places that the Skripals visited - the Mill pub and a Zizzi restaurant - are among the places deemed to be still at risk.\n\nThe best way to get news on the go", "Troy Thomas (left) and Nathan Gilmaney have been convicted of murder\n\nTwo teenage criminals who stabbed a charity youth worker to death during a \"four-hour spree of violence\" have been convicted of murder.\n\nMoped riders Nathan Gilmaney, 19, and Troy Thomas, 18, from Maida Vale, west London, killed Abdul Samad, 28, as they tried to rob as many people as possible on the evening of 16 October.\n\nThe pair, described as \"21st Century highwaymen\" in court, had admitted manslaughter but denied murder.\n\nThey are due to be sentenced in June.\n\nProsecutor Oliver Glasgow QC told the Old Bailey the defendants were \"highwaymen of the 21st Century who thought they had the right to threaten and rob whoever they found, who attacked their targets in a brazen and shocking manner... for no reason other than simple aggression and blood lust\".\n\nHe added: \"By the end of their four-hour spree of violence, they had committed nine knife-point robberies, gratuitously stabbed four of their defenceless victims and killed Abdul Samad.\"\n\nAbdul Samad died after staggering home having been stabbed in the chest\n\nMr Samad handed over valuables when confronted in St Mary's Terrace, Paddington, but Gilmaney got off his moped and stabbed him in the chest anyway.\n\nHe collapsed on the doorstep of his home in front of his parents. Paramedics took him to hospital where he later died.\n\nThe court heard the defendants were unmoved by the plight of their victim and prowled the streets for their next target minutes later.\n\nThomas admitted robbing the victims, but denied responsibility for the violence.\n\nGilmaney had pleaded guilty to the robberies and violence, and admitted manslaughter, but claimed he did not intend really serious harm.\n\nThe jury found Thomas guilty of unlawful wounding and three counts of wounding with intent.\n\nThe defendants were caught on CCTV in a lift, having taken their balaclavas and helmets off, as they attended an address to sell their stolen goods\n\nCCTV footage on the night shows Gilmaney filling up their scooter with petrol\n\nMr Samad was due to marry his girlfriend Sultana Ahmed.\n\nMs Ahmed said in a statement her boyfriend was \"the change we needed to see in the world\" and said he \"lived for his job of helping children\".\n\nHis mother Layla Begum said the death left her whole family \"broken\".\n\nIn a statement provided to the Metropolitan Police, she added: \"I often feel like a dead woman walking around my home.\"", "In one week's time people in the Republic of Ireland will vote on whether they want to make changes to the country's strict abortion laws.\n\nIt's holding a referendum asking whether the Eighth Amendment should be repealed from its constitution. The amendment gives equal right to life for the mother and the unborn child.\n\nBut do people living in Ireland's cities see the issue differently from those living in its countryside?", "More than 100 people have died after a Boeing 737 airliner crashed near Cuba's main airport in Havana.\n\nThree women survived the impact and subsequent fire, and are in a critical condition in hospital.", "With two days to go until Prince Harry and Meghan Markle marry, the town of Windsor has held a rehearsal of the newlyweds' carriage procession.\n\nInternational broadcasters and more than 100,000 people from around the world are in Berkshire before the wedding on Saturday.\n\nCrowds lined the streets as the military helped staged a rehearsal of the couple's carriage procession.\n\nMore than 250 members of the armed forces took part in Thursday's run through - many of whom will be involved in ceremonial duties on the day\n\nAfter the hour-long service at St George's Chapel in Windsor Castle, Ms Markle and Prince Harry will travel in an Ascot Landau carriage through the town for about 25 minutes\n\nThe rehearsal took in the full procession route, passing the temporary TV studios on the Long Walk\n\nBroadcasters from around the world have bagged themselves a prime spot to see the royal couple\n\nOne painter finishes the last few letters of Prince Harry's name on this side of this pub\n\nFlags and bunting have been hung from buildings in streets across Windsor\n\nNormal life has to carry on, but there is time to stop for a quick photo on the school run\n\nPubs and bars across England and Wales can keep serving until 1am on the morning of the wedding day, and again after the couple are married\n\nThe local authority have installed screens and loud speakers to make sure all the visitors can hear Saturday's proceedings\n\nShops have already been selling souvenirs in large numbers in the weeks leading up to the royal wedding\n\nSchoolchildren have been quick to snap up union jack flags to wave at Ms Markle and the prince on their route\n\nWaxwork models of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have been touring Windsor in the run up to the big day\n\nEvery part of the town centre has been decorated by residents and the local authority\n\nYou can barely look anywhere in Windsor without seeing the smiling face of the royal couple looking back at you\n\nPolice from across the Thames Valley and London have spent weeks putting in place security\n\nWindsor's High Street is lined with enormous flags as it features in the procession route\n\nBarriers have been put in place on the Long Walk\n\nWomen take photos on their phones as they lean out of the window of a building near Windsor Castle\n\nBut it's not all jubilation as this car owner has their vehicle removed for failing to adhere to the wedding parking restrictions\n\nThe best way to get news on the go", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Meghan reveals her halter-neck evening dress before driving into the sunset\n\nPrince Harry and Meghan Markle have become husband and wife in a moving ceremony at Windsor Castle.\n\nAn emotional-looking prince and his smiling bride exchanged vows and rings before the Queen and 600 guests at St George's Chapel.\n\nMs Markle, wearing a white boat-neck dress by British designer Clare Waight Keller, was walked down the aisle by Prince Charles.\n\nAt the altar, Prince Harry told her: \"You look amazing.\"\n\nAfter the service the couple - who will now be known as the Duke and Duchess of Sussex - kissed in front of cheering well-wishers on the steps of the chapel.\n\nThousands of members of the public turned out in bright sunshine to see them driven around Windsor in a horse-drawn carriage.\n\nLater, Prince Harry drove the couple to their reception in a 1968 silver blue Jaguar that has been converted to run on electric power, with a registration plate that referenced the date - E190518.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nGuests at the wedding included Oprah Winfrey, George and Amal Clooney, David and Victoria Beckham and Sir Elton John, who later performed at the wedding reception.\n\nMs Markle's sculpted dress was designed by Ms Waight Keller for French fashion house Givenchy.\n\nMost striking was a diamond bandeau tiara, loaned to her by the Queen, and a trailing five-metre silk veil embroidered with the flowers of each country in the Commonwealth.\n\nPrince Harry, 33, and his brother and best man, the Duke of Cambridge, wore the frockcoat uniform of the Blues and Royals.\n\nHe was given special permission from the Queen to keep his short beard as it is customary to be clean-shaven when dressed in Army uniform.\n\nTheir 10 young bridesmaids and pageboys - including Prince George and Princess Charlotte - rose to the occasion.\n\nHowever, the excitement became too much for one of the younger ones who started crying just before Ms Markle, 36, entered the chapel.\n\nPrince Charles walked Ms Markle down the aisle, after her father, Thomas, was unable to attend for health reasons.\n\nMr Markle, 73, reportedly watched the ceremony from California. He told the US celebrity website, TMZ: \"My baby looks beautiful and she looks very happy.\"\n\nMs Markle's mother, Doria Ragland, stayed with her daughter overnight before accompanying her to the chapel.\n\nDressed in a pale green Oscar de la Renta dress, with a neat hat, an emotional-looking Ms Ragland sat alone on the bride's side of the chapel for some time.\n\nAs the witnesses were called to sign the register, Ms Ragland appeared to accept an outstretched hand from Prince Charles with some relief.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The couple gazed into each other's eyes as they exchanged vows\n\nIn her vows, Ms Markle did not promise to \"obey\" her husband, while the prince has broken with royal tradition by choosing to wear a wedding ring.\n\nPrince Harry's ring is a platinum band with a textured finish and Ms Markle's has been made from a piece of Welsh gold.\n\nThe wedding service combined British tradition with modernity and the bride's African-American heritage.\n\nThe Most Rev Bishop Michael Curry, the president of the US Episcopal Church, gave an address, the Rt Rev David Conner, Dean of Windsor, conducted the service and the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Most Rev Justin Welby, officiated.\n\n\"There's power, power in love,\" said Bishop Curry, who was invited to speak by Ms Markle.\n\n\"If you don't believe me think about a time when you first fell in love. The whole world seemed to centre around you and your beloved.\"\n\nIn a fiery, passionate speech, he also referenced the African-American spiritual song Down by the Riverside, which was sung by slaves, and when he realised he had gone on too long, he told his audience he had better wrap up as \"we gotta get you all married!\"\n\nSpeaking afterwards, Bishop Curry said it was \"a joyful thing\" to see diversity in the ceremony, adding: \"That happened today, in different ways, different songs, different perspectives, different worlds and all of it came together and gave God thanks.\"\n\nLady Jane Fellowes, the sister of Prince Harry's late mother, Diana, Princess of Wales, gave a reading from the Song of Solomon.\n\nKaren Gibson and The Kingdom Choir performed Ben E King's soul classic Stand By Me during the service.\n\nPrincess Charlotte with her mother, the Duchess of Cambridge\n\nThe Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh, who is recovering from a hip operation, were among the last to arrive\n\nAs the bride and groom signed the register, 19-year-old cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason - who won the 2016 BBC's Young Musician - performed three pieces by Faure, Schubert and Maria Theresia von Paradis.\n\nHe was accompanied by musicians from the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, the English Chamber Orchestra and the Philharmonia.\n\nThe gospel choir also performed Etta James' uplifting version of Amen/This Little Light of Mine as the newlyweds left the chapel.\n\nAfter the service, the duke and duchess travelled through Windsor along a route lined by tens of thousands of well-wishers.\n\nThe Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead said more than 100,000 people visited the town on Saturday.\n\nIt was a traditional wedding - the dress, the bridesmaids, the vows, the hymns. And it was very, very different.\n\nThe Palace made it clear in a stream of announcements that they wanted a different kind of wedding.\n\nBut it was the service that marked this out as a modern, diverse wedding for a modern, diverse couple: the Kingdom Gospel choir setting toes tapping, a young black cellist, and a breathtaking address from Bishop Curry, the President of the Episcopal Church.\n\nEvery royal wedding is a chance for the Royal Family to relaunch and reinvent. There may have been trouble in the week before the wedding. But that is in the past.\n\nThis wedding was about the future, a different future for 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. Skip twitter post by Kensington Palace This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAll 600 guests were invited to a lunchtime reception at St George's Hall, hosted by the Queen. The best man, the Duke of Cambridge, acted as compere.\n\nGuests were treated to a performance by Sir Elton John and were served langoustine canapes, Windsor lamb, and champagne and pistachio macaroons. Instead of a formal sit-down dinner, food was served in bowls.\n\nThe reception also included the cutting of the lemon and elderflower-flavoured wedding cake.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nGuest Suhani Jalota, the founder of the India-based Myna Mahila charity, said Elton John performed a \"mini-concert\". She added that speeches by the Prince of Wales and the groom were \"lovely\", adding: \"Some people were even crying.\"\n\nPosting on Instagram, David Beckham said: \"Watching Harry as happy as he was makes us all proud of the man and person he has always been... what a day.\"\n\nOther celebrities attending were tennis star Serena Williams, TV personality James Corden, singer James Blunt, actress Carey Mulligan and former England rugby player Jonny Wilkinson.\n\nPrince Harry's uncle, Earl Spencer; the Duchess of York, Sarah Ferguson; and the Duchess of Cambridge's sister, Pippa Middleton, were also invited.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nPoliticians, including Prime Minister Theresa May, were not invited, as it is not a state event.\n\nBut the former Prime Minister, Sir John Major - a special guardian on legal matters to Princes William and Harry after the death of their mother - was among the invited guests.\n\nAbout 1,200 members of the public - many who were recognised for their charity work - were invited into the grounds of Windsor Castle for the wedding.\n\nAmong them was 13-year-old Leonora Ncomanzi, who was overjoyed when she got a wave from the bride herself.\n\n\"Meghan waved at me! When she was in the carriage, she saw me and waved - we've got it on video,\" she said.\n\nAnd Pamela Anomneze, in her 50s, said it had been a \"wonderful feeling\" to catch a glimpse of the Queen.\n\nOn Saturday evening, the newlyweds are celebrating with 200 close friends and family at a private reception less than a mile from Windsor Castle at Frogmore House, hosted by Prince Charles.\n\nMs Markle was expected to break with tradition for royal brides and make a speech at the event.\n\nThe Royal Family will pay for the wedding, including the service, music, flowers and reception.\n\nThe best way to get news on the go", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A support vehicle crashed through a traffic island during the final stage of the race.\n\nA Tour de Yorkshire race marshal who had to leap out of the path of a support car said he had a sleepless night wondering how the car missed.\n\nPhillip Sullivan was volunteering in Leeds on the final stage of the four-day race when the crash occurred.\n\nA car for the Astana race team narrowly missed him as it went over the traffic island he was standing on.\n\nMr Sullivan was unhurt and said he did not want the crash to \"tarnish the Tour de Yorkshire\".\n\nHe was working as a flag marshal behind a bollard on the traffic island to warn cyclists of the hazard.\n\nMr Sullivan, 35, said: \"I am still thinking how close it was, but luckily I do not have a scratch.\"\n\nPhillip Sullivan said he would volunteer to work at the event again\n\nAfter the near-miss he composed himself and took his place again because he \"knew the riders were coming and I had a job to do\".\n\nHe said: \"But I do want it investigated, I don't want something like this to ever happen again and it to lead to someone getting killed.\"\n\nA spokesperson for Welcome to Yorkshire - one of the organisers of the race - said it had \"launched an immediate investigation to determine the facts of exactly what happened\".\n\nThe final stage started at the Piece Hall in Halifax\n\nMr Sullivan revealed his mother was watching the race further down the road and saw the crash. She only realised he was unhurt when he took his place again.\n\n\"It felt like it was in slow motion and it was sheer luck the car missed,\" he said.\n\nMr Sullivan said he had watched a video of his near-miss and worried about the driver of the car.\n\nThe Luxembourg-based Astana team said it was \"deeply sorry\" and has telephoned Mr Sullivan.\n\nMore than two million spectators watched the 2018 Tour de Yorkshire.", "Drinking lots of cranberry juice is no way to fix a urine infection, say new draft guidelines from health body the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence.\n\nAlthough some studies have claimed it may help, NICE says there is not enough good evidence to recommend it.\n\nInstead, people should drink plenty of water or fluids and take painkillers.\n\nThey can also speak to their doctor who might prescribe antibiotics, but these drugs will not always be necessary.\n\nUrinary tract infections (UTIs) are caused by bacteria. Sometimes the body can fight a mild infection alone without medication.\n\nWhen antibiotics are needed, the shortest course that is likely to be effective should be prescribed to reduce the risk of antimicrobial resistance, says NICE.\n\nIt might be more appropriate to get a back-up prescription to be used only if symptoms do not improve within 48 hours or if they worsen rapidly or significantly at any time.\n\nProf Mark Baker, director for the centre of guidelines at NICE, said: \"We recognise that the majority of UTIs will require antibiotic treatment, but we need to be smarter with our use of these medicines.\n\n\"Our new guidance will help healthcare professionals to optimise their use of antibiotics.\n\n\"This will help to protect these vital medicines and ensure that no one experiences side effects from a treatment they do not need.\"\n\nA consultation on the draft guidelines for England will close on 5 June.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"I have achieved everything I was told I wouldn't\"\n\nA young man who was bullied over his appearance is using his terrible experience to help others avoid it.\n\nRory McGuire's birthmark saw him tormented and abused from an early age and despite surviving more than 20 operations, the abuse he has endured has been far more damaging and painful.\n\nThe 24-year-old is now fronting a campaign to encourage victims of abuse over facial differences to report these hate crimes to police.\n\nHe says any hate crime is unacceptable.\n\nAt the age of six, Rory felt he was \"different\".\n\nThe vascular birthmark which covered his lip earned abuse from an early age.\n\nDespite countless bouts of surgery to correct it, the abuse meant that at one point he hoped that he wouldn't wake up from the operating table.\n\nSome of the abuse Rory McGuire was subjected to as a child\n\nHe had accepted that nothing would change.\n\nHe told BBC Radio Scotland's Kaye Adams Programme: \"It was at its worst point in my late teens, I said to myself: 'This is it - this is how life is going to be and I just have to deal with it.'\n\n\"It was heartbreaking. I thought I would just have to deal with comments, stares and laughs for the rest of my life.\n\n\"My close friends didn't realise the extent of it. My mum and dad saw it affecting my confidence but there were a lot of things I didn't tell them.\n\n\"Anywhere I went in public I knew I was going to get stares or laughs or comments and I heard people turning to their friends and saying things and it was just constant.\"\n\nIt was only after countless corrective surgeries and from blogging his experience of relentless abuse that Rory gained enough confidence to stand up and try to prevent anyone else from feeling the same.\n\nRory, from Ayr, supports the Changing Faces campaign for those with facial disfigurement to report abuse as a hate crime.\n\nRory has had many corrective surgeries but is still subjected to bullying\n\nHe said: \"I am happy to be the face of a campaign that is all about making a difference and stop other people having the experience I had when I was younger.\n\n\"If I can help as many people as I can then that is my goal.\n\n\"For me, none of it is acceptable and if someone is being put down to the point they just can't cope with it any more then they should feel there is help out there.\"\n\nRory tells heartbreaking stories of being frequently laughed at, mocked and stared at as a child and into his teens.\n\nHe says people thought it was okay to call him awful names and compare him to film and TV characters.\n\nHe recalls being cornered by a group of people who would compete to see who could call him the most offensive names.\n\nHe suffered the double whammy of being left out when other children didn't want him to be a part of something and missing out because he was too shy to try to become involved with other children.\n\nNow he is encouraging everyone to stand up to hate crimes.\n\n\"It is absolutely unacceptable that people have to go through prejudice for reasons that are outwith their control. I want to promote the fact they can be reported and you can get help for them rather than bottling up these feelings which can be hard to deal with.\"\n\nRory after one of his surgeries\n\nA survey by Changing Faces of 800 people with a disfigurement found that a third had been a victim of a hate crime because of how they look, but hardly any of them reported it to police.\n\nThe charity's Rob Murray said: \"We found out part of the reason was a lack of faith in the police, and resources. People see it as part of life.\"\n\nInsp Claire Miller from Police Scotland said: \"Hate crime is any crime which is perceived by the victim or any other person to be motivated by malice and ill will towards a social group.\n\n\"It can be vandalism, anti-social behaviour or physical assault and none of those should be tolerated.\n\n\"We take hate crime very seriously. Victims or witnesses of hate crime should report it to us.\"\n• None 'I have achieved everything I was told I wouldn't' Video, 00:01:03'I have achieved everything I was told I wouldn't'\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Theresa May's portrait has had to be taken down at Oxford University\n\nA picture of Theresa May has been taken down at the University of Oxford to protect it from protests by students.\n\nThe picture of the prime minister, part of a celebration of women who had studied at the university, had been \"obscured\" by critical messages.\n\nThe portrait had been \"plastered\" with messages about issues including immigration, Windrush and Brexit.\n\nA university spokesman said removing Theresa May's picture was \"absolutely not done to make a political point\".\n\nInstead, the university authorities say, the picture had been taken down to keep it safe from \"mainly humorous satirical messages\".\n\nProtesters had used Twitter to say that the university should not be putting up pictures of Mrs May - making reference to the Windrush scandal.\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 picture was on display at the university's school of geography, as part of a series of portraits of \"outstanding female graduates\" from the department.\n\n\"It has now been taken down and will be re-displayed so it can be seen as intended,\" said a statement from the university.\n\n\"We remain proud of her success and that of all the graduates celebrated in the display.\"", "Ann Coffey said some children are being sent as far as 100 miles from where they live\n\nMinisters have been accused of breaking a promise to cut the number of children being \"farmed out\" to children's homes huge distances from where they live.\n\nGovernment reforms in 2012 pledged to cut down \"out-of-borough placements\" to help combat child sexual exploitation.\n\nLabour MP Ann Coffey used a Commons debate to say a \"sent-away generation\" is in danger of falling prey to paedophiles and drugs gangs.\n\nThe government said placements \"should meet the needs of children\".\n\nStockport MP Ms Coffey - chair of the all party parliamentary group for runaway and missing children and adults - said there had been a 64% rise nationally in the number of children being sent to live away between 2012 and 2017.\n\nFigures obtained by Ms Coffey from the Department for Education show the number of children placed in homes out of their borough has risen from 2,250 in 2012 to 3,680 in March 2017.\n\nMs Coffey said some children were being sent as far as 100 miles from where they live \"where they have no friends or family circles or local social workers\", creating a \"perfect storm where it is increasingly difficult to protect [them]\".\n\n\"Despite the [government] pledge, record numbers of children are being sent away to places where they are more vulnerable to exploitation,\" she added.\n\n\"These children are running away at a faster rate and are being targeted and preyed upon by paedophiles and criminals who know they are vulnerable.\"\n\nThe MP said there had also been a huge increase in the number of sent-away children going missing, with the number of incidents more than doubling to almost 10,000 a year.\n\nThe government says it is strengthening its care planning and children's homes regulation\n\nChildren's charity the NSPCC said going missing from care \"puts children at greater risk of physical abuse, grooming and sexual exploitation\".\n\nA Department for Education spokesman said it was updating its strategy to improve responses to missing people and strengthening its care planning and children's homes regulation to require all homes to have a \"clear policy for preventing children from going missing\".\n\n\"Local authorities have a statutory duty to make sure that placements meet the needs of children in their care and this includes the location of the placement,\" they added.\n\nShe found almost 650 children reported missing in Greater Manchester in 2014 were at risk of child sexual exploitation or serious harm, with almost half concerning children in care.\n\nMs Coffey is highlighting the links between children going missing and sexual exploitation in the debate in Westminster Hall.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A report by Amnesty International found the Met Police's Gang Violence Matrix tracked a disproportionate number of minorities\n\nThe data watchdog is investigating the Met Police's gangs database following accusations it is \"not fit for purpose\".\n\nA report by Amnesty International found the force's Gang Violence Matrix was \"racially discriminatory\" and breaches human rights law.\n\nThe database, set up in the wake of the 2011 London Riots, holds information on about 3,800 persons of interest.\n\nThe Met Police said the matrix helped \"prevent young lives being lost\".\n\nThe report found the matrix tracked a disproportionate number of minorities, as well as 1,500 people who police had assessed as posing no danger of committing violence.\n\nThe Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) confirmed it was \"in contact with the Metropolitan Police Service as part of an investigation into their use of a gangs database\".\n\nThe Met's Gang Violence Matrix was set up in 2012 in response to the London riots\n\nFigures from July 2016 showed 78% of the people listed were black. Police figures show 27% of those prosecuted for youth violence are black.\n\nAbout 13% of London's population is black.\n\nThe matrix uses various intelligence including history of violent crime, entries on social media and information from bodies including local councils to identify gang members.\n\nThey are then given a score assessing the risk they posed. Around 40% of those on the list have a \"harm score\" of zero, the report found.\n\nThose with a zero score may be in custody and therefore not currently offending.\n\nBeing on the matrix could affect access to housing, education and job centre services, the report claimed.\n\nThe Met Police said the matrix was used \"to reduce gang-related violence and prevent young lives being lost\"\n\nThe charity's UK director, Kate Allen, said: \"There is clearly a huge problem with knife crime violence at the moment in London, but the gangs matrix is not the answer.\n\n\"The entire system is racially discriminatory, stigmatising young black men for the type of music they listen to or their social media behaviour, and perpetuating racial bias with potential impacts in all sorts of areas of their lives.\n\nIndividuals identified on the matrix are offered support to divert them away from both offending and becoming a victim of violence, Scotland Yard said.\n\nThe Met said it was working with Tottenham MP David Lammy, Amnesty International and the ICO to \"help understand the approach taken\".\n\nIt is understood that officers in Manchester and Birmingham gather similar information on gang links.\n\nHave you been affected by any of the issues raised in this article? 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You can also contact us in the following ways:\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Jay-Z's mum has spoken of how supportive her son was when she told him she was gay.\n\nGloria Carter told an audience at the GLAAD Media Awards that it was the first time she's spoken to anyone about who she really was.\n\nThe mother-of-four was presented with a special recognition gong for her contribution to his song Smile, released last year.\n\nShe said: \"Smile became a reality because I shared with my son who I am.\"\n\nThe GLAAD Media Awards recognise people and organisations for their fair, accurate and inclusive representations of the LGBT community and the issues that affect their lives.\n\n\"My son cried and said: 'It must have been horrible to live that way for so long.'\"\n\n\"I chose to protect my family from ignorance. I was happy but I was not free.\"\n\nJay-Z has previously told how he cried with joy when his mother spoke to him about being a lesbian and of being in love with her female partner.\n\nIn the song on the rapper's latest 4:44 album he says: \"Mama had four kids, but she's a lesbian/Had to pretend so long that she's a thespian. Had to hide in the closet, so she medicate/Society shame and the pain was too much to take.\"\n\nHe told US talk show host David Letterman: \"For my mother to have to live as someone that she wasn't and hide and like, protect her kids — and didn't want to embarrass her kids... for all this time.\n\n\"For her to sit in front of me and tell me, 'I think I love someone'. I mean, I really cried,\" he told the David Letterman Netflix show.\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\nHe said he had long known she was gay, but the pair only had their first conversation about it last year.\n\nTheir chat came about while Jay-Z was making his latest album 4.44.\n\n\"This was the first time we had the conversation, and the first time I heard her say she loved her partner,\" he said.\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.", "Some fear that Trump may have brought a new and catastrophic regional war in the Middle East that much closer.\n\nAn imperfect deal that was working\n\nThe deal was not perfect. It did not cover a range of worrying Iranian activities from its missile programme to its regional behaviour. At worst you could say that it simply delayed a potential crisis.\n\nThe inconvenient truth for Donald Trump is that, as far as it goes, the nuclear deal was working.\n\nA battle will now be under way in Tehran, and who wins out will determine if the agreement can be saved.\n\nEven those who agree with Mr Trump's actions are left with fundamental questions to answer.\n\nWhere is the \"Plan B\"? How is Iran now to be contained?", "The insurance industry has pledged to crack down on \"excessive\" differences in premiums for new customers and existing policyholders.\n\nThe plan aims to iron out some of the controversial big differences between premiums for new and existing clients.\n\nThe move follows new rules that force firms to display the previous year's premium on renewal notices.\n\nThe new guidelines apply to home, motor and travel insurance, but not pet or health cover.\n\nThe Association of British Insurers (ABI) and the British Insurance Brokers' Association (BIBA) say their Guiding Principles and Action Points should mean \"an improvement in the outcomes for long-standing customers\".\n\nThe new commitments by ABI and BIBA members include:\n\nABI chairman Andy Briggs said insurers did a \"great job\" for their customers, \"but the renewal market simply doesn't work where loyal customers get charged much more than new customers\".\n\n\"Given many consumers expect to get cheaper insurance when they shop around, there is no easy solution,\" he added.\n\n\"These new guiding principles and action points are a positive initiative by the ABI and BIBA members to demonstrate that the whole industry recognise this is an important issue that needs to be addressed.\"\n\nGareth Shaw of Which? said: \"A review of the unfair practice that sees existing customers charged excessively steeper premiums than new customers is long overdue.\n\nWe regularly hear from consumers who are paying hundreds of pounds more a year than new customers because they've automatically renewed their cover.\n\n\"Insurers must now act with urgency and implement much-needed changes to ensure their customers aren't excessively penalised simply for their loyalty.\"\n\nInsurers are finally owning up to what customers have been complaining about for years: the more loyal they are, the more they seem to pay.\n\nThe extra cost can amount to hundreds of pounds a year on a policy.\n\nPeople selling insurance have become addicted to the ruse of offering big discounts to new buyers to keep business moving.\n\nIf you don't bother to shop around, you end up footing the bill.\n\nThe problem with today's plan is that it will be left up to individual insurers to decide which prices are excessive and how to narrow the gap.\n\nCustomers will still need to check what they are paying to make sure they aren't being taken for a ride.\n\nGillian Guy, chief executive of Citizens Advice, said its research had found that long-standing home insurance customers could pay an average of £110 more a year than new customers.\n\nThe new plan showed the industry \"recognises the scale of this problem and is willing to act responsibly to stop consumers being penalised for their loyalty\", she added.\n\n\"The devil, however, will be in the detail - whether this is successful will depend on prices actually coming down for loyal customers,\" she added.\n\n\"The industry should also work with the Financial Conduct Authority to collect better data on the scale of this loyalty penalty. Then we can assess whether this unfair practice is being tackled effectively.\"", "A 14-hour stand-off between a gunman and armed police in Oxford has \"ended peacefully\", police have said.\n\nShots were exchanged between the suspect and officers in Paradise Square on Monday before negotiators attempted to end the situation.\n\nA 24-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of attempted murder at about 03:00 BST, police said.\n\nOne person is being treated for a non-life threatening injury, South Central Ambulance Service said.\n\nFirearms officers were called at 13:15 BST on Monday after witnesses reported hearing gunfire.\n\nDean Dwyer, who saw armed police in the street, said: \"They were screaming 'put your hands up'.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nOne resident said he heard about 20 shots exchanged, with the gunman \"shooting from the balcony\" of a home.\n\n\"I could hear a female negotiator and an armed response man trying to get him to put his hands up [and] let go of the gun,\" he said.\n\nTourist Janet Borgerson was in the nearby Malmaison hotel when she heard \"explosive cracks\" before a series of \"loud bangs\".\n\n\"I thought the second round were firecrackers,\" she said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nOmar Murtaza, 33, said he was evacuated from his nearby home with his wife and four children, aged between seven weeks and six years, during the stand-off.\n\n\"It's a bit scary, this is normally a quiet neighbourhood. You don't expect guns anywhere really, but not in Oxford,\" he said.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by Fred Dimbleby This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nFred Dimbleby, editor of Cherwell Online, tweeted footage showing paramedics carrying a stretcher to the scene.\n\nSupt Joe Kidman said: \"Thank you to everyone for your understanding and patience while we worked to resolve the incident safely.\n\n\"We are grateful for the support of members of the public and local businesses. If you're coming in to Oxford today you should not experience any further disruption.\"\n\nIn a later tweet, Supt Kidman said: \"On a demanding day the support of the public makes a huge difference.\n\n\"I'll be back down again with local officers later to say so in person.\"\n\nA police spokesman said the incident, which sparked a \"large police presence\", was \"contained\" and \"no one sustained any serious injuries\".\n\nOfficers began to allow residents to return to their homes on Monday evening after presenting themselves at the police cordon.\n\nAll road closures have been lifted in the area, though police remain at the scene.\n\nThames Valley Police said shots were fired from a property in Paradise Square\n\nWith the streets now open, it was eerily quiet down Paradise Square this morning.\n\nIt was as if the incident hadn't happened at all as people freely used the road to go about their daily business.\n\nAt about 07:00 BST some residents began returning to their homes after spending the night away for their safety.\n\nThe police officers and emergency service personnel - which swarmed the street for most of the afternoon yesterday - were nowhere to be seen.\n\nThe only sign left in the street to show the gravity of the incident was a police officer looking out from a window in one of the properties, and a single police car parked at the end of the road.\n\nA small footpath behind the square is still cordoned off to the public, with several officers in attendance.\n\nA small footpath behind the square is still cordoned off\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Some ethnic minority alcohol support services have seen an increase in inquiries following a BBC survey suggesting that, despite Sikhism forbidding drinking, 27% of UK Sikhs had a family member with a problem.\n\nThey reported a rise in contacts from both alcoholics and volunteers.\n\nNottingham's Bac-In has seen an almost sixfold increase in website hits.\n\nAnd UK Punjabi services the First Step Foundation and the Shanti Project have also seen an increase in interest.\n\nSohan Sahota, of Bac-In said: \"Average website hits are around 2,000 a month. We've had over 11,500 hits since the article.\"\n\nJaz Rai, director of the First Step Foundation, which works with UK Punjabis across England, said it had doubled the size of its weekly support group and was planning a women-only meeting to address the increased demand.\n\nThe Shanti Project, which works to provide culturally appropriate services for the Punjabi community in Birmingham, has also seen an increase.\n\nTina, a British Punjabi mother-of-two, contacted the BBC after reading its coverage of the issue.\n\nThe reports resonated very strongly with her own experiences, she said.\n\nHer husband - a heavy drinker - had been emotionally abusive towards her, Tina said, trying to convince her that she was going mad, and taking out loans in her name to finance his drinking after losing his job as a plumber.\n\n\"There's so much going on in Asian families that no-one addresses,\" she said. \"I just want our culture to open up.\n\n\"People need to wake up and realise that alcohol is poison,\" she said. \"I don't want my kids to go through what I went through. I don't want my daughter to think that it's normal.\"\n\nSharing stories about addiction can play a key role in the path to recovery, according to Alcoholics Anonymous.\n\nRecovering alcoholic Sanjay Bhandari told the BBC: \"The thing that resonated most with me was to hear other people's stories.\n\n\"What they experienced, what it was like, and how things got better gave me hope and inspiration, 'Well I can do that.'\"\n\nThe BBC's coverage sparked a discussion on social media, involving Sikh MPs, support services, and people directly affected by the issue.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi 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.\n\nTalking about the issue openly was a good first step towards challenging cultural norms and tackling the problem head on, said Jasvir Singh, on BBC Radio 4's Thought for the Day programme.\n\n\"To overcome any fear of shame, it's important to look at alcohol misuse as a health condition and treat it with empathy and understanding rather than condemnation and judgement of the person or their family.\"\n\nTina's name has been changed.\n\nIf you have been affected by any of the issues discussed in this article, please see the resources listed on BBC Action Line.\n\nCorrection: This story originally said a BBC survey had suggested 27% of UK Punjabis had a family member with a drinking problem. This has been amended to reflect the fact this figure relates only to British Sikhs.", "Prosecutors said Moseley, 50, fired the shotgun but handed it to his son saying: \"Tell them you've done it.\"\n\nA father who pressured his 14-year-old son into taking the blame for a murder he had committed has been jailed.\n\nMatthew Moseley, 50, shot Lee Holt in the chest when he tried to get into his home last October.\n\nAfter he fired the shotgun, Moseley handed it to his son, saying: \"Tell them you've done it.\"\n\nMoseley, who had denied murder, was given a life sentence at Preston Crown Court and ordered to serve at least 26 years in jail.\n\nJurors heard Mr Holt had gone to confront Moseley at his home in Oswaldtwistle, near Accrington, amid a long-running dispute between the men's children.\n\nMoseley opened his front door and fired a Beretta semi-automatic shotgun at Mr Holt, the jury was told.\n\nHis son made a fake confession and Moseley stayed silent as the teenager was arrested and led away in handcuffs.\n\nDespite the boy changing his account, Moseley maintained his innocence and said he had knocked the gun from his son's hands.\n\nIn a covert recording of a prison van conversation, Moseley said to his son: \"You are a minor. You can't go to any jail.\n\n\"Self-defence for you and you didn't know what you were doing. Me, different ball game. And that is the way we have got to go with this.\"\n\nPassing sentence, Mr Justice Simon Bryan told Moseley there was \"no possible justification\" for his actions, nor any suggestion he acted in self-defence.\n\nLee Holt had gone to confront Moseley about an argument between the men's sons\n\n\"How any father could do that to their son is difficult enough to comprehend but what is truly incomprehensible is the cynical way in which you sought to manipulate, and pressurise, your son into accepting responsibility for the shooting and death of Lee Holt.\n\n\"You allowed your son to be arrested and questioned on suspicion of murder when all along you knew you had shot [him].\n\n\"Your continual denial of guilt resulted in him having to give evidence against his own father and members of Lee Holt's family having to relive the terrible events of the night in question.\"\n\nRichard Littler, defending, said his client was a hard-working family man who reacted in a \"bizarre fashion\" in the heat of the moment when there was \"kicking, banging and threats\" made at his front door.\n\nDet Ch Insp Jill Johnston from Lancashire Police said Moseley's sentence was \"nothing less than he deserves\".\n\nThere were \"no winners\" in the case, she said, as the Holt family \"lost a dearly loved father, son, partner, brother and uncle\", while Moseley's son must \"try and build a life for himself knowing his dad is in prison after trying to blame him\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nWales manager Ryan Giggs says he is praying that his former club manager Sir Alex Ferguson can recover from a brain haemorrhage.\n\nFerguson, 76, remains in intensive care after emergency surgery on Saturday.\n\nThe Scot gave a 17-year-old Giggs his Manchester United debut in 1991 and he starred in all 13 of Ferguson's Premier League title wins.\n\n\"Now is the time to pray and hope he can make a full recovery,\" Giggs told BBC Wales.\n\n\"He has been the biggest influence in my career, both on and off the pitch.\n\n\"I know the operation has been a success - but he is a fighter and that is what makes me think that he will be able to make a recovery.\"\n\nGiggs' sentiments were echoed by current Manchester United and England defender Phil Jones, who described Ferguson as being like a father figure to him.\n\nJones was signed from Blackburn by Ferguson as a 19-year-old in June 2011 and was part of the Scot's final title-winning squad in 2013 before his retirement in May that year after winning 38 trophies during 26 years in charge.\n\n\"He's taken me under his wing like a father and it was shocking,\" said Jones, 26, who has made 190 appearances for the Reds.\n\n\"It's sad, but I know his character and I know he has that fight in him.\n\n\"He is such a legend in my eyes. He is the one who brought me to the club and gave me that opportunity to play for one of the biggest clubs in the world.\n\n\"He has got all his family and friends around him, the support from all the players and staff at Manchester United and football around the world.\n\n\"When something like that does happen it's nice that the football world comes together and shows support and we are all rooting for him.\"\n\nMichael Carrick, who played under Ferguson for seven years and is taking up a coaching role with the club following his retirement, said he was \"devastated\" to hear the news of Ferguson's illness.\n\n\"I couldn't quite believe it. It didn't really sink in,\" the midfielder told MUTV.\n\n\"We were all praying for him and thinking of him, Cathy and the family. It's a tough time for everyone but I'm thinking positive and hoping he will pull through.\n\n\"The whole world showed their support and I was just concerned about him, as an ex-manager and a friend - as he was to everyone.\n\n\"It was the effect he had on everyone. He means a lot to me, as he does to this club.\"\n\nA host of Premier League managers, including Arsenal's Arsene Wenger and Manchester City's Pep Guardiola, sent their good wishes over the weekend to Ferguson, the most successful manager in the history of the British game.\n\nWenger, who is leaving the Gunners at the end of the season, described Ferguson as \"an optimistic man\" with Guardiola saying his thoughts were with Ferguson's wife Cathy and the rest of his family, including his son Darren, who is currently in charge of Doncaster Rovers.\n\nJones' team-mate Juan Mata also sent his good wishes, saying the news had had a \"huge impact\" on the club and called on United to use Ferguson's winning mentality for the remainder of the season.\n\n\"He has been a unique and fundamental figure in the football world over the last few decades,\" said Mata, who joined the club in January 2014.\n\n\"I've never been coached by him, unfortunately, yet I know well his incomparable legacy on this club.\"", "Armed police are locked in a stand-off with a gunman after a shootout in Oxford.\n\nThames Valley Police said shots had been fired from a property in Paradise Square and officers returned fire. Officers are currently negotiating with a man.\n\nOne person is being treated for a non-life threatening injury, South Central Ambulance Service said.\n\nA cordon remains in place around Paradise Square and Norfolk Street.\n\nFirearms officers were called at 13:15 BST after witnesses reported hearing gunfire.\n\nOn Sunday night police tweeted that officers \"remain in Paradise Square working to resolve the incident\".\n\nThe force added that some residents were being allowed to return to their homes.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by TVP Oxford This 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\nJohn Rippington was in the pub waiting for a friend when he heard the commotion.\n\n\"We heard one very loud bang and just previous to that, two guys had come in saying they thought they had heard gunshots outside.\"\n\nAnother resident said he witnessed the start of the altercation between an armed man and the police, during which he heard about 20 shots exchanged.\n\n\"He was shooting from the balcony and then he climbed down the balcony, he was in the gardens and police were kicking the back doors to other gardens trying to get him,\" the man added.\n\n\"I could hear a female negotiator and an armed response man trying to get him to put his hands up, let go of the gun, keep his hands on show and things like that.\"\n\nThames Valley Police said shots had been fired from a property in Paradise Square\n\nDean Dwyer, who saw armed police in the street, said: \"They were screaming 'put your hands up'.\"\n\nA woman, who asked not to be named, told the Press Association she heard loud bangs from her balcony.\n\n\"After a second round it became apparent these were gunshots so I rushed inside.\n\n\"There was a couple more shots, three spurts in total, still a lot of shouting and barking. I heard a man shout 'show me your hands' repeatedly.\n\n\"The shouting continued and only quieted down an hour later or so, between now and then there have been bursts of shouting, barks and helicopters.\"\n\nTourist Janet Borgerson said police seemed to have the gunman isolated\n\nTourist Janet Borgerson was in the nearby Malmaison hotel when she heard \"explosive cracks\" before a series of \"loud bangs\".\n\n\"I thought the second round were firecrackers. I noticed hotel bar staff ushering people inside,\" she said.\n\nMs Borgerson, who is visiting from the United States, said guests were later told they were \"perfectly safe\" and allowed to leave the hotel.\n\n\"The police were quickly on site and after 45 minutes or so inside, they seemed to have the shooter isolated.\n\n\"To the police, after a short time, this was definitely a 'keep calm and carry on' moment.\"\n\nWitnesses said emergency services \"stormed down the road\"\n\nBBC reporter Will Banks said a helicopter was hovering over the scene, with at least 10 police vehicles on the ground and police activity centred on Paradise Square.\n\nAndrew Mace, from Middle Barton in Oxfordshire, praised the emergency services for their conduct.\n\nThe 16-year-old said: \"We walked towards Paradise Square for a wander and there were about 20 police cars and five ambulances storming down the road. Police then stopped us from walking down and taped up the road.\n\n\"We walked up the hill then 10 paramedics carried a stretcher down past us to the scene. The police did a good job not to cause a commotion and secure the area.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Fred Dimbleby This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nFred Dimbleby, editor of Cherwell Online, tweeted footage showing paramedics carrying a stretcher to the scene.\n\nMembers of the public have been warned to avoid the area and the Oxford Tube, and Stagecoach said buses are not stopping on Castle Street.\n\nSupt Joe Kidman said: \"People in Oxford will notice an increased police presence in the area while officers are dealing with the incident, which is contained and taking place at a residential property.\"\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. Commuters react as rail fare rises take effect: \"It's gone up every year, relentlessly\"\n\nAverage rail ticket prices have risen by 3.4% across the UK, in the biggest increase to fares since 2013.\n\nMany commuters have seen their season tickets go up by more than £100, while campaigners and unions warn many people were being \"priced off\" UK railways.\n\nAndy McDonald, the shadow transport secretary, said the railway network was \"fractured, expensive and complex\".\n\nThe Department for Transport said price rises were capped in line with inflation and improved the network.\n\nCommuter routes that are now more expensive include Liverpool to Manchester (up £108 to £3,152), Maidenhead to London (up £104 to £3,092) and Elgin to Inverness (up £100 to £2,904).\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How do UK rail fares compare to Europe?\n\nFare increases to regulated fares - which comprise about half of all tickets - are calculated using the previous July's Retail Prices Index (RPI) measure of inflation.\n\nSince 2007 the financial burden of running the rail system has increasingly fallen on passengers, after the government decided taxpayers as a whole should pay less via subsidies.\n\nConservative MP Martin Vickers, a member of Parliament's transport select committee, sympathised with season ticket holders, but told Radio 4's World at One programme that it is appropriate for rail passengers to make their contribution to the system.\n\n\"The reality is that someone has to pay and it's either the tax payer or the users of the system,\" he said.\n\nHe said the system of privatisation is \"far from perfect\" but added that it was the failings of Network Rail - which is nationalised - that is leading to the system's \"lack of capacity\".\n\nCampaigners have planned protests at busy rail stations, including Kings Cross in London\n\nFares used to account for about half the cost of running our trains, whereas now it is about 70%.\n\nPaul Plummer, chief executive of industry trade body the Rail Delivery Group, said fare changes would provide cash for better services and investment, including the Thameslink and Great Northern rail upgrades.\n\nSpeaking from London Bridge station, where five revamped platforms have been opened, he said fares were \"underpinning massively required investment\".\n\nBruce Williamson, of campaign group Railfuture, says the lower Consumer Price Index (CPI) inflation measure should be used for regulated fare increases.\n\nHe argued that if CPI had been used rather than RPI since 2004, rail fares would be 17% lower.\n\nTransport Secretary Chris Grayling is out of the country for a ministerial visit to Qatar, but a government spokesman said the way fares were calculated was \"under review\".\n\nThe spokesman said the government \"carefully monitors how rail fares and average earnings change\".\n\nLabour's Mr McDonald said his plans to join protests across the country were \"interrupted\" after his train to Leeds broke down.\n\nHe tweeted a video message on board, saying: \"Let's take our railway back into public ownership.\"\n\nPassenger Sarah Beer, from Lingfield in Surrey, pays nearly £4,000 a year for her rail commute to London, which she describes as an \"extortionate amount of money\".\n\n\"It is like watching the Great Train Robbery all over again,\" she told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.\n\n\"What I cannot grasp, in this day and age, is that all we ask for is a reliable train service.\"\n\nRobin Keenan, from Waltham Abbey in Essex, said he has been priced out of his London-based job due to ticket costs.\n\n\"I'm starting a new job tomorrow that's a lot closer to home - so no more trains,\" he told BBC News.\n\n\"I've taken a £2,000 hit in my wages but I'll be saving that amount due to a short bike journey.\"\n\nMany commuters expressed their frustration with the increases on social media.\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\nStephen Joseph, chief executive of the Campaign for Better Transport (CBT), accused the government of choosing to \"snub rail passengers\" while fuel duty continued to be frozen.\n\n\"The extra money that season ticket holders will have to fork out this year is almost as much as drivers will save,\" Mr Joseph said.\n\nLondon Mayor Sadiq Khan, who has frozen fares across the capital's TfL network until 2020, questioned why ticket prices were going up elsewhere.\n\n\"It's a scandal that the government are allowing failing private train companies to increase rail fares again,\" he said.\n\nMeanwhile, Mick Cash, general secretary of the Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers (RMT) union, warned people were being \"priced off\" UK railways.\n\nHe told BBC News that public ownership of the railways was a \"necessary\" step.\n\nThe union has staged fare protests in stations across England and Wales, with separate protests planned for 3 January in Scotland where it is a bank holiday.\n\nA spokesman for the Department for Transport said it was investing in the \"biggest modernisation of our railways since the Victorian times\".\n\nHe said: \"This includes the first trains running though London on the Crossrail project, an entirely new Thameslink rail service, and continuing work on the transformative Great North Rail Project.\"\n\nMark Carne, chief executive of Network Rail, said passengers would see a \"huge change\" in the coming year due to investment in rail networks.\n\n\"We all share the desire to try to keep fares as low as possible,\" he told BBC Breakfast.\n\n\"My job is to run the network as efficiently as possible.\"", "The UK foreign secretary sets out what the US president would need to do to deserve the honour.", "Student Dikina Muzeya said male students should concentrate on reading\n\nZambia's leading university has apologised for telling female students not to visit its library \"half-naked\" because it would distract men.\n\nThe University of Zambia said it had no dress code and it would not \"tolerate old discredited misogynist views\".\n\nA notice put up in the library at the campus in the capital, Lusaka, said: \"Modest is the way to go!\"\n\nIt divided opinion in the socially conservative nation, with some students supporting it and others opposing it.\n\nThe controversial notice has been removed\n\nIn a statement, university librarian Christine Kanyengo said the notice did not reflect the views of the library's management.\n\n\"We would like to unreservedly apologise to our female library users for any offence caused,\" she said.\n\nAll female students should \"feel comfortable\" when using the library, Ms Kanyengo said.\n\n\"Tolerance and diversity is the bedrock of our institution,\" she added in a statement which the BBC's Kennedy Gondwe has posted on Twitter.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThird-year student Dikina Muzeya, who had criticised the new rule, told the BBC she welcomed the apology.\n\n\"The library management should be more conscious about notices that are published, especially notices involving restrictions, such as dress code, on a particular sex,\" she said.\n\nMale student Killion Phiri had welcomed the ban when it was imposed.\n\n\"How can you concentrate on studying when someone walks in a mini-skirt or a tight dress?\" he said.", "Watch as Mark Williams delivers on his promise of appearing naked in his news conference if he won the World Snooker Championship title.\n\nWATCH MORE: I wasn't here last year, I watched it in a caravan - Williams\n\nREAD MORE: Williams beats Higgins to win third title\n\nAvailable in the UK only.", "Ireland's Ryan O'Shaughnessy reached the Britain's Got Talent final in 2012\n\nIreland will take part in the Eurovision Song Contest final for the first time since 2013 after making it through the first semi-final in Lisbon.\n\nIsrael, Cyprus and Finland - featuring former X Factor semi-finalist Saara Aalto - were among the other nine countries who progressed.\n\nBut Greece and Belgium, who had been tipped to qualify for Saturday's main event, failed to make it through.\n\nA further 18 countries will take part in the second semi-final on Thursday.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Eurovision This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 UK, represented by SuRie, is automatically in Saturday's final as one of the \"Big Five\" countries. The other four are Germany, Italy, Spain and France, while hosts Portugal also automatically qualified for the final.\n\nThe acts making it through the first semi-final were:\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\nIsrael's Netta is among the favourites for the main prize after competing in the first semi-final with her track Toy, which has a powerful message of female empowerment - and a quirky chicken dance.\n\nCyprus, another country widely-tipped to win the grand final, was represented by pop star Eleni Foureira, who brought the tropical and catchy beats of her track Fuego.\n\nBorn in Albania, Eleni first established herself as one third of Greek group Mystique in 2007.\n\nCyprus' Eleni Foureira is among the favourites to win the contest\n\nThe Czech Republic's Mikolas Josef has been touted as the nation's answer to Justin Bieber. The 22-year-old's rendition of Lie To Me - a bouncy, swaggering tale of young love - has clear mainstream appeal.\n\nHe had to go to hospital after sustaining a neck injury during rehearsals.\n\nOther notable acts included Finland's Saara Aalto, who won over UK audiences during her time on The X Factor in 2016, despite losing out in that contest to Matt Terry.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Eurovision This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nRyan O'Shaughnessy represented Ireland, which has more Eurovision wins - seven - than any other country, but has not won the competition since 1996.\n\nHis song Together is about the end of a love affair and features two males dancers as the splitting couple.\n\nSome viewers may remember him for reaching the Britain's Got Talent final in 2012.\n\nSuRie said it was a dream to represent the UK at Eurovision\n\nThe fates of the semi-finalists were decided by a combination of votes from national juries and viewers.\n\nThe nine unsuccessful countries included Azerbaijan, which had previously never failed to qualify from a Eurovision Song Contest semi-final since first entering a decade ago.\n\nThe other stories to fall at the semi-final stage were Armenia, Belarus, Croatia, FYR Macedonia, Iceland and Switzerland.\n\nThe UK's hopes in the grand final at Lisbon's Altice Arena on Saturday night will rest on London-born singer SuRie, who will perform her ballad Storm.\n\nSpeaking at the first semi-final, the singer, whose real name is Susanna Marie Cork, said she was excited for Saturday, adding: \"It's such a dream.\"\n\nBulgaria also made it through to the final\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.", "Argentina's president spoke on television in an address to the nation\n\nArgentina is to start talks about a financing deal with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Wednesday amid reports it is seeking $30bn (£22bn).\n\nFinance minister Nicolas Dujovne is due to fly to the IMF's Washington offices.\n\nAfter recent turmoil that saw interest rates hit 40%, President Mauricio Macri said IMF aid would \"strengthen growth\" and help avoid crises of the past.\n\nThe talks come 17 years after Argentina defaulted on its debts and 12 years since it severed ties with IMF.\n\nMr Macri said in an address to the nation on Tuesday: \"Just a few minutes ago I spoke with (IMF) director Christine Lagarde, and she confirmed we would start working on an agreement.\"\n\n\"This will allow us to strengthen our program of growth and development, giving us greater support to face this new global scenario and avoid crises like the ones we have had in our history,\" he said.\n\nLocal media and Bloomberg reported that Argentina was seeking $30bn, although the government declined to comment.\n\nThe peso has lost a quarter of its value in the past year amid President Macri's pro-market reforms.\n\nLast week the central bank raised interest rates from 33.25% to 40%.\n\nMany people still blame IMF austerity requirements for policies that led to a financial and economic meltdown in 2001 to 2002 that left millions of middle class Argentines in poverty.\n\nArgentina eventually defaulted on its debts. And although its last IMF loan was paid down in 2006, the country severed ties with the Washington-based body.\n\nMr Macri said Argentina was suffering as a result of high oil prices and the expectation that US interest rates would rise in the coming months.\n\nDescribing Argentina as a \"valued member\" of the IMF, Ms Lagarde said: \"Discussions have been initiated on how we can work together to strengthen the Argentine economy and these will be pursued in short order.\"\n\nArgentina is in the middle of a pro-market economic reform programme as Mr Macri seeks to reverse years of protectionism and high government spending under his predecessor, Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner.\n\nInflation, a perennial problem in Argentina, was at 25% in 2017, behind Venezuela as the highest in Latin America.\n\nThis year, the central bank has set an inflation target of 15% and has said it will continue to act to enforce it.\n\nLast week's rate rise to 40% was the third increase in eight days in an attempt to boost the peso.\n\nNews of the new talks may be controversial in some quarters. Many people in Argentina still blame the IMF for the policies that led to the 2001 financial and economic crisis. The country defaulted on $80bn (£59bn) of sovereign debt - the biggest in history.\n\nMillions of middle class Argentines were plunged into poverty as a result.\n\nHowever, Mr Macri said the new negotiations with the IMF would give the country \"greater support to face this new global scenario and avoid crises like the ones we have had in our history\".\n\nMarkets reacted positively to the news, with both local shares and the peso recovering some ground.\n\nMiguel Kiguel, a former Argentine finance official who runs local consultancy Econviews, tweeted: \"An IMF line of credit is the least expensive option for growth in Argentina.\"\n\nArgentina has had a turbulent relationship with the IMF.\n\nIn 2013 the country was censured by the Fund over the inflation and economic growth data published by the administration of President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner. It was a step in a process that could ultimately have led to Argentina's expulsion from the IMF.\n\nEarlier, many had blamed the IMF for contributing to a financial and economic crisis that came to a head around the end of 2001, which set back living standards severely.\n\nRelations have improved under the current president, Mauricio Macri, whose approach to economic policy was much more consistent with that favoured at the IMF.\n\nThe prospect of a new IMF loan will test that improvement. It will come with economic policy conditions, including almost certainly spending cuts and tax rises, which are likely to aggravate political strains in Argentina.", "A group of women is helping to protect one of the largest remaining elephant populations in Africa.", "Former Chelsea coaches Gwyn Williams and Graham Rix face new allegations of racially abusing young players in the 1970s, 80s and 90s, with one saying they made his life \"hell\".\n\nSeven former Chelsea players have now accused Williams or Rix of historical abuse, following previous claims made by three players in January.\n\nWilliams and Rix deny \"all and any allegations of racial or other abuse\".\n\nChelsea said they are taking the allegations \"extremely seriously\".\n\nThe club added: \"The allegations will be fully investigated. We are absolutely determined to do the right thing, to assist the authorities and any investigations they may carry out, and to fully support those affected which would include counselling for any former player that may need it.\"\n\nOne lawyer suggested more racial abuse claims could follow across football.\n\nThe BBC has spoken to four players, one of whom alleged that he was subjected to an \"exhaustive list\" of racial slurs, while another was allegedly racially abused by Williams when he asked why he was dropped from the youth team.\n\nAnother described the club as \"institutionally racist\" at the time the incidents were alleged to have occurred.\n\nTheir claims have also been supported by two white witnesses, former players Gary Baker and Grant Lunn.\n\nBaker, who played for the Chelsea youth team from 1981 to 1985, said that \"to have Gwyn totally deny the things that were said was just totally wrong\".\n\nHe told BBC Sport: \"My own beliefs are that somebody should be accountable and answerable to the things that were said.\"\n\nAll four players said that their football careers and personal lives had been affected by the abuse they suffered and an inability to report it.\n\nOne said: \"The behaviour was appalling but the players had no way of challenging this behaviour which made it even worse.\"\n\nFormer England and Arsenal midfielder Rix, 60, joined the Stamford Bridge club in 1993 and left in 2000, a year after being jailed for having sex with an underage girl.\n\nWilliams, 68, joined Chelsea in 1979 as youth development officer and worked as assistant manager under former boss Claudio Ranieri before leaving the club in 2006.\n\nHe joined Leeds as technical director in the same year but was dismissed in 2013 after sending an \"obscene\" email containing pornographic images to work colleagues.\n\n'It feels like it's hell you're going to'\n\nOne player told the BBC that Williams allegedly used racial slurs in a \"comfortable manner like he had done it before\" while Rix was more \"psychological\" and \"chipped away\" at players.\n\nHe also felt some of the racially-offensive terms were used to cause \"conflict\" in the dressing room and pandered to typecasts of black people.\n\n\"You are written off before you even open your mouth,\" he said. \"That kind of thing was engineered because it causes conflict between youths and other youths, black against white.\"\n\nHe added: \"There is no way of buttering it up, it's like hell because of what it was doing psychologically. You feel like you are the only one at the time, it goes against the natural essence of the environment.\n\n\"Yes, you want to become something, but as a club you feel like it's hell you're going to.\"\n\nAnother player said he feared going to the training ground, and believed race \"had a part to play\" in him being released by the club.\n\n\"In terms of the club being institutionally racist at the time, I would say upon reflection, yes,\" the former youth team player alleged.\n\n\"I would say that this behaviour was obviously filtered down from above. It was accepted and there was no challenge to this type of behaviour.\n\n\"However, I have to echo that people wouldn't have reported this because they had no faith and there was no pathway to [reporting it]. The behaviour was appalling but the players had no way of challenging this behaviour which made it even worse.\n\n\"It was quite common language, but you were in a predominantly-white environment. The changing room was very white, the senior members of staff, the senior players, the management, they were all Caucasian, so who were you going to report a racial incident to?\"\n\nA separate player described how he was \"shocked\" after allegedly being subjected to a racially-offensive term by Williams when he asked why he had been dropped.\n\n\"I felt humiliated, which I did every time he racially abused me,\" he said. \"I felt degraded, belittled. It was just something which no child in any walk of life should be subjected to, especially by someone who is meant to be in charge.\"\n\nThe same player said the abuse he suffered had \"affected every aspect\" of his life.\n\n\"I have suffered with depression, I get really bad mood swings, it's affected previous relationships, previous employment. It destroyed me as a person, it destroyed my life.\"\n\nLawyer Renu Daly, a specialist in supporting victims of abuse at Hudgell Solicitors, said she thought the claims could be the tip of the iceberg across football.\n\n\"I do believe there will be further claims coming forward and I think they should come forward because I don't think these people should suffer in silence,\" she said.\n\n\"What has become apparent from those that have come forward is that it has affected them significantly throughout their years. It has affected their relationships, jobs. Often they are in need of a great deal of support and they often want to find out why it happened. We are seeking to provide them with those answers.\"\n\n'Money is not going to bring back the old me'\n\nAsked whether seeking compensation was a factor, Daly said \"money was the last thing on the players' minds\".\n\n\"The main reason they are coming forward is they've never had their distress addressed,\" she said. \"There is a fear that seems to have been going on even since they were young.\"\n\nOne player added: \"Compensation doesn't come into the matter, you can't turn back time and money is certainly not going to bring back the old me. Nature will do that in time.\n\n\"The two characters that have moved on and have had successful lives, they are walking around confident that it never happened.\"\n\nAnother added: \"It's about giving the opportunity for other players who are in the same landscape to realise that if they do make a claim or a suggestion about racial abuse, similar to the Windrush generation, to the #metoo movement these people are no longer ignored.\n\n\"It's also about allowing younger players coming through to have a platform to say 'hang on a moment, I'd like to question that, can we have a conversation?'\"", "The diminutive arachnid, which is nicknamed Kim, can leap six times her body length from a standing start.", "Campaigners have taken to the streets across the island of Ireland over the Eighth Amendment referendum\n\nFacebook has said it will block ads relating to Ireland's forthcoming referendum on abortion that do not originate from advertisers inside the country.\n\nThere had been worries that foreign ads could influence the result of the vote.\n\nFacebook has not applied such a policy to British elections or referendums.\n\nA 25 May referendum could repeal the Eighth Amendment to the Republic of Ireland's constitution, which states \"the right to life of the unborn\".\n\nIt means that the country has a near-total ban on abortion, with terminations not allowed in cases of rape or incest, for example - unless there is a substantial risk to the life of the mother.\n\nIn April, Irish data protection commissioner Helen Dixon said it was possible that foreign actors could try to sway the referendum.\n\nReports in The Times newspaper's Ireland edition had also highlighted the problem.\n\nFacebook said that its ban on ads not from the Republic would be effective from 8 May. The company will rely partly on reports from campaign groups that identify such ads.\n\nIt added that such a policy would also apply to future elections in the country.\n\nAds uploaded to Facebook by organisations based in the country could still be funded by foreign sources, however.\n\nPro-life groups and others have used Facebook to publish campaign ads targeted at Irish voters\n\n\"This is an issue we have been thinking about for some time,\" said Facebook in a statement, referring to the Eighth Amendment referendum.\n\n\"Today, as part of our efforts to help protect the integrity of elections and referendums from undue influence, we will begin rejecting ads related to the referendum if they are being run by advertisers based outside of Ireland.\n\n\"We feel the spirit of this approach is also consistent with the Irish electoral law that prohibits campaigns from accepting foreign donations.\"\n\nThe firm added that it intended to provide an open platform \"for people to express ideas and views on both sides of a debate\".\n\nIn April, Facebook announced it would vet ads relating to the UK's local elections, which took place earlier this month.\n\nHowever, this action did not extend to blocking ads simply because they had been placed by foreign organisations.\n\nA spokeswoman for Facebook told the BBC that the social media site did not have any similar plans in other countries to make public at present.\n\nShe added, \"We are looking closely at all elections and determining what steps we can take.\"", "Before an official agreement was even made, Donald Trump was tweeting criticisms of the 2015 Iran nuclear deal. And now the attempts of the French president to dissuade him from ditching the deal look like they may have been in vain.", "Audi has admitted that another 60,000 A6 and A7 models with diesel engines have emission software issues.\n\nThe number is on top of the 850,000 recalled last year by the Volkswagen subsidiary, of which only some have been found to require modification.\n\nThe so-called dieselgate emissions scandal first came to light in September 2015.\n\nUS prosecutors last week called it an \"appalling\" fraud that went to the very top of the company.\n\nAudi's chief executive, Rupert Stadler, said the company had responded quickly \"because full disclosure lies in our highest interest\".\n\nCustomers will be informed and offered a software update.\n\nThe German transport ministry said earlier on Tuesday that the country's vehicle authority had summoned Audi for a formal hearing.\n\nThree years ago, Volkswagen admitted that nearly 600,000 cars sold in the US were fitted with \"defeat devices\" designed to circumvent emissions tests.\n\nIt said it had installed software in 11 million diesel cars worldwide that could tell when they were being tested and cut their emissions.\n\nOn the open road, untested, the level of emissions would in practice be far higher - up to 40 times as bad as recorded under laboratory conditions.\n\nLast Thursday, US prosecutors claimed that former VW chief executive Martin Winterkorn was not only fully briefed about what his engineers were up to in the emissions scandal, but that he also authorised a continuing cover-up. VW has said it is co-operating with the US investigations.\n\nAudi says it discovered what it calls \"irregularities\" in the emissions controls of some A6 and A7 models while carrying out internal investigations in the wake of the scandal that engulfed the VW Group two years ago. It notified the authorities itself.\n\nIt is worth remembering that the VW Group is still under intense scrutiny from US regulators. Continued surveillance by a court-appointed monitor was a condition of the $4.3bn settlement agreed with the Department of Justice last year.\n\nSo it is unlikely that the latest concerns arise from any new deliberate wrongdoing.\n\nReports suggest the software in question limits the injection of adblue - an additive used to help clean exhaust gases - when the contents of the adblue tank run low. That in turn means emissions go up.\n\nIt could be a defeat device - or it could be a system originally designed just to give users a bit more time to fill up their adblue tanks, but which is now deemed to be unacceptable because of its impact on emissions.\n\nEither way, Audi clearly has some explaining to do. Embarrassing perhaps - particularly as the news has come out the day before Audi's AGM. But a \"smoking gun\" pointing to more serious issues? Probably not.", "The House of Lords has backed calls for the UK to effectively remain in the EU's single market after Brexit.\n\nAn amendment to the EU Withdrawal Bill obliging the UK to stay in the European Economic Area after it leaves the EU in 2019 was backed by 245 votes to 218.\n\nThis was despite neither the government nor the Labour leadership backing it.\n\nMinisters warned that staying in the EEA would not give the UK \"control of our borders or our laws\" and the issue will now return to the Commons.\n\nPro-EU MPs said they were hopeful of getting the Commons support needed to prevent the changes being overturned.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Anna Soubry MP This article contains content provided by Twitter. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBut to do so they will have to defeat the two largest parties if Labour maintains its opposition to the amendment in the Commons.\n\nLabour urged its peers to abstain in Tuesday's vote on EEA membership - an arrangement which would see the UK retain full access to the EU's internal market of 300 million consumers in return for making financial contributions and accepting most EU laws.\n\nUnder what is known as the \"Norway model\" - Norway is one of three countries outside the EU which is an existing EEA member - free movement laws would also apply, so EU citizens can move to all EEA countries to work and live.\n\nSupporters of the \"Norway-style\" plan think keeping the maximum-possible access to the single market should be the top priority - but critics say it would mean the UK would still be subject to EU laws after Brexit, but with no say in how they are made.\n\nEnter the word or phrase you are looking for\n\nBefore the EEA vote, shadow foreign secretary Emily Thornberry told Labour rebels that their idea to keep the UK in the single market would \"not work\" and a \"British bespoke deal\" was needed instead.\n\nBut Labour's Lord Alli, who signed the amendment, said continued EEA membership was vital for protecting service sectors such as retail, tourism, transport, communications, financial services and aerospace.\n\nHe accused the party leadership, which supports maintaining a customs union with the EU after Brexit and hopes to replicate the benefits of the single market, of \"complete cowardice\" by ordering peers to abstain.\n\n\"The customs union only will benefit our European neighbours in their imports,\" he said.\n\n\"Without an EEA equivalent it will damage our profitable export business and therefore the jobs and livelihoods of many thousands of people.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Can the House of Lords stop the Brexit Bill?\n\nMore than 80 Labour peers defied the party whip by voting for the amendment, while among those Conservative rebels backing the amendment were former party chairman Lord Patten and former deputy prime minister Lord Heseltine.\n\nBut Brexit minister Lord Callanan said it would not satisfy the British public's desire, as expressed in the Brexit referendum, for more \"direct control\" over how the country is run.\n\n\"On borders it would mean that we would have to continue to accept all four freedoms of the single market, including freedom of movement,\" he said.\n\n\"On laws it would mean the UK having to implement new EU legislation over which in future we will have little influence and, of course, we will have no vote.\"\n\nThe government's Brexit bill also suffered a series of other defeats at the hands of peers.\n\nThe Lords voted to remove the exact date of Brexit - 29 March 2019 - from the wording of the EU Withdrawal Bill by 311 votes to 233. And an amendment which means the UK could continue to participate in EU agencies after Brexit was backed by 298 votes to 227.\n\nThe government is expected to seek to reverse a number of the Lords amendments when the bill returns to the Commons.", "Maurane had interrupted her career in 2016 because of vocal cord problems\n\nDays after she gave her first stage performance in two years, Belgian singer Maurane has died aged 57.\n\nMaurane was found dead at her home in Schaerbeek, near Brussels, on Monday evening. The cause of death is not yet known but is not seen as suspicious.\n\nShe was best known in recent years for her role in a TV talent show for young singers, Nouvelle Star (New Star).\n\nShe had been forced to halt her singing career in 2016 because of problems with her vocal cords.\n\nBorn Claudine Luypaerts, she was known across the French-speaking world and had performed with artists including Celine Dion and Johnny Hallyday.\n\nShe had returned to the stage in Brussels at the weekend, taking part in a concert in tribute to the late Jacques Brel, one of Belgium's most famous singer-songwriters. She was preparing to go on tour in spring 2019.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Theate Cedric This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"Today I'm officially setting foot on stage after more than two years' absence,\" she wrote on Facebook on Thursday. \"I won't tell you what state I'm in. You can just imagine.\"\n\nOnly 24 hours before her death she had given an interview speaking of a kind of \"rebirth\", because health problems meant \"I really believed for almost a year that I would never sing again\".\n\nHer return to the stage, in a duet with young Belgian artist Typh Barrow, was widely praised. One person in the audience tweeted that \"talent is like riding a bike, you never lose it!\"\n\nThis Facebook post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Facebook The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Facebook content may contain adverts. Skip facebook video by Typh Barrow 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\nBorn on 12 November 1960 to a pianist mother and the director of a music academy, Maurane took part in several singing competitions as a teenager and had a role in the musical Starmania.\n\nDanser, the first of her ten solo albums, was released in 1986.\n\nIn 1991, Ami ou Ennemi sold more than 300,000 copies and received a platinum disc in France. Its songs included Sur un Prélude de Bach, one of the most watched videos on her official YouTube channel.\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 MauraneVEVO 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\nOne of her most successful hits came in 2002 in a duet with Canadian-Belgian singer Lara Fabian. A hit in both France and Belgium, Tu Es Mon Autre was nominated as Song of the Year at France's Victoires de la Musique awards.\n\nMaurane was well-known for her outspokenness and her anger.\n\nHailing a \"rare\" artist \"bigger than music\", Fabian said on Facebook: \"I'm sitting here in my little white office in Montreal, I don't want to believe that you're gone, I can't. I'm thinking you're going to call and tell me off because we don't see each other enough.\"\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 Lara Fabian 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\nBelgian Prime Minister Charles Michel said on Twitter: \"A committed artist left us tonight, Maurane, an outstanding singer, an inspiring voice, an endearing personality.\"\n\nShe had a daughter, Lou, who was born in 1993.\n\nFrench singer Michel Fugain said he was \"devastated\" by the news while Hélène Ségara said \"her grief was immense\".\n\nA post-mortem examination would determine the cause of death, a Belgian prosecutor was quoted by public broadcaster RTBF as saying. There was no suspicion that \"a third party\" was involved in the death, a spokesman said.\n• None Can we learn to love 'le pop'?", "The 13-year-old boy was hit by pellets as he walked with his parents in Wealdstone\n\nA 13-year-old boy shot in north-west London was an innocent bystander, according to police.\n\nThe teenager was one of five people shot in the capital within 24 hours.\n\nHe was hit by shotgun pellets as he walked with his parents in Wealdstone High Street on Sunday.\n\nPolice believe two others were injured including a 15-year old boy who is in hospital with a head injury. A third victim was hit in the arm, but has not come forward.\n\nThe Met described the attack as \"callous, reckless and brazen\".\n\nWayne Bent, who was part of a group who helped treat the 13-year-old until an ambulance arrived, said: \"There was lots of blood.\n\n\"The main area was the back of the head - it was just constantly bleeding.\"\n\nWayne Bent said he was part of a group who helped treat the 13-year-old boy in a shop doorway\n\nThe teenager was treated in hospital and has now been discharged.\n\nResident Jonathan Smith said he had \"heard gunshots before\" in the area.\n\nHe said: \"I sometimes feel a little bit unsafe living around here. There's quite of lot of youths hanging around.\"\n\nThe only sign of the violence from the day before were spots of blood on the pavement near a branch of Specsavers, where the 13-year-old victim had fled after being hit by a stray shotgun pellet.\n\nDetectives are still investigating the motive for the attack but one line of inquiry is a link to drugs.\n\nResidents told me that dealers openly sell drugs in an alley off the High Road. They also pointed to the absence of facilities for young people - and the closure of Wealdstone police station.\n\nIt was shut as part of a Scotland Yard drive to save money and remains boarded up - a symbol, some say, of the lack of police presence in the area.\n\nOfficers from the Met's gang crime unit believe the missing man and the 15-year-old were the intended targets of the attack.\n\nA 39-year-old man was arrested on Sunday and has been released under investigation.\n\nPolice are looking for two male suspects.\n\nRhyhiem Ainsworth Barton was \"trying to make a difference\" by learning to work with children, his mother said\n\nIn separate attacks, 17-year-old Rhyhiem Ainsworth Barton was shot dead in Southwark on Friday and a 22-year-old suffered non life-threatening wounds in a shooting in New Cross Road, Lewisham, on Sunday.\n\nRhyhiem's mother, Pretana Morgan, has called for an end to the violence in London.\n\n\"Let my son be the last and be an example to everyone. Just let it stop,\" she said.\n\nMayor of London Sadiq Khan said: \"This violent crime in London and across our country is simply unacceptable. It cannot be tolerated.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Labour MP Heidi Alexander is quitting Parliament to work for London Mayor Sadiq Khan.\n\nThe Lewisham East MP will become the new deputy mayor for transport.\n\nIt means there will be a by-election in her South London seat, where Labour won by more than 20,000 votes in last year's general election.\n\nAnnouncing the appointment, Mr Khan said Ms Alexander - who replaces retiring Val Shawcross - was \"respected across the political divide\".\n\nMs Alexander said she was \"really excited\" at her appointment, adding: \"I know just how important it is we ensure everyone has access to a high-quality and affordable public transport network, with safe cycling routes across the capital.\"\n\nShe has been an MP since 2010, and was shadow health secretary between 2015 and 2016, resigning from the front bench with an attack on Jeremy Corbyn's leadership.\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\nShe has been a prominent pro-EU voice on the opposition benches and is co-chair of Labour Campaign for the Single Market.\n\nEarlier this year she accused Labour of failing to come with a \"common and coherent\" Brexit position.\n\nShe is the latest Labour MP to quit for a job outside the Commons.\n\nAnother former shadow health secretary, Andy Burnham, is now the mayor of Greater Manchester, Tristram Hunt became director of the Victoria and Albert Museum and Jamie Reed left for a job in the nuclear industry.\n\nA date has yet to be set for the by-election in Lewisham East. The Conservatives were well adrift in second place last year, with 10,859 votes to Labour's 32,072. The Lib Dems a distant third.", "Model Amber Valletta, with mobile phone, at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival\n\nThe Cannes Film Festival kicks off later, one day earlier than normal, with a number of new measures set to ensure it won't be business as usual.\n\nGuests taking selfies on the red carpet risk being shut out of screenings in an attempt to stamp out the practice.\n\nPress screenings for films having their world premieres at the festival will no longer be held in advance.\n\nThe festival will also work with the French government to set up a helpline for women to report sexual harassment.\n\nIt follows allegations that producer Harvey Weinstein raped one actress and behaved inappropriately to others while attending previous festivals.\n\nWeinstein has denied all allegations of non-consensual sexual activity.\n\nThis year's festival is the first to be held since the entertainment industry became engulfed in a sexual harassment scandal.\n\nThe #MeToo and Time's Up movements are sure to be referenced by those attending the event, which runs until 19 May.\n\nAmong the main competition jury is French actress Lea Seydoux, one of many to accuse Weinstein of making unwelcome advances.\n\nThe jury will be chaired by Australian Oscar winner Cate Blanchett and include Kristen Stewart, star of the Twilight films.\n\nAll three stars have worked with Woody Allen, who has been accused by his adopted daughter Dylan Farrow of sexually abusing her as a child.\n\nA number of prominent actors have distanced themselves from the director, who has repeatedly denied the allegations.\n\nWomen outnumber men by five to four on this year's jury, which also includes Selma director Ava DuVernay and Burundian songwriter Khadja Nin.\n\nThe panel is completed by Chinese actor Chang Chen and a trio of male directors - France's Robert Guediguian, Canada's Denis Villeneuve and Russia's Andrey Zvyagintsev.\n\nIn the competition line-up itself, though, women are very much in the minority. Of the 21 films in contention, only three have female directors - the same number as last year.\n\nThey are France's Eva Husson, Lebanon's Nadine Labaki and Italy's Alice Rohrwacher - the only one of the three to have previously been in competition.\n\nSpike Lee, Jean-Luc Godard and Pawel Pawlikowski are among the male directors in the running for the prestigious Palme d'Or award.\n\nThey are joined by a raft of less familiar names in a line-up that has been described as \"surprisingly fresh\" by Cannes standards.\n\nOther films eligible for the event's highest honour include Three Faces, whose Iranian director, Jafar Panahi, is banned from leaving his country.\n\nThe French authorities have appealed to Iran's government to relax its travel ban and allow Panahi to attend.\n\nIt is doubtful too whether the Russian director Kirill Serebrennikov, whose film Leto is in competition, will be present.\n\nThe theatre and film director was put under house arrest last year after being arrested on fraud charges.\n\nFurther controversy swirls around the Kenyan film Rafiki, which will be shown at the festival as part of the Un Certain Regard sidebar.\n\nThe film, a love story about two young women, has been banned in Kenya due to its lesbian storyline.\n\nAnd then there is The House That Jack Built, a film about a serial killer (Matt Dillon), the inclusion of which marks Lars von Trier's return to the festival.\n\nThe Danish director was expelled from Cannes in 2011 after claiming to \"understand\" and \"sympathise with\" Adolf Hitler at a press conference.\n\nLast year von Trier denied he had sexually harassed Bjork after the Icelandic singer accused a director she did not name of behaving inappropriately.\n\nVon Trier was the director of Bjork's only film to date - 2000 Palme d'Or recipient Dancer in the Dark.\n\nThis year's festival will open with Everybody Knows, a psychological thriller starring husband and wife actors Javier Bardem and Penelope Cruz.\n\nIt will close next week with The Man Who Killed Don Quixote, Terry Gilliam's oft-postponed retelling of the Miguel de Cervantes classic.\n\nThat screening might be cancelled, however, if one of its former backers prevails in a legal challenge to have it blocked.\n\nPaulo Branco - who was at Gilliam's side when the project was resurrected in 2016 - claims the film cannot be shown without his permission.\n\nGilliam, who was born in America and became a UK subject in 1968, is one of the few British filmmakers with a presence at this year's Cannes.\n\nTheir small number includes the Scottish director Kevin Macdonald, whose documentary about singer Whitney Houston will have a late-night screening.\n\nChristopher Nolan will be attending the festival, but only to host a 70mm screening of Stanley Kubrick's sci-fi classic 2001: A Space Odyssey.\n\nThe film sci-fi fans are really looking forward to, though, is Solo: A Star Wars Story, which will have its first screening at Cannes.\n\nExpect to see stormtroopers patrolling the red carpet on 15 May - provided, of course, they don't take any selfies.\n\nSelfies are a major bugbears of festival director Thierry Fremaux, who has branded them \"trivial\" and \"grotesque\" in interviews.\n\nA notable absence this year is Netflix, who had two films in competition - Okja and The Meyerowitz Stories - 12 months ago.\n\nThis year, though, its titles were excluded from competition after the streaming giant refused to guarantee them a release in French cinemas.\n\nMany critics, meanwhile, have been dismayed by a decision to replace morning previews of films with press screenings held at the same time as their official unveilings.\n\nThe previous system often saw films receive a critical drubbing before their red-carpet premieres had even taken place.\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.", "Italy's coalition-building talks have failed, leaving the country facing fresh elections or a neutral caretaker government until the end of the year.\n\nPresident Sergio Mattarella said on Monday that those were the only two options left after a third round of negotiations were unsuccessful.\n\nNo single party or alliance won a majority in the March general election.\n\nThe most influential parties, Five Star and The League, favour a new vote in July. Mr Mattarella has the final say.\n\nFollowing the latest round of talks aimed at forming a coalition, the biggest single party, the anti-establishment Five Star movement, could not agree on joining forces either with the right-wing alliance of Forza Italia and The League or with the centre-left Democratic Party.\n\nPrevious attempts to break the deadlock since the inconclusive result on 4 March also came to nothing, with the parties' starting positions reportedly remaining unchanged.\n\nIn a televised public statement on Monday, Mr Mattarella urged party leaders to rally behind a \"neutral government\" after conceding that there would be no coalition deal.\n\n\"We can't wait any longer,\" he said.\n\n\"Let the parties decide of their own free will if they should give full powers to a government... or else new elections in the month of July or the autumn.\"\n\nA caretaker administration would be made up of policy experts appointed by the president.\n\nIt would have the responsibility of drawing up a 2019 budget with the aim of avoiding the possible \"recessionary effects\" of a scheduled increase in sales taxes later in the year, Mr Marrarella said.\n\nSuch a government would run until the end of the year and would then dissolve ahead of elections to be held at the start of 2019, Mr Mattarella added.\n\nHowever, neither the Five Star movement nor The League have yet shown any interest in supporting the move.", "Hand car washes and nail bars have been identified as sectors at risk of labour exploitation\n\nFirms which exploit staff could face higher financial penalties and increased risk of prosecution under recommendations to the government.\n\nA report by a government-backed body has made 37 recommendations including that big companies should put more pressure on their suppliers.\n\nThe report is by Labour Market Enforcement (LME), set up last year to oversee a crackdown on exploitation.\n\nIt also recommends a pilot scheme to licence hand car washes and nail bars.\n\nSir David Metcalf, head of LME, also called for action to enforce holiday pay, and said leading companies should be named and shamed if they fail to correct any non-compliance in their supply chains.\n\nHe said: \"This strategy sets out how we can toughen up enforcement activity to protect vulnerable workers and ensure that good, compliant firms are not undercut by unscrupulous competitors.\n\n\"It's important the government has the necessary powers to crack down on bad bosses who exploit and steal from their workers - that includes bigger penalties to put employers off breaking the law.\"\n\nThe government will respond officially to the report later in the year.\n\nHowever, business minister Andrew Griffiths said: \"We will not accept illegal behaviour from bosses who exploit their workers and cheat the competition which is why we are already cracking down on irresponsible company directors and boosting protections for workers.\n\n\"We will enforce holiday pay and give new rights for every worker to get a payslip and a list of their rights when they start a job.\"\n\nUnions also called on the government to crack down hard on exploitation.\n\nUnite assistant general secretary Steve Turner said: \"The government needs to put its money where its mouth is with enough resources to make its threats a reality for bad bosses.\n\n\"Ministers could also show they are serious about standing up for workers by calling time on the insecurity currently endured by around one million working people and ban the use of exploitative zero-hours contracts.\"", "Hezbollah and its allies are reported to have made significant gains in parliament\n\nHezbollah's leader says the Iran-backed militant Shia group and its allies have achieved \"victory\" in Lebanon's first parliamentary elections since 2009.\n\nAlthough the official results have not been announced, Hassan Nasrallah said their gains guaranteed the protection of the \"resistance\" against Israel.\n\nSunni Prime Minister Saad Hariri said his Western-backed Future Movement had lost a third of its seats.\n\nMr Hariri is still expected to be asked to form a new unity government.\n\nBut analysts said he would emerge a weaker figure, and be even less able to exert influence over Hezbollah than he was in the past.\n\nA power-sharing system stipulates that the prime minister should be a Sunni Muslim, the speaker of parliament a Shia and the president a Maronite Christian.\n\nSaad Hariri pledged to work with other factions to secure Lebanon's \"political stability\"\n\nIn a televised address a day after the elections, Hassan Nasrallah declared what he called a \"great political and moral victory for the resistance option that protects the sovereignty of the country\".\n\nHe did not say how many seats his group and its allies had secured, but said the aim of their election campaign had been \"achieved and accomplished\".\n\nReuters news agency said a tally based on preliminary results showed Hezbollah and its allies had won at least 67 of the 128 seats in parliament. But the number of Hezbollah MPs was little changed at around 13.\n\nFormed as a resistance movement during the Israeli occupation of Lebanon in the early 1980s, Hezbollah is today a political, military and social organisation that wields considerable power in the country.\n\nIt is designated a terrorist group by Western states and Israel, with which it fought a war in 2006, and several of its members are accused of being behind the 2005 assassination of Mr Hariri's father Rafik - himself a former Lebanese prime minister.\n\nMr Hariri said his party had ended up with 21 seats, down from 33 nine years ago.\n\n\"We had hoped for a better result, it's true. And we were hoping for a wider bloc, with a higher Shia and Christian representation, that's also true,\" he added. \"But everyone could see that the Future Movement was facing a project to eliminate it from political life.\"\n\nDespite the results, Mr Hariri pledged to \"to participate in securing political stability and to improve the lives of all the Lebanese\".\n\nAn Israeli minister said the election results meant Lebanon and Hezbollah were indistinguishable.\n\n\"The state of Israel will not differentiate between the sovereign state of Lebanon and Hezbollah, and will view Lebanon as responsible for any action from within its territory,\" Naftali Bennett wrote on Twitter.\n\nTurnout was only 49.2% on Sunday, down from 54% nine years ago\n\nLebanon should have held elections in 2013, but MPs extended their terms several times because parties could not agree on a new electoral law.\n\nThe new law redrew constituency boundaries and changed the system from first past the post to proportional representation in an attempt to encourage voting.\n\nHowever, turnout among the 3.6 million eligible voters was only 49.2% on Sunday, down from 54% nine years ago.\n\nMr Hariri blamed the reduced turnout on the complexities of the new electoral law. \"The problem with this election: a lot of people didn't understand it,\" he said.\n\nThe elections were also the first since the start of a civil war in Syria in 2011.\n\nMore than a million refugees have fled to Lebanon since then, swelling the population by 25% and overwhelming public services.\n\nHezbollah has also sent thousands of its fighters to Syria to support forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad in battles against predominantly Sunni rebel forces and the jihadist group Islamic State (IS).\n• None 'Remember the days we tried to kill each other'", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Trenton McKinley is now on a slow recovery process - half his skull must be re-connected\n\nA 13-year-old boy in the US state of Alabama regained consciousness just after his parents signed the paperwork to donate his organs.\n\nTrenton McKinley suffered severe brain trauma when he fell from a car trailer which flipped over and hit his head.\n\nDoctors told his parents he would not recover and that his organs were a match for five children who needed transplants.\n\nA day before his life support was to end, Trenton showed signs of awareness.\n\nThe teenager suffered seven skull fractures in the accident in Mobile, Alabama, in March.\n\nAccording to his mother, Jennifer Reindl, Trenton has since undergone several craniotomy surgeries, suffering kidney failure and cardiac arrest.\n\nAt one point, Ms Reindl said, Trenton died on the table for 15 minutes, after which doctors told her he would \"never be normal again\".\n\nMs Reindl told CBS News that she agreed to sign the organ donation papers when she learned her son's organs could save five other children.\n\n\"We said yes, that also ensured that they would continue to keep Trenton alive to clean his organs for the donation,\" Ms Reindl said, recalling how her son regained consciousness in March.\n\n\"The next day he was scheduled to have his final brain wave test to call his time of death, but his vitals spiked so they cancelled the test.\"\n\nTrenton says he does not remember anything from the accident\n\nTrenton is now going through a slow recovery process.\n\n\"I hit the concrete, and the trailer landed on top of my head. After that, I don't remember anything,\" he said.\n\nHe still has nerve pain and seizures, and will need surgery to reconnect half of his skull.\n\nHe has been walking and talking, even reading and doing maths, Ms Reindl said, calling it \"a miracle\".\n\nTrenton himself told WALA he thought he was in heaven while he was unconscious.\n\n\"I was in an open field walking straight,\" the 13-year-old said.\n\n\"There's no other explanation but God.\"", "The new unit will take over the work of the Historical Enquiries Team\n\nCabinet ministers have raised concerns over plans to introduce a new body that would investigate unsolved killings from the Troubles in Northern Ireland.\n\nIntroducing a new \"Historical Investigations Unit\" was a major part of the 2014 Stormont House agreement.\n\nIt was agreed then to create a new independent body to deal with killings where there had been no prosecutions.\n\nBut several ministers told colleagues on Tuesday that the proposal was unacceptable in its current form.\n\nIn what has been described as a \"spat\", Defence Secretary Gavin Williamson is understood to have raised concerns that military veterans might not have enough protections under the proposed system.\n\nAnother minister who expressed worries said there had not been a huge argument, but that it had been made clear to the government that it had to do more to make sure that former military personnel weren't unfairly targeted, or dragged through the courts.\n\nOne cabinet source told the BBC: \"This has got catastrophe written all over it for the government and will carry very little sympathy with the majority of the British public who won't be able to get their heads round us not getting behind our veterans.\"\n\nBut others familiar with the process said that the new HIU would \"end the current witch hunt\" where veterans and former police officers are already hit disproportionately, providing a new system that is fair, independent and proportionate. Figures obtained by the BBC challenge the claim that investigations are unfairly focused on the security forces.\n\nThe defence secretary is understood to have raised objections\n\nIt is hoped the proposed unit would be able to investigate terrorist killings more vigorously than under the current piecemeal system. The plan was also included in the Tories' Northern Irish election manifesto.\n\nA source said: \"We want to find a way forward and we believe that the right way is to consult on this. Leaving the status quo as it exists is to let down our armed forces, as the current system it hits our armed forces disproportionately.\"\n\nThey suggested the idea of providing a statute of limitation for veterans would be legally impossible.\n\nA Number 10 source said it was hoped the consultation would be carried out \"expeditiously\" although they would not be drawn on a date.\n\nThe Northern Ireland Office has circulated a draft consultation document on \"legacy\" matters to the main Stormont parties.\n\nIt is understood the draft does not contain a controversial suggestion for a so-called statute of limitations.\n\nIt would have prevented the prosecution of former soldiers for offences connected to the Troubles.", "Debbie Abrahams has been sacked from Labour's frontbench amid a probe into claims of workplace bullying.\n\nThe shadow work and pensions secretary was suspended earlier this year pending the outcome of an internal inquiry.\n\nLabour said following a \"thorough investigation\", Ms Abrahams had been referred to the disputes panel of the ruling National Executive Committee.\n\nBut the MP for Oldham East and Saddleworth said the probe was \"neither thorough, fair, nor independent\".\n\nWhen the allegations surfaced in March, the 57-year old said they were \"spurious\" and she had not ruled out legal action against the party.\n\nIn a statement on Tuesday, she said she \"strongly refutes\" the bullying claims and would continue to play an active role from the backbenches.\n\nOn Tuesday, a Labour spokesman said Ms Abrahams had been \"relieved of her post as shadow work and pensions secretary\".\n\n\"After a thorough party investigation into allegations of workplace bullying, Debbie Abrahams has been referred to the NEC disputes committee,\" they added.\n\nThe BBC's political correspondent Iain Watson said he understood the announcement followed an HR investigation into allegations of bullying by an unspecified number of staff.\n\nThe BBC understands the investigation upheld complaints and found that Ms Abrahams engaged in a pattern of bullying behaviour towards her staff employed by the Labour Party.\n\nMargaret Greenwood, who took over temporarily from Ms Abrahams in March, will continue in the role.\n• None Row as Labour MP 'forced' to stand down", "Childish Gambino has released a music video for his single This is America.\n\nThe video is a social commentary on current issues, including police violence, racism and gun crime.\n\nMusic journalist Natty Kasambala talks through the surprise video which premiered on Saturday Night Live.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How Melania's cause compares to previous campaigns\n\nUS First Lady Melania Trump has been caught up in another plagiarism row, following the launch of her new online safety for children campaign on Monday.\n\nA booklet put out by Mrs Trump bore a striking resemblance to one published under the Obama administration.\n\nThe text and graphics of the \"Be Best\" booklet were nearly identical to those in the previous edition.\n\nThe White House said that Mrs Trump had sought to used her position to \"amplify\" the text's positive message.\n\nIn 2016 Mrs Trump was accused of plagiarising parts of a speech from a 2008 address by Michelle Obama.\n\nAfter commentators picked up on very close similarities between the two speeches, Meredith McIver, a Trump administration staff member who wrote Mrs Trump's speech, admitted borrowing from Mrs Obama.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMrs Trump's online safety booklet was initially billed on the initiative's website as being \"by First Lady Melania Trump and the Federal Trade Commission\".\n\nAfter similarities to the Obama-era edition were picked up online, the text was revised to describe it as a \"Federal Trade Commission booklet, promoted by First Lady Melania Trump\".\n\nA White House statement released on Tuesday accused \"opposition\" media of taking \"a day meant to promote kindness and positive efforts on behalf of children, to instead lob baseless accusations towards the First Lady and her new initiatives\".\n\nIt said that the Be Best initiative was aimed at supporting children and opening dialogue on issues affecting them - including by helping the Federal Trade Commission to promote the booklet - and called on media workers \"to attempt to Be Best in their own professions\" by focussing on Mrs Trump's programme.\n\nA sample from the two booklets: 2014 on the left, and the Melania Trump version on the right\n\nLaunching the \"Be Best\" initiative at the White House on Monday, Mrs Trump said the aim was to promote healthy living, encourage positive use of social media, and combat opioid abuse.\n\n\"As we all know, social media can both positively and negatively affect our children, but too often it is used in negative ways,\" she said.\n\nHer decision to focus on cyber-bullying has prompted questions about the behaviour of her husband, who frequently uses Twitter to attack and insult his opponents.\n\nThe 2014 version, left, and Melania Trump version, right\n\nMr Trump was widely criticised in 2017 when he used the platform to call TV hosts Mika Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough \"low I.Q. Crazy Mika\" and \"Psycho Joe\", and claimed he saw Ms Brzezinski \"bleeding badly from a face-lift\".\n\nHe has also been accused of mocking a disabled reporter.\n\nWhite House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders was asked ahead of the launch of the initiative whether President Trump believed he bore any responsibility for the need to address cyber-bullying.\n\n\"I think the idea that you're trying to blame cyber-bullying on the president is kind of ridiculous,\" she said.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by ABC News This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nGoogle has unveiled artificial intelligence software that books appointments over the phone on behalf of users by conducting voice-based conversations on their behalf.\n\nChief executive Sundar Pichai said that Google Duplex would launch as an \"experiment\" over the coming weeks.\n\nThe facility was unveiled at the firm's annual IO developers conference.\n\nExperts have said that if it works it could give the firm a major advantage over rival virtual assistants.\n\nPre-recorded demonstrations played back to the audience featured the software first booking a haircut and then making a restaurant reservation by speaking to two human employees.\n\nOne of the cases involved Google Assistant coping with a worker who seemed confused by straightforward questions.\n\nThe computer-generated voice sounded much more natural than the virtual helper had done in the past and included \"ums\" and other sounds typically produced in human speech.\n\nAt no point did it identify itself as a machine.\n\n\"Done correctly, it will save time for people and generate a lot of value for businesses,\" suggested Mr Pichai.\n\nHe added that initially, the software would be used to call businesses to confirm their holiday opening times, and would then automatically update the information on the pages Google provides about them.\n\nThe Google Assistant's voice-booking facility will only have a limited set of feature when it first launches\n\n\"Hard to believe this was real,\" commented Ben Bajaran, an analyst at the consultancy Creative Strategies after the demo.\n\n\"You cannot underestimate the value consumers will see in these voice assistants.\n\n\"Apple cannot fall too far behind because this is the kind of thing I can see people switching platforms for.\"\n\nOther experts, however, remarked that people would have to be convinced to trust the software if it is to be widely adopted.\n\nGoogle also announced a new version of its News tool.\n\nA Full Coverage feature will let users delve deeper into stories of their choice, providing headlines from different \"trusted\" sources, Q&As, social media posts and relevant timelines among other information.\n\nUnlike many of firm's services, the content will not be personalised.\n\n\"Having a productive conversation or debate requires everyone to have access to the same information,\" Google said in blog that provides more detail.\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 tech giant also showed off new features being added to its Maps software.\n\nThese included the addition of augmented reality graphics that overlay information onto camera views of the path ahead in order to provide easier-to-understand directions than before.\n\nCartoon characters are also being introduced to guide users which way to walk, while tapping on restaurants and other select venues will now provide scores indicating how much a person is likely to enjoy a visit based on Google's analysis of their past behaviour.\n\nGoogle Maps will suggest how much different individuals may like different restaurants\n\nGoogle's augmented reality chief Aparna Chennapragada also described work that had been done to improve the software's ability to know where phone owners are located.\n\n\"GPS alone doesn't cut it,\" she explained.\n\n\"That's why we've been working on what we call VPS - visual positioning system - that can estimate precise positioning and orientation [by using] visual features in the environment.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Brian Blau This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 Google IO event comes a week after Facebook held its own developers conference under the shadow of a data privacy scandal, which has prompted wider questions about the amount of personal information being gathered and processed by the tech industry.\n\nMr Pichai did not refer to the controversy directly, but briefly addressed consumers' concerns.\n\n\"There are very real and important questions being raised about the impact of these advances and the role they will play in our lives,\" he said towards the beginning of his presentation.\n\n\"So, we know the path ahead needs to be navigated carefully and deliberately, and we feel a deep sense of responsibility to get this right.\"\n\nThe firm dedicated a section of its opening presentation to what it referred to as Digital Wellbeing technologies.\n\nThese included the ability to schedule screen breaks on YouTube to encourage young users to avoid spending too long on the app at a time.\n\nParents also gain the ability to schedule when internet connectivity should be paused to some or all of the devices being used in a home.\n\nAndroid will soon allow users to see how much time they are spending within different apps\n\nAnd Android is to gain a new app dashboard that provides details about how much time users have spent using different services over the course of a day.\n\n\"We are delighted that Google has heard the call from stressed-out parents to create ways to limit and control their kids tech use and to find a better balance in their own digital lives,\" Stephen Balkam, chief executive of the Family Online Safety Institute, told the BBC.\n\nWe've reached a tipping point in our use of computers, a time when the number of apps trying to get our attention with notifications and updates is making us many of us feel overwhelmed.\n\nThat wasn't a mistake - many apps were aggressively designed to attract and lock in our attention. But maybe not for much longer.\n\nMuch of Google's focus at IO this year is about what it dubbed Jomo - the \"joy of missing out\".\n\nAny move to reduce screen-time - particularly of youngsters - seems a good idea.\n\nBut you have to question whether the same companies that got us into this mess can save us from it.\n\nGoogle's business is still about attention - and the company knows full well that the addictive nature of YouTube won't be affected by a prompt saying \"take a break\".\n\nThat said, therapists often say that acknowledgment is the first stage of recovery, and Google's moves in the area could be appreciated by many.\n\nGoogle's smart speakers can now support more natural conversations\n\nGoogle's operating system powered 85.9% of all smartphones sold last year, according to research firm Gartner, marking a 1.1% gain on 2016.\n\nFurthermore, it accounted for four out of every five mobile app downloads, according to analytics firm App Annie. Google's own Play Store drove two out of every five smartphone and tablet app installations.\n\nApple will host its own developers conference on 4 June.\n• None Alexa wants children to say please", "Last updated on .From the section Baseball\n\nThe New York Yankees and Boston Red Sox will play each other in two Major League Baseball regular season games at the London Stadium in 2019.\n\nThe matches, which will be held on 29 and 30 June, will be the first MLB games to be staged in Europe.\n\nMLB says it intends to play again in 2020 and establish \"a long-term footprint in the city\".\n\nTalks were held in 2016 to stage regular-season matches in London but the plans were later abandoned.\n\nMLB matches have already been staged outside the USA in Mexico, Japan, Puerto Rico and, most recently, at Australia's Sydney Cricket Ground in March 2014.\n\nThe London Stadium was considered as a venue for the 2019 Cricket World Cup, but was not one of the 11 grounds named in April.\n\nThe NFL has a 10-year deal with Tottenham to stage two games a season and also play matches at Wembley.", "The Kilauea volcano in Hawaii started erupting on 3 May and has so far destroyed 26 homes and forced almost 2,000 people from their homes.\n\nKilauea is one of the most active volcanoes in the world.", "President Donald Trump said the deal was defective and that maximum sanctions on Iran would be re-imposed.", "The review will help to determine whether there is any risk to the criminal justice process\n\nMore than 30 criminal investigations including 21 sex attacks are being reviewed after a forensic scientist apparently botched examinations.\n\nScotland Yard said a member of staff from its Forensic Services allegedly failed to carry out tests and lied to investigators about progress.\n\nA total of 33 inquiries between 2012 and 2017 are affected - 21 rapes and sexual assaults and 12 violent and drug-related crimes and burglaries.\n\nAn internal review is under way.\n\nAll the work of the scientist, who was suspended on 26 March, has been audited and the Met said it is \"satisfied that there are no other instances of undeclared casework\".\n\nAll victims in the affected cases have been contacted, where it has been deemed appropriate to do so, police said.\n\nA spokesman for Scotland Yard said: \"In the case of the investigations into rape and sexual assaults, victims have been contacted by a sexual offences investigative techniques officer.\"\n\nThe review comes amid a national crisis in forensic services following the closure of the publicly owned Forensic Science Service in 2012.\n\nTechniques including analysis of DNA, fingerprints and digital evidence play a major role in a range of criminal investigations and the move forced police forces to either bring the services in-house or use private providers.\n\nOne firm, Key Forensic Services, collapsed in January, potentially affecting thousands of cases.\n\nAnother, Randox Testing Services, was hit by claims of manipulation of results.\n\nAround 10,000 cases - three-quarters of which were drug-driving and the rest violent crime, sexual offences and unexplained deaths - were affected across 42 police forces.\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 £10,000 payment should be given to the young and pensioners taxed more, a new report into inter-generational fairness in the UK suggests.\n\nThe research and policy organisation, the Resolution Foundation, says these radical moves are needed to better fund the NHS and maintain social cohesion.\n\nIts chairman, Lord Willetts, said the contract between young and old had \"broken down\".\n\nWithout action, young people would become \"increasingly angry\", he said.\n\nThe Resolution Foundation says its goal is to improve outcomes for people on low and modest incomes.\n\nLord Willetts, the former universities minister under David Cameron, argued that young people were being locked out of the housing market and older people were worried about the demands of healthcare.\n\nLord Willetts was speaking as the Resolution Foundation, which he heads, published a report calling for tax changes to help heal the growing economic tensions between the generations.\n\nThe foundation's Intergenerational Commission report calls for an NHS \"levy\" of £2.3bn paid for by increased national insurance contributions by those over the age of 65.\n\nIt says that all young people should receive a £10,000 windfall at the age of 25 to help pay for a deposit on a home, start a business or improve their education or skills.\n\nThe report proposes that this money be raised by abolishing inheritance tax and replacing it with a lifetime limit for recipients of £125,000 before taxes kick in.\n\nThe commission estimates this would raise £5bn.\n\n\"We've got a very serious problem of ensuring there's a fair deal across the generations,\" Lord Willetts told me.\n\n\"Older people are worried about a properly funded healthcare system, people in middle age still haven't been able to buy their own home, and for younger people their pay is no better than it was 10 or 15 years ago.\n\n\"So the different generations in the UK all face different pressures.\n\n\"But we can tackle them, we can do something about it.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Lord Willetts says there is a divide between older and younger people\n\nThe report calls for the scrapping of the council tax system, replacing it with a new property tax which would raise more money from wealthier homeowners.\n\nThe proceeds would be used to halve stamp duty for first-time buyers.\n\nThe cross-party commission, which included input from the heads of the CBI business lobby group and the Trades Union Congress, also demands more secure tenancies for renters.\n\nMillennials - people born between 1981 and 2000 - are half as likely as baby boomers - born between 1946 and 1965 - to own their own home by 30.\n\nLord Willetts said that a lot of the problems had been created by political inertia by a series of governments.\n\n\"I think we still care about it,\" Lord Willetts said.\n\n\"We still feel the obligations that generations have to each other, and families are incredibly important in discharging those obligations.\n\n\"But when you look at public policy, sadly when it comes to a properly funded healthcare system, houses available so that people can achieve their goal of owner-occupation and a fair deal in pay for younger people - in all those ways, that contract between the generations has not been maintained.\n\n\"That contract has broken down. Families are doing their best, the bank of mum and dad helping out the kids, younger people caring about their grandparents, but when you look at public policy, there are older people worried about their social care, there are people of middle age who still aren't owner-occupiers, and that's what they want to be, and there are younger people whose pay is no higher than it was 10 or 15 years ago, so there's a problem in public policy.\"\n\nNew research produced by the Resolution Foundation revealed that young people are earning less today than the generation before them was earning at the same age.\n\nIt showed that home ownership levels are far lower.\n\nAnd a poll undertaken for the Intergenerational Commission also suggested people were more pessimistic in Britain about the chances of the next generation having \"better lives\" than the one before it - compared with almost any other country.\n\nI asked Lord Willetts whether any government would have the stomach for increasing taxes on pensioners, for example, given that Theresa May was unable to push through a tax increase for the self-employed last year because of a public and Parliamentary backlash.\n\n\"There's no avoiding the pressures for more spending on healthcare and social care, the question is how we meet those pressures,\" he replied.\n\n\"Extra borrowing is unfair on the younger generation.\n\n\"Extra taxes on the working population - when especially younger workers have not really seen any increase in their pay - will be very unfair.\n\n\"It so happens that the older people who will benefit most from extra spending on health care have got some resources, so at low rates, it's reasonable to expect them to contribute.\n\n\"It is better than any of the alternatives.\"\n\nThe foundation also suggests that wealthier people should contribute privately to a social insurance system to help pay for social care in older age.\n\nThe system would mirror elements of compulsory health insurance policies in Germany.\n\n\"We do think that there needs to be some element of private payment into social care costs when people can afford it,\" Lord Willetts said.\n\n\"But we're absolutely clear there should be a limit on those contributions, so that people don't face a very large bill that could wipe out their wealth.\n\n\"There should be an upper limit on it, and everybody should expect some contribution from the state.\n\n\"We want everything to be fair and affordable.\"", "Last updated on .From the section West Brom\n\nWest Bromwich Albion have been relegated from the Premier League after Southampton won 1-0 at Swansea City on Tuesday.\n\nThat result left West Brom five points from safety with one game remaining, Sunday's trip to Crystal Palace.\n\nIt means their eight-year stay in the top flight comes to an end.\n\nThe Baggies - currently on 31 points from their 37 games - had hoped to reach the final day and repeat their memorable escape of the 2004-05 season.\n\nWith Stoke and West Brom's relegation confirmed, Southampton's victory has virtually guaranteed their safety due to their vastly superior goal difference over Swansea and Huddersfield.\n\nThe Terriers will confirm their survival by taking a point from their next two fixtures against Chelsea on Wednesday (19:45 BST) or Arsenal on Sunday (15:00 BST)\n\nToo little too late?\n\nWest Brom were realistically consigned to their fate before Darren Moore took over as caretaker boss in April but it must feel like a case of what might have been for the Baggies supporters.\n\nThe former Albion defender was named Premier League manager of the month for April on Tuesday and the club's upturn since he took control of first team affairs evoked memories of their survival under Bryan Robson in 2004-05.\n\nIn that campaign, West Brom were bottom of the division and eight points from safety at Christmas but recovered to survive on the final day of the season thanks to an unlikely sequence of results.\n\nMoore has accrued 11 points from the 15 available since being named as caretaker and reeled in a 10-point gap to five points.\n\nVictories at Old Trafford against Manchester United and over Newcastle and Tottenham, as well as draws against Swansea and Liverpool, leave a question mark over what might have been if the Albion board had acted sooner.\n\nIn a message posted on Twitter on Tuesday, Baggies defender Kieran Gibbs wrote: \"Horrible feeling to be relegated, especially after our recent form as a team.\n\n\"It's been a wild season on and off the pitch and has been a huge learning curve. Whatever has gone on this season there are no excuses - we haven't been good enough for the majority of it.\n\n\"For that we are sorry to the WBA fans, who have been quite unbelievable considering the circumstances.\"\n\nHow the West Brom managers have fared during the 2017-18 season\n\nWhat went wrong for West Brom?\n\nOn the surface, the season began in serene fashion at The Hawthorns.\n\nWith Tony Pulis at the helm, Albion opened with consecutive victories to ensure their best start to a top-flight campaign since 1978-79, when the 'Three Degrees' of Cyrille Regis, Laurie Cunningham and Brendon Batson helped the club to a third-place finish.\n\nHowever, by November Pulis was gone after a dramatic downturn in results - coupled with supporter disenchantment over his defensive style of play - led owner Guochuan Lai to make a change.\n\nAlan Pardew was initially tasked with preserving the club's top-flight status but the owner then sacked chairman John Williams and chief executive Martin Goodman in February as the club's poor run of form continued.\n\nMeanwhile, a trip to Barcelona organised to boost morale ended with senior professionals Gareth Barry, Jonny Evans, Jake Livermore and Boaz Myhill having to apologise after a taxi was stolen from outside a fast-food restaurant in the early hours of the morning.\n\nThe quartet were interviewed but not arrested by police, while Pardew called their behaviour \"unacceptable\" and said he \"felt a bit let down\" after they had broken a midnight curfew.\n\nAt the time of Pardew's dismissal in early April the club had won just once in 18 league games, taking only eight points from a possible 54 and had suffered eight straight league defeats.\n\nAn absence of goals has left West Brom as the third lowest scorers in the Premier League this term.\n\nAnd their lack of firepower, coupled with a campaign that has not been quite as frugal defensively, had left them fighting an uphill battle throughout.\n\nPulis recognised the need for attacking reinforcements and signed Jay Rodriguez for £12m last summer, but the former Southampton striker has only managed seven league goals for the club.\n\nThe top scorer of the last two campaigns, Venezuela forward Salomon Rondon, is yet to break the 10-goal barrier and has also registered just seven in the league this season.\n\nWhen Daniel Sturridge - a striker with a proven record in front of goal - arrived at The Hawthorns on loan from Liverpool in January, it looked as though Pardew had found a promising solution to their problem.\n\nHowever, a hamstring injury picked up against Chelsea on 12 February meant that the England forward missed the next six games and has played just 21 minutes since as a substitute under Moore.\n\nA deal that was hailed as \"big coup\" for the club has thus far amounted to 99 minutes of football at a cost of around £3.8m for the club.\n\nAnalysis - Does Moore stay on as manager?\n\nDarren Moore's magnificent five-game stint in temporary charge may have lifted the mood of unremitting gloom at The Hawthorns but it cannot obscure a truly disastrous season when, until the beginning of last month at least, everything that could have gone wrong did.\n\nThe big question is what happens now.\n\nThe word is Darren Moore will not be the next manager, that he doesn't really want it, despite having overcome Jose Mourinho, Rafael Benitez and Mauricio Pochettino during his time as boss - leading to his nomination as April's manager of the month.\n\nSo if not Moore, who?\n\nAfter messing up the timing of Tony Pulis' departure and getting completely the wrong man - Alan Pardew - to replace him, West Brom simply cannot afford to make another mistake.\n\nThere won't be lots of money - spending too much on an underperforming squad and clauses that ensure cut price sales will see to that.\n\nOwner Guochuan Lai and chief executive Mark Jenkins will endeavour to navigate their way back to the top flight on a restrained budget but it will not be easy.\n\nHaving seen local rivals Wolves head in the other direction, the Baggies need to bounce back quickly.", "Last updated on .From the section Snooker\n\nMark Williams won his third World Championship - 15 years after his last - by holding off John Higgins' stunning fightback in a classic Crucible final.\n\nWilliams, 43, won 18-16 to become the oldest champion since fellow Welshman Ray Reardon, who was 45 in 1978.\n\nHe won seven frames on the trot to take a 14-7 lead but Scot Higgins, 42, came back magnificently to take eight of the next nine and level at 15-15.\n\nHowever, Williams responded in style to secure a famous victory.\n\nThe final was the closest since 2005 when Shaun Murphy beat Matthew Stevens by the same scoreline.\n\nWilliams claimed a record £425,000 at the Sheffield venue, taking his total prize money to £750,000 for the year, while Higgins' wait for a fifth title continues.\n\n\"It's unbelievable. Twelve months ago I wasn't even here. I watched it in a caravan,\" Williams told BBC Sport.\n\n\"I was seriously thinking of giving up, but my wife Joanne said I can't sleep in the house 24 hours a day.\"\n\nAnd after saying earlier in the tournament that he would speak to the media naked if he won the title, Williams walked into his news conference undressed apart from a towel.\n\nThe final pitted two players from snooker's 'class of 92', turning professional in that year alongside Ronnie O'Sullivan - and as far as sporting fairytales go, this is a remarkable one.\n\nOnly last summer, Williams failed to qualify for the Crucible and considered retirement, before deciding to continue.\n\nHe claimed two ranking titles earlier this season, six years after his last, and now has 21 in his career.\n\nWilliams showcased his best snooker in Sheffield, knocking in long pots when Higgins had seemingly got the cue ball safe, before compiling frame-winning contributions in amongst the reds.\n\nHis laid-back manner and languid appearance around the table - sometimes even making pots with his eyes closed - was a throwback to the turn of the century when he was the best player in the world and claimed world titles in 2000 and 2003.\n\nHe finished his dramatic semi-final against Barry Hawkins at 23:50 BST on Saturday and two hours later was eating a kebab and chips at a takeaway in the city.\n\nDuring the final, he asked to share some crisps, sweets and chocolate snacks with a fan who was sitting beside him in the arena.\n\nDespite being under extreme pressure late on, Williams - who was never behind in the match - held himself together for an outstanding success which will move him up to third in the world rankings.\n\nFor Higgins, it was a case of another missed opportunity. The Scot has now lost three finals, winning the last of his four titles in 2011 against Judd Trump.\n\nHe blew a 10-4 lead against Mark Selby last year, which he admitted could have been his best opportunity to add a fifth world crown and draw alongside O'Sullivan.\n\nA mixed tournament this time saw him thrash Jack Lisowski 13-1 in the second round, before edging a thrilling final-frame decider against Trump in the last eight.\n\nHowever, in the final, he was always chasing the game against Williams, trailing 10-7 overnight, and although he got level at 15-15 and made four centuries, never managed to edge in front and was punished for uncharacteristic mistakes.\n\nThere was even a chance Williams could finish the match with a session to spare, but Higgins' epic fightback prevented that.\n\n\"I was worried if I would take it to the fourth session,\" said Higgins. \"I didn't want to lose with a session to spare.\n\n\"It was a good match to watch but obviously I'm disappointed. He is a great champion.\"\n\nTrailing 15-10 Higgins came out firing in the final session with a century and punished Williams for breaking down on 58 by compiling a 67 in response.\n\nI was thinking 'I'm not going to get over the line here'\n\nHe did the same in the next as Williams missed a red on 47 and Higgins stroked in a superb 82, as well as taking the 29th to trail by one.\n\nAnd the same pattern emerged in the next as Williams made another 47 only for Higgins to make 62 and level the match.\n\nWilliams showed great courage to take the next two, including a century break, but missed championship ball on the pink as Higgins' 65 won the frame by two points.\n\nHowever, a run of 69 in the 34th frame gave him another world title.\n\n\"To play John in a final is an experience in itself,\" added Williams. \"You've got to expect a comeback because when you're 50 or 60 in front he's the best I've ever seen at clearing up - and that includes Ronnie O'Sullivan.\n\n\"I was thinking: 'I'm not going to get over the line here.'\n\n\"I knew if I didn't get enough he was going to clear up again. But I'm over the moon.\"\n\n'One of the greatest finals' - analysis\n\nSix-time world champion Steve Davis on BBC Two: \"What a magnificent performance from Mark Williams. The mental fortitude to not wilt under that pressure is immense. It was one of the greatest finals we've ever seen. The standard was fantastic.\"\n\nSeven-time world champion Stephen Hendry: \"You have to admire the way Mark Williams played after Higgins levelled the match. He was so calm and showed what an incredible temperament he has. He found a gear from somewhere and eased away again from his opponent.\"\n\nMasters champion Mark Allen on Twitter: \"The best final I've ever watched. Twists and turns, comebacks and clearances. Credit to the game. The rest of us have to catch up with these old guys well done @markwil147 and hard lines John Higgins.\"\n\nCrucible semi-finalist Kyren Wilson on Twitter: \"What an incredible final. The standard was through the roof! Congratulations to @markwil147 - chuffed for you and your family.\"\n\nFormer world champion Peter Ebdon on Twitter: \"Amazing character shown by both players. What an incredible final. Two of the greatest players of all time have both just got even greater.\"\n• None to follow snooker news and reports on the BBC app.", "Wet wipes are a key component of fatbergs - like this giant one that weighed as much as 10 double decker buses\n\nWet wipes, used for sticky fingers and removing eye make-up, as well as on other parts of the anatomy, could themselves be wiped out over the next couple of decades.\n\nThe government says its plan to eliminate plastic waste \"includes single use products like wet wipes\".\n\nSo manufacturers will either have to develop plastic-free wipes or consumers will have to go without.\n\nWet wipes are behind 93% of blockages in UK sewers, a key element of the infamous giant obstacles known as fatbergs, according to Water UK, the trade body representing all of the main water and sewerage companies in the country.\n\nThat has prompted the government and industry to focus on persuading consumers not to flush them into the waste water system.\n\n\"We are continuing to work with manufacturers and retailers of wet wipes to make sure labelling on packaging is clear and people know how to dispose of them properly,\" a spokesperson for the Department of the Environment (Defra) said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A lazy person's guide to cutting plastic from your life\n\nHowever, Defra says it is also \"encouraging innovation so that more and more of these products can be recycled and are working with industry to support the development of alternatives, such as a wet-wipe product that does not contain plastic and can therefore be flushed\".\n\nDespite the name, fatbergs are actually mainly made up of wet wipes. They account for a startling 93% of the material blocking our sewers according to Water UK, the membership body for water providers.\n\nThey collected samples to analyse from blockages in sewers, pumps and wastewater treatment works.\n\nWet wipes - mostly baby wipes, but also those used to remove make up and clean surfaces - made up the vast majority of the material.\n\nFat, oil and grease only made up 0.5%.\n\nThe other 7% was made up of a range of other materials including feminine hygiene products, cotton pads and plastic wrappers.\n\nToilet paper made up just 0.01% of the material blocking our pipes and sewers.\n\nEnvironmental charities including Greenpeace and the Marine Conservation Society say they are not surprised by this high number, since wet wipes are often marketed as \"flushable\".\n\nThe wet-wipe industry has flourished over the last decade with manufacturers offering an ever broader range of wipes, for sensitive skin, babies' bottoms, removing make-up, applying insect repellent, deodorant or sunscreen. However most are made of polyester and other non-biodegradable materials.\n\nOne manufacturer, Jeremy Freedman, managing director of Guardpack, has written to his MP to say banning them would be environmentally disastrous.\n\nMr Freedman told the BBC what he saw as their benefits: \"If you go to TGI Friday and Nando's, for example, you'll see our products there.\n\n\"These wipes are biodegradeable, take 3ml of liquid on average. If they weren't able to use these, they would need to wash their hands, using on average one litre of water.\n\n\"They are also widely used in the medical industry and, for people with incontinence and disabled people, these wipes are critical to their lifestyle.\"\n\nHe said many of the wipes he produced were made of 100% biodegradable materials, but warned they were under no circumstances flushable.\n\nDefra is in the process of exploring how changes to the tax system or charges could be used to reduce the amount of single-use plastics wasted.\n\nPrime Minister Theresa May pledged in January to eradicate all \"avoidable plastic waste\" by 2042.\n\nThe government has also said it will consult over whether or not to ban plastic straws, cotton buds and drink stirrers.", "Geoff Barlow's Labrador retriever Jake enjoyed the sea at Southbourne, Essex, having just learned to swim\n\nUK temperatures are forecast to soar over the weekend, with Monday heading for a record high.\n\nForecasters say temperatures could reach 28C (82F) on Monday in parts of England, making it the hottest early May Bank Holiday on record.\n\nThe highest temperatures are expected in south-east England, particularly around London, as well as in East Anglia and the East Midlands.\n\nNorthern England and Wales are likely to have highs of 23C.\n\nIt will be slightly cooler in south-west England, Scotland and Northern Ireland, with temperatures expected to range from 19C to 22C.\n\nThe warmest early May Bank Holiday Monday on record was 23.6C, in 1999 - and this Monday could be the hottest since 1978, when the holiday was first introduced.\n\nThe average high for the May Bank Holiday in London is about 18C.\n\nRed and Ginny soaked up the sun in Airmyn near Goole, East Yorkshire\n\nDominic Wong, in Bournemouth, went for a spontaneous dip after taking this photo\n\nJames and his dog Archie also basked in the sunshine in the Chiltern Hills, in south-east England\n\nMet Office forecaster Craig Snell said the record for Monday is likely to be broken, but not the record for the hottest day over the whole May Bank Holiday weekend - that was a temperature of 28.6C set on the Saturday in 1995.\n\nHe said: \"23.6C is what we've got to beat, and we're forecasting highs of at least 26C, 27C, possibly 28C, so I think we can safely say that's going to be beaten.\n\n\"But whether or not we will beat the record for the whole weekend put together, we'll be close, but at the moment looking at it we may just come short.\"\n\nWalkers were among those enjoying the Kennet and Avon Canal in Newbury, Berkshire\n\nIt will come in sharp contrast to last Monday, when some parts of the UK experienced \"unseasonably cold weather\" and saw more than half a month's rainfall in a day.\n\nMeanwhile the week before that, London experienced the warmest April day for nearly 70 years with temperatures over 29C, as well as the hottest London Marathon on record.\n\nAnd in early April, parts of Scotland, northern England and north Wales were covered in heavy snow.\n\nThe highest May temperature recorded in the UK was on 29 May 1944, when Regent's Park, Horsham and Tunbridge Wells reached 32.8C (91F).", "At the end of maternal mental health awareness week, Alexandra Vanotti details her experience of post-natal anxiety and the help she received - which she describes as a godsend.\n\nMy sister was on honeymoon in South Africa when my baby boy was born. It was almost a fortnight before she was due home and I had an overwhelming fear that my baby would die before my sister got a chance to meet him. In my mind, over the coming weeks and months my beautiful baby died a thousand deaths. This, despite his clean bill of health.\n\nYou may have twigged already that I wasn't well. It took me a bit longer to realise.\n\nI had an uneventful pregnancy, albeit under the care of the high risk team at Chelsea and Westminster hospital in London. At the age of 21, I had undergone heart surgery, but at this stage my heart was fine and it was years since I had seen a cardiologist.\n\nDuring the first trimester, I was the textbook example of a glowing mother-to-be, full of excitement and wonder at the life growing inside me. But as I approached the 18-week scan, I started feeling anxious. I read a leaflet on the potential health issues that might be picked up at the anomaly scan and I cried tears of terror. But we passed it with no concern. The baby also passed the foetal heart ultrasound - a necessity with my congenital heart problem. And yet I couldn't shake off the sense of foreboding.\n\nAs my due date grew nearer, my focus shifted to childbirth and I was bombarded with unwelcome thoughts of sudden heart failure, a twisted umbilical cord around the baby's neck. Stillbirth.\n\nOn the surface, though, I was more serene and calm than my family had ever seen. I told nobody of my fears. \"Pack your hospital bag,\" my mother and sister urged, alarmed that with only one month to go, I'd not made one baby purchase. My husband dragged me to choose buggies and cots, rather than the other way round. I was told many times it was wonderful that I was so laid back. My mind, however, was telling me that my baby would die, so what was the point of buying anything?\n\nOur baby boy was born on 22 January, 2014. Strangely, despite the pain of contractions, I was calm and cheerful throughout labour. When he arrived I was awestruck, spending 12 hours straight just gazing at him in wonder. He was the most beautiful baby I'd ever seen in my life and I happily told anyone who'd listen. I was completely besotted and blissfully happy. Above all, I was relieved that despite my fears, he and I had survived childbirth together.\n\nIt was two days later in hospital that I suddenly felt my stomach clench with fear, as I was hit by a crushing sense of responsibility. How could I keep my baby safe in this big scary world? In my mind, the ways in which he could be harmed were infinite. I would have to be on guard the whole time to make sure nothing happened to him.\n\nMy nightmare with postnatal anxiety, OCD and insomnia had begun.\n\nMy primary obsession was that my baby would die in his sleep - therefore, I had to stay awake while he slept. To be fair, this is a common concern to new parents. Like many new dads, my husband was also on edge and would hover over the sleeping baby to check he was breathing. But for him, the solution was simple - he bought an under-mattress movement sensor, which would sound an alarm if the baby stopped breathing.\n\nMy husband slept soundly after this. I, on the other hand, would just be drifting off, only to jolt awake as I felt the need to check, double check, triple check that I'd turned the sensor on. In my mind, the sensor became the only thing standing between my baby and cot death, so I took it everywhere, even slotting it under the mattress in the pram, switching it on whenever I stopped.\n\nWalking down the high street on one of our first excursions out as a family of three, we were overtaken by a little boy on a scooter, his mother close behind. Instantly a series of intrusive disturbing images flitted through my mind - the scooter veering off the pavement into traffic, the boy hit by a car, a little body lying in the street, the mother screaming hysterically. My legs turned to jelly and I had to hold onto the buggy to stop myself falling. The little boy and his mother continued on their way, oblivious.\n\nThese intrusive images continued, several times a day. Some seemed like reasonable and appropriate fears, such as dropping the baby as I carried him down the stairs, letting go of the buggy and watching it roll into the road in the path of a car. But others were shocking and strange - accidentally putting the baby in the microwave, opening our front door to a stranger who'd fling acid at me and the baby, dropping him off the side of a ferry and watching him disappear into the waves below. Torturous little horror films that ran through my mind all day.\n\nI felt fearful the whole time, full of adrenalin, the way you feel when you've almost tripped while descending a flight of stairs - racing heart, plummeting stomach, jelly legs. I was so preoccupied with my anxious thoughts that I was disconnected from everything else.\n\nWhen the baby was not even a week old, my husband, alarmed by my mental state, made an emergency doctor's appointment. Initially the doctor talked about baby blues and how I might find myself feeling better in a week or so, but my husband put his foot down and demanded a referral for therapy. On the NHS it would be a four-to-six-week wait. But thanks to our private medical insurance, a week later I was sitting in the waiting room at the Priory in Roehampton waiting for my first psychiatric assessment.\n\nThe initial assessment involved no therapy, but what seemed like hundreds of questions. The psychiatrist very quickly ascertained that I was suffering from postnatal anxiety and OCD, and that I would benefit from cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT). She explained a sliding scale of anxiety, with most people experiencing it to a certain extent. On her scale I wasn't even near the top, and she reassured me that with therapy I would soon start to feel better. I nodded numbly, wondering just how bad you had to feel to reach the top of the anxiety scale. I felt I was living in my own private hell.\n\nThe following week I left the baby with my mother and arrived at the Priory for my first therapy session with a CBT specialist. Cognitive behavioural therapy doesn't involve going back over past issues, instead it looks at current problems and, in particular, it identifies your core beliefs. These are often unrecognised deep-seated beliefs that can affect your life and your behaviour.\n\nIn our first session, my therapist quickly identified that I felt utterly crushed by the responsibility of keeping the baby safe. She questioned me gently for almost the whole 90-minute session. Reaching the core belief was like peeling individual layers of an onion, with searching questions that probed deeper and deeper until the fundamental core was revealed.\n\nI broke down in tears and shook with emotion as I finally admitted out loud, \"I'm the only person who can keep my baby safe\". This was my belief - and I hadn't even known it. Now to work on contesting that belief.\n\nI didn't get better immediately. Not at all. In fact it took nine months of counselling. I found therapy really hard work and didn't look forward to my weekly sessions. I would leave them feeling completely wrung out, emotionally exhausted, and sometimes I couldn't understand why my therapist often went - in my opinion - off on a tangent.\n\nOne week she questioned me on my aspirations as a mother and, after listening to me talk about home-cooked food, a clean and tidy house, losing my baby weight, she suggested gently that I stop striving for perfection, and instead aim for \"good enough\". I looked at her blankly. \"What do you mean 'good enough?' Why would I settle for good enough? I want to be the best mum possible,\" I said. She kept pressing. I kept resisting. I left that session feeling frustrated. In my opinion, good enough meant not enough. And why were we wasting valuable time on this when we should be tackling the \"bully in my head\" as I had come to call my anxiety? I yearned to be better, back to my old self.\n\nEverywhere I went, I saw danger. It was worse at night. I could almost feel a tangible sense of impending doom. I knew I wouldn't get more than three or four hours' sleep - the baby suffered from silent reflux and woke every 45 minutes after midnight. But even the corners of the room seemed darker and more threatening in the evening.\n\nAt night, trying to stop myself falling asleep mid-feed, I found even more horrors on the internet. \"The dog ate my baby's head,\" was one particularly unhelpful headline which had me jumping out of bed at four in the morning, running downstairs to shake my husband awake. \"He's going to get mauled by a dog,\" I cried. He looked at me uncomprehending, bleary eyed, but I couldn't be calmed until he got out of bed and helped me compose an email to my parents and sister about the family cockapoos.\n\nAnother news article about baby seats sent shock waves through my core. Babies shouldn't be kept in their car seats for longer than two hours, it said. After reading this, nothing my husband said could convince me to take a car journey longer than half an hour, in case the baby asphyxiated en route.\n\n\"I am so anxious,\" I confided tearfully in my mother. She nodded knowingly and said, \"It never goes away, once you're a parent\". She didn't realise the extent of my anxiety. I took her words quite literally to mean that I would feel this horrendous for the rest of my life. The bully would never go away. I couldn't possibly survive at that level of anxiety. I thought I had made a mistake, that I was not cut out for motherhood. And then came guilt for not being thankful for my beautiful child.\n\nIronically I embraced the days when I just felt a dull depression rather than racing anxiety - it was a relief. \"This is normal,\" I told myself. \"All mothers feel this and it will pass.\"\n\nTo say I lost myself that first year is no over-exaggeration. I don't recognise my face in photos, my false smile. Delirious and headachy from sleep deprivation, sugar became my crutch and I piled on all the weight I'd lost after giving birth. I didn't get my hair done for more than six months. Putting on a pair of earrings was too much effort. Never mind \"good enough\", I was failing miserably at being an alpha mum and I knew everyone would be able to see through the camouflage of makeup so it wasn't worth the effort. And I was so very tired, all the time. I hated what was happening to me, and I imagined that my little boy would one day realise he'd drawn the short straw and reject me. I felt he deserved better than me.\n\nThe light bulb moment came a few months in, after the \"good enough\" session. My therapist helped me finally realise that my quest for perfection was fuelling my anxiety. My core belief in this instance? That my self worth was measured by how well I could do things. Before baby, everything from documents at work, to the way my home was decorated, to sourcing a quirky restaurant for dinner with friends, I had put a huge amount of effort into making it as good as possible. I prided myself on being super-organised.\n\nMy school friends had a nickname for me - The Guru. I never missed a birthday. I loved doing thoughtful things for my friends and family. My self worth was completely tied up in being this Guru. Naturally I had wanted to be the best mother possible. Before having a baby I had all the time in the world to invest in my pursuit of perfection. But as most new parents discover, you can't control anything about a baby, and it's natural to feel like your life has been turned upside down.\n\nWhat would happen if I just stopped?\n\nI listened to my therapist and reluctantly decided to give it a go, settling for \"good enough\" rather than perfection. The world didn't stop turning. The house didn't fall down. I started being kinder and more forgiving of myself. I scrapped my epic \"to do\" list. I stopped frantically cleaning the kitchen and making the house presentable when the baby napped. Instead, I would curl up next to him and nap too. Or I'd relax with a half-hour treat of daytime TV or trashy magazines (\"The trashier the better,\" my therapist encouraged). I ordered takeaways. I let the dirty washing pile up and ordered myself not to panic about it.\n\nGradually, life got easier. It felt almost rebellious and sloppy at first, deliberately turning my back on everything I'd strived towards for such a long time. But I soon realised that nobody noticed these changes apart from me. My family and friends didn't love me for the things I did, or how well I did them. They loved me, to quote Bridget Jones, \"Just the way you are\".\n\nIt was deliriously freeing. As I stopped fretting about everything being perfect, I started living in the moment - not dwelling on the past or worrying about the future. Concentrating on one day at a time, I suddenly realised one day that the scary visions and intrusive thoughts were receding.\n\n\"You're wearing earrings,\" exclaimed my therapist one week. I self-consciously touched my ear and smiled. Somehow it hadn't seemed like such an effort this morning.\n\nLike many people, my life has been touched by tragic and traumatic periods, but my first year of motherhood was undoubtedly the toughest time of my life. I think it is safe to say that I was traumatised afterwards. It took a huge toll on my husband, too, watching his wife, his best friend, fall apart before his eyes, turning into someone he didn't recognise.\n\nThree years later, we felt ready to try for our second baby and I was lucky to fall pregnant quickly. I was excited but feared I would fall ill again. The Chelsea and Westminster midwives were really on the ball, though. As soon as I mentioned my previous history during my first check-up, I was referred to the hospital's perinatal service.\n\nI met with psychotherapist Danny once a month or so during my pregnancy. I talked at length about my past experiences and he quickly saw I had convinced myself that the same thing would happen all over again. Danny reassured me that I had a good support network and that we could act swiftly if I fell unwell. I also saw the hospital psychiatrist, who strongly recommended anti-depressants if I started feeling down. My husband, who previously had quite strong opinions on anti-depressants, was in full agreement that this time I should take them if needed.\n\nIt started so well. Our baby's birth was calm and without complications. Another beautiful little boy. Bringing him home, I felt our little family was complete, and was elated I'd never have to go through pregnancy again. For the first two weeks I was on a real high - this is what motherhood was meant to feel like. But then he started showing signs of reflux - coughing and spluttering during feeds, hugely disrupted sleep, grimacing in pain. I braced myself for a tough few months but knew that we would survive - after all, we'd done it before with his older brother.\n\nA month after the baby arrived, we lost my elderly father-in-law when he suffered a bad fall. My grieving husband had to organise not just a UK funeral but his father's repatriation to Italy, an enormous task which took up all his time. I developed mastitis. The baby failed his hearing test, showing signs of hearing loss. He wasn't putting on weight (due to his struggles with reflux and breastfeeding). I was diagnosed with a hernia, which needed surgery - and subsequently developed a dangerous infection which required daily visits to hospital. Our troubles seemed never-ending.\n\nI felt massively overwhelmed when left to look after both boys by myself. I literally couldn't put the baby down because of his reflux, which meant that showering, getting dressed, even going to the bathroom was an issue. Getting out of the house with both boys felt like planning a mission to Mars. \"Don't you feel utterly panicked when you need to be somewhere at a certain time?\" I asked a friend, who was a new mum. \"Well,\" she said, frowning, \"It's a mammoth task, of course, but I wouldn't say I panic.\" I felt self-conscious for over-sharing. I was convinced I couldn't cope. What totally passed me by was that everyone struggles. Looking after babies is hard work, end of story. But for some reason, I felt I needed to have a handle on it - my need for control creeping back in.\n\nDanny came to visit me several times at home and often carried out my therapy sessions while I nursed the baby. There was no way I could have managed the journey to the hospital in those early days.\n\nBoth my babies suffered from digestive problems and would scream in discomfort for hours at a time, and both times I cut out cows milk from my diet. But I became obsessive over everything that passed my lips, convinced I was slowly poisoning my baby through my breast milk. At one point, I considered a total elimination diet, eating only pear and lamb, until my mother talked me out of it.\n\nOne night, staying at my parents' house while my husband was in Italy, I was delirious with exhaustion after two hours trying to settle my miserable screaming baby. I thought about putting the baby down, walking out the front door and stepping in front of a bus. Five minutes later I was tearfully apologising to my son, nuzzling his neck, promising I'd never leave him. I have never had suicidal thoughts and that moment terrified me into action. In the morning I told my mother how I'd felt. And after half an hour of arguing with her - I insisted I could get better by myself - I agreed to start taking anti-depressants. Within a week, I had stopped crying every day - something I hadn't even realised I'd been doing - and the cloud lifted.\n\nA year later, I am still on anti-depressants, and still see Danny and the team from the Chelsea and Westminster perinatal service. They've been a godsend. I feel content with being \"good enough\". I feel no shame about my struggles. In fact I feel like shouting my story from the rooftops - if only to help other new mothers who feel like I did.\n\nI know how lucky I am but I am concerned for the women who aren't, who don't have someone fighting their corner with the GP, who don't have private medical insurance, who don't live in a postcode that provides such excellent services. In the four years since my first baby, I've noticed a real change in the way people talk about mental health, but I would like to see a real change in the way mothers-to-be are prepared for what might happen, so it doesn't come as such a shock.\n\nAnd if a new mother even breathes a whisper about feeling down, she should be taken deadly seriously - because this can be deadly. If you feel like I did, you don't have the \"baby blues\", you are unwell and need medical attention, just as you would for a broken leg or the flu. New mothers are vulnerable enough (both physically and mentally) without having to fight to be heard.\n\nBecoming a mother is life changing in a way that nobody can prepare for, but what we can prepare for is better support for maternal mental health.\n\nJoin the conversation - find us on Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and Twitter.", "Prince Harry and fiancée Meghan Markle will get married at Windsor Castle on 19 May\n\nMeghan Markle's father will walk her down the aisle when she marries Prince Harry later this month.\n\nThomas Markle will meet his daughter's fiancé for the first time when he arrives in the UK the week before the wedding, Kensington Palace said.\n\nHe and Ms Markle's mother, Doria Ragland, will meet the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh.\n\nThey will also meet Prince Charles, as well as Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall and the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge.\n\nMeanwhile, Ms Markle will not have a maid of honour and all of her bridesmaids and pageboys will be children.\n\nMs Markle \"has a very close-knit group of friends and did not want to choose between them\", Kensington Palace's communications secretary Jason Knauf said.\n\nThe palace released the new details with just over two weeks until the royal wedding in Windsor on 19 May.\n\nMs Markle will travel with her mother to the church by car while Prince Harry will arrive with his brother Prince William, who he announced as his best man last month.\n\nNewborn Prince Louis, who will be three-weeks-old at the time, is not expected to be there - although siblings Prince George and Princess Charlotte will be.\n\nBut the Duke of Edinburgh, 96, will attend, despite undergoing a hip replacement last month and being absent at other recent royal events.\n\nDuring the ceremony, Lady Jane Fellowes, one of Princess Diana's older sisters, will give a reading in a nod to the Spencer side of the family.\n\nThe location and date of the couple's honeymoon has not yet been revealed.\n\nBut the first royal engagement of Ms Markle, 36, and Harry, 33, will be the week after the wedding.\n\nMs Markle attended last year's Invictus Games with her mum, Doria\n\nIt had not been known what role Ms Markle's parents would play in the wedding.\n\nIn a statement, Kensington Palace said they both had \"important roles\", adding: \"Ms Markle is delighted to have her parents by her side on this important and happy occasion.\"\n\nThe Suits actress' father, Thomas Markle, and mother, Doria Ragland, divorced when she was six years old.\n\nMr Markle was a cinematographer, working on programmes including the 80s TV show Married with Children, when his daughter began her own acting career.\n\nAccording to Samantha Grant, Ms Markle's half sister from her father's first marriage, their father Thomas was \"completely self-sacrificing\" and \"the glue of our family\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nKensington Palace also released details of what members of the public can expect on the day.\n\nMore than 1,000 people have already been invited into the grounds of Windsor Castle for the wedding.\n\nFood stalls and big screens will be set up near to the Long Walk and viewing areas will be set up along the procession route.\n\nWindsor town centre will be decorated with bunting and ceremonial banners along parts of the route and there will be live entertainment.\n\nThe couple will travel through the town in a carriage after leaving St George's Chapel for the ceremony, to which 600 guests have been invited.\n\nMeanwhile, Dermot O'Leary and former Gogglebox star Scarlett Moffatt have been announced as among the BBC's hosts who will present its royal wedding coverage.", "Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson will have two days of talks with White House officials\n\nBoris Johnson is visiting Washington to urge the US not to scrap the international deal designed to prevent Iran acquiring nuclear weapons.\n\nThe UK and its European allies have until 12 May to persuade President Donald Trump to stick with the deal.\n\nMr Trump has strongly criticised the agreement, which he calls \"insane\".\n\nIn a call with Theresa May on Saturday, the president \"underscored his commitment to ensure that Iran never acquires a nuclear weapon\".\n\nIn the landmark deal - signed by the US, China, Russia, Germany, France, the UK and Iran - the latter agrees to limit its nuclear activities in return for the easing of sanctions on its economy.\n\nEuropean allies France, the UK and Germany all agree the current deal is the best way to stop Iran developing nuclear weapons and the UN also warned Mr Trump not to walk away from the deal.\n\nBut Mr Trump has threatened to withdraw unless the signatories agree to \"fix the deal's disastrous flaws.\"\n\nThe British Ambassador to the US says France, UK and Germany have been working together for weeks to figure out a new way to address Mr Trump's concerns that the terms of the agreement are too lenient.\n\nHowever, Sir Kim Darroch insists all three countries are looking at how a deal would work even without the US.\n\nIran's President Hassan Rouhani says the US will face \"historic regret\" if it pulls out.\n\nIn remarks carried live on state television, he said Iran had \"a plan to counter any decision Trump may take and we will confront it\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A timeline of what Trump's said about the Iran deal\n\nMr Johnson will meet US Vice-President Mike Pence, National Security Adviser John Bolton and foreign policy leaders in Congress.\n\nAhead of the trip, Mr Johnson said the UK and US are \"in lockstep\" on many global foreign policy issues, citing the response to the use of chemical weapons in Syria and the Salisbury poisonings.\n\nHe added: \"The UK, US and European partners are also united in our effort to tackle the kind of Iranian behaviour that makes the Middle East region less secure - its cyber activities, its support for groups like Hezbollah, and its dangerous missile programme, which is arming Houthi militias in Yemen.\"\n\nThe UK-US talks come after Israel revealed \"secret nuclear files\" accusing Iran of having run a secret nuclear weapons programme, which was reportedly mothballed 15 years ago.\n\nUS Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said the documents were authentic and show the 2015 Iran nuclear deal was \"built on lies\".\n\nIran, in turn, accused Mr Netanyahu of lying. Foreign Minister Javad Zarif said the documents produced by Israel were a rehash of old allegations already dealt with by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the UN's nuclear watchdog.\n\nMr Trump has until the deadline of 12 May to make a decision on the deal - the next deadline for waiving sanctions.\n\nEarlier this month, Mr Johnson said it was important to keep the deal \"while building on it in order to take account of the legitimate concerns of the US\".\n\nMr Johnson's discussions are also expected to cover the crisis in Syria and also North Korea, ahead of Mr Trump's meeting with Kim Jong-un, which now has a date and location arranged.", "Labour group leader Barry Rawlings (right) said the anti-Semitisim row had \"made a difference\"\n\nA senior Labour politician says he \"suspects\" the anti-Semitism row led to his party's failure to take control of Barnet Council.\n\nShadow health secretary Jonathan Ashworth believes Labour needs to regain the trust of voters who had been \"turned away\".\n\nLabour had been expected to win Barnet for the first time, however the Conservative Party held the council.\n\nThe Tories increased their majority by winning 38 seats.\n\nLabour group leader Barry Rawlings said the party's anti-Semitism row had \"made a difference\" as Barnet has one of the UK's largest Jewish populations.\n\n\"If it had happened a couple of years ago Barnet would now be a Labour council,\" he said.\n\nBarnet had been in no overall control before the election.\n\nLabour won 25 seats compared to 30 in the 2014 election while the Liberal Democrats lost their only seat on the north London council.\n\nThe Conservatives controlled Barnet after the last council election in 2014, but it changed to no overall control when one councillor resigned earlier this year.\n\nLabour's Andrew Gwynne said the party has to \"tackle the anti-Semitism issue head on\"\n\nAdam Langleben, one of the Labour councillors who lost their seat in Barnet, said allegations of anti-Semitism were the key reasons for the party's losses in London.\n\nHe told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"I spent countless hours knocking on countless doors speaking to Jewish voters who are Labour voters or were Labour voters - people who genuinely believe in the same values as the Labour Party, who agreed with our local manifesto for Barnet.\n\n\"But they could not vote for a Labour Party that they see as hostile or dangerous to the Jewish community.\n\n\"And the Labour Party is seen by far too many people in the Jewish community as being racist right now.\"\n\nHowever, Richard Cornelius, Conservative leader of Barnet Council, said voters were more concerned about \"local issues\" than with accusations of anti-Semitism within Labour.\n\nHe said: \"They are all basic issues. It was things like potholes, the collection of their rubbish bins and keeping the council tax low.\n\n\"Of course there is a concern about anti-Semitism in the Jewish areas, and of course there is a wider concern about it more generally.\n\n\"People are horrified, and Labour have to address that.\"\n\nSpeaking at a visit to Barnet, Prime Minister Theresa May said: \"People of all faiths have rejected the vile anti-semitism that has gone unchallenged in the Labour party for too long\".\n\nLabour MP John Mann, an outspoken critic of Jeremy Corbyn, tweeted that the anti-Semitism row had \"cost Labour badly last night\".\n\n\"A Jewish member for more than 60 years told me on the doorstep he couldn't vote Labour in Barnet yesterday,\" he said.", "Last updated on .From the section Man Utd\n\nFormer Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson had emergency surgery on Saturday for a brain haemorrhage.\n\nA United statement said the procedure \"had gone very well\" but Ferguson \"needs a period of intensive care to optimise his recovery\".\n\nThe Scot, 76, retired as United manager in May 2013 after winning 38 trophies during 26 years in charge.\n\nHe was at Old Trafford last Sunday when he presented Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger with a commemorative trophy.\n\nFerguson's family have requested privacy as he recovers in Salford Royal Hospital.\n\n\"We will keep Sir Alex and his loved ones in our thoughts during this time, and we are united in our wish to see him make a comfortable, speedy recovery,\" United later said in a tweet.\n\nThe most successful manager in the history of the British game, Ferguson's trophy haul at Old Trafford included 13 Premier League titles, two Champions League crowns, five FA Cups and four League Cups.\n\nFerguson famously won the Treble of Premier League, FA Cup and Champions League in 1999, the year in which he was knighted.\n\nUnited's club captain Michael Carrick said he was \"devastated\" to learn his former manager had needed emergency surgery.\n\n\"All my thoughts and prayers are with him and his family. Be strong boss,\" he wrote on Twitter.\n\nFerguson has been married to wife Cathy since 1966. His son Darren manages Doncaster Rovers but did not not take charge of their League One match against Wigan on Saturday.\n\nFerguson began his playing career with Scottish club Queen's Park as a 16-year-old striker whilst working as an apprentice tool-worker at Clyde Shipyards.\n\nHis most notable spell as a player came in a two-year stint at Rangers from 1967. He retired as a player in 1974 when he was on Ayr United's books.\n\nHe began his managerial career as a 32-year-old at East Stirlingshire before going to St Mirren, where he won his first trophy by taking the Scottish first division title in 1977.\n\nFerguson moved on to Aberdeen and turned them into a major force in a Scottish top division in which Rangers and Celtic had dominated.\n\nHe led them to three Scottish titles, four Scottish FA Cups, one League Cup and the European Cup Winners' Cup in 1983 by beating Real Madrid 2-1 in the final.\n\nFerguson managed Scotland in the 1986 World Cup in Mexico following the death of Jock Stein, although he was unable to take his country past the group stage.\n\nHe became Manchester United manager later that year.\n\nUnited celebrated their first Premier League triumph under Ferguson in 1993, the club's first league title for 26 years.\n\nWillie Miller, who served as Aberdeen captain under Ferguson, said he was \"staggered\" to hear the news.\n\n\"My thoughts are with the boss, Cathy and the boys. Hoping the great man does what he does best and wins this challenge,\" he added.\n\nEverton manager Sam Allardyce said: \"I hope he's in good hands and I hope the operation is a major success. As a personal friend, I hope he has a full recovery.\"\n\n'Keep fighting boss' - reaction from the football world\n\nFormer Manchester United midfielder David Beckham: Keep fighting boss. Sending prayers and love to Cathy and the whole family.\n\nMike Phelan, who was Ferguson's assistant for five years: You've won more than most and if anyone can, you can boss.\n\nUnited defender Ashley Young: Gutted to hear the news tonight about Sir Alex. Don't really know what else to say other than thoughts and prayers with you and your family, boss.\n\nFormer United goalkeeper Edwin van der Sar: Devastated about the news about Sir Alex and knowing all too well about the situation ourselves. Stay strong and hope together with everyone you recover.\n\nUnited defender Chris Smalling: Gutted to hear the news about Sir Alex. Stay strong boss. Thoughts are with you and your family.\n\nFormer England striker and Match of the Day host Gary Lineker: Very sorry to hear the news that Sir Alex Ferguson is seriously ill in hospital. Wish him all the very best.\n\nAberdeen FC: The thoughts and prayers of everyone connected with Aberdeen Football Club are with our former manager Sir Alex Ferguson and his family following tonight's news.\n\nLiverpool FC: A great rival but also a great friend who supported this club during its most difficult time, it is hoped that Sir Alex will make a full recovery.\n\nManchester City: Everyone at Manchester City wishes Sir Alex Ferguson a full and speedy recovery after his surgery.\n\nWorld football governing body Fifa: We join many across the world of football in sending our best wishes to Sir Alex Ferguson.", "Last updated on .From the section Women's Football\n\nChelsea Ladies manager Emma Hayes says people call her a \"role model\" because she is female when she wants to be known for her coaching success instead.\n\nHayes' team face Arsenal in Saturday's Women's FA Cup final at Wembley (17:10 BST), which will be live on BBC One.\n\nThe 41-year-old, who is 33 weeks pregnant with twins, will not walk her side out after health advice, but plans to follow the game from the dugout.\n\nShe is one of only three female bosses in England's 10-team top flight.\n\nWhen asked about being a \"female role model\" during Chelsea's pre-match news conference, Hayes replied: \"You wouldn't call [Manchester City Women boss] Nick Cushing a role model.\n\n\"You'll call me one because I'm female.\n\n\"While of course I want to influence other females in the game, more importantly I want to be renowned for being good tactically, being an outstanding coach who delivers well on the grass, who gets the best out of my players and who ultimately competes for titles year in, year out.\n\n\"It does make it hard when there's not a lot of us [women] doing it, but we have to remove the gender-specific conversation about it. I just see myself as a coach.\"\n• None More than 40,000 tickets sold for final\n\nPregnancy 'is my biological right'\n\nThe former Arsenal assistant coach, who has led Chelsea since 2012, has continued to manage her title-chasing side throughout her pregnancy.\n\nBut she stressed that made her \"no different to any other pregnant woman in the workplace who is still going to work\", when speaking to the gathered media before the 48th Women's FA Cup final.\n\n\"For me, it's important that people think you can do both,\" Hayes added.\n\n\"It's important that all women in this position feel supported enough to do this. I'm at the best club in the world for that. There's been huge support for me.\n\n\"But also, it's my biological right to do that - and I can still get up to go to work every day.\n\n\"Some days I'm going to struggle, but I'm at 33 weeks and I'm still marauding about on the football pitch barking at them all, and can still go home and get the adequate rest.\n\n\"It's important for my mind and my health to keep working, as long as I do the right things and get enough sleep.\"\n\nHayes said her decision not to walk her team out at Wembley on Saturday \"was not difficult\" after being advised to \"take it easy\" during the game.\n\nChelsea's assistant manager Paul Green will instead lead the side and shake hands with dignitaries before kick off, standing on the pitch alongside the players for the national anthem.\n\n\"I have to put my pregnancy first in that regard and be quite honest to say I feel quite vulnerable walking out there with a ton of cameras, physically,\" Hayes added.\n\n\"I don't want to agitate anything and I've been advised to just take it easy.\n\n\"It wasn't a difficult decision because it's not about me. Paul has been part of putting this team together as much as I have.\n\n\"I look forward to watching Paul lead them out, because he very much deserves that - as much as anyone.\n\n\"It's hard to keep me seated. It's taxing. I just have to be sensible. At this stage of a pregnancy, I have to take the fewest amount of risks as possible.\n\n\"It's really difficult for players to hear messages [from the sidelines] at Wembley, so I'll get those guys out to the front of the box and let them deal with it.\"\n\nOn the pitch, Hayes knows her side will be labelled favourites for their meeting with Arsenal.\n\nChelsea are second in Women's Super League 1 - behind leaders Manchester City only on goal difference - while Arsenal are fourth, four points behind.\n\nThe Blues reached this season's Women's Champions League semi-finals - enjoying their most successful run in Europe - before being eliminated by German side Wolfsburg last Sunday.\n\n\"What concerns me is putting trophies on the table. I want to win things,\" Hayes added.\n\n\"As far as I'm concerned, we are the best team in the country at this present time, but you have to win silverware to substantiate that.\"\n\nYou can now add WSL 1 notifications for line-ups, goals, kick-off, half-time and results in the BBC Sport app. Visit this page to find out how to sign-up.", "The crocodiles were intended for a farm in Cambridgeshire, where they were to be bred for meat\n\nFifty crocodiles have been seized at Heathrow airport after their transport conditions breached regulations.\n\nThe year-old reptiles, which arrived on a flight from Malaysia, had fought each other during the journey due to their cramped circumstances.\n\nEach of the five transportation boxes used had room for four crocodiles - but 10 foot-long animals were in each one.\n\nA Border Force spokesman said \"little attention\" had been paid to the crocodiles' welfare.\n\nOne crocodile has since died.\n\nThe animals had been destined for a farm in Cambridgeshire - where they were to be bred for meat - but are now being cared for by officials from the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES).\n\nThe remaining 49 crocodiles will be re-homed, a Home Office statement said.\n\nFifty crocodiles were transported from Malaysia but one has since died\n\nGrant Miller, head of the national Border Force CITES team at Heathrow, said: \"It is just not acceptable for reptiles to be transported in this way.\"\n\nHe added: \"We will seize anything that contravenes CITES regulations, so this should serve as a warning to those thinking about transporting wildlife in such conditions.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Lava flows are continuing from the Kilauea volcano in Hawaii\n\nA number of strong earthquakes have hit Hawaii's Big Island, a day after the eruption of the Kilauea volcano.\n\nOne 6.9 magnitude quake, south-east of the volcano, was the most powerful to hit the US state since 1975.\n\nIt briefly cut power and sent people fleeing from buildings but there was no tsunami warning.\n\nMeanwhile, several fresh eruptions spewed fountains of lava 30m (100ft), destroying several homes and leaving fissures on three streets.\n\nThe Civil Defense Agency told any remaining residents to evacuate.\n\nIt said there were deadly levels of dangerous sulphur dioxide gas in the air and emergency crews would not be able to help anyone affected.\n\nThe new volcanic activity in Mt Kilauea's lower east rift zone amounted to \"vigorous lava spattering\", the US Geological Survey (USGS) said, adding that additional outbreaks in the area were likely.\n\nThe USGS said \"vigorous lava spattering\" was happening\n\nThe lava was not travelling more than a \"few tens of yards\" from the vents, which were on streets in the Leilani Estates neighbourhood near Big Island's eastern tip, the USGS said.\n\nHowever, ground deformation was continuing and there was high earthquake activity in the area, it said. Meanwhile, the level of the lava lake inside the volcano was continuing to drop.\n\nTwo homes were destroyed in the latest activity, ABC quoted Hawaii island Mayor Harry Kim as saying.\n\nMaija Stenback, an eyewitness, told the BBC the eruption \"was like when someone plays the bass really heavy: you could really feel the power and the lava\".\n\n\"The colour was unbelievable, and the sound was unbelievable,\" she said.\n\n\"You could hear and feel the eruption a good half a mile away, and the closer you got, the more you could feel it.\"\n\nResidents described fleeing their homes on Thursday evening.\n\n\"My family is safe, the rest of the stuff can be replaced. When I bought here 14 years [ago], I knew that this day would eventually come. But the reality is sinking in now,\" one resident told Hawaii News Now.\n\nA spokesperson for Hawaii's Mayor, Janet Snyder, said \"elevated levels\" of sulphur dioxide were stopping people returning to evacuated areas.\n\n\"It is quite toxic and in fact, even our first responders find it too hazardous at this time to go back into the sub-divisions without heavy, protective equipment,\" she said.\n\nThursday's eruption prompted a local state of emergency and the mandatory evacuation of 1,700 residents.\n\nCommunity centres have been opened to provide shelter for evacuees.\n\nKilauea is one of the world's most active volcanoes and the eruption follows a series of recent earthquakes.\n\nOfficials had been warning residents all week they should be prepared to evacuate as an eruption would give little warning.\n\nA volcanic crater vent - known as Puu Oo - collapsed earlier this week, sending lava down the mountain's slopes towards populated areas.\n\nDr Dougal Jerram, an earth scientist at the University of Oslo, told the BBC that the quake had \"occurred in the middle of a housing estate effectively, erupting through the roads, with magma shooting 30 metres up into the sky\".\n\nHawaii's Governor, David Ige, said he had activated military reservists from the National Guard to help evacuate thousands of people.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nEarlier this year, a false alert warning of an incoming ballistic missile caused panic, leading the US state to reassess its alert system.", "They seem stuck with each other - so close, in fact, that our projected national share of the vote from the results would mean that, in a hypothetical general election tomorrow, the two main Westminster parties would receive exactly the same levels of public support.\n\nFor reasons we've discussed at length overnight and in recent days, we have to be careful about directly transposing what happened on Thursday into a theoretical nationwide election.\n\nBut while in one sense not very much happened in the local election - not very many councils and seats changed hands and neither of the main parties have (with a couple of hours to go) made dramatic strides - something important did happen.\n\nVoters opted again for roughly the status quo, underlining the trends that we saw developing at the general election as the political parties grappled with a new landscape after the referendum.\n\nLabour piled up support in big urban areas, but struggled to show advances in towns or areas where there used to be big industries, which are often - inconveniently for them - the kinds of places that have Westminster constituencies that swing the election.\n\nAnd notably, in part due to the grim row over anti-Semitism not being tackled in the Labour Party quickly enough, Labour did not make the kinds of additional gains in London boroughs they had suggested, even though in some of those critical parts of the metropolis, they ran the Tories extremely close.\n\nAlmost in a mirror image, the Tories have struggled to get voters in big cities on side, even though, as above, they held back what would have been totemic losses in London.\n\nBut they nibbled away in some of those kinds of places where Labour lost some of their appeal.\n\nJust as at the general election, we saw that outside London the Conservatives inched forward, and inside London, Labour took some small steps.\n\nThere were of course many other interesting results, and you can read about them here. However, broadly speaking, both of the main Westminster parties maintained their comfort zone, but showed little evidence of pushing out of it.\n\nAt this stage of the electoral cycle, that is a significant problem for the Labour Party.\n\nTo demonstrate to the public, and to their own foot soldiers, they are banging on the door of No 10, they were eager to show more striking advances that did not come to pass.\n\nSome of their own MPs have been candid enough to admit that, in the last few hours, and to confront the geographical divide in their vote.\n\nBut for the Tories too, there is a sense of relief, rather than a feeling of hope.\n\nThey held off challenges more effectively than they expected to, but again, they showed little sign of having much to offer to voters in what's alien territory for them.\n\nJust as in June last year, we saw broadly Tory v Labour, Towns v Cities, Young v Old, and Leave v Remain.\n\nOf course it's not as simple as that. The Lib Dems had a better night than expected and UKIP pretty much disappeared.\n\nBut the fault lines which the Referendum exposed are deeper still.\n\nAnd here is the conundrum for Labour and the Tories - they both are perhaps digging deeper into their holes.\n\nFor the Tories, in the traditional context, this can fairly be described as a pretty decent performance after eight years in government, which traditionally see parties get hammered as voters get fed up with them over the years.\n\nIt would be perfectly easy for them therefore to say, move on, nothing to see here, let's carry on as we are, not least because the Tories are divided, and have faced drama after drama.\n\nBut there's caution too. One senior Conservative warns that in London Councils they held on \"in spite of the Westminster government and not because of it\".\n\nThey added: \"The big risk is that the national party kicks the reform can down the road because we are trundling along. Just because the wheels didn't fall off, doesn't mean the early warning lights aren't flashing faster than ever.\"\n\nFor Labour, the results don't suggest confident strides towards Number 10, but neither are they so bad that the party is likely to re-examine their approach.\n\nOne shadow minister told the BBC it was \"very serious to be going backwards\" in some Midlands areas.\n\nAnother said in frustration that there was \"no strategy\", but said nothing will change in their view, because \"we've got 500,000 people who think this guy walks on water\".\n\nFor real majorities, rather than hung politics, parties have to achieve beyond their comfort zones.\n\nUntil either of them can do that, perhaps Mr Corbyn can't truly beat Mrs May, but nor will Mrs May be able to see off Mr Corbyn.", "A cat named after the Lion King film character Simba has been found seven months after going missing - near Colchester Zoo's big cats enclosure.\n\nThe tabby was spotted trying to catch birds of prey close to the lion house.\n\nOwner Raymond Bateman thinks his pet had been living at the zoo, four miles from home, for at least a month, as the Colchester Gazette reported.\n\nHe said the cat disappeared after they began building an extension, as it was not feeling the love for the noise.\n\nThe family pet had always been shy and frightened of visitors, so the disruption caused by the builders was a bit much for the sensitive moggy, and it left.\n\nSimba was shy and did not usually like noise or strangers, its owner said\n\nThe Batemans put up posters but there were no real sightings of the five-year-old microchipped puss, \"although someone did say they saw a cat at Colchester Zoo a couple of months ago,\" Mr Bateman told the BBC.\n\nThe zoo is a favourite place for the family to visit, but they had never taken their cat there.\n\nHowever, Simba seemed keen to live up to its name and mix with the other kings of the cat world.\n\n\"We got a call from the zoo on Thursday to say he had been seen hanging around the birds of prey, trying to catch them close to the lion enclosure,\" said Mr Bateman.\n\nThe cat was scanned and returned home.\n\nZoo curator, Clive Barwick, said for some time staff had been \"aware of Simba's presence but he had always steered himself away from direct contact with anyone that approached him\", but they were \"delighted\" to have found his owner.\n\nMr Bateman said: \"He's got a few scratches on his nose and ears, and was like a different cat when he came back.\n\n\"For a while he was very brave, but now he's settled into his old ways, hiding under the bed if anyone comes round.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Tens of thousands of Hondurans in the US could be affected\n\nThe Trump administration has announced the end of temporary protections for thousands of Honduran immigrants.\n\nUp to 57,000 people could be forced to leave the US by 5 January 2020, when their temporary protected status (TPS) will be revoked.\n\nHondurans were granted this status after Hurricane Mitch hit the Central American country in 1998.\n\nThe Department of Homeland Security said conditions in the country had \"notably improved\" since the disaster.\n\nThe 2020 deadline gives time for people with TPS \"to arrange for their departure or to seek an alternative lawful immigration,\" the statement reads.\n\nHonduras's government said it \"profoundly regrets\" the end of the programme.\n\nThe country's ambassador to the US, Marlon Tabora, said the country could not handle repatriating tens of thousands of people, Reuters news agency reports.\n\nThe Trump administration has announced plans to end TPS for several nationalities\n\n\"These families have lived in the United States for 20 years and re-integrating them into the country will not be easy if they decide to return,\" he said.\n\nThe Trump administration previously announced plans to cancel TPS for immigrants from Haiti and El Salvador, which they had been given after natural disasters in those countries.\n\nCritics believe the US government is ignoring continuing dangers in home countries in its decisions to cancel TPS.\n\nBut some argue the repeated extension of the programme has resulted in de facto residency rights for those who benefit.\n\nA legal group in Boston, the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights and Economic Justice, said they would amend a legal complaint about the recent cancellation of TPS status to include the Hondurans.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and 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 Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights\n\nA large number of migrants recently arrived at the US border, including many Hondurans.\n\nThe disputed election of President Juan Orland Hernández in November has caused recent unrest in the country which has led many to flee.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sir John Curtice: Labour gains are par for the course\n\nThe election results will come as a disappointment to Labour, relief for the Conservatives and mild encouragement for the Liberal Democrats. But what role did factors such as Brexit and the votes of young people play, ask Prof John Curtice and colleagues on the BBC's local elections team.\n\nIt was a night in which big swings were rare - apart from a collapse in the UKIP vote. That enabled all three main parties to register gains, but with none of them making a decisive advance.\n\nLabour's sole council gain so far was in Plymouth. More disappointing for the party was a failure to gain a single council in London, in particular the Tory totems of Wandsworth or Westminster. Outside the capital, the party lost control of both Derby and Nuneaton.\n\nThe Liberal Democrats managed to capture Richmond-upon-Thames from the Conservatives, where their party leader, Sir Vince Cable, is a local MP.\n\nBut the Conservatives had the consolation of winning control of both Basildon and Peterborough.\n\nSo, what does this tell us about how the parties have fared - and why?\n\nBehind these gains and losses is a clear pattern of rises and falls in the levels of party support.\n\nMost of the seats being contested were previously fought over in 2014, when Labour were narrowly ahead of the Conservatives in the opinion polls.\n\nAt that time, UKIP were riding the crest of a wave, while the Liberal Democrats were in the doldrums.\n\nThanks to a collapse in UKIP support almost everywhere, both the Conservatives and Labour are enjoying more support this year than they did four years ago.\n\nThe BBC's projected national vote share puts both parties on 35%. This could be seen as a draw, so far as both parties' national performance was concerned.\n\nThe Lib Dems are on 16% according the BBC estimate, which uses the results of key wards to estimate what a Britain-wide vote would have been.\n\nThe absence of any substantial net swing between the two largest parties is broadly in line with what might have been expected from the opinion polls, which put the Conservatives just a nose ahead.\n\nYet Labour had allowed expectations that the party would make big gains to grow, and especially that the party might perform spectacularly in London.\n\nInstead Jeremy Corbyn has come away virtually empty handed, while the Conservatives have emerged virtually unscathed.\n\nNot everywhere swung the same way.\n\nAs in last year's general election, the Conservatives fared better in places that voted for Leave than in those that voted for Remain.\n\nThe Conservative vote is up by 13 points where more than 60% backed Leave. These are the areas where UKIP had performed best four years ago.\n\nHowever, the Conservatives have dropped by one point in areas where less than 45% voted Leave.\n\nNot least of the reasons for this divergence is that UKIP performed best in 2014 in Leave-voting areas.\n\nThe collapsed UKIP vote in such places seems to have swung disproportionately behind the Conservatives, much as it did in last year's general election.\n\nThis pattern helps explain why the Conservatives' performance is weaker in London, which voted by three to two in favour of Remain.\n\nThe Conservative vote is only up one point in the capital, while Labour's vote increased by four points.\n\nConsequently the party has lost more than 60 seats in London, whereas it gained around 60 in other parts of the country.\n\nAlso in evidence, as in last year's general election, is a tendency for the Conservatives to fall back most heavily in places with large numbers of young voters.\n\nIn wards where more than 35% of the population are aged 18 to 34, the Conservative vote fell by one point.\n\nBut it increased by eight points where fewer than 20% belong to this age group.\n\nConversely, the Conservatives performed better the more pensioners there were in the ward.\n\nIts vote is up by as much as 10 points on average where more than 20% of the population are aged 65 or over.\n\nAs well as struggling in places with relatively large numbers of young adults, the Conservatives did less well where there were more graduates and people from an ethnic minority background.\n\nAll of these were groups that were disinclined to vote for Brexit.\n\nLiberal Democrat support has increased on average by three points.\n\nHowever, this represents no more than a modest improvement on the poor 2014 result that the party was trying to defend.\n\nDespite being the only significant party in England that opposes Brexit, the Liberal Democrats did not perform noticeably better in Remain voting areas.\n\nRather, the party's best performances seem to have been reserved for where the party was already relatively strong locally.\n\nMeanwhile, the Greens found themselves trying to withstand a receding tide, with an average drop of 2 points to 7% in those wards where the party put up candidates.\n\nHowever, the party had the consolation of making a net gain of six seats.\n\nAnd, for a small party, occasional electoral success can be an invaluable lifeline.\n\nThis analysis was commissioned by the BBC from experts working for outside organisations.\n\nHe worked with Stephen Fisher, Associate Professor of Political Sociology, University of Oxford; Robert Ford, Professor of Politics, University of Manchester and Patrick English, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Sheffield.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe American space agency Nasa has launched its latest mission to Mars.\n\nInSight will be the first probe to focus its investigations predominantly on the interior of the Red Planet.\n\nThe lander - due to touch down in November - will put seismometers on the surface to feel for \"Marsquakes\".\n\nThese tremors should reveal how the underground rock is layered - data that can be compared with Earth to shed further light on the formation of the planets 4.6 billion years ago.\n\n\"As seismic waves travel through [Mars] they pick up information along the way; as they travel through different rocks,\" explained Dr Bruce Banerdt, InSight's principal investigator. \"And all those wiggles you see on seismograms - scientists understand how to pull that information out. After we've gotten many, many Marsquakes from different directions, we can put together a three dimensional view of the inside of Mars.\"\n\nThick fog did not affect the launch on an Atlas rocket from the Vandenberg Air Force Base in California at 04:05 local time (12:05 BST) on Saturday.\n\nNasa last sent seismometers to the Red Planet on the Viking landers in the 1970s. But these missions failed to detect ground vibrations because the instruments were positioned on the body of the probes.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by NASA This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAll they recorded was the landers' shaking as the wind whistled by. InSight, by contrast, is going to place its seismometers directly in the Martian dirt.\n\nHow many quakes will be detected over the course of a year is uncertain, but estimates suggest perhaps a couple of dozen. They are likely to be small - probably well less than a Magnitude 3, which many people on Earth would sleep through.\n\nHowever, even these gentler signals will carry sufficient information about the subsurface to allow scientists to construct a model of Mars' depths and composition.\n\nInSight will have to endure 'seven minutes of terror' when it lands on Mars\n\nThe planet should have a metal core, a dense mantle and a lighter crust - but where precisely the boundaries lie is speculative.\n\nThe seismometer experiment is French-led. The European nation has provided the broadband sensors that will detect low-frequency vibrations of the ground, while the UK has contributed a trio of microseismometers, about the size of a pound coin, that will go after the higher frequencies.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Tom Pike: The relationship between life and a planet's interior is profound\n\nA good source of these short period vibrations is likely to be meteorite impacts.\n\nThe Franco-British systems should be able to locate the origin of quakes to within a few hundred km. \"The pattern of Marsquakes is going to be very important,\" said Prof Tom Pike from Imperial College London.\n\n\"On Earth, earthquakes are very much aligned with the edge of tectonic plates.\n\n\"We don't think that plate tectonics is active on Mars but we fundamentally don't know at the moment, and so just seeing the pattern of seismicity that comes in - that's going to be just a critical bit of information in and of itself.\"\n\nResearchers believe Mars once had a liquid core, as evidenced by the magnetism this generated and which is still retained in many of the planet's rocks. Whether any of that ancient fluid persists is something InSight will test by using radio equipment to observe how Mars shifts on its axis of rotation.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Suzanne Smrekar: The Viking seismometers recorded the landers wobbling in the wind\n\n\"If you take a raw egg and a cooked egg and you spin them, they wobble differently because of the distribution of liquid in the interior,\" explained InSight's deputy project scientist, Dr Suzanne Smrekar.\n\n\"So by tracking our spacecraft very precisely, we're able to see how Mars wobbles and that really tells us a lot of information about the core of Mars.\"\n\nFor those who recall the ill-fated Beagle Mars lander from 2003, there will be interest in the heat probe InSight plans to deploy. This incorporates a hammer to dig itself up to 5m into the ground.\n\nThe technology, from Germany, has heritage in the \"mole\" designed for Beagle. InSight's heat probe will provide information on how much energy inside Mars is available to drive changes at the surface.\n\nInSight now has a six-month cruise before landing on 26 November.\n\nAs ever, getting down in one piece will not be easy. Like all surface missions before it, InSight will have to endure the \"seven minutes of terror\" - the time it takes for a spacecraft entering the top of Mars' atmosphere at 6km/s to slow itself to a standstill at the touchdown point.\n\nInSight will enter the top of Mars' atmosphere at almost 6km/s\n\nJonathan.Amos-INTERNET@bbc.co.uk and follow me on Twitter: @BBCAmos", "More than 2,500 patients have been recalled following a case review by the Belfast Health and Social Care Trust\n\nTwo hundred special clinics to review patients of neurology consultant Dr Michael Watt began on Saturday.\n\nMore than 2,500 of Dr Watt's patients have been recalled following a case review by the Belfast Health and Social Care Trust.\n\nIt comes amid concerns some patients may have been misdiagnosed.\n\nThe patients had attended Dr Watt's clinics at the Royal Victoria Hospital and privately at the Ulster Independent Clinic and Hillsborough Private Clinic.\n\nIt is the biggest ever patient recall in the Belfast Health Trust.\n\nThe clinics will be taking place over the next 12 weeks.\n\nIn a statement, the Ulster Independent Clinic said that as an independent clinical practitioner who used its facilities, \"Dr Watt retains his own patient records\".\n\nIt said it has sought advice \"on obtaining access to the information required from these files urgently to allow us to accurately identify any patients who may need to be contacted\".\n\n\"We are acutely aware of the seriousness of this situation and the anxiety it is causing many patients and their families,\" it said.\n\n\"As we focus on identifying those private patients who may need to be contacted in light of the concerns raised, we would like to reassure any of Dr Watt's patients, potentially impacted by this issue, that we are moving as quickly as possible to alleviate their concerns.\"", "No clear party winner has emerged following Thursday's local elections in England.\n\nAs the final election result was declared in the London borough of Tower Hamlets overnight, Labour sealed their best result in the capital since 1971.\n\nBut their failure to secure key targets such as Wandsworth saw Theresa May claiming \"success\" for the Tories.\n\n\"We have to do better if we're going to be in government,\" said Lady Smith, Labour's leader in the House of Lords.\n\n\"Not much went wrong, but not as much went as well as we'd have liked,\" she told BBC's Newsnight.\n\nAnalysis suggested the two main parties were neck and neck overall in terms of national vote share - on 35% each. Last year Labour's vote share was estimated to be narrowly ahead of the Tories.\n\nLabour leader Jeremy Corbyn said he was \"disappointed at any places where we lost a bit of ground\".\n\nHowever, he insisted it was a \"solid set of results\" which left the party \"well placed to fight and win the next general election\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jeremy Corbyn: \"There's much more to come and it's going to get even better\"\n\nBBC political correspondent Chris Mason said neither Labour nor the Tories could claim a \"substantial breakthrough\".\n\n\"But while the overriding sentiment among Conservatives is one of relief, within Labour, it's introspection,\" our correspondent said.\n\nThe Conservatives are widely seen to have benefitted from the collapse of the UKIP vote - prompting leading Brexiters such as Boris Johnson and Iain Duncan Smith to urge the prime minister to press on with plans for a clean break with the EU.\n\nAccording to the BBC's projected national vote share, the Conservative party is three points down on what it achieved in 2017's county council elections but, after eight years in government, it is better than its performance in any of the local elections held between 2012 and 2014 and in 2016.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe party saw a small swing in their favour outside the capital and clung on to key London boroughs including Westminster, Wandsworth and Kensington & Chelsea - despite Labour ambitions.\n\nMrs May praised Tory councillors after winning Basildon, Peterborough and Barnet.\n\nBut the Tory triumph in Barnet was largely attributed to Mr Corbyn's failure to deal with anti-Semitism within his party - and saw a further flurry of criticism from Labour MPs.\n\nDeputy leader Tom Watson acknowledged the Jewish community had \"sent us a message\" and said the party had to learn lessons when it came to dealing with anti-Semitism in its own ranks.\n\nShadow justice secretary Richard Burgon denied that Mr Corbyn's response to Syria and the poisoning of the Russian spy in Salisbury were issues on the doorstep for traditional Labour voters.\n\nIn his experience of doorknocking in these elections, it was \"very rare\" for the public to raise Mr Corbyn's leadership in a negative way, he told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.\n\nBackbencher Jess Phillips said the party had to look at what had gone wrong in white working class areas in northern England, while Chuka Umunna called for an internal inquiry into the party's campaign, to look at why expected gains hadn't materialised.\n\nMr Umunna said the government was \"divided and incompetent\" yet Labour had not seen \"the big win in Wandsworth or Kensington that was expected\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Professor Sir John Curtice on three things we learnt from the local election results\n\nAlastair Campbell, Tony Blair's former director of communications - and well-known critic of Mr Corbyn - said Labour should be destroying the Conservatives given the \"disastrous Brexit negotiations\" and \"serial incompetence\" in the government.\n\nThe results were bad, he told the Today programme. \"You do not get into a winning position by being in denial,\" he added.\n\nThe election was seen as a bloodbath for UKIP, which lost dozens of councillors - and its own general secretary compared the party with the Black Death.\n\nBut the Liberal Democrats enjoyed success as it gained control of four extra councils, winning back Kingston-upon-Thames - which they lost to the Tories four years ago - as well as neighbouring Richmond.\n\nThe party also gained control of Three Rivers, south-west Hertfordshire, which had been under no overall control and has won South Cambridgeshire from the Tories.\n\nParty leader Sir Vince Cable said was \"the beginning of the comeback of the Lib Dems\", but warned: \"It's not going to happen overnight - Rome wasn't built in a day.\"", "The final house to be demolished on the crumbling cliff at Hemsby in Norfolk has been dragged back from danger.\n\nLance Martin saved his property from being knocked down by using a tractor with a winch to pull it back by 10 metres.", "Jamie Acourt, pictured in police custody in Spain, faces an extradition hearing\n\nOne of Britain's most wanted fugitives, Jamie Acourt, has been captured in Spain on suspicion of drug offences.\n\nA Spanish police source told the BBC that the 41-year-old from south London had used false identities to evade capture for two years.\n\nMr Acourt, who was wanted by police investigating the large-scale supply of drugs, was arrested in Barcelona on Friday.\n\nOn Saturday he was remanded in custody by a Spanish high court judge.\n\nHe appeared in front of the judge in Madrid via video-link from Barcelona.\n\nA former suspect in Stephen Lawrence's murder in 1993, Mr Acourt has always denied any involvement in the killing.\n\nArmed officers detained Mr Acourt after he left the Metropolitan Sagrada Familia Gym in the Spanish city on Friday afternoon.\n\nHe was arrested as part of operation Captura, a joint effort by the National Crime Agency (NCA), Metropolitan Police and Spanish National Police.\n\nA senior Spanish police source told the BBC police believe Mr Acourt had taken \"great care\" and \"plenty of security measures\" to avoid getting caught.\n\n\"He had protection. He had help. He didn't live a normal, relaxing life. He was using false identities, false names,\" the source said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jamie Acourt was led away in handcuffs from a gym in Barcelona, witness Simon McDonald told the BBC's Tom Burridge\n\nPolice believe Mr Acourt was using four or five different branches of the Metropolitan chain of gyms in Barcelona.\n\nThe BBC understands from a source at the gym that he had been a member at the one near the Sagrada Familia cathedral for \"a long time\" and he was seen there on a regular basis.\n\nPolice said he was moving around Spain and spending time in \"places where a tourist could disappear\".\n\nRecently, police believe he had been living in Barcelona.\n\nThe investigation to find him took years and was a close collaboration between Spanish National Police and the NCA.\n\nWhen arrested he told police he was an Italian tourist, according to the source.\n\nJamie Acourt at the 1998 public inquiry into the killing of Stephen Lawrence\n\nMr Acourt was last seen in the UK on 1 February 2016, in the Eltham area and was known to visit south-west London and areas of Surrey.\n\nA spokesman for the Met said: \"The European Arrest Warrant was issued as part of the Met's efforts to trace Mr Acourt in relation to an investigation into the unlawful supply of controlled substances.\n\n\"This relates to an investigation launched in 2016 by detectives from the Serious and Organised Crime Command.\n\nSteve Reynolds, the NCA's regional head of international operations, told Radio 4's Today Programme that many fugitives \"believe they can hide in plain sight\" among Spain's large British community.\n\nMr Reynolds said Mr Acourt's extradition is likely to take \"days or weeks rather than months\".\n\nMr Acourt will appear at court in Madrid early next week for an extradition hearing.\n\nSpanish police confirmed Mr Accourt had been refused bail by a high court judge and transferred to a prison ahead of the hearing.\n• None 'He disappeared in handcuffs' Video, 00:01:24'He disappeared in handcuffs'\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Second Fleet will be based at its former home - Norfolk, Virginia\n\nThe US Navy has said it will re-establish its Second Fleet, as Russia becomes more assertive.\n\nChief of Naval Operations Adm John Richardson said the fleet, disbanded in 2011, would oversee forces on the US East Coast and North Atlantic.\n\nHe said the National Defense Strategy, published earlier this year, made it clear that the era of great power competition had returned.\n\nThe fleet, which was disbanded for cost-saving and structural reasons, will be based in its previous home - Norfolk, Virginia.\n\n\"Our National Defense Strategy makes clear that we're back in an era of great power competition as the security environment continues to grow more challenging and complex,\" Adm Richardson said in an announcement on board the USS George H W Bush at Norfolk.\n\n\"That's why today, we're standing up Second Fleet to address these changes, particularly in the north Atlantic.\"\n\nThe re-establishment of the US Second Fleet is part of a wider strategy of re-orientating the US armed forces towards a world of renewed big power competition and away from the counter-insurgency campaigns they have been fighting over recent decades.\n\nIn this case the focus is Russia - a response to its stepped up naval activity of recent years. The new headquarters will give more coherent command arrangements for US warships operating in the Atlantic.\n\nNato is also planning to set up a new Joint Forces Command covering much the same region - the Americans have offered to host this in Norfolk, Virginia.\n\nThe existing pattern of US naval operations is also due to change significantly. US Defence Secretary James Mattis insists that he wants less predictable deployments, of shorter duration. Experts say a carrier strike group is likely to be deployed more frequently in European waters.\n\nAdm Richardson added that the fleet would \"exercise operational and administrative authority over assigned ships, aircraft and landing forces\".\n\nThe headquarters staff would begin with just 15 personnel, increasing to more than 200.\n\nIt has not yet been decided who will command the fleet and what assets it will include.\n\nNorfolk has also been proposed as a host for the new Nato Joint Force Command for the Atlantic.\n\nNato officials say Russia has increased naval patrols in the Baltic Sea, the North Atlantic and the Arctic, and its submarine activity is at its highest level since the Cold War.\n\nRelations between Russia and the West have deteriorated in recent months amid allegations of Russian meddling in US elections, Moscow's support for President Bashar al-Assad of Syria and the poisoning of former spy Sergei Skripal, for which the UK blames Russia.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Corey French talked to the woman attacked with a drill in Strabane, minutes before the incident.\n\nA 38-year-old woman is in a critical but stable condition after being attacked with a cordless drill in Strabane, County Tyrone.\n\nThe incident happened in the Railway Street area at about 02:00 BST on Saturday morning.\n\nPolice said a 17-year-old boy was being questioned by detectives.\n\nThey said the \"victim sustained a very serious head injury\" and they were \"exploring a possible homophobic motive for the crime\".\n\nThey have appealed for information and video footage of the incident.\n\nDet Sgt Brian Reid said: \"This was a brutal attack and the injuries sustained by the victim are extremely grave.\"\n\nPolice said the attack happened at Railway Street at about 02:00 BST on Saturday morning\n\nSDLP assembly member for West Tyrone, Daniel McCrossan, said it was \"one of the most horrific incidents\" he had learned of during his time as a politician.\n\n\"It is a monstrous attack and one that has sent shockwaves across the entirety of the wider Strabane community today,\" he added.\n\n\"I actually felt sick, that this could happen.\"\n\nForensic officers at the scene of the attack\n\nUlster Unionist councillor Chris Smyth said the attack was \"despicable\".\n\n\"This was an absolutely brutal attack. It is hard to comprehend what goes through an individual's head that they would attack a woman with a drill,\" he said.", "Last updated on .From the section Women's Football\n\nChelsea won their second Women's FA Cup as they beat London rivals Arsenal in front of a new competition-record crowd of 45,423 at Wembley.\n\nAfter a quiet first half, Ramona Bachmann brought the game to life with two fine strikes shortly after the break to put the Blues in control.\n\nThe Gunners, playing in their 16th final, were unable to respond late on.\n\nChelsea's victory kept alive their hopes of a domestic double, with four more games remaining of the Women's Super League One season and only goal difference separating them and leaders Manchester City.\n• None 'I'm only a role model because I'm female - I want to be known for my coaching'\n\nFor Arsenal, who had been bidding for their second domestic trophy of the season after lifting the Continental Tyres Cup in March, the defeat meant they were unable to add to their dominant record of 14 wins from 16 FA Cup finals.\n\nThe fourth Women's FA Cup final to be played at the national stadium endured a relatively subdued first half of few clear-cut chances, but it sparked into life when the lively Bachmann fired the ball into the roof of the net soon after half-time.\n\nThe 27-year-old Switzerland international soon doubled the lead, as her well-hit shot from the right-hand side was deflected into the far corner.\n\nArsenal, who had gone close through Miedema's deflected effort in the first half, pulled one back through the Netherlands striker, as she tucked the ball in after good work from Beth Mead.\n\nBut England forward Kirby's clinical finish to make it 3-1 added to a remarkable season that has seen her awarded both the PFA Women's Player of the Year and FWA Footballer of the Year award, as well as helping the Blues reach the semi-finals of the Women's Champions League.\n\nVictory saw Chelsea claim their fourth piece of major domestic silverware, all of which have come under boss Emma Hayes' tenure, since the former Arsenal assistant coach took charge in 2012.\n\nThe Blues' second FA Cup added to their 2015 league title and their triumph in 2017's one-off, transitional spring series.\n\nHayes - who is 33-weeks pregnant with twins and opted to follow the match from the dugout, seated, after health advice - has built a side full of talented internationals and her front three of Kirby, South Korea's Ji So-Yun and Bachmann delivered for their manager when it mattered after half-time.\n\nThe result saw the Blues avenge 2016's 1-0 loss to the Gunners at Wembley - a game in which Hayes had been critical of her side for \"not turning up\", but the same could not be said on Saturday.\n\nAlmost exactly 21 years since winning her first FA Cup on 4 May, 1997 with Millwall Lionesses - then aged just 14 - midfielder Katie Chapman captained the Blues as she earned her 10th winners' medal in the competition.\n\nThe former Arsenal star has also started in all 10 of those final successes.\n\nHer new record cup win capped another marvellous campaign for the heavily-decorated 35-year-old, who performed well in the relatively deep holding role for the Blues at Wembley.\n\nThe former Wolfsburg forward's two goals were vital but her movement, quick feet and tireless work ethic brought world-class quality to the game.\n\nHayes' capture of Bachmann from the German side, who have knocked Chelsea out of Europe three seasons in a row, has been a key part of their recent success and may well yet play a pivotal role as they look to achieve their long-term target - winning the Women's Champions League.\n\n'The last thing I needed was something nervy' - what they said\n\nChelsea manager Emma Hayes told BBC Sport: \"This is more enjoyable than the first time around [2015's victory] because that was such a dominant performance from us.\n\n\"The quality of the goals showed the difference between the two sides.\n\n\"The last thing I needed was something too nervy and that was the most relaxed I've felt in a final in my entire career.\n\n\"With a record crowd, I'm very pleased that people watching today have watched a very high standard of football.\"\n\nArsenal Women boss Joe Montemurro told BBC Sport: \"We're obviously disappointed but Chelsea are a powerful team.\n\n\"They've got players who can play on the big stages and they did that. The more we play these big games and these big teams, the more we'll learn and get better.\n\n\"We need to be smarter and maybe a little bit braver in the way we set up defensively.\n\n\"We're making small steps. We can't change it overnight. My projects are always long term, they're never short term.\n\n\"Whatever eleven Chelsea put out is a strong team. We're a little bit different. We've got a very young squad. The future is bright.\"\n\nThe better team won, it's as simple as that. Chelsea's players showed up today and the Arsenal team was undone by individual class.\n\nI'm struggling, going through the Arsenal team, to name any outstanding players.\n\nThese Arsenal players will have regret, they will have left this pitch thinking 'I could have done better'. Chelsea felt that two years ago and you could see they didn't want that feeling again.\n\nThe lack of experience in the Arsenal team showed and when Chelsea took the lead it went flat and they didn't have a response.\n\nArsenal's big players did not shine and that's the complete opposite for Chelsea. The front three for Chelsea were absolutely fabulous.\n\nChelsea built the momentum and even when Arsenal got a goal back, their response was to score another goal. They controlled every ebb and flow of this game.\n\nYou can now add WSL 1 notifications for line-ups, goals, kick-off, half-time and results in the BBC Sport app. Visit this page to find out how to sign-up.\n• None Attempt saved. Eniola Aluko (Chelsea Ladies) right footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.\n• None Erin Cuthbert (Chelsea Ladies) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Attempt missed. Erin Cuthbert (Chelsea Ladies) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the left.\n• None Goal! Arsenal Women 1, Chelsea Ladies 3. Francesca Kirby (Chelsea Ladies) left footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Hannah Blundell.\n• None Attempt blocked. Francesca Kirby (Chelsea Ladies) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.\n• None Goal! Arsenal Women 1, Chelsea Ladies 2. Vivianne Miedema (Arsenal Women) left footed shot from the centre of the box to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Beth Mead. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "The incident was said to have taken place in Malawi in 2009\n\nAn aid worker on a Scottish government-funded project was dismissed and reported to police for sexually abusing a 16-year-old girl, it has emerged.\n\nChristian charity Tearfund revealed details of the Malawi incident after the Scottish government contacted organisations it works with in the wake of the Oxfam abuse allegations.\n\nIt involved a staff member at a partner organisation of Tearfund in 2009.\n\nThe charity said it took \"swift and appropriate action\" to help the girl.\n\nTearfund added it was \"deeply saddened\" by the incident.\n\nThe Scottish government said International Development Minister Alasdair Allan had since met with Tearfund to \"discuss their response\".\n\nIn February, the UK's Charity Commission launched an investigation into Oxfam's handling of claims its staff in Haiti after the earthquake in 2010 had hired prostitutes.\n\nFollowing the Oxfam scandal, Mr Allan wrote to Scottish charities urging them to ensure robust policies were in place to protect vulnerable groups.\n\nDetails of the Malawi incident emerged in the Times newspaper after a freedom of information request obtained a report sent from Tearfund to the Scottish government.\n\nThe incident happened on a project that was part-funded with Scottish government cash.\n\nA spokeswoman for Tearfund said: \"The project was run by a partner organisation Tearfund was working with at the time and was partially funded by a grant from the Scottish government.\n\n\"The incident involved an employee of the partner organisation who abused someone within that organisation's care.\n\n\"When a Tearfund staff member in Malawi was notified of the allegation of abuse, even though the allegation did not involve a Tearfund staff member, we ensured the safeguarding procedures we had at the time were followed.\n\n\"A Tearfund Child Protection Officer also intervened to ensure that swift and appropriate action was taken.\n\n\"This included providing care for the individual who was harmed, and the partner organisation launching an investigation. The individual was provided counselling and moved away from the project.\"\n\nTearfund said it had ceased working with the partner organisation involved in 2010.\n\nThe freedom of information request says the incident was reported to the Malawi police but no charges were brought.\n\nA disciplinary panel of Tearfund's partner investigated the case and the staff member was dismissed for gross misconduct.\n\nA spokesman for the Scottish government said: \"The vast majority of those working in international development and humanitarian emergencies do so in a diligent and appropriate manner.\n\n\"However we are deeply concerned about any reports of serious misconduct within the sector and we will not tolerate any form of human rights abuses or misconduct, wherever they take place.\n\n\"We expect all partner organisations to monitor their work closely, and to be pen, honest and transparent, especially on projects funded by the public sector.\"\n\nThe spokesman said Mr Allan's letter to international NGOs \"brought a report of an incident on a Scottish government part-funded Tearfund project to our attention for the first time\".\n\nHe added that the Scottish government would \"continue to work with partner organisations that demonstrate they have safeguarding policies in place to protect vulnerable groups\".\n• None Aid charity boss says 'we can be trusted'", "Police in Chalgrove Road, Tottenham, where a 17-year old girl was shot dead in a drive-by attack\n\nClaim: London has overtaken New York for murders for the first time in modern history after a surge in knife crime across the capital.\n\nVerdict: A selective use of statistics from the start of 2018 appears to bear this out - but the reality is that New York still appears to be more violent than London.\n\nCriminologists and police chiefs love studying the differences and similarities in violence between big cities because the huge amounts of data can give clues as to what works best to keep people safe.\n\nThere has been no end of comparisons down the decades of London and New York because, on the face of things, the cities are broadly comparable.\n\nThey're both cosmopolitan \"world cities\" with broadly similar populations of more than 8 million people. They also have big gaps between rich and poor inhabitants.\n\nBut there has always been one significant difference: the crime rate. So this weekend's report in the Sunday Times, which could be interpreted as suggesting that London was now more dangerous than New York, needs some unpicking. And, as you may have come to expect from BBC Reality Check, the truth is a little more complex.\n\nNew York police have opened 50 murder files so far this year - this compares with 48 in London\n\nAccording to the newspaper, London overtook New York's \"murder rate\" in February \"as the capital endured a dramatic surge in knife crime\".\n\nThat is true. The New York Police Department dealt with 11 homicides in February - while London's Metropolitan Police opened investigations into 15 deaths. And in March, there were 22 killings in London and one fewer on the other side of the Atlantic.\n\nBut that grim month-by-month tally is not quite the whole story.\n\nThe one thing that's always true about statistics is that there will be blips - sudden rises or falls in the data. These two high months for London could ultimately turn out to be outliers.\n\nWe don't yet know. But older data shows why we should be cautious.\n\nIn January, for example, the Met investigated eight murders in London. The NYPD looked into 18 killings.\n\nAnd that means that while Scotland Yard has opened 48 homicide inquiries so far this year, New York has in fact opened 50 murder files.\n\nLooking at 2017, the homicide rate per 100,000 population stood at 1.2 in London and 3.4 in New York.\n\nWhile the difference between the two cities has definitely narrowed - the trend is far from fixed. And even older figures are also quite revealing.\n\nIn 2007, New York witnessed 496 homicides. That was three times more than in London. Last year, the American city suffered 292 killings and London 130.\n\nThe rate of killings so far this year in London is higher than it was during the same period last year. The fatalities include five shootings and 31 stabbings.\n\nNine of those killed were teenagers and crimes involving knives and sharp instruments across England and Wales are at their highest level since 2011.\n\nWhy the rate is going up in London, so far this year, is unclear. There's a push for police to stop and search more suspects for weapons after a big fall in the use of the power since 2010. But New York police have also reduced their use of similar powers over the same period - and their murder rate has fallen.\n\nNew York is definitely a much safer place than in 1990 when there were 2,262 murders. But it's not remotely clear yet that London is becoming more murderous than its American cousin.", "Princess Charlotte is seen with her new brother in the photograph taken on her third birthday\n\nPhotographs of Prince Louis' first days at home have been released by the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge - including an image of the new royal baby being kissed by his older sister.\n\nPrincess Charlotte is seen cuddling the sleeping prince in the photo taken on 2 May, her third birthday.\n\nA second picture shows Prince Louis on 26 April, when he was three days old, propped on top of a white cushion.\n\nBoth photos were taken by the Duchess of Cambridge at Kensington Palace.\n\nCatherine also released pictures to mark other milestones in her children's lives, including the official photographs of her newborn daughter, and Prince George and Princess Charlotte's first days at nursery school.\n\nKensington Palace said Prince William and Catherine were \"very pleased\" to share the photographs.\n\nIt added: \"Their Royal Highnesses would like to thank members of the public for all of the kind messages they have received following the birth of Prince Louis, and for Princess Charlotte's third birthday.\"\n\nPrince Louis was born at the Lindo Wing of St Mary's Hospital, Paddington, on 23 April.\n\nPrince Louis was photographed by his mother at Kensington Palace three days after his birth\n\nThe photograph, taken three days later, shows him in a white outfit. He does not look at the camera, but is wide-eyed and staring at something to his right.\n\nPrincess Charlotte is sitting with Prince Louis in the other photo. She puts a protective arm around her new brother and plants a kiss on his forehead.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge emerge from St Mary's in London with their newborn prince.\n\nPrince George, who will turn five in July, does not appear in the latest photographs.\n\nHe was last seen in public outside St Mary's Hospital when he and Princess Charlotte were taken by their father to meet the latest addition to their family.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "With the final result declared Labour has taken control of Tower Hamlets, but has failed to take other target councils in London, while the Conservatives have lost control of two councils overall.\n\nThe Lib Dems have gained four councils, two of them in London. UKIP has lost over 120 councillors and the Greens have a net increase of eight councillors.\n\nThose councils changing hands are listed below.\n\nIn total, 4,371 seats were contested across 150 local authorities, in the first major test of public opinion since last year's general election.\n\nMaps built using Carto. If you can't see the map, tap or click here.\n\nBased on the results, the gap in predicted national vote share between the Conservatives and Labour has closed since the council elections last year.\n\nThe fortunes of the main parties were different inside and outside London. Labour made gains in the capital picking up 65 councillors, while the Conservatives lost 90 seats.\n\nIn the rest of England excluding London, the Tories gained 57 seats, while Labour took an additional 12. The Lib Dems and the Greens both gained more council seats in London than in the rest of England.\n\nLabour have taken Plymouth from the Conservatives and gained control of Kirklees and Tower Hamlets.\n\nHowever, in the north they lost overall control of Nuneaton and Bedworth, and Derby, while also losing some seats in strongholds like Wigan and Sheffield.\n\nIn London, Labour gained multiple seats in Wandsworth and Westminster, as the map below shows - but these gains were not enough to take control of each borough.\n\nThe Conservatives gained control of Basildon and Peterborough councils thanks to the collapse in UKIP support, and won some seats in Wakefield and Leeds, traditional Labour areas.\n\nIn London, the Tories gained seats in Hillingdon - which some had touted as a potential Labour target - and won nine more seats in Sutton, despite the area remaining in Lib Dem control.\n\nHowever, they lost control of Trafford, Plymouth, Kingston and Richmond - where they lost 28 seats in total.\n\nThe Liberal Democrats won control of Richmond-upon-Thames, gaining 24 seats in the process in one of the biggest swings of the night. The party also took Three Rivers, Kingston and South Cambridgeshire.\n\nThey also had strong showings in the Labour areas of Hull and Merton, and the Tory council of Gosport,\n\nThe party has lost over 120 councillors across the country, with heavy losses in Great Yarmouth and Basildon, as the map below shows. It has only managed to hold on to a handful of seats so far.\n\nSorry, your browser cannot display this map\n\nWith the final declaration early on Saturday morning, Labour took control of Tower Hamlets from No Overall Control.\n\nThe only other changes in London from the last time these seats were up in 2014 came in the south west and went to the Lib Dems.\n\nThey gained Richmond and Kingston from the Conservatives with swings of over 20 seats in each.", "A Turkish football fan goes above and beyond for his team and other stories that may have passed you by, in this week's In Case You Missed It.", "Bounty hunter Patty Mayo's channel has had multiple videos taken down\n\nYouTube stars are complaining after hundreds of videos containing adverts for an essay-writing service were removed from their channels.\n\nIt follows a BBC Trending investigation which found more than 250 channels had YouTubers plugging EduBirdie.\n\nMany of the adverts urge students to use EduBirdie to hire a \"super smart nerd\" to write their essays.\n\nYouTube says promotion of essay-writing services is banned by its advertising policies.\n\nThe adverts appear in the middle of videos covering a range of interests including: pranks, video games, fashion and dating.\n\nIn most of them, the YouTube star breaks off from what they are doing, in order to promote EduBirdie.\n\nThe BBC investigation uncovered more than 1,400 videos with a total of more than 700 million views containing EduBirdie adverts.\n\nIn response to the discovery, universities minister Sam Gyimah said YouTube had a moral responsibility to act because the adverts were \"enabling and normalising cheating potentially on an industrial scale.\"\n\nUniversities minister, Sam Gyimah, said the ads presented cheating as \"a lifestyle choice\"\n\nYouTube emailed some channels warning that it would take down videos which contained EduBirdie adverts if they did not edit out the promotions by Friday.\n\nSince then a wave of disgruntled YouTubers have turned to Twitter to complain at the removal of their videos.\n\nOne channel, To Catch A Cheater, said 49 of its videos - a year's worth of work - had disappeared.\n\nAldosWorldTv said it had lost more than 30 videos, and questioned why he had been able to post so many videos containing the adverts.\n\nTwinzTV, a US-based pranks channel posted on Twitter that \"YouTube deleted 138 of our videos without any explanation\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Twinztv This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSome YouTubers, like Patty Mayo, who makes bounty hunter videos, said they had been in the process of editing out the offending adverts when their videos were taken down.\n\nIn several of his ads Patty Mayo urged viewers to \"hire the super smart nerds at Edubirdie.com to write your essays and your papers for you.\"\n\nHe told BBC Trending that he did not condone or endorse cheating.\n\nYouTube has declined to comment on how many videos have come down, or if it also will allow channels to re-upload the videos without the adverts from EduBirdie, a company based in Ukraine.\n\nIn a statement given to the BBC last week it said: \"YouTube creators may include paid endorsements as part of their content only if the product or service they are endorsing complies with our advertising policies.\n\n\"We do not allow ads for essay writing and so paid promotions of these services will be removed when we discover them. We will be working with creators going forward so they better understand that in video promotions must not promote dishonest activity.\"\n\nSome YouTube stars including Adam Saleh and JMX had already taken down videos containing EduBirdie adverts before the purge on Friday.\n\nAdam Saleh had already removed EduBirdie ads from his channel\n\nEssay-writing services are not illegal. But any university student found to have submitted work done by someone else would face disciplinary action.\n\n\"If you've worked hard to get to university, you potentially throw it all away by cheating and getting found out. It is wrong, full stop,\" Mr Gyimah told the BBC.\n\nEduBirdie is run by a company called Boosta which operates several online essay-writing companies. It says it cannot be held responsible for what social influencers say on their channels.\n\n\"We give influencers total freedom on how they prefer to present the EduBirdie platform to their audience in a way they feel would be most relevant to their viewers,\" its said in a statement.\n\n\"We do admit that many tend to copy and paste each others' shout-outs with a focus on 'get someone to do your homework for you', but this is their creative choice.\n\nIt added that a disclaimer on its website suggested work provided by EduBirdie was supplied only as a sample or a reference.\n\nEduBirdie's own channel on YouTube has also been severely pruned back. Where once there were dozens of videos, there is now just one left, a guide to how to write an introduction to an essay.", "The UK's car industry has hit out at the government over unconfirmed reports ministers will target hybrid vehicles as part of a new emissions crackdown.\n\nNew cars unable to do at least 50 miles on electric power may be banned by 2040, a ruling that would hit the UK's best-selling hybrid, Toyota's Prius.\n\nThe SMMT car trade body said \"misleading\" government messages were damaging the industry and hitting jobs.\n\nIn a short statement, the Department for Transport denied plans for a ban.\n\nThe Financial Times and Autocar said that the government's Road to Zero car emissions strategy was due to be unveiled imminently.\n\nIt follows last year's announcement by the government that it would ban the sale of all new diesel and petrol cars in the UK by 2040. But the position on electrified models was unclear, and Road to Zero is due to clarify the situation.\n\nThe FT and Autocar reported that vehicles which could not travel at least 50 miles using only electric power would be outlawed.\n\nAlong with the bans on new petrol and diesel cars from 2040, that would affect 98% of the vehicles currently on Britain's roads, including the popular Prius, which like most plug-in hybrids on sale typically offer 30 miles of zero-emissions travel.\n\nThe Prius would no longer be classified as \"environmentally friendly\".\n\nMike Hawes, chief executive of the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders, said the industry was becoming increasingly concerned.\n\nHe criticised the lack of clarity over the government's plans.\n\n\"Unrealistic targets and misleading messaging on bans will only undermine our efforts to realise this future, confusing consumers and wreaking havoc on the new car market and the thousands of jobs it supports,\" Mr Hawes aid.\n\nHe said the industry shares the government's goal of zero emission transport and was investing billions of pounds in new technologies and offering greater consumer choice.\n\nBut he added: \"We cannot support ambition levels which do not appreciate how industry, the consumer or the market operate and which are based neither on fact nor substance.\n\n\"Consumers need clear information about the right vehicles for their driving needs and it is again disappointing for both industry and consumers that vitally important information about government policy is being communicated by leaks.\"\n\nIf the government really is planning to include hybrids as part of its 2040 ban on sales of petrol and diesel cars, it makes that policy much more ambitious - and potentially much more of a headache for the industry.\n\nBy 2040, it is reasonable to assume that nearly all cars will be hybridised in some way, because of ever tightening emissions legislation. That makes a ban that only covers conventional, non-hybridised cars likely to be pretty irrelevant.\n\nBut if the government stipulates that all cars must be able to travel at least 50 miles on electric power, then a whole swathe of current machines will be outlawed. Even the performance of most so-called plug-in hybrids, which can already travel at least some distance on battery power, will not be good enough.\n\nThat means a lot more investment will be needed, both to make cars more efficient, and to beef up charging infrastructure. And car buyers will need to be encouraged to buy the right vehicles.\n\nThe proposed ban might be 22 years away - but arguments over who pays for what are likely to begin raging sooner rather than later.\n\nA Department for Transport (DfT) spokesperson said: \"It is categorically untrue that government is planning to ban the sale of hybrid cars in the UK by 2040.\"\n\nThe DfT added: \"We do not comment on leaked draft documents. The Road to Zero Strategy is yet to be finalised and has not been agreed by ministers.\"\n\nBut Autocar's editorial director Jim Holder accused the government of failing to provide \"any clarity of how it will support the ban\" through purchase incentives and the creation of a suitable charging infrastructure.\n\n\"By imposing a ban with so little detail or evidence of support car buyers are likely to be confused once again,\" he told the Press Association.", "The latest incident comes as India reels under a string of violent sexual crimes.\n\nA 16-year-old girl in India was burnt alive after her parents complained to village elders that she had been raped, according to police.\n\nFourteen people have been arrested in connection with the attacks in the eastern Indian state of Jharkhand.\n\nPolice said the elders had ordered the accused rapists to do 100 sit-ups and pay a 50,000 rupee (£550; $750) fine as punishment.\n\nThey were so enraged they beat the girl's parents then set her on fire.\n\n\"The two accused thrashed the parents and rushed to the house where they set the girl ablaze with the help of their accomplices,\" Ashok Ram, the officer in charge of the local police station, told AFP news agency.\n\nThe girl was believed to have been abducted from her home while her parents were attending a wedding.\n\nLocal police said she was raped by two men in a forested area near the village of Raja Kendua.\n\nUpon discovering the assault, her parents went to village elders to pursue charges against the suspected perpetrators.\n\nCouncils of village elders carry no legal weight. However, they have significant influence in many parts of rural India and are a way of settling disputes without having to go through India's expensive judicial system.\n\nPolice in the state say that they have arrested 14 of the 18 people they want to investigate with regards to the rape and subsequent murder.\n\nOne of the two men accused of carrying out the attack has yet to be arrested, Bokaro inspector general of police Shambhu Thakur told the Hindustan Times.\n\nHowever, several village elders have been charged with passing unlawful orders and tampering with evidence.\n\nThe latest incident comes as India reels from a string of violent sexual crimes.\n\nAbout 40,000 rape cases were reported in India in 2016. Many cases, however, are believed to go unreported because of the stigma that is attached to rape and sexual assault.", "The Coronation Street set in Trafford Park has recently been extended\n\nPublic tours of Coronation Street's new set are to begin later this month after a council approved the plans.\n\nBased on the success of the temporary tours at the show's former site in Manchester in 2014 and 2015, ITV is opening the Salford-based soap's cobbled streets and set.\n\nPre-booked guided tours of the Trafford Park site will begin on 26 May, lasting about 90 minutes.\n\nIt is estimated it will bring £4m annually to the local economy.\n\nThe pre-booked tours are expected to attract nearly 1,500 visitors a day\n\nUp to 1,500 visitors a day can be accommodated on the tours, which will be held at weekends.\n\nHovis Ltd, a neighbouring flour mill on Trafford Wharf Road, expressed concerns for traffic when the plans were submitted to Trafford Council.\n\nThe mill said it had no objection to the plans but was concerned about the extra parking the attraction would entail and its effect on its delivery drivers.\n\nTrafford Council approved the plans on 23 April and has recommended an operational management plan to deal with traffic.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Harvey Proctor was a Conservative MP between 1979 and 1987\n\nA former MP is claiming £1m in damages from the Metropolitan Police after being falsely accused of child sexual abuse and murder.\n\nHarvey Proctor is also taking legal action against his accuser - a man known by the pseudonym \"Nick\".\n\nMr Proctor says the allegations and subsequent investigation by the Met resulted in him losing his job and home, and suffering from depression.\n\nScotland Yard said it would be defending the claim.\n\nThe investigation, known as Operation Midland, began in 2014 when Nick named Mr Proctor as one of a number of men who he claimed were part of an establishment paedophile ring in the 1970s and 1980s.\n\nThe former MP was cleared in 2016 when the Met said it had found insufficient evidence to consider any criminal charges. Scotland Yard apologised and a review of the case strongly criticised the investigation.\n\nMr Proctor's claim - filed at the High Court and seen by the BBC - identifies the Met Police Commissioner and Nick as the two defendants.\n\nMr Proctor's legal claim says that Nick's allegations were \"false and malicious\" and designed to damage him in an attempt to pervert the course of justice.\n\nHe claims police could have carried out \"elementary research\" to dismiss them before taking any action that would have resulted in him being affected.\n\nHe is accusing the Met of conspiring with Nick and a news agency, Exaro, which first published the allegations and facilitated a meeting with detectives.\n\nMr Proctor's claim highlights the statement by a senior police officer in late 2014 that Nick's claims were \"credible and true\".\n\nHe also says a police application for a warrant to search his home in Leicestershire amounted to an attempt to pervert the course of justice because it relied on Nick's allegations.\n\nHis legal claim details how police raised \"child protection concerns\" about him during the investigation and asked his employer - Belvoir Castle in Leicestershire - to suspend him.\n\nHe ended being forced to resign and lost his home, which was part of his employment at the castle.\n\nMr Proctor is also claiming his privacy was breached.\n\nSince the investigation he has suffered what his doctor describes in the claim as a \"major depressive episode\".\n\nOperation Midland began in 2014 after Nick claimed boys had been sexually abused and that three had been murdered by a group of powerful men from politics, the military and law enforcement agencies.\n\nRetired judge Sir Richard Henriques later reviewed the investigation and identified 43 serious failings in his report, including that Nick had been believed for too long and that search warrants had been applied for with flawed information.\n\nNorthumbria Police has carried out an criminal investigation into Nick's actions and the CPS is currently considering the evidence.\n\nNick is separately facing a trial in connection with six charges of possessing images of child abuse and voyeurism.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police has already paid damages to Lord Bramall, the former chief of the defence staff, and the family of Lord Brittan, both of whom were also accused by Nick and investigated.", "No bull is killed in Japanese bullfighting\n\nA woman has been allowed to enter a Japanese traditional bullfighting ring for the first time after a ban was lifted in a bid to modernise the sport.\n\nYuki Araki accompanied her animal on the opening day of the season in Niigata's Yamakoshi district.\n\nWomen had previously been banned once the ring was deemed to have been purified with salt and rice wine.\n\nJapanese bullfighting, known as \"togyu\", differs from the Spanish version in that no bull is killed.\n\nInstead two of the animals lock horns and attempt to push each other back. The bulls have coaches to encourage them and the fight is over if one gores the other.\n\nThere is no bullfighter in the centuries-old sport.\n\nBullfighting officials said the move was necessary for the sport to appeal to the #MeToo generation.\n\nIn recent months Japanese women have spoken out about sexual harassment. Two top officials subsequently resigned over sex scandals.\n\n\"Equality for men and women is a trend of the times,\" said Katsushi Seki, an official with the Yamakoshi bullfight organisation.\n\n\"By opening the ring to women, we hope this traditional bullfighting will continue far into the future,\" he told AFP.\n\nThe ring had been regarded as a pure space forbidden to women\n\nThe move to lift the ban on women also follows an incident in a sumo wrestling ring last month where women performing first aid on a man who had collapsed were ordered by a referee to leave because women were banned from the space.\n\nThe women ran into the ring when the mayor of the central city of Maizuru, Ryozo Tatami, became ill while giving a speech.\n\nTraditionally seen as \"impure\", women are not allowed into sumo rings, which are regarded as sacred.\n\nThe head of Japan's sumo association later apologised to the women.", "A US university faces a fine of $8,500 (£6,280) for apparently losing a small amount of weapons-grade plutonium.\n\nThe US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) said Idaho State University is unable to account for 1 gram (0.03oz) of the material.\n\nThe plutonium is used in reactors and to make nuclear bombs but the NRC says the amount missing is too small to make a nuclear weapon.\n\nThe university says documents show the material was on campus from 2003-04.\n\nHowever, an NRC report says that in October 2017 three teams at the university conducted a physical search for the material and failed to find it.\n\n\"The NRC considers the loss of control of licensed radioactive material a significant regulatory concern because of the potential for unauthorised possession or use of licensed radioactive material or the unnecessary exposure of members of the public to radiation,\" a statement said.\n\nExperts say that although the amount of plutonium is not sufficient to build a weapon, it could be used in a \"dirty bomb\" to spread radiation.\n\nThe university has not yet responded to the latest NRC statement.", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nStoke's 10-year stay in the Premier League has come to an end after they were relegated to the Championship by Crystal Palace's second-half resurgence.\n\nHome fans streamed out of the Bet365 Stadium immediately after Patrick van Aanholt's winner, with long-time chairman Peter Coates looking on miserably.\n\nThe afternoon had started far better for the hosts.\n\nManager Paul Lambert - appointed in January to turn the Potters around - had celebrated wildly with Xherdan Shaqiri after the midfielder's free-kick opened the scoring just before the break.\n\nBut James McArthur skipped clear down the left and side-footed home the leveller, before Van Aanholt pounced on Ryan Shawcross' under-hit backpass to consign Stoke to the second tier.\n\nThe Potters' players - who finished 13th last season - collapsed to the turf as a first top-flight relegation since 1985 sank in.\n\nCrystal Palace's Mamadou Sakho was one of a number of visiting players to console their opponents after the final whistle, with goalkeeper Jack Butland in tears as some of the remaining home supporters defiantly chanted their lifelong allegiance to the club.\n• None Reaction: Stoke too big to stay down - Lambert\n\nBefore kick-off, a fan implored the rest of the Bet365 Stadium to do \"whatever it takes\" for victory over the public address system.\n\nThe crowd responded with incessant noise, but - for the vast majority of the match - the Stoke attack was too quiet.\n\nAs so often, it was only when Shaqiri got on the ball that the hosts looked able to unpick the opposition defence.\n\nThe Switzerland international's cross was headed weakly wide by Mame Biram Diouf in Stoke's best chance before his free-kick found the net with the game's first shot on target.\n\nThe 26-year-old's pass should have put Badou Ndiaye clean through on goal in the second half, but the Senegal midfielder miscontrolled when a settling second goal beckoned for Stoke.\n\nShaqiri has spoken this season of a \"lack of quality\" among his team-mates and was planning talks with the Stoke management in the summer regardless of whether the club had stayed up.\n\nFormerly of Inter Milan and Bayern Munich, he will surely be playing top-flight football somewhere next season, with the likes of England international Butland and Wales midfielder Joe Allen also likely to exit.\n• None All the reaction after Stoke are relegated\n\nStoke's demise is even more damning on those who do not share the teamsheet with Shaqiri.\n\nRecord signing Giannelli Imbula has spent the campaign on loan at French strugglers Toulouse.\n\nDefender Kevin Wimmer, bought last summer for £18m, has been dropped down to the club's under-23 side, where he is joined by out-of-favour £12m striker Saido Berahino.\n\nLambert's midfield options on the bench consisted of the ageing trio of Darren Fletcher, Charlie Adam and Stephen Ireland.\n\nThe club have not lacked for funds from Coates, but too many of their big-money purchases have been missing in inaction.\n\nIt was a result that mathematically confirmed Crystal Palace's place in the Premier League next season, even if survival had become increasingly clear through an unbeaten April.\n\nConsidering the visitors' start to the season, it will also ensure an almighty final-day party at the always-boisterous Selhurst Park.\n\nPalace lost their first seven league matches this season without scoring a single goal.\n\nThe appointment of Roy Hodgson in September was greeted with doubts by many whose most recent memory of the 70-year-old was leading England's calamitous Euro 2016 campaign.\n\nBut he has shored up the Eagles' defence while, less predictably, giving the likes of Wilfried Zaha and Ruben Loftus-Cheek the freedom to pose a threat at the opposite end.\n\nIn the final, wide-open exchanges, the visitors looked more likely to add to the scoreline than the hosts salvage their survival chances.\n\n'We never had enough' - what they said\n\nStoke manager Paul Lambert, speaking to Sky Sports: \"It is a tough afternoon. I am feeling for everyone connected with the club.\n\n\"When teams don't get results you can be sleep-walking into positions you don't want to be in. We never had enough. Since I came in the lads have given everything, but we came short. It is a chance to rebuild.\n\n\"It is difficult to come in mid-January to try to assess the team and I had a chat with the players on what went wrong.\n\n\"No-one can point a finger at the effort of the players.\"\n\nCrystal Palace manager Roy Hodgson: \"After seven games, or after 11 games with four points, I never saw it coming.\n\n\"I was hoping it would be a low-scoring year in terms of points for the lower sides and we'd just scrape over the line.\n\n\"But we came here basically safe. I couldn't see us going down with 38 points, so I think it was a great show of character from us to come here and play really well.\n\n\"It's not easy having that euphoria from last week and then to come to a place like this, where they're fighting for their lives, and put on a performance like we did.\"\n• None Crystal Palace are the first top-flight team since Liverpool in the 1899-1900 season to avoid relegation despite losing their first seven matches of the season.\n• None Since beating Huddersfield in his first Premier League match in charge, the Potters have collected just seven points from 13 games under Lambert.\n• None Crystal Palace have not lost any of their past 13 Premier League games against sides starting the day in the bottom half of the division, winning eight.\n• None Of players with at least 15 Premier League goals, no player has scored a higher percentage from outside the box than Shaqiri (67%, level with former Newcastle and Tottenham winger David Ginola).\n• None Stoke have failed to win any of the four Premier League matches they have been leading at half-time under Lambert.\n• None By contrast, Crystal Palace have won three of their past seven Premier League games they have trailed at the break.\n\nStoke head to Swansea on Sunday, 13 May for their final Premier League game for at least a year, while Palace take on West Brom at the same time.\n• None Attempt missed. Ryan Shawcross (Stoke City) header from the centre of the box is too high. Assisted by Xherdan Shaqiri with a cross.\n• None Attempt blocked. Kurt Zouma (Stoke City) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Moritz Bauer.\n• None Xherdan Shaqiri (Stoke City) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Ruben Loftus-Cheek (Crystal Palace) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Goal! Stoke City 1, Crystal Palace 2. Patrick van Aanholt (Crystal Palace) left footed shot from the centre of the box to the centre of the goal.\n• None Erik Pieters (Stoke City) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt missed. Ruben Loftus-Cheek (Crystal Palace) right footed shot from the right side of the box is just a bit too high. Assisted by Wilfried Zaha. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "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", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nSecuring Premier League survival \"means everything\" to Brighton said manager Chris Hughton after the Seagulls' 1-0 win over Manchester United ensured another season in the top flight.\n\nPascal Gross' header from Jose Izquierdo's cross was cleared by Marcos Rojo - but from just behind the line, with goalline technology awarding the only goal of the game.\n\n\"It is great for us going into the last two games knowing. We have come a long way and through some tough periods,\" Hughton added.\n\nBrighton's first top-flight campaign since 1983 concludes with away games against Manchester City and Liverpool.\n\nAlbion - who had not won in their previous seven games - had the better chances against United and David de Gea did well to deny Glenn Murray and Izquierdo.\n\nMarcus Rashford forced a good save from Mat Ryan in the second half.\n• None Why always Lukaku? You know now' - Mourinho takes a swipe at fringe players\n\nSeagulls can plan for next season\n\nThe Seagulls were looking comfortable on 4 March when they beat Arsenal 2-1 to move into the top half of the Premier League. But seven games without a win in all competitions since then had seen some doubt creep in.\n\nHowever, after moving on to 40 points and into 11th place, they cannot be caught by the bottom three - prompting a party atmosphere at the final whistle - and Chris Hughton can start getting ready for the club's second season in the top flight since 1983.\n\nAnthony Knockaert and Izquierdo were fantastic on the two wings - likewise Gross in the centre - and caused United problems from start to finish.\n\nAlbion started brightly and Dale Stephens shot wide in the eighth minute. United keeper De Gea made two decent saves to stop Gross - and two fantastic diving saves to keep out Murray's 25-yard shot on the bounce and Izquierdo's rising hit.\n\nThe Seagulls fully merited their goal when Gross beat Ashley Young in the air to send Izquierdo's cross past De Gea.\n\nThe summer signing from Ingolstadt has been involved in 45% of Brighton's Premier League goals all season - seven goals and eight assists.\n\nBrighton did not create many chances following that goal but showed good game management to see the game out.\n\nAlbion are now eight points above the relegation zone, but because Swansea and Southampton, who have three games left, play each other on Tuesday, it is impossible for both sides to get enough points to catch Brighton.\n\nManchester United boss Jose Mourinho says whether his side finish second in the league will determine whether the FA Cup finalists have had a good season overall.\n\nThey remain five points clear of third-placed Liverpool, although Tottenham - one point further back with a game in hand - can also catch them.\n\nWith Romelu Lukaku and Alexis Sanchez injured, Marcus Rashford got his chance in the centre-forward position but failed to take his opportunity.\n\nUnited only had one touch in the Albion area in the first half, and their first effort on target did not come until the 49th minute when Paul Pogba's low shot was saved from 16 yards out.\n\nThey did create some chances after Gross' goal with Rashford and substitute Jesse Lingard forcing saves from outside the box and Anthony Martial striking two efforts over the bar from 20 yards.\n\nThe Red Devils did have one final chance but Lingard shot wide under pressure from Shane Duffy.\n\nThis is the first time United have ever lost away to three newly promoted clubs in a league season - they have been beaten at Huddersfield, Newcastle and now at the Amex Stadium, the 58th different ground they have visited in the Premier League.\n\n'They beat us in the attitude' - manager reaction\n\nBrighton boss Chris Hughton to BBC Sport: \"Manchester United showed the quality they've got. Without us putting in the work we did, we wouldn't have got anything from the game.\n\n\"We've had three results - against Arsenal, Tottenham and Manchester United - where we've had to put in that kind of performance, and be good with the ball too. We deserved it tonight. Knockaert was outstanding, not just with the ball. Against teams like this you've got to work as hard without possession. It's good to see him in that kind of form.\n\n\"With Pascal Gross, what's been important for us is he hasn't been injured and he's always been available for us. We've probably been fortunate we've had a lot of players available in that area of the pitch.\"\n\nManchester United boss Jose Mourinho to BBC Sport: \"Football was fair to the Brighton boys, they had a big target, they showed the point would be a big thing for them and gave everything for that.\n\n\"I couldn't persuade my players that second place was very important to us. I know we can do it, we only have two matches to get the four points we need. They beat us in the attitude.\n\n\"For 10 months I get asked 'why always Lukaku? Why always Lukaku, why always Lukaku? Why always this player? That guy doesn't have a chance to start, the other one is on the bench.' You know why now.\"\n• None Brighton registered only their second win in 19 matches against Manchester United, their first since a 1-0 victory in the top flight in November 1982.\n• None Jose Mourinho has lost six of his past 10 away Premier League matches in the month of May (W1 D3).\n• None All seven of Pascal Gross' Premier League goals have come at home - only four players have scored more Premier League goals exclusively at home in the competition's history - Georginio Wijnaldum (18), Clive Wilson (9), Ronny Johnsen (8) and Jeff Kenna (8).\n• None This was Manchester United's first league defeat on a Friday since December 1978, when they lost 3-0 at Bolton - they had been unbeaten in 16 such matches.\n• None The Red Devils have now lost at all three of the stadiums they've played at for the first time in the Premier League this season (John Smith's Stadium, Wembley and the Amex).\n• None It the first time they had lost three matches against newly promoted sides in a league season since 1989-90 - as well as the first time ever losing all three away from home.\n\nBrighton will be glad their safety has been secured as they visit Premier League champions Manchester City on Wednesday (20:00 BST). United go to David Moyes' West Ham, who are not safe yet, on Thursday (19:45 BST).\n• None Offside, Manchester United. Nemanja Matic tries a through ball, but Chris Smalling is caught offside.\n• None Attempt missed. Anthony Martial (Manchester United) header from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Ashley Young with a cross.\n• None Attempt blocked. Paul Pogba (Manchester United) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Nemanja Matic.\n• None Glenn Murray (Brighton and Hove Albion) wins a free kick on the left wing.\n• None Attempt missed. Jesse Lingard (Manchester United) right footed shot from the centre of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Marcus Rashford.\n• None Attempt missed. Paul Pogba (Manchester United) right footed shot from outside the box is too high. Assisted by Luke Shaw.\n• None Glenn Murray (Brighton and Hove Albion) wins a free kick on the left wing.\n• None Attempt missed. Anthony Martial (Manchester United) left footed shot from the left side of the box is too high. Assisted by Juan Mata with a cross.\n• None Attempt missed. Paul Pogba (Manchester United) left footed shot from outside the box misses to the left. Assisted by Anthony Martial. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Sir Paul McCartney has been made a Companion of Honour by the Queen at Buckingham Palace.\n\nThe 75-year-old Beatle, who was knighted 20 years ago, was given the award for his services to music.\n\nA Companion of Honour is awarded for the most outstanding achievements at a national level and there can only ever be a maximum of 65 at any given time.\n\nDancer and Strictly judge Darcey Bussell was also made a dame by the Queen.\n\nBoth received their honours at an investiture at Buckingham Palace on Friday morning.\n\nSir Paul said: \"I see this as a huge honour for me and my family and I think of how proud my Liverpool mum and dad would have been to see this.\"\n\nDame Darcey compared the ceremony to getting married and also suggested Prince Harry could be Strictly Come Dancing's first royal contestant.\n\n\"I would love to see Harry ... I think he would try everything. He'd probably be great on Strictly, wouldn't he? He would be fantastic,\" she said.\n\nShe also revealed she had previously invited the Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall to sit in the Strictly audience, adding \"that would be extraordinary\".\n\nSpeaking about her damehood, she said: \"It's been a shock, it's kind of like getting married, and you realise you're suddenly here and it's nearly over.\n\n\"I wasn't expecting it at all. I'm still supporting the dance world and for me it's recognition for all the dance institutions I'm involved with.\"\n\nShe was honoured for her services to dance, following a career spanning 30 years.\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.", "Chris and Sally Jones spent 24 hours fearing they could be left stranded\n\nTSB's reputation will depend on how it compensates customers for the distress and inconvenience caused by its IT fiasco, an expert has said.\n\nRichard Lloyd, chairman of complaints service Resolver, said the bank would be \"in big trouble\" if it failed with customers' less tangible losses.\n\nA perfect illustration is the case of the Jones family - TSB mortgage-holders - who were expecting to move house.\n\nFor 24 hours they faced the prospect of having to move to a hotel instead.\n\nThe migration of data on TSB's five million customers from former owner Lloyds' IT system to a new one managed by Sabadell has led to nearly two weeks of difficulties for the bank and more than 40,000 customer complaints so far.\n\nMother-of-two Sally Jones, 40, said their saga began with a concerned call from their solicitor on Wednesday afternoon - the day before the family were expecting to move to their new home in south London.\n\nThe solicitor explained that, for no apparent reason, a new account number could not be uploaded on to TSB's new IT system, so funds might not be released for their house purchase.\n\nAt exactly the same time, TSB chief executive Paul Pester was telling MPs that the \"underlying engine\" of the bank was working well.\n\nA sleepless night followed, before the removals van arrived early on Thursday, and their belongings were loaded up.\n\nTheir daughters - Hannah, six, and Sophie, three - were despatched to school and nursery. Then, their moving day stress became even more acute.\n\n\"The TSB staff were being as helpful as possible, but they were hampered by the terrible IT mess. It was a ridiculous situation to be in. We were in limbo,\" she said.\n\nAs the day went on they started to call hotels. Decorators were expecting to arrive the next day, and the removals company said the next available slot for delivering their belongings was after the bank holiday.\n\nFirst they sat outside their new home waiting for the money to come through. Then, powerless to do anything, the couple's wait continued in the pub.\n\nEventually, with the clock ticking the call came through that the TSB computer had at last said \"yes\". They could finally pick up the keys and move into their new home.\n\nMrs Jones said they would complain, but the extra stress will be difficult to quantify in terms of compensation.\n\nTSB has said that no customers will be left out of pocket, and it has called in accountancy firm Deloitte to devise a system of redress for customers.\n\n\"I do not think that is going to make consumers feel particularly confident that they are going to be treated fairly,\" said Mr Lloyd, of Resolver.\n\nHe said that there were no clear industry rules on what kind of compensation should be agreed for stress and inconvenience.\n\n\"How TSB deals with this will be as important to their reputation in the future as the meltdown itself,\" he told Radio 4's Today programme.\n\n\"If they do not deal with this less tangible loss properly and fairly then they will be in big trouble.\"\n\nHe suggested that anyone affected should document what had happened, and consider taking a case to the financial ombudsman if they were unhappy with how TSB dealt with their complaint.\n\nTSB apologised and promised the couple would not be left out of pocket.\n\nA spokesperson said: \"We're really sorry for the experience Mr and Mrs Jones have had whilst moving home and the inconvenience this has caused them.\n\n\"This isn't the level of service that we pride ourselves on providing, and isn't what our customers have come to expect from TSB. We have reached out to Mr and Mrs Jones, and we will ensure that they are not left out of pocket.\"", "The American space agency Nasa has launched its latest mission to Mars.\n\nInSight will be the first probe to focus its investigations predominantly on the interior of the Red Planet.\n\nThe lander - due to touch down in November - will put seismometers on the surface to feel for \"Marsquakes\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The All Under One Banner event saw thousands of people parade through the city centre of Glasgow\n\nTens of thousands of Scottish independence supporters have marched through Glasgow.\n\nThe organisers of the annual All Under One Banner event said they hoped about 40,000 people would attend, but said early estimates were up to 80,000.\n\nThe march left Kelvingrove Park at 11:30 and ended with a rally on Glasgow Green.\n\nThe event is one of a series being held across Scotland by All Under One Banner.\n\nThey estimated 20,000 people took part in last year's Glasgow march.\n\nPolice Scotland said there were an estimated 35,000 at Saturday's procession.\n\nThousands hit the streets of Glasgow for the Scottish independence march\n\nOrganisers had expected about 40,000 would attend the demonstration\n\nThe march snaked through the city centre towards Glasgow Green\n\nAll Under One Banner describes itself as a \"pro-independence organisation whose core aim is to march at regular intervals until Scotland is free\" and says it is open to \"everyone who desires to live in an independent nation\".\n\nCo-ordinator Neil Mackay said he was confident that a second referendum would happen soon.\n\n\"We are expecting up to 40,000 people today on the streets of Glasgow, and then we have a political rally at Glasgow Green,\" he said.\n\n\"The purpose is to grow the movement, to galvanise us and bring more people on board, and to give as good a representation of the movement as we can.\"\n\n\"As far as we're all concerned there will be another independence referendum, and it'll be before 2021 when Brexit finally happens. We're ready, and we'll be doing this every year all over Scotland.\"\n\nMr Mackay said people had travelled from all over Scotland and further afield for the march.\n\nHe added: \"People are also coming from England, we've got a strong English Scots for Yes contingent on the march today which is great.\n\n\"There's a delegation from Germany, and from people all around the world who have had flights and hotels booked for months.\"\n\nThe event also featured music and speeches, with marchers urged to \"bring your flags, banners, pipes and drums\".", "President Trump told NRA members at their annual meeting that London knife attacks have left one hospital with blood on the floors.", "Thousands of visitors were evacuated when a blaze engulfed part of Europa-Park in Rust, southern Germany, on Saturday.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Rita Ora made Avicii's song the centrepiece of her set\n\nRita Ora paid an emotional tribute to dance producer Avicii as she opened up the third day of the BBC's Biggest Weekend festival in Swansea.\n\nAvicii's name flashed up on the video screens as Ora sang their collaboration Lonely Together - the final single the DJ released before his death in April.\n\n\"Thank you for singing that with me,\" she told the crowd as the song ended.\n\n\"It's always hard for me to sing that, so thank you so much for singing along.\"\n\nOra has previously said described Avicii as \"a really good friend\" who \"changed my life\".\n\nThe Swedish musician, born Tim Bergling, died last month at the age of 28.\n\nA statement released by his family seemed to suggest the cause of death was suicide.\n\nBest known for the international hits Wake Me Up and Levels, he had recently retired from touring, saying the lifestyle was taking a toll on his health.\n\nAfter he was found dead in Oman, DJ Pete Tong suggested it was \"time to establish a support group\" for musicians who found themselves overwhelmed.\n\nOra is not alone in paying tribute to Avicii.\n\nCalvin Harris said he was \"devastated\" and called the star \"a beautiful soul\" while Imagine Dragons said \"the world was a happier and fuller place with his presence\".\n\nAvicii's family announced last week that his funeral would be held privately \"in the presence of the people who were closest to Tim\".\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.", "Serena Alexander-Benson left the UK on a Eurotunnel train at Folkestone, police said\n\nA search has been launched for a 13-year-old girl who left the UK on a Eurotunnel train.\n\nSerena Alexander-Benson was last seen by her father leaving her home address in Wimbledon at about 07:50 BST on Friday.\n\nShe was wearing her green school uniform and told her father she was going to school - however she did not arrive and has not been seen since.\n\nScotland Yard said it was concerned for the girl's welfare.\n\nIt is believed that the girl left the country on Friday morning via Eurotunnel at Folkestone, Kent, \"probably in the company of an older person\", the force said.\n\nPolice added that although Serena lives with her father in London, her mother lives in Poland.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Irish Republic has voted by a large majority to repeal a part of the constitution that banned abortions.\n\nReturning Officer Barry Ryan delivered the results in Irish and English at Dublin Castle.", "Dartmoor, in Devon, is one of England's 10 existing national parks\n\nEngland could get more national parks after Environment Secretary Michael Gove announced he is launching a review into the country's natural landscapes.\n\nWriting in the Sunday Telegraph, Mr Gove said \"the time is right\" for a review, nearly 70 years on from the creation of the first national areas.\n\nIt will consider whether to expand England's network of parks as well as areas of outstanding natural beauty.\n\nEngland has 10 existing national parks including Dartmoor and the New Forest.\n\nIt also has 34 AONBs - including the Chilterns, the Cotswolds and the Isle of Wight.\n\nAccording to Mr Gove, the UK's population growth, combined with changes in technology and a decline in some habitats, meant it was time to \"look afresh at these landscapes\".\n\nMr Gove will look at evidence from industry experts\n\nHe stressed that the goal of the review was not to diminish the protection of natural areas, but to \"strengthen it in the face of present-day challenges\".\n\nFormer government aide and journalist Julian Glover has been appointed to carry it out.\n\nMr Gove said: \"The creation of national parks almost 70 years ago changed the way we view our precious landscapes - helping us all access and enjoy our natural world.\n\n\"We want to make sure they are not only conserved, but enhanced for the next generation.\n\n\"Are we properly supporting all those who live in, work in, or want to visit these magnificent places? Should we indeed be extending our areas of designated land?\"\n\nHe added: \"I want Julian explicitly to consider how we can extend and improve the protection we give to other precious landscapes.\"\n\nTony Juniper, the campaigns director for the WWF, welcomed the review, but warned that \"we need to do more\".\n\n\"Nature will continue to be at risk unless we have a plan for its recovery enshrined in law - through a new Environment Act that's backed by a strong watchdog with real power to enforce,\" he said.\n\nEngland has 10 national parks - the Broads, Dartmoor, Exmoor, the Lake District, the New Forest, Northumberland, the North York Moors, the Peak District, the South Downs and the Yorkshire Dales.\n\nThe first national parks to be created were the Peak District, Lake District, Snowdonia and Dartmoor in 1951.\n\nThere are two in Scotland - Cairngorms; and Loch Lomond and the Trossachs - and three in Wales: the Brecon Beacons, Pembrokeshire Coast, and Snowdonia.\n\nMr Gove said that unlike other nations' national parks, \"ours are working countryside\" and lived in by farmers.\n\nMr Glover, who Mr Gove called a \"passionate advocate for the countryside\", said: \"Our protected landscapes are England's finest gems and we owe a huge debt to past generations who had the wisdom to preserve them.\n\n\"The system they created has been a strength, but it faces challenges too.\n\n\"It is an honour to be asked to find ways to secure them for the future. I can't wait to get started and learn from everyone who shares an interest in making England's landscapes beautiful, diverse and successful.\"\n\nMargaret Paren, chairwoman of National Parks England said the announcement was \"very much welcome\" and the organisation intended to \"to play a full part\".\n\nShe added: \"And as we approach the 70th anniversary of the founding legislation we look forward to a future where their beauty is enhanced; they are loved and accessible for everyone; and they continue to support thriving communities in these working landscapes.\"\n\nNational parks are areas specifically protected because of their countryside, wildlife and cultural heritage and are funded by central government.", "Floral tributes have been left on Lowedges Road\n\nA 15-year-old boy has been charged with murdering another boy of the same age in Sheffield.\n\nThe victim was attacked in Lowedges Road, in the Lowedges district, at about 19:50 BST on Thursday. He died about an hour later in hospital.\n\nA boy from Lowedges was arrested and later charged over the killing, South Yorkshire Police said. He is due to appear in court on Monday.\n\nA post-mortem examination showed the boy died of stab wounds to the chest.\n\nIt was the second fatal stabbing in the city in a week. The force said it had been granted special stop and search powers to tackle knife crime.\n\nThe teenager died in hospital about an hour after the attack, police said\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Vanellope's heart was covered with her own skin after three operations\n\nA baby born with her heart outside her body has been moved to a hospital closer to her home.\n\nVanellope Hope Wilkins was born in November and has had three operations to place her heart back in her chest at Glenfield Hospital, in Leicester.\n\nThe six-month-old was transferred to the Queen's Medical Centre (QMC), near to where the family live in Nottingham.\n\nMother Naomi Findlay said she had \"longed\" to have her daughter in a hospital that was closer.\n\n\"[Vanellope] is coming on in leaps and bounds... she's very feisty, she's also very vocal, if she's not happy she lets everybody know about it,\" she said.\n\nThe family said the constant travel from Nottingham to Leicester had been hard, especially as they have other children.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Against the odds: The story of baby Vanellope\n\n\"It was tough,\" said dad Dean Wilkins.\n\n\"You've got to look at all different things, if you're working, not working, if you've got the money or not.\"\n\nVanellope had the extremely rare condition, ectopia cordis, of which there are only a few cases per million births - most are stillborn.\n\nGlenfield Hospital said it did not know of any other case in the UK where the baby survived following an operation to place the heart back inside the body.\n\nVanellope with mum Naomi Findlay at the QMC\n\nDr Meissa Osman, paediatric registrar, at Leicester Royal Infirmary, said the transfer to the QMC was \"uneventful\".\n\n\"She slept all the way through so we're happy...\" she said. \"We're very proud to be involved in her care.\"\n\nVanellope was delivered by Caesarean section on 22 November in order to reduce the chances of infection and damage to the heart.\n\nThere were about 50 medical staff present including obstetricians, heart surgeons, anaesthetists, neonatologists and midwives.\n\nShe will need another operation to create a breastbone at some point in the future.\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, on Twitter, or on Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Georgia Jones, 18, has been named locally as one of those who died\n\nTwo people have died and another person is in a critical condition after falling ill at a dance music festival in Hampshire.\n\nAn 18-year-old woman, named locally as Georgia Jones, and a 20-year-old man died in separate incidents at Mutiny Festival. Police said the deaths were not being treated as suspicious.\n\nTwo others remain in hospital after 15 people were admitted overnight.\n\nA Queen Alexandra Hospital spokesman said some of the people treated presented with \"drug-related\" symptoms. It could not confirm if all 15 illnesses were related to drugs.\n\nA statement on Facebook read: \"The safety of our amazing customers has always been paramount to us and so to keep everyone safe and in respect to those who have passed, we have taken the decision not to open today.\"\n\nOrganisers announced on Facebook that the festival had been cancelled on Sunday \"as a safety precaution\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Mutiny Festival safety adviser Ian Baird said organisers were liaising with police following two deaths at its site in Portsmouth\n\nThe decision \"was not taken lightly\" and had been supported by \"the local statutory authorities,\" it added.\n\nEarlier, the festival at King George V Playing Fields in Cosham had issued a \"harm prevention alert\" apparently warning about the use of drugs.\n\nThe message to festivalgoers described a \"dangerous high-strength or bad-batch substance on site\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Mutiny Festivals This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nLiam Blair said he was shocked to hear about the deaths\n\nFestivalgoer Liam Blair, from Southampton, was one of thousands of revellers making their way home early after the event's cancellation.\n\nHe said closing the festival early was a \"respectful\" decision and that there was an atmosphere of \"shock\" as news of the deaths spread.\n\n\"You just don't expect that to happen to people so young,\" he said.\n\nSophie Wilkinson said many at the festival were \"annoyed and upset\" by the decision to cancel Sunday's events\n\nSophie Wilkinson, 17, said many festivalgoers had been left \"annoyed and upset\" by the decision to close the festival early.\n\n\"The mood has just dropped,\" she added.\n\nPolice were alerted to the woman falling ill at 19:10 BST on Saturday, and the man was found collapsed about 20 minutes later.\n\nBoth were taken to the Queen Alexandra Hospital, Portsmouth, where they later died.\n\nMore than 30,000 people were expected to attend the festival, which has been running since 2013, over the weekend.\n\nOrganisers said on social media that they were \"devastated\" about the deaths.\n\nMany revellers at the Mutiny Festival have been camping\n\nThousands of people have been leaving the festival site after its cancellation\n\nIn a statement, Hampshire Police said: \"The deaths are being treated as separate incidents at this stage. They are not being treated as suspicious but inquiries are being made to determine the circumstances of what happened in each case.\"\n\nThe force said next-of-kin had been informed and relatives were being supported by specialist officers.\n\n\"Inquiries are being made into the circumstances of what has happened, but we must reiterate our advice to all our customers to responsibly dispose of any substances,\" the statement added.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Mutiny Festivals This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nLast year, Hampshire Police called for the minimum entry age to the festival to be increased after reports of sex assaults, drug use and fighting.\n\nThe force urged Portsmouth City Council to ban anyone under 18 in an effort to reduce crime.\n\nIt followed reports that children as young as 13 were being allowed to attend.\n\nOrganisers said there had been \"revised entry procedures\" for this year's event.\n\nDizzee Rascal, Craig David and Sean Paul are among the big names at the event ending on Sunday.\n\nThe best way to get news on the go \n\n\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Cricket\n\nClaims England players were involved in spot-fixing are \"outrageous\", says Test captain Joe Root.\n\nThe allegations are made in a new documentary by broadcaster Al Jazeera, released on Sunday.\n\nIn the programme, an alleged criminal match-fixer says three England players spot-fixed part of a Test match against India.\n\nThe England and Wales Cricket Board has spoken to the England players, who \"emphatically deny the allegations\".\n\n\"It's outrageous that England players have been accused of this,\" Root said.\n\nSimilar claims are also made against two Australian players - which cricket chiefs in that country have equally vociferously rejected, calling for any evidence to be released.\n\nThe International Cricket Council (ICC) has already begun an investigation.\n\n\"There is nothing we have seen that would make us doubt any of our players in any way whatsoever,\" said Tom Harrison, chief executive of the ECB.\n\n\"The limited information we have been given has been discussed with all the England players.\n\n\"They emphatically deny the allegations, have stated categorically that the claims are false, and they have our full support.\"\n\nEngland coach Trevor Bayliss was equally emphatic, telling BBC Test Match Special: \"It's outrageous to be honest. We'll just leave that up to the ECB to deal with.\"\n\nAustralian cricket chiefs said they were not aware of \"any credible evidence\" linking their players to alleged corruption.\n\n\"Although not having been provided an opportunity to view the documentary or any raw footage, our long-standing position on these matters is that credible claims will be treated very seriously and fully investigated,\" Cricket Australia chief executive James Sutherland said.\n\nAlex Marshall, the general manager of the ICC anti-corruption unit, said: \"We are taking the contents of the programme and the allegations it has made extremely seriously. A full investigation is now under way to examine each claim made.\n\n\"We have been in ongoing dialogue with the broadcaster, which has refused our continual requests to cooperate and share information, which has hampered our investigation to date.\"\n\nSome of the claims in the programme - Cricket's Match-Fixers - relate to the Sri Lankan Test venue in Galle.\n\nEarlier, Sri Lanka Cricket said it would give its \"fullest co-operation\" to any investigation into match-fixing.\n\nThe Pakistan Cricket Board said it was \"in the process of reviewing reports regarding the alleged involvement\" of one of its players in the documentary.\n\nAccording to Al Jazeera, an undercover reporter spent 18 months posing as a wealthy businessman in order to speak to members of criminal gangs in India involved in spot-fixing, who it says were filmed on a hidden camera giving details of how they allegedly paid professional cricketers to fix parts of matches.\n\nSpot-fixing is a deliberate attempt to manipulate part of a match, such as an over or a period of overs.\n\nA player would deliberately under-perform, which would enable criminals to bet on various categories - such as amount of runs scored - during the selected period.\n\nThe incidents in themselves can be trivial and may not affect the result of the match.", "There needs to be a \"massive reduction\" in the number of people sent to prison for 12 months or less, ministers say.\n\nPrisons minister Rory Stewart said short sentences made offenders more likely to commit crime.\n\nHe also suggested prisoners released on licence could be used to fill labour shortages in low-skilled jobs caused \"partly\" by Brexit.\n\nThe government is keen to reduce the UK's prison population, which has doubled over the past 25 years.\n\nMeanwhile, Justice Secretary David Gauke told The Times: \"Twenty-five years ago the population was 44,000. Today it's 84,000. I would like it to fall.\"\n\nMr Stewart said the increase had been driven by longer sentences for violent offenders and \"many, many more sex offenders\".\n\n\"Nearly a quarter of our prisoners now are sex offenders, many of them older men in for historic sex offences,\" he told the Sunday Politics programme.\n\nThere were also a lot of prisoners \"cycling\" in and out of the system on sentences of a few weeks or even less, in the case of those recalled to jail on licence days, he added.\n\n\"The statistics demonstrate that sending someone to prison for a very short period makes them more likely to re-offend compared to community sentences.\n\n\"So it's not good for them and it's not good for public safety.\"\n\nExceptions to any new sentencing guidelines would \"probably\" have to be made for violent offenders, he said, and it was important to retain an element of \"punishment\" in sentences.\n\nCommunity sentences have fallen out of favour with judges and magistrates in recent years over concerns about their effectiveness, amid budget cuts and the part-privatisation of the system.\n\nGreggs is among the companies offering offenders another chance\n\nBut Mr Stewart said reoffending rates were \"far too high from short sentences\" and they were also disrupting the prison system.\n\nHe also backed comments by his boss, David Gauke, who suggested prisoners could be let out for the day to work in sectors like catering, construction and agriculture, which were expected to be hit by Britain's departure from the EU.\n\n\"Partly because of Brexit, there is a labour shortage,\" said Mr Stewart.\n\n\"Which means that prisoners with the right kind of training, the right kind of attitudes, as Pret a Manger are finding, or Greggs the bakers are finding, or Timpson's the shoe company are finding, can provide very loyal, good employees.\"\n\nThe government has made a series of U-turns on allowing prisoners out to do work under licence, amid concerns some were absconding to commit further crime.\n\nMr Stewart admitted the government had gone \"back and forth\" on the issue but, he said, prisoners who had a job to go to were less likely to re-offend, and \"only one in 10,000 people released on temporary license go on to commit a serious crime\".\n\nIn a separate development, Mr Gauke claimed middle class drug users should feel \"guilt and responsibility\" for fuelling the rise in fatal stabbings in the UK.\n\n\"People who do that have to recognise they are fuelling the industry that's resulting in the knife crimes, resulting in the difficulties we're having in prisons,\" Mr Gauke told Sky's Ridge on Sunday.\n\n\"There's a responsibility for middle class people that take cocaine at a dinner party, that when they see a story of a 15-year-old boy stabbed in Hackney (east London) they should feel a degree of guilt and responsibility.\"\n\nPolice Federation deputy treasurer Simon Kempton has also blamed the wealthy for creating the demand for cocaine, while security minister Ben Wallace warned the UK was \"fast becoming the biggest consumer\" of the drug in Europe.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Residents have filmed the flooded streets around Birmingham\n\nA man in his 80s died after his car was submerged in flood-waters amid a deluge of rain across the West Midlands.\n\nRescuers had to swim 50m to reach the motorist, whose vehicle was \"completely underwater\" in Walsall.\n\nIn Birmingham, more than a month's rainfall hit parts of the city in an hour on Sunday. Areas of Northamptonshire were also flooded.\n\nWeather warnings have been issued for Monday, while the South East could see the hottest day of the year so far.\n\nEmergency workers were called to Lichfield Road in the Rushall area of Walsall shortly after 02:00 BST on Monday morning.\n\nWest Midlands Ambulance Service (WMAS) paramedic Peter Bowles was at the scene and tweeted that firefighters and ambulance staff had to swim 50m to reach the man.\n\nFour paramedics went into the flood-water and carried out life support, WMAS said.\n\nHe was taken to hospital where he died a short time later. His family has been informed.\n\nDrainage engineer Ben Lees had rescued another man from the same road on his way home earlier on Sunday.\n\nHe said there was about 2in of breathing space in the car when he swam to it and dragged the man out.\n\nFirefighters and paramedics had to swim to reach the man in Walsall, who died in hospital later\n\nThe Far Cotton area of Northampton was severely flooded along with major roads in the county including the M1 and A45.\n\nThe Environment Agency has issued multiple flood warnings and alerts covering much of central England.\n\nDespite the flood warnings, Met Office meteorologist Craig Snell said temperatures could hit highs of 28C or 29C in the South East.\n\nHe said: \"It all depends how much cloud develops. There's a chance we could see the warmest day of the year.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Scenes from around Birmingham as the city is hit by a deluge of rain.\n\nIn Birmingham, one major route in the city was rendered impassable by water up to 5ft (1.5m) deep.\n\nThe Met Office said a site at Winterbourne, in Edgbaston, recorded 58mm of rainfall in just one hour on Sunday afternoon, and 81mm in a 12-hour period.\n\nThe monthly average for the West Midlands region in May is 55mm, Mr Snell said.\n\nBut he said the torrential rain had been \"very localised\", pointing out that another site 10 miles away at Coleshill recorded just 3mm of rain in 12 hours.\n\nCars were submerged on Pershore Road in Selly Oak\n\nBBC journalist Rebecca Woods said she had driven past a large number of flooded and closed roads in the Harborne and Selly Oak areas.\n\nShe said she had seen flooded houses and it had taken her 90 minutes to drive about five miles.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Dave Throup This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 Sir John's Road, Selly Park, homes flooded and cars were under water, while wheelie bins floated down the road.\n\nResident Stu Dunigan said water was above waist height, almost submerging cars on the street.\n\nIt is the second time in two years the street has flooded. More than 100 homes were flooded June 2016 causing some residents to leave their houses.\n\nSome had only recently returned before Sunday's floods.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Far Cotton area of Northampton was hit by flash-flooding\n\nTrevor Thomas, who lives in Kings Heath, had to leave his home when it was flooded with six inches of water.\n\nMr Thomas, 51, is severely disabled and had to be taken to stay with his 73-year-old mother, Pat Thomas, at her home in Kings Norton.\n\nShe said the house was not suitable for her son and they both had to sleep on the sofa as she could not get him upstairs to bed.\n\nJacqui Kennedy from Birmingham City Council said the operation to clear up debris and repair roads was under way.\n\nPolice said some roads in Birmingham were still affected by flooding and advised drivers not to ignore road closure signs.\n\nMatthew Swain said he could not commend the community spirit enough after neighbours in Pelsall helped his elderly grandparents\n\nIn Pelsall, Matthew Swain thanked his \"lovely neighbours\" who helped his elderly grandparents by sweeping the water out of their house in Fordbrook Lane while their own homes were also flooded.\n\n\"They left their own houses and came to my grandparents' rescue,\" he said. \"I'm so grateful and thankful to them all.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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End of twitter post 2 by Guy Little\n\nThe Met Office said the temperatures in London could reach as high as 29C\n\nNorthampton council leader Jonathan Nunn and councillor James Hill visited St Leonard's Road in Far Cotton to speak people affected by flooding.\n\nMr Nunn said: \"We want to know exactly what happened and work out ways to prevent it happening again.\"\n\nPart of the M1 and A45 in the county were under three feet of water and drivers were trying to pass through the floods.\n\nThe fire service used dinghies to ferry vulnerable people away from flooded areas in the St Leonard's Road area of Far Cotton, Northampton\n\nA shopkeeper in Far Cotton sweeps out flood waters after the deluge ends\n\nThe A5 was closed in both directions in the border area of Leicestershire, Warwickshire and Northamptonshire, between the junctions of the A426 at Churchover and the A428 near the Dirft rail terminal to the east of Rugby.\n\nWarwickshire Fire and Rescue Service (WFRS) said it had also been \"extremely busy\" dealing with flooding calls on Sunday evening.\n\nThe best way to get news on the go", "The food and farming industry wants assurances from the government that it will still be able to recruit enough staff from the EU after Brexit.\n\nThe demand came as part of a manifesto drawn up by more than 100 organisations across the industry and sent to the PM.\n\nIt urges the government to publish a white paper setting out its immigration plans \"as a matter of priority\".\n\nA government spokesperson said those in the sector would be able to recruit EU citizens until December 2020.\n\nThose in the farming industry have previously raised concerns about the impact of leaving the European Union on agricultural labour, which is often short-term, flexible and seasonal.\n\nEnvironment Secretary Michael Gove said earlier this year that the case for a seasonal agricultural workers scheme after the UK leaves the EU in 2019 was \"compelling.\"\n\nThe Food Supply Chain manifesto was sent to Prime Minister Theresa May by the National Farmers' Union president Minette Batters.\n\nIt said the \"significant number\" of EU nationals the sector employed meant it was vital the government \"ensures a continuing, adequate supply of permanent and seasonal labour\" before and after the UK leaves the EU in March 2019.\n\nThe document said that recruitment difficulties from within the UK meant the government needed to guarantee that \"in the short- to medium-term, the industry has access to the overseas labour market to help meet its recruitment needs\".\n\nThe other main issues raised in the manifesto, drawn up by organisations representing farmers and their suppliers as well as manufacturers and retailers, were:\n\nNFU president Ms Batters said a Brexit that failed to champion UK food producers \"will be bad for the country's landscape, the economy and, critically, our society\".\n\nShe added: \"The signatories to this manifesto will be looking to government to ensure its objectives are aligned with ours, to ensure British food production - something of which every person in this country enjoys the benefits - gets the best possible deal post-Brexit.\"\n\nIn response to the manifesto, a government spokesperson said: \"We have been clear that up until December 2020, employers in the agricultural and food processing sectors will be free to recruit EU citizens to fill vacancies and those arriving to work will be able to stay in the UK afterwards.\n\n\"We are determined to get the best deal for the UK in our EU negotiations, not least for our world-leading food and farming industry which is a key part of our economic success.\"", "The teenagers were in a field in Rochdale\n\nA teenage boy has died and three other teenagers have been released from hospital following an \"incident\" in a field, police have said.\n\nThey received reports about the boy's welfare near Dewhirst Road, Rochdale, shortly before 11:15 BST on Saturday.\n\n\"Inquiries into whether there were any suspicious circumstances around this boy's death are ongoing,\" a Greater Manchester Police spokeswoman said.\n\nAnyone with information has been asked to contact police.\n\nA post-mortem examination is due to take place later this week.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The billboard features images of local Olympic heroes the Brownlee brothers\n\nA bride-to-be says her wedding photos will be ruined by a huge advert across the front of the venue.\n\nSarah Dooley is due to marry fiancé, Andy Dodds, at Leeds Town Hall - outside which couples traditionally pose for photos - at the weekend.\n\nBut they were unaware they would be sharing the stage with the advert for next month's World Triathlon.\n\nLeeds City Council said the Town Hall was \"important for promoting major events\" and the banner would remain.\n\nThe sandstone facade of the picturesque Victorian building is currently hidden behind the endurance event billboard.\n\nMs Dooley, who met her partner while at university in Leeds, said the couple would have chosen another venue if they had known.\n\n\"We looked at tipis, castles, tree-houses, but picked Leeds Town Hall because it's iconic and we wanted our photos taken outside,\" she said.\n\n\"Leeds is really important to us, we brought our children up here and we wanted something that represented our relationship.\"\n\nSarah Dooley said she is \"disappointed\" to not have their wedding photos outside the Town Hall\n\nMs Dooley said she did not want compensation but was \"disappointed\" that the couple were not told in advance about the banner.\n\nInstead of photos outside the town hall, the wedding party will walk to nearby Park Square.\n\nA spokesperson for Leeds City Council, which owns the town hall, said it \"understands Miss Dooley's disappointment\" but the banners would not be removed.\n\n\"Leeds Town Hall is the venue for hundreds of weddings each year and we always do our absolute best to make sure every couple's day is as special as possible\", he said.\n\n\"Banners promoting next month's World Triathlon Leeds are scheduled to be in place for several weeks and unfortunately, it isn't possible to remove them for a day.\"\n\nThe triathlon will be held on 9-10 June.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Georgia Jones, 18, has been named locally as one of those who died at Mutiny Festival\n\nThe mother of a teenager who died after \"taking two pills\" at a dance music festival in Portsmouth has spoken of her grief at losing \"her little girl\".\n\nGeorgia Jones, 18, and a man named locally as Tommy Bakeer, 20, died in separate incidents at Mutiny Festival.\n\nWriting on Facebook, her mother Janine Milburn said she hoped her daughter's death would deter others from \"taking anything ever\".\n\nPolice have not confirmed whether drugs were involved in either of the deaths.\n\nA Queen Alexandra Hospital spokesman said some of the people treated presented with \"drug-related\" symptoms. It could not confirm if all 15 illnesses were related to drugs.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Mutiny Festival safety adviser Ian Baird said organisers were liaising with police following two deaths at its site in Portsmouth\n\nA statement on Facebook from festival organisers read: \"The safety of our amazing customers has always been paramount to us and so to keep everyone safe and in respect to those who have passed, we have taken the decision not to open today.\"\n\nEarlier, the festival at King George V Playing Fields in Cosham had issued a \"harm prevention alert\" apparently warning about the use of drugs.\n\nThe message to festivalgoers described a \"dangerous high-strength or bad-batch substance on site\".\n\nOrganisers said on social media they were \"devastated\" about the deaths.\n\nLiam Blair said he was shocked to hear about the deaths\n\nFestivalgoer Liam Blair, from Southampton, was one of thousands of revellers making their way home early after the event's cancellation.\n\nHe said closing the festival early was a \"respectful\" decision and that there was an atmosphere of \"shock\" as news of the deaths spread.\n\n\"You just don't expect that to happen to people so young,\" he said.\n\nPolice were alerted to Ms Jones falling ill at 19:10 BST on Saturday, and the man was found collapsed about 20 minutes later.\n\nBoth were taken to the Queen Alexandra Hospital, Portsmouth, where they later died.\n\nOrganisers announced on Facebook that the festival had been cancelled on Sunday \"as a safety precaution\"\n\nMs Milburn posted a warning on Facebook about the dangers of drugs following the death of her daughter.\n\n\"If nothing else I hope what has happened to her will deter you from taking anything ever,\" she said.\n\n\"My little girl was 18 and full of life.\"\n\nIn a statement, Hampshire Police said: \"The deaths are being treated as separate incidents at this stage.\n\n\"They are not being treated as suspicious but inquiries are being made to determine the circumstances of what happened in each case.\"\n\nMany revellers at the Mutiny Festival had been camping\n\nDizzee Rascal, Craig David and Sean Paul were among the acts scheduled to appear.\n\nSpeaking on Twitter, Craig David said his heart went out to the family.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Craig David This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMore than 30,000 people were expected to attend the festival, which has been running since 2013.\n• None Two die after falling ill at festival\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. Passengers at the airport found the delays 'irritating'\n\nHundreds of passengers are stranded at Stansted Airport after lightning strikes damaged aircraft fuelling systems, grounding flights.\n\nFlights have been cancelled or delayed and some are being diverted away from landing.\n\nThe airport said its aircraft fuelling system was \"unavailable\" for a period earlier due to a lightning strike.\n\nA spokeswoman said engineers had since restored the system but \"flights may be diverted, delayed or cancelled\".\n\n\"We apologise for the inconvenience and advise all passengers to check with their airlines for their latest flight updates,\" she said.\n\nPassengers have described being stuck on planes for hours waiting to take off, while others are waiting in an already crowded departure lounge for information.\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 problems occurred as thunderstorms and torrential rain swept across the UK overnight during the Bank Holiday weekend and at the start of school half-term.\n\nBBC Look East reporter Richard Daniel said Ryanair had announced at the airport that all its flights are fully booked for the next two days, meaning passengers whose flights have been cancelled would not be able to re-book during that period.\n\nPassengers have been advised to check with their airlines for up to date flight information\n\nFlights at Stansted have been \"diverted, delayed or cancelled\" after a fuelling system was damaged\n\nPassenger Steve Childs told the BBC his Ryanair flight to Madrid had been due to take off at 08:25 BST.\n\nMr Childs, who is travelling with his wife and daughter, said he has had to get information from social media.\n\n\"There have been no announcements,\" he said.\n\n\"Flights which were due to leave at 06:00 still haven't left.\n\n\"We are in the middle of the departure hall. Fortunately we have seats, but there are lots of people without.\"\n\nPassengers whose flights have been cancelled are waiting to see if they can re-book\n\nHundreds of passengers have been stranded at the airport\n\nRob Liddell, who was due to fly out on a family holiday to Rome for three days, said communication had not been great.\n\nHe found out his flight had been cancelled via a phone app, despite the departure board saying it had only been delayed.\n\nMr Liddell said that after \"standing in a queue of several hundred people waiting to attempt to re-book our flights,\" Ryanair had \"announced all flights are fully booked for next two days, so that's us heading home\".\n\nHe said people at the airport were \"pretty calm\" and \"resigned to the fact this has happened\".\n\nHe added there were thousands of people in the departure lounge and \"lots of young families in corridors\".\n\nApril Peake, from Oxford, said her Ryanair flight to Lisbon was due to take off at 09:45.\n\n\"It is so hot in the departures lounge,\" she said. \"I feel like I've made it to Portugal. But I haven't.\"\n\nShe said people were \"bored\" and frustrated\".\n\n\"Flights keep disappearing from the information boards, and there are very quiet announcements listing the flight numbers of all the cancelled flights,\" she added.\n\n\"The lounge was thick with people a little while ago, but it seems to be thinning out a little bit now.\"\n\nThe best way to get news on the go \n\n\n\nFrustrated passengers have been venting their thoughts on social media.\n\nTwitter user Tracey Mitchell said her niece and nephew's flight had been cancelled, meaning they were \"no longer going on their cruise\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Caue Cavallaro This article contains content provided by Twitter. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nRyanair would not comment on its bookings but a spokesman said \"all affected customers are being contacted and advised of their options of a full refund, a free transfer on to the next available flight or a free transfer on to an alternative routing\".\n\nHe added: \"We apologise to all customers affected by these disruptions, which are entirely beyond our control.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 tracey mitchell This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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.", "Marcel Campbell, 30, was pronounced dead at the scene\n\nA man has been charged with murder after a man was stabbed to death in a north London high street.\n\nMarcel Campbell, 30, from Haringey died from his wounds in the incident in Upper Street, Islington, on 21 May.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police said Reece Daniel Williams, aged 21, of Islington, was charged with murder on Saturday.\n\nHe has been remanded in custody to appear at Haringey Magistrates' Court on 28 May. Police have continued to appeal for witnesses.\n• None The faces of those killed in London\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Talks between the UK and the European Union need to \"speed up\" if a deal on a future relationship can be made in time for Brexit, the EU's negotiator says.\n\nSpeaking in Lisbon, Michel Barnier said the UK needed to stop playing \"hide and seek\" and instead clarify its demands.\n\nIt comes as the EU Withdrawal Bill is due to return to the House of Commons, having suffered defeats in the Lords.\n\nThe PM faces a rebellion over her move to rule out any future membership of the customs union and single market.\n\nThe government fears MPs may follow suit and attempt to amend the bill.\n\nEarlier this week, UK officials warned the EU that its approach to Brexit negotiations risked damaging its security and economic relationship.\n\nAddressing a gathering of jurists in Portugal on Saturday, Mr Barnier called for more clarity on the UK's position, saying an effective negotiation was dependent on knowing what the other side wanted.\n\nHe said the EU would be ready to accept movement on Theresa May's \"red lines\" that insist Brexit must see the UK leave both the European single market and customs union.\n\n\"The UK can change its mind,\" he said, but stressed that \"time is tight\".\n\n\"If the UK wishes to modify its red lines, it will have to tell us so - the sooner the better,\" he added.\n\nReferencing a row over the UK's potential exclusion from the EU's Galileo project - a multibillion euro plan to build a European GPS system - Mr Barnier said the EU would not be influenced by a \"blame game\" which seeks to hold the organisation responsible for Brexit's \"negative consequences\".\n\nThe UK said on Friday that it wanted the EU to repay £1bn if it was excluded from the Galileo satellite system,.\n\n\"It is the UK which is leaving the EU. It cannot, in the act of leaving, ask us to change what we are and how we function,\" Mr Barnier said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Why is there a row about Galileo?\n\nThe best way to get news on the go", "Serena Alexander-Benson left the UK on a Eurotunnel train at Folkestone, police said\n\nA 13-year-old girl who left the UK on a Eurotunnel train may have travelled to Poland with her mother's friend, police said.\n\nSerena Alexander-Benson was last seen by her father leaving her home in Wimbledon at about 07:50 BST on Friday.\n\nShe was wearing her green school uniform and told him she was going to school, but did not arrive.\n\nThe girl travelled with a female friend of her mother's - a Polish national living in London - police said.\n\nScotland Yard said that although Serena lives with her father in London, her mother lives in Poland.\n\nDetails of the route Serena and the woman took via Eurotunnel at Folkestone, Kent, are not being released by police.\n\nA spokesman said: \"At this stage, the priority of officers is to confirm Serena's exact whereabouts and confirm that she is safe.\n\n\"Any potential offences will be considered in due course.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Donald Trump called off the upcoming US-North Korea summit on Thursday morning, catching much of official Washington, and the world, by surprise. How he did it - in a personal letter to North Korean leader Kim Jong-un - offers revealing insight at Trump-style diplomacy and what might happen next.\n\nThe missive from Donald Trump - addressed to \"his excellency\", an unusual title for Mr Kim - begins a bit like a corporate form letter, thanking the North Korean leader for his \"time, patience and effort\".\n\nThere's a bit of a passive-aggressive dig at Mr Kim - pointing out that he was the one who wanted the meeting, even if that's \"totally irrelevant\" - and an emphasis that this was a \"long-planned meeting\" (the idea was first suggested in March and a date and time set just weeks ago).\n\nThe real meat of the letter comes at the end of the paragraph, however, as the president's pen turns poison.\n\nThe North Koreans announced Thursday morning that they had collapsed the tunnels at their nuclear test site, but they accompanied it with threats of nuclear war and a demeaning dig at Vice-President Mike Pence (called \"a political dummy\"). Mr Trump has shown time and time again that he won't abide verbal swipes from the North Koreans.\n\nHe responds to their nuclear sabre-rattling with another round of \"fire and fury\" style language, boasting about the massive and powerful US nuclear arsenal that Donald Trump prays to God will never be used. It's a return to the rhetoric of last summer, when it appeared the US and North Korea were headed toward a military confrontation. The start of the letter may be diplomat-speak, but this is Mr Trump's voice coming through.\n\nBy the second paragraph, the diplomatic gloves are back on. There's an emphasis on the recent thaw between the two nations (a \"wonderful dialogue\") and a hint that the door has not been fully slammed shut.\"\n\nThe president writes that he is still looking forward to meeting the North Korean strongman (nuclear apocalypse notwithstanding). And releasing three American prisoners, one of whom had been sentenced to forced labour in a sham trial, was a much-appreciated \"beautiful gesture\". There will certainly be some critics who question whether this is an appropriate place to turn on the charm.\n\nThe business letter template kicks in again in the closing paragraph, albeit with somewhat tortured prose. \"If you change your mind having to do with this most important summit, please do not hesitate to call me or write\". We have operators standing by!\n\nIt finishes on a wistful note. In his tweet announcing the time and place of the now-cancelled summit, the president had said the meeting could be a \"very special moment for World Peace\". His supporters broached the idea that he should win a Nobel Prize, which he acknowledged by saying \"everyone thinks so\", adding \"the prize I want is victory for the world\".\n\nInstead, it's a \"sad moment in history\".", "Helicopter footage shows lava destroying dozens of houses, which residents were told to evacuate, on Hawaii's Big Island.", "Russia has a population of 144 million people but only 70,000 of them are black.\n\nOver the years, human rights organisations have reported numerous racist attacks.\n\nWhat is life like for those who are black and Russian, especially ahead of next month's World Cup and influx of foreign visitors?", "Organisers of a festival where two young people fell ill and later died have released a statement expressing their \"tremendous sadness\".\n\nMutiny Festival safety adviser Ian Baird said organisers were liaising with police following the deaths of an 18-year-old woman and 20-year-old man at the site in Portsmouth.", "Alliance for Choice use #TrustWomen slogan to advocate a change for women in Northern Ireland\n\nThe Republic of Ireland voted on Friday to repeal part of its constitution that effectively outlawed abortion.\n\nThat change will soon leave Northern Ireland as the only part of either the UK or Ireland where abortion is illegal unless there is a serious risk to a woman's life or health. Unlike other parts of the UK, the 1967 Abortion Act does not extend to Northern Ireland.\n\nRuth Foster, a Belfast-born student in her final year at the University of Edinburgh, thinks many people in the rest of the UK are unaware of the legal position in Northern Ireland.\n\nRuth says at school she was exposed to pro-life sex education that left her and her friends misinformed\n\nShe was one of many who spoke out about what she says was misinformation and misconceptions online, and says that momentum must not be lost from the #RepealTheEighth movement.\n\nSaturday's overwhelming Yes result in the Republic of Ireland has galvanised pro-choice groups and activists.\n\nMany have said they plan to turn their attention to Northern Ireland's laws. Several Westminster politicians suggested that the government should bring Northern Ireland in line with the rest of the UK.\n\nAfter Saturday's Yes vote, one young woman from Northern Ireland decided to speak up about her experience of having an illegal, self-medicated abortion at home several years ago.\n\nAs a student recovering from mental health issues, Amy found herself pregnant when her contraception failed.\n\nUnable to afford to travel to Britain for a procedure, she ordered abortion pills online.\n\nShe said the abortion was \"horrifyingly painful\" to go through without medical help or pain relief.\n\nSince Amy had her crisis pregnancy, measures have been implemented to help fund women travelling to Britain for NHS abortions.\n\nSinn Féin's Michelle O Neill and Mary Lou McDonald are campaigning for change\n\nPoliticians from the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) have hit back at calls to extend abortion services in Northern Ireland.\n\nMP Ian Paisley Jnr tweeted on Saturday that Northern Ireland \"should not be bullied into accepting abortion on demand\".\n\nAnother politician from the party, Jim Wells, a former Northern Ireland health minister, said that the result in Ireland was \"an extremely worrying development for the protection of the unborn child in Northern Ireland\".\n\nMr Wells called on Northern Ireland's anti-abortion movement to \"redouble its efforts\" to prevent any change of the law there.\n\nEmma Campbell, co-chair of abortion rights group Alliance for Choice, said the DUP's political stance is out-of-step with the will of most people in Northern Ireland.\n\n\"Poll after poll has shown in the north, much like it did in the south, that between 62-72% people in every one of the polls is in favour of a change to the law,\" she said.\n\n\"We are being denied our human rights, and especially in the realm of healthcare. It has real mental and physical consequences.\"\n\nAbortions are only allowed in Northern Ireland if a woman's life is at risk or there is a permanent or serious risk to her physical or mental health.\n\nRape, incest and fatal foetal abnormalities are not reasons for legal procedures.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by stellacreasy This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAnna, who lives in Londonderry, found out when she was 20 weeks pregnant in 2010 that her unborn son would die almost immediately after birth.\n\nShe then had to carry him for a further 12 weeks because of Northern Ireland's restrictive laws.\n\n\"Obviously immediate friends, family and colleagues knew. But other people would ask: 'When's the baby due or what are you having?' All the normal questions,\" she told the BBC.\n\nShe said she was forced to stop telling the \"uncomfortable truth\" after struggling with people's responses.\n\n\"The hardest thing was knowing your baby was there but you wouldn't get the happy times at the end.\n\n\"I just think it's unfair to expect you to go through all this, and you know, prolong the agony really. It's really not humane.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Grainne Teggart This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAfter almost a year and a half without devolved government at Stormont, Grainne Teggart, Northern Ireland campaign manager at Amnesty International, has urged Westminster stop turning a \"blind-eye\" to the situation.\n\n\"The UK government needs to ensure that no woman on the island of Ireland is left behind, and that women in Northern Ireland can access free, safe and legal abortion at home,\" she told the BBC.\n\nGrainne Teggart says women in Northern Ireland \"can only look on\" as other women's rights progress\n\nHowever, Marion Woods, from the anti-abortion group Both Lives Matter, said she was \"saddened\" by the result in the Republic of Ireland referendum.\n\n\"The [Northern Ireland] secretary of state has already stated that this is a devolved issue and it should be left to us,\" she said.\n\n\"I think that rather than pushing for the cheaper option of abortion there should be a focus on restoring local government at Stormont and then our local government immediately committing to addressing support and care for all during pregnancy.\"\n\nShe said more should be done by others to help homeless, pregnant women when \"they are in crisis\" in the UK.\n\nBen O'Flynn, a barrister who campaigned in favour of retaining the Eighth Amendment, said he accepted the results of the referendum.\n\nHowever, he added: \"Ireland is a changed place, but it's changed in way I think is in a negative way.\"\n\nHe said he did not wish to \"minimise the hurt or the difficulties that women find themselves in\" but said the focus had not been on \"two people, not on the fact that there is a life\".", "Last updated on .From the section Cycling\n\nTeam Sky's Chris Froome became the first Briton to win the Giro d'Italia as he coasted home in Sunday's processional stage in Rome.\n\nThe 33-year-old is the seventh man to complete a Grand Tour hat-trick after adding Italian success to the 2017 Vuelta and four Tour de France wins.\n\n\"For any cyclist this is the dream to have all three leaders jerseys in the space of 10 months,\" Froome said.\n\n\"To have finally won this race, I can't quite believe it myself.\"\n• None BeSpoke podcast - The fall and rise of Chris Froome\n\nFroome finished 46 seconds ahead of Dutch defending champion Tom Dumoulin in the overall standings.\n\nHis victory echoes that of Welsh Olympic gold medallist Nicole Cooke, who won the women's equivalent - the Giro Rosa - in 2004.\n\nBritain's Simon Yates, who led for most of the race and claimed three stage wins, finished 22nd in the general classification, with Ireland's Sam Bennett claiming the sprint finish for a third stage win of his own.\n\nFroome's triumph also means he is only the third man, after legendary pair Eddy Merckx and Bernard Hinault, to hold cycling's three most prestigious stage races at the same time.\n\nThe traditional leisurely pace of the final stage dropped even lower as the peloton, unimpressed by the route over Rome's historic cobbles, succeeded in getting the stage neutralised for general classification purposes.\n\nRiders only needed to complete the 115km, 10-lap, loop of the city centre to maintain their place in the overall standings.\n\nHow the race was won\n\nThe stage was a sedate end to a dramatic campaign for Froome.\n\nEven before the action had started properly, Team Sky's lead rider had skidded out on a reconnaissance lap during the curtain-raising time trial stage in Jerusalem before another crash on stage eight.\n\nFor the majority of the race he seemed to have faded out of contention, slipping out of the general classification top 10 and nearly five minutes off the pace.\n\nFroome admitted that victory was \"unlikely\" after losing time on the leaders in stage nine. According to Team Sky boss David Brailsford, the Briton came close to abandoning the race altogether.\n\nBut Froome continued chasing and produced an extraordinary performance on Friday's gruelling 19th stage as Sky abandoned their usual tightly controlled tactics in an all-or-nothing gamble for the pink jersey.\n\nAfter foiling Dumoulin's bid for glory on Saturday with another strong ride on Saturday, Froome was assured his champagne-soaked ride into the Italian capital.\n\nWill it last?\n\nFroome's victory comes as he awaits a doping verdict that could force another rewriting of the record books.\n\nIn December a leaked report revealed he had exceeded the permitted levels of salbutamol - an asthma medication that could potentially affect muscle mass - during his win in the Vuelta three months earlier.\n\nWith cycling's governing body - the UCI - still investigating and Froome denying any wrongdoing, he has raced on.\n\nFroome has been questioned frequently about his use of the drug, with his win on stage 19 being compared to the rides produced by confessed doper Floyd Landis.\n\n\"I can understand the parallels and comparisons being drawn by some people but I have every confidence it will stand,\" said Froome.\n\nHe has encountered hostility from some spectators during the Giro, with one apparently spitting at him on Saturday's penultimate stage after another brandished a giant inflatable inhaler at him the day before.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nLeading Conservative Brexiteer Jacob Rees-Mogg has rejected press speculation he is planning to challenge Theresa May for the party leadership.\n\n\"I wouldn't challenge Theresa May. That's a ridiculous idea. The prime minister has my full support,\" he told the BBC's Andrew Marr show.\n\n\"I don't wish to be prime minister,\" he added, saying his \"only ambition\" was to make Brexit happen.\n\nHe urged the PM to take a tougher line on Brexit, saying errors had been made.\n\nMr Rees-Mogg has been highly critical of the prime minister's preferred option for customs arrangements with the EU and has questioned whether her government is still on track to deliver Brexit.\n\nHe said the UK had made \"a lot of compromises\" during Brexit negotiations with Brussels and \"nothing has come back\".\n\nBut he added: \"I am reassured in the last week. I think the government is still committed. But there are concerns, inevitably, about the way the negotiations are proceeding.\"\n\nHe said the prime minister had made a \"mistake\" at the start of Brexit talks by unilaterally committing the UK to an open border with the Republic of Ireland, saying it was \"overwhelmingly\" in Ireland's interests to have one too.\n\n\"I think, if you are going into a negotiation, you should use your strongest cards and just to tear one of them up and set hares running on other issues is, I think, an error,\" he said.\n\nHe said it was wrong to consider temporarily keeping the UK closely tied to the EU's customs rules as a \"backstop\", in an attempt to solve the Irish border issue, saying: \"If you offer a backstop that is more attractive than anything that you're likely to negotiate from the other side's point of view.\n\n\"The backstop ends up becoming the frontstop.\"\n\nHe also questioned claims this week by the head of HM Revenue and Customs, Jon Thompson, that his own preferred customs option would cost businesses up to £20bn, saying that sounded like a \"high figure\".\n\nMr Rees-Mogg, who chairs an influential group of Brexiteer Tory MPs. the European Research Group, said remaining in some form of customs union with the EU for years after Brexit - which some have suggested will be the outcome of the talks with Brussels - would not be delivering on Brexit.\n\nHe did not believe Theresa May should walk away from Brexit negotiations, he added, but should instead threaten not to pay the £40bn \"divorce bill\" agreed with the EU in December.\n\n\"We should say quite clearly, if we don't get the trade deal we want, you don't get the money'. That's a very strong negotiating position,\" he told Andrew Marr.\n\nHe denied trying to \"menace\" the prime minister by telling her what to do, saying he was \"very respectful\" of her position, adding that she was the \"most impressive and dutiful leader that this country has ever had\".\n\nThere was \"no menace in me at all\", he added.\n\nAsked if he would back the PM even if she returned from Brussels with a deal he did not like, he said: \"I will back the prime minister on delivering on the promises she made in the Conservative manifesto and in her various speeches.\"\n\nMr Rees-Mogg is currently favourite at the bookmakers to be the next Conservative leader, but he rejected speculation in the media that he was plotting a challenge to Mrs May, saying his only ambition was to ensure \"Brexit means Brexit\" from the back benches.\n\nAccording to the Mail on Sunday, Mr Rees-Mogg's company, Somerset Capital Management, which manages nearly £7.5bn on behalf of private investors and City institutions, \"has interests in two Russian firms blacklisted by the US and others which are controlled by oligarchs in President Vladimir Putin's inner circle\".\n\nMr Rees Mogg said he no longer ran Somerset Capital Management's investments but, he added, its clients had asked the company to invest their money in \"emerging markets\".\n\n\"We have a fiduciary duty to them to invest it as well as we can in businesses that we think will do well, subject to the law of the land,\" he told Andrew Marr.\n\nHe added: \"We can not run our investments on my political opinions. I think we should be much tougher on Russia. I think we should impose a level of sanctions that America has imposed on Russia.\"", "Theresa May has been urged to stick to the government's timetable for having a vote on Heathrow expansion.\n\nA number of business lobby groups have signed a letter saying the government needs to \"get on with expanding the UK's airport capacity\".\n\nThe BBC understands that the idea for the letter came from Heathrow itself.\n\nTransport Secretary Chris Grayling has also been asking business groups to support the expansion plans, the BBC has learned.\n\nThe business organisations that signed the letter have all come out in favour of Heathrow expansion in the past.\n\nThe letter sent to Number 10 said: \"As Brexit approaches, Heathrow expansion is crucial to making sure the UK remains an outward-looking trading nation and is well-equipped to compete on the world stage.\n\n\"For British businesses, the benefits of expansion have always been clear: connections to new markets and trading opportunities, with better links with regional airports across the UK a boost to British exports, and a skills legacy for future generations.\"\n\nThe letter adds that the UK is losing ground to competition from European airports.\n\n\"There are many unknowns for businesses surrounding Britain's future trading arrangements, but what is absolutely certain is that our economic success depends on securing Heathrow's future as a leading international airport,\" it adds.\n\nThe groups that put their name to the letter were the Confederation of British Industry, the British Chambers of Commerce, the Institute of Directors, the Federation of Small Businesses, the EEF - The Manufacturers' Organisation, the London Chamber of Commerce and Industry, and airport expansion lobby group London First.\n\nThe BBC understands that these organisations were asked by Heathrow to lobby the government collectively via the letter.\n\nThe timing of the letter, which has been published by Heathrow, is particularly important.\n\nThe government is due to timetable a vote on the Airports National Policy Statement, which is going to set out its airport infrastructure policy - including Heathrow expansion - in the first half of the year.\n\nHeathrow regularly has meetings with the business lobby groups, and its position is that the groups sent the letter out of a mutual desire to get the vote tabled, the BBC understands.\n\nIt was expected that the vote would happen before the summer recess, which runs from 24 July to 4 September.\n\nThe business lobby groups and Heathrow want the vote to go ahead as planned before September because then MPs will be more pre-occupied with Brexit.\n\nThe terms for Britain to leave the EU need to be concluded by 30 September 2018 under a timetable set by the EU's chief negotiator Michel Barnier.\n\nThe UK vote on the Airports National Policy Statement will be tabled after a process is set in motion by Transport Secretary Chris Grayling.\n\nHe in turn has been lobbying business groups for support for the government's Heathrow expansion plans to try to get MPs to vote in favour.\n\nConservative MPs are likely to vote with the government. Unions and many Labour MPs also support expansion, but the Labour leadership in the past has come out against Heathrow expansion on environmental grounds.\n\nThe best way to get news on the go", "South Korea has released a Hollywood-style video of the meeting between its President Moon Jae-in and the North's Kim Jong-un in the demilitarised zone on the border between the two countries.\n\nThe slickly produced, minute-long film shows the two leaders meeting, warmly shaking hands, holding talks and embracing as they part - all to a stirring soundtrack.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThunderstorms and torrential rain have swept across parts of southern Britain, with lightning flashing across the sky.\n\nAround 15,000 lightning strikes were recorded in four hours on Saturday night, BBC Weather said.\n\nStansted Airport reported delays to flights on Sunday morning after a lightning strike briefly left its aircraft fuelling system \"unavailable\".\n\nThe Met Office has issued a yellow warning for heavy rain and flooding across Wales and most of England.\n\nA house in Stanway, Essex, lost its roof to a fire after lightning struck it in the early hours of Sunday morning.\n\nFirefighters worked on the blaze for almost three hours, eventually extinguishing it at 04:30 BST. No injuries were reported in the incident.\n\nFirefighters arrived at a house in Essex to find the whole of the roof alight\n\nLater in the morning, storms brought more than an inch of rain to parts of Wales and the Midlands in just an hour.\n\nParts of Wales and central and southern England could see further thunderstorms on both Sunday and bank holiday Monday, with the Met Office warning of the possibility of power cuts and delays to trains and buses.\n\nThe Met Office has warned of flooding and possible damage to buildings from lightning, which is pictured here striking over the city of London\n\nBolts of lightning flash across the sky over the River Thames in this photo taken by the RNLI late on Saturday night\n\nA dramatic and purple sky was photographed over Hayling Island, off the south coast of England near Portsmouth, as thunderstorms moved northwards across the mainland\n\nMany people got out their cameras to photograph and video Saturday night's electrical storm, which was called \"utterly insane\" and \"like being under a strobe light\".\n\nOthers remarked that they had \"never seen a storm quite like this\" and said the flashes were \"stunning\".\n\nBolts light up the sky over the the Suleymaniye Mosque in Dalston, east London\n\nJason Arthur took this picture in Gravesend, Kent\n\nBBC Weather presenter Tomasz Schafernaker called it the \"mother of all thunderstorms\" as he watched it over London.\n\n\"I've never seen a storm with such frequent lightning in my life I don't think. Mostly sheet lightning and not too loud but flashes are spectacular,\" he said.\n\nWest Wellow, Hampshire, was the stage for this impressive photograph by Ben Hensel\n\nYulia Emelianenko captured the scene above Canary Wharf in London\n\nPaul Greenford was in a caravan at a campsite in Henley-on-Thames when the heavy rain and lightning storm struck\n\nHarry Neary, who began setting up his camera once he noticed the lightning flashes, photographed bolts near the village of Broadwindsor in Dorset\n\nForecaster Gemma Plumb, from BBC Weather, said that as the storms pushed northwards across England on Sunday, more would be coming up over the English Channel from the continent.\n\nThe Met Office weather warning for rain is in force until 06:00 on Monday and covers all of Wales as well as southern and central England.\n\nFlooding of homes and businesses could happen quickly, the Met Office said. It added that fast-flowing or deep floodwater was possible with damage to some buildings from flooding, lightning strikes, hail or strong winds.\n\nIt comes after a warm Saturday, with a top temperature of 27.3C in Hurn, Dorset.\n\nA long strike of lightning dwarfs London's Shard, which stands at 310m\n\nLightning strikes above Wembley Stadium in London on Saturday night, where Fulham beat Aston Villa in the Championship play-off final earlier in the day\n\nThe cloudy sky was lit up in purple as lightning struck above Tredegar in south Wales\n\nHundreds of people in London took out their cameras to snap the lightning storm, including in Plaistow, in the east of the capital\n\nThe best way to get news on the go", "Teenagers at the Discovery Academy in Stoke-on-Trent, which has introduced free sanitary towels, tackle the stigma around \"that time of the month\".", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nLiverpool goalkeeper Loris Karius says he is \"infinitely sorry\" after his two mistakes helped Real Madrid beat the Reds in the Champions League final.\n\nThe 24-year-old gifted Real striker Karim Benzema an easy goal for the opener in Kiev.\n\nKarius later allowed a Gareth Bale shot to squirm in for Real's third as the Spanish club won 3-1.\n\n\"I know I messed it up with the two mistakes and let you all down,\" said a message from Karius on social media.\n\n\"Haven't really slept until now,\" he wrote the day after the match. \"The scenes are still running through my head again and again.\n\n\"I'm infinitely sorry to my team-mates, for you fans, and for all the staff.\n\n\"I'd just like to turn back the time but that's not possible. It's even worse as we all felt that we could have beaten Real Madrid and we were in the game for a long time.\n\n\"Thank you to our unbelievable fans who came to Kiev and held my back, even after the game.\n\n\"I don't take that for granted and once again it showed me what a big family we are. Thank you and we will come back stronger.\"\n• None 'Klopp has shown Karius a bit too much loyalty' - listen to 5 live debate\n• None Bale to have talks over Real future\n\nLiverpool boss Jurgen Klopp, who is still seeking his first trophy since joining Liverpool in 2015, says he feels sympathy for Karius.\n\n\"The second mistake is because of the first. It's really difficult to get rid of the bad thoughts in your mind,\" he said.\n\n\"Loris knows it, everybody knows it. That is a shame in a game like this, in a season like this.\n\n\"I feel for him. He is a fantastic boy.\"\n\nKarius was beaten by a stunning overhead volley by Wales forward Bale after Sadio Mane had cancelled out Benzema's opener.\n\n\"We did what we could and the boys tried everything but it was not the best script for us.\n\n\"Everything was great until tonight. You go to the final to win it. It was a proper chance for us and we did not take it.\"\n\n'We win as a team and we lose as a team'\n\nLiverpool captain Jordan Henderson refused to blame Karius' errors for Liverpool's third defeat in major finals under Klopp - having lost in both the League Cup and Europa League in 2016.\n\nTheir last success in a final came when they beat Cardiff City on penalties in the 2012 League Cup.\n\n\"It is not the mistakes Loris Karius made, we got to the final as a team and lose as a team,\" added England midfielder Henderson.\n\n\"It is about everybody. We were not good enough on the night.\n\n\"I am so proud of the players and the fans who came out for us on the night.\n\n\"I hope we can carry on and get into more finals and use it going forward.\n\n\"We have to be proud of getting here. It will hurt for a while but we have to keep going.\"\n\n'It will take three months to recover'\n\nSports psychiatrist Dr Steve Peters, who has worked with the England national team as well as the British Cycling squad said Karius will need time to recover from his mistakes.\n\n\"This is sport and on the day sometimes things go wrong. The most important thing is to accept that he hasn't lost any talent or ability. It's just a couple of glitches so it's usually best to face the demons. He'll probably never make the same mistake again.\n\n\"As a general rule of thumb it will take about three months to get over it. We don't know why this is - the mind takes about this time to process something. With professional support you can process this effectively so that when you come out of this it strengthens you rather than weakens you.\"\n\n'He will have to live with that for the rest of his life'\n\nFormer England goalkeeper Ray Clemence, who won the European Cup on three occasions with Liverpool between 1977 and 1981, says it will be a long summer break for Karius, who has not been named in Germany's World Cup squad.\n\n\"He's made two horrendous errors at vital times in the game and he has to live with that,\" Clemence told BBC Radio 5 live's Sportsweek.\n\n\"He's got the whole summer to think about it and when you make mistakes in massive games like that they will be with you for the rest of your life, because people will remember them and keep reminding you of them.\n\n\"Everywhere he goes now away from home he is going to be reminded of it.\"", "Former US astronaut Alan Bean, who was the fourth man to walk on the Moon, has died in Texas aged 86, his family has said.\n\nIn later life he became an accomplished artist, producing paintings that were inspired by space.\n\nHis family said he had fallen ill two weeks ago in Indiana and died peacefully at a hospital in Houston.\n\nAstronaut Mike Massimino described Bean as \"the most extraordinary person I ever met\".\n\n\"He was a one-of-a-kind combination of technical achievement as an astronaut and artistic achievement as a painter,\" said Massimino, who flew on two space shuttle missions.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by NASA This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAlan Bean, a former US Navy test pilot, was selected by Nasa as a trainee in 1963.\n\nHe went into space twice, the first time in November 1969 as the lunar module pilot on the Apollo 12 Moon-landing mission.\n\nHe later described how complex and risky the mission had been: \"It was more science fiction to us, I think, than it was to the average public.\n\n\"We knew how difficult it was. We knew how many things had to go right. This is like going half way across the Sahara Desert and stopping your car and getting out and camping out for a couple of days and then hoping when you start it up the battery works because if doesn't you're up creek.\"\n\nIn 1973 he was commander of the second crewed flight to Skylab - America's first space station.\n\nHe retired from Nasa in 1981 and carved a successful career as an artist. His paintings, inspired by space travel, featured lunar boot prints as well as small pieces of his mission patches which were stained by Moon dust.\n\n\"While he captured these great scenes from history, and scenes that never could be captured by a camera, and only in painting, he would also basically sprinkle them with moon dust,\" space history specialist Robert Z Pearlman told the BBC.\n\n\"And so they are a tremendous legacy for not just him but the Apollo programme in general.\"\n\nThe three astronauts who preceded Alan Bean to the moon's surface were Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin on Apollo 11 in July 1969, and Charles Conrad who was also on the Apollo 12 mission.\n\nOf the four men, only Aldrin is still alive, now aged 88.\n\nIn all, 24 people have flown to the Moon and 12 have set foot on it.\n\nAlan Bean is survived by his wife Leslie, a sister and two children from a previous marriage.", "Melissa McCarthy has a puppet partner in the cop-buddy film\n\nThe creators of the famous children's TV show Sesame Street have launched a lawsuit against an upcoming sex, drugs and violence-laden puppet-based movie called the Happytime Murders.\n\nThe movie uses the tagline \"No Sesame. All Street\" on promotional material.\n\nThe lawsuit says this tarnishes the Sesame Street brand and confuses people into thinking the two are linked.\n\nMelissa McCarthy stars in the film, slated for August release, where humans and puppets co-exist.\n\nShe is given a new puppet partner in the R-rated film to try to solve a string of murders.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Happytime Murders This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSesame Workshop, the educational organisation behind the TV show, filed the lawsuit against the film's producers, STX Productions, in New York. The lawsuit calls for punitive damages and a jury trial.\n\nSesame Workshop says that although the trailer for the movie is \"indescribably crude\", it is not seeking to block the film's promotion.\n\n\"It is only [the] defendants' deliberate choice to invoke and commercially misappropriate 'Sesame's' name and goodwill in marketing the movie - and thereby cause consumers to conclude that 'Sesame' is somehow associated with the movie - that has infringed on and tarnished the 'Sesame Street' mark and goodwill.\"\n\nJust what Bert and Ernie would make of the new flick is anybody's guess\n\nIt says the '\"No Sesame. All Street' tagline has confused and appalled viewers\".\n\nThe film is directed by Brian Henson, son of the late Jim Henson, who helped develop Sesame Street characters for its launch in 1969 and later went on to create the Muppet Show.\n\nSTX issued a response via a character from the film, a lawyer called Fred, saying the movie was \"the untold story of the active lives of Henson puppets when they're not performing in front of children\".\n\nIt continued: \"While we're disappointed that Sesame Street does not share in the fun, we are confident in our legal position.\"", "The bunker was partially flooded and had to be cleared of water\n\nA hidden World War Two bunker has been discovered under the back garden of a house in Middlesbrough.\n\nChris Scott was having his Marton Avenue home renovated when he decided to investigate what he thought was a drain cover.\n\nBut it turned out to be the entrance to a concrete-lined, two-room bunker, big enough for more than 50 people.\n\nThe married father-of-one, 40, said he plans to turn the bunker into a wine cellar or an office.\n\n\"Our neighbours had mentioned something about a bunker, but to be honest we didn't think any more about it,\" Mr Scott said.\n\n\"When my builder suggested having a look at what was under the cover, we opened it up and saw a 10ft metal ladder leading down into the darkness.\n\n\"We initially used our mobile phones to look round and couldn't believe what we saw.\"\n\nMr Scott thought he had a drain cover in his garden\n\nMr Scott says the bunker is big enough for at least 50 people\n\nA makeshift wooden table was found in one of the rooms\n\nThe bunker was partially filled with water, but after it was drained two rooms measuring about 4m x 4m were revealed, which were separated by a wooden door.\n\nMr Scott added: \"We expected it to be quite small, but once we got through the metal blast door were were very surprised.\n\n\"There were still a lot of electrics in place and some snorkel-type devices which must have there to help people breathe.\"\n\nIt is thought the bunker was used to hold people during bombing raids.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Female medical staff are paid 15% less than their male counterparts\n\nThe NHS in England is to review how much it pays male and female doctors in an effort to eliminate a gender pay gap of 15%.\n\nA review announced by the health secretary will look at why male doctors are paid on average £10,000 more than female doctors, as the BBC reported.\n\nAcross the whole NHS, women are paid 23% less than men despite far more women being employed.\n\nA leading female doctor is to lead the review into the reasons behind the gap.\n\nProf Jane Dacre, president of the Royal College of Physicians, will lead the independent review into gender pay inequality.\n\nSpeaking on Radio 4's Today programme, she said women made \"brilliant doctors\" and had \"contributed hugely to the health service\", and the review would look to \"sort out a level of inequality that's been going on for many years\".\n\nShe added that as more than 50% of medical school entrants were women, the problem \"needs to be fixed\".\n\nMale doctors are paid on average £67,788 in basic pay, compared with £57,569 for female doctors.\n\nProf Dacre said the review would look at why some women's career trajectories might be slower than their male counterparts, adding \"societal expectations on women\" mean they are more likely to take time out to care for children, or relatives.\n\nJeremy Hunt, the health and social care secretary in England, said it was unacceptable that staff still faced gender inequality and he was \"determined\" to eliminate the pay gap.\n\nThe pay gap exists because there are more higher-paid male doctors than female doctors in senior positions, although women make up more than half of junior doctors.\n\nTaking time out to have children can affect pay progression, particularly for female consultants.\n\nThey are also much less likely to given reward payments for work done over-and-above their core roles.\n\nThe review will look at a number of issues which can stop a woman progressing in her career, including:\n\nDr Anthea Mowat, from the British Medical Association, said women still faced all kinds of barriers in their careers and she hoped the review would lead to policy changes.\n\n\"We know that the gender pay gap in medicine is heavily linked to part-time working, an unequal share of childcare responsibilities as well as bias and discrimination which still exists in the profession.\"\n\nThe review, which should finish by the end of 2018, is expected to have wider implications for the rest of the NHS and other staff groups.", "RBS is closing at least 52 of its branches in Scotland\n\nRBS has failed to appreciate the impact of its decision to close dozens of branches in Scotland, a report by MPs has found.\n\nThe Scottish Affairs Committee described the move as a \"devastating blow\" for communities affected.\n\nIt urged the bank, which is majority-owned by the taxpayer, to halt plans to axe up to 62 branches.\n\nRBS said the closures were in response to the increasing numbers of customers using mobile and online banking.\n\nHowever, the plans have attracted fierce criticism from local communities, business groups and politicians.\n\nIn December, RBS announced it would shut a total of 62 branches north of the border.\n\nTen of them were later given a stay of execution until at least the end of this year, pending a review.\n\nThe committee report said the closures would remove \"vital services relied upon by businesses and disproportionately affect vulnerable customers\".\n\nIt stated: \"We are not convinced that RBS fully appreciate the damage these closures will do to the communities and businesses that rely on these branches.\"\n\nIn its report, the committee argued that impact assessments carried out by the bank did not provide enough information on the situation with individual branches.\n\nIt said: \"For example, whether customers have access to a suitably reliable broadband connection to allow them to use online banking, the practicality of travelling to the next nearest branch or the effective availability of alternative services such as mobile branches and community bankers.\n\n\"Without this information we do not see how these documents can be said to have properly assessed the impact of the closures on customers, businesses and communities.\"\n\nRBS chief executive Ross McEwan has said the way bank customers use its services was changing\n\nCommittee chairman Pete Wishart said: \"The loss of a permanent bank, and the services it provides, cannot be replicated by the occasional visit of a mobile bank or community banker.\n\n\"In rural areas, the local branch is an essential, whose withdrawal is compounded by poor access to broadband and journey time to the next available facility.\n\n\"RBS did not consult adequately and even at this last stage should reverse their decision to close these branches.\"\n\nRBS said it welcomed the publication of the report.\n\nIn a statement, it said: \"We would like to reassure our customers and the committee that we do understand closing a branch can be difficult for some customers and colleagues who work in these branches. It's not an easy decision.\n\n\"We have listened to customers, colleagues, communities and elected representatives, and welcome the committee's recognition that we have engaged and responded.\"\n\nThe bank said it was responding to changes in the way its customers banked, with branch usage falling by 44% since 2011, while seven in 10 customers were now using mobile or online banking.\n\nIt added: \"We recognise that every customer will have different banking needs and we are committed to ensuring all our customers receive the best possible service.\"\n\nThe Scottish Affairs Committee also urged the UK government to use any influence as the majority shareholder to pressure RBS to reconsider its closure programme\n\nMr Wishart added: \"The UK government has an obligation to represent the interests of the citizens and communities in Scotland that will be harmed by this swathe of bank closures.\n\n\"They own 70% of the shares in this company and should use any influence they have to try and have this decision reversed.\"\n\nAn HM Treasury spokesman said: \"The decision to open and close branches is a commercial decision taken by the management team of each bank.\n\n\"The government does not intervene in these decisions.\n\n\"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.\"", "South Korea has made a movie-style video showing its president, Moon Jae-in, meet his North Korean counterpart, Kim Jong-un, for only the second time.\n\nIt comes as the two sides continue efforts to put a historic US-North Korea summit back on track.\n\nOn Thursday US President Donald Trump cancelled the summit, scheduled for 12 June, but later suggested it might still go ahead.", "Last updated on .From the section Liverpool\n\nMerseyside Police says it is aware of death threats made to Liverpool goalkeeper Loris Karius after the Champions League final.\n\nThe German, 24, and his family were the subject of threats after his two mistakes helped Real Madrid to a 3-1 win over the Reds in Kiev on Saturday.\n\nKarius was in tears at the final whistle and apologised to fans.\n\n\"We take social media posts of this nature extremely seriously. Offences will be investigated,\" police said.\n\n\"Officers are aware of a number of comments and threats made via social media.\n\n\"Merseyside Police would like to remind social media users than any offences including malicious communications and threatening behaviour will be investigated.\"\n• None Liverpool's Salah 'confident' of playing for Egypt despite Champions League final injury\n\nThe German gifted Real striker Karim Benzema an easy goal for the opener in Kiev on Saturday night.\n\nKarius later allowed a Gareth Bale shot to squirm in for Real's third as the Spanish club won their third consecutive Champions League trophy.\n\nOn Sunday, he posted on social media: \"I'm infinitely sorry to my team-mates, for you fans, and for all the staff.\"\n\nLiverpool have tools to help Karius - Mignolet\n\nLiverpool goalkeeper Simon Mignolet has backed Karius to bounce back from his Champions League nightmare.\n\n\"If he wants to talk then of course I will be there,\" said the Belgian, who was on the bench for the game in Kiev. \"Every goalkeeper can relate to him.\n\n\"I've been in this situation before myself and those kind of things you deal with yourself.\n\n\"The only thing I told him is that there is a reason we got to this final, and why we played in this final, so think about that.\n\n\"But of course it is very difficult to say anything to him and to let him grasp it.\n\n\"Liverpool stands for unity, Liverpool stands for 'all together'. I think that will not only be the right ideal for Liverpool, it has always been their history and will always be their future.\"\n\nLiverpool's goalkeeping coach John Achterberg tried to console Karius after the match.\n\n\"Obviously it is not good what happened. It was unlucky for him it happened in this game,\" said the Dutchman.\n\n\"I just tried to pick his head up and show him you have to carry on with it. It is hard to take but that is life in football.\"\n\nDefender Dejan Lovren said it would be counter-productive to focus blame on Karius.\n\n\"It's easy to blame someone, but we are in the same ship together and everyone gave him the best words that they can. He will come back strong,\" Lovren said.\n\n\"Don't make massive stories about that. Of course it's big because it's a final - but everyone makes mistakes.\"", "It was a highly-emotive campaign and the result was overwhelming\n\nA new abortion law will be in place by the end of the year, Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar has said.\n\nIt follows a landslide vote in favour of repealing the Republic of Ireland's constitutional ban on abortion.\n\nThe proposed legislation will allow abortions during the first 12 weeks of pregnancy, and up to the 24th week in exceptional circumstances.\n\nIrish Minister for Health Simon Harris will seek the cabinet's backing on Tuesday to draft the new legislation.\n\nThe result south of the border has shifted focus to Northern Ireland's similarly strict abortion laws, with UK Prime Minister Theresa May facing calls to act.\n\nNorthern Ireland will soon become the only part of the UK and Ireland with an almost blanket ban on terminations.\n\nSinn Féin's Michelle O'Neill and Mary Lou McDonald make their opinions known\n\nBut Mrs May is in a difficult situation because her administration depends on the support of 10 Democratic Unionist Party MPs - who strongly oppose any reform.\n\nOn Saturday, Penny Mordaunt - who is responsible for the women and equalities brief in government - said the referendum signalled a \"historic and great day for Ireland\" and a \"hopeful one for Northern Ireland\".\n\nNicky Morgan and three other former holders of the women and equalities role - Amber Rudd, Justine Greening and Maria Miller - all back Ms Mordaunt's support for liberalising the laws in Northern Ireland, the Sunday Times reported.\n\nLiberal Democrat leader Sir Vince Cable has said Mrs May should take advantage of the current lack of a devolved administration and push for reform from Westminster.\n\n\"The position in Northern Ireland is now highly anomalous and I think, probably, action will now have to be taken,\" he said.\n\nAt Dublin Castle on Saturday, Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald and her deputy Michelle O'Neill held up a sign saying \"The north is next\".\n\nOn Sunday, Ms O'Neill said the referendum result showed there was a \"real appetite for change on the island of Ireland\".\n\nShe also said the breakdown of government in Northern Ireland meant that alternative routes were needed to bring about reform.\n\n\"I would prefer we had the institutions up, I want to be a legislator to deliver for the people but in the absence of having institutions we need to find a way to deliver people's rights,\" she added.\n\nShe said the Irish abortion referendum result shows there is a \"real appetite for change on the island of Ireland\".\n\nMore than two thirds of voters backed the decision to change the law in every constituency in the Republic of Ireland, with the exception of Donegal.\n\nThe referendum delivered a conclusive consensus for reform among men and women, nearly all age groups and across most counties.\n\nThe final figures were 66.4% in favour of the change and 33.6% voting no.\n\nMr Varadkar said Saturday would be remembered as the day Ireland \"embraced our responsibilities as citizens and as a country\".\n\n\"The day Ireland stepped out from under the last of our shadows and into the light,\" he added.\n\n\"The day we came of age as a country. The day we took our place among the nations of the world.\"\n\nThe Eighth Amendment was inserted into the Irish constitution in 1983 and it gave an equal right to life to the unborn and the mother.\n\nThousands of Irish women travelled to the UK every year for abortions, or sourced abortion pills.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Yes campaign supporters: \"We made history\"\n\nAnti-abortion groups called the referendum result a ''tragedy of historic proportions'' with one saying it was already making plans to protest outside abortion clinics when they eventually open in Ireland.", "Daniel Ricciardo drove a masterful race to fend off Sebastian Vettel's Ferrari and win the Monaco Grand Prix in a stricken Red Bull.\n\nThe Australian dominated the weekend and led from pole but shortly after his only pit stop suffered a power loss at one-third distance.\n\nRicciardo managed to hold off Vettel for the remaining 50 laps, as Lewis Hamilton took third in his Mercedes.\n\nThe result means Hamilton leads Vettel by 14 points in the championship.\n• None 'A display of sensitivity and control' - Andrew Benson on Ricciardo\n\nRicciardo had said in the build-up to the race that he felt Monaco owed him a win, following the pit-stop bungle that cost him victory in 2016, but admitted he would have to \"earn it\".\n\nHis words turned out truer than he could have imagined at the time, as a race that had looked to be turning into a relatively easy cruise suddenly became filled with jeopardy.\n\n\"Two years later I finally feel like redemption has arrived,\" Ricciardo said.\n\n\"We had a lot to deal with during the race. I felt loss of power and I thought the race was done. I got home just using six gears. Thanks to the team I got it back.\n\n\"There were a few doubts getting it to the end of the race but we won Monaco.\"\n• None 'I don't know how you did that, mate!' - Ricciardo stuns Red Bull\n\nRicciardo led away from pole, fending off the faster-starting Vettel, and controlled the opening part of the race, making his first pit stop on lap 17, to cover the German's stop a lap before.\n\nWith all drivers managing their tyres, and lapping seconds off the limit to ensure they needed to do only one stop, the race seemed already settled.\n\nBut then Ricciardo came on the radio complaining of a lack of power. The team said they could see what the problem was - but did not say to avoid rivals finding out - and told him it would not improve.\n\nIt turns out he lost the MGU-K - the part of the hybrid system that recovers energy from the rear axle and redeploys it. Team boss Christian Horner said it cost him 2.5 seconds a lap and 25% of engine power, or about 225bhp.\n\nRicciardo had held a three-second lead after the pit stops, but now had Vettel right behind him and knew he faced a difficult, exhausting race managing the engine problem while ensuring the German did not get close enough to try a pass.\n\nHe was helped by the arguably ridiculous situation of drivers lapping four or five seconds off their potential maximum pace to ensure their tyres lasted.\n\nThis was the case throughout the race, whether drivers were on the fragile hyper-soft qualifying tyres, or on the two harder options, the super-soft and ultra-soft.\n\nAs such, the race provided uncomfortable memories of the first six years of Pirelli's tenure in F1, before it was asked to provide more raceable tyres to enable drivers to push harder in the faster, more demanding cars that were introduced in 2018.\n\nRicciardo was one of the drivers centrally involved in forcing that to happen, but he will not care about it right now, after finally taking a well-deserved and overdue win at the most prestigious event of the year.\n\n\"I don't know how you did that,\" engineer Simon Rennie said to Ricciardo in congratulating him over the radio on the slowing-down lap.\n\nHorner said: \"You have done an amazing job today. That is right up there with what Schumacher did... and it is payback for 2016.\"\n\nHorner was referring to Michael Schumacher's drive in the 1994 Spanish Grand Prix, when the German finished second for Benetton with only fifth gear.\n\nVettel, knowing overtaking was all but impossible, followed in his former Red Bull team-mate's wheel tracks until dropping back in the final five laps or so when his tyres ran out of grip.\n\nHamilton, who for a time was wrongly concerned the ultra-soft tyres fitted at his pit stop would not make the end, will probably look at the race as relatively successful damage limitation on a weekend Mercedes always expected to be difficult.\n\nThe second Ferrari and Mercedes of Kimi Raikkonen and Valtteri Bottas took fourth and fifth.\n\nBest of the rest was Force India's Esteban Ocon, converting an excellent sixth on the grid into the same place as the finish but at the same demonstrating the extent of pace management at the front by moving on to the tail of Bottas' Mercedes in the closing laps.\n\nToro Rosso's Pierre Gasly benefited from McLaren driver Fernando Alonso's first retirement of the season with a broken gearbox to take seventh.\n\nThe Frenchman, who did a remarkable 37-lap stint on the hyper-soft tyres at the start of the race, had to fend off the Renault of Nico Hulkenberg and Red Bull's Max Verstappen to the end.\n\nVerstappen drove a well-judged race to recover from his back of the grid start after a crash in practice caused him to miss qualifying. The Dutchman made a series of overtakes and balanced aggression with caution in a way he has struggled to do on so many occasions so far in his incident-strewn season.\n\nWith six laps to go, Sauber's Charles Leclerc, running 15th, smashed into the back of Brendon Hartley's Toro Rosso at the chicane when he suffered a brake failure, bringing out the virtual safety car, but it changed nothing about the result.\n• None Listen: Leclerc crashes into back of Hartley after brakes fail\n\nCanada - and a race very different from Monaco. Another street circuit, but a fast one, where Hamilton excels, racing is furious, overtaking common and where both Renault and Honda have major engine upgrades of which much are expected. If Renault's lives up to expectations, Ricciardo could conceivably become a major title contender.", "Attention has turned to Northern Ireland after the Republic of Ireland voted overwhelmingly in favour of overturning the country's abortion ban\n\nThe result of Ireland's abortion referendum has no impact on the law in Northern Ireland, the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) leader has said.\n\nArlene Foster said the legislation governing abortion is a devolved issue and the Northern Ireland Assembly should debate such issues.\n\nLabour and a number of senior Conservative MPs have called on Theresa May to back a reform in NI's abortion law after Friday's historic referendum.\n\nA government spokesperson said abortion law is a devolved matter in Northern Ireland.\n\n\"This very sensitive issue highlights the pressing need to restore a fully functioning executive,\" the spokesperson added.\n\nNorthern Ireland's abortion law is more restrictive than the rest of the UK.\n\nMrs Foster, whose party is propping up Theresa May's minority government, said a referendum was held in the Republic of Ireland because of the constitutional prohibition that existed there.\n\nShe said no such constitutional bar exists in Northern Ireland.\n\n\"Friday's referendum has no impact upon the law in Northern Ireland, but we obviously take note of issues impacting upon our nearest neighbour,\" Mrs Foster said in a statement.\n\n\"The legislation governing abortion is a devolved matter and it is for the Northern Ireland Assembly to debate and decide such issues.\"\n\nDUP leader Arlene Foster says the referendum in the Republic of Ireland has no impact on the law in Northern Ireland\n\nNorthern Ireland has been without a devolved government for almost 18 months, and several rounds of talks between the DUP and Sinn Féin have ended in failure.\n\nThe Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission has brought a case before the Supreme Court arguing that current abortion legislation is contrary to human rights, especially with regard to victims of sex crime and fatal foetal abnormality.\n\nIf the challenge proves successful, the court's ruling would go back to politicians.\n\n\"Then it would fall to the Northern Ireland Executive and the assembly, if it was sitting, or in the absence of an assembly it would then fall to Westminster to deal with this,\" the commission's Les Allamby said.\n\n\"If there was a refusal to deal with that, then that would become a very significant issue.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Labour's Chakrabarti says 'feminist' May must act on Northern Ireland abortion\n\nDawn Butler, the shadow minister for women and equalities, has called on the government to support legislation to extend abortion rights to Northern Ireland.\n\nShe called it an \"injustice\" that women in Northern Ireland are \"having to travel to mainland UK\" to access an abortion.\n\n\"Labour's manifesto commits to working with the Northern Ireland Assembly to bring about these changes and we want to see the Assembly reconvened to make such important decisions, but nearly eighteen months on, women in Northern Ireland should not have to suffer in its absence,\" Ms Butler said.\n\nLabour's Dawn Butler said the party is looking at legislative options to extend abortion rights to Northern Ireland\n\nThe shadow Northern Ireland Secretary, Tony Lloyd, said the Labour Party wanted to ensure that women in Northern Ireland had access \"to safe and legal abortion\".\n\nHe said the preferred route to do that was through the assembly in Northern Ireland.\n\nShadow attorney general, Labour's Shami Chakrabarti, called on Mrs May \"a self-identifying feminist, to negotiate with the parties of Northern Ireland and legislate on this without delay. We can't have democracy without fundamental human rights\".\n\nDr Sarah Wollaston, chair of Westminster's health committee, said women in Northern Ireland should have the same rights as other UK residents.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. After Ireland's abortion referendum, BBC News NI gauges opinion north of the border\n\nPrime Minister Theresa May is facing pressure to act after Ireland voted to end its abortion ban in Friday's referendum.\n\nBut a Downing Street says the issue remains devolved in Northern Ireland.\n\nNorthern Ireland has been without a government since January 2017, after a power-sharing deal between the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) and Sinn Féin collapsed.\n\nMrs May tweeted on Sunday: \"The Irish Referendum yesterday was an impressive show of democracy which delivered a clear and unambiguous result. I congratulate the Irish people on their decision and all of #Together4Yes on their successful campaign.\" - PM @theresa_may #repealedthe8th\"\n\nAt Saturday's results announcement in Dublin Castle, Sinn Féin's Mary-Lou McDonald and Michelle O'Neill held up a sign saying: \"The north is next\".\n\nBut the other main party in Northern Ireland, the DUP, will be fiercely opposing moves from Westminster or elsewhere to bring about change.\n\nThe party has deep religious roots and has always said that any relaxation in NI's laws could bring about abortion on demand. It has many supporters who feel the same.\n\nNonetheless, the issue is out of Stormont's hands due to the continuing stalemate - and pro-choice campaigners will be focusing their fight at Westminster, which presents a major headache for the prime minister.\n\nTheresa May will have to walk yet another political tightrope.\n\nShe won't want to upset the DUP and risk her parliamentary majority - especially at such a crucial time in the Brexit negotiations - but the growing pressure from within her own party and across Parliament on this issue means she will have to do something.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSpeaking on BBC Radio 5 live's Pienaar's Politics programme, Dr Wollaston said she and other MPs in favour of abortion reform would put forward an amendment on the issue to Westminster's Domestic Violence Bill.\n\nHowever, she said she was not sure if the amendment would be accepted for debate as abortion would normally be a devolved issue for Stormont to decide on.\n\nThe Women and Equalities minister Penny Mordaunt, and her predecessors Amber Rudd, Justine Greening, Nicky Morgan and Maria Miller, have also called for reform of Northern Ireland's abortion laws.\n\nLiberal Democrat leader Sir Vince Cable has said Mrs May should take advantage of the current lack of a devolved administration and push for reform from Westminster.\n\n\"The position in Northern Ireland is now highly anomalous and I think, probably, action will now have to be taken,\" he said.\n\nEmotions ran high during the referendum campaign in Ireland\n\nSinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald said she did not want Westminster to legislate for abortions in Northern Ireland, but she argued that Irish law should apply to women from Northern Ireland.\n\n\"I couldn't envisage a situation where women from the north would be precluded from accessing services here in the south,\" she said.\n\nCurrently, a termination is only permitted in Northern Ireland if a woman's life is at risk or if there is a risk of permanent and serious damage to her mental or physical health.\n\nRape, incest and fatal foetal abnormalities are not circumstances in which an abortion can be performed legally.\n\nA fatal foetal abnormality diagnosis means doctors believe an unborn child has a terminal condition and will die in the womb or shortly after birth.\n\nHowever, anti-abortion campaigners argue that doctors cannot accurately predict death, saying that terminally-ill babies \"can and do defy the odds\".\n\nThere is no restriction on travelling outside Northern Ireland to seek a legal termination in another jurisdiction.\n\nLast year, the Westminster government introduced measures to help women from Northern Ireland access free NHS abortions in England.\n\nAnti-abortion group Precious Life said the result of the Republic of Ireland's abortion referendum marked the \"most tragic day in Irish history\".\n\nBernadette Smyth said the result would only \"spur on\" anti-abortion activists to step up their battle to protect the unborn north of the Irish border,\n\n\"Northern Ireland is now the beacon of hope to the pro-life movement around the world,\" she said.\n\nBut Fr Joe McDonald, from St Matthew's Ballyfermot in Dublin, says the referendum result has been \"a huge wakeup call\" for the Catholic Church in Ireland.\n\nSpeaking on the BBC's Good Morning Ulster programme, the priest, who is originally from west Belfast, said: \"It's a huge change for us. The church has, in my view, got a huge wakeup call but it's been having those for a while.\n\n\"The church is dying in front of us and it's whether we can respond to that in a healthy way.\n\n\"If we cannot listen to the roar of the Irish people, in particular women, and we're not good on that, then we're embracing the death and in the sense we deserve that.\"", "Yes, you are definitely stuck...\n\nA man had to be rescued by police and the fire service after getting stuck in a child's swing in a play park.\n\nThe 20-year-old had been firmly wedged in the child-sized seat for three hours before police were called to Landseer Park in Ipswich at 07:50 BST.\n\nWhen a \"shove and pull\" method of swing-release failed, the fire service arrived with a trusty screwdriver.\n\nThe swing was taken apart and the \"grateful but embarrassed\" grown-up was freed unharmed.\n\nA Suffolk police community support officer quickly realised the man - who complained he had been in there for three hours - was definitely stuck.\n\nIf a shove does not work, there's always the trusty screwdriver\n\nThere was no shifting him as the girth of his rear was clearly too wide for the child-sized swing.\n\nAfter taking the swing to pieces and releasing the man, crews from Suffolk Fire and Rescue Service put it back together so it could be safely used by someone of the right size.\n\nIpswich Police gave this advice to all swing enthusiasts via Twitter\n\nThe swing was reconstructed after its ordeal with the overgrown occupant\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Ireland has voted decisively in a referendum to reform the country's strict abortion laws, which had effectively banned all terminations.\n\nIt was Ireland's sixth referendum on the issue, and the country's younger voters led it in a two-thirds landslide in favour of ending the ban.\n\nHere we look back at how one of the most controversial legal issues in Irish history unfolded over more than a century-and-a-half.\n\nAbortion is first banned in Ireland in 1861 by the Offences Against the Person Act, and stays in place after Irish independence.\n\nOpponents of repealing the amendment say the mother and the unborn have an equal right to life\n\nThe Eighth Amendment to the Republic's constitution, or Article 40.3.3, is introduced after a referendum.\n\nIt \"acknowledges the right to life of the unborn and, with due regard to the equal right to life of the mother, guarantees in its laws to respect, and, as far as practicable, by its laws to defend and vindicate that right\".\n\nIt means the life of the woman and the unborn are seen as equal.\n\n1992 - The X case, and another referendum\n\nA 14-year-old suicidal rape victim is initially prevented by the courts from travelling to England to terminate her pregnancy. It is a controversy that will become known as the X Case.\n\nThe ruling prompts demonstrations by both anti-abortion and pro-choice campaigners across Ireland, in New York and London.\n\nHowever, the ruling is later overturned by Ireland's Supreme Court. It says the credible threat of suicide is grounds for an abortion in Ireland.\n\nNo government since then has enacted legislation to give medical practitioners legal certainty as to when terminations can be carried out.\n\nIn November that year, as a result of the X case and the judgement in the Supreme Court appeal, the government put forward three possible amendments to the constitution.\n\nA woman holds 'repeal the Eighth' badges up in front of her eyes at a pro-choice rally\n\nThey are enumerated as the twelfth, thirteenth and fourteenth amendments. Two of them are passed.\n\nThe Thirteenth Amendment said the abortion ban would not limit freedom of travel from Ireland to other countries for a legal abortion.\n\nThe Fourteenth Amendment said Irish citizens had the freedom to learn about abortion services in other countries.\n\nHowever, the Twelfth Amendment is rejected. It had proposed that the possibility of suicide was not a sufficient threat to justify an abortion.\n\nAnother referendum is held and the people of Ireland are asked if the threat of suicide as a ground for legal abortion should be removed.\n\nIt is again rejected (this time marginally) by voters.\n\nAfter three women take a case against Ireland, the European Court of Human Rights rules the state has failed to provide clarity on the legal availability of abortion in circumstances where the mother's life is at risk.\n\nA campaign to liberalise abortion gathers momentum, after Indian woman Savita Halappanavar dies in a Galway hospital after she is refused an abortion during a miscarriage.\n\nHer husband, Praveen Halappanavar, says she repeatedly asked for a termination but was refused because there was a foetal heartbeat.\n\nA vigil for Savita Halappanavar, who died in 2012 after being denied an abortion\n\nWhen asked if he thought his wife would still be alive if the termination had been allowed, Mr Halappanavar told the BBC: \"Of course, no doubt about it.\"\n\nFollowing her death, about 2,000 protesters assemble outside the Irish parliament in Dublin to call for the Irish government to urgently reform the Republic's abortion laws.\n\nCandle-lit vigils are held around the country.\n\nAbortion legislation is again amended to allow terminations under certain conditions - the Protection of Life During Pregnancy Act is signed into law.\n\nIt legalises abortion when doctors deem that a woman's life is at risk due to medical complications, or at risk of taking her life.\n\nIt also introduces a maximum penalty of 14 years imprisonment for having or assisting in an unlawful abortion.\n\nThis law gives effect to the 1992 Supreme Court ruling that abortion is permitted where the mother's life, as opposed to her health, is at risk.\n\nAnti-abortion groups argue that two sets of human rights are at stake\n\n2015 - The UN calls for another referendum\n\nThe United Nations Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights recommends a referendum on abortion, saying it is concerned at Ireland's \"highly restrictive legislation\" and calls for a referendum to repeal Article 40.3.3 of the Constitution.\n\nIt says it's \"particularly concerned at the criminalization of abortion, including in the cases of rape and incest and of risk to the health of a pregnant woman; the lack of legal and procedural clarity on what constitutes a real substantive risk to the life, as opposed to the health, of the pregnant woman; and the discriminatory impact on women who cannot afford to obtain an abortion abroad or access to the necessary information\".\n\nThe committee calls for a revision of the 2013 Protection of Life During Pregnancy Act and urges the adoption of guidelines to clarify what constitutes \"a real substantive risk\" to a woman's life.\n\nTens of thousands rallied in Dublin in September for constitutional change\n\n2016 - The United Nations weighs in on human rights\n\nThe United Nations Human Rights Committee says that Ireland's ban on abortion subjected a woman carrying a foetus with a fatal abnormality to discrimination and cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment.\n\nIt calls for the strict prohibition to be reversed, including reforming the right to life of the unborn in the constitution if necessary, to allow women to voluntarily terminate a pregnancy safely.\n\nThe case involves a woman called Amanda Mellet who had to travel abroad for an abortion.\n\nThe UN committee says the hospital where she was treated did not provide any options regarding the foetus's remains and she had to leave them behind.\n\nThree weeks later, the ashes are unexpectedly delivered to her by courier.\n\nMs Mellet files a complaint with the UN over her experiences.\n\nAnti-abortion campaigners say the unborn should have rights to life\n\nShe is later awarded compensation by the Irish government - thought to be the first time this had happened.\n\nThe move is hailed as \"highly significant\" by pro-choice campaigners.\n\nMeanwhile, the terms of reference are outlined for a Citizens' Assembly to begin examining the Eighth amendment. This is a public body set up to advise the Irish government on a number of ethical and political dilemmas facing the Irish people.\n\nThe Citizens' Assembly votes to recommend the introduction of unrestricted access to abortion.\n\nIt votes 64% to 36% in favour of having no restrictions in early pregnancy.\n\nRecent years have seen demonstrations both for and against repealing the Eighth Amendment\n\nThe chairperson, Justice Mary Laffoy, said: \"The members voted that they wanted to remove Article 40.3.3 from the constitution, and for the avoidance of doubt, to replace it with a provision in the constitution, which would make it clear that termination of pregnancy, any rights of the unborn, and any rights of the pregnant woman are matters for the Oireachtas (Irish Parliament).\n\n\"In other words, it would be solely a matter for the Oireachtas to decide how to legislate on these issues.\"\n\nHowever, anti-abortion campaigners dismiss the results of the ballots as a \"muddled and confused farce\".\n\nAn Oireachtas committee in 2017 also recommends substantial reform of the law.\n\nThe committee's chair, Senator Catherine Noone, concludes that \"we need some change\" and in order to effect that the constitution needed to be amended to remove Article 40.3.3.\n\nThe Irish government says it will hold a referendum in 2018 on whether to change the abortion laws.\n\nIn March, Irish Housing Minister Eoghan Murphy signs an order to set the date for an abortion referendum. The wording is then finalised, giving the go-ahead for voters to have their say on the issue.\n\nOn 25 May, voters go to the polls, where the ballot asks if they wish to approve the 36th Amendment to Ireland's constitution - a bill which would repeal the Eighth Amendment, the ban on abortion.\n\nTurnout is 64.51%, and the result is just short of two-thirds in favour of ending the country's ban on abortion: 66.4% yes to 33.6% no.\n\nThe Yes vote allows the government in Dublin to introduce legislation allowing abortion in the first 12 weeks of pregnancy, and between 12 and 24 weeks in exceptional circumstances.\n\n\"What we have seen today really is a culmination of a quiet revolution that's been taking place in Ireland for the past 10 or 20 years,\" says Prime Minister Leo Varadkar.", "Last updated on .From the section Cricket\n\nEngland succumbed to a miserable nine-wicket defeat by brilliant Pakistan on the fourth day of the first Test at Lord's.\n\nOptimism provided by Jos Buttler and Dom Bess on the third evening was dashed by the eighth delivery of the day, when Buttler was trapped lbw by Mohammad Abbas for 67.\n\nThat began a collapse of four wickets for six runs, leaving England 242 all out and Pakistan chasing only 64 to win.\n\nAlthough James Anderson bowled Azhar Ali in the third over, Haris Sohail and Imam-ul-Haq shared an unbroken stand of 54 that sealed victory 90 minutes into the day.\n• None Root tells England fans to 'keep the faith'\n• None Pakistan win their best at Lord's - Waqar\n• None 'When England lose, they get hammered' - listen to the TMS podcast\n\nFollowing a winter when they did not win in seven Tests in Australia and New Zealand, this is an awful result for England, who spoke before this match of returning to winning ways and developing skills that will make them more competitive in foreign conditions.\n\nInstead, have lost the first Test of a home summer for the first time in 23 years.\n\nFor Pakistan, this is a wonderful result, their thorough preparation leading to a superiority over the hosts in all aspects of the game.\n\nThey will have the opportunity to seal their first series win in England since 1996 when the second and final Test begins at Headingley on Friday.\n\nEngland's new era the same as the last\n\nEngland had hoped to move on from a wretched winter with a slightly new look. Joe Root and Jonny Bairstow were promoted in the batting order, Buttler was recalled and off-spinner Bess handed a debut in place of the injured Jack Leach.\n\nHowever, for the all of the optimism, acceptance of past failings and talk of improvement, England were behind in this game on the first day, when they were bowled out for 184 after opting to bat in helpful bowling conditions.\n\nIt says much about how poor England were that the inclusions of Buttler and Bess can be seen as a partial success because they at least prevented a defeat by an innings inside three days.\n\nOn both occasions when they batted, England gifted wickets or lacked the defensive capability to deal with a potent Pakistan attack.\n\nThe home bowling was adequate but lacking the penetration of the visitors, while most unforgivable was the dropping of five catches in Pakistan's first innings.\n\nThe outcome was an eighth successive match without a win and the need for a vast improvement in the short time before the second Test.\n\nIn slipping to 110-6 on the third afternoon, still 179 behind, England were heading for humiliation before Buttler and Bess came together.\n\nTheir century stand took the hosts to 235-6 and they resumed on Sunday with a lead of 59, a remarkable comeback still possible if the lower order could add perhaps another 100 runs.\n\nInstead, Buttler was pinned in front by Abbas and, with a review unable to save him, England's hopes disappeared.\n\nPakistan took the second new ball in the next over and the tail was mopped up by Abbas and Mohammad Amir.\n\nAmir angled one across Mark Wood to find the edge and Stuart Broad poked at Abbas. Both were taken by wicketkeeper Sarfraz Ahmed.\n\nWhen Bess, so impressive in making 57, lost his off stump to Amir, England had lost their last four wickets in the space of 18 balls.\n\nVisiting teams, especially those from the subcontinent, are often blown away in the early part of the English summer. Only three times before had England lost a home Test that has begun in May.\n\nAt Lord's, Pakistan won by playing English conditions better than England. They showed restraint with the bat and moved the ball to more dangerous effect. Their fielding was far superior.\n\nThey reaped the benefits of an elongated period of preparation. Their tour began in April and has taken in three games against counties as well as a Test in Ireland. Collectively, their XI has played more first-class cricket this summer than England's.\n\nBar Saturday evening, Pakistan had the better of every session in the match. On Sunday, their excellent pace attack returned refreshed and surged the visitors towards victory.\n\nThe skillful Abbas was excellent throughout, the 4-41 he picked up in the second innings giving him 8-64 for the match.\n\nAlthough Azhar was dismissed for only four, Haris made 39 not out, including a six off Bess and a leap for joy when he hit the winning runs.\n\nFormer England spinner Phil Tufnell on BBC Test Match Special: \"England were absolutely walloped - out-batted, out-bowled, out fielded, out warmed-up.\n\n\"That should really really hurt for England. It has been a very, very, very, poor performance all round.\n\n\" I don't think I've seen England play that badly for a long time. We might not be quite as good as we think we are...\"\n\nFormer England captain Michael Vaughan: \"This England Test team is not a very good team, and they should be. They are playing 50-60% under their potential.\n\n\"That has been happening for too long. Last year they lost to the worst West Indies team to ever tour this country.\n\n\"It's not a surprise that they have lost to Pakistan - they've been losing for a while. But they are not just losing games - they are getting hammered.\"\n\nPakistan captain Sarfraz Ahmed: \"When we came here, we were very inexperienced but we are confident. We have a very good bowling side. They did a great job for us.\n\n\"The Malahide game was a very tough game for us. Ireland played really well. That is good practice before a Lord's Test match.\"\n\nPakistan coach Mickey Arthur on Sky Sports: \"When you see a tour of England come up on your calendar, you're so excited.\n\n\"The Ireland Test match was great for us because we were put under pressure at times. All in all we've been going for six weeks, preparing for Lord's.\"\n• None This is only the second time England have lost a home Test that began and ended in May, after defeat by Australia at Trent Bridge in 1921\n• None Joe Root won five of his first seven Tests as captain, but has not won any of the next eight\n• None Under coach Trevor Bayliss, England have won 15 and lost 20 of their 44 Tests, compared to 38 wins in 57 one-day internationals\n• None Mohammad Abbas' match figures of 8-64 are the best by Pakistan seamer at Lord's\n• None Pakistan have won five and lost four Tests against England at Lord's; the only other team with more wins than losses against England at Lord's is Australia (W15, L7)\n• None Mickey Arthur is only the third coach to win two Tests against England at Lord's, after Bobby Simpson and John Buchanan", "Mutiny in the Park was held a week after the Manchester Arena bombing\n\nUnder-18s could be banned from a music festival in a bid to reduce crime at the event.\n\nPolice have asked Portsmouth City Council to increase the minimum entry age for Mutiny in the Park in Cosham from 16 after reports of sex assaults, drug use and fighting.\n\nHampshire Constabulary said children as young as 13 gained entry to the 2017 event.\n\nOrganiser Luke Betts said revised entry procedures had already been devised.\n\nIn a submission to the council, police said \"children under the age of 16 were able to access the premises\" and \"this has led to children becoming victims and perpetrators of assaults and being sexually assaulted\".\n\nA report to the city's licensing sub-committee said one 14-year-old girl who had been \"signed in\" by a parent reported being sexually assaulted.\n\nMr Betts said: \"It's a fact that last year a parent has lied when signing in their child. It was a flaw in the system and we recognise that.\n\n\"Young people often do not have ID, unfortunately, but this year we will require everyone to have photo ID.\n\n\"When you put 30,000 people in a field, there are going to be incidents. Organisers are constantly being challenged to improve and make things safer.\"\n\nCity culture councillor Linda Symes said licence holders found themselves in \"extraordinary circumstances\" following the Manchester Arena attack the Monday prior to the festival.\n\nShe said: \"This put significant additional burden on to the event organisers as their whole event was re-evaluated.\"\n\nThe event at King George V Fields on 27 and 28 May featured Chase & Status and 50 Cent.\n\nTickets for the 2018, scheduled for 26 and 27 May, are expected to go on sale on Friday.\n\nThe licensing sub-committee will consider the police request on Monday.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A roundup of stories you may have missed this week, including a mini Meghan and Harry.", "The first schools and colleges to teach new technical qualifications called T-levels have been announced.\n\nFrom 2020, they will offer teenagers in England courses in construction, digital, and education and childcare.\n\nEach course will include a three-month work placement and are intended as vocational alternatives to A-levels.\n\nPrime Minister Theresa May said they would help the UK to \"compete globally\", but Labour called the plans \"little more than meaningless spin.\"\n\nA further 22 courses will be rolled out in stages from 2021 which will cover sectors such as finance, hair and beauty, engineering, and the creative industries.\n\nThe courses' curriculums are being \"created by expert panels of employers,\" the government said.\n\nThe first 52 high schools and colleges to teach the courses span all parts of England.\n\nEducation secretary Damian Hinds said England currently had too many courses on offer for 16 to 19-year-olds, which could be confusing for parents, students and industry.\n\n\"We haven't been teaching enough hours\" or had businesses as involved as they should be, he told the BBC's Andrew Marr programme.\n\n\"This is a really big reform,\" he said.\n\nT-levels will become one of three main options for post-16 study alongside apprenticeships and A levels.\n\nGovernment figures show the majority of 17-year-olds in England in 2016 were not studying A-levels.\n\nBusinesses want people with technical education and workplace experience to \"help them fill the skills gap,\" said Jane Gratton, head of skills policy at the British Chambers of Commerce.\n\nShe said: \"T-levels will be an important part of the solution.\"\n\nThe new two-year courses will have more teaching hours than most current technical programmes and will include a compulsory work placement of 40-60 working days.\n\nA report from policy think tank the Resolution Foundation said the success of T levels would be \"contingent\" on getting commitment from employers and the \"appropriate levels of funding\".\n\nIt pointed to the fact that businesses around the country would need to welcome some 100,000 students for work placements which presents an \"operational challenge\" and also a \"challenge to the current relationship that exists between business, education and young people\".\n\nEarlier in May, Jonathan Slater, a top official at the Department for Education, wrote to Mr Hinds saying it would be \"challenging\" to ensure the first three T-levels are ready to be taught from 2020 to a \"consistently high standard\".\n\nMr Hinds rejected the claims, saying: \"Naming the first 52 colleges and providers where young people will be able to study the first T-levels is an important step forward.\"\n\nMrs May said the new courses were the \"most significant reform to advanced technical education in 70 years\" and would \"ensure young people have gold standard qualifications open to them, whichever route they choose\".\n\nBut Prof Alan Smithers, director of the Centre for Education and Employment Research at the University of Buckingham, warned parents of encouraging their children to take them.\n\n\"It must be absolutely clear they will be of value to employers before kids risk their futures,\" he told the Times newspaper.\n\nAnd Angela Rayner, the shadow education secretary, said the government was attempting to hide its \"failure to properly prepare\" for T-levels.\n\n\"World-class technical education cannot simply be delivered by press release, while avoiding the impact of years of cuts on the sector,\" she said.\n\nThe best way to get news on the go", "Taylor Swift stayed true to her name, playing a brief, but flawless, set at the BBC's Biggest Weekend in Swansea.\n\nEffectively a stripped-back supercut of her current world tour, the six-song performance largely focused on the star's 2017 album Reputation.\n\nShe opened with the pummelling goth-pop of Ready For It, before racing through songs like Gorgeous and Delicate.\n\nFans were forced to wait to the end to hear the classics Blank Space and Shake It Off - and then it was all over.\n\nBut if the 26,000-strong audience who'd crammed into Swansea's Singleton Park felt short-changed, they didn't show it, shimmying along with Swift and her tightly-drilled dancers.\n\n\"You're not just singing along but you're screaming along... which is the best,\" said Taylor, as she took stock of the crowd.\n\n\"It kind of took my breath away a little bit when I first came out here.\"\n\nThe star also worked in two plugs for her UK tour dates, as she played live on BBC TV and radio.\n\nSwift by name, swift by nature... the star was on stage for 28 minutes\n\nThe star introduced her dancers to the crowd between songs\n\nBut if her set was ruthless in its efficiency, it was nonetheless a masterclass in pop - from Swift's effortless vocals and shape-throwing choreography to her adorkable between-song banter.\n\n\"Oh wait, this is in the wrong key!\" she laughed as she fumbled the start of Delicate, sliding a capo up the neck of her guitar to find the right note.\n\n\"She was fantastic. She's amazing. She's unique,\" said Lauren, who was happy to see the star in her hometown.\n\n\"You don't often get to see Taylor Swift in Swansea, let's be fair.\"\n\nSwift's Reputation was one of 2017's biggest-selling albums\n\n\"It was briefer than I thought it was going to be,\" added Chantelle from Miskin, Rhondda Cynon Taff.\n\n\"I was expecting a little bit more Swifty but she looked good.\"\n\nCharis Lee, from Abergavenny, commented: \"I'd have liked to hear some of the older stuff - the country stuff - but she was amazing.\"\n\nAfter performing, Swift admitted backstage that she had been \"a tiny bit nervous\".\n\n\"We pretty much had no time to rehearse for this. This was kind of like, on the fly,\" she told Radio 1's Greg James.\n\nThe star also declared \"I'm not worth it!\" when she was told her performance bumped Antiques Roadshow off the Sunday night TV schedule.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSwift was followed by headliner, Florence + The Machine, who gave a spirited, spiritual performance, as she whirled across the stage like a barefoot shamanic warrior.\n\nAfter clasping a fan's head in her hands during What Kind Of Man, she closed her set with a promise about the restorative powers of her hit single Shake It Out.\n\n\"I've been to a lot of festivals, and I know how it feels at the end of the second day,\" she said. \"If you sing this song, I promise you will not have a hangover tomorrow.\n\n\"I wrote it with a hangover... but that's beside the point.\"\n\nCamila Cabello said she'd enjoyed her first experience of Wales\n\nEarlier in the day, Camila Cabello - who is supporting Swift on her current world tour - gave a spectacular performance on Swansea's main stage, playing her own hits Havana and Never Be The Same alongside snippets of Prince's Purple Rain and Can't Help Falling In Love.\n\nThe 21-year-old's pin-sharp choreography and exuberant charisma made her one of the day's stand-out performers - a feat that was all the more impressive given that she was battling the heat, while jet-lagged, in a skin-tight black catsuit.\n\n\"Why did I do that?\" she laughed, as she spoke to BBC News after the show.\n\n\"It was so hot up there, I thought I was going to pass out at one point but I was like, 'I'm going to give everything to Swansea. They'll have to carry me out of here!'\"\n\nThe singer, who arrived in Wales on Saturday night after playing a show on Swift's world tour in Denver, said she'd been impressed by her first encounter with the country.\n\n\"I was in Cardiff last night and we were walking outside. It was like 11pm and there was a lady that was... drunk. She was wasted.\n\n\"She was approaching this guy [who was] playing guitar. And she was like, 'Play Havana!' and she started singing the chorus.\n\n\"I got out my phone to record it, and she just stumbled away!\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Rita Ora made Avicii's song the centrepiece of her set\n\nOther performers in Swansea on Sunday included Rita Ora, who opened the main stage with a clutch of her own hits, and a tribute to dance star Avicii, who died last month.\n\nOne Direction star Niall Horan led a mass singalong to his solo tracks Slow Hands and This Town, as well as a slowed-down reggae version of the 1D hit Drag Me Down.\n\nDemi Lovato, Stefflon Don, Thirty Seconds To Mars and Jason Derulo also kept the crowd entertained as they waited for Swift and Florence + The Machine, who will close the event.\n\nShawn Mendes drew one of the day's biggest crowds to the stage in Swansea's Singleton Park\n\nMeanwhile, Coventry's War Memorial Park saw Radio 2 continue its contribution to the Biggest Weekend, with sets from Snow Patrol, UB40 and headliner Liam Gallagher.\n\nWearing his traditional uniform of a zipped-up cagoule and an Elvis sneer, he played a tried-and-tested festival set that kicked off with the Oasis classics Rock And Roll Star and Morning Glory.\n\n\"Alright Coventry, don't listen to what people say about you, you are a proper city,\" he announced at as he took the stage.\n\nIt might have seemed like an odd way to win over the crowd - but he was aware they'd braved a rainstorm to watch him perform.\n\n\"Thanks for sticking round I know the weather ain't been nice,\" he acknowledged.\n\nThough his voice is clearly not what it was, the 45-year-old still carries himself like a rock star, belting out defiant lyrics, and closing his set with an emotional Live Forever - which he memorably sang at the One Love Manchester show last year.\n\nLiam Gallagher concentrated on Oasis songs, and his recent solo album\n\nEarlier, Coventry's main stage had been launched by Welsh rockers Stereophonics - a band who aren't used to such an early morning slot.\n\n\"Let me think how it was sold to us,\" singer Kelly Jones told the BBC. \"Remember that time that U2 and Paul McCartney opened up Live 8?\n\n\"And we could be back in the pub by five. So yeah, we took it.\"\n\nOne artist who brought some Caribbean sunshine to Coventry was Billy Ocean, whose crowd-pleasing set included the Bob Marley classic No Woman, No Cry as well as Love Really Hurts, Get Outta My Dreams, Get Into My Car and, of course, Caribbean Queen.\n\nBilly Ocean said he was thrilled by the response to his set in Coventry\n\n\"I saw lots of people enjoying themselves,\" he said after coming off the stage.\n\n\"The energy from them comes back to you. We keep doing what we do because we make people happy. There's nothing like it.\"\n\nFull coverage of the four-day music festival is available on BBC TV, radio and the dedicated Biggest Weekend website.\n\nThe event wraps up in Coventry on Monday, with a day dedicated to classical music, including sets by Nigel Kennedy, Eliza Carthy and a \"Strictly Spectacular\" featuring the show's professional dancers and the BBC Concert Orchestra.\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 Republic of Ireland has voted overwhelmingly to overturn the abortion ban by 66.4% to 33.6%.\n\nCurrently, abortion is only allowed when a woman's life is at risk, but not in cases of rape, incest or fatal foetal abnormality.\n\nHere's how people on the streets of Ireland reacted to the vote.", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nGareth Bale scored one of European football's great goals to help Real Madrid overcome Liverpool and win their third successive Champions League title as goalkeeper Loris Karius suffered a personal nightmare.\n\nBale made his mark on another Champions League final with a magnificent overhead kick to put Real 2-1 up after 64 minutes.\n\nLiverpool had already suffered the devastating blow of losing top scorer Mohamed Salah midway through the first half - with a shoulder injury sustained in a challenge with Real Madrid captain Sergio Ramos - when calamity struck for Karius.\n\nSix minutes after half-time, the German inexplicably threw the ball against Karim Benzema, who was not even challenging with urgency, and watched in horror as the ball rolled behind him into the net.\n\nLiverpool recovered from the shock to equalise through Sadio Mane before Bale stepped off the bench to score his wonder goal.\n\nThere was to be no comeback from Liverpool this time and Karius's misery was complete when he fumbled Bale's hopeful 30-yard shot behind him to seal Real's win.\n\nIt sealed Real's record 13th win in this competition, and their fourth in five seasons to give coach Zinedine Zidane this third triumph in three years.\n\nFor Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp, it was disappointment again - he lost his third successive final since arriving at Anfield, having suffered defeats in the League Cup and Europa League finals of 2016.\n• None Bale to have talks about Real future\n• None Bale the best I've seen - Giggs\n\nWhen the story of this Champions League final is told from a Liverpool perspective, it will be the tale of Karius' nightmare alongside that of Salah's injury.\n\nThe 24-year-old German has been shown huge faith by Klopp, who brought him in from Mainz and made him first choice ahead of Simon Mignolet.\n\nHe has never fully convinced and on this, the biggest night in Liverpool's recent history, he had the sort of night to leave you wondering how he will rebuild his Anfield career.\n\nKarius inexplicably threw a clearance against Benzema for Real Madrid's opener before fumbling Bale's speculative, long-range effort into the net to snuff out any hopes of a comeback.\n\nThe keeper lay flat on the turf at the final whistle, being consoled by Real Madrid's players before apologising tearfully in front of Liverpool's fans.\n\nKlopp clearly rates Karius but there are too many holes in his technique. That, along with his temperament, must be questioned after a complete horror show here in Kiev.\n\nThe whole emphasis of the final shifted as Salah slumped to the turf for a second time after realising he could not carry on with the shoulder injury sustained in the tangle with Ramos.\n\nLiverpool had started well and Real's deep defending hinted at the apprehension they were felt faced with the attacking trio of Salah, Roberto Firmino and Sadio Mane.\n\nAs Salah left the pitch, inconsolable and in tears, even Liverpool's fans were temporarily hushed and it was clear Real had suddenly been given fresh impetus.\n\nLiverpool, with the magnificent Mane leading the fight, showed commendable heart but they had been robbed of their world-class talisman who, before his substitution, had scored 33% of their goals in all competitions.\n\nIt will be the great unknown as to what might have happened had Salah stayed on but there is no question his departure was a savage blow to Liverpool and a lift for Real Madrid.\n\nBale's Real Madrid future has been under constant scrutiny this season - a quirk at a club that lives by its own rules.\n\nThe Welshman did not even make the starting line-up here and only emerged just after the hour - but within two minutes he scored one of the great Champions League goals, an overhead kick that was a triumph of athleticism and technique, and begged the question as to how Real could even contemplate life without him.\n\nAs for Bale's second goal, make no mistake - when he took on that long-range shot, he would have been street-smart enough to know Karius was living on his nerves after his earlier error.\n\nBale delivered a reminder, if it were needed that he remains a world-class player.\n\nIt may just have been an expensive night for suitors such as Manchester United as his display here will have added millions to any potential transfer fee.\n\nWhen asked about his future after the game, Bale told BT Sport: \"I need to be playing week in, week out and that has not happened this season.\n\n\"I had an injury five, six weeks in but have been fit ever since. I have to sit down with my agent in the summer and discuss it.\"\n\nZinedine Zidane has joined Liverpool's Bob Paisley and his Real Madrid predecessor Carlo Ancelotti in the elite ranks of managers to win this tournament three times - but added extra gloss by becoming the first to win it in three successive seasons.\n\nZidane has often been damned with faint praise about his abilities and record, despite his Champions League invincibility, by those who claim he simply keeps an outstanding team on track but he makes a nonsense of that with his tactical approach, handling of world-class players (and world-class egos) and a very happy knack of making decisive substitutions.\n\nThree Champions League wins in three seasons ends all argument about his greatness as a coach. He is in charge of a team who know how to get the job done.\n\n'This team is magnificent' - what they said\n\nReal Madrid boss Zinedine Zidane, speaking to BT Sport: \"Great emotions. To lift three Champions League trophies with this club, this team is magnificent. We don't quite realise what we have achieved yet.\n\n\"We are going to enjoy the moment. We had a complicated season but to finish with this makes us really happy.\n\n\"I have had a little bit of time to think about what this means. This is the status of this club. It is a legendary club, one that has won 13 Champions Leagues and I am happy to be a part of its history too.\"\n\nLiverpool manager Jurgen Klopp: \"The plan is only to play to win, nothing else, not a lot to say. We started well and played exactly like we wanted to.\n\n\"The situation with Sergio Ramos [and Mohamed Salah] looked really bad and it was a shock for the team, we lost the positive momentum and they immediately came up.\n\n\"We dropped deep and we could not get to Luka Modric or Toni Kroos. We had to run and work, we did that and half-time came. What can I say about the goals? We scored one, they scored three.\"\n\nA first in 42 years - the stats\n• None English teams have suffered a defeat in their past seven UEFA club competition finals against Spanish opposition (four Champions League finals and three UEFA Cup/Europa League finals).\n• None Jurgen Klopp has lost six of his seven major finals as manager, only winning the DFB-Pokal with Borussia Dortmund in 2012.\n• None Real Madrid started with the same XI as in the 2016-17 Champions League final; the first time a team has started with the same 11 players in different European Cup/Champions League finals (excluding replays).\n• None Karim Benzema has scored four goals against Liverpool in the Champions League; no player has managed more (also four for Didier Drogba).\n• None Liverpool became the first team in history to see three players score 10-plus goals in a single Champions League season (Salah 10, Firmino 10, Mane 10).\n• None Sadio Mane is only the fourth African player to score in a European Cup/Champions League final and the first since Didier Drogba for Chelsea v Bayern Munich in 2012. The other two were by Samuel Eto'o for Barcelona in both 2009 and 2006, and Rabah Madjer for Porto in 1987.\n• None Mane became the third Liverpool player to score 20-plus goals in all competitions this season (Salah 44 goals and Firmino 27 goals); the last time that three players hit the 20-goal mark for the club in a single campagn was 1981-82 (Dalglish, McDermott and Rush).\n• None Attempt blocked. Adam Lallana (Liverpool) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.\n• None Goal! Real Madrid 3, Liverpool 1. Gareth Bale (Real Madrid) left footed shot from outside the box to the top right corner. Assisted by Marcelo. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Pupils at Harold Hill in 1963: The grammar school was abolished a decade later\n\nWhen Norma Jennings talks about grammar schools, she does not talk about statistics or education policy, she talks about her memories of teachers and how her schooldays still make such a strong impression decades later.\n\nThe debate about creating new grammar schools in England has heard many attacks on the negative impact of selection.\n\nBut to understand the durable appeal of grammars, there's a need to consider a different type of evidence, the personal experiences of former pupils, who can feel that their memories have been shouted down in all the political exchanges.\n\nNorma Jennings has helped to write the history of her old school - Harold Hill Grammar School in Essex - which was abolished as a grammar school in 1973.\n\nAnd her memories encapsulate how the grammars have retained such a hold on the post-War imagination.\n\nShe sent a copy of the book to Prime Minister Theresa May with a letter about what she thought had been lost when most of the grammar system was scrapped.\n\nSchool berets are ceremonially dismantled at the end of the school year in 1964\n\nHarold Hill Grammar School was built in the mid-1950s to serve new overspill estates built in Essex to accommodate thousands of east London families needing homes after the Second World War.\n\nIt was a piece of deliberate social planning, designed to take the brightest children and create a new generation of professionals.\n\nMrs Jennings, who left the school in 1963, says it's easy to forget how radical and \"revolutionary\" all this seemed.\n\nWorking-class children were being given the chance to have an education that would never have been within the reach of their parents.\n\nFor these children, the first generation of the post-War welfare state, this was a system of free milk and opportunity, and Harold Hill was part of a wave of hundreds of new secondary schools built for an expanding, ambitious population.\n\nNorma Jennings taking part in a school play in the early 1960s\n\nMrs Jennings's memories also refer to another touchstone of grammar schools - the strong impression made by teachers.\n\nAt a recent reunion, she said, there were stories of pupils who had kept in touch with their former teachers all their lives.\n\nFor schoolgirls in the 1950s, unlikely to come across many women in professions, female teachers were inspiring role models for staying in education and having a career.\n\nMrs Jennings talks of the \"intellectual life of the school\", separate from academic achievement, with teachers setting up all kind of clubs and societies, and leaving pupils with a \"stamp of curiosity\".\n\nFacing the future with confidence: Pupils at Harold Hill in the early 1960s\n\nIt was also a time of assumed values, when the head teacher could unselfconsciously write about staff being able to \"distinguish what is first-rate from what is not\".\n\nMuch of the symbolism and the cut-and-paste Latin might have been borrowed from public schools.\n\nBut what made grammar schools so distinctive was that the pupils were not from the playing fields of Eton but the overspill estates of Essex.\n\nAnd these schools, with a strong sense of their own identity, often left an intense impression on those who spent time there.\n\nHarold Hill was very much a \"product of its time\", says Mrs Jennings.\n\nAnd it's hard to know how much the school could be separated from the era.\n\nBoys and girls had separate playgrounds at the school\n\nThis was a time of boys being known only by their surnames, teachers wearing gowns, there were hymns and prize-givings, boys and girls were segregated into separate playgrounds and miscreants faced the cane.\n\nIt was also a type of education available only to the minority who passed the 11-plus.\n\nBut as a child Mrs Jennings was not aware of such debates, and she says there was no sense of social separation.\n\nYou can only remember the schooldays you had - and not what it meant for those who missed out.\n\nHarold Hill's history also touches on another long shadow over the grammar debate.\n\nHow grammar schools were closed has left an often unhappy legacy, with a sense of schools being dismantled without sufficient care for what was being lost.\n\nTheresa May was part of the generation at school when grammars became comprehensives\n\nMrs Jennings says it would have been better if there had been a way to adapt the selection system, rather than shutting down the grammar schools.\n\nShe says the mergers with secondary moderns were often rushed and disruptive, with buildings scattered across different sites.\n\nMrs Jennings went on to train as a teacher and spent a happy career in comprehensives, but she still describes the way grammars were abolished as a \"disaster\".\n\nMany former grammar teachers struggled in their new environments.\n\nAnd there was a whole demographic of pupils at school who faced this upheaval in the 1970s - with a long wake of turbulence, as former grammars readjusted to their new identity.\n\nMrs May is one of the most high profile of this generation, starting at a grammar that became a comprehensive. And who knows how much this has been a shaping experience?\n\nHarold Hill's merger with a secondary modern was not to be long-lasting.\n\nThe comprehensive that emerged has also disappeared, and the site has now been redeveloped for housing. Nothing exists of it apart from the memories of former pupils.\n\nHarold Hill was part of a huge wave of post-War school building\n\nAnother former pupil of Harold Hill, Colin Sparrow, says his grammar school days were a \"melting pot\" of different social classes and he had a very positive experience.\n\nBut he says if the grammar system had survived, the school would have been \"a very different animal\" from the one he attended in the 1960s.\n\nIn terms of whether they were elitist, he quotes Labour Prime Minister Clement Attlee, speaking in 1945: \"I am myself in favour of an educational system which will break down class barriers, and will preserve the unity of the nation, but I am also in favour of variety and entirely opposed to the abolition of old traditions and the levelling down of everything to dull uniformity.\"\n\nReconciling those ambitions still seems to be as elusive.", "A company boss who failed to safely operate a yacht on which four sailors were killed has been given a suspended prison sentence.\n\nThe crew of the Cheeki Rafiki died after the 40ft vessel lost its keel and capsized in the Atlantic in May 2014.\n\nDouglas Innes, 43, and his business Stormforce Coaching Limited were found guilty of failing to operate the yacht in a safe manner.\n\nHe was given a 15-month jail term, suspended for two years.\n\nAt Winchester Crown Court, Stormforce Coaching Limited - which has since been put into liquidation - was fined £50,000.\n\nInnes, of Southampton, had previously been cleared of four counts of manslaughter by gross negligence following a retrial.\n\nThe four men on board - skipper Andrew Bridge, 22, from Farnham in Surrey, James Male, 22, from Romsey in Hampshire, Steve Warren, 52, from Bridgwater in Somerset and Paul Goslin, 56, from West Camel in Somerset - were travelling back to the UK when the vessel lost its keel.\n\nThe crew's bodies were never found.\n\nDouglas Innes, who ran Stormforce Coaching, was given a suspended sentence\n\nSentencing Innes, Mr Justice Nigel Teare told him that \"cost-cutting\" had led his actions.\n\nHe added: \"The failure to have the yacht surveyed was a serious act of negligence.\"\n\n\"This was a small yacht about to cross the Atlantic alone having not been independently examined for over three years. Those circumstances give rise to a risk of death.\"\n\nMr Justice Teare called on the maritime regulatory authorities to tighten the rules governing the inspection of yachts.\n\nHe said that Innes was unaware of a fault with a bolt and that a survey of the vessel, which went missing more than 700 miles off the coast of Nova Scotia, may not have identified the problem.\n\nKaty Ware, a director of the Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA), said she had \"personally pledged to the families\" that rules would change as a result of this case.\n\nShe added: \"There are a number of grey areas. It's really important that we make it clear to industry how they operate those vessels and make sure they are safe for everyone travelling on board.\"\n\nThe Cheeki Rafiki had been on its way to Southampton from Antigua Sailing Week\n\nThe court had earlier been told that an email had been sent by the crew warning Mr Innes their yacht - named after a character in the Lion King - was taking on water in bad weather.\n\nHe replied advising the sailors to make sure the life raft was ready and later phoned the UK Coastguard.\n\nThe US Coastguard was criticised for calling off its search for the stricken vessel after two days, but it was restarted following intervention by the British government.\n\nThe yacht was eventually found on 17 May 2014 with the life raft but with no sign of the four men.\n\nReading an impact statement in court, Adele Miller fought back tears as she described her boyfriend James Male as \"wise beyond his years\".\n\n\"My life and my future has crumbled before me,\" she said. \"Without him my life is less than incomplete.\"\n\nThe overturned hull of the Cheeki Rafiki after it was discovered by a US Navy warship\n\nA statement from Cressida Goslin, the widow of Paul Goslin, was read in court in which she said she had been left \"lost, isolated and alone\" by the tragedy.\n\n\"This accident and the loss of four loved and cherished men could so easily have been avoided,\" it said.\n\nHis daughter Claire Goslin said a \"massive part of her died\" with her father.\n\n\"Despite being a strong character, losing dad in this way has crushed me and I have to live the rest of my life with an emptiness that I can never fill,\" she said.\n\nMr Warren's partner Gloria Hamlet said in a statement: \"Life as I knew it when I was happy and fulfilled no longer exists and never will again, my life will always be overshadowed by a deep sorrow from the loss of Steve.\"\n\nIn mitigation, defence counsel told the court that Innes's life had been \"shattered\" following the loss of his \"friends and colleagues\".\n\n\"He genuinely and profoundly understands the pain [the families] have suffered.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The national park is known for its mountain gorillas\n\nTwo British tourists are among three people to have been kidnapped in a national park in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).\n\nThe director of the Virunga National Park - known for its endangered mountain gorillas - said their vehicle was ambushed by gunmen who killed a park ranger and also seized the driver.\n\nThe incident took place just north of the city of Goma, North Kivu province.\n\nThe Foreign Office said it was supporting the families.\n\nIt also said it was in close contact with the DRC authorities.\n\nLocal media reports say the ranger shot dead was a female guard, while the UK citizens were taken along with their Congolese driver.\n\nPark director Emmanuel de Merode told the AFP news agency: \"I confirm that our vehicle was attacked. Three people were kidnapped, including two tourists.\"\n\nThe BBC's Louise Dewast, reporting from the country's capital Kinshasa, said the situation was \"very serious\".\n\nShe said there were armed groups operating in the park and there had been kidnappings before, with half of these involving a ransom.\n\nThe kidnapping took place in a military area and the national army was \"most likely\" responding to the situation, our correspondent added.\n\nThe national park, which runs along the border with Uganda and Rwanda, covers 3,000 sq miles (7,800 sq km).\n\nIt is a Unesco world heritage site and is home to critically-endangered mountain gorillas as well as lions, elephants and hippos.\n\nIn April, Mr de Merode, told the BBC World Service that recent attacks were part of \"a bigger picture which involves the trafficking of natural resources\".\n\nHe said the park was protected by around 800 rangers but there were also estimated to be between 1,500 and 2,000 militia in and around the park.\n\nThere have been a number of killings and kidnappings in recent years.\n\nFive rangers and a driver were killed in the park on 9 April.\n\nA week earlier, a park ranger died in an attack by armed men as he guarded the construction site of a hydroelectric plant.\n\nBBC Africa editor Will Ross said poachers were active in the park, which was also under threat due to the illegal felling of trees to make charcoal and plans for oil exploration.\n\nWildlife authorities have tried to protect it but 170 rangers have been killed over the last 20 years, he added.\n\nThe Foreign and Commonwealth Office advises against all but essential travel to Goma and has urged Britons not to go beyond the city.\n\nThe advice, which was last updated two days ago, says tourists are vulnerable if travelling without escorted transport in the eastern part of the country, and the \"risk of kidnap or injury as a result of armed or criminal activity remains high\".\n\nIt said that UK government staff were not always in the area and the British embassy's ability to offer consular assistance could be \"severely limited\".", "Gas and electricity supplier Npower is raising energy bills by an average of £64 a year for a million customers.\n\nThe average 5.3% dual fuel price hike comes into effect on 17 June and follows earlier rises announced last month by its \"Big Six\" rivals.\n\nBritish Gas is increasing prices by 5.5% from 29 May, while Scottish Power is raising prices by 5.5% on 1 June.\n\nGerman-owned Npower blamed increases wholesale energy costs and government policy changes for the rise.\n\nSimon Stacey, managing director, domestic markets at Npower, said: \"Announcing this price change today isn't a decision we've taken lightly.\"\n\nHe said the costs energy suppliers are facing - \"particularly wholesale and policy costs which are largely outside our control\" - have been on the rise for some time \"and we need to reflect these in our prices\".\n\nThe energy giants all partly blame government policy, such as the introduction of smart meters and emissions targets, for higher bills.\n\nThe 5.3% average price hike is made up of a 4.4% rise in gas prices and a 6.2% increase in electricity. It will see a typical dual fuel gas and electricity annual bill climb to £1,230.\n\nMr Stacey pointed out that the price rise would not affect existing customers on a fixed deal, those with a prepayment meter, or customers on the Safeguard tariff.\n\nStephen Murray, energy expert at MoneySuperMarket, said: \"This is a chunky rise from Npower - all we need now is something from SSE and it's a full house from the Big Six.\n\n\"Npower says 60% of its customers won't be affected but that still means 40% - or one million people - will.\"\n\nMark Todd, co-founder of switching service Energyhelpline, said: \"The most expensive standard tariff just got more expensive.\"\n\nSome 4.1 million British Gas customers face a 5.5% hike from 29 May, adding an average of £60 to bills. The move was branded as \"unjustified\" by the government when it was announced.\n\nScottish Power is increasing prices by 5.5% - or £63 on average - for nearly one million people from 1 June.\n\nEDF has a 2.7% - or £16 - electricity price rise coming into effect on 7 June for 1.2 million customers.\n\nNpower's 5.3% increase - an average of £64 - will hit one million people from 17 June.", "Osmington lies near the popular Margaret River tourist area in Western Australia\n\nSeven people have been found dead at a rural property in what is reported to be Australia's worst mass shooting since 1996.\n\nThe bodies of four children and three adults were discovered in the town of Osmington in Western Australia (WA), 280km (170 miles) south of Perth.\n\nThree generations of the same family were among the victims, Australia's ABC News reported.\n\nPolice have not yet confirmed widespread reports of murder-suicide.\n\nOfficials did, however, say that two firearms were found at the scene and said there was no ongoing threat to public safety.\n\nABC News, quoting a family friend, reported that Katrina Miles and her four children were among the dead.\n\nHer parents, Peter and Cynda Miles, were also killed, ABC said.\n\nFlowers left at the scene for \"Katrina and family\"\n\nPolice, however, have yet to formally identify any of the victims or to confirm the incident as a mass shooting.\n\n\"It appears that gunshot wounds are there, but I don't want to go further than that,\" said WA Police Commissioner Chris Dawson.\n\nIf confirmed, it would be Australia's worst mass shooting since a massacre in Port Arthur, Tasmania, claimed the lives of 35 people in 1996.\n\nThe Port Arthur massacre led to comprehensive reform of the nation's gun laws, drastically reducing the number of mass shootings.\n\nMr Dawson said the victims were believed to have lived at the property.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The bodies of four children and three adults were found\n\n\"The loss of any life is tragic, but four children and three adults - this is a significant tragedy,\" he said.\n\nAuthorities were called to the scene at 05:15 local time (21:15 GMT on Thursday) after receiving a call from a \"male person\", Mr Dawson said.\n\nThe commissioner did not give details of the call, but said it had been recorded.\n\nHe said specialist police officers from Perth would oversee a large-scale investigation.\n\nThere was no search for a suspect, he said.\n\nOsmington is a tiny rural community about 20km from Margaret River, a popular tourist and wine-growing area.\n\nOne neighbour, Felicity Haynes, described the residents of the property as \"lovely people\".\n\n\"They were a very socially-aware family - doing their best to create a safe community - and that is why it is so shocking to think that could be destroyed so quickly,\" she told the Australian Broadcasting Corp.\n\nPamela Townshend, president of the Shire of Augusta-Margaret River, told Fairfax Media: \"It's sending shockwaves through the whole community - we're all linked in one way or another, every family.\"\n\nAfter the 1996 massacre at Port Arthur in Tasmania, Australia enacted strict gun laws that banned automatic and semi-automatic weapons.\n\nIt has had one other mass shooting since Port Arthur - the murder-suicide of a family of five in New South Wales in 2014.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe UK's ethnic minorities have been \"disproportionately\" affected by the government's austerity and immigration policies, a UN inspector has said.\n\nTendayi Achiume, the Special Rapporteur on Racism, criticised the \"hostile environment\" brought in by Theresa May when she was home secretary to clamp down on illegal immigrants.\n\nThe rapporteur also expressed concern at the effect of the Brexit debate.\n\nBut she said UK racial equality laws had shown achievements in key areas.\n\nThe government said it was determined to tackle \"ethnic disparities\".\n\nMs Achiume's comments are contained in an end of mission statement following her two week fact-finding mission to the UK.\n\nBut former work and pensions secretary Iain Duncan Smith criticised the visit. \"These visits are completely pointless,\" he told the Times.\n\n\"They are politically motivated, they are inspired by the extreme left, and the idea is to kick the UK.\"\n\nMs Achiume is due to publish a full report in June 2019.\n\nThe first day of her visit coincided with Amber Rudd's resignation as home secretary following the Windrush scandal.\n\nMs Achiume said the Windrush Generation faced \"gross human rights violations and indignities\" as a result of government policies.\n\nShe recommended the government repeal the sections of the 2014 and 2016 Immigration Act which require landlords and employers to check a person's right to be in the UK.\n\nIt was \"no surprise that a policy that ostensibly seeks to target only irregular immigrants is destroying the lives and livelihoods of racial and ethnic minority communities more broadly\", she said.\n\nMs Achiume said that while the UK embraced a \"substantive vision of racial equality, and explicitly prohibited both direct and indirect forms of racial discrimination\" there was \"much to do especially in the arena of addressing structural forms of racial discrimination and inequality\".\n\nMs Achiume also raised concerns over the government's anti-terrorism Prevent programme, and hate crimes following the Brexit vote.\n\nShe said: \"The discourses on racial equality before, during and after the 2016 referendum, as well as the policies and practices upon which the Brexit debate has conferred legitimacy, raise serious issues at the core of my mandate.\"\n\nSpeaking at a news conference to mark the end of her trip, Ms Achiume also said she was \"shocked\" to find young black men were \"over-represented\" in police stop-and-searches, and in the prison system.\n\nShe added: \"Unsurprisingly, austerity has had especially pronounced inter-sectional consequences, making women of colour the worst affected.\"\n\nHowever, the prime minister's Racial Disparity Audit was described by Ms Achiume as a \"remarkable step in transforming racial equality into reality\" that is \"worthy of emulation by governments all over the world\".\n\nA website set up by the government highlights the disparities in educational attainment, health, employment and treatment by police and courts between ethnicities and Mrs May has promised to confront the \"uncomfortable truths\" exposed by it.\n\nA government spokeswoman said: \"We note that the special rapporteur commended UK legislation and policy to tackle direct and indirect racial discrimination...\n\n\"We have made great progress, but the prime minister is clear that if there is no rational explanation for ethnic disparities, then we - as a society - must take action to change them. That is precisely what we will do.\"\n\nThe government added it was wrong to term Home Office immigration policy as a \"hostile environment\".\n\nBut she said in light of the concerns raised by the Windrush scandal, rules were being reviewed to ensure that people lawfully in the UK are not disadvantaged by measures in place to tackle illegal migration.", "Asif Naseem moved his wife and five children into the house two months ago\n\nA family has been told to tear down their new home or spend £200,000 on a new roof after it was found to be 30 inches (76cm) too tall.\n\nAsif Naseem moved into the property in Lightwood, Staffordshire, two months ago with his wife and five children.\n\nStoke-on-Trent council turned down two retrospective planning applications for the £500,000 house due to complaints over the height and dormer windows.\n\nThe family said they had nowhere else to go, and no funds for a new roof.\n\nThe family was told the roof ridge was too high and there were complaints about the dormer windows\n\nThirty one objections to the family's retrospective planning application were sent to the council, along with seven letters of support, said the Local Democracy Reporting Service (LDRS).\n\nCouncil planners recommended enforcement action being taken, which would mean demolishing the house.\n\nAt a planning meeting on Wednesday, Shazad Hussein, Mr Naseem's brother, said reducing the house's height \"isn't going to make any visual difference\".\n\n\"We have spent all the money on the house,\" he said. \"There are seven people who have nowhere else to go. They sold their other house to fund the new one.\"\n\nLocal reaction to the \"enormous\" house has been \"mixed\", a neighbour said\n\nThe family's representative said demolition would be \"excessive\" and \"draconian\", leaving the planning committee divided.\n\nVice-chairman Andy Platt said it was \"wrong\" that the house had been built too tall, but to knock it down would be \"a little over the top\".\n\nHowever councillor Janine Bridges said it would \"set a precedent\" for developers to \"build what they like\" and ask permission later.\n\nYou may also be interested in:\n\nNeighbour Robert Wakefield said local reaction to the \"enormous\" house had been \"mixed\", but it was a \"fair and just judgement\" to refuse planning permission.\n\nMr Naseem \"should have thought about this before he started\", Mr Wakefield said.\n\nThe family has been given three months to allow for talks to continue.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The inquiry being held at the High Court has already attracted criticism from campaigners\n\nCampaigners have been left \"dismayed\" after it was revealed the public inquiry into undercover policing will not deliver its final report until at least 2023.\n\nThe inquiry was launched in 2015, has already cost about £10m and was originally due to finish this year.\n\nIt is investigating undercover operations in England and Wales since 1968 after a string of allegations of wrong-doing by officers.\n\nUnite said justice was \"being denied\".\n\nGary Cartmail, assistant general secretary of the union, said the government needs to explain the delays.\n\nThe union is involved in the inquiry as Ucatt (now a part of Unite) was allegedly infiltrated by an undercover officer.\n\nHe said: \"Victims of undercover policing have had their lives wrecked and yet they are still being denied answers.\"\n\nA woman known as Andrea from campaign group Police Spies Out of Lives was allegedly duped into a relationship with an undercover officer.\n\nShe said she was \"dismayed\" at how long it would take, adding: \"We have lost years of our lives due to the harm caused to us by these undercover officers.\"\n\nShe said: \"Our health, relationships and careers have suffered.\n\n\"We want to make sure this state-sponsored abuse cannot happen again.\"\n\nDonal O'Driscoll, who claims he was spied on by undercover officers, said the delay was caused by \"ongoing heel-dragging and obstruction by the police\".\n\nThe inquiry was set up by the then home secretary Theresa May after allegations about the activities of undercover units.\n\nThe inquiry is being led by Sir John Mitting\n\nThese included claims officers from the Metropolitan Police's Special Demonstration Squad had sexual relationships with women and used the names of dead children to create fake identities.\n\nThe Met Police has apologised and paid compensation to seven women tricked into relationships by undercover officers.\n\nIt will also investigate claims Scotland Yard spied on campaigners fighting for justice for murdered teenager Stephen Lawrence and how officers infiltrated unions and other organisations.\n\nThe inquiry chaired by Sir John Mitting has now set out an \"ambitious timeline\" with the final report expected before the home secretary in 2023.\n\nIt has tens of thousands of documents to go through and will hear evidence from at least 250 police witnesses.\n\nThe inquiry will investigate the alleged spying on a campaign fighting for Stephen Lawrence\n\nIn March, at least 60 campaigners and their legal teams walked out after former undercover officers were granted anonymity.\n\nCritics also want to see the inquiry led by a panel rather than a single judge.\n\nWriting in the strategic review, inquiry chairman Sir John rejected calls to appoint panel members until after the fact-finding stage in 2021.\n\nHe said appointing a panel would \"impose a heavy cost in both time and money\".\n\nThe chairman said: \"Once the facts have been found, it would be both practicable and desirable for a wider panel to be recruited to investigate and consider the state of undercover policing and to make recommendations to the home secretary for the future.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played\n\nTo play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "After the government was forced to apologise for declaring some of the so-called Windrush generation illegal immigrants, the Home Office is now reviewing the cases of asylum seekers affected by another aspect of its so-called \"hostile environment\" policy, who may have been inappropriately banned from studying.\n\nIbrahim - not his real name - received a letter four weeks ago from the Home Office telling him he was banned from further study.\n\nIt arrived two weeks before he was due to sit his English language exams.\n\nAs a 19-year-old asylum seeker from North Africa living in a foreign country and speaking a new language, he says his English classes - he was studying English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) - had become a lifeline.\n\n\"Sometimes I cry. I even thought I would kill myself… this is one way I can make my life better but now they closed that one way\", says Ibrahim, who came to England three years ago because he faced threats in his own country.\n\nHe is one of more than 50 asylum seekers Newsnight has been told about who may have had inappropriate study restrictions imposed upon them.\n\nIt is the result of rule changes introduced in January after the introduction of the government's \"hostile environment\" immigration policy.\n\n\"I've certainly heard of getting on for 100 cases,\" says Adam Hundt, a solicitor with Deighton Pierce Glynn. \"I think it's quite clear that this will be affecting thousands of people.\"\n\nSince the beginning of the year, asylum seekers who used to be classified as having been granted temporary admission have been placed on \"immigration bail\".\n\nThe change was introduced as part of the Immigration Act 2016 and it affects migrants lawfully in the UK but without leave to remain, like asylum seekers.\n\nThe government said it was only intended to be used on a case-by-case basis when proportionate - for example, when they want to know the whereabouts of an asylum seeker, they could specify a particular institution where they could study.\n\nDuring the passage of the legislation, the government gave assurances that it did not intend to impose a blanket ban on asylum seekers accessing education.\n\nBut campaigners and immigration lawyers say that appears to have been what has happened.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Explained: What is the 'hostile environment' policy?\n\n\"We see about 50 asylum seekers a week on average at our advice drop-in and everybody that has come with a bail form has the restriction on study,\" says Becky Hellewell, a case worker with the charity St Augustine's Centre in Halifax.\n\nHome Office staff are not the only group to have interpreted the guidance in this way.\n\nThe University of Leicester wrote to asylum seekers on its roll to update them that they were not permitted to use immigration bail conditions to study there.\n\nBut that should only have been the case if there was a restriction to study on their bail form - they should not have been prevented because they were on immigration bail.\n\nA statement from the university said: \"All email communications on this matter are in accordance with government guidance provided to all universities.\n\n\"We change and update our communications in accordance with guidance from the government.\"\n\nThe consequences for asylum seekers caught breaching these conditions can be severe.\n\nThey are liable to prosecution and could be subject to a fine and/or six months in prison.\n\nEarlier this week, the Home Office minister Baroness Williams clarified in the House of Lords that the new immigration provisions were not designed to prevent asylum seekers from studying.\n\n\"The Home Office is proactively looking to identify cases where this has been applied inappropriately and will apply a new bail notice to the individual,\" she told peers.\n\nThis clarification came too late for Ibrahim.\n\nHe had to take the Home Office to court in order to have his study ban lifted just a day before his exams.\n\nHe has now been issued with a new bail notice removing his study restriction.\n\n\"I think what we've seen with the implementation of immigration bail provisions is that it's different depending on what area you are in,\" says Kamena Dorling of the charity Coram, which works with vulnerable children and young people.\n\n\"It's not being applied in accordance with the guidance, nor is it being applied consistently.\"\n\nThe guidance that immigration officials were using has now been updated to say \"anyone who claims asylum should not have a study condition applied to them… If there is any doubt over whether study should be restricted, no study condition should be applied\".\n\nThe Home Office told Newsnight the study restrictions on immigration bail are not part of its \"compliant environment\" policy - the phrase preferred by the new Home Secretary Sajid Javid instead of \"hostile environment\".\n\nA Home Office spokesperson said: \"Immigration bail is a valuable tool which enables individuals who are liable to be detained to remain in the community, subject to certain conditions.\n\n\"The provisions are not designed to be used to prevent asylum seekers studying and we are proactively looking to identify cases where this may have happened so that we can correct it.\n\n\"We have also updated our guidance for staff so that they are absolutely clear when to apply restrictions and we are putting in place new safeguards, so that when the restriction is applied, it has to be approved by a senior officer. These steps will make sure such an issue does not arise in the future.\"", "The M1 is being closed so a bridge can be put in place for the new Kegworth bypass in Leicestershire\n\nDrivers including football fans and people catching flights have been warned to expect disruption while part of the M1 is closed over the weekend.\n\nJunctions 23A to 24, near East Midlands Airport, will shut from 22:00 BST on Friday to 15:00 on Sunday.\n\nFulham FC fans had asked for the closure to be put back an hour because of their match against Derby County.\n\nBut Segro, which is putting a bridge in place for a new bypass, said it had advised of the closures since March.\n\nHighways England authorised the motorway closure but is not involved in the construction of the Kegworth bypass.\n\nFormer MP Tom Greatrex, who is chairman of the Fulham Supporters Trust, expects to be stuck in congested traffic for several hours after leaving the Pride Park stadium in Derby on Friday night.\n\nHe asked Highways England if they could close the road an hour later.\n\n\"It's not Highways England's fault as the game has been scheduled at short notice on a Friday night, but I thought it might make a bit of sense to avoid a whole load of chaos by starting an hour later,\" he said.\n\n\"The closure is going to start at 10 o'clock and at about quarter to ten, roughly, there will be about 30,000 other people coming out of the Derby ground.\n\n\"I would expect a chunk of those would normally be heading towards the M1 by car.\"\n\nPeople will be able to drive along the A453 instead while the M1 is closed\n\nSegro said in a statement: \"This project has taken months of intricate work with numerous organisations and we began advising of the closures in March to help people plan their diversions.\n\n\"Given the high level of planning and coordination involved in this project, we regret that we can't change the timings this close to start of the operation.\n\n\"We apologise for any inconvenience caused.\"\n\nFulham are playing against Derby County at Pride Park on Friday night\n\nTraffic was stopped for more than four hours on Friday morning on the northbound carriageway of the same stretch of motorway.\n\nThis was after a truck was involved in a crash and shed its load.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What is the EU customs union?\n\nTheresa May has divided her top team of ministers into two working groups to hammer out their differences on Brexit.\n\nThe cabinet is split over how to manage customs arrangements with the EU.\n\nBrexiteers such as Boris Johnson are against Mrs May's preferred option of a \"customs partnership\", which is backed by Remain-voting ministers.\n\nMr Johnson's preferred model relies on technology to minimise customs checks. The EU has expressed doubts about whether either option would work.\n\nThe prime minister has said further work is needed to come up with a solution that will deliver on her promise of frictionless trade without the need for a hard border between Northern Ireland and the Republic.\n\nShe is under pressure to find a solution to present to the EU at the next round of Brexit talks, with just five months left to get an agreement on post-Brexit trade, so it can be ratified before Britain leaves in March next year.\n\nMr Johnson and Chancellor Philip Hammond - who are thought to have been at loggerheads over the customs issue - will not play a role in either of the two working groups.\n\nBrexiteer and Environment Secretary Michael Gove and Remainer and Northern Ireland Secretary Karen Bradley will sit in different groups\n\nOne group - Brexiteers Michael Gove and Liam Fox and Remain-backing Cabinet Office minister David Lidington - will consider a \"customs partnership\" whereby the UK would collect tariffs on behalf of the EU - but without the need for new border checks.\n\nDowning Street said this group would be discussing how to make trade deals with non-EU countries - something Brexiteers say would be impossible under this option.\n\nThe other group - Remain-backing Business Secretary Greg Clark, Brexit Secretary David Davis and Remain-voting Northern Ireland Secretary Karen Bradley - will look at \"maximum facilitation\" - a solution based on using technology to minimise the need for customs checks after Brexit.\n\nThe members of this group will be looking at how to avoid the return of a hard Irish border.\n\nThe work was being carried out \"as a priority,\" the prime minister's official spokesman said.\n\nThe next meeting of the cabinet's Brexit sub-committee is on Tuesday.\n\nAll EU members are part of the customs union which means there are no tariffs on goods transported between member states.\n\nLabour is in favour of setting up a new customs union with the EU after Brexit, something it says is backed by the trade unions and industry body the CBI.\n\nThe UK would collect tariffs set by the EU customs union on goods coming into the UK on behalf of the EU.\n\nIf those goods didn't leave the UK and UK tariffs on them were lower, companies could then claim back the difference.\n\nThe customs partnership is thought to be the prime minister's preferred option but Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson has described it as \"crazy\" and said it would create \"a whole new web of bureaucracy\".\n\nEnter the word or phrase you are looking for\n\nThe maximum facilitation proposal - also known as \"max-fac\" - would employ new technologies and trusted trader schemes to remove the need for physical customs checks.\n\nTrusted trader schemes would enable companies to pay duties every few months rather than every time they crossed the border.\n\nConsidering this option will be Remainers Business Secretary Greg Clark and Northern Ireland Secretary Karen Bradley and the pro-Leave Brexit Secretary David Davis.\n\nThe customs union ensures EU member states all apply the same import duties to countries outside the EU.\n\nIt allows member states to trade freely with each other, without burdensome customs checks at borders, but it limits their freedom to strike their own trade deals.\n\nThe UK government has said it wants to leave the EU customs union in order to strike its own trade deals with other countries.\n\nMinisters are under pressure to have made progress on the issue before next month's EU summit.", "Barclays chief executive Jes Staley has been fined £642,430 by regulators for breaching rules by trying to identify a whistleblower.\n\nThe Financial Conduct Authority and the Prudential Regulation Authority said he failed to \"act with due skill, care and diligence\" in his response to an anonymous letter received in June 2016.\n\nThe FCA and PRA began their probe into Mr Staley's conduct a year ago.\n\nBarclays said it would cut his bonus by £500,000.\n\nDirectors delayed deciding how much Mr Staley's bonus would be docked until the investigation was complete and they knew the penalty imposed.\n\nMr Staley said: \"I have consistently acknowledged that my personal involvement in this matter was inappropriate, and I have apologised for mistakes which I made.\n\n\"I accept the conclusions of the board, the FCA, and the PRA, following their respective investigations, and the sanctions which they have each applied.\"\n\nMr Staley earned £2.35m in 2016 and received a bonus of £1.3m.\n\nThe fine amounts to about a fifth of his total compensation. It would have been more than £900,000, but he was given a 30% discount for settling at an early stage.\n\nMany will think that Jes Staley has got off lightly. He still has his job and the regulators stopped short of saying that he was unfit to continue in post, which would have surely ended his career at Barclays and possibly in banking altogether.\n\nAs chief executive of Barclays, Mr Staley should have been setting an example of how to deal with whistleblowing. Instead, when he received anonymous allegations against a senior member of staff, who was also a friend, he set the bank's own internal investigations unit to work to discover the identity of the whistleblower.\n\nThat matters, because after the credit crunch and bailout of the banking sector, regulators introduced vigorous rules to encourage those with concerns of wrongdoing to come forward. Mr Staley's actions directly undermined that very safety valve.\n\nJes Staley now has the distinction of being the first boss of a major financial institution to have been fined by the regulators and to have kept his job.\n\nThe issue dates back to June 2016, when members of the Barclays board received anonymous letters raising concerns about a senior employee who had been recruited by the bank earlier that year.\n\nThe letters, which were treated as whistleblowing, raised concerns of a personal nature about the senior employee, and Mr Staley's knowledge of and role in dealing with those issues at a previous employer.\n\nThey also raised questions over the appropriateness of the recruitment process followed by Barclays on this occasion.\n\nMr Staley asked the bank's security chief, Troels Oerting, to attempt to identify the authors of the letters, which the chief executive thought were an unfair personal attack on the senior employee.\n\nMr Oerting, who formerly worked for Europol, contacted US federal law enforcement agencies to help track down the letter's origin, which had a US postmark.\n\nRegulators will keep an eye in future on how Barclays oversees whistleblowing. They have told the bank to report to it every year to explain how it handles any issues.\n\nThis includes making senior managers give personal assurances that whistleblowing protocols are being followed properly.\n\nMark Steward, from the FCA, said: \"Given the crucial role of the chief executive, the standard of due skill, care and diligence is more demanding than for other employees.\n\n\"Mr Staley breached the standard of care required and expected of a chief executive in a way that risked undermining confidence in Barclays' whistleblowing procedures.\"\n\nBarclays, though, noted in its statement that there were no findings by the FCA or PRA that Mr Staley acted with a lack of integrity nor any findings that he lacks fitness and propriety to continue to perform his role.\n\nThe chairman, John McFarlane, said Barclays and its investors stood behind Mr Staley: \"The board has reiterated its support for Jes, as have shareholders at last week's annual general meeting.\"", "Many offenders take advantage of people distracted by their mobile phones\n\nThe number of offences carried out by criminals using mopeds in London has increased by 30 times in five years.\n\nData obtained by the BBC shows a jump from 827 offences in 2012 to more than 23,000 last year.\n\nHigh car insurance premiums and the boom in delivery services such as Deliveroo have increased the number of mopeds, an expert said.\n\nPolice insisted they had not lost control of moped crime but \"there was more work to do\".\n\nDuring the period covered by the figures, more than 40% of such offences happened in just two boroughs.\n\nA Met Police superintendent said the surge in Camden and Islington was \"disappointing\", but new measures were helping to reduce offending.\n\n\"Moped-enabled crime\" describes offences carried out by people on mopeds or scooters, including drive-by thefts of pedestrians' phones and bags.\n\nUse our tool to see how badly your neighbourhood is affected.\n• moped crimes in the last five years\n• of them were in 2017\n• moped crimes committed on \n\n(West End's most dangerous road since 2012)\n• moped crimes in the last five years\n• of them were in 2017\n• moped crimes committed on \n\n(Camden Town with Primrose Hill's most dangerous road since 2012)\n• moped crimes in the last five years\n• of them were in 2017\n• moped crimes were each committed on , and \n\n(Brompton & Hans Town's most dangerous roads since 2012)\n• moped crimes in the last five years\n• of them were in 2017\n• moped crimes were committed on \n\n(St James's's most dangerous road since 2012)\n• moped crimes in the last five years\n• of them were in 2017\n• moped crimes were committed on \n\n(Cathedrals's most dangerous road since 2012) Since 2012, by far the most common type of crime has been theft and handling with 30,387 offences - around three quarters of the total:\n\nDet Supt Caroline Haines, who leads the operation tackling moped crime in Camden and Islington, was asked if her team had a handle on the issue.\n\nShe said: \"Yes we do, absolutely. Yes, there is a significant increase on last year overall, and that is very disappointing.\n\n\"Since January we've deployed a number of new tactics that are now starting to see dividends.\n\n\"But we're not done yet, and we're not complacent. We do understand there's a lot more work to do.\"\n\nAn increased number of scooters and mopeds on the streets has helped fuel the phenomenon\n\nShe said hotspots arose around transport hubs, where commuters and tourists alike were often distracted as they checked their mobile phones or looked up directions.\n\nA plentiful supply of main roads leading in and out of London also provide easy escape routes for offenders.\n\nDet Supt Haines said new tactics to tackle the issue include training more officers in pursuing offenders on mopeds, using remote-controlled spikes to puncture the tyres of suspects' bikes, and educating members of the public to be more aware of their surroundings.\n\nShe also urged moped riders to make their vehicles theft-proof, due to the number of stolen vehicles used to commit crimes.\n\nSorry, your browser cannot display this map\n\nMap built using Carto. If you can't see the map, tap or click here. The data for the City of London Police area is incomplete.\n\nKirat Nandra broke her ribs and her hand when she was hit by a moped as thieves grabbed her bag\n\nKirat Nandra, 51, broke her ribs and hand and got concussion when she was hit and dragged along a pavement by two people on a moped in September 2017.\n\nShe was mugged on North Road, half a mile from Highgate Hill - the worst street in London for moped crimes.\n\n\"I didn't actually know what had happened to me. All I heard was my friend shouting my name, and I was being dragged,\" she said.\n\n\"I remember looking up, and realising the handles of my bag had got caught in the zip of my leather jacket. And I'd got tangled.\n\n\"It was so quick, so nobody could do anything.\"\n\nMs Nandra suffered severe bruising after being attacked by \"thugs\" on North Road\n\nMs Nandra managed to pull herself free just before the moped swerved back on to the road in front of other traffic.\n\nHer handbag, two phones, cash and bank cards were all taken.\n\nThe offenders, who wore dark clothes and had their faces covered, have not been caught because of a lack of evidence.\n\n\"I don't want to start pointing fingers or blaming, but something, somewhere, is going horribly wrong,\" Ms Nandra said.\n\nDet Supt Haines said she was \"sorry\" to hear Ms Nandra's case was dropped, adding that her team was \"absolutely committed\" to bringing moped criminals to justice.\n\nDet Supt Caroline Haines says she has a handle on the issue in Camden and Islington, despite the \"disappointing\" surge last year\n\nRemote-controlled spikes are used to puncture the tyres of suspects' vehicles\n\nMs Nandra, who describes herself as a strong and confident person, said she felt \"ruined\" after the attack.\n\n\"Psychologically, it's scarred me,\" she said.\n\n\"I'll never be the same again.\"\n\nShe had almost two months either off work or working part-time as she struggled with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).\n\nShe still has anxiety attacks, fears going out alone and has moved away from the area.\n\n\"I'll be OK, but I'll never be back to what I was before. I'll always have that fear in the back of my head,\" she said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Stories of moped crime from victims and police\n\nDr Simon Harding, a criminology expert from the University of West London, said the surge was partly due to criminal gangs using changes in public behaviour to their advantage.\n\nThe high cost of car insurance and the proliferation of food or goods delivery services such as Deliveroo meant there were more mopeds on the streets than there used to be, he said.\n\nStealing a moped was simple, as was plucking an expensive device out of a distracted person's hands, he added.\n\nDr Harding said street gangs on estates in north London were partly why this area has been so badly hit.\n\n\"We also know both Camden and Islington have a high number of small alleyways and canal paths - those are places that are very easy for people on scooters or bikes to access, but very difficult for the police to follow,\" he said.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Ministry of Defence spending plans are simply \"not realistic\" and could be more than £20bn over budget, the Commons spending watchdog says.\n\nIt criticises the department for not being \"open\" about the shortfall and relying on \"optimistic saving targets\".\n\n\"The Ministry of Defence simply does not have enough money to buy all the equipment it says it needs,\" MPs say.\n\nThe MoD said MPs were highlighting an \"unlikely worst-case scenario\" and it was \"on track\" to meet savings targets.\n\nThe department plans to spend almost £180bn on new military equipment over the next decade, including new submarines, warships and aircraft.\n\nBut the Commons public accounts committee has warned of a \"worrying\" funding gap, with forecast costs of at least £4.9bn and potentially up to £20.8bn, leaving it without sufficient funds to buy all the equipment.\n\nRenewing the Trident nuclear weapons system is the biggest financial risk, say MPs\n\nThe biggest risk to the £180bn equipment plan is the rising costs of renewing the Trident nuclear weapons system. The committee was concerned that a need to bring forward some of the cost of building the next generation of nuclear missile submarines would put an extra strain on the budget.\n\nThe MoD itself was criticised for lacking \"cost control\", a \"vagueness and reluctance to acknowledge its full exposure\", not being open about its financial risks and for putting its faith in a defence review - the Modernising Defence Programme - to \"solve its affordability issues\".\n\n\"We are highly sceptical that the Modernising Defence Programme will be able to return the department to a balanced position,\" the report says.\n\nThere was also some concern that the bulk of planned spending was on large-scale programmes that take years to build - leaving little headroom in the budget for responding to new threats like cyber attacks and artificial intelligence.\n\nCommittee chairwoman Meg Hillier said there was \"no excuse\" for the MoD's \"lack of rigour in its financial affairs\".\n\n\"The department must be more rigorous and realistic in its approach to costing its equipment plan. It also needs to be more open with Parliament and the public about its finances, commitments and their costs to taxpayers.\n\nThe MoD says its plan is to give the armed forces the very best equipment\n\n\"We heard a lot in evidence about the Modernising Defence Programme but I am concerned this may end up adding more costs to what is already an overstretched budget,\" the report said.\n\nThe MoD said it had already made £7.9bn of savings out of its £16bn target and was working on publishing a \"more accessible account\" of its planned equipment spending up to 2028 by the autumn.\n\nA spokesman said: \"We are committed to delivering large, complex and technologically challenging defence programmes as part of our £180bn plan to give our military the very best equipment.\n\n\"We recognise financial risk comes with that, but the potential affordability gap highlighted by this report reflects an unlikely, worst-case scenario in which all possibilities materialise.\n\n\"We are on track to meet our £16bn savings target and will also review these recommendations as part of our Modernising Defence Programme, which aims to strengthen our armed forces in the face of intensifying threats.\"", "Abdul Hakim Belhaj spent six years in jail in Libya where, he says, he was tortured\n\nThe British government has made an unprecedented apology to a former Libyan dissident and his wife who were abducted with crucial assistance from MI6.\n\nAbdul Hakim Belhaj said MI6 helped the US seize him in Thailand in 2004 to return him and his Moroccan wife, Fatima Boudchar, to Libya, where he says he was tortured.\n\nThe government has accepted the couple's account of what happened - and the settlement is the first time ministers have apologised for a specific act involving British security agencies.\n\nThe legal battle came about because documents discovered in Tripoli, Libya - during the fall of the dictator Colonel Muammar Gaddafi in 2011 - revealed how MI6 became involved in the couple's rendition.\n\nWhile the government's apology maintains a denial of legal liability, the settlement leaves questions unanswered about how much others in government were involved in what happened.\n\nThis is how the affair developed.\n\nIn the wake of the 9/11 terror attacks in 2001, the US and its allies were in a race to understand jihadist groups they had previously not done enough to track.\n\nBritish intelligence agencies wanted to know more about Libyan dissidents who had been living under UK protection - mostly families linked to the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG).\n\nFatima Boudchar, wife of Abdul Hakim Belhadj, and their son, Abderrahim\n\nThe group had attempted armed overthrows of Gaddafi's regime in the 1990s and its defeated leaders had scattered around the world.\n\nThe UK's plan was to convince Colonel Gaddafi to not only stop threatening the West, but to also provide intelligence on these LIFG members and their potential links to al-Qaeda.\n\nIn September 2011, a team from Human Rights Watch raided the abandoned headquarters of Libyan's External Security Organisation (ESO) after the dictator's eventual downfall - and the documents they found made jaws drop.\n\nSir Mark Allen, whose communications reveal the UK's role in handling Mr Belhaj\n\nThe papers included evidence of how MI6 and the CIA had groomed Gaddafi and his henchmen to come in from the cold - and one senior MI6 officer, Sir Mark Allen, was at the centre of the operation.\n\nFrom 2001 he sought to convince Moussa Koussa - his Libyan counterpart and a man who had been widely accused of torture and other human rights abuses - to work with the West.\n\nMr Koussa wanted two things: international recognition for Libya and respect for Gaddafi - and intelligence leading to the capture of LIFG leaders on the run.\n\nThe Tripoli documents show the pair met on 20 September 2001 and agreed that each country's counter-terrorism teams should work together against common enemies.\n\nMI6 asked if the Libyans would help operations to penetrate jihadist groups.\n\nThe next document - from the British side - is the first that referred to Mr Belhaj, albeit through one of his aliases and, confusingly, apparently mixing up some of his details with another dissident who was also later abducted.\n\nA later secret conference, also including the German and Austrian intelligence services, was detailed in a memo circulated among ESO chiefs.\n\nIt said that the British and others were \"willing to co-operate\" - but the UK had stressed that any co-operation on tracking down what the Libyans called \"heretics\" would need to be lawful.\n\nThe MI6 team promised to help the Libyans and began suggesting they had information that could be useful.\n\nThe breakthrough in relations appears to have come in 2002 when Sir Mark finally convinced Libya to work properly with the UK - leading to the then Foreign Office minister Mike O'Brien visiting the country in August.\n\nLater that year, the Libyans came to London and, according to their records, attended a \"banquet dinner\" hosted by MI6 at the £500-a-night Goring Hotel.\n\nThe agency was pressing for more - telling the Libyans they had to move faster and further in co-operating with the West if they were going to get the recognition they sought.\n\nAll of this diplomacy ultimately led to what became known as the 2004 \"deal in the desert\" - in which Prime Minister Tony Blair sealed what looked like a remarkable turnaround in Colonel Gaddafi's attitude.\n\nBut it came at a price. And that price was, according to the documents at least, the UK's willingness to provide information on the whereabouts of the regime's enemies.\n\nIn June 2003, the ESO received a memo from the British setting out the extent of operations to date.\n\nAnother document contained the first proof that the UK was apparently willing to provide information on what it knew about Mr Belhaj.\n\nThe British agencies thought he was in China - and initially MI6 didn't confirm that to the Libyans.\n\nBut in November, a new communication to Tripoli confirmed the British had \"embarked on a project\" relating to the dissident:\n\nBy the end of 2003, the UK was pretty confident the Libyan's were co-operating and on the road to a comprehensive deal for Libya to give up its chemical weapons.\n\nOn Christmas Eve of that year, Sir Mark sent a memo to Mr Koussa, thanking him for his efforts:\n\nThe UK and US were confident they were getting a deal - and it was now time for the UK to settle the intelligence bill.\n\nOn 1 March, London told Tripoli that Mr Belhaj, travelling under a pseudonym, had been apprehended by the Chinese authorities as he tried to board a flight to London with his wife, Fatima Boudchar, who was four months pregnant.\n\nThe couple were deported to Malaysia and were being held in detention. An MI6 cable listed all the false names Mr Belhaj was thought to be using, such as Abdullah Sadeq, to evade capture.\n\nLibya fired off a series of urgent requests to Malaysia's government, requesting that it hand over the \"dangerous\" dissident who it considered \"the prince of the LIFG\".\n\nThe US intervened and told Tripoli it was going to help secure Mr Belhaj and bring him to Libya - providing that it would get a chance to interrogate him once he was behind bars.\n\nOn 6 March, the plan was in place.\n\nMalaysian authorities put Mr Belhaj and Mrs Boudchar on a flight to Bangkok where, instead of being transferred on to a connection for London, the Thai authorities detained them and, according to their lawyers, they were tortured.\n\nThe following day, a US rendition flight team picked up the pair and flew them to Tripoli.\n\nOn 18 March, Sir Mark sent this congratulatory message to Mr Koussa - making clear that he believed the capture of Mr Belhaj, referred to here by his nom de guerre Abu 'Abd Allsh, was down to the British alone:\n\nMr Belhaj, one of Gaddafi's greatest enemies, was tortured over six years and given a death sentence, which was never carried out.\n\nHis wife was released before she gave birth - and the son she was carrying at the time was in the House of Commons to hear the historic apology from the UK.\n\nAttorney General Jeremy Wright said the settlement with the couple included a £500,000 payment to Ms Boudchar.\n\n\"It is clear that you were both subjected to appalling treatment and that you suffered greatly,\" Theresa May said in a letter to the pair.\n\n\"We should have done more to reduce the risk that you would be mistreated,\" she added. \"We accept this was a failing on our part.\"\n\nSir Mark Allen has never spoken publicly about the affair. He, along with former foreign secretary Jack Straw, and all the agencies involved, denied individual wrongdoing.", "Manchester United and France legend Eric Cantona is to return to Old Trafford in June.\n\nHe'll be playing at Manchester United's stadium as part of the Soccer Aid charity football match for Unicef.\n\nThe 51-year-old says: \"There is no place like home. Knowing I am coming back to Old Trafford is a special feeling.\"\n\nHe joins a host of famous faces including Usain Bolt, Sir Mo Farah, Olly Murs and Gordon Ramsay.\n\nCantona has played on the hallowed turf since he left in 1997 - back in 2001, at Ryan Giggs' testimonial.\n\nFootballing giant Cantona will play for a World XI made up of ex-footballers and celebs, captained by Usain Bolt. It will be the first time he's played there since 2001.\n\n\"I am coming back to make the June 10 match the best ever and I want you to join me,\" says the Frenchman.\n\n\"Let's make history together at Old Trafford again one last time.\"\n\nSir Mo and Usain Bolt will go head to head in June\n\nCantona will join other ex-Man Utd stars playing at their famous ground including England Women boss Phil Neville and Edwin van der Sar.\n\nOther players for the World XI include Yaya Toure, Clarence Seedorf, Robert Pires, Jaap Stam and Patrick Kluivert.\n\nThey'll face the likes of David Seaman, Jamie Redknapp, Danny Murphy and Robbie Fowler for the England XI.\n\nWill Ferrell, Niall Horan, Louis Tomlinson and Jack Whitehall are just a few of the celebs to have taken part in the charity match in the past.\n\nCantona's kung-fu kick earned him an eight-month ban from football which meant he never played for France again\n\nThe enigmatic Cantona - who signed for £1.2m in 1992 - scored 64 goals in 143 league games for Manchester United, winning four Premier League titles and two FA cups in five seasons there.\n\nBut the number seven was also constantly surrounded by controversy - especially when he aimed a kung-fu kick at a fan during a match.\n\nHe was banned for eight months for the incident 1995.\n\nAt a press conference afterwards, he gave arguably his most famous quote: \"When the seagulls follow the trawler, it's because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSince he retired from football in 1997, Cantona has acted in movies including Elizabeth, French Film and Looking for Eric.\n\nHe's even made the likes of Benedict Cumberbatch star-struck.\n\nTickets for the Soccer Aid match are priced between £10 and £50, and it will be broadcast live on ITV from 8pm BST on Sunday 10 June.\n\nThe event, which takes place every two years, has raised £24m to help children since its launch in 2006.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Cantona sent an emotional message to Manchester after last year's Manchester Arena attack\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 wave was measured by a buoy at Campbell Island in the Southern Ocean\n\nScientists in New Zealand have documented what they believe is the largest wave ever recorded in the southern hemisphere.\n\nThe 23.8m (78ft) wave was measured by a buoy on New Zealand's Campbell Island in the Southern Ocean on Tuesday, the country's weather authority said.\n\nIt eclipses a 22.03m wave that was identified south of the Australian state of Tasmania in 2012.\n\nLarger waves have been recorded in the northern hemisphere.\n\nThe Meteorological Service of New Zealand (MetService) installed its solar-powered buoy in March. The area is known for big storm activity, but waves had been previously difficult to measure.\n\nThe \"eight-storey high\" wave was generated by a deep low pressure system and 65-knot winds, said MetService senior oceanographer Dr Tom Durrant.\n\n\"This is a very exciting event and to our knowledge it is the largest wave ever recorded in the southern hemisphere,\" he told the BBC.\n\nThe buoy operates for 20 minutes every three hours. Dr Durrant said it was possible that even bigger waves were generated by the storm but not recorded.\n\nThe World Meteorological Organization does not hold official records on individual wave heights. Instead, it records an average of successive swells - a measure known as the \"significant wave height\".\n\nDuring the storm recorded by New Zealand, the significant wave height was 14.9m.\n\nThat is a record for the Southern Ocean but below a 19m mark measured by a buoy in the North Atlantic in 2016, Dr Durrant said.\n\nHe said storms moved across the Southern Ocean largely unhindered due to a lack of land.\n\n\"[It is] the engine room for generating swell waves that then propagate throughout the planet,\" he said.\n\n\"Indeed surfers in California can expect energy from this storm to arrive at their shores in about a week's time.\"", "The measure used to set interest rates on student loans is flawed and unfair, say MPs\n\nThe inflation measure used to set interest rates on student loans is \"absurd\", says a report from MPs.\n\nThe government uses RPI - the Retail Prices Index - which the Treasury Select Committee says is \"flawed\" and should be \"abandoned\".\n\nThe rise in that measure will push interest rates on student loans for tuition fees up to 6.3% in the autumn.\n\nThe Department for Education defended the continuing use of RPI, saying it provided \"consistency over time\".\n\nNicky Morgan, who chairs the committee, said the use of RPI for loan repayments, which \"normally gives a higher rate of inflation\", appears \"grossly unfair\".\n\nThe DFE, responding to the MPs' criticism, acknowledged that \"the flaws in the RPI measure of inflation are well understood\", but said that a review of tuition fees and loans was currently under way and the outcome could not be \"pre-judged\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Five things you should know about your student loan debt\n\nThis review is due to report in early 2019. And until then student loans will continue to be set using RPI.\n\nThis is despite an official warning about the use of RPI earlier this year from the national statistician, John Pullinger, who said: \"We do not think it is a good measure of inflation and discourage its use.\"\n\nThe Treasury Select Committee says that student loans should be set against the Consumer Prices Index (CPI), which is currently a percentage point lower than RPI.\n\nIt strongly rejected the government's argument to stick with RPI.\n\n\"Continuing to use a measure that it readily admits is flawed, on the grounds of consistency, is absurd,\" Mrs Morgan, herself a former education secretary, said.\n\n\"It guarantees that student loan interest rates will be consistently flawed.\"\n\nThe interest rates for loans, which begin to be charged as soon as students start at university, are set at the level of RPI in March, plus 3%.\n\nNicky Morgan says the use of RPI for interest on student loans is \"grossly unfair\"\n\nWith an RPI measure of 3.3%, it means that for the next academic year interest rates will be up to 6.3%, although students do not have to begin repayments until they have graduated and are earning over £25,000 per year.\n\nThe CPI rate for March was 2.3%.\n\nThe report from MPs says interest charges are too high and there has been no \"persuasive explanation\" for why student loan interest should be so much higher than market rates, the government's own cost of borrowing or the rate of inflation.\n\nThe MPs also challenged the application of interest rates while students were still at university, saying the government should reconsider such \"punitive measures\".", "A dashcam has captured the moment a van driver thought to be sleeping at the wheel careered into the back of a lorry.\n\nDan Davies captured the crash in Northamptonshire on Thursday evening, where the driver miraculously left the scene with just minor injuries.", "The man hired to run the Student Loans Company was appointed against officials' advice and without having his references checked, a report says.\n\nSteve Lamey was made chief executive in June 2016 on a year's probation.\n\nWithin 18 months he was sacked for gross misconduct after whistleblowers made 69 allegations of wrongdoing.\n\nA National Audit Office probe into the government's oversight of the firm said despite the reservations, it failed to properly monitor the appointment.\n\nIt is the first time the details of Mr Lamey's tenure and dismissal have been revealed.\n\nThe Student Loans Company oversees £100bn worth of debt to the public purse, processes 1.8 million applications a year and has more than eight million customers.\n\nThe appointment panel identified one suitable candidate for the job, Mr Lamey.\n\nBut once Business, Innovation and Skills (Bis) officials received references from Mr Lamey's former employer - HM Revenue and Customs, which he left in 2012 - they recommended that the recruitment process was re-run.\n\nMr Lamey's most recent employer declined to provide references and references were not sought from his clients, the NAO found.\n\nIt reported that a special adviser to the then Secretary of State, Jo Johnson, intervened, saying it would be costly to re-run the recruitment process.\n\nMr Lamey went on to be appointed on a probationary period, but only two of four suggested ongoing safeguards devised to monitor the appointment were carried out once he was in post.\n\nIn November 2016, departmental officials apparently attended a conference where Mr Lamey was openly critical of his own company, but took no action.\n\nBy the end of March 2017, Mr Lamey received a positive appraisal and he was confirmed in post at the end of May.\n\nAlmost simultaneously a whistleblower emerged making 12 allegations against Mr Lamey and other members of his team.\n\nAnd within two months another had come forward with 57 other allegations.\n\nUltimately, a disciplinary panel found Mr Lamey had breached four of the seven principles of standards in public life including integrity, objectivity, accountability and leadership.\n\nIt found he did not adhere to rules governing the managing of public money, carrying out procurements or follow proper decision-making processes.\n\nOne key failing the report highlighted was the lack of a finance director on the executive leadership team.\n\nA Department for Education spokesperson said: \"We take any allegations of inappropriate behaviour extremely seriously and are pleased that the NAO found that the department and SLC acted swiftly as soon as whistleblowers raised concerns regarding Mr Lamey's behaviour.\n\n\"He was subsequently dismissed after two independent investigations for gross misconduct.\n\n\"After assuming oversight of the Student Loans Company in 2016, we reviewed and introduced changes to our oversight measures, including quarterly shareholder meetings to discuss performance and risk management.\n\n\"A review of governance is currently under way to see how we can build on those measures to ensure that the SLC is well supported to continue delivering student finance that helps millions of UK students invest in their future.\"\n\nChair of the Public Accounts Committee, Meg Hillier, said: \"This is a story of the failure of two departments to effectively monitor a public body under their watch.\n\n\"The concerns raised by officials about Mr Lamey's appointment should have been taken more seriously by BIS.\"", "Harvey Weinstein and Georgina Chapman have been married since 2007\n\nHarvey Weinstein's estranged wife has given her first interview since he was engulfed in scandal, and said she was \"never\" suspicious about his behaviour.\n\nAsked by Vogue magazine whether she had suspicions, fashion designer Georgina Chapman replied: \"Absolutely not.\"\n\nThe interview comes seven months after the first of dozens of women accused him of sexual assault and harassment.\n\nChapman admitted she had been \"so naive\", and was \"so humiliated and so broken\" when the scandal unfolded.\n\nWeinstein and Chapman married in 2007 and she announced that she was leaving him days after the allegations emerged. Vogue described him as her \"soon-to-be ex-husband\".\n\nThe movie mogul has denied all allegations of \"non-consensual sex\".\n\nThe British designer, who founded the Marchesa label, said she didn't go out in public for five months after the story broke.\n\nGeorgina Chapman: \"I had what I thought was a very happy marriage\"\n\n\"I was so humiliated and so broken that I didn't think it was respectful to go out,\" she told US Vogue.\n\n\"I thought, 'who am I to be parading around with all of this going on?'. It's still so very, very raw. I was walking up the stairs the other day and I stopped. It was like all the air had been punched out of my lungs.\"\n\nThe couple have two children, who are aged seven and five.\n\nShe said: \"There was a part of me that was terribly naive - clearly, so naive.\n\n\"I have moments of rage, I have moments of confusion, I have moments of disbelief. And I have moments when I just cry for my children. What are their lives going to be?\"\n\nVogue said she broke down in loud sobs during the interview. \"What are people going to say to them? It's like, they love their dad. They love him. I just can't bear it for them.\"\n\nChapman said she lost 10lb in five days after the first allegations emerged because she \"couldn't keep food down\".\n\nShe said: \"My head was spinning. And it was difficult because the first article was about a time long before I'd ever met him, so there was a minute where I couldn't make an informed decision.\n\n\"And then the stories expanded and I realised that this wasn't an isolated incident. And I knew that I needed to step away and take the kids out of here.\"\n\nWith the children, she went to stay with actor David Oyelowo, a longtime friend.\n\n\"I had what I thought was a very happy marriage. I loved my life,\" she said.\n\nWeinstein was \"a wonderful partner\", Chapman said, adding: \"He was a friend and a confidant and a supporter. Yes, he's a big personality... but... I don't know. I wish I had the answers. But I don't.\"\n\nScarlett Johansson was the first celebrity in months to wear Marchesa at a high-profile event when she wore one of the firm's creations to the Met Ball on Monday.\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 government has apologised to a Libyan dissident and his wife after its actions contributed to their detention, transfer to Libya and his torture by Colonel Gaddafi's forces in 2004.\n\nPrime Minister Theresa May said Abdul Hakim Belhaj and Fatima Boudchar had suffered \"appalling treatment\".\n\nMs Boudchar said the apology was \"historic\" after what they had been through.", "Ms Lewinsky said the magazine offered her an article after disinviting her from the event\n\nA US magazine has apologised to Monica Lewinsky, the ex-White House intern who had an affair with former president Bill Clinton, after an apparent snub.\n\nMs Lewinsky caused a stir on social media after tweeting about how she was disinvited to a \"social change\" event after Mr Clinton decided to attend.\n\nShe said the magazine, which she did not name, offered to remedy the situation by giving her an article.\n\nLifestyle magazine Town & Country apologised to her a day later.\n\n\"We apologise to Ms. Lewinsky and regret the way the situation was handled,\" the magazine said in a tweet on Thursday. The magazine did not offer any other details.\n\nThe apology came a day after Ms Lewinsky posted a vague tweet about the apparent invitation snub.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Monica Lewinsky This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"Don't try to ameliorate the situation by insulting me with an offer of an article in your mag,\" Ms Lewinsky added.\n\nThe event in question appeared to refer to the magazine's annual philanthropic summit - an invite-only event described as a gathering of activists and social leaders, according to the Huffington Post, which first named the magazine.\n\nThe news website reported that Mr Clinton attended the summit on Wednesday to introduce Emma Gonzalez, a survivor of the Parkland, Florida school shooting and gun control advocate.\n\nMr Clinton's press secretary said he was unaware Ms Lewinsky's invitation was rescinded.\n\nThe former president's press secretary, Angel Ureña said he \"gladly accepted\" the invite to address the summit and \"neither he nor his staff knew anything\" about Ms Lewinsky's invitation.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMs Lewinsky's affair with Mr Clinton when she was a White House intern was a key issue that led to impeachment proceedings against him.", "Mr Corbyn was speaking at a shipbuilding museum in Govan\n\nJeremy Corbyn has called for navy shipbuilding contracts to stay in the UK in a speech in Glasgow.\n\nThere has been speculation that a £1bn contract for three new Royal Fleet Auxiliary support ships could go to a foreign shipyard.\n\nThe vessels will provide ammunition, equipment and food to Royal Navy warships.\n\nThe Labour leader claimed that building them abroad would \"trash\" the UK's shipbuilding tradition.\n\nCurrent UK government policy is for British yards to construct complex warships such as the eight Type 26 frigates which are to be built at BAE Systems' Govan and Scotstoun shipyards on the Clyde over the next 20 years.\n\nBut non-combat vessels can be built overseas - with a £450m deal to build four tankers to fuel navy ships at sea being awarded to Daewoo, a South Korean firm, in 2012.\n\nThe Ministry of Defence contract for the Royal Fleet Auxiliary solid support ships is expected to go out to international tender later this month - but unions have called for the process to be UK-only.\n\nSpeaking last month, Scotland's first minister Nicola Sturgeon told Holyrood that it would be a \"blatant betrayal\" if the work did not go to Scottish shipyards as \"during the (independence) referendum, promises were made to those shipyards by the Tories\".\n\nShe added: \"I argue that that work was promised to the Clyde and should definitely go to the Clyde.\"\n\nHowever, it has been reported that the BAE yards on the Clyde are not likely to bid for the contract as they are already at full capacity with the Type 26 work.\n\nThere have been suggestions that the Port Glasgow and Rosyth yards - owned by Ferguson Marine and Babcock respectively - could form part of any UK-based bid.\n\nRoyal Fleet Auxiliary support vessels are used to resupply Royal Navy warships around the world\n\nOn a visit to Govan, Mr Corbyn said building the ships somewhere in the UK could secure more than 6,500 jobs - 1,800 of these in shipyards.\n\nHe argued that workers in British shipyards \"share a proud tradition - building the best ships in the world\".\n\nBut he warned: \"The Conservative government is trashing that tradition by offering up the Ministry of Defence's most recent contract for three new Fleet Solid Support Ships to overseas companies to build abroad.\n\n\"This decision is wrong. Today we are calling on the government to guarantee that these three new ships for the Royal Fleet Auxiliary will be built in domestic shipyards.\n\n\"Our shipyards used to produce half of all new ships worldwide. Our current market share is now less than half a percent. The Tories seem hell-bent on accelerating and deepening this industrial decline.\"\n\nThe Labour leader also pledged that his party would use public contracts as part of its bigger plans to upgrade the economy, and urged people not to listen to anyone who said the country was no longer capable of building things.\n\nHis call was welcomed by the GMB union, which has been campaigning to keep the contract for the new military support ships in the UK.\n\nIts Scottish secretary, Gary Smith, said: \"What would the RFAs mean for places like Port Glasgow or Roysth? It would means jobs growth, modern apprenticeship opportunities, prosperity and redistribution of wealth into local communities - the prize is massive.\"\n\nThe MoD said that the work on eight new Type 26 anti-submarine ships and five smaller Type 31 frigates mean that the UK \"is witnessing a renaissance in shipbuilding\", including securing \"4,000 jobs and 20 years of work\" on the Clyde.\n\nA spokesman added: \"We are launching a competition for three new Fleet Solid Support ships this year and strongly encourage British yards to take part.\n\n\"Since 2010 this government has invested more than £6bn in shipbuilding in the UK, securing thousands of jobs. In 2018/19 we expect to spend in excess of £750m supporting the fleet.\"\n\nAnd it has said that UK shipyards are \"strongly encouraged\" to bid for the support ship contract, which is expected to be awarded in 2020.\n\nMeanwhile, SNP MSP Bill Kidd said Mr Corbyn had a \"brass neck coming to Glasgow to make more empty statements on shipbuilding\".\n\nHe added: \"Workers on the Clyde and people across Scotland haven't forgotten Labour's betrayal of the industry in 2014 - making promises they couldn't keep in order to shore up votes in their grubby alliance with the Tories.\"", "In the early hours of 14 June 2017 a devastating fire engulfed the Grenfell tower block in North Kensington, west London.\n\nThe building burned for several hours and 72 people were eventually confirmed to have lost their lives.\n\nRelatives of many victims were given the chance to commemorate their loved ones at the public inquiry in London.", "Four breeds are banned in the UK: the pit bull terrier, Japanese tosa, dogo Argentino and fila Brasileiro\n\nMPs are to investigate the effectiveness of the 1991 Dangerous Dogs Act amid figures suggesting there has been an increase in attacks.\n\nHospital admissions for dog attacks rose by 76% in a decade, according to the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee.\n\nIt will examine whether the public is being properly protected and look at animal welfare concerns.\n\nThe RSPCA says the law is \"ineffective and unjust\" and needs replacing.\n\nBreeds banned by the act are the:\n\nOwners can get a certificate of exemption if a court believes the dog is not dangerous.\n\nThe 1991 act also makes it an offence for an owner to allow any dog \"to be dangerously out of control\".\n\nThe legislation was aimed at reducing dog attacks, but figures from 2015 suggested hospital admissions related to them had risen 76% from the same period 10 years previously.\n\nAnd the committee pointed to RSPCA figures suggesting that of the 30 people killed by dogs between 1991 and 2016, 21 had been attacked by dogs that were not banned.\n\nThe charity has since updated this figure to 37 deaths, of which 28 involved non-banned breeds.\n\nThe Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee will investigate:\n\nNeil Parish, who chairs the committee, said: \"Four types of dog were banned in the UK in 1991, but since then 70% of dog-related deaths have been caused by those not prohibited by legislation.\n\n\"There is evidence to suggest that we should account for the temperament of the dog when assessing its danger to society.\n\n\"There is also the view that some banned dog breeds can be suitable pets in certain circumstances.\n\n\"Our inquiry will look at whether the government should be taking a more individualised approach to judging the threat posed by dogs, or whether blanket bans remain the most appropriate means of regulation.\"\n\nAmong those who have criticised the legislation are the Kennel Club and Battersea Dogs & Cats Home.\n\nConservative MP Andrew Rosindell called for a review two years ago, arguing the act was \"simply not effective\" and that the problem was not with the dogs but with their owners.\n\nThe RSPCA has campaigned against \"breed specific\" legislation, arguing that the evidence is not there to suggest the banned breeds are more aggressive.\n\nRSPCA dog welfare expert Samantha Gaines said she was pleased MPs had \"listened to the serious concerns of animal welfare organisations\".\n\n\"We strongly believe that breed-specific legislation is ineffective at protecting the public and compromises dog welfare,\" she said.\n\n\"The fact is that the way a dog looks and his breed is not a predictor of whether he or she is likely to be aggressive.\"\n\nShe said thousands of dogs had been put down or \"kennelled unnecessarily\", while fatal dog attacks had continued.\n\nThe Dangerous Dogs Act has been amended over time.\n\nIn 2014, sentencing guidelines in England and Wales were changed to raise the maximum jail sentence for a fatal dog attack from two years to 14.\n\nThe law was also extended to include attacks on private property. And the police and authorities were given powers to require owners to attend dog training classes or muzzle their dog in public.", "Soldiers who served with Prince Harry in Afghanistan have been asked by the groom to take part in his wedding day.\n\nThe Household Cavalry Mounted Regiment has been preparing at Hyde Park Barracks ahead of the wedding on 19 May.\n\nThe prince served two tours of duty in Afghanistan with the Household Cavalry.", "Three days ago, ties between the US and Iran took a significant turn for the worse.\n\nDonald Trump pulled the US out of a multi-country deal that suspended sanctions on Iran while limiting its nuclear activities. After saying the deal was \"defective at its core\", he placed more sanctions on Iran.\n\nIran responded with frustration, but it now appears to be engaging in a more off-the-cuff manner.\n\nOn Friday, Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was pictured in a post on his Instagram feed at the Tehran Book Fair.\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 khamenei_ir 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\nNothing unusual there, but in one image he was seen reading a Persian-language edition of Michael Wolff's book Fire and Fury, which claims that life in the White House is chaotic.\n\nThe US president described the book as \"fiction\" and Mr Wolff as a \"fraud\".\n\nWhen the book was released in January, it was described as a \"bombshell\" by commentators as it raised doubts over Mr Trump's mental health.\n\nIt claimed that Mr Trump pursued friends' wives and that his daughter Ivanka would mock his hairstyle behind his back.\n\nThe photo was posted just days after Iran's President Hassan Rouhani appeared to troll the US in the wake of Mr Trump's decision to pull out of the deal.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe deal with Iran's government was signed by Mr Trump's predecessor, Barack Obama.\n\nIt was agreed between Iran and the five permanent members of the UN Security Council - the US, UK, France, China and Russia - plus Germany.\n\nOn Wednesday, Ayatollah Khameni said Mr Trump had \"made a mistake\" in deciding to leave a multi-country nuclear deal.\n\n\"I said from the first day: don't trust America,\" Mr Khamenei said.\n\nOn a visit to Tehran's book fair - which began on 2 May and closes on Saturday - the Shia religious leader cut a jovial figure as he spoke with store-holders and read books.\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 khamenei_ir This article contains content provided by Instagram. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Ruth Cornish wants an academically selective education for Henry and Florence\n\nLike many mothers, Ruth Cornish started thinking about choosing secondary schools when her children were eight or nine years old.\n\nShe wanted an academically selective school for Henry and Florence.\n\nThe family live in Gloucestershire, a county with some of the oldest grammar schools in England.\n\n\"I do think it's harder for children to get good results, to get to university, get a good job. So anything we can do to help them seems to me a no-brainer.\"\n\nShe's delighted that since 2010, every grammar school in Gloucestershire has added extra places, even though there hasn't been an increase in 11-year-olds.\n\n\"I think it's a consumer society - parental demand is there and children want to go.\"\n\nThere had been growing pressure for more places, with fears that competition was becoming fierce, with children travelling from outside the county to get in after passing the grammar school entrance test.\n\nRuth told me: \"You research your chances and realise you're competing with Swindon, Wiltshire and Bristol.\"\n\nGloucestershire isn't the only place in England where grammars - academically selective schools that offer places based on an exam taken in the last year of primary school - are expanding.\n\nOur analysis shows how much grammar schools have grown across England since 2010, often not in areas where there was an immediate need for more secondary places overall.\n\nThe number of pupils aged 11-15 in England's grammar schools has gone from 110,600 in 2009-10 to 118,200 in 2016-17.\n\nThat's a 7% growth at a time when the number of 11 to 15-year-olds in the areas with grammar schools has fallen by 2.5%.\n\nIt adds up to the equivalent of about 11 new average-sized grammar schools.\n\nAs more children go through the schools, with new pupils taking up those places every year, it means that by 2020-21 the equivalent of 21 new grammar schools would have been created in a decade.\n\nAll this is at a time when the government has dropped plans to create completely new grammar schools because the plans were too controversial.\n\nFor a full list scroll to the bottom of the page.\n\nThe expansion is driven partly by demand from parents like Ruth, and partly by pressure on school budgets.\n\nGrammar schools tend to get less funding per pupil because many are in areas where schools have historically received less.\n\nThey also admit very few pupils from poorer backgrounds, who bring top-up funding in the form of the pupil premium.\n\nMany grammar schools we approached were hesitant about talking publicly about the financial pressures.\n\nAlcester Grammar School in Warwickshire has been expanding its intake over the last few years from 450 to 750 students. Its Principal, Clive Sentance, says it is mainly about \"achieving major economies of scale\".\n\nHe says the school has taken action to respond to financial challenges from increasing class sizes to asking for voluntary donations but believes that without expanding pupil numbers, those steps \"would not have been sufficient\".\n\nGrammar schools are state secondary schools that select their pupils by means of an exam taken by children at age 11, sometimes known as the 11-plus.\n\nThere are 163 grammar schools in England, out of some 3,000 state secondaries, and a further 67 grammar schools in Northern Ireland.\n\nThere are no state grammars in Wales or Scotland.\n\nThere are concerns that grammar school expansion could reach a tipping point in terms of its impact.\n\nJon Andrews from the Education Policy Institute says negative effects on results increase at the point when 70% of children already doing well can get a grammar school place.\n\n\"Our research shows that as you increase the number of grammar school places in an area, the penalties on those who miss out on getting into grammar school increase.\"\n\nPoorer children are least likely to get a grammar school place and most likely to suffer this negative effect.\n\nThis doesn't mean that schools that don't select on ability don't have ambition.\n\nStratford upon Avon School has been improving its results and encouraging pupils to go into its sixth form thinking ambitiously about university.\n\nHead teacher Neil Wallace knows he has to compete to attract families to the school.\n\nHe is also competing for funding, as with each pupil that enrols comes at least £4,000 a year.\n\nNeil Wallace is head at Stratford upon Avon School\n\n\"The biggest source of income any school has is intake. Adding an additional class of 30 would bring in roundly £120,000 to a school budget in each year.\"\n\n\"That's a tension regardless of what the school is. It may be selective or not selective, it could be a free school that opens and upsets a local equilibrium.\"\n\nWarwickshire has seen the number of 11-year-olds go up 7% since 2010, but one nearby grammar school increased its intake by 66%.\n\nData analysis by Wesley Stephenson, Ransome Mpini and Robert Cuffe. Design by Sumi Senthinathan and Sandra Rodriguez Chillida.\n\nThe analysis uses data from the schools census published on the Department for Education website. It looks at the change in the number of pupils aged 11-15 in nearly all grammar schools in England between 2009-10 academic year and the 2016-17 academic year. A comparison is made between this and the change in the total number of pupils aged 11-15 in the local authority areas in which each grammar is located.\n\n* Data excludes three grammar schools that changed the age of intake during the period.\n\n** Boston High School and Boston Grammar School were undergoing a merger in 2010 which was later abandoned. This has some effect on some but not all of the growth at these schools.\n\n*** Chatham and Clarendon Grammar School was created in 2013 from the merger of two grammar schools. Change is calculated using the combined data for the two schools in 2009-10.", "Drivers and insurers are losing £1m a month repairing damage to vehicles caused by potholes, the AA says.\n\nThe motorists' organisation says the number of claims for the first four months of 2018 already equal those for the whole of last year.\n\nIt said there was a pothole \"epidemic\" that was a \"national embarrassment\".\n\nThe Department for Transport said it was spending £23bn on England's roads to improve journeys, which included a pothole action fund.\n\nBased on its share of the car insurance market, the AA has extrapolated that there have been 4,200 such claims this year across the UK.\n\nJanet Connor, the AA's director of insurance, said spending cuts meant roads were not being properly maintained.\n\n\"Local council budgets have been squeezed to the extent that competing priorities mean they don't have the resources to keep their roads up to scratch,\" she said.\n\n\"Our nation's highways have become a national embarrassment.\"\n\nThe AA was seeing a growing number of pothole claims described as \"car severely damaged and un-driveable\", she said, which had not happened at all last year.\n\nThe estimated average repair bill was £1,000, but the AA said that underestimated the true extent of the damage.\n\nMs Connor said the £1m a month figure was not the whole story: \"In most cases the damage caused by a pothole - a ruined tyre or even two tyres and perhaps a wheel rim - doesn't justify making an insurance claim given that it is likely to lead to the loss of your excess and no-claim bonus. So the claims we are seeing are clearly much worse than that.\"\n\nPothole frustration led one Swindon man to start sticking dolls into offending holes in the road\n\nIn March, the Secretary of State for Transport, Chris Grayling, announced a £100m fund for road repairs, and admitted there had not been enough spent since the 1980s.\n\nA spokesperson for the Department for Transport said it was providing councils in England with more than £6bn to help improve the condition of roads. \"This funding includes a record £296m through the Pothole Action Fund - enough to fix around 6 million potholes.\"\n\nMartin Tett, the Local Government Association's transport spokesman, said councils needed more central funding to let them carry out the widespread improvement that roads required.\n\nA Highways England spokeswoman said it had replaced more than 4,400 miles of road surface in the past three years.\n\nThe AA carries a check list for motorists on its website advising what they should do if their vehicle is damaged by a pothole.\n\nLast week it said it had conducted a study and found that nine out of 10 drivers said the condition of UK roads had deteriorated over the past 10 years.\n\nMotorists' frustration with potholes have provoked some colourful protests recently.\n\nLast month, one motorist gained some publicity for his campaign against potholes that involved sticking dolls into holes in the road.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Adverts for \"unhealthy food and drink\" could be banned on the Tube, Overground, buses and bus shelters\n\nJunk food advertising could be banned across the entire Transport for London (TfL) network, City Hall has announced.\n\nThe Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, says he wants to tackle the \"ticking time bomb\" of child obesity in the capital.\n\nIf the proposal is approved, adverts for \"unhealthy food and drink\" will be banned on the London Underground, Overground, buses and bus shelters.\n\nThe scheme is backed by child health experts but the Advertising Association said it would have \"little impact\".\n\nThe junk food advertising ban forms part of Mr Khan's London Food Strategy, which has been published for consultation.\n\nTfL's director of TfL's transport strategy Lilli Matson said it had a \"large advertising estate with a diverse audience\", and is supporting the mayor's attempts to make London healthier.\n\nSadiq Khan has described London's child obesity issue as a \"ticking time bomb\"\n\nMr Khan wants to \"reduce the influence and pressure that can be put on children and families to make unhealthy choices\".\n\nHe said: \"I am determined to do all I can to tackle this issue with the powers I have and help Londoners make healthy food choices for themselves and their families.\n\n\"That is why I am proposing to ban adverts for harmful junk food from our entire Tube and bus network.\"\n\nMr Khan intends to ban adverts for food and drinks high in fat, salt or sugar.\n\nIf the plan goes ahead \"junk food\" adverts will be banned on the Underground, Overground and bus network\n\nA spokesman for the mayor's office said if the ban comes in \"everyone will be affected, whether it's the biggest fast food chain or the most niche\", and their products will be assessed against the nutrient profiling model developed by the Food Standards Agency.\n\nCompanies could, he added, choose to swap their adverts for burgers or fizzy drinks for \"healthier products within their range, such as salads or bottled water\".\n\nThe burgers may be banned, the fizzy drinks may fizzle out, but have we seen the last of adverts from companies who make their money selling such things to Londoners? The truth is, probably not.\n\nIt seems the mayor is trying to have his (low-calorie) cake and eat it.\n\nPerhaps aware that high sugar, fat and salt ads bring in around £13m for TfL he says his new ban will not apply to companies - just to their less healthy products.\n\nAdvertise with us, he'll say, as long as you're pushing your healthier wares.\n\nThat could cut the expected losses to TfL, but how does the policy fit into a wider business plan that sees shops at stations selling unhealthy snacks? Or kiosks on the Tube selling chocolates and crisps?\n\n\"We can all indulge occasionally,\" the mayor told me.\n\nAdvertisers will now have to decide how occasionally they wish to indulge when it comes to the big sell on London's Tube and buses.\n\nChef and health campaigner Jamie Oliver - who has said London \"now has the most overweight and obese children of any major global city\" - described the proposal as \"bold\".\n\nThe Advertising Association says a ban would have \"little impact\"\n\nCity Hall says the capital has one of the highest child overweight and obesity rates in Europe, with almost 40% of children aged 10 and 11 either overweight or obese.\n\nIt has identified \"stark differences\" between boroughs, with children from poorer areas \"disproportionately affected\".\n\nYoung people in Barking and Dagenham are almost twice as likely to be overweight as children from Richmond-upon-Thames, it says.\n\n\"We need to ensure those families have access to nutritional and healthy food but aren't disproportionately exposed to adverts for unhealthy foods,\" Mr Khan told BBC Radio London's Vanessa Feltz, adding that there are some parts of London \"where you simply haven't got access to fresh fruit and veg\".\n\nRussell Viner, president of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, said advertising was \"one of the leading contributors for the growth of child obesity\", adding: \"It is therefore vital, especially in cities like London where deprivation is high, that it is tackled.\"\n\nAn Advertising Association spokesperson said the UK already bans advertising of high fat, sugar and salt (HFSS) food or drink products in all media where under 16s make up more than 25% of the audience.\n\nHe added that for outdoor advertising, such as posters on the Underground, there is a recommendation that no sites can carry HFSS advertising within 100m of any school.\n\n\"International experience and independent research has shown an advertising ban would have little impact on the wider societal issues that drive obesity,\" he said.\n\nToday's announcement has been welcomed by healthy food charity Sustain and the Obesity Health Alliance Lead, which said it hoped the Government would follow suit by banning junk food ads on TV after 21:00 as part of chapter 2 of its obesity plan.\n\nThe Department of Health said it has \"not ruled out taking further action\" following its tax on sugary drinks which came into force last month.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "C.J. Poirer (left) is on his way to visit Becca Warren (right) after a beleaguered Twitter campaign\n\nA cash-poor young man has proven that perseverance and thousands of retweets are all it takes to conquer love.\n\nMichigan native CJ Poirier wanted to visit his Canadian girlfriend in Newfoundland but lacked the funds.\n\nWhen the 19-year-old failed to score a free flight by getting 530,000 retweets, he asked for celebrities to donate their retweets to his cause.\n\nHis campaigning finally paid off, and he will be on board a flight to visit his girlfriend next Monday.\n\nIt was a love story made for the social media age.\n\nMr Poirer met his girlfriend Becca Warren about a year ago online, where the two quickly bonded over video games and cartoons. But after six months of texting, they want to meet face to face.\n\nA plane ticket from Michigan to Newfoundland would cost about $800, a steep price tag for a barista, Mr Poirer says.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by C.J. Poirier - #530KforBecca This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThat is where Twitter came in.\n\n\"How many retweets to get a free round trip flight to Newfoundland and see my girlfriend?\" he asked.\n\nThey agreed that he would have to get 530,000 retweets by 9 May in order to get a free ticket.\n\nWhen he missed the mark - by about 498,000 retweets - the airline agreed to extend the deadline and let others \"donate\" their own retweets to his cause.\n\nMr Poirer tried to convince the likes of Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and rapper Drake to help him out, but it was Canadian skating celebrity duo Scott Moir and Tessa Virtue who pitched 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 2 by Tessa Virtue This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 Friday, Mr Poirer announced that he met the deadline, and that Air Canada would be giving him a free round-trip ticket to visit Ms Warren.\n\n\"WE DID IT!!!!!!\" he tweeted, sharing Air Canada's post.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 C.J. Poirier - #530KforBecca This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nHe has also raised $500 on a GoFundMe he created as a back-up plan to his Twitter challenge. He has not said what he plans to do with the money.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The boy was winched to safety\n\nA 13-year-old boy was left clinging to a cliff face by his fingernails after he started to climb it but got stuck.\n\nCoastguard teams and a search and rescue helicopter winched the child to safety from the 330ft (100m) cliff face in Langdon, Kent, on Friday.\n\nDover coastguard said the teenager started climbing from a terrace cut into the middle of the cliff.\n\nHe was 175ft (53m) from the bottom when he found himself unable to move up or down.\n\nHM Coastguard helicopter captain James Lorraine said the rescue was particularly difficult because of the boy's \"extremely perilous position\" on the cliff near Dover.\n\nHe said the child had been stuck for about 30 minutes when he was found, and rescuers knew he could not hold on much longer.\n\nAfter they were unable to reach him because of the dense shrubbery, the helicopter took over \"with only minutes to spare\", he said.\n\n\"Thankfully, the rescue went smoothly and the boy was reunited with his family at the base of the cliff.\"\n\nThe child had scrapes and bruises, but area commander Matt Pavitt said it was a miracle he escaped without injury.\n\n\"He was very, very lucky,\" he said. \"The boy had been clinging on by his fingernails to stop himself from falling from the sheer rock face for just over 30 minutes and if he had let go this would have been a very different outcome.\"\n\nFresh warnings have been issued to people visiting the coast to be aware of the dangers of the cliffs.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Grammar schools in England are being given the chance to create thousands of new places in a trimmed-down selective school expansion programme.\n\nThe expanded wholly selective schools will have to set out plans to admit disadvantaged pupils, perhaps by lowering the entrance requirements.\n\nIt comes after Theresa May's scheme for a new wave of grammars was abandoned due to lack of Parliamentary support.\n\nPlans for new faith schools have also been announced.\n\nBut instead of making it easier for religious groups to open free schools, ministers will invite councils to open faith schools jointly with religious groups, as they have done in the past.\n\nAs with other faith schools in the state sector, they will be allowed to recruit 100% of pupils from particular faith groups.\n\nGrammar schools are controversial as they select all their pupils on the basis of ability tests, known as the 11-plus, which children take at the age of 10 or 11.\n\nOpponents say they \"cream off\" the smartest pupils from neighbouring schools.\n\nMr Hinds said the plans, which invite grammar schools to bid for cash from a £50m expansion fund, would \"give parents greater choice\".\n\nThe funding was originally part of a bigger package of proposals to bring back selective education, but it comes at a time when schools across England are struggling with their budgets.\n\nTeachers' union leaders have criticised the move as a misuse of school spending.\n\nKevin Courtney, leader of the National Education Union, said: \"The grammar school corpse has climbed out of its coffin once again despite evidence of the damage that selective education causes.\"\n\nThe trimmed-down expansion plans will allow grammars to grow bigger or to develop spin-off sites along the lines of the Sevenoaks \"annexe\" built by Weald of Kent Grammar School in Tonbridge last year.\n\nThis school is 10 miles from its main site, and has room for 450 pupils.\n\nSchools have been warning about budget shortages\n\nThe National Association of Head Teachers and the Association of School and College Leaders said it was wrong to fund grammar schools when school budgets were tight.\n\nBut the Grammar School Heads' Association welcomed the move. It has been working with the Department for Education on the expansion idea and has agreed the way forward.\n\nChief executive Jim Skinner said: \"We are very pleased that, like other good and outstanding schools, selective schools now have access to a fund to allow them to expand their premises.\n\n\"This is particularly important at a time when there are increasing numbers of pupils reaching secondary age and such a high demand for selective school places.\"\n\nLast week, in an address to head teachers, Mr Hinds acknowledged the funding pressure on schools, but did not offer any short-term prospect of extra funds.\n\nThe Conservatives also promised during the election campaign to remove the cap on faith-based free schools, which stops them allocating more than 50% of their places on grounds of religion - which would have brought them in line with other faith schools in the state sector.\n\nBut the government has ditched this promise - and instead says it will provide funds for local authorities to create a new generation of \"voluntary-aided\" faith schools.\n\nThese will be able to be fully selective on grounds of religion - and the funding for their creation will be taken from the pot of money set for the creation of new free schools.\n\nThe Local Government Association welcomed the government's decision to work with councils to open new schools.\n\nBut it said the focus should not be exclusively on selective, faith-based and free schools and that the best way to meet the demand for school places was to let councils open more schools themselves.\n\nShadow Education Secretary Angela Rayner said: \"The continued obsession with grammar schools will do nothing for the vast majority of children, and it is absurd for ministers to push ahead with plans to expand them when the evidence is clear that they do nothing to improve social mobility.\"\n\nBut Katie Ivens, from the Campaign for Real Education, said middle-class children dominated grammar schools because there were not enough places available.\n\n\"If you spread grammar school places throughout the country and make them available to lots of disadvantaged children then you would give these disadvantaged children the same opportunity to get an academic education.\"\n\nEllie Mulcahy, senior research associate at education and youth think and action tank LKMco, said: \"Even if these grammar schools open up their entry to allow a proportion of disadvantaged pupils to come in, that will be only for those who do well in the test, whether they've been coached or not.\n\n\"We really need to be thinking about the majority of pupils that wouldn't be able to get into these schools and the fact that they, just as much as their peers who have attained more highly on that particular test, deserve to have a really high-quality education.\"\n\nArchbishop Malcolm MacMahon, speaking on behalf of the Catholic education sector, said the government had \"broken a promise\" over changes to free school admissions - but Humanists UK described the retention of their 50% cap as a \"victory for integration\".\n\nThe Church of England welcomed the opportunity to open new schools - and said dropping the plans to change the rules over free schools would not \"impact on that commitment\".\n\nLaunching the plans, Mr Hinds said: \"Children only get one chance at an education and they deserve the best, wherever they live and whatever their background.\n\n\"By creating new schools where they are needed most and helping all great schools to grow, we can give parents greater choice in looking at schools that are right for their family - and give children of all backgrounds access to a world-class education.\"\n• None Why grammars refuse to be written off", "Israel's Netta Barzilai is one of the big favourites to win at this year's Eurovision Song Contest.\n\nShe talks about finding empowerment and acceptance as a pop star who breaks stereotypes.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The new annex to the Weald of Kent Grammar School\n\nEngland's first \"new\" grammar school in five decades has opened.\n\nTonbridge's Weald of Kent Grammar School has built a £19m \"annexe\" in Sevenoaks, 10 miles from its main site, with room for 450 pupils.\n\nHead teacher Maureen Johnson said only 1-2% of pupils are from disadvantaged backgrounds but is working to encourage \"interest from those groups\".\n\nAnti-grammar school campaigners Kent Education Network (KEN) described the venture as \"wrong\".\n\nThe new annex to the Weald of Kent Grammar School\n\nThe school, which has been funded by Kent County Council, is for girls only up until a co-educational sixth form.\n\nIt will have an intake of 114 girls in year 7 at the new annexe and is expected to reach capacity with the addition of each new year group.\n\nAs part of the agreement, both sites have to operate as one school and pupils in the annexe will visit the Tonbridge site at least once every two weeks.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Parents' thoughts on England's first 'new' grammar school in 50 years\n\nRoger Gough, Conservative councillor for Sevenoaks and head of education at the county council, said: \"Grammar provision has been available to Sevenoaks children, but they've had to travel out of the town and district to go there, so I don't believe this will make a difference to other schools or children in the area.\n\n\"This shows it can be done and when it comes to boys' provision in Sevenoaks, an annex may be an option as well. But across the county as a whole I don't think it's going to be something you'll see sprouting up in lots of places.\"\n\nJoanne Bartley, chair of KEN said: \"Theresa May had hoped to reverse the law banning new grammars but failed because the change would never have passed in the new Parliament after the election in June. Meanwhile, Kent County Council has ignored the spirit of the law and has effectively built a new grammar school in Sevenoaks.\n\n\"The existence of this new grammar annexe teaches children that it's OK to bend the rules if you want something badly enough and need to get around an inconvenient law.\"\n\nWith Sevenoaks the only major Kent town previously without a grammar school, chairman of governors David Bower said: \"It's an important day for west Kent rather than grammar schools.\n\n\"We know it's important to recognise that a lot of our girls come from privileged backgrounds and were coached. We're looking very carefully at our admissions code, which has already changed to allocate places for pupil premium [additional funding for schools to raise the attainment of disadvantaged pupils] and other disadvantage indicators, and overcome the stigma from some families that grammar schools are not for them.\"\n\nOn Thursday, 11-year-old pupils across the county sat the test for a place at a Kent grammar school in 2018.\n• None Welcome to Weald of Kent Grammar School The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Spotify has removed R Kelly from its playlists as part of a new \"Hate Content & Hateful Conduct\" policy.\n\nUsers of the streaming service will still be able to find the R&B singer's music, but Spotify will no longer actively promote it.\n\nHis music will be removed from all Spotify-owned and operated playlists and recommendations.\n\nSpotify told Newsbeat: \"We want our editorial decisions - what we choose to program - to reflect our values.\"\n\nDespite R Kelly's music still being available on the service, Spotify told Newsbeat: \"We are removing R Kelly's music from all Spotify-owned and operated playlists and algorithmic recommendations, such as Discover Weekly.\"\n\nOfficial Spotify playlists are labelled \"by Spotify\".\n\nR Kelly's removal comes under the new \"Hate Content & Hateful Conduct\" policy, which is designed to \"be consistent with our distinct roles in music and media\".\n\nThe company describes hate content as: \"Content that expressly and principally promotes, advocates, or incites hatred or violence against a group or individual based on characteristics, including, race, religion, gender identity, sex, ethnicity, nationality, sexual orientation, veteran status, or disability.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Why people are calling to #MuteRKelly... again\n\n\"We don't censor content because of an artist's or creator's behaviour,\" a representative told Newsbeat.\n\n\"But we want our editorial decisions - what we choose to program - to reflect our values.\n\n\"When an artist or creator does something that is especially harmful or hateful, it may affect the ways we work with or support that artist or creator.\"\n\nSpotify says it has been working on the global policy for \"some months\" and has invited its users to report content that it feels violates its hate content policy.\n\nR Kelly was recently the centre of the #MuteRKelly campaign, which called for the singer to be boycotted after years of sexual assault allegations.\n\nThe hashtag was coined by Kinyette Tisha Barnes and co-founded by Oronike Odeleye, who organised protests to get the musician's concerts cancelled.\n\nA recent BBC Three documentary, R Kelly: Sex, Girls and Videotapes, sees filmmaker Ben Zand try to break down the alleged \"wall of silence\" around historical sexual abuse allegations involving the singer.\n\nR Kelly has denied the claims against him.\n\nIn a statement given to Variety, his management said they would \"vigorously resist this attempted public lynching of a black man\".\n\n#MuteRKelly was backed by the Time's Up movement and supported by Lupita Nyong'o and John Legend.\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 family who got out of their car in the middle of a safari park in the Netherlands – surrounded by cheetahs – had a lucky escape, its manager says.\n\nNiels de Wildt from Beekse Bergen park says cheetahs prey on small game and so the family's little boy was particularly at risk.\n\nHe also says the park makes it clear that visitors should not get out of their vehicles.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nasa is sending the helicopter to Mars for a mission in 2020\n\nNasa is sending a helicopter to Mars, in the first test of a heavier-than-air aircraft on another planet.\n\nThe Mars Helicopter will be bundled with the US space agency's Mars rover when it launches in 2020.\n\nIts design team spent more than four years shrinking a working helicopter to \"the size of a softball\" and cutting its weight to 1.8kg (4lbs).\n\nIt is specifically designed to fly in the atmosphere of Mars, which is 100 times thinner than Earth's.\n\nNasa describes the helicopter as a \"heavier-than-air\" aircraft because the other type - sometimes called an aerostat - are balloons and blimps.\n\nSoviet scientists dropped two balloons into the atmosphere of Venus in the 1980s. No aircraft has ever taken off from the surface of another planet.\n\nThe helicopter's two blades will spin at close to 3,000 revolutions a minute, which Nasa says is about 10 times faster than a standard helicopter on Earth.\n\n\"The idea of a helicopter flying the skies of another planet is thrilling,\" said Nasa Administrator Jim Bridenstine.\n\n\"The Mars Helicopter holds much promise for our future science, discovery, and exploration missions to Mars.\"\n\nWhile the tiny craft is being called a helicopter rather than a drone, there will be no pilot.\n\nNasa provided this computer-generated image of the helicopter's design\n\nIt will be flying almost 55 million km (34 million miles) from Earth, too far away to send a remote control signal.\n\n\"Earth will be several light minutes away, so there is no way to joystick this mission in real time,\" said Mimi Aung, the project manager at Nasa's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.\n\nInstead, the helicopter will \"fly the mission on its own\".\n\nThe JPL team made the minuscule helicopter as strong as possible to give it the best chance of surviving.\n\n\"The altitude record for a helicopter flying here on Earth is about 40,000 feet,\" Ms Aung said. \"When our helicopter is on the Martian surface, it's already at the Earth equivalent of 100,000 feet up.\"\n\nThat is part of the reason why Nasa is calling the Mars helicopter a \"high risk\" project.\n\n\"If it does not work, the Mars 2020 mission will not be impacted. If it does work, helicopters may have a real future as low-flying scouts and aerial vehicles to access locations not reachable by ground travel,\" Nasa said in a statement.\n\nExisting Mars vehicles have been wheeled devices, which have to navigate around many obstacles in their path and have been confined to fairly large open spaces on the surface of Mars.\n\nOne such vehicle, the Spirit rover, got stuck in a patch of sand in 2009, where it eventually ran out of power and shut down.\n\nThe Mars 2020 rover - accompanied by its helicopter companion - is due to launch in July of that year and arrive on the red planet in February 2021.", "Workers including firefighters, security staff and baggage handlers will take part in the strike.\n\nWorkers at Luton Airport are to go on strike over the May Bank Holiday weekend - with passengers warned to expect delays.\n\nFirefighters, baggage handlers, and security staff are among those taking part in the industrial action.\n\nThe Unite union urged bosses to \"get around the table and negotiate a fair deal\" with workers.\n\nA spokesman for Luton Airport said it is \"disappointed that Unite member have chosen this course of action\".\n\nIndustrial action is due to take place between 07:00 on Friday 25 May and 06:30 on Wednesday 30 May,\n\nThe union said the strike ballot was in response to the company's \"paltry pay offer, despite sky-high pay increases for the bosses and record passenger numbers\".\n\nThe airport previously said it had already made a revised offer in line with inflation and qualifying employees would receive a bonus of about £5,000 from its profit share scheme.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Marco and Gloria, an Italian couple in their 20s, moved to London to find work as architects. Only a few months later, they died in the Grenfell Tower fire.\n\nMarco's family and friends have written a children's book turning what happened into a fairy tale - but unlike real life, the story has a happy ending.", "A body found at a marina on the banks of the Firth of Forth has been confirmed as missing Frightened Rabbit singer Scott Hutchison.\n\nThe discovery was made at Port Edgar, between the Forth Road Bridge and Queensferry Crossing, at about 20:30 on Thursday.\n\nMr Hutchison, 36, went missing in the early hours of Wednesday morning.\n\nHis family said there had been recent concerns about his mental health, and they were \"devastated\" by his death.\n\nMr Hutchison had spoken openly about his battle with depression over the years, with elder brother Neil saying he had done so \"in an attempt to help other people with similar conditions\".\n\nIn a statement released on Friday, the family said Mr Hutchison \"wore his heart on his sleeve, and that was evident in the lyrics of his music and the content of many of his social media posts.\n\n\"He was passionate, articulate and charismatic, as well as being one of the funniest and kindest people we knew. Friends and family would all agree that he had a brilliant sense of humour and was a great person to be around.\"\n\nThe statement added that relatives had \"remained positive and hopeful that he would walk back through the door, having taken some time away to compose himself\".\n\nAnd it described Mr Hutchison as a \"wonderful son, brother, uncle and friend\" who always had time for those he cared for.\n\n\"Depression is a horrendous illness that does not give you any alert or indication as to when it will take hold of you\", it added.\n\n\"Scott battled bravely with his own issues for many years and we are immensely proud of him for being so open with his struggles.\n\n\"His willingness to discuss these matters in the public domain undoubtedly raised awareness of mental health issues and gave others confidence and belief to discuss their own issues.\"\n\nHis Frightened Rabbit bandmates released a statement saying: \"There are no words to describe the overwhelming sadness and pain that comes with the death of our beloved Scott, but to know he is no longer suffering brings us some comfort.\n\n\"Reading messages of support and hope from those he has helped through his art has helped immensely and we encourage you all to continue doing this.\n\n\"He will be missed by all of us and his absence will always be felt but he leaves a legacy of hope, kindness and colour that will forever be remembered and shared.\"\n\nScott Hutchison was last seen after visiting the Dakota Hotel in South Queensferry\n\nThe singer and guitarist had last been seen on CCTV footage leaving the Dakota Hotel in nearby South Queensferry at 01:00 on Wednesday.\n\nTwo hours earlier, he had tweeted: \"Be so good to everyone you love. It's not a given. I'm so annoyed that it's not. I didn't live by that standard and it kills me. Please, hug your loved ones.\"\n\nShortly afterwards, he added: \"I'm away now. Thanks.\"\n\nFrightened Rabbit were formed by Mr Hutchison and brother Grant on drums. The band released their debut album Sing the Greys in 2006, and went on to release four more albums.\n\nThe brothers also released a critically-acclaimed album last month as part of Mastersystem - a supergroup that also included Justin Lockey from the band Editors.\n\nThe singer has spoken openly of his battle with depression\n\nNews of Mr Hutchison's death sparked tributes from fans and musicians.\n\nSnow Patrol singer Gary Lightbody paid tribute on Instagram to \"one of Scotland's most extraordinary song writers\".\n\nHe said Mr Hutchison \"wrote with such profound insight into loss and longing and listening to his words always made me feel this heady mix of wonder, elation and pain.\n\n\"That pain that also makes you feel someone understands what you're going through and you don't feel so alone\".\n\nFrightened Rabbit, pictured here at Glastonbury in 2013, released five albums\n\nStuart Murdoch, from Belle and Sebastian, wrote: \"Tragic news about Scott Hutchison. The whole music community in Scotland was praying for a different outcome.\"\n\nDJ Edith Bowman said: \"Can't really believe I'm reading this. Saddest awakening ever. Love and best wishes to all the Hutchison and Frabbit family.\"\n\nScotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon also tweeted: \"Heartbreaking news. My thoughts are with Scott's family, friends and fans. A remarkable and much loved talent.\"\n\nThe musician is originally from Selkirk but had been living in Glasgow.\n\nFrightened Rabbit were formed with Scott Hutchison on vocals and guitar and his brother Grant on drums, with the band's most recent line-up also featuring Billy Kennedy, Andy Monaghan and Simon Liddell.\n\nThey released the first of their five albums, Sing the Greys, in 2006, with Scott also releasing a solo album called Owl John.\n\nScott and Grant had recently formed a new band called Mastersystem, joining forces with Justin Lockey from Editors and his brother James, a film maker.\n\nTheir debut album, Dance Music, was released last month.\n\nScott had also hinted at a sixth Frightened Rabbit album being released before the end of the year, saying they had five or six songs that were coming together.", "50 Cent has defended R Kelly after Spotify announced it was removing the singer from its playlists.\n\n\"Spotify is wrong for what it is doing to artists like R Kelly and XXXtentacion,\" the rapper wrote on Twitter.\n\nR Kelly was removed as part of the streaming service's new \"Hate Content & Hateful Conduct\" policy, having been accused of sexual assault on multiple occasions.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by 50cent This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nRapper Xxxtentacion is currently facing charges in Florida - which include aggravated battery of a pregnant woman. He denies the allegations.\n\nBoth artists' music will be removed from all Spotify-owned and operated playlists and recommendations.\n\nR Kelly responded to 50 Cent's post saying: \"Thanks for the support fam! No weapon formed.\"\n\nThe singer makes a reference to a quote from the Bible that reads: \"No weapon formed against you shall prosper.\"\n\nUsers of Spotify will still be able to find the R&B singer's music, but the streaming service will no longer actively promote it.\n\nHis music will be removed from all Spotify-owned and operated playlists and recommendations.\n\nR Kelly was recently at the centre of the #MuteRKelly campaign which calls for the singer to be boycotted after years of allegations.\n\nThe hashtag was coined by Kinyette Tisha Barnes and co-founded by Oronike Odeleye, who organised protests to get the musician's concerts cancelled.\n\nA recent BBC Three documentary, R Kelly: Sex, Girls and Videotapes, sees filmmaker Ben Zand try to break down the alleged \"wall of silence\" around historical sexual abuse allegations involving the singer.\n\nIn a statement published on Variety, the rapper's management said: \"R. Kelly never has been accused of hate, and the lyrics he writes express love and desire.\n\n\"Mr Kelly for 30 years has sung songs about his love and passion for women.\n\n\"He is innocent of the false and hurtful accusations in the ongoing smear campaign against him, waged by enemies seeking a payoff.\n\n\"He never has been convicted of a crime, nor does he have any pending criminal charges against him.\"\n\nAishah White, a spokeswoman for XXXTentacion, told the New York Times via email: \"I don't have a comment, just a question. Will Spotify remove all the artists listed below from playlists?\"\n\nShe included the names of several musicians who have also faced allegations of sexual misconduct or violence over the years.\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.", "Pick a camera, any camera - the cast on the Solo red carpet\n\nThe first reactions to the new Star Wars film Solo have come out, after its premiere in the US.\n\nAnd the verdict? While some said it was clunky in parts, most loved it - describing the movie as fun, epic and \"a blast\".\n\nThere was particular praise for Fleabag star Phoebe Waller-Bridge, in her role as droid L3-37.\n\nSolo is about the early years of the sci-fi saga's Han Solo, played by Harrison Ford in the original films.\n\nThe \"bromance\" between Han and Chewie is said to be a key part of the film\n\nAlden Ehrenreich takes over the controls of the Millennium Falcon in the new spin-off, heading up a cast that also includes Donald Glover, Emilia Clarke, Thandie Newton and Woody Harrelson.\n\nThe film, directed by Ron Howard after the original directors left mid-production, sees Solo beginning his pilot training and seeking a spaceship of his own.\n\nWriter and producer Adam Goldberg says it \"delivers in every way\".\n\n\"Funny, suspenseful, emotional, a truly epic origin story,\" he raves. \"If this film doesn't make your heart happy, then just give up on watching movies.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Adam F. Goldberg This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nPhoebe Waller-Bridge as she usually looks... and as a droid\n\nPerri Nemiroff of Collider said there was \"fun to be had\", praising Donald Glover and Waller-Bridge, but admitted she was hoping for \"more energy and depth\" from the 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 2 by Perri Nemiroff This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nYahoo Entertainment senior correspondent Kevin Polowy also had a lot of time for Waller-Bridge, saying L3 might be his favourite new character.\n\nHe described it as \"a straight intergalactic heist movie\", with Ehrenreich \"super impressive as Han\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Kevin Polowy This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nDavid Daniel said it \"hits the beats it needs to, provides plenty of flying and fighting action, and especially delivers on the Han-Chewie relationship\".\n\nHe adds that Glover is \"as cool as expected\" and that Waller-Bridge is \"an absolute delight\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 David Daniel This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nWendy Lee Szany was less enthused - saying there were \"great moments but some were a bit too on the nose\". She especially likes \"the Chewie/Han bromance\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Wendy Lee Szany This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nJoel Meares said Solo is \"kinda a blast\", adding that Glover was \"perfect as expected\" and Ehrenreich \"has swagger to match, and spare\". And Waller-Bridge? She's an \"utter scene stealer\".\n\n\"Foot heavy on the nostalgia pedal, bit of a rough opening, but could not wipe smirk off my face for most of it,\" he said.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 6 by Joel Meares This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nJacki Jing said she was \"completely floored\" by Solo, saying it had her on the edge of her seat.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Jacki Jing This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nFilm blogger John Campea said Solo was \"pure wonderful adventure\" and a \"true summer adventure\".\n\n\"Not best film of the year or anything, but prepare to have a really good time,\" he said.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 8 by John Campea This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 Millennium Falcon made an appearance on the red carpet\n\nThe word \"fun\" is used by Mike Ryan, senior entertainment writer at Uproxx, too.\n\nSolo can be \"hit and miss clunky\", but adds: \"Once Donald Glover's Lando shows up (who is legit fantastic) and the Kessel Run heist plot kicks in, it's a whole lot of fun.\"\n\nAnd he predicts there'll be a Solo franchise. \"It's not really hiding the fact it's setting up more Han Solo movies,\" 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 9 by Mike Ryan This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe premiere took place in Los Angeles on Thursday night. As well as the film's stars, the Millennium Falcon also appeared on the red carpet.\n\nSolo: A Star Wars Story is released in the UK on 23 May. It's also going to be screened during the Cannes Film Festival.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The soldiers have been rehearsing for the big day\n\nPrince Harry's ex-Army comrades have spoken of their nerves at being given a ceremonial role at his wedding to Meghan Markle.\n\nSome of the soldiers who trained and served with Harry will have \"pride of place\" outside St George's Chapel in Windsor Castle.\n\nMore than 250 members of the armed forces will perform ceremonial duties at the 19 May wedding.\n\nPrince Harry was an Apache helicopter pilot in Afghanistan in 2012.\n\nHe was known as Capt Wales while with the 662 Squadron, 3 Regiment Army Air Corps, in Helmand Province.\n\nTwenty-three soldiers, one sergeant and one officer from the regiment will line the street outside the chapel.\n\nCapt William Calder, 32, who will lead his soldiers in a royal salute, said he reacted with \"stunned surprise\" when he was told he would be going.\n\nHe said: \"It makes me a little bit nervous that we will be front and centre - the Queen and the senior members of the royal family will be stepping out the door right beside us.\"\n\nThe officer said his family are \"pretty excited\".\n\nCapt William Calder will lead the troops at the wedding\n\nCapt Calder said his only meeting with the prince was at a cafe at the Army Aviation Centre in Middle Wallop, Hampshire, when Harry asked if he could join the officer's table.\n\nHe said: \"I knew he looked familiar, finally it dawned on me it was Prince Harry and of course he was utterly natural and charming and friendly and just like any other officer in the regiment.\"\n\nPreparations are well under way at Windsor Castle\n\nCpl Stuart Armstrong, 27, a communications specialist who worked with the prince \"day-to-day\" during Apache training, said it was an \"honour\" to be nominated and the soldiers had been busy preparing.\n\nThey will form a guard of honour for the royal couple with a half company of 25 personnel from RAF Honington in Suffolk, where the prince is Honorary Air Commandant.\n• None Royal wedding: All you need to know", "The Grenfell Tower fire inquiry could become a whitewash unless there is a diverse panel to oversee proceedings, survivors and bereaved families say.\n\nThey say chairman Sir Martin Moore-Bick should sit with people from a range of backgrounds who understand the issues facing those affected by the blaze, in which 71 people died on 14 June.\n\nThey have started a petition calling for Theresa May to intervene.\n\nThe government said the process of considering the panel was ongoing.\n\nSir Martin's appointment as the inquiry chairman has already been criticised by residents, who say he is an establishment figure.\n\nVictims groups were further angered when the retired Court of Appeal judge said he would not appoint a member of the Grenfell community to the panel, arguing it would \"risk undermining impartiality\".\n\nAdel Chaoui, who lost four relatives in the fire, said their complaint was \"not about ethnicity\".\n\n\"It's nothing to do with whether you're black, white, Arab, whatever - it is to do with experiences,\" he said.\n\n\"(Sir Martin) is very, very good at what he does, but he does not necessarily understand us.\n\n\"At the same time, we are up against these industry bodies that are spending millions of pounds on legal resources that we are never going to get anywhere near.\"\n\nSir Martin has been criticised by some families as an establishment figure\n\nMr Chaoui said he and others would likely not attend the inquiry unless the format was changed.\n\nHe added: \"I'm really hoping the Prime Minister sees all we're asking for is a fair crack at justice.\"\n\nThe petition organisers say about 50 victims are backing the call for Downing Street to add people to the panel who have the \"breadth and experience\" of the \"big social issues\" that led to the tragedy.\n\nKarim Mussilhy, whose uncle Hesham Rahman died in the fire, said: \"We don't want to whitewash this inquiry, we don't want to feel like we're not being listened to, or belittled, or ignored just like the residents were before and after the [fire at the] tower.\"\n\nHesham Rahman's body was recovered from the 23rd floor of the tower block\n\nSir Martin has appointed three assessors to the inquiry, which will open its first procedural hearing on 11 December.\n\nOne of the assessors is from a black and ethnic minority background.\n\nBut Sandra Ruiz, who lost her niece in the tower blaze, has said the assessors have \"no decision-making capacity\".\n\n\"I think it's just a nod to what we've been asking but I don't think there's enough of a response there,\" she added.\n\nKarim Mussilhy and Sandra Ruiz are calling on Theresa May to use special powers to appoint more diverse panel members to the Grenfell Tower inquiry\n\nA government spokesman said: \"The prime minister has given a commitment to consider the inquiry panel after the chair determined what further expertise he required, and this process is ongoing.\n\n\"We would like to assure all those affected by the tragedy that legal representatives of core participants will receive all relevant evidence, be able to offer opening and closing statements at hearings, and will be able to suggest lines of questioning for witnesses.\"", "Carwyn Jones said it would be right to \"move on\" after he steps down as first minister\n\nFirst Minister Carwyn Jones has confirmed he will quit the Welsh assembly at the 2021 election.\n\nLast month he announced he was stepping down as Welsh Labour leader and first minister in December.\n\nMr Jones, AM for Bridgend, told local party activists on Friday it had been his \"pleasure\" to represent the seat since the assembly's creation in 1999.\n\nHe said politics \"hasn't seen the end of me\", but it was time for a new candidate to \"pick up the baton\".\n\nMr Jones shocked the Welsh Labour conference at Llandudno in April when he announced his intention to step down after serving nine years as party leader and first minister.\n\nHe told the general committee of the Bridgend Labour Party on Friday he would not be seeking support to be its candidate for a sixth election.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Carwyn Jones stands down after 'the darkest of times'\n\n\"It's been the greatest honour for me to have been first minister of Wales, but it's been a particular pleasure to have represented my home area for what will be 22 years by 2021,\" he said.\n\n\"To have been the first person to represent Bridgend in Wales' first elected parliament is something I will always cherish.\n\n\"The people of Bridgend have supported me in five elections and I owe everything that I've done in public life to the support they've given me since 1999.\n\n\"As I will be standing down as first minister in December, I think it's right that I should move on from the assembly at the next election.\n\n\"I'd like to thank the people of Bridgend, the local Labour Party and of course, my family for the support they've given me over the years.\n\n\"I'll be looking at other things to do now and politics certainly hasn't seen the end of me but it's time for a new candidate to come forward and pick up the baton.\"", "It's a wedding cake like no other - the happy couple baked to perfection.\n\nAmateur baker Lara Mason, from Brownhills in the West Midlands, has made a life-sized cake of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle to celebrate their marriage in Windsor on 19 May.\n\nUnfortunately, this cake doesn't have an invitation to the official event and instead will be displayed at the Cake International show in Birmingham in November.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA bill to ensure bereaved parents have the legal right to paid time off has moved a step closer to becoming law.\n\nThe Parental Bereavement (Leave and Pay) Bill would mean parents who lose a child would be entitled to at least two weeks' paid leave.\n\nMP Kevin Hollinrake, who tabled the bill, said he hoped employers would always offer more than two weeks.\n\nA number of MPs who had lost children spoke about their experiences during the four hour debate.\n\nGrieving parents currently have no automatic right to time off work, although employers are expected to grant \"reasonable\" leave in emergencies.\n\nFrom 2020, it is hoped parents who lose a child will be able to request paid absence in England, Wales and Scotland - the matter is devolved in Northern Ireland.\n\nThe SNP's Patricia Gibson, whose baby was stillborn at full term, said two weeks was \"not very long, but given that currently there is no entitlement at all - it offers a start\".\n\n\"To have to face the death of your son or daughter with no entitlement to paid leave under the law is a terrible injustice that generations of people before us have suffered,\" she told MPs.\n\n\"Many of us today in the chamber have had the tragic and life changing experience of having had to bury our own child.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or 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 Quince 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. End of twitter post by Will Quince MP\n\nConservative MP Antoinette Sandbach, whose newborn son died in 2009, described the importance of time off in dealing with the \"devastation and loss\".\n\nShe said: \"We really are making history today.\n\n\"I hope those parents that face this in the future, they will feel there's that little bit of grace, that little bit of space for them to be able to deal with what is just an utter tragedy.\"\n\nThe government is backing Mr Hollinrake's private member's bill, which was brought forward in consultation with his fellow Conservative MP Will Quince, whose son was stillborn at full term in October 2014.\n\nAntoinette Sandbach was among MPs who related their own experiences\n\nThe bill, which passed its third reading and will now go to the Lords, would grant parents the right to two weeks' leave, paid at 90% of average weekly earnings or the statutory flat rate - which was £140.98 in 2016-17.\n\nThe government is still consulting on who should be entitled to the leave and how and when it should be taken.\n\nSmall firms would be able to reclaim the full cost from the government, with larger firms recouping about 90%.\n\nMr Hollinrake said the two weeks' leave set out in the bill was \"clearly a minimum\" and said that evidence heard by MPs suggested that \"most employers are very generous and very sympathetic in these situations\". Several MPs raised the issue of the age of the child - the bill covers the deaths of children aged under 18.\n\nPatricia Gibson argued that drawing the \"random and artificial\" line was \"not appropriate\" in the context of losing a child.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Luke Pollard MP This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Bereavement Alliance This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMPs were told the number of people affected could increase five-fold if the age cut-off was not in the bill, meaning it might not make it into law, with Mr Quince saying he did not want to risk losing government support for it.\n\nLabour's shadow business minister Bill Esterson said there should be some flexibility about when the two weeks' paid leave could be taken as \"grief does not come and go in a neat two-week period\".\n\nHe said it was not practical to extend it indefinitely but suggested allowing leave to be taken at any stage over 12 months.\n\nBusiness Minister Richard Harrington said the government had tried to \"get the balance right\" between those affected and the \"unavoidable\" financial cost to employers.\n\nHe told MPs the bill would be a \"powerful driver\" of cultural change in businesses and although no employer could give people enough time off to deal with all their grief - but the bill was about setting a minimal entitlement.", "Liz Bilney (left) has been referred to the police\n\nCampaign group Leave.EU has been fined £70,000 for breaches of election law in the 2016 EU referendum.\n\nThe Electoral Commission said the group - which was separate from the official pro-Brexit group Vote Leave - failed to report \"at least\" £77,380 it spent.\n\nIt has also referred Leave.EU chief executive Liz Bilney to the police following its investigation into what it calls \"serious offences\".\n\nResponding to the Electoral Commission's findings, he said: \"What a shambles, we will see them in court.\"\n\nThe investigation also looked into whether Leave.EU had received any services from Cambridge Analytica which should have been declared on its spending return but found no evidence that the group received donations or paid for services from the political consultancy.\n\nLeave.EU's relationship with the controversial firm \"did not develop beyond initial scoping work\", according to the Commission.\n\nThe UK voted by 52% to 48% to leave the European Union in a referendum in June 2016. All groups had to ensure they met campaign spending rules and filed accurate returns under the Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Leave.EU has been fined £70,000 for breaking electoral law during referendum\n\nThe Electoral Commission said Leave.EU had exceeded the spending limit for \"non-party registered campaigners\" by at least 10% by failing to include at least £77,380 in its spending return - the fee paid to campaign organiser Better for the Country Ltd - and added the overspend \"may well have been considerably higher than that\".\n\nIts spending return also did not include services Leave.EU had received from a US campaign strategy firm, Goddard Gunster, and the group \"inaccurately reported\" three loans totalling £6m from Mr Banks - including who had provided them - and did not provide invoices or receipts for 97 separate payments, totalling £80,224.\n\nThe Commission has referred Leave.EU chief executive Liz Bilney to the police, saying it had reasonable grounds to suspect she had committed criminal offences over campaign spending.\n\nBob Posner, the Commission's director of political finance and regulation, said spending rules were in place to ensure public confidence in democracy and it was \"disappointing that Leave.EU, a key player in the EU referendum, was unable to abide by these rules\".\n\n\"These are serious offences. The level of fine we have imposed has been constrained by the cap on the Commission's fines,\" he added.\n\nBut Mr Banks told the BBC's Daily Politics that Leave.EU had responded to the Commission with a 20-page report from an independent accountant which, he said, the watchdog had \"ignored completely\".\n\nHe described the disputed amount as \"an internal management charge which our lawyers have told us wasn't reportable\" and claimed the Commission was staffed by pro-Remainers and the ruling was politically motivated.\n\n\"Effectively what they have done is, they started off their investigation with a remit of investigating Cambridge Analytica and dark Russian money - they have found no evidence of any of those things and they have fined us on a technical accounting issue which is heavily in dispute.\"\n\nMr Banks said they intended to challenge the finding in court.\n\nShe told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"The decisions were made by directors of the Electoral Commission, they were made based on robust evidence we had gathered, and indeed you can see that in the 30-page report that we published.\"\n\nLeave.EU is not the only group to fall foul of spending rules in the EU Referendum campaign. The Lib Dems were fined £18,000 and the official Remain campaign was fined £1,250 by the Commission last year.\n\nThe official Vote Leave group - that was backed by cabinet ministers Boris Johnson and Michael Gove - is still under investigation. The pro-EU European Movement UK and UKIP have also been fined over their referendum spending.\n\nThe maximum fine is £20,000 per offence - Leave.EU was fined for four separate offences.", "A dazzling neon blue tide in San Diego, California, has filled its beaches with electric aqua colours.\n\nBy day the plankton turn the water red, but come nightfall they radiate a blue glow when the algae are disturbed by movement, such as waves crashing on to the shoreline.\n\nBioluminescent light shows are not uncommon globally, but the last red tide in San Diego was in 2013 - and it's no less beautiful each time they grace the oceans.\n\nSee more images here", "Safaa Boular was \"sincere and determined\" in her intentions, prosecutors said\n\nA teenage girl plotted a gun and grenade attack at the British Museum after her attempts to become a jihadi bride were thwarted, a court has heard.\n\nSafaa Boular was 17 when she allegedly decided to be a \"martyr\" after her Islamic State fighter fiancé was killed in Syria, the Old Bailey was told.\n\nMs Boular, now 18, denies two counts of preparing acts of terrorism.\n\nHer sister Rizlaine Boular, 21, has admitted planning an attack with knives in Westminster.\n\nShe was given assistance and support by her mother, Mina Dich, the jury was told.\n\nMina Dich (left) provided assistance and support to her daughter Rizlaine Boular, court heard\n\nProsecutor Duncan Atkinson QC said Safaa Boular, who lived with her mother in Vauxhall, London, wanted to \"unleash violence and terror in the heart of London\".\n\nBut Joel Bennathan QC, representing Ms Boular, said the teenager had been \"sexually groomed\" and \"groomed to be radicalised\" online by IS fighter Naweed Hussain.\n\nHe said her family had \"encouraged\" and \"celebrated\" it.\n\nMr Atkinson said she declared her love for Hussain in August 2016 after three months of chatting on social media.\n\nThe prosecutor told jurors she wanted to join Hussain in Syria where they would wear suicide belts and, in Hussain's words, \"depart the world holding hands and taking others with them\".\n\nThe court heard Rizlaine Boular had also tried to go to Syria two years before.\n\nAfter Safaa Boular's plan was uncovered, she allegedly switched her attention to Britain, contacting Hussain by phone through encrypted Telegram chat.\n\nBut British security services had deployed officers to engage in online communication with the pair, jurors heard.\n\nMr Atkinson said: \"It was clear that Hussain had been planning an act of terrorism with Safaa Boular in which she could engage if she remained in this country. Both Hussain and Safaa Boular talked of a planned ambush involving grenades and or firearms.\"\n\nShe also told an officer posing as an IS fighter that all she needed was a \"car and a knife to get what I want to achieve\", the court heard.\n\nMr Atkinson said: \"Based on her preparation and discussion, it appears she planned to launch an attack against members of the public selected largely at random in the environs of that cultural jewel and most popular of tourist attractions, the British Museum in central London.\"\n\nAn attack would have created at least \"widespread panic\" and was intended to cause injury and death, it was claimed.\n\nWhen she learned Hussain had been killed in April 2017, Ms Boular's determination was strengthened, the court heard.\n\nBut within days, she was charged with planning to go to Syria so was unable to carry out her \"chilling intentions\", the prosecutor said.\n\nHe said: \"That those intentions were not just chilling but sincere and determined is demonstrated by the fact that she did not abandon them even when she was unable to put them into effect herself.\n\n\"Rather, she sought to encourage her sister Rizlaine to carry the torch forward in her stead.\"\n\nIn calls to her sister from jail, Safaa Boular referenced an Alice in Wonderland-themed tea party which was code for an attack, the court heard.\n\nMr Atkinson told jurors the older sibling had admitted preparing acts of terrorism.\n\nRizlaine Boular spent three days carrying out reconnaissance of major landmarks in Westminster and bought knives and a rucksack, the court heard.\n\nBased on her reconnaissance and discussion, it appears she planned a knife attack in Westminster, Mr Atkinson said.\n\nShe was arrested on 27 April last year, the day of the planned attack, the court heard.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Campaigners welcome the prime minister's decision to add two additional experts on the panel overseeing the Grenfell Tower disaster inquiry.\n\nThe move comes after Theresa May came under pressure from campaign groups, such as Grenfell United, who represent the victims' families.", "After the tragic loss of his son, MP Will Quince campaigned for change.\n\nHis bill, which is being discussed in the Commons today, would introduce paid parental bereavement leave of at least two weeks.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. One city, seven agents... and nowhere I can live\n\nThe dire shortage of private rental properties suitable for disabled people has been exposed by a new report.\n\nThe Equalities and Human Rights Commission said 93% of 8.5 million rental properties in the UK were not accessible to the disabled.\n\nIt called on ministers to take action to improve housing accessibility.\n\nThe government said it was providing councils with almost £1bn over the next two years to adapt properties for disabled people.\n\n\"We expect landlords to adapt properties for tenants. We are clear they must not unreasonably withhold consent if they are asked to make changes to homes,\" a Department of Housing, Communities & Local Government spokesman said.\n\nThe EHRC said its 18-month review found 365,000 disabled people were in homes unsuitable for their needs.\n\n\"Accommodation for disabled people in this country is not acceptable,\" said David Isaac, chairman of the commission.\n\n\"The lack of accessible housing stops disabled people from being able to live independently.\"\n\nNeil Heslop, chief executive of the Leonard Cheshire disability charity, said the report was a \"shocking indictment of how disabled people have largely been forgotten in the housing priorities of local and national government\".\n\nIt's difficult enough trying to find somewhere to live when you're able-bodied; it can be something of a nightmare when you have a disability.\n\nI recently visited seven estate agents in Derby, where I have family, to try to find a property I could move into without having to make any adaptations.\n\nDespite looking at hundreds of listings, no accessible properties were available to rent on the private market in the city.\n\nEven getting in and out of the estate agents' shops was rather difficult. Five of the seven I visited had significant steps up, meaning I was not able to get in independently.\n\nFinding somewhere to live independently as a wheelchair user is extremely difficult. In my case, all I need is a wet room bathroom to be able to shower myself.\n\nMany young people, with or without disabilities, face an uncertain economic climate due to short-term contracts, meaning that buying somewhere with a mortgage on the private market just isn't possible.\n\nAdditionally, for disabled people, only 7% of homes in England offer minimal accessibility features.\n\nTheoretically, newer properties are much more likely to be easily accessible, but that doesn't necessarily mean they will be ready for me to move into independently.\n\nMany of the flats I've looked around in the past few years don't even have that - many still have baths or showers with steps up.\n\nThe EHRC report said many local authorities in England, Scotland and Wales have not collected data or planned for the future, even though the number of disabled people is increasing.\n\nIt found that councils are only requiring about four in ten new homes to be accessible and adaptable, while just 5% required developers to construct wheelchair-accessible housing, which might include step-free bathrooms.\n\nJust seven councils authorities have taken either formal or informal action against a developer who did not deliver the required number of accessible and/or adaptable properties, it found.\n\nThe Equality Act (2010) says that changes or adjustments should be made to ensure someone with a disability has access to housing and that the individual should not have to pay.\n\nBut adjustments only have to be made if it is reasonable and there is only a duty to do so if not doing so places the disabled person at a substantial disadvantage.", "US President Donald Trump has said in a video message shown in Jerusalem that for many years there was a failure to acknowledge that the city was Israel's capital.\n\nHis daughter, Ivanka, unveiled a plaque on location before her husband, Jared Kushner, said in a speech that by moving the American embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem the US had shown that it could be trusted and that it would do what was right.", "Alan and Jean, a couple from Leeds, were being watched by thousands of people around the world and didn’t even know.\n\nPanorama's Hacked: Smart Home Secrets aired on BBC One and UK viewers can watch here", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The crew called coastguards for assistance after sterilising and dressing the man's wounds\n\nA fisherman is in hospital after being bitten several times by a shark about 120 miles (197km) off Land's End.\n\nThe porbeagle shark had been hauled up in the nets of the Govenek of Ladram fishing boat early on Sunday.\n\nThe shark - thought to be up to 8ft (2.4m) long - bit the leg of fisherman Max Berryman as the crew tried to get it back in the water.\n\nHe was treated at the scene and winched by the coastguard to Truro's Royal Cornwall Hospital.\n\nMax Berryman was winched from the boat and taken to hospital\n\nAlex Greig from Falmouth Coastguard said the shark bites went down to the muscle.\n\n\"There were about four to five cuts altogether, one of which was extending about 10in (25cm) in length along the side of his knee,\" he said.\n\nThe Govenek of Ladram fishes out of Newlyn harbour in west Cornwall\n\nPhil Mitchell, the boat's skipper, said: \"His leg was badly gashed - I just had to do the best job I could dressing it.\n\n\"We got him stable and spoke to the doctor who recommended him being airlifted because of any bacteria that could have been on the teeth.\"\n\nMr Mitchell said he thought the shark weighed up to 20 stone (127kg).\n\nHe described the porbeagle as \"really big and powerful\" and said it was fortunate the shark had caught Mr Berryman with its top jaw but did not clamp its bottom jaw closed.\n\nAlthough a member of the great white family of sharks, the porbeagle is not usually thought to be a threat to humans.\n\nParamedic winchman Julian Williams was lowered to the vessel and praised the quick actions of the crew for treating the wounds.\n\n\"The crew had done a really good job of dressing the wounds before we arrived which meant that we were able to save time getting the casualty to hospital,\" he said.\n\nMr Berryman is understood to be in a stable condition.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Sixty three members of the Windrush generation could have been wrongfully removed or deported from the UK since 2002, the home secretary has said.\n\nSajid Javid told the Home Affairs Select Committee 32 were foreign offenders and 31 people removed by officials, rather than a court order.\n\nHe said the figures were provisional.\n\nIt was the first time specific numbers have been outlined since the scandal involving people who came to the UK from Commonwealth nations broke.\n\nLabour MP Yvette Cooper, who chairs the home affairs committee, said there were many \"unanswered questions\".\n\n\"It is shocking to find that 63 people may have been wrongly removed or deported and troubling that they have not yet been contacted,\" she said.\n\nThe Windrush migrants arrived between the late 1940s and 1973, mainly from the Caribbean, but some have been threatened with deportation in recent years. Many came to the UK legally as children but have no formal documentation, which has also led to them being refused jobs or healthcare.\n\nMr Javid said the 63 cases he outlined were identified from 8,000 records of removals from the UK of people aged over 45.\n\nHe told the committee: \"I've asked officials to be absolutely certain and thorough and check over every record and make sure.\"\n\nThe home secretary said he did not have information on how many Windrush immigrants had been detained.\n\nHe denied that there was a \"systemic\" problem in the Home Office, but said in the Windrush cases people had faced \"too large a burden\" in proving they had lived in the UK for many decades.\n\nIn a letter to committee chair Yvette Cooper, Mr Javid said a helpline set up after the Windrush cases emerged had received more than 11,500 calls. More than 4,482 of these were identified as possible Windrush cases. So far 526 people have now received documents confirming their right to be in the UK.\n\nPrime Minister Theresa May has announced a government review to understand how members of the Windrush generation \"came to be entangled in measures\" designed to tackle illegal immigration.\n\nWriting on Twitter, Labour MP David Lammy said Mrs May - a former home secretary - needed to come to Parliament to explain how the 63 people were removed, describing the revelation as \"truly a day of national shame\".\n\nMr Javid became home secretary last month after Amber Rudd resigned, saying she \"inadvertently misled\" MPs over targets for removing illegal immigrants.\n\nThe scandal had heaped pressure on Ms Rudd, who faced criticism after telling the home affairs committee she did not know about Home Office removals targets.", "Dozens of Palestinians have been killed and thousands wounded by Israeli troops, Palestinian officials say, on the deadliest day of violence since the 2014 Gaza war.\n\nThe violence came as the US opened its embassy in Jerusalem, a move that has infuriated Palestinians.", "Wages rose at an annual rate of 2.9% in the three months to March, faster than inflation for the first time in more than a year, official figures show.\n\nOver the same three-month period, the inflation rate was 2.7%.\n\nInflation started to overtake wages in February last year, squeezing incomes.\n\nThe Office for National Statistics (ONS) also said unemployment fell by 46,000 to 1.42 million, with the jobless rate falling to 4.2% the lowest since 1975.\n\nThe Chancellor, Philip Hammond said: \"Growth in real wages means that people are starting to feel the benefit of more money in their pockets; another turning point as we build a stronger, fairer economy.\n\n\"The unemployment rate is at its lowest in over 40 years and with our National Living Wage we are making sure that the lowest-paid feel the benefit with an extra £2,000 a year.\"\n\nHowever, the general secretary of the TUC, Frances O'Grady said: \"Working people are still not getting a fair deal. Millions of jobs do not pay a real living wage. And average weekly pay is still worth much less than a decade ago.\"\n\nJohn Hawksworth, chief economist at PwC said: \"The rise in wages will be helpful as it follows a long period when wages have been falling relative to inflation, but wages are still lower in real terms than they were before the financial crisis. and this won't turn round things overnight.\"\n\nThe number of people in work increased by 197,000 in the January-to-March period to 32.3 million. The ONS said that 75.6% of people aged from 16 to 64 years were now in work, the highest since records began in 1971.\n\nAlongside the strong employment figures, improved wage growth means there is certainly plenty of better news in the latest Office for National Statistics figures.\n\nBut - a few words of caution.\n\nWeak incomes have been a problem for a decade.\n\nIt will need a long period of wages rising above the rate of inflation for people to feel significantly better off.\n\nAnd, for the public sector, the 1% cap on wage rises is only just being released.\n\nMany millions of people still have incomes below where they were a decade ago.\n\nThe financial crisis, poor economic performance and major changes in public sector financing have cast a very long shadow.\n\nSenior ONS statistician Matt Hughes said: \"With employment up again in the three months to March, the rate has hit a new record, with unemployment remaining at its lowest rate since 1975.\n\n\"The growth in employment is still being driven by UK nationals, with a slight drop over the past year in the number of foreign workers. It's important to remember, though, that this isn't a measure of migration.\"\n\nMr Hawksworth said: \"All of this good news stands in marked contrast to the subdued GDP growth of just 0.1% estimated for the first quarter.\n\n\"Overall, the continued robustness of the labour market may strengthen the hand of those arguing for interest rates to rise sooner rather than later.\n\n\"But the majority of the [Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee] will probably want to wait for hard evidence of output bouncing back in the second quarter before they pull the trigger on interest rates.\"\n\nLast week, the Bank of England kept interest rates on hold at 0.5%, saying the UK economy had hit a \"temporary soft patch\".\n\nSeparate data from the ONS said its initial estimates of productivity, a measure of output per hour, had fallen 0.5% in the three months to March, the largest fall since the last three months of 2015.\n\nHoward Archer, chief economic adviser to the EY Item Club, said: \"The relapse in productivity... is particularly disappointing as there needs to be sustained improvement to ease concerns over the UK's overall poor productivity record since the deep 2008-09 recession.\n\n\"Part of the UK's recent poor labour productivity performance has undoubtedly been that low wage growth has increased the attractiveness of employment for companies.\n\n\"It is also possible that some companies may have looked to take on labour rather than commit to investment, given the highly uncertain economic and political outlook.\"", "The government has halted researchers and others from accessing personal information about UK schoolchildren, it has emerged.\n\nThe Department for Education said the step was a temporary move to modify the national pupil database's approval process.\n\nIt told the BBC that the step was required to be compliant with a shake-up of EU data privacy rules.\n\nThe law gives children and others new rights and comes into force on 25 May.\n\n\"The department takes the use of personal information and the implications of the General Data Protection Regulation very seriously,\" the DfE said in a statement.\n\n\"We've temporarily paused applications for data from the national pupil Database ahead of the implementation of the GDPR.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe national pupil database is designed to help experts study the effect of different educational strategies over time.\n\nAccess was \"paused\" on 1 May, and the DfE has said it expects to provide further information in June.\n\nCampaigners have raised concerns that many parents are unaware that data on millions of English schoolchildren can be shared with academics and businesses.\n\nApplicants can request different levels of access, with the highest level including individual children's names, addresses, ethnicities and disabilities, among other factors.\n\nA recent survey by the data privacy campaign Defend Digital Me suggested most parents (69%) did not know about the data-sharing.\n\nCurrently, parents and children are not allowed access to their data.\n\nGender, ethnicity, exam performance and reasons for absence can all be accessed by third parties under certain rules.\n\nDefend Digital Me is calling for a change in how the data is managed.\n\nProf Ross Anderson - a leading cyber-security expert at the University of Cambridge - has also raised concerns, despite the fact that other researchers at the institution have made use of the data.\n\n\"The government is forcing schools to collect data that are then sold or given to firms that exploit it, with no meaningful consent,\" he blogged on Monday.\n\n\"There is not even the normal right to request subject access so you can check whether the information about you is right and have it corrected if it's wrong.\n\n\"Our elected representatives make a lot of noise about protecting children; time to call them on it.\"\n\nEnglish records in the national pupil database have been kept since 1998 and include more than 21 million named English schoolchildren.\n\nFreedom of Information (FoI) requests made by Defend Digital Me also found data on 1.2 million Scottish children had been collected since 2007, though in that case the pupils were not named.\n\nThe information, collected by the DfE, is generally gathered via school censuses.\n\nRecords of who has accessed the data and why are available on the DfE's website.\n\nRequests from academic researchers make up the majority of data extract applications processed by the DfE.\n\nMany relate to projects studying education in the UK, for example.\n\nAcademic researchers' use of personal datasets has faced scrutiny recently - notably after it was revealed that data gathered by a Cambridge University researcher had been passed to Cambridge Analytica.\n\nThere is no suggestion that Cambridge Analytica had accessed national pupil database records.\n\nBesides academic researchers, there are also requests from private companies, which use the data to aid education policy consulting services to local authorities.\n\nThe Home Office has requested data on schoolchildren under its immigration control and Syrian resettlement programmes - though the latter request has yet to receive approval.\n\nThe BBC's Newsnight programme also requested data, in March 2017, when it was producing a package on the English school system. It was given tier-two access, which includes pupils' ages and ethnicities but not names or home addresses.\n\nThe DfE records that Newsnight later destroyed the data in accordance with rules around access.\n\nDefend Digital Me has said that the government does not currently allow parents or children the right to see records relating to them or to have them corrected if inaccurate.\n\nAccording to the group's survey of 1,004 English parents - carried out by Survation - 79% would choose to see the records if they were able to.\n\n\"Defend Digital Me is campaigning to have that changed, and wants the government to respect children's subject access rights... in the General Data Protection Regulation [GDPR],\" the report said.\n\nJen Persson, the group's director, told the BBC: \"As a mother with three children in primary school four years ago, I didn't know there was a national pupil database at all or that my children's personal data were stored at named level, given away to commercial third parties.\"\n\nShe said that everything she had since discovered, thanks to research and FoI requests, was \"not widely known at all\".\n\nThe research by Defend Digital Me \"raises serious questions\", said Ailidh Callander, a legal officer at civil liberties group Privacy International.\n\n\"It is important that data practices in the education sector are examined thoroughly - particularly given the sensitivity of children's data,\" she told the BBC.\n\nDefend Digital Me has also investigated the use of web monitoring software on computers used at school\n\nA spokeswoman for the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) said that it had engaged with the DfE about its processing of pupil data in the past \"and continues to do so\".\n\n\"The GDPR requires that personal data is processed fairly, lawfully and transparently, as well as enhancing people's rights,\" she said.\n\n\"We understand that the DfE is reviewing its processing of pupil data as part of its GDPR preparations. And the ICO will continue to engage with the DfE on this.\"", "Eloise Parry died in 2015 at the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital\n\nA \"vulnerable\" bulimic woman suffered the \"most distressing\" death after taking a toxic slimming aid she bought online, a court heard.\n\nEloise Parry, 21, from Shrewsbury, died in April 2015 after taking eight diet pills containing Dinitrophenol (DNP).\n\nProsecutor Richard Barraclough QC told jurors taking the chemical is like \"playing Russian roulette\".\n\nOpening the case at Inner London Crown Court, he said \"you might survive, you might not\".\n\nMiss Parry, a student at Glyndwr University, Wrexham, started taking the chemical in pill form in February 2015, and soon became addicted.\n\nIt is alleged the group were operating from a flat in Harrow, north west London, and made the capsules which they sold online for considerable profits.\n\nJurors were told how the defendants bought the chemicals in drums from China and two of the defendants had consumed DNP themselves so knew of its dangers.\n\nMiss Parry had been studying families and childhood studies\n\nThe defendants \"cynically thwarted\" authorities such as the Food Standards Agency and Interpol that tried to close down their operations, the court heard.\n\nDescribing DNP and its effects, Mr Barraclough said it was a \"highly toxic substance when ingested, inhaled or absorbed through the skin\".\n\nHe added it causes weight loss by burning fat and carbohydrates, in turn causing energy to be converted into heat.\n\n\"The result is that that person's temperature and metabolic rate all dangerously increase,\" Mr Barraclough explained.\n\nIn the weeks before her death Miss Parry, who had a history of self-harming, was admitted to hospital numerous times, suffering from the effects of taking the chemical.\n\nShe sent desperate messages to her friends telling them she wanted to stop taking the pills but was \"psychologically addicted\" and knew that feeling her temperature rise meant her fat was burning, jurors heard.\n\nHaving driven herself to the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital after feeling unwell, she messaged a friend, saying: \"I screwed up big time. Binged/purged all night and took four pills at 4am.\n\n\"I took another four when I woke and I started vomiting soon after. I think I am going to die.\n\n\"No one is known to survive if they vomit after taking DNP. I am so scared.\"\n\nMr Huynh from Northolt, north-west London, Mr Rebelo and Ms Roberts, both from Gosport, deny two counts each of manslaughter, one count each of supplying an unsafe food, and Ms Roberts faces a single count of money laundering.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "US retailer Gap has apologised for selling T-shirts which it said showed an \"incorrect map\" of China.\n\nThe design featured just the mainland and not territories that China also claims, such as Taiwan.\n\nA picture of the T-shirt was posted on Chinese social media network, Weibo, generating hundreds of complaints.\n\nThe company said it respected China's \"sovereignty\" and would implement \"rigorous reviews\" to prevent a repeat of the incident.\n\nGap is the latest in a string of foreign firms to face a backlash for not adhering to China's territorial claims.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by People's Daily,China This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 post on Weibo said the T-shirt, which was being sold in Canada, did not show Chinese-claimed territories including Taiwan, islands in the South China Sea and south Tibet.\n\nBeijing considers self-ruling Taiwan to be a breakaway province, while Tibet is governed as an autonomous region. China also claims a large part of territory in the South China Sea, which neighbouring Asian countries dispute.\n\n\"South Tibet\" is how China refers to what it claims is its territory in the Indian-administered region of Arunachal Pradesh.\n\nIn a statement Gap said it \"sincerely apologised for this unintentional error\".\n\nThe clothing giant said the product had been pulled from the Chinese market and destroyed. It was not clear what would happen to those being sold outside the mainland.\n\nSeveral other companies including Marriott and Delta Airlines have issued similar apologies this year after information on their websites appeared to conflict with China's territorial claims.\n\nLast month, Beijing demanded a group of foreign airlines respect China's sovereignty claims and change the way they refer to Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau.\n\nThe White House hit back, describing China's claims as \"Orwellian nonsense\" and sharply criticised Beijing for trying to impose its \"political correctness on American companies and their citizens\".", "A police officer has recalled a pursuit at more than 100mph as the \"scariest moment\" of his career.\n\nPC Sam Thompson was in one of a number of police cars trying to catch Michael Elmstrom through towns and villages in Cambridgeshire.\n\nThe 34-year-old of Dunnock Way, St Ives, was jailed for two years at Cambridge Crown Court.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMore doubt has been cast on whether Meghan Markle's father will attend his daughter's wedding to Prince Harry on Saturday, as it is reported he is due to have heart surgery.\n\nThomas Markle had told US website TMZ he would not go amid a row over paparazzi photographs; then that he would; then that he could not, due to a planned heart procedure.\n\nMs Markle's estranged half-sister said he had faced an \"unbelievable stress\".\n\nSpeaking to Australia's Sunrise morning TV programme from Orlando, Florida, Samantha Markle said she was not sure if Mr Markle would be travelling to Windsor.\n\n\"He sent me a message that he was undergoing heart surgery,\" she said.\n\n\"We're all hoping he pulls through this now.\"\n\nMeanwhile, Kensington Palace has announced Princess Charlotte will be among the bridesmaids and her brother Prince George will be a pageboy at the wedding this weekend.\n\nMr Markle became embroiled in controversy at the weekend, following reports that he staged paparazzi photographs of himself in the run-up to the wedding.\n\nThe pictures showed Mr Markle - apparently unaware he was being photographed - in a series of wedding-related activities, including being measured for a wedding suit.\n\nOn Monday, Mr Markle reportedly told celebrity news website TMZ that he would not attend the wedding.\n\nTMZ later reported that Mr Markle had and wanted to attend - although he might not be able to because of health concerns.\n\nAnd in a third report, the website said that the health issues and planned surgery would prevent him from attending after all.\n\nOn Tuesday evening, BBC royal correspondent Nicholas Witchell said Ms Markle wanted her father to be there, but her major concern would be for his wellbeing.\n\nKensington Palace has said events are \"a deeply personal moment for Ms Markle\".\n\n\"She and Prince Harry ask again for understanding and respect to be extended to Mr Markle in this difficult situation,\" the palace said in a statement on Monday.\n\nOne minute there's a perfectly scripted wedding about to reach its traditional-yet-modern, royal-yet-diverse climax in the St George's chapel at Windsor. The next minute there's twists and turns worthy of the finest soap opera.\n\nIt is difficult to believe that things are quite where the various Palaces involved in this wedding thought they would be at this stage.\n\nIt is of course conceivable that Thomas Markle could have heart surgery at today, somehow find the energy to make a transatlantic flight, meet the Queen, go to the wedding and walk his daughter down the aisle. But it seems a little unlikely.\n\nSo who will walk Meghan down the aisle?\n\nWho will step under the standards of the Knights of the Garter, over the vault containing the remains of Henry VIII and Charles I and past 600 of years of Royal, English and British history?\n\nWill it be Meghan's mother Doria, or will she walk alone? Now, there's a thought.\n\nMr Markle had been due to meet Prince Harry for the first time this week, as well as the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh, before walking his daughter down the aisle at St George's Chapel in Windsor Castle.\n\nSamantha, who has not spoken to her famous sibling in three years - and will not be attending the wedding - told Good Morning Britain the photographs had been done with \"good intention\" and not for money.\n\nShe previously admitted the pictures had been her idea, in order to portray a positive image.\n\nThe father of the ex-Suits actress lives in Mexico and is a former lighting director who worked on programmes including the 1980s TV show Married with Children and General Hospital, for which he and his team won two Emmy awards.\n\nHe and Ms Markle's mother, Doria Ragland, divorced when Ms Markle was six years old.\n\nTMZ - which launched in 2005 - stands for Thirty-Mile Zone, an old Hollywood expression that describes the area where the studios are based and where most celebrities happen to live.\n\nThe US celebrity news site, which scooped the world's media on Thomas Markle's wedding plans, is no stranger to a-list exclusives (albeit not without controversy):\n\nMr Markle, who has two children - including Samantha - from his first marriage, filed for bankruptcy two years ago.\n\nMs Markle has previously said: \"It's safe to say I have always been a daddy's girl - he taught me how to fish, to appreciate Busby Berkeley films, write thank-you notes, and spend my weekends in Little Tokyo eating chicken teriyaki with vegetable tempura.\"\n\nRoyal fans are already camped outside Windsor Castle in preparation for the big day\n\nThe wedding will take place on 19 May at 12:00 BST at St George's Chapel in Windsor.\n\nWith five days to go, Kensington Palace revealed that Ms Markle will spend her last night before getting married at a luxury Buckinghamshire hotel with her mother, Doria.\n\nPrince Harry will be staying 15 miles away at the Dorchester Collection's Coworth Park in Ascot, with his brother, the Duke of Cambridge.", "Donald Trump's unconventional diplomatic approach appears to be taking shape, with a summit with North Korea's leader Kim Jong-un slated for 12 June in Singapore.\n\nBut the risks and rewards of Trump's bombastic approach are acute. Three North Korean experts offer some practical and profound advice on a future summit between the two leaders.", "Women in Saudi Arabia received driving lessons at an exhibition which took place ahead of next month's lifting of the female driving ban.\n\nThe Pinkish exhibition is part of a \"vision\" to \"support women's important roles in society\".", "Willow Smith has revealed she \"lost her sanity\" and used to self-harm as a child.\n\nThe 17-year-old said it happened after the exposure of her song Whip My Hair, which was released in 2010 - when she was nine years old.\n\n\"After all of that settled down and there was a lull, I was just listening to a lot of dark music and it was just so crazy,\" she added.\n\n\"I was just plunged into this black hole and I was cutting myself.\"\n\nShe told her mum, Jada Pinkett Smith, and grandmother, Adrienne Banfield-Norrison, on the web series Red Table Talk, that she stopped five years ago.\n\nIf you need help with issues related to self-harm, you can go to BBC Advice.\n\nWillow says her brother Jaden and half-brother Trey didn't know she was self-harming\n\nWillow said it happened after the hype died down from Whip My Hair and she had just cancelled plans to finish her album.\n\n\"I was kind of just in this grey area of like 'Who am I? Do I have a purpose? Is there anything that I can do beyond this?'\"\n\nHer mum and grandmother appeared shocked when she told them.\n\nExplaining why she turned to self-harm, she said: \"I honestly felt like I was experiencing so much emotional pain but my physical circumstances weren't reflecting that.\"\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video by WillowSmithVEVO 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\nShe said her brother Jaden and half-brother Trey didn't know about it and that she only told one friend about it.\n\n\"I never talk about it because it was such a short, weird point in my life. But you have to pull yourself out of it.\"\n\nShe says she stopped \"one night [when] I was just like 'this is actually psychotic'.\n\n\"And after that, I just stopped.\"\n\nHer mum says she \"never saw any signs\" her daughter was self-harming.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video 2 by BBC Newsbeat 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\nWillow, who is also the daughter of Will Smith, was thrust into the limelight when she signed to Jay-Z's record label Roc Nation aged nine.\n\nWhip My Hair peaked at number two in the UK and was her most successful single.\n\nShe's released two albums so far - 2015's Ardipithecus and The 1st, which was released in 2017.\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 every weekday on BBC Radio 1 and 1Xtra - if you miss us you can listen back here.", "Last updated on .From the section Aston Villa\n\nFormer Aston Villa and Bolton defender Jlloyd Samuel has died in a car crash in Cheshire.\n\nThe 37-year-old, most recently player-manager of non-league side Egerton, died on Tuesday.\n\nSamuel made 199 appearances for Villa after signing with the club in 1998, and played 83 times for Bolton between 2007 and 2011.\n\nThe Trinidad and Tobago Football Association said he had \"collided with an oncoming vehicle\".\n• None 'Whenever I was with him, you could feel the positive vibes' - tributes to Samuel\n\n\"We are deeply saddened to hear of the death of our former player Jlloyd Samuel at the age of just 37 in a car accident,\" Championship side Villa said on Twitter .\n\n\"Our players will wear black armbands as a mark of respect tonight [in their play-off semi-final] and our thoughts are with his friends and family at this very difficult time.\"\n\nSamuel won two international caps for Trinidad and Tobago, and also played club football in Iran between 2011 and 2015.\n\nThe Trinidad and Tobago FA continued on Facebook : \"We've received some terrible news that former national defender and ex-Aston Villa and Bolton Wanderers player Jlloyd Samuel died in a car crash this morning in England.\n\n\"According to reports, Jlloyd was returning home after dropping his kids off to school and collided with an oncoming vehicle.\n\n\"The Trinidad and Tobago Football Association and his former national team-mates at this time extends deepest condolences to his family members both in the UK and here in Trinidad and Tobago.\"\n\nCheshire Police said they were called to a serious collision involving a van and a Range Rover in High Legh, Cheshire at 07:55 BST.\n\n\"Sadly the driver of the car, Jlloyd Samuel, 37, from Lymm, died at the scene,\" they said in a statement.\n\n\"His next of kin have been informed and are currently being supported by specially trained officers.\n\n\"The driver of the van, a 54-year-old man, sustained serious injuries and has been taken to hospital for treatment.\"\n\nManchester United defender Ashley Young: \"Absolutely gutted to hear the news of the passing of Jlloyd Samuel. Took me under his wing when I joined Villa and helped me settle. Such a good guy on and off the pitch and a truly good friend.\"\n\nBolton Wanderers: \"Everybody associated with Bolton Wanderers Football Club is deeply saddened to learn of the passing of our former defender, Jlloyd Samuel.\n\n\"Rest in peace, Jlloyd. Our deepest condolences are with his family and friends at this difficult time.\"\n\nCardiff City: \"We are deeply saddened to hear of the passing of former Cardiff City defender, Jlloyd Samuel. Our thoughts are with his friends and family at this incredibly difficult time.\"\n\nCharlton Athletic: \"The club are deeply saddened to learn of the passing of Jlloyd Samuel, who began his career in Charlton's youth system. The thoughts of everyone at the club are with his family and friends at this difficult time.\"\n\nPlayers' union, the PFA: \"Our sincere condolences go out to the family and friends of Jlloyd Samuel who has died aged 37.\"\n\nFormer team-mate and Liverpool academy coach Michael Beale said: \"Absolutely heartbroken to hear of the passing of my childhood friend and team-mate. A beautiful person.\"", "The controversial US embassy move to Jerusalem is going ahead amid celebration and protest. The BBC's Yolande Knell explains why the city is so important.", "Provocateur Lars von Trier is under fire again after a screening of his film, The House That Jack Built, prompted dozens to walk out.\n\nStarring Matt Dillon as a serial killer, one reporter, Roger Friedman said it was a \"vile movie. Should not have been made. Actors also culpable\".\n\nDillon plays an architect who kills several women and children in gruesome fashion. Uma Thurman also stars.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or 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 Oscar Predictor This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and 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 Oscar Predictor\n\nVon Trier had been banned from the festival for seven years for comments he made in a press conference for his sci-fi film Melancholia.\n\nThe Danish film-maker pushed organisers too far when he said (as a joke it was later assumed) he was a Nazi.\n\nNow, with The House That Jack Built, the offence has gone further - into the throng of the gathered press.\n\nIn one scene, as the killer Jack mutilates a girlfriend, he says: \"Why is it always the man's fault...\n\n\"If you are born male you are born to be guilty. Think of the injustice of that.\"\n\nLars von Trier (centre) and some of those involved in the The House That Jack Built attended the film's Cannes premiere\n\nThere is also a scene in which he practises amateur taxidermy on one of his victims.\n\nVariety reporter Ramin Setoodeh said more than 100 people walked out of the Cannes screening.\n\nThe Hollywood Reporter called the film \"an autoerotic ego massage... often as inane as it is unsettling\".\n\nIt said it was a direct rebuttal \"to the current climate of reckoning over gender bias and sexual misconduct\".\n\nThe film also featured images of Hitler and other mass-murdering dictators.\n\nLars von Trier at Cannes with Melancholia's star Kirsten Dunst - before he was banned\n\nVon Trier's ban in 2011 was after he said of Hitler: \"He's not what you would call a good guy but I understand him. I sympathise with him a little bit.\"\n\nThe film's star Kirsten Dunst, sitting beside him at the time, also didn't look impressed with the director's statement\n\nThe House That Jack Built's producer told the BBC on Monday: \"It's not too bloody. Of course we have some graphic images, but they're very short and very few. It's more about the psychological side of evilness. I think there'll be a huge reaction to the film.\"\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.", "Rihanna's home was broken into by a suspected stalker who allegedly spent 12 hours inside, US prosecutors say.\n\nEduardo Leon, 27, has been charged with stalking, first-degree residential burglary, vandalism and resisting arrest.\n\nRihanna was not home at the time of the alleged incident in Los Angeles on 9 May.\n\nLeon, from Fullerton, California, is due to appear at the Foltz Criminal Justice Centre on Monday.\n\nThe suspect is accused of hopping a fence and entering a house owned by Rihanna in the Hollywood Hills.\n\nHe allegedly spent 12 hours inside the home and was arrested the next day after being discovered by the singer's assistant.\n\nIf convicted, Leon faces a possible maximum sentence of six years in prison.\n\nThe case is still being investigated by the Los Angeles Police Department.\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 26-year-old man died in hospital in the Sri Lankan capital Colombo\n\nA British amateur rugby player has died and a team mate is critically ill after complaining of breathing difficulties on returning from a nightclub in Sri Lanka.\n\nThe pair had been touring the country with Durham-based Clems Pirates RFC when they visited the club in Colombo.\n\nThomas Howard, 25 from Durham, died shortly after being admitted to hospital on Sunday.\n\nTom Baty, 26, also from Durham, remains in hospital.\n\nDurham City Rugby Football Club, which oversees the team, confirmed Mr Howard had died after \"suffering breathing problems\" and that Mr Baty was still receiving treatment.\n\nThe team arrived in Sri Lanka on Wednesday and began the tour with a game against Ceylonese Rugby and Football Club (CR & FC) in Colombo.\n\nAccording to police in Sri Lanka, some British players went to a nightclub after the match and returned to their hotel in the early hours of Sunday.\n\nThe two players complained of breathing difficulties to the hotel management at about 10:00 on Sunday.\n\nPolice said a post-mortem examination would be carried out later.\n\nA police spokesman told the BBC: \"Both men had returned from a nightclub and had complained of breathing difficulties, and they were admitted to the hospital, one died and another is in very critical condition.\"\n\nDurham City Rugby Club said in a statement the pair suffered \"non-rugby related breathing problems\".\n\n\"Subsequently, one of the two has died and one remains in hospital,\" the statement said.\n\nSri Lanka Rugby Football Union director Rohan Gunerathne said the organisation was looking into the matter, but confirmed nothing happened on the rugby pitch during the match.\n\nA British High Commission spokesman in Colombo said both families were being supported, and they were in contact with the Sri Lankan medical services.\n\nA spokeswoman for the Foreign Office said: \"Our staff are supporting the family of a British man following his death in Sri Lanka, and are in contact with the Sri Lankan hospital services.\n\n\"We are assisting the family of a British man who has been hospitalised in Sri Lanka, and are in contact with the Sri Lankan medical services.\"\n\nDurham County councillor Dr David Boyes said Durham City RFC was a very well organised, well equipped organisation and oversaw a number of teams.\n\nDr Boyes added that the club had organised numerous tours abroad in the past and had never had any problems before.\n\n\"I really feel for the families, being that far away and knowing that a family member has died must be terrible,\" he said.\n\nClem's Pirates tours regularly across Europe and further afield. It is a well known club in the area especially for its fundraising efforts and tours.\n\nFellow Durham County councillor Richard Ormerod said it was \"very sad news\" for all those involved.\n\n\"My thoughts are with the families and friends and team mates.\n\n\"They do a lot of good work raising money for charity and introducing people to rugby.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section England\n\nGoalkeeper Joe Hart and midfielder Jack Wilshere have been left out of England's World Cup squad by Gareth Southgate, BBC Sport has learned.\n\nHart, 31, who has won 75 caps, has had a poor season, conceding 39 goals in 19 Premier League games for West Ham - on loan from Manchester City.\n\nArsenal's 26-year-old Wilshere, who has had an injury-plagued career, managed 38 appearances this season.\n\nSouthgate reveals his 23-man squad for the tournament in Russia on Wednesday.\n\nHart has been England's first-choice goalkeeper for the last three major tournaments - Euro 2012, the 2014 World Cup and Euro 2016, as well as the qualifiers for this summer's event - but he has only played in one of the past five games under Southgate.\n\nEverton's Jordan Pickford is likely to be England's number one this summer, with Stoke City's Jack Butland also a contender.\n\nWilshere has won 34 caps, scoring twice. His last appearance for his country was the Euro 2016 last-16 defeat by Iceland.\n\nEngland have been drawn in Group G along with Belgium, Panama and Tunisia and start their World Cup campaign on 18 June against Tunisia.\n• None Football Daily podcast: 'It could be an extraordinarily inexperienced England squad'\n• None Quiz: How many of England's Brazil 2014 squad can you name?\n\nJoe Hart's exclusion from England's World Cup squad continues the steep decline of the goalkeeper who was first choice in their last three major tournaments.\n\nHis England career is now surely over after 75 caps.\n\nHart is now in the painful position of having no future at England level and a very uncertain one at club level with his stay at West Ham now over. The fall from grace is complete.\n\nJack Wilshere's failure to make England's World Cup squad will not simply be based on form for Arsenal this season - it will also be the result of manager Gareth Southgate deciding he is simply a risk not worth taking.\n\nWilshere has shown occasional flashes of his best this season but not enough to make a persuasive case for inclusion and those questions surrounding his fitness have simply never gone away.\n\nHis late withdrawal from England's friendlies against the Netherlands in Amsterdam and Italy at Wembley in March through injury will have done nothing to strengthen his case.", "The reduction in charges follow a period of cuts for the police\n\nThe number of criminal charges being brought in England and Wales has been falling - despite more crimes being recorded in the same period.\n\nBBC analysis of Home Office data for Panorama shows 527,000 charges were brought in 2016-17 - a fall of 65,000 on 2014-15. Meanwhile, the number of crimes recorded rose by nearly 750,000.\n\nPolice say a squeeze on resources is making crime harder to investigate.\n\nThe Home Office says it is working with police to find a solution.\n\nYou need a modern browser to view the interactive content in this page. Please enter your postcode or police force name\n\nThe picture in Northern Ireland and Scotland is different. Charges have fallen at the same rate as recorded crime in Northern Ireland. In Scotland where the criminal justice system is different, they record clear-ups, a broader category than charges - these have fallen in line with recorded crime.\n\n\"My officers and staff, I think do a fantastic job with the resource that we have, but I realise that we are letting some people down,\" she said.\n\n\"Since 2010 we've had a 35% real-term cut and what that has meant in terms of officers and staff numbers is I have 1,400 fewer people.\"\n\nFewer charges means victims such as Richard Bolland are not getting justice. Last year he was attacked in the fish and chip shop he runs in Wyke, near Bradford.\n\nHe was so severely beaten he passed out and says the attack left him looking \"like Frankenstein\". Then he was robbed. \"He took my wallets, the company money, the money to pay the suppliers, the till float, he took everything,\" Mr Bolland said.\n\nRichard Bolland was beaten about the head\n\nHe says the initial response from the police was good, but he feels let down by CID.\n\nNo-one was ever caught and he was told by the police that if he could come up with a lead to help them, then he should let them know. \"Other than that it was on the shelf. And since then I've not heard a single thing from them.\"\n\nWest Yorkshire Police say that despite receiving tip-offs about who attacked Mr Bolland they could not gather enough evidence to bring them in. They say they have reviewed the case and believe they responded in the right way.\n\n\"I think there is an emerging crisis and it's a crisis that's right at the heart of policing, the investigation of crime,\" says Peter Neyroud, a former chief constable. He describes the fall in charges as significant and depressing.\n\nHome Office minister Victoria Atkins says the government is looking at this problem \"very carefully\" to see whether there is a problem at force level or if there is something it can do nationally.\n\n\"We want to ensure that when a victim reports a crime to the police that it's investigated properly and thoroughly and that any charges that are appropriate are made,\" she said.\n\nThe number of crimes recorded by police in England and Wales has risen by nearly 750,000 in the last three years. Some of this rise is because police are recording crime better.\n\nIn early 2014 an investigation by the House of Commons Public Administration Select Committee found that forces had been under-recording crime. As a result data audits are being carried out on each force by the Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary.\n\nBut some crimes are genuinely up. If you look at the more accurate Crime Survey for England and Wales, offences such as burglary, robbery and some violent crimes are rising.\n\nEither way the police have more cases to investigate than they did in 2014.\n\nThe reduction in charges follow a period of cuts for the police. There are about 20,000 fewer police officers in England and Wales than there were in 2010. \"That's four and a half million policing days of investigation,\" said Mr Neyroud.\n\nHe says there is also an increased demand for the police service to investigate more rapes, modern slavery, terrorism and organised crime.\n\nForces are having to make tough choices, Dee Collins says\n\n\"That's shifting all the experienced resources into those areas and leaving a considerable drop in the expertise in dealing with the basic day-to-day crimes which are the ones that most of the public are concerned about.\"\n\nHe believes this is leading to police screening crimes for those they feel they can investigate successfully and those they can't.\n\nIn West Yorkshire, Ms Collins admits they are having to make pragmatic decisions about which crimes to follow up.\n\n\"For example if it was an elderly victim and something that might feel fairly low-level we will probably still attend. If perhaps it had been myself ringing about a particular issue we might not. \"\n\nIt has certainly shaken Mr Bolland's faith in the abilities of the police. \"The thin blue line, it's a dotted line now and the dots are getting further and further apart,\" he says.\n\nTight resources and rising crime have brought back bad memories for Mr Neyroud from his time in the police.\n\n\"We spent more of our time apologising for what we weren't able to do than doing what we were able.\n\n\"The police service appears to me to be in that position again.\"\n\nData Analysis by Wesley Stephenson, Ransome Mpini, and William Dahlgreen. Design and development by Sumi Senthinathan, Steven Connor, and Becky Rush.\n\nWe have looked at the outcomes data and recorded crime data for the three years between 2014-15 and 2016-17. 2016-17 is the latest full year for which we have data.\n\nMethod for calculating change in recorded crime and charges:\n\nFor charges we have used: 'Outcomes open data year ending March' for 2014-15, 2015-16, 2016-17 taking the data for charges recorded in each particular year.\n\nFor recorded crime we have used: 'Police recorded crime open data Police Force Area tables from year ending March 2013 onwards'\n\nWe calculated percentage change using the data for the first and last years in our time period.\n\nIn the crime categories chart we have removed any category with fewer than 50 charges in the base year of 2014-15. This is consistent with methodology used by the Office for National Statistics.\n\nFor the PSNI we only have two years of data 2015-16 and 2016-17.\n\nPSNI use the same crime categories and recording methods as England and Wales. To calculate the PSNI percentage change we have used the data for the first and last years in our time period.\n\nPolice Scotland has different crime categories to England and Wales and it also uses the broader category of 'clear ups' rather than charges. The data we use for Scotland is as follows:\n\n4. Chart 1: Recorded crime is up but charges are down.\n\nFor the years between 2007-8 and 2016-17 we have used the same data as above plus: 'Police recorded crime open data Police Force Area tables from March 2008 to March 2012'. To calculate change we have excluded fraud offences and then calculated the year- on-year change in total recorded crime and the year on year change in total charges for England and Wales. This chart was produced with help from Marian Fitzgerald - Visiting Professor of Criminology, University of Kent.", "The leaflets were address to \"Mr Isis Terroriste\" and \"Mr Getout Ofengland\"\n\nO2 has apologised after two items of \"shocking\" racist hate mail were sent to a British-Iraqi family in London.\n\nAddressed to \"Mr Isis Terroriste\" and \"Mr Getout Ofengland\" at the exact family address in Wembley, north London, they contained free pay-as-you-go Sim cards ordered online in August 2017 by an unknown third party.\n\nThe family, who presumed they were junk mail, only recently read the envelopes.\n\nThe Muslim Council of Britain said the \"Islamophobia\" was deeply concerning.\n\nThe family told the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire Programme: \"We were really saddened to come across these letters, especially having a younger child in the house who we don't want to grow up witnessing such hateful language.\n\n\"It's even sadder to think that such hate speech has become normalised despite living in such a uniquely multicultural and diverse city like London.\"\n\nFamily friend and lawyer Sura Jawad said the letters were hateful.\n\n\"It's horrible to think that there are people who have so much hatred in them that they set out to deliberately make others feel isolated and unwelcome or who take comments like these light-heartedly,\" she said.\n\n\"Either scenario shows that racism and Islamophobia are very much rife issues, particularly in a post-Brexit climate.\"\n\nO2 said its Sim card postage and printing was managed by a third-party partner, Williams Lea Tag, and was automated.\n\nHuman checks were in place but only once a query had been identified. And in this case no query had been raised before postage.\n\nThe company said it would be working with this partner to review the entire process as a result of this issue - including where human checking was used.\n\nO2 added that it \"has a rigorous data-cleansing process in place to prevent any of our free products being sent to addresses with obscenities or offensive names, and so this is a rare occurrence\".\n\n\"If the family decide to report this case, we will work closely with the police as part of their investigation.\"\n\nAfter speaking to a friend of the family affected, Miqdaad Versi, assistant secretary general of the Muslim Council of Britain, said: \"These Islamophobic bigots are finding more and more ways to spread their hatred.\n\n\"Whilst it is imperative that corporations upgrade safeguards to prevent such incidents recurring, there are broader concerns about the government not taking Islamophobia seriously.\"\n\nWatch the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme on weekdays between 09:00 and 11:00 on BBC Two and the BBC News channel.\n• None Reality Check: Is Islamophobia on the rise?", "A large crowd gathered at the scene in Varanasi\n\nAt least 18 people have been killed and dozens trapped in the Indian city of Varanasi after a flyover collapsed, crushing vehicles beneath it.\n\nThe flyover was still being built when portions of its cement structure fell on the road being used under it.\n\nOfficials from the National Disaster Response Force said 18 bodies had been recovered so far.\n\nA rescue operation is continuing for those believed to still be trapped, but their number and condition is unknown.\n\nPhotographs and video from the scene showed cars and a bus crushed beneath the weight of the concrete, many of which still held people inside.\n\nLocal media reported that a handful of people had been successfully rescued, as seven cranes attempted to lift the concrete pillar. A large crowd also gathered at the scene.\n\nOne eyewitness told reporters they were nearby when the collapse happened. \"At least four cars, an auto-rickshaw and a minibus were crushed under it,\" they said.\n\nSeveral vehicles were only partly crushed beneath the tonnes of concrete\n\nIndia's NDTV also reported that many of those trapped are believed to be construction workers who had been building the flyover.\n\nThe cause of the collapse is not yet known, and an inquiry has been ordered, NDTV added.\n\nMajor collapses of buildings and other infrastructure are not uncommon in India, where the enforcement of construction standards is weaker than many Western countries.\n\nOther collapses with smaller death tolls are frequent.\n\nVaranasi is the home constituency of India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who said he was \"extremely saddened by the loss of lives due to the collapse\".\n\n\"I pray that the injured recover soon. Spoke to officials and asked them to ensure all possible support to those affected,\" he tweeted.", "Home to about two million people, Gaza is 41km (25 miles) long and 10km wide, an enclave bounded by the Mediterranean Sea, Israel and Egypt.\n\nTensions between Gaza and Israel have recently escalated into the worst violence for several years and led the UN to warn of \"a full-scale war\".\n\nOriginally occupied by Egypt, Gaza was captured by Israel during the 1967 Middle East war. Israel withdrew its troops and around 7,000 settlers in 2005.\n\nIt is under the control of the militant Islamist group Hamas, which ejected forces loyal to the then governing Palestinian Authority (PA) after a violent rift in 2007.\n\nSince then, Israel and Egypt have restricted the movement of goods and people in and out in what they say are security measures against militants.\n\nHamas and Israel fought a brief conflict in 2014, and in May 2021 hostilities between the two sides broke out again.\n\nMany buildings have been destroyed in the recent violence\n\nThe Gaza fighting began after weeks of rising Israeli-Palestinian tension in occupied East Jerusalem that culminated in clashes at a holy site revered by both Muslims and Jews. On 10 May Hamas began firing rockets after warning Israel to withdraw from the site, triggering retaliatory air strikes. Exchanges intensified and hostilities quickly escalated into the worst violence between Israel and Gaza since 2014.\n\nPower cuts are an everyday occurrence in Gaza. Before the latest upsurge in fighting, households in Gaza were receiving power on eight-hour rotations.\n\nPower cuts in Gaza disrupt almost all aspects of daily life\n\nThe latest violence is said to have damaged power lines and disrupted fuel supplies. According to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (Ocha), most homes are now receiving power for only three-four hours per day.\n\nThe Strip gets most of its power from Israel together with further contributions from Gaza's only power plant and a small amount from Egypt.\n\nBoth the Gaza Power Plant (GPP) and many people's individual generators depend on diesel fuel, but supplies brought in via Israel are frequently blocked causing more disruption.\n\nSince Hamas came to power in Gaza in 2007, Egypt has largely kept its border with Gaza closed.\n\nLast year additional restrictions were imposed to try to restrict the spread of coronavirus.\n\nThe Rafah crossing into Egypt and the Erez crossing into Israel were both shut on about 240 days and opened on only 125 in 2020, according to Ocha figures.\n\nEgypt has largely kept its border with Gaza closed since 2007\n\nIn 2019 about 78,000 people left Gaza via the Rafah crossing but in 2020 that fell to 25,000.\n\nIn the north, crossings into Israel at Erez also fell dramatically in 2020 - partly due to pandemic restrictions. This year about 8,000 people have left Gaza via the Erez crossing, most of them patients or people accompanying them for medical care in Israel.\n\nUntil the latest violence, traffic had begun to pick up again. Some aid convoys have since been allowed through, but otherwise crossings have remained shut.\n\nAbout 80% of the population of Gaza depends on international aid, according to the UN, and about one million people rely on daily food aid.\n\nThe blockade imposed by Israel has severely impacted movements in and out of the Strip and the ability to trade.\n\nTunnels were dug under the Egyptian border to bring in all kinds of goods and weapons\n\nTo try to get round the blockade, Hamas has built a network of tunnels which it uses to bring goods into the Strip and also as its underground command centre. Israel says tunnels are also used by militants to move around out of sight and are being targeted by air strikes.\n\nCoronavirus has also had an impact on the local economy, but it was just beginning to show signs of recovery, according to the World Bank, when the fighting broke out.\n\nGaza has one of the highest population densities in the world. According to the UN, almost 600,000 refugees in Gaza are living in eight crowded camps.\n\nOn average there are more than 5,700 people per square kilometre - very similar to the density of population in London - but that figure rises to more than 9,000 in Gaza City.\n\nIsrael declared a buffer zone along the border in 2014 to protect itself from rocket attacks and infiltrations by militants. The zone reduced the amount of land available for people to live or farm on.\n\nThe UN estimated about 140,000 houses were damaged or destroyed in the 2014 violence and it has since supported almost 90,000 families with help to rebuild their homes.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Rushdi Abualouf This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nOcha says several hundred homes have been severely damaged in the latest fighting, but it will take some time to reveal the full extent of the damage.\n\nGaza's public health system is in a precarious state due to various reasons. Ocha says Israel and Egypt's blockade, lower health expenditure from the West Bank-based PA and internal political conflict between the PA - which has responsibility for healthcare in the Palestinian territories - and Hamas are all to blame.\n\nThe UN helps out by running 22 healthcare facilities. But a number of hospitals and clinics were damaged or destroyed in previous conflicts with Israel.\n\nPatients from Gaza needing treatment in West Bank or East Jerusalem hospitals must first get requests approved by the PA and then exit passes approved by the Israeli government - in 2019, the approval rate for patient applications to leave the Gaza Strip was 65%.\n\nOver the last few months, the health situation has been exacerbated by coronavirus.\n\nIn April, a spike in cases saw almost 3,000 a day in Gaza. There have been more than 104,000 cases since the start of the pandemic and more than 946 people have died with the virus.\n\nThe World Health Organization (WHO) warns that the border restrictions are not only limiting access to life-saving treatment for victims of the hostilities, but they are also hampering the coronavirus response.\n\nThe WHO says it is affecting the \"critical\" vaccination programme and increases the risk of spreading the virus as people seek refuge with relatives or in emergency shelters.\n\nMore than a million people in Gaza are classed as \"moderately-to-severely food insecure\", according to the UN, despite many receiving some form of food aid.\n\nBorder crossings have been opened to allow aid convoys through, but shelling has caused some disruption to deliveries.\n\nIsraeli restrictions on access to agricultural land and fishing have reduced the amount of food Gazans can produce themselves.\n\nThey are not allowed to farm in the Israeli-declared buffer zone - 1.5km (0.9 miles) wide on the Gaza side of the border - and this has led to a loss in production of an estimated 75,000 tonnes of produce a year.\n\nIsrael imposes a fishing limit meaning Gazans can only fish within a certain distance of the shore. The UN says if the limit were lifted, fishing could provide employment and a cheap source of protein for the people of Gaza.\n\nAfter the latest upsurge in violence, Israel temporarily banned any fishing from the Gaza Strip. Over the years it has set varying limits on the fishing zone, disrupting the livelihoods of about 5,000 fishermen and related workers.\n\nMost people in Gaza suffer from a shortage of water. Tap water is salty and polluted and is not fit for drinking.\n\nWhile most Gazan households are on a piped water network, Ocha says families received water for only six-eight hours every four days in 2017 due to insufficient power. This has been reduced still further by the latest attacks.\n\nThe World Health Organization set the minimum requirement for daily water needs at 100 litres per head - to cover drinking, washing, cooking and bathing. In Gaza average consumption is about 88 litres.\n\nSewage is another problem. Although 78% of households are connected to public sewage networks, treatment plants are overloaded. Ocha says more than a hundred million litres of partially treated and raw sewage is pumped into the Mediterranean daily.\n\nA new wastewater treatment plant came into operation at the beginning of 2021 to help deal with the problem.\n\nMany children attend schools run by the UN and many of them are acting as places of shelter for people who have fled the latest shelling.\n\nAccording to the Palestinian refugee agency UNRWA, 64% of its 275 schools run a \"double shift\" system, with one school of students in the morning and another in the afternoon.\n\nMany people are taking refuge in UN schools from the latest shelling\n\nAn average class size was around 41 pupils in 2019.\n\nThe literacy rate for those aged 15-19 is now 99% - it has steadily increased over the past few years.\n\nAlthough only about 66% of pupils stay on at high school to complete upper secondary or the equivalent of sixth form.\n\nGaza has one of the world's youngest populations, with almost 65% of the population under 25 years old, according to the CIA Factbook.\n\nAn Ocha report from 2020 said youth unemployment was running at 70%, partly as a result of the pandemic.\n\nCorrection 28 July 2020: A previous version of this story has been amended to make clear that the Gaza Strip is still controlled by Hamas, and not the Palestinian Authority.", "Monday was the deadliest day since violent unrest returned to the Gaza Strip border fence with Israel almost two months ago.\n\nPalestinian protests were fuelled by the opening of the new US embassy in Jerusalem.\n\nIsraeli troops guarding the border killed at least 58 people and injured almost 3,000.\n\nIsrael says some 40,000 Palestinians took part\n\nIsraeli forces responded to protesters with tear gas and live fire from snipers\n\nAbout 2,700 people were injured, Palestinian officials say\n\nMonday was the deadliest day in Gaza since the 2014 war\n\nIsrael said soldiers had fired on people carrying out \"terrorist activity and not on demonstrators\"\n\nThere was fierce condemnation from some countries but Israel's key ally, the US, stood by it\n\nTensions were high in Gaza on Tuesday as Palestinians prepared to bury their dead\n\nAll images subject to copyright. Witness interviews by Reuters and AFP news agencies.", "Shelley still works as a nurse, despite repeated attacks\n\nShelley Pearce could tell immediately that the patient she had been asked to care for didn't like her.\n\nThe woman had been admitted to hospital as part of a detox programme.\n\n\"She wanted to leave and when I said no, she smashed a piece of plastic and put the sharp piece to my neck. It was terrifying.\"\n\nThe patient marched Shelley to the lifts. It was only because she was able to press the alarm button in the lift that she was able to alert security.\n\nThe situation was defused, but it could have been so different.\n\n\"There are some horrendous stories and assaults that staff have had to endure,\" says Shelley, who now works as an A&E nurse at a hospital in the south of England.\n\nThis was not the only time she has experienced a physical assault.\n\nShe says there have been particularly bad occasions, including being head-butted by a drug abuser, that made her question her future.\n\n\"I have thought about giving up nursing, but it is a job I love. I just don't think we should live in fear and under the threat of assault.\n\n\"It happens on a daily basis. Sometimes it is just aggression, but it is the sort of thing that would never be tolerated in a nightclub.\n\n\"The police would be called and the person would be ejected.\"\n\nThe situation has got so bad - more than 70,000 NHS staff are assaulted every year - that the nursing profession has even started to consider asking staff to wear body cameras, as police and fire crews do.\n\nThe issue was debated at the Royal College of Nursing's annual conference in Belfast this week.\n\nIt was proposed by Sarah Seeley, a nurse from Ipswich. She says some places have started trialling it and it has led to a reduction in assaults.\n\n\"We need a robust deterrent. Nurses have been stabbed, stalked and even had their eyes gouged.\n\n\"Wearing body cameras might make people feel safer and de-escalate situations. Of course, there is a cost, but it is worth considering.\"\n\nWould that have helped Shelley? She's not convinced.\n\n\"I can't see it working and the risk is that it will destroy the patient relationship,\" she said.\n\n\"We just need proper support so we can raise the alarm and get help from security when we are concerned and good training in how to defuse these situations.\n\n\"We have mental health patients coming into hospital in crisis, we have drunk patients and those with head injuries - and some people are just not very nice.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Athletics\n\nBritish former Olympic champion Darren Campbell says he is \"relieved to be alive\" as he recovers in hospital after suffering a bleed in the brain.\n\nThe 44-year-old had to be resuscitated when he was rushed to hospital last Tuesday after having a seizure at home.\n\nCampbell, who won 4x100m relay gold at the 2004 Olympics, told BBC Sport he had a pituitary apoplexy - a bleed into the gland at the base of the brain.\n\n\"I nearly died,\" he said. \"You have to give thanks. That is how close it was.\"\n\nCampbell says he now wants to be \"left alone\" while he recovers from the trauma of an episode that left him needing a ventilator to breathe.\n\n\"I don't want to be Darren Campbell at the moment,\" he said.\n\nThe BBC Radio 5 live presenter and pundit had never previously had a seizure but had several during his first few days in hospital.\n\nHis wife and three children are now with him, after it was initially decided his two youngest children should not visit until he had shown signs of recovery.\n\n\"It's only when I see the fear in my kids' eyes that you realise,\" said the two-time Commonwealth Games gold medallist.\n\n\"When they first told me I was on a ventilator, I didn't believe them. I've got other people filling in blanks. If you can't breathe by yourself, you are not in a good place.\n\n\"I have to be relieved as I nearly died.\"\n\nCampbell initially needed three injections a day to stabilise the function of his pituitary gland, which releases hormones that help control bodily functions including growth, blood pressure, energy management and metabolism.\n\nBut he now hopes to leave hospital on Tuesday.\n\n\"It was scary for the family as they are used to seeing this strong character,\" said the Manchester-born former sprinter.\n\n\"All of a sudden I couldn't control my body. My oldest son has been a rock and kept everything together.\n\n\"The doctors have said if I wasn't so fit, I wouldn't be here. I was always going to fight. As long as the doctors were fighting, I'd fight.\"\n\nCampbell says lying in his hospital bed has made him \"appreciate life\" more, and has urged people to make regular visits to their doctor.\n\nHe said: \"I've been thinking about my kids, and all I was thinking is I have to keep fighting as I want to see my 10-year-old daughter get married one day. I grabbed onto that and the medical people have been absolutely unbelievable.\n\n\"My daughter had been watching a programme called Say Yes to the Dress. She had come downstairs a couple of days earlier saying: 'Dad, I know what budget I want for my wedding dress.' She said: 'I want £5,000 for my dress.' You grab onto little things like that.\"\n\nCampbell says he feels \"extremely lucky\" and now wants to spend time with his family.\n\n\"I'm not working this summer,\" he said. \"I always work but I am taking time off. Each minute and moment I'm trying to take things in and give thanks.\n\n\"I'm calm. What can I panic about? I'm alive. The fact I can talk to you and be calm, I have to be thankful.\"", "A Montana funeral home says the actress died at her home on Sunday\n\nActress Margot Kidder, best known for her role as Lois Lane in Superman, has died aged 69.\n\nA funeral home in Livingston, Montana, where the actress lived, said Kidder died at her home on Sunday.\n\nShe rose to fame starring alongside Christopher Reeve in the Superman films of the 1970s and 1980s.\n\nThe Canadian-born actress acquired American citizenship in 2005, and became a political and women's rights activist alongside her acting.\n\nThe cause of her death is not yet known.\n\nKidder starred alongside Reeve in the 1978 film Superman and its sequels, as well as horror classics Black Christmas and The Amityville Horror.\n\nThe actress was also an outspoken critic of the Gulf War, of fracking by energy companies, and was at times a vocal supporter of Democratic party candidates.\n\nAfter settling in the US state of Montana, she became a supporter of Montana Women For, a non-profit organisation which describes its goals as the \"participation and empowerment of women in our democracy through education and advocacy on critical issues\".\n\nAs an activist, she was arrested in 2011 while taking part in a protest at the White House against the Keystone XL pipeline, which remains controversial today.\n\nKidder also suffered from mental health problems, which resulted in her high-profile disappearance for several days in 1996.\n\nKidder, seen here in 2009, continued to work alongside her activism\n\nIn an interview with People magazine later that year, she referred to her disappearance as \"the most public freak-out in history\".\n\nWhile working on her memoirs, a computer virus destroyed all of her work, she told the magazine - something she concluded was deliberate, and involved her former husband and the CIA.\n\nShe was eventually found safe, and would talk openly about her experience of manic episodes and of depression in the years ahead, raising awareness about bipolar disorder while advocating the use of alternative medicine as a treatment.\n\nOn social media, film and superhero fans paid tribute to the actress. DC Comics, publisher of the Superman comic books, said Kidder was \"the Lois Lane so many of us grew up with\".\n\nEric Goldman, editor at rival comic book maker Marvel, said Kidder \"made sure my generation knew just how awesome Lois Lane was\" - a sentiment echoed by famed comic book writer Mark Millar, who said she was \"my Lois Lane\".\n\nTeri Hatcher, who played Lois Lane in the 1990s TV show Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman, wrote that it had been \"a privilege\" to step into Kidder's role - while her co-star Dean Cain also tweeted his 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 by Teri Hatcher This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nEnglish actress Sarah Douglas - who played supervillain Ursa, famously sucker-punched by the plucky Lane - tweeted that Kidder had been \"a joy to be around\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Sarah Douglas This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSome fans recalled the landmark cinematic moments from the original 1978 Superman film, while others applauded the actress' open discussion of mental health issues at a time when it was unpopular to make such things public.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by David Axelrod This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nActor Cameron Cuffe, currently starring in Superman spin-off TV series Krypton, wrote: \"On screen there are few who have brought a legend to life in the same way Margot Kidder did. As a person there are few who have been as honest and brave when it came to being open about mental health.\"\n\nKidder married and divorced three times. She is survived by her only child, Maggie, and two grandchildren.", "Thomas Baty (left) and Thomas Howard complained of breathing difficulties on Sunday\n\nA second British amateur rugby player has died after complaining of breathing difficulties on returning from a nightclub in Sri Lanka.\n\nThomas Howard, 25, and Thomas Baty, 26, had been touring the country with Durham-based Clems Pirates RFC when they visited the club in Colombo.\n\nMr Howard, from Durham, died after being admitted to hospital on Sunday.\n\nMr Baty, also from Durham, who had been critically ill in the same hospital, has also now died.\n\nDurham City Rugby Football Club, which oversees the team, confirmed Mr Howard died after \"suffering breathing problems\".\n\nA club statement said: \"It is with great sadness that the Club can now confirm that Tom Baty has died following his admission to hospital on Sunday.\n\n\"We would like to extend our sincere condolences to the Baty family.\"\n\nMr Howard's post-mortem examination did not show any injury or illness and samples have been sent for further analysis, police said.\n\nFamily members of both players are in Sri Lanka and are being assisted by UK consular staff.\n\nThe team arrived in Sri Lanka on 9 May and began the tour with a game against Ceylonese Rugby and Football Club (CR & FC) in Colombo.\n\nAccording to police in Sri Lanka, some British players went to Colombo's Cleopatra nightclub after the match and returned to their hotel in the early hours of Sunday.\n\nThe two players complained of breathing difficulties to the hotel management at about 10:00 on Sunday and were taken to Nawaloka Hospital.\n\nPolice are examining CCTV from the nightclub in an effort to establish the players' movements.\n\nTributes to the pair from other rugby clubs across the UK have been made on social media.\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's reporter in Colombo, Azzam Ameen, said: \"The Judicial Medical Officer has ruled out any internal or external bleeding injuries, so they have not been able to find out the exact cause of the deaths.\n\n\"The case has now been referred to the government analyst for further inquiries.\n\n\"The police here are taking the deaths of two UK visitors to Sri Lanka seriously, but they have said it may be a few more days before they can establish exactly what happened.\"\n\nA spokesman for Durham Police added: \"Investigations into the deaths of Thomas Baty and Thomas Howard are being carried out by the authorities in Sri Lanka.\n\n\"While those investigations continue, the families are being supported by officers from Durham Constabulary.\n\n\"Both families have asked that the media respect their privacy at this difficult time\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "For the first time, Facebook has shared some details about the amount of offensive and hateful content posted on the social network.", "The Duke of Cambridge showed some artistic flair as he helped the DIY SOS team paint the walls of a new community hub near the site of Grenfell Tower\n\nPrince William has praised the spirit of the Grenfell Tower community as he joined the DIY SOS team to rebuild a boxing gym destroyed in the fire.\n\nHe has been helping to create a new home for the Dale Youth Boxing Academy and a community hub near the site of the blaze in which 71 people died.\n\nThe Duke of Cambridge met volunteers builders working on the project who had been affected by last year's tragedy.\n\nHe said the community spirit he had seen made him \"very proud\".\n\n\"Grenfell and Manchester have been competing as to who has the most community spirit, because the terror attack in Manchester, I've never known anything like it, they were amazing, they came together,\" he said.\n\n\"I saw the same thing with Grenfell.\n\n\"It makes you very proud that through something so tragic and traumatic people come together like they do, and try and help each other out.\"\n\nPrince William met with residents affected by fire ahead of the first anniversary of the tragedy\n\nThe gym has turned out stars including WBA super middleweight champion George Groves and Olympic gold medallist James DeGale.\n\nThe academy, which was housed at the foot of Grenfell Tower in west London, currently trains at a makeshift facility in a nearby car park.\n\nThe show's presenter Nick Knowles said the project was one of DIY SOS's \"morally most important\" to date.\n\nThe programme plans to have parts of the project \"built inside a year\".\n\nThe DIY SOS team are building on a long-disused site managed by the Westway Trust\n\nThe Duke of Cambridge met local volunteers working on the project who had been affected by fire including Jason Garcia Urbano (R),\n\nVolunteer Jason Garcia Urbano, whose 12-year-old cousin Jessica Urbano Ramirez was killed in the fire, said: \"I think it's great, in two terrible circumstances people are coming together to help one another.\n\n\"For me, one year on, people are still thinking about how they can support this community that has been severely damaged by what's happened.\n\n\"I'm all for it, that's why I wanted to get involved as soon as I found out.\"\n\nPlanning permission for the development was granted on 8 March, conditional on a \"full consultation with the community\".\n\nThis is the second time the prince has appeared on the BBC's flagship construction show, having worked with Prince Harry to help the crew convert homes in Manchester for military veterans in 2015.\n\nBoxers had been using Dale Youth Boxing Academy just a few hours before the fire took hold in Grenfell Tower last June", "Customers had to queue for up to an hour to get a single slice of pizza after a broken oven slowed the flow of food.\n\nOrganisers of an all-you-can-eat pizza festival have apologised after repeatedly running out of pizza slices.\n\nCustomers had to queue for up to an hour to get a single slice of pizza after an oven broke at the Notting Hill Pizza Festival on Saturday.\n\nGuests were promised \"the opportunity to sample unlimited amounts of pizza\" by organisers Bellmonte Life.\n\nThe \"high-end luxury lifestyle brand\" blamed \"overzealous appetites\" as well as the broken oven for slow service.\n\nTim Swabey said he waited 30 minutes for a pizza that \"looked like something that had already passed through a cat's digestive system\"\n\nThe firm said: \"Despite the best efforts of our team preparing the pizzas in the smaller ovens, the flow of pizzas was slower than intended.\n\n\"In contrast to claims that there were not enough pizzas, this was not the case. Our team was hard at work to ensure that everyone was able to sample pizzas.\n\n\"However, it was unfortunate that the queues grew due to some overzealous appetites, preventing others to be able to enjoy the food.\"\n\nThe event promised a \"pizza for every palate\" at the Porchester Hall, in west London.\n\nAlex White, 28, said she abandoned the festival to go to a pizza restaurant having only eaten two slices in one-and-a-half hours.\n\n\"I'm definitely annoyed, it was clearly very badly thought through,\" said Ms White.\n\nCustomers reported queuing for up to an hour to get a single slice of pizza at Porchester Hall, in Notting Hill\n\nTim Swabey, 24, said: \"When we arrived at the festival we were immediately surprised by the long queues for pizza at each stall.\n\nWhen pizza did arrive it \"looked like something that had already passed through a cat's digestive system\", Mr Swabey added.\n\nFestival-goers were given complimentary drinks when it became clear pizzas were not reaching everyone.\n\nBellmonte Life has offered pizza festival ticket-holders complimentary VIP passes for an upcoming barbecue festival in July.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Glittering carriages, dresses fit for princesses and some very excited BBC commentators.\n\nHere's how the BBC covered the other royal weddings, from Princess Elizabeth to Prince William.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe is being used to pressure the British government, her husband says\n\nThe husband of a jailed British-Iranian mother has urged Boris Johnson to raise his wife's case when he meets Iran's foreign minister later.\n\nNazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, 39, is serving a five-year jail sentence in Iran after being convicted of spying.\n\nBut Richard Ratcliffe says his wife is \"shaken and bewildered\" after learning she could face new charges.\n\nThe UK's foreign secretary is due to meet his Iranian counterpart in Brussels for Iran nuclear deal talks.\n\nBritish-Iranian dual national Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe, from Hampstead, north London, has been held in Iran since April 2016, when she was detained at an airport while travelling home with her daughter.\n\nShe was accused by Iran of plotting against the government.\n\nShe denies the charges against her and says she was in the country to introduce her daughter, Gabriella, to her parents.\n\nAccording to her husband, prosecutors have said that the case against her has been reopened and a decision is expected next week.\n\nHe said his wife was feeling \"pretty down and shaken\", and \"bewildered as to how she could have done anything while she is sitting in prison\".\n\nHer parents, meanwhile, were \"deeply traumatised\", he added.\n\n\"For all of us, this has gone on for so long. It's just such a rabbit hole,\" he told BBC Radio Four's Today programme.\n\nHe added that it was proving \"very hard\" to keep hopes alive, having had them dashed twice before - at Christmas and Easter.\n\nAt a court hearing, a judge told Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe that if the UK government did not pay a debt, she would not be released, Mr Ratcliffe said.\n\nThe news of possible new charges against Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe comes as Mr Johnson prepares to meet his Iranian counterpart, Javad Zarif, in Brussels to discuss how to save the Iran nuclear deal after the US withdrew last week.\n\nThey will also meet the French and German foreign ministers and EU high representative Federica Mogherini.\n\nThe foreign secretary - with his Iranian counterpart Javad Zarif - should \"commit to protecting British citizens\", Mr Ratcliffe said\n\nMr Ratcliffe said his wife's case and the cases of other dual nationals detained in Iran should be \"top of [Mr Johnson's] priority list\" at the meeting.\n\nHe said the UK has an obligation to its citizens to find a way to protect them so they can visit their families or do their work, and suggested the wider geo-political context was making a difference in his wife's case.\n\n\"Three more British citizens were taken in the last month,\" he claimed. \"It feels there is something very specific they want from the UK.\"\n\nIn all, there are nearly 30 dual nationals being held by the Iranian authorities - many of whom are accused of security offences.\n\nOn Sunday, Prime Minister Theresa May urged Iran's president to make further progress over the release of British-Iranians \"on humanitarian grounds\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Why one mother's personal plight is part of a complicated history between Iran and the UK (video published August 2019 and last updated in October 2019)\n\nIn November last year, Mr Johnson apologised for telling a Commons committee hearing that Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe had been teaching journalism in Iran - something her family and employer say is incorrect.", "Palestinians insist on the right to return to their former homes\n\nPalestinians have been protesting at Gaza's border with Israel in the lead up to the the most mournful day in their calendar. The date, which falls on 15 May each year, commemorates events which caused Palestinians to lose their homes and become refugees. They refer to it as al-Nakba, or the Catastrophe.\n\nHere it is briefly explained, in both 100 words and 300 words.\n\nOn 14 May 1948, Israel declared independence, and in a war which began the next day, up to 750,000 Palestinians who had lived on that land fled or were expelled from their homes.\n\nNeither they nor their descendants have been allowed by Israel to return.\n\nThe Palestinians' displacement has led to years of upheaval.\n\nThere are around five million Palestinians currently recognised as refugees by the UN. Most live in Jordan, followed by the Gaza Strip, West Bank, Syria, Lebanon and East Jerusalem.\n\nReturning to their former homes is a key Palestinian demand, but Israel says it would be overwhelmed.\n\nThe Nakba stems from the Arab-Israeli war which began on 15 May, 1948 - the day after Israel declared independence when British control of the land, known as Mandate Palestine, was about to end.\n\nMost of the Arabs who lived in the area which became Israel fled or were expelled by Israeli forces in the 1948-49 war, and hundreds of thousands were freshly displaced by Arab-Israeli fighting in the West Bank and Gaza Strip in June, 1967.\n\nToday some five million Palestinians are registered by the UN as refugees. Most live in Jordan, followed by the Gaza Strip, West Bank, Syria, Lebanon, and East Jerusalem.\n\nAlmost a third live in refugee camps.\n\nEvery year, Palestinians gather to participate in demonstrations to commemorate the Nakba, often displaying symbolic keys, emblematic of their lost homes.\n\nAl-Naqba is a highly charged occasion, and tensions with Israel on the day have erupted into violence down the years.\n\nThe right of return is a key demand of Palestinians and their leaders. They base their claim on a United Nations General Assembly resolution, which was passed in 1948.\n\nThe resolution says \"refugees wishing to return to their homes and live at peace with their neighbours should be permitted to do so at the earliest practicable date\".\n\nIsrael says it cannot allow five million refugees to return because this would overwhelm the country of 8.5 million and mean the end of its existence as a Jewish state.\n\nIsraeli and Palestinian leaders agreed to tackle the issue of refugees in the end stages of negotiations - but even peace talks themselves remain a long way off.", "Melania Trump is due to stay in hospital for a week\n\nUS First Lady Melania Trump has undergone surgery for what the White House described as a benign kidney condition.\n\nHer office said surgeons had performed an embolisation procedure at the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center.\n\nThe surgery was successful and there were no complications, her spokeswoman added.\n\nMrs Trump, 48, is expected to spend the rest of the week recovering at the medical centre, in Bethesda, Maryland.\n\nPresident Donald Trump tweeted that he was on his way to visit her.\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\nEmbolisation is most often used to block the blood supply to a tumour, benign or cancerous.\n\n\"The first lady looks forward to a full recovery so she can continue her work on behalf of children everywhere,\" Mrs Trump's spokeswoman Stephanie Grisham said in a statement.\n\nLast week, Mrs Trump unveiled a \"Be Best\" initiative aimed at teaching children the importance of social, emotional and physical health.\n\nShe said the campaign aimed to promote healthy living and to combat opioid abuse.\n\nIt was also announced on Monday that former US Democratic Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, 78, had undergone surgery for pancreatic cancer.\n\nMr Reid's family said surgeons at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore were \"confident that the surgery was a success and that the prognosis for his recovery is good\".\n\nDoctors had caught the problem early during a routine screening, the statement said.\n\nUS Republican Senator John McCain, 81, who is battling a rare form of brain cancer, was among those who sent Mr Reid his best wishes, tweeting: \"From one cantankerous senator to another, sending my prayers and best wishes to @SenatorReid as he recovers from a successful surgery.\"", "Safaa Boular denies two counts of preparing acts of terrorism\n\nA teenage girl fantasised about killing Barack Obama in online chats with her Islamic State fighter fiance, an Old Bailey jury has been told.\n\nSafaa Boular, 18, sent Naweed Hussain an image of an explosion when he asked how she would kill the then US president, the court heard.\n\nProsecutors say after he died in Syria before she could join him, she planned an attack at London's British Museum.\n\nHer lawyer, Joel Bennathan QC, says she was \"groomed to be radicalised\" by her fiancé, and her family had encouraged and celebrated it.\n\nProsecutor Duncan Atkinson QC told the jury that Ms Boular chatted online with Hussain over a three-month period.\n\nShe had to wanted to marry Hussain, who was in his 30s, and wear suicide belts together, he told the court.\n\nDescribing the online conversations between the pair, he said they had exchanged pictures of a Kalashnikov rifle, grenades and a handgun in August 2016.\n\nThe jury heard Ms Boular sent Hussain a picture of Mr Obama and asked \"So what, is it us Vs...\"\n\nHe allegedly replied \"Yeah\" and called Mr Obama a \"filthy kalb\" [Arabic for dog].\n\nThe prosecutor said Hussain asked how she would kill him \"if u had da choice\", prompting Ms Boular to send the image of an explosion and say \"shake my hand with Mr President\".\n\nTwo days later they declared their love for each other after talking about how they liked British television game shows Deal Or No Deal, The Chase and Family Fortunes, Mr Atkinson added.\n\nThe jury heard Ms Boular, who was still 17 when she was arrested, told police she had wanted to go to Syria because everyone dies sometime, and she \"might as well die with honour\".\n\nMs Boular said Hussain, a Briton from Coventry, had approached her on Instagram.\n\nShe had connected with IS supporters on the photo-sharing website through a woman based in Aleppo, Syria, she had met on Twitter, the court heard.\n\nHer interest had been sparked by the Paris attacks and she was \"curious\" to find out \"why people do the things they do\", she said.\n\nThe court heard Ms Boular decided to carry out a grenade and gun ambush on people at the British Museum after Hussain was killed.\n\nBut when Ms Boular was charged with planning to travel to IS territory, she is alleged to have encouraged her older sister to \"carry the torch forward\".\n\nThe court heard that Rizlaine Boular, 21, of Clerkenwell, central London, has admitted planning a knife attack, while their mother Mina Dich, 43, has admitted assisting her.\n\nIn telephone calls to her sister from jail, Safaa Boular is alleged to have talked about an Alice in Wonderland-themed tea party - said by the prosecution to be code for the attack her sister was to carry out.\n\nBased on her reconnaissance and discussion, it appears Rizlaine Boular planned a knife attack in Westminster, the prosecution says.\n\nThe court heard Safaa Boular told police Hussain had raised £3,000 to help her and Rizlaine travel to Syria.\n\nThe trial was adjourned until Tuesday.", "Tom Wolfe, author of The Right Stuff and The Bonfire of the Vanities, has died aged 88, his agent has confirmed.\n\nThe Right Stuff, about the first American astronauts, was adapted into a film in 1983 with Sam Shepard, Dennis Quaid and Ed Harris.\n\nThe Bonfire of the Vanities, published in 1987, was a satire of 1980s excesses in New York and was also made into a film starring Tom Hanks in 1990.\n\nHe also wrote The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, published in 1968.\n\nWolfe died of an unspecified infection in a New York City hospital, his agent, Lynn Nesbit, told Reuters.\n\nTom Wolfe with Gloria Steinem - he was named GQ Man of the Year in 2015\n\nHe was a pioneer of New Journalism, which developed in the 1960s and 1970s, a literary style written from a subjective perspective as opposed to more traditional objective journalism.\n\nHis writing was often littered with exclamation points, italics and improbable words.\n\nWolfe's book The New Journalism, published in 1973, was a collection of work by the likes of Truman Capote, Hunter S. Thompson and Norman Mailer.\n\nThe editor of the New York Times Book Review described Wolfe's death as the \"passing of an era\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Pamela Paul This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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\nWolfe won the Bad Sex in Fiction prize in 2004 for I Am Charlotte Simmons and was also shortlisted in 2012 for a scene in Back to Blood.\n\nHe was known for coining phrases such as \"radical chic\" - a derogatory term for pretentious liberals - and \"the me decade\", which described the self-indulgence of the 1970s.\n\nHe once told the Wall Street Journal: \"I think every living moment of a human being's life, unless the person is starving or in immediate danger of death in some other way, is controlled by a concern for status.\"\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.", "Thousands of women across West Africa have been enslaved by a centuries-old practice called “trokosi”.\n\nGirls are forced to live and work with priests in shrines, some for the rest of their lives, to “pay” for the sins of family members.\n\nBrigitte Sossou Perenyi was one of those girls. Twenty years after she was freed, she goes on a journey to understand what trokosi really is and why her family gave her away.\n\nClick here to watch the full documentary, a co-production between BBC Africa's new investigations unit, Africa Eye and Our World.", "The German Football Federation (DFB) has criticised its internationals Mesut Özil and Ilkay Gündogan for posing in photos with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.\n\nThe two German-born players, both of Turkish origin, gave Mr Erdogan signed shirts at an event in London on Sunday.\n\nGündogan wrote: \"For my honoured President, with great respect.\" Mr Erdogan is campaigning for re-election.\n\nÖzil plays for Arsenal and Gündogan for Manchester City.\n\nBoth players are preparing for next month's Fifa World Cup in Russia, in which Germany is among the favourites. Turkey did not qualify.\n\nThree Turkish-origin stars posed with Mr Erdogan (L-R): Ilkay Gündogan (Man City); Mesut Özil (Arsenal) and Cenk Tosun (Everton)\n\nMany German politicians have also criticised the footballers, questioning their loyalty to German democratic values.\n\nDFB president Reinhard Grindel said: \"Football and the DFB defend values which are not sufficiently respected by Mr Erdogan.\n\n\"That's why it's not good that our international players let themselves be manipulated for his electoral campaign. In doing that, our players have certainly not helped the DFB's work on integration.\"\n\nDFB director Oliver Bierhoff said: \"Neither one of them was aware of the symbolic value of this photo, but it's clearly not right and we'll be talking to them about it\".\n\nIn his youth, before entering politics in the 1990s, Mr Erdogan played football semi-professionally for an Istanbul team, Kasimpasa.\n\nMr Erdogan, in power for the past 15 years, is seeking re-election in a snap poll on 24 June.\n\nHis Islamist-rooted AK Party has cracked down hard on opponents, especially since the July 2016 coup attempt by military officers.\n\nTurkish police have arrested more than 50,000 people accused of links to US-based Islamic cleric Fethullah Gulen or to Kurdish separatists. They include opposition activists, journalists, teachers, lawyers and other public servants.\n\nMr Erdogan has also purged the military, police and judiciary, putting many state officials on trial.\n\nHe has created a powerful presidency since winning an April 2017 referendum on constitutional changes, enabling him to dominate parliament and control the judiciary.\n\nA prominent Turkish-origin MP in Germany, Sevim Dagdelen, tweeted: \"It's a crude foul to pose with the despot Erdogan in a luxury hotel in London and dignify him with the title 'my President', while in Turkey democrats are persecuted and critical journalists are detained.\"\n\nShe is deputy leader of the left-wing Die Linke group in the Bundestag.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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\nAfter the criticism erupted, Gündogan issued a statement defending himself, Özil and Cenk Tosun over their meeting with Mr Erdogan.\n\nThey met on the sidelines of an event at a Turkish foundation that helps Turkish students, he explained.\n\n\"Are we supposed to be impolite to the president of our families' homeland?\" he asked.\n\n\"Whatever justified criticism there might be, we decided on a gesture of politeness, out of respect for the office of president and for our Turkish roots.\"\n\nHe said \"it was not our intention to make a political statement with this picture\".\n\nTurkish-origin Cem Özdemir, a prominent German Green MP and sharp critic of Mr Erdogan, attacked Gündogan's \"my President\" message.\n\n\"The federal president of a German international footballer is called Frank-Walter Steinmeier, the chancellor is Angela Merkel and the parliament is called the German Bundestag,\" he said.", "Michel Barnier is leading the negotiations for the EU side\n\nBrexit talks have made \"little\" progress since March, the EU's chief negotiator has said.\n\nMichel Barnier said there was a \"risk of failure\" in two key areas - Northern Ireland, and how the agreement will be governed.\n\nHe said June's EU summit was a \"key rendezvous\" to reach a deal that can be ratified before the UK leaves.\n\nAnd he defended the EU's stance over the UK's involvement in the new Galileo sat-nav system.\n\nThe UK has played a key role in the programme's development so far, but faces being shut out of key elements of the programme after Brexit.\n\nUK ministers are now considering setting up a rival version.\n\nMr Barnier said there had been \"misunderstandings\" in the coverage of the story, adding: \"We are not kicking the UK out of Galileo. The UK decided unilaterally and autonomously to withdraw from the EU. This implies leaving its programmes as well.\"\n\nEU rules mean the UK and its companies cannot participate in the \"development of security sensitive matters\", he said, adding that this did not mean the UK could not use an encrypted signal from the system as a third country.\n\nEarlier Science Minister Sam Gyimah said the EU's position was \"extremely disappointing\".\n\n\"The EU is playing hard ball with us,\" he told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.\n\n\"We have helped to develop the Galileo system. We want to be part of the secure elements of the system and we want UK industry to be able to bid for contracts on a fair basis.\n\n\"It is only on those terms that it makes sense for the UK to be involved in the project.\"\n\nMr Barnier was speaking after updating the remaining EU member states on the latest in the Brexit negotiations.\n\nAsked about the progress that had been made since March, he said: \"I would say little, not very little.\"\n\nHe said the transition period that is expected to follow Brexit day in March 2019 depended on \"operational solutions\" being found on the issue of Northern Ireland's border with the Republic.\n\n\"The clock is ticking\" to reach an agreement before October or November which can be ratified by the UK and European Parliaments and the EU Council, he said.\n\n\"So, little progress but we are working on technical issues which is always useful.\n\n\"None of these issues are negligible. The two key points which remain, where there is risk of failure, are the governance of the agreement and the Ireland-Northern Ireland issue.\"\n\nThe UK government has yet to settle on the model it wants to replace the customs union in order to avoid checks at Northern Ireland's border with the EU.\n\nPrime Minister Theresa May met Conservative MPs at Downing Street to set out the government's two proposals.\n\nEarlier Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt warned Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson - who has described one, a customs partnership, as \"crazy\" - to keep discussions private.\n\n\"On the EU side, if they see divisions in the open, they will exploit that,\" Mr Hunt said.\n\nAt a press conference with his French counterpart, Mr Johnson was asked why he had not resigned given his differences with the prime minister - but he did not repeat his criticism of the partnership option and said he thought Mrs May's position was \"completely right\".\n\nMrs May's key Brexit committee of senior ministers - which is divided over the customs issue - meets again on Tuesday.", "Anne Frank's diary, written in hiding from the Nazis, is widely read more than 70 years after her death\n\nTwo new pages from Anne Frank's diary have been published, containing a handful of dirty jokes and her thoughts on sex.\n\nThe young Jewish teen's diary, written in hiding from the Nazis, became world-famous when published after her death and at the end of the war.\n\nThe hidden pages had been covered with gummed brown paper - apparently to hide her risqué writing from her family.\n\nNew imaging techniques have finally allowed researchers to read them.\n\nThe entries were written on 28 September 1942, not long after the 13-year-old Anne went into hiding.\n\n\"I'll use this spoiled page to write down 'dirty' jokes\", she wrote on a page with a handful of crossed-out phrases - and jotted down four dirty jokes she knew.\n\nShe added a few dozen lines about sex education, imagining she has to give \"the talk\" to someone else, and mentioning prostitutes - who she wrote elsewhere that her father had told her about.\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\"Anne Frank writes about sexuality in a disarming way,\" said Ronald Leopold of the Anne Frank House museum in Amsterdam. \"Like every adolescent she is curious about this subject.\"\n\nThe sentiment was echoed by Frank van Vree, director of the Niod institute, which helped decipher the pages from new photographs taken in 2016.\n\n\"Anyone who reads the passages that have now been discovered will be unable to suppress a smile,\" he said.\n\n\"The 'dirty' jokes are classics among growing children. They make it clear that Anne, with all her gifts, was above all also an ordinary girl.\"\n\nOne of the jokes reads: \"Do you know why the German Wehrmacht girls are in the Netherlands? As mattresses for the soldiers.\"\n\nThe Anne Frank Museum said this was not the only time the teenage girl wrote about sex - mentioning other jokes she had heard the people in her hidden home tell, or the passages about her periods and sexuality.\n\nWriting about the decision to publish pages that Anne clearly wanted to keep hidden, the museum said that her diary - a Unesco-registered world heritage document - held significant academic interest.\n\nBut it also said that the pages \"do not alter our image of Anne\".\n\n\"Over the decades Anne has grown to become the worldwide symbol of the Holocaust, and Anne the girl has increasingly faded into the background,\" it said in a statement.\n\n\"These - literally - uncovered texts bring the inquisitive and in many respects precocious teenager back into the foreground.\"\n\nAnne Frank went into hiding in a secret annexe of her father's business on 5 July 1942 - about a month after she received a diary for her 13th birthday.\n\nShe lived there with her family and their friends, the Van Pels, until their discovery two years later. How they were found after so long in successful hiding remains a mystery.\n\nAnne Frank died of disease in a Nazi death camp in 1945, the year the war ended. Her father, the only family member to survive, published her diary in 1947.", "Ortega was given the maximum sentence of life without parole\n\nA nanny convicted of murdering two children she stabbed at their luxury New York City apartment has been sentenced to life in prison.\n\nIn sentencing Yoselyn Ortega, 56, the judge described her as \"pure evil\" before handing her the maximum term.\n\nThe bloody bodies of Lucia \"Lulu\" Krim, six, and her brother Leo, two, were found by their mother in a bathtub at the Manhattan flat on 25 October 2012.\n\nOrtega had pleaded insanity but the jury rejected her defence.\n\nOn Monday, Ortega appeared visibly shaken as she apologised while addressing the court.\n\nSpeaking in Spanish through a translator, she said she was \"sorry for everything\", adding that she hoped for \"a great deal of forgiveness\".\n\nDuring the two-month trial at the Supreme Court in Manhattan, the mother of the victims Marina Krim told the court how she had come home with her third child, three-year-old Nessie, after Ortega did not turn up at Lulu's dance class.\n\nShe described how she had then witnessed Ortega stabbing herself in the neck in an apparent suicide attempt.\n\nMs Krim was later found by police crying and screaming hysterically, clutching on to her surviving child.\n\n\"I just wanted to wake up from this nightmare that I knew wasn't a nightmare. It was real,\" Ms Krim had told jurors. \"It's like a total horror movie.\"\n\nAfter two days of deliberations, the jury found Ortega guilty of four charges: two counts of first-degree murder and two counts of second-degree murder.\n\nProsecutors said the nanny was disgruntled because she felt she was being overworked by the family at the Upper West Side apartment.\n\nOrtega was also struggling to pay tuition fees for her 17-year-old son, whom she had brought to the US from the Dominican Republic and enrolled in a private school.\n\nThe nanny's defence team argued she suffered from \"chronic mental illness\" and was mentally incapable of being held responsible for her actions. Her lawyer said she had hallucinated an order from the devil \"to kill the children and herself\".\n\nKevin Krim, the children's father, was away on a business trip at the time of the 2012 killings. Both parents left the courtroom before the sentence was passed.", "Mr Hill has denied all the charges and will face a trial next year\n\nA pilot has denied the manslaughter of 11 men who died when his plane crashed during the Shoreham Air Show.\n\nAndy Hill, 54, of Sandon in Hertfordshire, survived after his Hawker Hunter came down on the A27 in West Sussex in August 2015.\n\nMr Hill appeared at The Old Bailey charged with 11 counts of manslaughter by gross negligence and one count of endangering an aircraft.\n\nHe pleaded not guilty to all charges.\n\nA trial date has been set for 14 January and is expected to last at least five weeks.\n\nThe Hawker Hunter jet plummeted on to the A27 on 22 August 2015\n\nThe Shoreham Airshow has not been staged again since the disaster\n\n(Top row, left to right) Matt Jones, Matthew Grimstone, Jacob Schilt, Maurice Abrahams, Richard Smith. (Bottom row, left to right) Mark Reeves, Tony Brightwell, Mark Trussler, Daniele Polito, Dylan Archer, Graham Mallinson\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Crowds of well-wishers have lined the streets in Liverpool to pay their respects to Alfie Evans who was at the centre of a High Court battle over his care.\n\nSeveral hundred mourners and supporters of the 23-month-old, from Bootle, Merseyside, gathered outside Everton's Goodison Park stadium as the procession passed following a private funeral service.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'Young people don't want to talk to police'\n\nKnife crime rose by 22% in England and Wales in 2017, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS).\n\nThe figures, which cover crimes recorded by the police, also showed an 11% increase in firearms offences.\n\nA separate survey on the public's experience of crimes in the two countries said there had been no change in overall violent offences.\n\nThe Crime Survey for England and Wales (CSEW) said most types of crime stayed at similar levels to 2016.\n\nIt added that eight-in-10 adults had not experienced any crimes asked about in the survey throughout 2017.\n\nWhile some of the increases in recorded crimes are explained by changes in the way police report them, the ONS warned that some of the statistics showed a genuine rise in the offence - such as the 9% increase in burglaries and the 33% increase in robbery.\n\nRecorded homicides were also up by 9% in 2017, to 653 from 599 the previous year.\n\nHowever, when the victims of terror attacks in London and Manchester are included in the 2017 figures, and those who died in Hillsborough in 1989 - which were ruled as manslaughter by a coroner in 2016 and included in that year's figures - the number of recorded homicides fell slightly between 2016 and 2017 from 695 to 688.\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\nAlexa Bradley, who focuses on crime statistics and analysis for the ONS, said the two sets of figures showed the \"picture of crime\" had been \"fairly stable\", with levels much lower than the peak seen in the mid-1990s.\n\nBut she said the \"high harm\" offences, such as homicide, knife crime and gun crime, were on the up, which was \"a trend that has been emerging over the previous two years\".\n\nMayor of London Sadiq Khan said the rise in these violent incidents was \"unacceptably high\", and they were \"a national problem that required national solutions from the government\".\n\nThe CSEW showed a significant fall in computer misuse cases - which were only introduced as part of the figures last year.\n\nThe 28% drop in incidents, apparently down to a reduction in computer viruses, led to an overall fall in the number of crimes estimated by the survey.\n\nBut both the CSEW and police recorded figures showed a rise in vehicle crime, with the former estimating a 17% rise in vehicle-related theft and the latter recording a 16% increase in vehicle offences.\n\nLast week, the Home Office set out a strategy to combat serious violence because of a surge in stabbings and shootings that is reflected in the latest figures.\n\nBut what is likely to worry ministers as much, if not more, is evidence that, after 20 years of decline, burglaries and car crime are on the increase.\n\nThefts of and from cars is rising, according to both the police (by 16%) and the survey (17%), while the ONS says the 9%, apparently genuine, rise in burglaries logged by police is likely to show up in the survey in the near future.\n\nWhereas serious violence is concentrated in big cities, property offences affect a broader sweep of people and areas - though the rates of offending are nowhere near the levels they were in the early 1990s.\n\nMeanwhile, Scotland Yard has released its own figures, showing a significant rise in homicides in London.\n\nComparing April with March 2016-17 with April to March 2017-18, the number rose from 109 to 157 - a 44% increase.\n\nEight of these were as a result of the terror attacks on Westminster Bridge, London Bridge and Finsbury Park.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police said the number was lower than in 2003-04, when there were 205 incidents, but added: \"Nevertheless, any murder is one murder too many and detectives are working 24/7 to catch those responsible, using all resources available to them.\"\n\nThe new statistics come after a spate of violent crime in the first three months of 2018.\n\nIn the first 100 days of 2018, 52 people were killed in the capital - many of which were stabbings - raising serious concerns about how to tackle violent crime on the city's streets.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "Cavalier King Charles spaniel, Charlie, collapsed from deadly parvovirus days after being bought by a family in Feltham\n\nA gang of fraudsters who made millions of pounds selling sick and dying puppies to unsuspecting members of the public has been sentenced.\n\nThe group of six is estimated to have made about £2.5m selling more than 5,000 dogs from houses in west London.\n\nSome gang members were jailed at Isleworth Crown Court on Tuesday.\n\nA vet, who helped sales by providing certificates which suggested the puppies were healthy and bred locally, was spared jail.\n\nDaniel Doherty, who was convicted of conspiracy to commit fraud, was given a 12-month suspended sentence. He plans to appeal against his conviction.\n\nMany of the dogs found by the RSPCA had to be put down\n\nRSPCA inspector Kirsty Withnall, who uncovered the gang with help from the Metropolitan Police, said Yorkshire terriers, cavapoos and labradoodles were advertised online and sold for up to £650 each.\n\nShe said many of the dogs recovered had since died or had to be put to sleep due to severe health problems.\n\n\"This was a complicated and multi-faceted, high-volume conspiracy whereby the gang has misrepresented commercial, puppy-farmed dogs imported from abroad as family-bred pets to con members of the public out of money,\" she added.\n\nThe puppies were illegally imported from Ireland before being taken to the defendants' homes where they were kept in plastic sheds, outbuildings and garages.\n\nDogs were kept in sheds and outbuildings at the defendants' homes\n\nOne family in Feltham said they had to put their new puppy down days after bringing it home.\n\nVets discovered that Cavalier King Charles spaniel, Charlie, had parvovirus in February 2016.\n\nCharlier's owner, known only as Claire, said: \"Her legs gave way and she had no energy so I took her to the surgery. By the time I got her there she was half lifeless.\n• None The Largest Animal Welfare Charity in the UK - RSPCA The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "US president Donald Trump may extend his visit to the UK in July in order to play golf in Scotland.\n\nThe property magnate-turned politician owns two golf courses in Scotland, and one in Ireland.\n\nHe was due to arrive in the UK after attending a NATO summit on 11-12 July, and the main focus of the trip will be talks with Theresa May on 13 July.\n\nIt will not be a state visit but Mr Trump is expected to meet the Queen.\n\nDowning Street previously referred to Mr Trump's July trip as a \"working visit\", after he previously cancelled a trip amid claims he would face mass protests.\n\nA formal programme for the visit has not been agreed by either country, though it has been speculated that Mr Trump may choose to meet the prime minister at her country residence, Chequers in Buckinghamshire.\n\nBBC North America editor Jon Sopel speculated in April that Mr Trump may meet the Queen at Buckingham Palace or Windsor Castle.\n\nIt is thought Mr Trump may choose to avoid meetings in London, where he could be confronted by protestors.\n\nPresident Trump's companies operates golf courses in Turnberry and Aberdeenshire in Scotland, and one in Doonbeg in the Republic of Ireland.\n\nDetails of a stay in Scotland have not been confirmed, but one option under consideration is for him to play a round of golf with a well-known professional player.\n\nWhile on the campaign trail, Mr Trump previously criticised former US president Barack Obama for the time he spent playing golf.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBut since then Mr Trump's extended stays at his golf resort in Mar-a-Lago, Florida, has come under scrutiny, with some estimates stating each weekend trip could cost the US government $3.3m (£2.45m).\n\nThe White House cancelled plans for the president to visit in January or February when it was expected he would open the new US embassy building in London.\n\nBut he cancelled the opening of the building in Vauxhall, complaining the move to an \"off location\" south of the Thames had been a \"bad deal\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Trump visit: How previous presidents were greeted by the UK\n\nTheresa May was the first foreign leader to visit Mr Trump in the White House following his inauguration in January 2017.\n\nShe conveyed an invitation from the Queen for Mr Trump to come for a state visit - a formal occasion with much pomp and ceremony.\n\nMr Trump accepted the invitation but a date has yet to be set for a full state visit, amid speculation it has been postponed indefinitely.", "North Korea has said it will start dismantling its nuclear test site this week, in a ceremony to be attended by foreign journalists. But what would it take for the country to truly \"denuclearise\"?\n\nIn the mountainous north-east of North Korea lies Pyongyang's nuclear test facility - the Punggye-ri complex.\n\nIt has been used for six nuclear tests since 2006, but North Korea says \"technical measures\" to dismantle it will be carried out between 23 and 25 May.\n\nNorth Korea has said it is committed to denuclearisation, but has threatened to pull out of forthcoming talks with US President Donald Trump, in a disagreement over how that might happen.\n\nAt first glance, Pyongyang's pledge to close the test site appears to be a welcome first step.\n\nBut it could indicate that it believes its nuclear programme has made sufficient progress and full testing is no longer needed. North Korea's nuclear weapons programme also goes far beyond the existence of one site.\n\nThe Punggye-ri nuclear facility is the dedicated test site for North Korea's nuclear weapons, with a system of tunnels dug below nearby Mount Mantap. It has been suggested the site has partially collapsed already.\n\nA satellite image of the Punggye-ri nuclear test site in North Korea\n\nPyongyang says inviting foreign observers - South Korean and international journalists - to see the tunnels being collapsed and observation facilities removed will show its work in a \"transparent manner\".\n\nBut it is not clear that experts have been invited as well - a measure that is necessary for the process to be properly assessed.\n\nInviting the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Organisation (CTBTO) would allow confirmation that the test site is no longer capable of conducting nuclear tests.\n\nThe organisation, a UN-backed monitoring group that aims to ban nuclear tests worldwide, maintains a network of sensors to ensure that none is being conducted.\n\nIts experts would be able to give a technical judgement about the completeness of the test site destruction.\n\nAnalysts will be looking for the collapse of the available test tunnels at Punggye-ri and removal of monitoring facilities.\n\nAfter the ceremony, satellite imagery will be used by governments and independent experts to monitor for activity, new buildings and equipment, which might indicate that North Korea plans to resume testing.\n\nSatellite imagery may not help if North Korea clandestinely opens a new nuclear test site. It has many other mountains that could be used.\n\nBut if that were the case, it would be unable to hide any new underground tests, as the resulting seismic tremors would be detected.\n\nClosing the site would only be a first step towards full denuclearisation.\n\nIt also has a range of facilities that allows it to produce highly enriched uranium and plutonium - the fissile materials needed for a nuclear weapon.\n\nAmong these are several uranium mines, as well as centrifuges, nuclear reactors and reprocessing facilities at its main nuclear facility - the Yongbyon nuclear complex.\n\nIn addition, it has the means of delivery for weapons - an intercontinental ballistic missile programme.\n\nHowever, earlier this year a thaw in relations on the Korean peninsula saw North Korea announce it was halting all missile and nuclear testing.\n\nPyongyang's commitment to \"denuclearisation\" is likely to differ from Washington's long-standing demand for \"comprehensive, verifiable and irreversible\" nuclear disarmament (CVID).\n\nHowever, even stopping short of this, there are precedents that could help reduce instability.\n\nIn 1994, the Agreed Framework saw North Korea halt its nuclear programme, in return for heavy fuel oil and two light-water nuclear reactors.\n\nThe International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) - which oversees the use of nuclear technology - successfully carried out inspections to verify that North Korea was not diverting nuclear material for weapons production.\n\nInspections at the Yongbyon nuclear complex were a prominent part of the Agreed Framework and a cooling tower for a nuclear reactor used to produce plutonium was destroyed.\n\nHowever, this was not irreversible and in 2002, following the collapse of the agreement, Pyongyang announced it was reactivating Yongbyon. An admission that it had produced nuclear weapons for \"self defence\" followed in 2005.\n\nAny future denuclearisation agreement would require an extraordinary amount of access for inspectors.\n\nDestruction of the Punggye-ri test site may take a matter of weeks, but verifying the dismantlement of North Korea's nuclear weapons infrastructure would take years.\n\nThere are many ways in which the process could go awry.\n\nComprehensive, verifiable and irreversible nuclear disarmament requires continuing monitoring of any remaining nuclear facilities.\n\nInspectors would need to be able to access declared facilities and they would need to monitor for clandestine sites.\n\nEven then, there is little that can be done to undo the substantial expertise - both technical and scientific - that North Korea has acquired over the past decades.\n\nThe physical infrastructure doesn't need to survive for the underlying knowledge to remain.\n\nWithout continuous intrusive monitoring by international inspectors, North Korea could restart its nuclear weapons programme within a matter of years.\n\nThis analysis piece was commissioned by the BBC from an expert working for an outside organisation.\n\nCatherine Dill is a senior research associate at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies. Follow her @atomic_pickles", "A BBC documentary about the Manchester Arena attack was \"wholly inaccurate\" and \"entirely inappropriate\", a chief constable has said.\n\nManchester: The Night of the Bomb aired on BBC Two on the first anniversary of the bombing, which saw 22 people die and hundreds injured.\n\nGreater Manchester Police's Ian Hopkins said it had been \"entirely misleading\" in its depiction of police actions.\n\nThe BBC said the programme had been \"responsible, accurate and thoughtful\".\n\nThe documentary, which was made by Amos Productions for the corporation, was broadcast at 21:00 BST, hours after a memorial service had taken place to remember those who died.\n\nTwenty-two people were killed when a homemade device was detonated outside an Ariana Grande concert at Manchester Arena on 22 May 2017.\n\nMr Hopkins said he was \"saddened\" by the impact the programme had on families and survivors.\n\nThe content - which included graphic descriptions of what happened, the injuries that people suffered and mobile phone footage captured in the aftermath - had left him \"most deeply concerned about the impact on families\", he said.\n\n\"I fail to see any public interest in footage of such an explicit nature being aired with disregard to the feelings of those who matter most.\"\n\nOne of the programme's final shots stated GMP declined to be involved\n\nThe Crown Prosecution Service and the coroner had also \"expressed serious reservations\", he said, and British Transport Police \"withdrew support\" after realising the \"potential enormity of the impact\".\n\nHe also said the documentary had, \"at least by inference, wrongly suggested that officers and staff were held back on the night of the attack.\"\n\n\"This is untrue and is an unwarranted attack on police officers who, as the actual footage showed, acted bravely in response to this horrific attack.\"\n\nThe force did not contribute to the documentary, but did ask to see footage to \"assess legal implications\" and \"inform and support families\", but were \"not permitted to... at any point before broadcast\".\n\n\"As the lead police force, for the response and the criminal investigation, GMP has significant constraints on what we can discuss publicly,\" he said.\n\n\"After a face-to-face meeting, we respectfully explained in detail the legal constraints we worked under and highlighted to the production company their own responsibilities.\"\n\nThe programme featured interviews with some of those caught up in the attack\n\nHe said as a result, a reference in the programme to GMP declining to take part was \"wholly misleading and focused only on creating journalistic drama\".\n\nHe added that the programme \"appears to breach\" the BBC's editorial guidelines.\n\nA BBC spokeswoman said Amos Productions had \"worked constructively and appropriately with Victim Support, and the sensitivities of all those involved in this tragic event were subject to careful consideration throughout the production process\".\n\n\"This was a responsible, accurate and thoughtful documentary, which was an important piece of public service broadcasting.\"\n\n\"At no point did the documentary suggest GMP officers and staff were held back\", she said, and it had \"focussed on the events of the evening and how they unfolded, not any ongoing investigations\".\n\nShe added that the programme adheres to the BBC's guidelines.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Formula 1\n\nWorld champion Lewis Hamilton says the return of female models to the F1 grid at this weekend's Monaco Grand Prix is \"a beautiful thing\".\n\nThe sport's owner Liberty Media stopped the use of 'grid girls' in January, saying their use was \"at odds with modern day societal norms\".\n\nModels for Swiss watchmaker Tag Heuer will feature on the grid at Monaco - though not in 'grid girl' roles.\n\n\"Women are the most beautiful thing in the world,\" Hamilton, 33, said.\n\n\"Monaco is a very elegant grand prix and when we pull up to the grid and there's beautiful women on the grid, that's the Monaco Grand Prix and that's a lovely thing.\"\n\nTraditionally, grid girls would hold driver placards on the grid but the Monaco models - who will include men - will only be there as representatives of Tag Heuer, taking pictures of the drivers to be posted on social media.\n\nLast month, Monaco organisers spoke of their opposition to Liberty's ban.\n\nFerrari driver Sebastian Vettel said he \"agreed with Lewis\".\n\n\"I like women. I think they look beautiful. The bottom line is that there is too much of a fuss nowadays,\" the German said.\n\n\"All the women that took part as a grid girl in the past did it because they want to. I'm sure if you ask any grid girl on Sunday if they're happy to stand there, their answer will be yes.\n\n\"I don't think there's anybody that forces them to do it.\"\n\nThe decision to drop grid girls proved controversial. Supporters of Liberty's stance agreed that the practice objectified women.\n\n\"I definitely don't think we should ever be supporting or pushing these women in general to feel uncomfortable. And if they are, then we shouldn't do it,\" Hamilton added on Wednesday.\n\nDarts similarly phased out its use of walk-on girls to lead players out earlier this year and there followed calls for other sports to do the same.\n\nBoxer Stacey Copeland told BBC Sport that the use of grid girls in F1 is 'unnecessary'.\n\nCopeland has children as mascots at her fights instead of ring girls.\n\n\"The sexual objectification of women in sport is not necessary,\" she said. \"It doesn't add anything and enough is enough.\n\n\"Change is always really tough and will have its ups and downs but just because we've always done something does not mean it should carry on.\n\n\"Grid girls in F1, ring girls in boxing are unnecessary and unequal so we have to over-correct. It does seem over the top to some but we have to do it.\"\n\nBut critics claimed the models were part of sport's glamour, while others blamed political correctness and some of those carrying out the roles were equally vocal about the ban.", "A man has been arrested on suspicion of preparation of terrorist acts, the Metropolitan Police has said.\n\nThe 19-year-old was arrested in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire, on Wednesday at 18:57 BST.\n\nAn address in the town is being searched, and the man is being questioned at a south London police station.\n\nPolice say the activity is connected to the arrest of an 18-year-old man by armed police in north London on Friday.\n\nThe 18-year-old man remains in custody, and a 20-year-old woman was also arrested in south London for failing to disclose information about acts of terrorism on Wednesday.", "Police in Chalgrove Road, Tottenham, where a 17-year old girl was shot dead in a drive-by attack\n\nClaim: London has overtaken New York for murders for the first time in modern history after a surge in knife crime across the capital.\n\nVerdict: A selective use of statistics from the start of 2018 appears to bear this out - but the reality is that New York still appears to be more violent than London.\n\nCriminologists and police chiefs love studying the differences and similarities in violence between big cities because the huge amounts of data can give clues as to what works best to keep people safe.\n\nThere has been no end of comparisons down the decades of London and New York because, on the face of things, the cities are broadly comparable.\n\nThey're both cosmopolitan \"world cities\" with broadly similar populations of more than 8 million people. They also have big gaps between rich and poor inhabitants.\n\nBut there has always been one significant difference: the crime rate. So this weekend's report in the Sunday Times, which could be interpreted as suggesting that London was now more dangerous than New York, needs some unpicking. And, as you may have come to expect from BBC Reality Check, the truth is a little more complex.\n\nNew York police have opened 50 murder files so far this year - this compares with 48 in London\n\nAccording to the newspaper, London overtook New York's \"murder rate\" in February \"as the capital endured a dramatic surge in knife crime\".\n\nThat is true. The New York Police Department dealt with 11 homicides in February - while London's Metropolitan Police opened investigations into 15 deaths. And in March, there were 22 killings in London and one fewer on the other side of the Atlantic.\n\nBut that grim month-by-month tally is not quite the whole story.\n\nThe one thing that's always true about statistics is that there will be blips - sudden rises or falls in the data. These two high months for London could ultimately turn out to be outliers.\n\nWe don't yet know. But older data shows why we should be cautious.\n\nIn January, for example, the Met investigated eight murders in London. The NYPD looked into 18 killings.\n\nAnd that means that while Scotland Yard has opened 48 homicide inquiries so far this year, New York has in fact opened 50 murder files.\n\nLooking at 2017, the homicide rate per 100,000 population stood at 1.2 in London and 3.4 in New York.\n\nWhile the difference between the two cities has definitely narrowed - the trend is far from fixed. And even older figures are also quite revealing.\n\nIn 2007, New York witnessed 496 homicides. That was three times more than in London. Last year, the American city suffered 292 killings and London 130.\n\nThe rate of killings so far this year in London is higher than it was during the same period last year. The fatalities include five shootings and 31 stabbings.\n\nNine of those killed were teenagers and crimes involving knives and sharp instruments across England and Wales are at their highest level since 2011.\n\nWhy the rate is going up in London, so far this year, is unclear. There's a push for police to stop and search more suspects for weapons after a big fall in the use of the power since 2010. But New York police have also reduced their use of similar powers over the same period - and their murder rate has fallen.\n\nNew York is definitely a much safer place than in 1990 when there were 2,262 murders. But it's not remotely clear yet that London is becoming more murderous than its American cousin.", "President Trump says it's possible that the upcoming summit with Kim Jong-un could be delayed.\n\nAnd Mr Trump told reporters that the North Korean leader's recent meeting with his Chinese counterpart might have influenced his attitude to talks with the US.", "Fleabag, Happy Valley and Ordeal By Innocence are among the few TV shows to be written by women\n\nThe number of female writers working for film and television in the UK has not improved in the last 10 years, a new report suggests.\n\nAcross the whole industry, just one in six screenwriters is a woman.\n\nOnly one in 10 feature films is written chiefly by a woman, the figure dropping even lower for those with a budget greater than £10m - to just one in 14.\n\nThe Writers' Guild of Great Britain, which commissioned the report, is calling for change in the industry.\n\nScreenwriter Gwyneth Hughes, behind ITV mini-series Dark Angel and the forthcoming Vanity Fair, said the research made for \"shocking reading\", calling for \"an honest and open debate about why this inequality still afflicts our industry\".\n\nThe report from the trade union, which represents professional writers, looked at the period from 2005 to 2016.\n\nIt showed the situation had not improved over that time, with little increase in the number of female writers.\n\nIn 2006, 21% of UK feature films had at least one female writer credited among the writing team. In 2016, the figure stood at 22%.\n\nThe picture is a little better in television with 28% of all UK TV episodes being predominantly written by women, but this figure halves for women writing for prime-time television.\n\nFleabag is among just one in 10 comedy programmes to be written by a woman\n\nFemale representation in comedy and light entertainment appeared particularly low with just 11% and 9% respectively being predominantly female-written, according to the report.\n\nIt comes after a group of 76 TV drama writers signed an open letter of protest to UK broadcasters earlier this year when ITV revealed that its drama slate for 2018 had only one female writer out of nine.\n\nOf more than 200 working writers polled, the new report indicates that only one in 20 agreed that \"the way writers are hired, and scripts are commissioned, is fair and free from discrimination\" - and the majority of respondents suggested that they had seen evidence of discrimination over the course of their careers.\n\nThe low numbers of female writers working in top dramas comes despite some of the most popular recent TV shows being written by women including Happy Valley (Sally Wainwright), Ordeal by Innocence (Sarah Phelps) and Girlfriends (Kay Mellor).\n\nThe report also looked at the budgets of feature films compared to UK and international box office takings and found films written by women have higher revenues - both domestically and globally - than those written predominantly by men.\n\nThe Kingsman series is written by Jane Goldman\n\nWGGB president Olivia Hetreed called on commissioners and public funders to work harder to give equal opportunities to women writers.\n\nHetreed, who is also a Bafta-nominated writer for her adaptation of Girl with a Pearl Earring, said: \"I have been asked about the dearth of female screenwriters in this country ever since my first feature film put me into that endangered species bracket.\n\n\"I and others were reassuring: 'It's just a matter of time. It's getting better. It will work itself out'. But more than a decade later, this new research shows that the number of women writing films has flat-lined at abjectly low levels.\"\n\nAs well as a presenter, Sandi Toksvig is also a writer - with more than 20 books to her name\n\nWriter and presenter Sandi Toksvig is also among those to give her support to the campaign, saying: \"There is no shortage of talented women writers in the UK, and therefore no excuse that so few of them are getting commissions in film and TV.\"\n\nScreenwriter Kay Mellor said: \"It's criminal that I can count on one hand how many women signature writers there are on TV right now. Sometimes it takes a collective to say - 'this is not fair' and it's not. It's time things changed.\"\n\nThe BBC said there would be more female writers in the new series of Doctor Who\n\nThe BBC has previously come under criticism for five of the most recent series of Doctor Who being entirely written by men.\n\nIn response, BBC One's head of drama Piers Wenger said \"a number\" of the scripts for Chris Chibnall's forthcoming debut series of Doctor Who had been written by women.\n\nHe also added that \"women have written more than 40% of the drama\" he had ordered since taking up his post at the BBC a year ago.\n\nITV's head of drama Polly Hill said: \"As we look to offer audiences the greatest range of drama, we will always support and commission female writers and take representation on and off-screen seriously.\"\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 Arsenal\n\nNew Arsenal head coach Unai Emery was the \"unanimous\" choice to \"drive the next chapter\" at the club, says chief executive Ivan Gazidis.\n\nEmery, 46, joins the Gunners having left French champions PSG after guiding them to the Ligue 1 title.\n\nThe Spaniard also won four domestic cups with the French giants, having previously steered Sevilla to three successive Europa League triumphs.\n\nHe succeeds Frenchman Arsene Wenger, who has left after 22 years in charge.\n\n\"Unai has an outstanding track record of success throughout his career, has developed some of the best young talent in Europe and plays an exciting, progressive style of football that fits Arsenal perfectly,\" Gazidis added.\n\n\"His hard-working and passionate approach and his sense of values on and off the pitch make him the ideal person to take us forward.\"\n• None Emery is meticulous, experienced, successful - and still a risk\n\nWhat did Emery say?\n\nManchester City assistant manager and former Gunners captain Mikel Arteta was a strong favourite to replace Wenger, but Emery - who has a limited command of English - was selected following the Gunners' recruitment process.\n\nHe will lead Arsenal into a new era following the departure of 68-year-old Wenger, who won three Premier League titles and seven FA Cups - including two Doubles - with the club.\n\n\"I'm very excited to be given the responsibility to start this important new chapter in Arsenal's history,\" said Emery.\n\n\"I am thrilled to be joining one of the great clubs in the game. Arsenal is known and loved throughout the world for its style of play, its commitment to young players, the fantastic stadium, the way the club is run.\n\n\"I'm excited about what we can do together and I look forward to giving everyone who loves Arsenal some special moments and memories.\"\n\nWhat has he achieved?\n\nEmery announced last month he would leave PSG when his contract expired at the end of the season, despite leading them to the Ligue 1 title.\n\nDuring his two-year spell with the French giants, he also won four domestic cups, having joined from Sevilla in 2016.\n\nIt was in his home country that the former Real Sociedad and Toledo midfielder made his name as a manager, taking charge at Almeria and Valencia before moving to Sevilla in 2013.\n\nThere he won three successive Europa League titles as well as finishing runners-up to Barcelona in the 2015-16 Copa del Rey.\n\nWith a rebuilding job needed at Emirates Stadium following Arsenal's sixth-place finish in the Premier League, his meticulous, hands-on coaching may well be just what the Gunners need.\n\nWhat is his style?\n\nEmery will get Arsenal more organised than they have been. He's really keen on drills and discipline, worked PSG hard at training and has got a very good idea of what he wants to do.\n\nHis first game at PSG was the 2016 Trophee des Champions - the French Community Shield - against Lyon and they won 4-1. PSG played with an intensity they never had before. It looked like his philosophy - pressing high, running a lot, attacking a lot, defending a lot, full backs bombing forward.\n\nBut then the players said they should go back to what they know because they were used to tiki-taka football where they took their time.\n\nEmery had to evolve a bit to accommodate his players, when it shouldn't have been like that - it should've been the players accommodating his philosophy.\n\nIf the Arsenal players are on board with what he wants to do, that's how he won three straight Europa Leagues, because that Sevilla team were all on board.\n• None 'If Arsenal players buy in to his philosophy, they can win things'", "Berlinah Wallace threw sulphuric acid at her former partner, Mark van Dongen\n\nA woman who threw sulphuric acid at her former partner, which led to him ending his life, has been jailed for life with a minimum term of 12 years.\n\nBerlinah Wallace, 48, hurled the corrosive fluid at Dutch engineer Mark van Dongen in Bristol in 2015.\n\nAt Bristol Crown Court, Mrs Justice Nicola Davies told Wallace it was \"an act of pure evil\".\n\nShe was cleared of murdering her former partner but found guilty of throwing a corrosive substance with intent.\n\n\"Your intention was to burn, disfigure and disable Mark van Dongen so that he would not be attractive to any other woman,\" the judge said.\n\nAvon and Somerset Police said it believed it to be the first life sentence for an acid attack in the UK.\n\nMr van Dongen, 29, was left paralysed from the neck down and lost an ear, eye and his left leg following the attack, and ended his own life in a Belgian hospital in January 2017.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Mark van Dongen had acid thrown on him while he was asleep in bed\n\nThe judge told Wallace she had \"chosen the moment\" for the attack when Mr van Dongen was wearing only boxer shorts and asleep in bed at her flat in Westbury Park.\n\n\"Vulnerable, almost naked, he awoke but had no real opportunity to avoid the focus of your acid attack, namely his face and then his body,\" she said.\n\n\"Immediately before you threw the acid you said to Mark, 'If I can't have you, no-one can'.\"\n\nThe bed where Mark van Dongen was lying when Wallace threw the acid at him\n\nWallace had bought the acid to attack her former partner, a Dutch engineer, because he had left her for another woman, the court heard.\n\nShe threw a glass of it over Mr van Dongen on the night of 22 September 2015 after he had returned to her flat in Ladysmith Road to reiterate that their turbulent relationship was over, but decided to stay the night.\n\nScreaming in agony, he staggered out on to the street where he was found by alarmed neighbours who dialled 999.\n\nWallace \"told lie after lie\" after the \"horrific attack\", the judge said.\n\n\"When interviewed by the police you sought to place the blame upon Mark van Dongen, falsely alleging that he had poured the acid into the glass on your bedside table intending that you should drink it.\n\n\"It was an account which you gave in September 2015 and maintained throughout this trial.\"\n\nKees van Dongen said the sentence was \"really too little\"\n\nSpeaking via a translator the victim's father, Kees van Dongen, said: \"I'm very pleased she'll be locked up for a minimum of 12 years but really it's too little, because we as a family have been sentenced to life.\"\n\nHe said he supported the judge's findings that Wallace's intentions had been \"malicious and callous\".\n\n\"I never knew that she was like this. It turns out she really pulled the wool over our eyes from day one.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Husnain Rashid allegedly provided an \"e-toolkit for terrorism\" over the internet\n\nAn Islamic State supporter encouraged \"lone wolf\" attackers to target Prince George and inject poison into supermarket ice creams, a court heard.\n\nHusnain Rashid, 32, of Leonard Street in Nelson, Lancashire provided an \"e-toolkit for terrorism\" over the internet, the prosecution alleges.\n\nHe is accused of calling for the prince to be targeted at Thomas's Battersea primary school in south-west London.\n\nThe jury was told that the former mosque teacher, who also used to work for a tyre business, ran a \"prolific\" online channel named the \"Lone Mujahid\".\n\nHe is accused of posting a photograph of the four-year-old prince, along with his school's address, a silhouette of a jihad fighter and the message: \"Even the royal family will not be left alone.\"\n\nOmar Ali Hussain travelled to Syria to fight for Islamic State but is now thought to be dead\n\nHe also allegedly advised a British terrorist in Syria named Omar Ali Hussain on how to make successful attacks, including bringing down \"enemy\" aircraft with lasers.\n\nThe court heard that Mr Hussain was the main person contacted by the defendant who had himself \"made preparations\" to fight for Islamic State abroad.\n\nOther alleged targets he suggested included a Halloween Parade in New York and railway stations in Australia.\n\nMr Rashid is accused of encouraging attackers to target Prince George at his primary school\n\nProsecutor Annabel Darlow said: \"His proposals were indiscriminate and made no distinction between adult and child, between members of fighting forces and civilians.\n\n\"His suggestions included injecting poison into supermarket ice creams and targeting Prince George at his first school.\"\n\nMs Darlow said Mr Rashid specialised in supporting lone attackers with \"every conceivable type of attack\" including the use of bombs, chemicals and knives.\n\nHe is also accused of distributing the al-Qaeda terror magazine Inspire, and allegedly wanted to travel to Syria to fight in Islamic State territories.\n\nThe court heard when police raided his house he \"hurled\" a phone containing a \"treasure trove\" of evidence over a wall and into an alleyway.\n\nMr Rashid denies three counts of engaging in conduct in preparation of terrorist acts, one of encouraging terrorism, two of dissemination of a terrorist publication, and one of failing to comply with a notice under the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act.\n\nThe allegations span a period between October 2016 and April this year.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "In one week's time people in the Republic of Ireland will vote on whether they want to make changes to the country's strict abortion laws.\n\nIt's holding a referendum asking whether the Eighth Amendment should be repealed from its constitution. The amendment gives equal right to life for the mother and the unborn child.\n\nBut do people living in Ireland's cities see the issue differently from those living in its countryside?", "The coin featuring the leaders' faces received a bashing on social media\n\nA commemorative coin issued by the White House ahead of the planned summit between President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has been widely criticised.\n\nThe coin describes the summit as \"peace talks\" and depicts a square-jawed Mr Trump sternly facing his North Korean counterpart.\n\nMany on social media pointed out that the meeting may not even take place.\n\nThe White House said issuing such a coin was \"common practice\".\n\nRegional expert Prof Robert E Kelly, of Busan University in South Korea, took to Twitter to describe the coin as \"gross\".\n\n\"Whose personality cult exactly is this summit legitimising? This is un-American,\" he said.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Robert E Kelly This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 Trump met South Korea's president Moon Jae-in on Tuesday, amid uncertainty over the summit planned for 12 June.\n\nNorth Korea has threatened to cancel the meeting if the US insists on it giving up nuclear weapons unilaterally.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nOthers said that the depiction of Kim Jong-un on the coin was deliberately unflattering - appearing to give him some extra chins.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Levi Gibian This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 White House issued a statement on Tuesday saying it \"did not have any input into the design and manufacture of the coin.\"\n\nRaj Shah, White House deputy press secretary, said in a statement it was common practice for souvenir coins to be ordered after the public announcement of a trip.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Peter Alexander This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "In the days and weeks after the Manchester Arena attack, people in the region came together to support each other.\n\nHere, members of the community remember the attack and talk about how it's affected their lives.\n\nClick here to listen to The City Remembers, a BBC Radio 5 live documentary.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jeremy Corbyn is on his first trip to NI since becoming Labour leader\n\nJeremy Corbyn has told the BBC that if he is prime minister the UK government would take a neutral position in any border poll campaign.\n\nHe said he was not asking for or advocating a border poll, but would ensure the Good Friday Agreement is implemented \"to the letter\".\n\nMr Corbyn is on his first trip to NI since becoming Labour leader.\n\nHe also used his speech at Queen's University in Belfast to argue that Brexit must not lead to a hard border.\n\nThe leader of the opposition told his audience he was not asking for a border poll, but in an interview with the BBC he was asked how a Corbyn government would handle such a campaign if it happened on his watch.\n\n\"It's within the terms of the Good Friday Agreement that such a poll could be held if there was a willingness to do so, at that point you don't stand in its way, but it is within the terms of the Good Friday Agreement and I think the UK government should be neutral in that respect,\" he replied.\n\nDavid Cameron campaigned for the union in the 2014 Scottish independence referendum\n\nDavid Cameron's Conservative government campaigned for Scotland to remain in the UK ahead of the Scottish independence referendum in 2014, but Mr Corbyn said he would not take that approach.\n\n\"I think there has to be a decision within terms of the Good Friday Agreement, we're dealing with conjectures here, we're quite a long way off from any of this.\n\n\"We would be ensuring the Good Friday Agreement is carried out to the letter.\"\n\nMuch of his speech at Queen's University focused on Brexit, arguing that it must not be allowed to damage the fragile political settlement in Northern Ireland.\n\nHe also said there should not be a border in the Irish Sea.\n\n\"Let me be clear, Labour will not support any Brexit deal that includes the return of a hard border to this island,\" Mr Corbyn said.\n\n\"We are also clear there must be no effective border created in the Irish Sea either.\n\n\"That is why Labour has put forward a plan that would go a long way to solving this issue, a plan for which I believe there is a majority in Westminster.\"\n\nThe UK and EU have agreed that there will be no hard border, but are at odds on how to achieve that.\n\nA major sticking point is what arrangement will be put in place if the border cannot be solved in an overall deal.\n\nThe two sides accept the need for a 'backstop', but differ on how it should work.\n\nMr Corbyn suggested that Labour's proposal for a new comprehensive EU-UK customs union has the potential to prevent communities in Northern Ireland being divided.\n\nThe Labour leader also argued that maintaining an open border is not just about avoiding paperwork or tariffs. It also has symbolic significance, he said.\n\n\"An open border is a symbol of peace, two communities living and working together after years of conflict, communities who no longer feel that their traditions are under threat,\" Mr Corbyn said.\n\nMr Corbyn also said a solution must be found to end the deadlock at Stormont.\n\nNorthern Ireland has been without a government since January 2017, when power-sharing between the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) and Sinn Féin collapsed.\n\nHe called for the British Irish Intergovernmental Conference (BIIC) to be revived in order to help make progress.\n\n\"The British and Irish governments met many times during the last impasse - it seems to me a sensible way forward,\" he told the BBC.\n\n\"We must step up to find a creative solution in the spirit of the Good Friday Agreement that avoids a return to direct Westminster rule,\" Mr Corbyn commented.\n\nConvening the BIIC is favoured by nationalists, but opposed by the DUP and the Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) who regard it as a \"talking shop\".\n\nDuring Mr Corbyn's two-day visit to Northern Ireland, he will also meet business leaders in Belfast and Londonderry to discuss their concerns around Brexit.\n\nThe welcome Jeremy Corbyn received at Queen's University was almost as warm as the weather.\n\nHis speech was interrupted by rounds of applause from the audience several times, notably when he paid tribute to Mo Mowlam - the late Northern Ireland secretary - for her role in the Northern Ireland peace process.\n\nThe speech did not make reference to a border poll, but afterwards Mr Corbyn was asked if he would support such a move if elected prime minister, by an A-Level student sitting her politics exam this afternoon.\n\nMr Corbyn wished the student good luck and said if that was the desire of the majority of people, then it would happen under the terms set out in the Good Friday Agreement, but that he was not asking or advocating for it.\n\nHis trip so far has not been without criticism as the DUP East Londonderry MP Gregory Campbell accused Mr Corbyn of snubbing a request to meet with IRA victims.\n\nLabour said it hadn't received enough notice, but that the shadow Northern Ireland Secretary of State Tony Lloyd has taken up the invite on behalf of his party leader.\n\nEarlier this week, the Labour Party in Northern Ireland said it was disappointed that Mr Corbyn had not made plans to meet them during his visit.\n\nA Labour source said the party was in communication with Labour NI and would \"be in touch to arrange a future meeting\".\n\nPeople in Northern Ireland have been allowed to join Labour since 2003, and they have had their own constituency branch since 2008.\n\nWhether they can contest elections is currently subject to an internal review, which is understood to be in its final stages, but any decision to change the current policy would need to be taken by Labour's National Executive Committee (NEC).", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. There was amusement as Prince Harry's speech was interrupted by a bee\n\nThe Duke and Duchess of Sussex have attended a Buckingham Palace garden party for their first royal engagement as a married couple.\n\nThe duchess wore a dress by Goat and a hat by Irish milliner Philip Treacy to the party, which was part of the Prince of Wales' 70th birthday celebrations.\n\nShe and the Duchess of Cornwall started laughing when Prince Harry's speech was interrupted by a bee.\n\nPrince Harry, 33, and Meghan, 36, were married at Windsor Castle on Saturday.\n\nThe two duchesses and many guests broke into laughter when a bee distracted Prince Harry during his speech\n\nPrince Harry took to the podium to ask the crowd to show their thanks for Prince Charles' \"incredible work\" for nearly 50 years\n\nThe garden party, which is being held six months ahead of Prince Charles' actual 70th birthday in November, celebrated the future king's charity work, patronages and military affiliations.\n\nPrince Charles and the Duchess of Cornwall were joined by more than 6,000 people from charities he supports.\n\nAnd to mark the one year anniversary of the Manchester Arena bombing, emergency service workers who were on the scene on the night of the attack also attended.\n\nAs a member of the Royal Family, Meghan now has an official profile on the Royal Family website\n\nThe couple's honeymoon did not take place immediately after the wedding\n\nIn his speech, Prince Harry opened with a moment of remembrance for the Manchester attack victims before fondly paying tribute to his father's \"infectious\" energy and enthusiasm for his charity work.\n\n\"It has certainly inspired William and I to get involved in issues we care passionately about and to do whatever we can to make a difference,\" he said.\n\nHe added: \"Pa, while I know that you've asked that today not be about you, you must forgive me if I don't listen to you - much like when I was younger - and instead, I ask everyone here to say a huge thank you to you, for your incredible work over nearly 50 years.\"\n\nDuring the speech, Meghan and the Duchess of Cornwall started giggling when a bee flew close to Prince Harry and he said: \"That bee really got me.\"\n\nThe prince praised his father's \"remarkable\" passion and dedication for the charities he supports\n\nThe Duke and Duchess of Sussex mingled with guests following Prince Harry's speech\n\nThe Duchess of Sussex's dusky pink dress is from British fashion brand Goat - also a favourite of her sister-in-law, the Duchess of Cambridge.\n\nLondon-based milliner Philip Treacy - who made Meghan's saucer-shaped hat - is also popular among the royal family.\n\nMore than 110,000 people flocked to Windsor to watch the Duke and Duchess of Sussex marry\n\nPrince Charles will celebrate his actual 70th birthday in November\n\nAmong the guests at the party were soldiers from the 2nd Battalion, Irish Regiment of Canada, who flew over especially for the party.\n\nSecond Lieutenant Reid Killen said: \"It felt like talking to my youngest son, the Duke reminds me very much of him. He's always joking around and Harry has the same sense of humour.\"\n\nMeanwhile Jyoti Bahia, 25, a project manager who attended the party with four of his colleagues, said: \"There are no words to describe the feeling of meeting Harry and Meghan after their wedding.\"\n\nOn Monday, the newly-married royal couple released three official photographs - including of bridesmaids and close family - taken on their wedding day.\n\nThe couple have not yet celebrated their honeymoon and details of the location and date have not been revealed.\n\nTHE DUKE AND DUCHESS OF SUSSEX / ALEXI LUBOMIRSKI Meghan's mother Doria Ragland was the only member of her family to attend the wedding\n\nThe Duke and Duchess, who left Windsor on Sunday, also thanked everyone who took part in the celebrations, watched by an average of 11 million viewers on BBC or ITV at any one time.\n\nMore than 110,000 people also filled the streets of the town.\n\nFollowing a lunchtime reception, the celebrations continued with a black-tie dinner and a fireworks display at Frogmore House, near Windsor Castle.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The couple exchanged vows and rings before the Queen and 600 guests at St George's Chapel\n\nThe evening refreshments are said to have included themed cocktails, including one named \"When Harry met Meghan\" - referencing the romantic comedy starring Meg Ryan and Billy Crystal.\n\nGuests dined on posh burgers and candy floss, according to reports, and danced to music provided by a celebrity DJ.\n\nThe best way to get news on the go", "Kees van Dongen said looking after his son and the trial had left him financially \"wiped out\"\n\nThe father of Mark van Dongen, who took his own life a year after his girlfriend poured acid over him, said he is now a \"broken man\".\n\nBerlinah Wallace, 48, hurled the corrosive fluid at the Dutch engineer in Bristol in 2015 as he slept.\n\nIn a victim impact statement, Kees van Dongen said he wanted to make sure she got \"the sentence she deserves\".\n\nWallace was found guilty of throwing a corrosive substance with intent and will be sentenced on Wednesday.\n\nShe was cleared of murder and manslaughter.\n\nFifteen months after the attack, Mark van Dongen, 29, ended his life by euthanasia in a Belgian hospital. He was paralysed from the neck down and had lost a leg, ear and eye.\n\nMark van Dongen and Berlinah Wallace met five years before the attack\n\nKees van Dongen read the statement read to the court on Tuesday as part of submissions to Mrs Justice Nicola Davies ahead of sentencing Wallace.\n\nHe told how his son had begged him to let him take his own life.\n\n\"He said 'dad, I'm tired of fighting, I've suffered so much pain and I can't take any more. Please let me go'.\"\n\nSpeaking about how the experience had affected him, he added: \"I feel like a broken man, completely drained, and the old Kees no longer exists. Mark and I lost our battle.\n\n\"In the past, nothing would faze me, but now I have lead in my shoes.\"\n\nWallace was studying fashion at the University of the West of England\n\nHe said he had always treated Wallace as his own daughter but found it \"impossible to believe Berlinah's descriptions of Mark\".\n\n\"My son Mark was gentle, sensitive, accommodating, too good for this world,\" he added.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "On Friday 25 May, people in the Republic of Ireland voted on whether they want to make changes to the country's strict abortion laws, upheld in the Eighth Amendment of the Irish constitution.\n\nSo where does the law currently stand?\n\nSince 2013, terminations have been allowed in Ireland but only when the life of the mother is at risk, including from suicide. The maximum penalty for accessing an illegal abortion is 14 years in prison.\n\nIn 2016, the Irish Department of Health said there were 25 legal abortions carried out in Ireland.\n\nIn the same year, 3,265 women travelled from Ireland to the UK for a termination.\n\nAfter independence, Ireland retained many UK laws, one of which was the Offences Against the Person Act 1861 which criminalised abortion.\n\nHowever, in the early 1980s, following legal cases in other jurisdictions allowing the introduction of less restrictive abortion laws, some people became concerned that something similar could happen in Ireland.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The background and potential outcomes to the Republic of Ireland's abortion referendum\n\nIn 1983, after a referendum, an eighth amendment was added to the country's constitution known as Article 40.3.3.\n\nIn it, the state acknowledged \"the right to life of the unborn and, with due regard to the equal right to life of the mother, guarantees in its laws to respect, and, as far as practicable, by its laws to defend and vindicate that right\".\n\nAfter a further referendum in 1992, two other changes were made to the constitution in relation to women seeking to access terminations.\n\nThe Thirteenth Amendment said women were free to travel to other countries to access abortion services.\n\nThe Fourteenth Amendment stated that the constitution would not prevent people accessing information relating to \"services lawfully available in another state\".\n\nIn 2013, the law was changed when the Dáil (Irish parliament) voted to allow abortions under limited circumstances.\n\nThe Protection of Life During Pregnancy Act allowed terminations to be carried out where there is a threat to the life of the mother. They would also be allowed where there is medical consensus that the expectant mother will take her own life over her pregnancy.\n\nIn 2017, the Citizens' Assembly, a body set up advise the Irish government on constitutional change, voted to replace or amend the part of Ireland's Constitution which strictly limits the availability of abortion.\n\nSo on 25 May, 2018, the Irish people were asked if they wanted to remove the Eighth Amendment and allow politicians to set the country's abortion laws in the future.\n\nThe wording on the ballot paper read: \"Provision may be made by law for the regulation of termination of pregnancies.\n\nIn March, Health Minister Simon Harris outlined what would be in the government legislation if the people voted to repeal the Eighth Amendment.\n\nIf passed, women could access a termination within the first 12 weeks of pregnancy.\n\nHowever, beyond 12 weeks, abortions would only be permitted where there is a risk to a woman's life or of serious harm to the physical or mental health of a woman, up until the 24th week of pregnancy.\n\nTerminations would also be permitted in cases of fatal foetal abnormality.", "Survivors from the Manchester Arena bombing have formed a choir to help them cope with the trauma of the night.", "Harley Davidson riders have hit the road to remember the youngest victim of the Manchester Arena attack.\n\nEight-year-old Saffie Roussos was a big fan of the iconic motorbike.", "Mr Zuckerberg stayed beyond the allotted 75 minutes but did not answer all questions put to him\n\nFacebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has apologised to EU lawmakers for the company's role in the Cambridge Analytica scandal and for allowing fake news to proliferate on its platform.\n\nMr Zuckerberg apologised for Facebook's tools being used \"for harm\".\n\nBut his testimony did not please all MEPs at the meeting, some of whom felt he had dodged their questions.\n\nOne leading UK politician later said the session at the European Parliament had been a \"missed opportunity\".\n\n\"Unfortunately the format of questioning allowed Mr Zuckerberg to cherry-pick his responses and not respond to each individual point,\" said Damian Collins, chair of the UK Parliament's Digital Culture Media and Sport Committee.\n\nThe format was very different from that of Mr Zuckerberg's testimony to US lawmakers in April.\n\nWhile the US politicians took turns to cross-examine the Facebook chief in a series of back-and-forth exchanges, the leaders of the European Parliament's various political groups each asked several questions apiece.\n\nThe tech chief had to wait until they were all delivered before responding.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Rory Cellan-Jones This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMr Zuckerberg spent 22 minutes going through the huge number of questions put to him during the session and was able to pick and choose which to give answers to.\n\nSeveral of the politicians expressed frustration at this, and one accused Mr Zuckerberg of having \"asked for this format for a reason\".\n\nA spokesman for Facebook later contacted the BBC to say it had not chosen the structure. This was subsequently confirmed by the parliament's president, Antonio Tajani.\n\nIn a follow-up press conference, Mr Tajani added that the MEPs had been aware Mr Zuckerberg's time was limited yet had decided to use up much of the allotted period speaking themselves.\n\nHe also drew attention to the fact that the chief executive had agreed to provide follow-up written answers.\n\nMr Zuckerberg did not address questions about whether Facebook was a monopoly and how it plans to use data from its WhatsApp division.\n\nNor did he directly answer questions about shadow profiles or whether non-Facebook users' data should be collected.\n\nGuy Verhofstadt had threatened not to attend when the event was set to be restricted from public view\n\nSeveral of the MEPs had also voiced scepticism about the business.\n\nGuy Verhofstadt MEP had asked Mr Zuckerberg if he wanted to be remembered as \"the genius who created a digital monster\", which the Facebook boss did not answer.\n\nBritish MEP and leading Brexiteer Nigel Farage expressed his view that Facebook was not a politically neutral platform, asking whether the social network \"wilfully discriminated\" against right-of-centre commentators.\n\nMr Zuckerberg did respond to this point, saying Facebook had \"never made a decision about what content was allowed on the basis of political orientation\".\n\nTackling other questions, he also said he expected to find other apps that had misused customer data and pointed out that an internal investigation into thousands of third-party developers to see if there similar cases to the Cambridge Analytica scandal would take \"many months\".\n\nSo far, he said, Facebook had suspended more than 200 apps.\n\nThe European Parliament has been left wanting more.\n\nThe format of the meeting meant that rather than tackle specific concerns - particularly about the tracking of non-Facebook users - Mr Zuckerberg was able to group the questions into broad areas.\n\nThat meant he could give broad answers.\n\nReading any blog from the company published in the past three months would give you much the same information as we heard today.\n\nThis clearly angered several MEPs, who expressed frustration over what they saw as insufficient responses to their concerns.\n\nThen again, how detailed can you be when you have been given less than half an hour to answer huge, almost existential, questions?\n\nFacebook is under close examination, but maybe so too should be the way politicians question these incredibly powerful figures.\n\nIf you're following along, here's a scorecard for Mr Zuckerberg's \"tough\" committee appearances: Congress achieved little, Europe even less.\n\nThe meeting between Mr Zuckerberg and the European Parliament's political group leaders had originally been planned to be held in private.\n\nBut that sparked a wave of criticism resulting it being livestreamed via the web.\n\nOne popular topic among the MEPs was an imminent shake-up of data privacy rules.\n\nFacebook recently transferred 1.5 billion of its international users from the jurisdiction of its European headquarters, in Ireland, to that of its US headquarters, with some speculating this was to avoid costly legal action resulting from breaches of the EU's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).\n\nThe sweeping changes to data laws will give consumers much more control over how their personal details are used.\n\nSeveral of the MEPs challenged Mr Zuckerberg over whether he was truly committed to obeying the regulation.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHe responded that he expected Facebook would be fully compliant with the law by the time it came into force on Friday.\n\nHe added that the app had already presented European members with the revised settings required and \"a large percentage\" of the users had already reviewed them.\n\nUK MPs are keen to pose their own questions to Mr Zuckerberg about the Cambridge Analytica scandal but the Facebook founder has so far declined to make a trip to the UK.", "Six members of the Choucair family spanning three generations died\n\nFamilies of those killed in the Grenfell Tower fire left an inquiry in tears after a video of the blaze was shown without a warning.\n\nOne woman was said to have collapsed outside the hearing after seeing the video, which included footage filmed from inside the burning building.\n\nAn inquiry official apologised, saying a warning system had failed.\n\nThe second day has been dedicated to commemorations of those killed, including six members of one family.\n\nA nephew of one of the 72 victims said the bereaved wanted \"the truth\" and \"those in power\" must \"listen to our stories and learn from your mistakes.\"\n\nKarim Mussily, whose uncle Hesham Rahman lived on the 23rd floor, earned a standing ovation from other relatives in the room when he told the inquiry: \"We've been censored enough, it's our time; whether you like it or not, you have to listen.\"\n\nTributes were paid to Hesham Rahman including by his sister Noha\n\nA video about the Choucair family started with clips of the fire in which people could be seen at windows surrounded by flames and screams could be heard.\n\nBetween 20 and 30 people left the room and wails could be heard outside.\n\nThe BBC's Emma Harrison said some were in extreme states of distress.\n\nThe inquiry at the Millennium Gloucester Hotel, South Kensington, paused while the person who collapsed received medical treatment.\n\nBernard Richmond QC, who is leading the presentations by bereaved family members, said he was sorry a warning had not been read out before the film was shown.\n\nHe said it had been a busy day and a system the inquiry had put in place for warning of troubling material had failed before this particular video was shown.\n\nWhen the hearing resumed, Mr Mussily said on a previous visit to his uncle the lift had been broken and the single staircase was narrow.\n\nHe said: \"I couldn't help but think how on earth would my uncle escape if there was a fire.\"\n\nMierna, Fatima and Zainab Choukair died along with their grandmother and parents\n\nHisam Choucair, who lost his mother, sister, brother-in-law and three nieces in the blaze on 14 June 2017, had earlier told the inquiry how he could only watch helplessly as they died.\n\nMr Choucair said the deaths of his mother Sirria, 60, sister Nadia, 30, her husband Bassem Choukair, 40, and their daughters Mierna, 13, Fatima, 11, and three-year-old Zainab was an \"atrocity\".\n\nHe said he had \"always had a bad feeling\" about the building.\n\nMr Choucair said when he got to the scene the building was \"completely engulfed in flames\" and he simply had to \"stand there for hours watching them all burn to death\".\n\nHe said his mother, who arrived from Lebanon as a teenager in the 1970s, was \"loving, kind and patient\" while his sister and her husband, who lived two doors away from her in the block, were very popular and hard-working.\n\nHe said his eldest niece, Mierna, had an \"excellent sense of humour\", loved sport, music and school and wanted to be a doctor or a lawyer.\n\nBassem Choukair and his wife Nadia were very popular, the inquiry was told\n\nHis sister Sawsam, who lived with their mother in the tower, also spoke of her grief.\n\nShe said she managed to speak to Bassem on the phone during the fire, adding: \"His first thoughts were to reassure me.\n\n\"He told me everything was alright, even though he was trapped with my family in a burning building.\"\n\nLaughter fills the room during lighter moments of the tributes, as family members recall funny stories or traits of their loved ones.\n\nBut the tears continue to flow as those reading emotional tributes struggle to maintain composure throughout their statements.\n\nThe support and empathy towards those talking is strong, and the audience shows appreciation for their bravery with applause.\n\nAs the first day had already witnessed, the common theme so far is how incomprehensible their deaths were and the need, as one family member put it, \"to find out the truth\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Grenfell Tower inquiry: What questions will be answered?\n\nThe second day of the inquiry also heard from the husband of Maria Del Pilar Burton, who is regarded as the final of the 72 victims.\n\nMrs Burton, 74, who had dementia, died in January after her health deteriorated following the fire.\n\nIn an emotional tribute, Nicholas Burton said it took away her \"dignity and everything we had in this world\".\n\nMrs Burton, known as Pily, was born in Spain in the 1940s and was one was one of the very first residents in Grenfell Tower.\n\nMr Burton, who was with his wife for 34 years, told the inquiry she was an \"extraordinary woman\".\n\nHe said: \"She was a unique, beautiful, exceptional person until this tragedy had taken it away.\"\n\nAlso commemorated were Rania Ibrahim, 30, and her daughters Fathia, five, and Hania, three, who lived on the 23rd floor of the building.\n\nRania Ibrahim and her daughters Fathia, known as Fou-Fou, and Hania, lived on the 23rd floor of Grenfell Tower\n\nRasha Ibrahim said her sister moved to the UK from Egypt in 2009 but the pair remained very close.\n\nIn a statement read to the inquiry by an interpreter, Mrs Ibrahim said: \"It is so important for me to understand how I have lost my beloved sister while my children have lost their little cousins.\"\n\nA tribute to Debbie Lamprell, a safety officer at Opera Holland Park, from her mother said the 45-year-old was \"always laughing\".\n\nMiriam Lamprell said she was \"bereft\" without her daughter and she felt a part of her had been \"ripped out\".\n\nA memorial stone has been placed at Opera Holland Park, where Debbie Lamprell worked\n\nRelatives of all 72 victims will be given the chance to commemorate loved ones during the inquiry, which will look into all the deaths.\n\nFamilies are being given as long as they need to tell the inquiry about their loved ones through a mixture of words, pictures and videos.\n\nA minute's silence was held at the start of the afternoon session to respect the anniversary of the Manchester terrorist attack.", "An urgent question on branch closures by Marks and Spencer had MPs from across the house stating their concern at job losses in their constituencies. M&S announced earlier this week they would close 100 shops by 2022. The company says the changes are \"vital\" for their future.\n\nFuture business in the Commons was announced, with MPs still not receiving news of dates for further EU legislation, this caused annoyance from Labour MPs, who accused the government of leaking dates to the Sky News political editor, Faisal Islam.\n\nThe Commons returns on 4 June for Home Office questions, followed by the second reading of the Ivory Bill .", "Marks and Spencer plans to close 100 stores by 2022, accelerating a reorganisation that it says is \"vital\" for the retailer's future.\n\nOf the 100 stores, 21 have already been shut and M&S has now revealed the location of 14 further sites to close.\n\nUnder its plan, M&S wants to move a third of its sales online and plans to have fewer, larger clothing and homeware stores in better locations.\n\nThe latest closures will affect a total of 872 employees.\n\n\"Closing stores isn't easy but it is vital for the future of M&S,\" said Sacha Berendji, its retail operations director.\n\nHe said that where stores have already closed, \"encouraging\" numbers of consumers were now shopping at nearby stores. The company has just over 1,000 UK stores.\n\nSince M&S first announced its closure programme in November 2016, 18 stores have shut and three have been relocated.\n\nThe 18 closures were in Andover, Basildon, Birkenhead, Bournemouth, Bridlington, London Covent Garden, Dover, Durham, Fareham, Fforestfach, Keighley, Portsmouth, London Putney, Redditch, Slough, Stockport, Warrington and Wokingham.\n\nThe three relocations were in Greenock, Newry and Crewe.\n\nM&S store closures are always big news, especially for the towns where the shops have been reassuring fixtures on the high street for decades.\n\nThis latest wave of closures will feel like a body blow to locations that are already under pressure. But the hard truth is that M&S has more stores than it needs, given our changing shopping habits.\n\nMany experts believe that closing a large swathe of stores is a tough but necessary step.\n\nOne key question is: will those lost fashion and home sales be recaptured online or in the fewer but better physical locations in the future?\n\nM&S says there are encouraging signs from towns such as Warrington where it closed a town centre store, but shoppers have since flocked to its new outlet in a retail park.\n\nBut this business still has a massive task in reviving its fortunes and tomorrow's annual results will be further proof of that.\n\nRetail veteran Archie Norman, who took over as M&S chairman last year, said the retailer has been \"drifting\" and promised to speed up changes.\n\nThose changes included scaling back ambitions for its Simply Food chain. It had intended to open 40 stores this financial year, but has cut that number to 25.\n\n\"M&S is repositioning itself for the new retail world,\" said Laith Khalaf, senior analyst at stockbrokers Hargreaves Lansdown. \"Having a huge store estate is no longer the powerful retail force that it once was.\"\n\nThe retailer is trying to spur growth after disappointing trading over the Christmas period.\n\nIn the three months to 30 December, M&S said like-for-like sales fell at its food business, where sales had been rising, as well as at its clothing and homeware division.\n\nInvestors will be looking for evidence of improvement in the company's annual results on Wednesday.\n\nM&S shares were down 2.6% at 292p in afternoon trading on Tuesday. They had been worth almost 400p a year ago.\n\nMaureen Hinton, from analytics firm GlobalData, said M&S was \"perilously close\" to losing its top spot in the UK clothing market to Primark.\n\nGlobalData has forecast that its clothing market share will be 7.6% this year - almost halving in two decades - despite opening more stores selling clothing, homewares and food under the one roof.\n\n''To make its space more productive M&S has to produce a compelling offer showcased in an inspiring environment,\" Ms Hinton said.\n\n\"Closing stores will make its space more productive and help to improve profitability, but it still has not solved its fundamental problem: top-line growth.\"", "Robby Potter and his girlfriend were waiting for their children in the foyer of Manchester Arena on 22 May 2017.\n\nDespite standing within a few metres of the bomber, they both survived - but Robby spent three weeks in a coma.\n\nOne year on, he spoke to Judith Moritz about his rehabilitation and his drive to play rugby again.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. M&S boss says firm too 'inward looking'\n\nMarks and Spencer has suffered a big fall in annual profits following a costly store closure plan.\n\nAnnual pre-tax profits fell by almost two-thirds to £66.8m as sales of food, clothing and homeware all declined.\n\nOn Tuesday the retailer said it plans to close 100 shops by 2022, accelerating an overhaul that it says is \"vital\" for its future.\n\nThe expense of closing stores and revamping the business cost M&S £321m in the 12 months to March.\n\nM&S has already shut 21 stores and revealed the location of 14 further closures on Tuesday.\n\n\"This modernisation programme ... is to close some of the small stores where we can't give the full offer, and show customers in our better stores, our bigger stores the full range of what M&S does,\" chief executive Steve Rowe told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.\n\n\"It is a catch-up programme, we have to make sure we don't stop modernising our estate and that we give our customers the stores that they deserve.\"\n\nOnce again, M&S has posted another set of falling sales and profits. Revitalising this 132-year-old business is costing it dear, but what's more striking is the sober message and language that accompanied the numbers.\n\nMarks had become a top heavy business, inward looking, \"too corporate\" and had lost its appeal to family-age customers. The need for change had become more urgent. Vast sums have already been spent on a new website and a £200m fulfilment centre at Castle Donington under the previous boss.\n\nEyebrows will now be raised that the new warehouse is already struggling to cope with demand and the website is too slow. M&S still has a mammoth challenge ahead to revive its fortunes.\n\nBut at the end of the day, it all comes to down to having the right product, the right availability at the right price. Closing stores is one of those difficult tasks. For the clothing and home shops that remain, the company has to make sure that there is a compelling enough offer to pull shoppers in.\n\nMr Rowe declined to say how many jobs would be lost as a result of the store closure programme.\n\n\"We're assessing this on a store-by-store basis and are committed to redeploying our colleagues wherever possible,\" he said. \"In the last round of closures, 86% were redeployed to another store and we want to have continuity.\"\n\nM&S has been criticised for failing to revive its clothing range. Mr Rowe said the retailer had made its clothes \"more contemporary\" and pointed out that, for the first time in seven years, it had gained customers in womenswear.\n\nThe company also wants internet sales to account for a third of its business, but it admitted that its online performance was behind its competitors and the website was too slow.\n\nMr Rowe said: \"Our product pages need to download quicker than they are if they are to be the best in class and our search needs to be made easier.\n\n\"We are doing those changes to the website now and are continuing to treat this as business as usual. Making the website fit for the future is largely covered in our core operating costs.\"\n\nOne big problem is the company's distribution centre in Castle Donington, which handles online orders.\n\n\"It is a difficult thing for us at the moment,\" Mr Rowe said. \"It has failed in its customer proposition and that's not good enough at a time when customers want more merchandise delivered quicker.\"\n\nHe said M&S aimed to expand the website to better compete against its rivals.\n\nNeil Wilson, chief market analyst at Markets.com, said M&S needed to quickly revamp online: \"You can boost profits with fewer stores only if you can drive online sales growth and, on that front, M&S is well behind.\"\n\nBryan Roberts, retail analyst at TCC global, said: \"In clothing we've seen green shoots of recovery, but the business still lacks any sense of identity ... M&S used to be famous as a destination for certain products, such as good quality school uniforms, but that's been lost somewhere along the way. A back-to-basics approach should help it reclaim ground lost to stores less beholden to a seasonal structure.\"\n\nLast year sales of clothing and homeware slid 1.9% on a like-for-like basis, which strips out the effect of new stores, while like-for-like food sales also declined by 0.3%.\n\nThe results were not as bad as some analysts had feared and shares in M&S rose 4.5% in morning trading to 305p.\n\nHowever, the share price is still down more than a fifth over the past year.\n• None Can M&S get back in fashion?", "Lauryn Hill's iconic debut album, The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill, turns 20 this year, and to celebrate, the singer is heading out on tour.\n\nFive dates have been scheduled in the UK and Ireland in November and December, in London, Manchester Glasgow, Birmingham and Dublin.\n\nShe will also be taking on a US tour, with a 20-date run across many major cities.\n\nThe singer will perform the multi Grammy-winning record in its entirety at each of the shows.\n\nAfter chart success with the Fugees, Hill went solo and released Miseducation - her only studio record.\n\nThe seminal album has gone three times platinum in the UK since its 1998 release, selling more than 19 million copies worldwide.\n\nAt the 1999 Grammys, the record won five awards including album of the year. Hill brought together the sounds of reggae, rap and hip hop infused with a soulful sweetness mixed with authentic lyrics.\n\nHill picking up her five Grammys for The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill\n\nSpeaking to BBC News, broadcaster Trevor Nelson says the importance of Lauryn Hill's album should not be underestimated.\n\n\"She is by far the single most important female artist of my time. She was the second coming,\" he says, going on to name her record as his all-time favourite album by a female artist.\n\n\"She was as powerful a singer, as say Mary J [Blige] - not perfect like Whitney [Houston], but really emotive - and then, for me, she was the finest female rapper of her generation as well.\"\n\nThe Radio 1Xtra DJ says the content of the lyrics was as key to the success as the musicality.\n\n\"It was really pure. She went against the grain and it brought credibility. People were looking at R&B records as very ghetto fabulous. At the time it was all about shiny videos, with girls in bikinis - but the substance was lacking.\n\n\"Lauryn Hill brought substance to the game at a major level. There were a lot of artists who had substance that didn't get heard but she just had it all - she had the whole package.\"\n\nDJ and Hits Radio presenter Sarah-Jane Crawford agrees calling the content \"articulate and intellectual\".\n\n\"She is an incredible rapper by anyone's standards - I can't think of another female rapper doing things like that at that time.\n\n\"She talked about her family, about women respecting themselves and being honest about feelings. She was real.\n\n\"She had this emotional maturity beyond her years - every song you could connect to. And she did it all to these Afro beats and was proud of her heritage.\n\n\"She was proud to be black, she didn't straighten her hair - which was a big deal. She was an original black beauty.\"\n\nPart of Hill's unprecedented success was that she broke through to white audiences as a rapper and hip-hop artist, Crawford adds.\n\nJohn Legend got a big break from Hill when he was asked to play piano on Miseducation\n\n\"Lauryn Hill managed to connect to a mass global audience and manage to be socially conscious at the same time.\n\n\"She was telling young people not to be promiscuous and to have confidence. She touches on race and youth and gender.\"\n\nNelson says she was a lyricist second to none: \"You feel you have to listen to the words,\" he says, admitting he usually prefers a song's hook or bassline. \"Even if you're not a lyrical type of person. It forces you. I listened to every lyric on her album.\"\n\nUnsurprisingly, Hill is still cited as one of the key influences on many of today's most successful artists.\n\nBeyonce said listening to Lauryn Hill was a key thing that inspired her music. In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, the Lemonade singer said: \"There's definitely something beyond Lauryn Hill that's in her voice and her mind when she writes songs. She's gifted and blessed.\"\n\nAdele said in 2011 that her \"favourite album ever\" was The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill, and recalls stealing the record from her mum's collection and \"analys[ing] the record for about a month at the age of eight\".\n\n\"[I] was constantly wondering when I would be that passionate about something, to write a record about it - even though I didn't know I was going to make a record when I was older.\"\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 Napster 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\n\"I love her... she's brilliant,\" the Hello singer added.\n\nLauryn Hill is also credited with helping launch the career of megastar John Legend, whose major recording debut was playing piano on Everything is Everything, from the Miseducation album.\n\nLegend says he was a student when Hill heard him play piano and \"liked what she heard\". She subsequently asked him to play keys on the hit track.\n\nThe Ordinary People singer says it was \"pretty cool\" going back to school having been a part of the LP because \"it was the soundtrack to everyone's year\".\n\nIn an interview with Rolling Stone, Hill herself said: \"[I wanted to] write songs that lyrically move me and have the integrity of reggae and the knock of hip-hop and the instrumentation of classic soul.\"\n\nShe added she had been trying to make an LP with a \"raw\" edge to it, and had deliberately avoided using computers to compress and \"smoothe\" out the sound.\n\n\"I wanna hear that thickness of sound,\" she said. \"You can't get that from a computer, because a computer's too perfect. But that human element, that's what makes the hair on the back of my neck stand up. I love that.\"\n\nBut now Hill is influencing a new generation of stars. Through pure chance, both Cardi B and Drake have sampled Ex Factor on their latest releases.\n\nCardi B's Be Careful more subtly plays on some of the lyrics from Hill's heartbreak anthem than Drake's Nice for What, which contains the sped-up hook from the record throughout his song.\n\nThe New Yorker says: \"Cardi B transforms Hill's ecstatic loneliness into a warning: \"Boy, you better treat me carefully, carefully\", while Drake uses it to \"assert his emotional acumen\".\n\nNelson says the sampling by Cardi B and Drake is to be expected since, according to him, every artist who's followed Lauryn Hill has been influenced by her.\n\n\"They've all been influenced by her. All of them. You can put Whitney [Houston], Mariah [Carey], Mary [J Blige], Amy [Winehouse] in there. None of this is anything without Lauryn Hill.\"\n\n\"Look at the immediate influence of Whitney doing My Love is Your Love, (which was written and produced by Hill's Fugees bandmate Wyclef Jean). You can't tell me Amy didn't like Lauryn Hill - it's not possible.\n\n\"Two of our greatest female singers ever, Adele and Amy Winehouse, have undoubtedly been influenced by Lauryn Hill.\"\n\nThe founder of the MOBO Awards, Kanya King told the BBC that the \"ground-breaking nature\" of the album is why it remains \"impactful\" today.\n\nKing said: \"Miseducation lifted boundaries for female artists. Recorded while she was heavily pregnant, her debut album busted through the industry's glass ceiling; rejecting society's notion that a female artist must choose between starting a family and having a successful career.\"\n\nShe recalls Hill's performance at the 2005 MOBOs: \"I personally got to witness the dedication and effort she put into preparing for her performance of Doo Wop (That Thing). When we confirmed that she was going to be on the bill, the level of excitement from both fans and the industry is hard to forget.\"\n\nCrawford says she enjoys hearing Lauryn Hill tracks sampled by other artists: \"I'll always think of the original, which is no bad thing.\"\n\n\"They're paying homage to her, paying their respect, and it's great to hear the song in a different way.\"\n\nWill she ever release a follow-up to Miseducation?\n\n\"Maybe not,\" says King. \"But her one and only album continues to resonate with audiences 20 years on from its initial release.\"\n\nNelson also doesn't think we'll see the like from Hill again. \"20 years on and no-one's made an album to touch it.\"\n\n\"The music business is all about timing,\" he adds. \"We needed her at that time and we got her at that time.\"\n\n\"Some artists have 20 albums and don't have one truly great record. She's given us one album and that's all we needed.\"\n\nA version of this article first appeared on 19 April 2018.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Inspectors said the trust was \"inadequate\" in 2015\n\nLondon Ambulance Service (LAS) has been taken out of special measures after two-and-a-half years, following a recommendation by the health watchdog.\n\nInspectors at the Care Quality Commission (CQC) rated LAS \"inadequate\" in November 2015.\n\nBut a CQC report published on Wednesday said LAS was \"good\" overall and is \"outstanding\" for patient care.\n\nIt said \"innovative changes\", such as treating some patients over the phone, helped boost the rating.\n\nThe watchdog commended staff members' responses to the Grenfell Tower fire, as well as the London Bridge and Westminster terror attacks.\n\nProf Ted Baker, chief inspector of hospitals in England, said: \"The improvements the leadership and staff of London Ambulance Service have made are especially commendable - and especially necessary - given the major incidents the Trust has responded to over the past year.\"\n\nDr Kathy McLean, from NHS Improvement, confirmed it has taken LAS out of special measures after seeing the report.\n\nShe said the Trust's \"strong leadership team\" had helped to produce \"a service that Londoners deserve\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Andy Beasley is part of the team that first responded to the London Bridge attack\n\nGarrett Emmerson, who became chief executive of LAS in May 2017, said he was \"delighted\" by the report but recognised there was still more work to be done.\n\nMr Emmerson said: \"We have made some big changes in how we operate, but I want us to improve even further, with the aim of being rated 'outstanding' overall, in two years' time.\"\n\nIssues the CQC said LAS must focus on include:\n• None The heroes who rushed to help\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Olga Tokarczuk, left, will split the prize money with translator Jennifer Croft\n\nOlga Tokarczuk has become the first Polish writer to win the Man Booker International Prize.\n\nMs Tokarczuk took the £50,000 prize for her novel Flights. She will split the cash with translator Jennifer Croft.\n\nThe annual award goes to the best work of translated fiction from around the world. Previous winners include David Grossman and Chinua Achebe.\n\nFive judges picked Flights out of 108 submissions, and announced the winner in a ceremony in London.\n\nLisa Appignanesi, who chaired the judges' panel, called Ms Tokarczuk \"a writer of wonderful wit, imagination and literary panache\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Man Booker Prize This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 release, the Man Booker International describes Flights , as \"a novel of linked fragments from the 17th century to the present day, connected by themes of travel and human anatomy\".\n\nIn one of them, the Dutch anatomist Philip Verheyen discovers the Achilles tendon as he dissects his own amputated leg.\n\nThe international award, created in 2005, is separate to the Man Booker Prize, which is given to the best original English language novel each year.\n\nMs Tokarczuk is a famous novelist in her home country, where she initially trained as a psychologist at the University of Warsaw.\n\nShe has written eight novels and two collections of short stories.\n\nMs Croft translates Polish, Spanish and Ukrainian into English, and is a founding editor of the Buenos Aires Review.\n\nFlights beat out shortlisted entries from previous winners Han Kang and Laszlo Krasznahorkai, who claimed the prize in 2016 and 2015, respectively.\n\nEach shortlisted author and translator automatically receives £1,000. Before 2016, the Man Booker International was awarded every second year to an author for their entire body of work.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"My life has been turned upside down\" - Yulia Skripal's video statement in full\n\nThe daughter of an ex-Russian spy poisoned in Salisbury has said she is \"lucky to be alive\" after the attack.\n\nYulia Skripal and her father, Sergei, were exposed to nerve agent Novichok in the city on 4 March.\n\nIn her first filmed public statement since the attack, Ms Skripal told Reuters that her life had been \"turned upside down\" but she hoped to return to Russia in the future.\n\nHer father was discharged from hospital earlier this month.\n\nMs Skripal spent six weeks in Salisbury District Hospital, and was discharged after doctors there said she had responded \"exceptionally well\" to treatment.\n\nSpeaking to the news agency, she said she was continuing \"to progress with treatment\" and her focus remains on her recovery.\n\n\"After 20 days in a coma, I woke to the news that we may have been poisoned. I still find it difficult to come to terms with the fact that both of us were attacked in a such a way.\"\n\nMs Skripal thanked the Russian embassy for its offer of assistance. But she said she and her father were \"not ready to take it\".\n\nShe also paid tribute to those who had treated her since the attack, describing them as \"wonderful and kind\".\n\n\"We are so lucky to have both survived this attempted assassination.\n\n\"I don't want to describe the details, but the clinical treatment was invasive, painful and depressing.\n\n\"Our recovery has been slow and extremely painful.\"\n\nIn the video, a scar on Ms Skripal's neck can be seen which is understood to be from a tracheotomy - a procedure to help patients breathe.\n\nMs Skripal added she would be taking \"one day at a time\" and that she hoped to care for her father until he is fully recovered.\n\nShe has asked for her and Mr Skripal's privacy to be respected.\n\nRussia's Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said Russia had continuously tried to contact Ms Skripal \"to get information direct from the source\".\n\n\"We want Yulia Skripal to know that there was not a single day when the Russian foreign ministry and the Russian embassy in London did not try to arrange contact with her, with the chief aim of checking that she is not being held by force, that no one else is being passed off as her,\" she added.\n\nBefore the statement, the pair had been moved to secure locations but it is not clear if they were together.\n\nMs Skripal, 33, and 66-year-old Mr Skripal were found slumped on a bench following the poisoning.\n\nWiltshire Police Det Sgt Nick Bailey, who was one of the first on the scene, was also admitted to hospital for treatment and was the first to be discharged.\n\nThe UK responded to the attack, which it blames Russia for, by announcing a number of sanctions including the expulsion of 23 Russian diplomats.\n\nRussia denies any involvement and in turn ordered British diplomats to leave Moscow.\n\nIts embassy in the UK has expressed concerns over the legitimacy of the statement, believing it was written \"by a native English speaker\".\n\nIn a statement, it said: \"The UK is obliged to give us the opportunity to speak to Yulia directly in order to make sure that she is not held against her own will and is not speaking under pressure.\"\n\nMeanwhile, work to decontaminate the Wiltshire city is still under way with the highest concentration of the Novichok found at the Skripals' front door.\n• None Russian spy: What happened to the Skripals?", "A stag was photographed with rope and buoy tangled in its antlers\n\nImages have been released showing red deer stags on a Scottish island with marine pollution tangled in their antlers.\n\nTwo of the animals on the Isle of Rum died after becoming snarled up together in discarded fishing rope.\n\nAnother of the deer was photographed with rope and an orange buoy in its antlers.\n\nThe images have been published by Scottish Natural Heritage (SNH), which manages Rum National Nature Reserve.\n\nThe photographs were taken a year ago, but only released now following rising concerns about marine pollution.\n\nTwo of the deer died after becoming snarled up in rope\n\nLesley Watt, reserve manager on Rum for SNH, said: \"Marine litter is a huge international problem. But small actions can make a big difference, and everyone has a part to play.\n\n\"Along with many organisations, SNH recently joined the campaign to bin plastic straws; and we're cutting down on disposable plastics by providing our staff with re-useable travel cups.\n\n\"If you use your own bag for life when shopping, or take litter home after a day at the beach, you could help save an animal's life.\"\n\nThe island's population of red deer have been the subject of scientific research since the 1950s.\n\nResearchers study the animals to better understand their behaviour and the effects of climate change on deer.\n\nDr Richard Dixon, of Friends of the Earth Scotland, said the photographs of the red deer were a \"strong Scottish symbol of a wasteful attitude\" to the world's resources.\n\nHe said: \"We are used to some of the images of seabirds and some marine mammals and turtles being affected by plastic waste, but this is very much closer to home.\n\n\"These are big mammals being affected by stuff that people have just discarded in the marine environment.\"\n\nConcerns about the level of pollution in the sea off Scotland, and along its coast are increasingly being raised.\n\nThis week, a group of volunteers gathered more than 600kgs of rubbish from the shore at Red Point, Gairloch, in Wester Ross.\n\nLast summer, scientists said some of the world's deepest living sea creatures had been found to have eaten microscopic pieces of plastic waste.\n\nResearchers at the Scottish Association for Marine Science (SAMS) in Oban sampled starfish and snails from the Rockall Trough off the Western Isles.\n\nTiny pieces of plastic were found in 48% of the sample animals that live more than 2,000m (6,561.8ft) down.\n\nGannet chick with plastic in its nest\n\nAlso last year, researchers said most of the seabirds examined for a study into the effects of marine plastic pollution had swallowed plastic.\n\nThey found 74% of them had ingested plastic.\n\nThe research involved seabird colonies in northern Europe, Russia, Scandinavia, Greenland, Svalbard, the Faroes and Iceland.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The affected staff member reportedly worked at the US consulate in Guangzhou\n\nThe US state department has urged its staff in China to alert them to any abnormal hearing or vision issues after one employee reported mystery symptoms.\n\nThe person experienced \"subtle and vague, but abnormal, sensations of sound and pressure\", a statement said.\n\nSecretary of State Mike Pompeo said the incident was \"medically similar\" to suspected sonic attacks on diplomatic staff in Cuba.\n\nChina said it was investigating \"in a very responsible manner\".\n\nChina-US relations have been strained recently, amid fears of a trade war.\n\nThe state department said it was taking the incident \"very seriously\", but the US has not accused China of being behind it.\n\nIn a separate move, the US has rescinded its invitation to China to participate in the forthcoming Rim of the Pacific naval exercise, which brings together the military forces of more than 20 countries.\n\nPentagon spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Chris Logan said China had been \"disinvited\" because its \"continued militarization of disputed features in the South China Sea only serves to raise tensions and destabilize the region\".\n\nHe said there was strong evidence China had deployed anti-ship missiles, surface-to-air missile (SAM) systems, and electronic jammers around the contested Spratly Islands.\n\nEmbassy spokeswoman Jinnie Lee said the employee had suffered a \"variety of physical symptoms\" between late 2017 and April 2018 while working at the US consulate in the city of Guangzhou.\n\nThe employee was sent back to the US, and on 18 May the embassy learnt that they had been diagnosed with mild traumatic brain injury (MTBI), Ms Lee added.\n\n\"We do not currently know what caused the reported symptoms and we are not aware of any similar situations in China, either inside or outside of the diplomatic community,\" the US diplomatic statement said.\n\n\"The US government is taking these reports seriously and has informed its official staff in China of this event,\" it said.\n\nThe statement continues with a warning: \"While in China, if you experience any unusual acute auditory or sensory phenomena accompanied by unusual sounds or piercing noises, do not attempt to locate their source. Instead, move to a location where the sounds are not present.\"\n\nIn a news conference with Mr Pompeo in Washington, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said Beijing would protect the lawful rights and interest of foreigners in China, especially those of diplomats.\n\nBut he warned against the case being \"magnified, complicated or even politicised\".\n\nParallels have been drawn with the suspected sonic attacks in Havana.\n\nMr Pompeo told the House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee: \"The medical indications are very similar and entirely consistent with the medical indications that have taken place to Americans working in Cuba.\"\n\nHe added that medical teams were on their way to Guangzhou to investigate.\n\n\"We are working to figure out what took place, both in Havana and in now in China as well,\" Mr Pompeo said.\n\n\"We've asked the Chinese for their assistance in doing that and they have committed to honouring their commitments under the Vienna convention to keep American foreign service officers safe.\"\n\nHe added there was nothing so far to link the China incident directly to Cuba.\n\n\"We cannot at this time connect it with what happened in Havana but we are investigating all possibilities,\" a US embassy official in Beijing told AFP news agency on condition of anonymity.\n\nIn November 2016, US diplomats based in Cuba started to complain of odd ailments, including dizziness, nausea and hearing problems.\n\nMore than 20 members of staff in Havana were harmed in the \"health attacks\", according to the state department. At least two Canadians were also affected.\n\nThe US has held Cuba responsible, either for allowing the suspected attacks to happen or for carrying them out itself.\n\nCuba has denied any involvement, and described the reports as a \"political manipulation\" aimed at damaging bilateral relations.", "Michael Cohen, Donald Trump's once fiercely loyal lawyer, has struck a plea deal with prosecutors investigating possible campaign finance violations and tax fraud. Who is he anyway?\n\nWhen an FBI team raided Cohen's office in New York on 9 April, they arrived at a workspace fit for the silver screen.\n\nIt's 30-odd floors up at 30 Rockefeller Plaza, in a corner - but not very spacious - office at the Squire Patton Boggs law firm.\n\nCohen's office is decked out with paraphernalia from his time at the Trump Organization and on Trump's presidential campaign, as well as from superhero movies - Thor's hammer, Captain America's shield.\n\nAlso hard to miss - a nearly full-length impressionist-style painting of Cohen himself at the press secretary's podium in the White House briefing room.\n\nCohen has remained in Trump's inner circle for more than a decade, during ups and downs at the Trump Organization and on the campaign.\n\nBut as Cohen has been named a subject of a federal investigation in New York, his relations with Donald Trump have deteriorated.\n\nCohen, 51, had prided himself in going above and beyond the line of duty as the president's personal lawyer. He considered himself Trump's protector. He'll do anything for him, telling Vanity Fair last September he'd \"take a bullet\" for the president.\n\nThe day before the FBI raid, Cohen tweeted a month-old story about him with a Joyce Maynard quote: \"A person who deserves my loyalty receives it\" followed by his own pledge: \"I will always protect our @POTUS @realDonaldTrump #MAGA\".\n\nCohen is the son of an immigrant who escaped a Nazi concentration camp in Poland. He grew up in Long Island, right outside of New York City, before attending American University in Washington and Cooley Law School in western Michigan.\n\nTrump defended Cohen in an unrelated meeting after the FBI raided his office and hotel\n\nBack in New York, Cohen worked at a law firm, married an Ukrainian immigrant, ran a successful taxi business and made a failed run for New York City Council, all before entering Trump's orbit.\n\nCohen was introduced to Donald Trump by his son, Donald Jr, in 2006.\n\nCohen's family had purchased a number of properties in the Trump World Tower near the United Nations, and Cohen had become the treasurer of the building's board.\n\nHe had grown up idolising Trump, reading The Art of the Deal multiple times. So when Trump offered him a job after he had advised on a few legal matters, Cohen was shocked.\n\nHe took the job, becoming executive vice president and special counsel at the Trump Organization in 2007. From then on, he was practically part of the family - close with Trump's adult children, regularly dining with them and their spouses.\n\nHe was also an early fan of the idea of President Trump. In 2011, he helped launch a website, Should Trump Run?, to gauge public opinion. He was on board when Trump announced his candidacy in 2015.\n\nCohen's been described as the president's \"pit bull\" and extension of Trump himself. He speaks with a thick Long Island accent and avoids alcohol much like his boss. Cohen is high energy, speaks assertively and has an affinity for Hermes belts and eccentric jackets.\n\nCohen is not press shy. He prides himself on taking everyone's calls.\n\nWhen a CNN published a story about his role in covering up Donald Trump's alleged affair with adult film actress Stormy Daniels, he texted it to me.\n\n\"How do you feel about being called fixer?\" I asked him.\n\nCohen chats with friends ahead of a hearing on the FBI raid\n\nBut he's also visibly affected by what's written about him.\n\nIn late 2017 at the Trump International Hotel in Washington, Cohen was heard complaining about a recent story written about him. He called it \"fake news,\" saying the only news anyone should believe about him is what comes out of his own mouth.\n\nWell before the FBI raid, Cohen was named as a key figure in the alleged Russian effort to sway the 2016 presidential election in Trump's favour.\n\nThe \"Steele Dossier\" - a report by ex-British spy Christopher Steele, who was hired by research firm Fusion GPS to investigate Trump - specifically points to a trip Cohen allegedly made to Prague in late summer of 2016 to meet Kremlin representatives.\n\nCohen has repeatedly denied the report or having ever been to the Czech Republic. He recently tweeted another denial in light of a new report claiming Mueller has proof backing up that element of the dossier.\n\nBut it began to unravel for Cohen when the news broke of a hush money payment he made to adult film actress Stormy Daniels - who claims she had an affair with Trump before he was president.\n\nSince Special Counsel Robert Mueller began his investigation into possible campaign collusion with Russia, Trump had been advised by his other lawyers to keep his distance from Cohen.\n\nHowever - perhaps in a signal of loyalty - Trump had dinner with Cohen the night before Daniels' interview aired on CBS' 60 Minutes.\n\nThe raid on Cohen's office and hotel in search of files related to the Daniels payment and other matters, however, was a surprise.\n\nCohen was working out of the offices of a major New York law firm\n\n\"No-one saw this coming,\" a source familiar with Cohen's thinking on the matter said.\n\nOut of all the possible persons of interest to Mueller, Cohen has been closest to the president the longest - save the members of Trump's immediate family. He knows the most.\n\nAnd his legal troubles in New York come from a \"referral\" from the special counsel's office.\n\nThe southern district of New York - where Cohen's case is being handled - is known for being aggressive.\n\nAs the federal prosecutors reportedly considered charges against him, his loyalty to Mr Trump seemed to soften - he told ABC News that his top concern was his family.\n\nIn the immediate aftermath of the FBI raid, Trump came to his friend's defence - both on Twitter, complaining of a witch hunt, and in person, calling Cohen a \"good man\".\n\nBut his tone soon changed when Cohen's lawyer released audio of a conversation he had with Mr Trump about the Stormy payment.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Donald J. Trump This article contains content provided by Twitter. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThere were also reports that Mr Cohen claimed Mr Trump knew in advance of the infamous Trump Tower meeting in 2016 where Russians met members of the campaign with the promise of offering dirt on Hillary Clinton.\n\nRudy Giuliani, Mr Trump's current lawyer, said Mr Cohen had \"lied all his life\".\n\nIt means that while Trump could theoretically offer a presidential pardon to his former lawyer - as he recently did for Bush-era White House aide Scooter Libby - that now seems a remote possibility.", "Simon Kempton said he especially wants to stop so-called \"middle class\" dealers in drugs such as cocaine\n\nThe Police Federation spokesman on drugs policing, Simon Kempton, has called for a rethink on drugs policy, saying prohibition has \"never worked\".\n\nSgt Kempton, who works for Dorset Police, said the government should consider the Portuguese approach, where the possession of drugs has been decriminalised since 2001.\n\nHe is the latest high-profile policing figure to question current drugs policy following Durham Chief Constable Mike Barton.\n\nSgt Kempton's comments, made at a Police Federation conference debate on the causes of gang and knife crime, came as officers were told they should be focusing more on recreational drug users.\n\nSheldon Thomas, a former offender who now runs Gangsline, said tackling street gangs failed to address the \"middle classes\" who were spending thousands of pounds on class A drugs, such as cocaine.\n\nSgt Kempton agreed, saying street gangs sold drugs to \"middle class\" professionals because it was more lucrative.\n\n\"If I could only stop one group I'd stop the middle class dealers,\" he said.\n\nBut the officer said an independent royal commission was needed to investigate the evidence for an entirely fresh approach.\n\n\"I don't know much but I know prohibition doesn't work,\" he said.\n\n\"I don't know what the answer is but we've got a century or more in this country to demonstrate that prohibition isn't working yet.\"\n\nSgt Kempton, who has spent 10 years investigating and tackling drugs, said the Portugal system was \"really interesting\".\n\n\"Across the board you see far less drug use and that's had a knock-on effect to some crime types, particularly acquisitive crime,\" he said.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC later, he said: \"We need a properly informed and robust debate where we're confident to express what we're trying to achieve.\"\n\nHe said his views did not represent official Police Federation policy, saying that officers would continue to enforce the law.\n\nA Home Office spokesperson said: \"Drug misuse can devastate lives, ruin families and damage communities. This government's approach remains clear - we must prevent drug use in our communities and support people through treatment and recovery.\n\n\"Last year we released a comprehensive drugs strategy, setting out a balanced approach which brings together police, health, community and global partners to tackle the illicit drug trade, protect the most vulnerable and help those with a drug dependency to recover and turn their lives around.\"", "KeolisAmey already run the Docklands Light Railway in London\n\nA £5bn contract to run Wales' rail service for the next 15 years has been awarded to two European firms, who will run it jointly.\n\nFrance's Keolis and Spanish-owned Amey's bid triumphed over a rival offer from Hong Kong's MTR commuter railways.\n\nIt will also drive forward the south Wales Metro in Cardiff and the valleys.\n\nThe operators said while the changes would not happen overnight Wales' railway \"would be unrecognisable\" in five years time.\n\nKeolisAmey already runs Greater Manchester Metrolink and London's Docklands Light Railway, among others.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How the new rail franchise will affect passengers in Wales\n\nBut full details of its plans for Wales will not be revealed until next month.\n\nThis is to allow for the potential challenge to the process by the other bidder.\n\nAn official announcement was made on Wednesday after a bidding process which started with four companies.\n\nArriva Trains Wales (ATW), which has run the Wales and Borders franchise since 2003, pulled out of the running in December.\n\nKeolis is France's largest private sector public transport operator - but its major shareholder is state-owned railway SNCF.\n\nAmey was a one-time UK company bought by the Spanish infrastructure giant Ferrovial, which is the key shareholder and manager of Heathrow airport.\n\nKeolisAmey is expected to have included other forms of transport - including so-called \"active\" travel like cycling - in its overall proposals.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Arriva Trains Wales passengers started a Facebook group to call for improvements to their commute.\n\nThere is £5bn earmarked over the next 15 years for the Metro, to improve public transport across the south Wales region and includes taking over control from Network Rail and upgrading the Valleys lines.\n\nTheir vision for meeting this challenge - when it is eventually unveiled - will be of particular interest to business and commuters alike.\n\nBut they have already promised \"transformative solutions\" for all in Wales and future generations.\n\nThe new franchise will come into effect from 14 October but all 2,200 ATW staff will be able to transfer and terms and conditions will be protected.\n\nATW's managing director Tom Joyner said it had been a \"privilege\" to operate the services.\n\nHe said they would work to ensure as smooth a transition as possible.\n\nComplaints about overcrowding, particularly on the Valleys lines, and the decades old rolling stock have dogged ATW.\n\nWhile its performance has been criticised, it has been making a decent profit while being heavily subsidised.\n\nIn fairness to ATW, the contract awarded to it by the UK government assumed there would be no growth in passengers over a 15-year period when in fact the numbers doubled.\n\nThe Welsh Government has been an ATW critic at times but reaching the point where Cardiff rather than London would make the decisions over who would run rail services in Wales has not been straightforward.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What improvements do rail users want to see?\n\nThere were a number of disputes between both governments, including over funding, before the power to award this franchise was devolved.\n\nThe bidding process has been expensive for all the companies involved.\n\nThis is a major investment and after the last 15 years it is clear how strongly people care about rail services.\n\nThere is certain to be a lot of attention in future on KeolisAmey, the Welsh Government and TfW, the arms length company set up to oversee it, to ensure the promises made are delivered.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Rail passengers Jade and Kelly say what they want to see improved from Pontypridd to Cardiff.\n\nTransport for Wales (TfW) - which is advising the Welsh Government on the contract - said the new franchise holder would be held to account on issues like punctuality, cleanliness and service quality or they would not get paid.\n\nBut there will be challenges ahead in terms of rising passenger numbers, which have nearly doubled in the last 15 years.\n\nEconomy Secretary Ken Skates said: \"Throughout the procurement process we have prioritised investment in the quality of trains, stations and services for the Wales and Borders Rail Service and South Wales Metro.\n\n\"We are grateful to all those who have participated in the procurement process.\"\n\nHe said no further comment would be made until the end of the 10-day standstill period.\n\nAndy Milner, Amey's chief executive, said: \"While the proposed changes won't happen overnight, the railway will be unrecognisable in five years thanks to the vision of the Welsh Government.\"\n\nHe added they would focus on working with TfW to transform the existing infrastructure and introduce new trains to \"significantly improve the passenger experience\" as well as creating hundreds of new jobs and apprenticeships.\n\nAlistair Gordon, chief executive of Keolis UK, said it would be a transformative new rail service.\n\nBoth politicians and the rail operator alike will hope the system will be the most attractive option for travellers.\n\nTfW will regulate fares and they will not be expected to rise more than inflation.\n\nBut new trains might take at least a couple of years to appear.\n\nCouncillor Andrew Morgan, chair of the Cardiff Capital Region cabinet, said: \"This is a fantastic opportunity to create and deliver a transport infrastructure which supports the aims of the City Deal.\"\n\nHe said it was \"absolutely critical\" that a transport service was created which could accommodate and connect passengers in the region \"safely, quickly, and in comfort.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA woman who complained of a racist and misogynistic culture in a Scottish government department claims she was taped to a chair and gagged by two male colleagues as a warning to keep quiet.\n\nDeeAnn Fitzpatrick said the restraint took place amid years of bullying and harassment at Marine Scotland's Scrabster office.\n\nThe fisheries officer has taken her case to an employment tribunal.\n\nBBC Scotland has obtained a photo of the restraint incident.\n\nIt was taken by one of the men allegedly responsible.\n\nMs Fitzpatrick, a Canadian national, said it happened in 2010 as a result of her blowing the whistle on a threatening and misogynistic culture at Marine Scotland's office in Scrabster, on the far north Caithness coast.\n\nIn evidence to her ongoing tribunal, she said that one of the men involved, fisheries officer Reid Anderson, told her: \"This is what you get when you speak out against the boys.\"\n\nThe Scottish government is responsible for Marine Scotland, which is the watchdog for the fisheries and aquaculture industries in Scotland.\n\nIt said that it \"does not comment on internal staffing matters\".\n\nRhoda Grant, a Labour MSP for the Highlands and Islands, has been supporting 49-year-old Ms Fitzpatrick since 2010, when a concerned colleague of the fisheries officer alerted the politician to the alleged treatment.\n\nSeeing the photo for the first time, Ms Grant told the BBC: \"It's horrific. I'm kind of speechless.\"\n\nThe MSP said she had been told it had happened but seeing the photo seemed to make it \"10 times worse\".\n\nMs Grant said: \"She's been subject to a long period of harassment, horrendous behaviour towards her.\n\n\"In some of my dealings with DeeAnn it's very clear that there is a culture in that office that people can get away with what they say and what they do.\n\n\"It seems to me that it's out of control.\"\n\nMs Grant said the behaviour had been \"unacceptable\" eight years ago but the recent #Me Too movement, highlighting abuse against women, had made people see there should be a zero tolerance approach.\n\nThe BBC has seen emails showing Ms Fitzpatrick tried to raise the alleged attack with one of her managers soon after it happened, but it appears to have not been taken seriously.\n\nThe manager said he would have \"a word\" with the men involved - Reid Anderson and Jody Paske.\n\nHe added: \"I am sure they meant no harm and that was the boys just being boys.\"\n\nDeeAnn works as a fisheries officer checking the operation of the industry\n\nMr Anderson, who the BBC understands remains employed by Marine Scotland and has recently been promoted, did not respond to the allegations, although civil servants are usually unable to comment without government approval.\n\nMr Paske, who no longer works at Marine Scotland, told the BBC that the allegations were \"lies\".\n\nHe said: \"These are false allegations. I can't remember the event you mention, but if it did happen, it would have been office banter. Just a craic. Certainly nothing to do with abuse.\"\n\nWe asked the Scottish government to waive the civil service code in order to allow Ms Fitzpatrick to speak about her experiences but permission was not given.\n\nA spokeswoman said: \"The Scottish government has clear standards of behaviour which apply to all staff.\n\n\"Any concerns raised by staff are taken seriously and investigated fully.\"\n\nIn evidence to an employment tribunal against the Scottish government, Ms Fitzpatrick claimed that over a period of almost 10 years she had been subjected to behaviour including:\n\nThe employment tribunal is unable to consider the restraint incident as it occurred more than three years before the case was brought.\n\nBBC Scotland has also seen emails from the Scottish government's HR department threatening disciplinary action against Ms Fitzpatrick while she was at her father's deathbed in Canada.\n\nThe correspondence shows that in November 2016, Ms Fitzpatrick was told her father had suddenly become ill, and had days to live.\n\nShe told her line manager this by text message, and that she was on her way to the airport to catch an emergency flight.\n\nDeeAnn claims she has been subjected to threatening behaviour\n\nThe letter from the government's HR department, sent to Ms Fitzpatrick by email, acknowledged her father's illness and that she had indeed informed her line manager.\n\nBut it said: \"You are required to contact me as soon as you receive this letter to explain the reason(s) for your absence. Failure to do so may lead to disciplinary action.\"\n\nMs Fitzpatrick's sister-in-law Sherry Fitzpatrick told the BBC that the photograph of the restraint incident needs to be shown.\n\nShe said: \"We were horrified. We were sickened. We worry about what this has done to her.\n\nMs Fitzpatrick's sister-in-law said the Canadian national's home had been in Scotland for 25 years.\n\n\"She's not giving up and now her family is behind her, and we're not giving up until someone is made accountable for their actions,\" she said.\n\nSince her father's death in November 2016, Ms Fitzpatrick has been signed off from work.\n\nIt is unclear whether her alleged attackers ever faced disciplinary action but Ms Fitzpatrick herself faces a disciplinary hearing from her employers at the end of May.\n\nScrabster Harbour is an important port for the fishing industry\n\nHer internal disciplinary cites charges of being \"overzealous\" in her job and being rude to clients.\n\nMs Fitzpatrick has told supporters she believes it has been designed to get rid of her.\n\nHighlands and Islands MSP Ms Grant said: \"They [Ms Fitzpatrick's employers] just won't listen. So their way of resolving it is actually getting the woman out of the workplace, getting the woman out of the man's job.\"\n\nShe called on First Minister Nicola Sturgeon and Environment Secretary Roseanna Cunningham to \"get a grip of it\" and not allow women to be treated in this \"totally unacceptable\" way.\n\nA Scottish government spokeswoman said Ms Cunningham would not be made available for interview.\n\nShe added that in addition to the ongoing employment tribunal there were also \"internal procedures\" under way, and it would be \"wrong to pre-empt the outcome\".\n\nThe spokeswoman said these processes provided the \"proper avenues\" for Ms Fitzpatrick to contribute her position.\n\nThe best way to get news on the go", "Jada Pinkett Smith has opened up about her struggle with hair loss in the latest episode of her Facebook chat show, Red Table Talk.\n\n\"I've been getting a lot of questions about why I've been wearing this turban,\" said the US actress, 46.\n\n\"Well, I've been having issues with hair loss. And it was terrifying when it first started.\"\n\nDoctors have not identified a cause but Smith believes it may be stress-related.\n\nThe Girls Trip star says she first suspected she had the hair loss disease after \"handfuls of hair\" came loose in the shower.\n\n\"I was just like 'Oh my god am I going bald?' It was one of those times in my life where I was literally shaking with fear,\" she explained. \"That's why I cut my hair and continue to cut it.\"\n\nHer comments feature in the third episode of her Facebook mini-series, co-hosted by her mother Adrienne Canfield Norris, and teenage daughter Willow Smith.\n\nOther topics discussed have included coping with loss, motherhood and body image - with Willow previously disclosing she self-harmed as a child following the release of her debut single Whip My Hair in 2010.\n\nJada's daughter Willow had a hit single in 2010 with Whip My Hair\n\nSmith admitted she finds her hair loss \"difficult to talk about\" as taking care of it used to be a \"beautiful ritual\".\n\nHowever, she said, the fate of her body lies in a \"higher power\" and that accepting it has helped her find perspective to deal with the emotional impact of alopecia.\n\n\"People are out here with cancer, with sick children… I watch the higher power take things every day,\" she said, adding her hair loss pales by comparison.\n\n\"When I looked at it from that perspective it did settle me.\"\n\nAs a result of the physical changes, Smith begun wearing scarves on her head, which she said act as an empowering fashion choice.\n\n\"When my hair is wrapped, I feel like a queen,\" she 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.", "The foreign secretary is taking commercial flights on his current tour of South America\n\nForeign Secretary Boris Johnson has said he \"probably needs\" a plane to help him travel the world and promote the UK's interests.\n\nCabinet members can use the RAF Voyager for official business but Mr Johnson said it \"never seems to be available\".\n\nAsked by reporters if he would like a \"Brexit plane\", Mr Johnson said he would - if costs were not \"exorbitant\".\n\nMr Johnson is taking commercial flights for his current five-day tour of South America.\n\nOn his outbound flight from London, Mr Johnson travelled to Spain before catching a connecting flight to Peru. The stop-over added five hours to the journey time.\n\n\"The taxpayers won't want us to have some luxurious new plane, but I certainly think it's striking that we don't seem to have access to such a thing at the moment,\" said the foreign secretary.\n\nHe added: \"If there's a way of doing it that is not exorbitantly expensive then yes I think we probably do need something.\"\n\nMr Johnson also questioned the drab colour of the Voyager, saying: \"Also, why does it have to be grey?\"\n\nThe Royal Family and cabinet members share the RAF Voyager\n\nThe Voyager has been available for both cabinet members and the Royal Family since undergoing a £10m refit in 2016.\n\nTo keep costs down, the aircraft also conducts air-to-air refuelling missions for the RAF.\n\nMr Johnson said the plane's multiple users mean it is difficult for senior ministers to book.\n\n\"What I will say about the Voyager, I think it's great, but it seems to be very difficult to get hold of,\" he said.\n\nThe Queen is understood to have priority use of the plane, followed by Prince Charles. The prime minister is then third in line, before other government ministers.\n\nOther jets are available - one of which Mr Johnson used to fly to Russia in November - but the foreign secretary complained those planes had not been upgraded in almost 40 years.\n\nTony Blair had plans for a prime ministerial jet - labelled \"Blair Force One\" - but the project was abandoned as a cost-saving measure by his successor Gordon Brown.\n\nResponding to Mr Johnson's comments, the prime minister's official spokesman said: \"There are flights available for ministers when they need them.\n\n\"The Voyager has been used on occasions when ministers have been carrying out business on behalf of the prime minister.\"", "A Catholic archbishop in Australia convicted of concealing child sexual abuse will step down from his position.\n\nPhilip Wilson, the archbishop of Adelaide, South Australia, was found guilty of covering up the crimes of a paedophile priest by a court on Tuesday.\n\nHe is the most senior Catholic in the world to be convicted of the offence.\n\nWilson said he would step aside from his duties on Friday.\n\n\"It is appropriate that, in the light of some of his Honour's findings, I stand aside from my duties as Archbishop,\" he said in a statement released on Wednesday.\n\n\"If at any point in time it becomes necessary or appropriate for me to take more formal steps, including by resigning as Archbishop, then I will do so.\"\n\nHe did not indicate whether he would appeal the Newcastle Local Court's conviction, for which he faces a maximum two year sentence.\n\nOn Tuesday, the court ruled that Wilson had known about a paedophile priest's abuse of altar boys in the 1970s and failed to report the crimes to police.\n\nA magistrate found that Wilson, who was told about the abuse from young victims, dismissed their stories because of his desire to protect the Church's reputation.\n\nChild sexual abuse survivors in Australia have praised the verdict as a milestone in confirming the church's legal accountability for such crimes.", "Philip Roth was presented with the National Humanities Medal by then President Barack Obama in 2011\n\nOne of the great American authors, Philip Roth, has died aged 85.\n\nThe Pulitzer, National Book Award and Man Booker International Prize-winning novelist's work drew its inspiration from Jewish family life, sex and American ideals.\n\nThe New York Times reported that a close friend of Roth's said he had died of congestive heart failure.\n\nRoth first found success with his short story collection, Goodbye Columbus, published in 1959.\n\nA decade later his sexually explicit novel Portnoy's Complaint catapulted him to notoriety, making him a celebrity in the US.\n\nIn later life, he wrote a number of highly regarded historical novels, including his 1997 work American Pastoral, for which he won his Pulitzer.\n\nHe wrote prolifically over the course of his career, publishing more than 30 books before ending his fiction career in 2009.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. This video has been removed for rights reasons\n\nWhen Roth won the 2011 Man Booker International, chairman of the judges Rick Gekoski said: \"His career is remarkable in that he starts at such a high level, and keeps getting better.\n\n\"In his 50s and 60s, when most novelists are in decline, he wrote a string of novels of the highest, enduring quality.\"\n\nHe also recognised that Roth's win divided the Man Booker International panel, and had caused one judge to quit in protest.\n\n\"I can recall few of his novels that don't provoke an occasional but overwhelming desire to shout 'Will you shut up!' at a character or his author,\" he said.\n\nHis heritage was extremely important, and in some ways he wrestled with it all his life. The question of identity, which is the question which, in the melting pot of America, is always going to be the one that a serious writer has to grapple with.\n\nWhere do you come from? What do you do? What kind of kid are you growing up in New York? That was the obsession that took him right through his writing.\n\nBut in the end, you've just got to remember that here was a man who could write beautiful prose. That's what carried him through. His death puts an end to a whole era of American literature.\n\nIn 2014, Roth told the BBC he would make no more public appearances: \"I can guarantee you that this is my last appearance ever on television... absolutely [my] last appearance on any stage anywhere.\"\n\nSpeaking on the BBC Radio 4's Today programme, his biographer Blake Bailey spoke of how much Roth enjoyed writing about the Jewish neighbourhood where he grew up, in Newark, New Jersey.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Blake Bailey This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 is ironic that he got this reputation as a self-hating Jew,\" he said.\n\n\"Philip despised anti-Semitism in all its forms and he himself loved Jews, he loved growing up in a Jewish neighbourhood. He didn't have much time for the religious side of it, but everything else was just great.\"\n\nScreenwriter David Simon - creator of The Wire - said Roth was \"the great American novelist of our post-war world\".\n\nHe is reportedly working on a television adaptation of The Plot Against America, a Roth novel that imagined right-wing aviator Charles Lindbergh becoming president instead of Franklin D Roosevelt.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by David 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\nAuthor David Baddiel said: \"He's about the only writer, I would say, who is considered to be amongst the greatest in the canon who is properly funny.\n\n\"His books are laugh-out-loud funny. You read on the back of many, many books 'hilarious' and they never are, but Roth's actually are. Roth's can make you laugh, and I think that is a real achievement of his.\n\n\"He had two prose styles. [One which was] very turbo-charged, very fast and overflowing with images and jokes, and then he had a more stately way of doing it in things like the Zuckerman novels, where he sees himself more self-consciously as a novelist.\"\n\nOther writers also shared tributes on Twitter.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by 💎 Lena Dunham 💎 This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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\nRoth's death comes a week after that of another US literary heavyweight, Tom Wolfe, the author of The Bonfire of the Vanities who died at 88.\n\n\"To be in his 60s making work that is so strong, so full of revelations about love and emotional pain, that's the way to live your artistic life,\" singer Bruce Springsteen once said of his fellow New Jersey native.\n\n\"Which reader of intelligence and curiosity does not relish Roth's long, muscular sentences, which brim with felt life?\" writes the Spectator magazine after his death.\n\nBut his style, and his protagonists, rubbed some up the wrong way.\n\n\"Roth is an extremist. He loves to shock, to go beyond the limits of acceptability. That's why he's so funny. But it's also why he's not to everyone's taste,\" wrote author William Skidelsky in the Guardian in 2011.\n\nHe made the comments after the resignation of publisher Carmen Callil from the Booker judging panel after he was picked as winner. She conceded that he was a clever and comic writer, but she protested the accolade going to \"yet another North American\".\n\nRoth has been accused of misogyny, particularly in his graphic sex scenes.\n\nHowever, the Atlantic magazine advised caution on revisiting his works: \"Any idea that might occur to us about the author has already occurred to him, only more intelligently.\"\n\nThe best way to get news on the go", "Gavin Grimm filed a lawsuit after his high school prevented him from using the men's bathroom\n\nA US judge has ruled that federal law protects a transgender student's right to use the bathroom corresponding to his gender identity.\n\nIn the latest legal twist to a long-running case, a Virginia court rejected Gloucester County school board's bid to dismiss a lawsuit filed by Gavin Grimm, a student who has since graduated.\n\nMr Grimm sued after his school barred him from using the men's bathroom.\n\nHe said he felt an \"incredible sense of relief\" after the ruling.\n\n\"After fighting this policy since I was 15 years old, I finally have a court decision saying that what the Gloucester County School Board did to me was wrong and it was against the law,\" he said.\n\nMr Grimm's case has been the most prominent in the debate over which bathroom transgender people should be permitted to use, a debate that has come to the forefront of LGBT rights over the past few years.\n\nThis decision does not completely end his case, but the judge on Tuesday ordered the school board to arrange a settlement conference within 30 days.\n\n\"The district court's ruling vindicates what Gavin has been saying from the beginning,\" said Joshua Block, an attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union.\n\nUS district judge Arenda Wright Allen's ruling said the school's argument was \"resoundingly unpersuasive\", and she refused to throw out Mr Grimm's claim as the school had requested.\n\nMr Grimm sued Gloucester High School in July 2015, saying its policy of making him use a separate unisex bathroom violated the following:\n\nThe school had initially allowed him to use the men's bathroom after he explained he had transitioned to male.\n\nBut several adults complained about the the move, and the school's principal said he would from then on have to use newly installed single-person bathrooms.\n\nMany places in the US now have gender-neutral bathrooms\n\nThe lawsuit made its way up to the US Supreme Court after a series of cases in Virginia.\n\nThe country's highest court agreed to take the suit after an appeals court ruled in favour of Mr Grimm following a directive from then-President Barack Obama, saying federal law protects transgender bathroom rights.\n\nBut the US Supreme Court reversed its decision after President Donald Trump rescinded his predecessor's guidelines.", "Researchers are to visit Loch Ness next month\n\nDNA sampling is to be used to discover previously unrecorded organisms in Loch Ness.\n\nProf Neil Gemmell, a New Zealand scientist leading the project, said he did not believe in Nessie, but was confident of finding genetic codes for other creatures.\n\nHe said a \"biological explanation\" might be found to explain some of the stories about the Loch Ness Monster.\n\nThe team will collect tiny fragments of skin and scales for two weeks in June.\n\nProf Gemmell, from the University of Otago in Dunedin, said: \"I don't believe in the idea of a monster, but I'm open to the idea that there are things yet to be discovered and not fully understood.\n\n\"Maybe there's a biological explanation for some of the stories.\"\n\nThe University of the Highlands and Islands' UHI Rivers and Lochs Institute in Inverness is assisting in the project.\n\nAfter the research team's trip to Loch Ness, the samples will be sent to laboratories in New Zealand, Australia, Denmark and France to be analysed against a genetic database.\n\nProf Gemmell said: \"There's absolutely no doubt that we will find new stuff. And that's very exciting.\n\n\"While the prospect of looking for evidence of the Loch Ness monster is the hook to this project, there is an extraordinary amount of new knowledge that we will gain from the work about organisms that inhabit Loch Ness - the UK's largest freshwater body.\"\n\nThe scientist said the team expected to find sequences of DNA from plants, fish and other organisms.\n\nHe said it would be possible to identify these plants and animals by comparing the sequences of their DNA against sequences held on a large, international database.\n\nProf Gemmell added: \"There is this idea that an ancient Jurassic Age reptile might be in Loch Ness.\n\n\"If we find any reptilian DNA sequences in Loch Ness, that would be surprising and would be very, very interesting.\"\n\nMonster Inc: A brief history of the Nessie phenomenon\n\nThe Loch Ness Monster is one of Scotland's oldest and most enduring myths. It inspires books, TV shows and films, and sustains a major tourism industry around its home.\n\nThe story of the monster can be traced back 1,500 years when Irish missionary St Columba is said to have encountered a beast in the River Ness in 565AD.\n\nLater, in the 1930s, The Inverness Courier reported the first modern sighting of Nessie.\n\nIn 1933, the newspaper's Fort Augustus correspondent, Alec Campbell, reported a sighting by Aldie Mackay of what she believed to be Nessie.\n\nMr Campbell's report described a whale-like creature and the loch's water \"cascading and churning\".\n\nThe editor at the time, Evan Barron, suggested the beast be described as a \"monster\", kick starting the modern myth of the Loch Ness Monster.\n\nOver the years various efforts have tried and failed to find the beast.\n\nIn tourism terms, there are two exhibitions dedicated to the monster and there is not a tourist shop in the Highlands, and even more widely across Scotland, where a cuddly toy of Nessie cannot be found.\n\nIn 2016, the inaugural Inverness Loch Ness International Knitting Festival exhibited knitted Nessie's made from all parts of the world.\n\nIn popular culture, the Loch Ness Monster has reared its head many times, including in 1975's four-part Doctor Who - Terror of the Zygons, the 1980s cartoon The Family-Ness as well as The Simpsons and 1996's Loch Ness starring Ted Danson.\n\nIn 2014, it was reported that for the first time in almost 90 years no \"confirmed sightings\" had been made of the Loch Ness Monster.\n\nGary Campbell, who keeps a register of sightings, said no-one had come forward in 18 months to say they had seen the monster.", "Sony's new CEO John Kodera has announced the PlayStation 4 era could be near an end.\n\nSpeaking at a company conference, he said the console, released in 2013, was in the \"final phase\" of its life cycle.\n\nDon't expect the PS4 to stop production any time soon - but this could be a hint that a new, more powerful console is on the way.\n\nDespite being hugely popular, there are signs of PS4 sales slowing down.\n\nThe announcement has hit some gamers hard.\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\nThe PS4 is now five years old - and has been a massive success for Sony. But given the pace of technological change, the announcement wasn't as much as a shock for some.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 🚲 Sam Coles 🎮 This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMore than 76 million PS4's have been sold since it was released - but last year, sales were down from 20 million units to 19 million.\n\nBut while console sales are down - people are buying more games.\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\nThat's one of the reasons Sony is thinking of releasing more games exclusively for PlayStation, including Last of Us: Part II and Spider-Man.\n\nAnd for those holding out for a clue about a PS5 release date, there was this from Mr Kodera.\n\n\"We will use the next three years to prepare the next step, to crouch down so that we can jump higher in the future.\"\n\nThis could possibly mean the new console that gamers are waiting for could be released after 2021.\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.", "Photographer Alexi Lubomirski describes working with the Duke and Duchess of Sussex on their wedding day.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Hamid Ali Jafari says he prays for death so that he can join his father Ali in heaven\n\nA man whose father died in Grenfell Tower has told the inquiry into the fire he prays for death so he can join him in heaven.\n\nHamid Ali Jafari was moved to tears as he recalled searching for 82-year-old Ali Yawar Jafari after the blaze.\n\nHe added it sometimes felt his father's soul was present in his own son.\n\nAli Yawar Jafari, who lived on 11th floor with his wife, was described as a \"real hero\" for alerting neighbours to the blaze as it spread.\n\nSitting alongside his mother and two sisters, Hamid said: \"I think the happiest moment he had was when my son was born, because he was attached to him a lot.\n\n\"Both of them were connected to each other.\"\n\nHe added: \"When I am holding him I feel I am holding my dad because I can still smell my dad on my son.\"\n\nAli Yawar Jafari was described as a \"real hero\" for his actions on the night\n\nHis voice breaking, Hamid told the inquiry: \"I have never dreamed or thought of going to heaven but now I fight every day, every second, because I want to join my dad.\n\n\"And I pray every day - and even I request my friends to pray for me - that I die soon to meet my father.\"\n\nMr Jafari moved to the UK in 2003 from Afghanistan, where he worked as a jeweller. He died while trying to escape from Grenfell Tower after becoming separated from his wife and daughter.\n\nReferring to the days after the fire, Hamid recalled walking around the tower \"to share my feelings with my father\" but also the \"hopelessness\".\n\nIn a video tribute, Mr Jafari was described by his family as a \"kind person and a kind husband\".\n\nThey recalled his love for travel and animals, and how he once freed a pigeon whose legs were trapped in twine.\n\nHis daughter Maria said they were unable to show more happy photos to the inquiry because their memories had been lost in the fire on 14 June last year, which killed 72 people.\n\nAnthony Disson - known as Tony - who lived on the 22nd floor, was also remembered.\n\nIn a video tribute featuring his wife Cordelia and their sons Harry, Alfie and Charlie, he was described as a \"good dad, a brilliant husband and a wonderful granddad\".\n\nMr Disson, 65, was said to have been \"besotted with\" his granddaughter Talleulah. She used to call him \"dan-dad\".\n\nEven now, she still talks about her \"dan-dad\", Cordelia said.\n\nMr Disson was involved in the boxing gym at the bottom of the tower, where his sons trained.\n\n\"He loved his flat and he loved that he was still in the same area that he had grown up in,\" Mr Disson's son from a previous relationship, Lee, said in a statement.\n\nHe also recalled searching for his father everywhere and putting his name down as \"missing\".\n\n\"My heart was sinking but I prayed Dad had got out, or wasn't at home that night,\" he said.\n\nOn the third morning of tributes from families, the chairman Sir Martin Moore-Bick has been a quiet presence.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Grenfell Tower inquiry: What questions will be answered?\n\nSitting upright, light-framed glasses perched on his nose, he holds a pen in one hand and rests the other on top, listening intently from a makeshift desk set up on the stage.\n\nAs tearful relatives conclude tributes to their loved ones, sometimes in sorrow, sometimes with laughter, Sir Martin joins in the applause and nods reassuringly.\n\n\"I feel you get to know the man through your tributes, \" he told the family of Anthony Disson.\n\n\"Very powerful,\" he remarked as Hamid, son of Ali Yawar Jafari, shared how he could barely look his mother in the eye since the tragedy.\n\nTo the young Aiasha Mohamed, who read her mother's long and deeply-moving tribute to her sister Rania Ibrahim on camera, he said it had been profoundly moving.\n\n\"It must have taken a lot of effort to make it,\" he told her.\n\nZainab Deen, 32, and her two-year-old son Jeremiah, were found at each other's side on the 14th floor.\n\nIn a statement read by barrister Michael Mansfield QC, her father said they could not find a reason \"why such a handsome and cheerful boy was taken from us at the age of two\".\n\nZainab came to Britain from Sierra Leone as a child.\n\nHer father said: \"Zainab had it all. She was beautiful, smart, warm, caring and a confident and outgoing young woman. Her untimely death has left us heartbroken.\"\n\nThey also remembered \"beautiful grandson\" Jeremiah, saying: \"We will focus on how happy he made us when he was in our lives.\"\n\nAt Prime Minister's Questions, Theresa May said the government must take the \"strongest possible action\" to prevent another Grenfell tower tragedy.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. May: We'll take \"strongest possible action\" to stop another Grenfell Tower tragedy\n\nShe said the government is \"minded to go further\" than recommendations in Dame Judith Hackitt's report into building regulations by banning combustible materials in cladding on high-rise buildings.\n\nLabour leader Jeremy Corbyn said in response that \"justice had not yet been done\" as some of the building's residents are still in temporary accommodation.\n\nGary Maunders was remembered as a devoted family man with a great personality.\n\nThe 57-year-old painter and decorator was from the North Kensington area although he did not live at Grenfell Tower and had been visiting a friend on the 19th floor on the night of the fire.\n\nAna Pumar, the mother of his two youngest children, said: \"Sadly for us, future milestones will be reached without having their father present, and future memories will not involve their father which is heart-breaking for us.\"\n\nHis nieces, Chanel and Kenita Spence, grew up with Mr Maunders in their family home.\n\nIn a video featuring photographs from his life and the music of his favourite singer Marvin Gaye, they said he was more like a big brother than an uncle and \"the pain of losing him is indescribable\".\n\nThey said he loved football and making people laugh - an old-fashioned soul with values and respect for all.\n\nThe Manchester United fan was a talented footballer in his youth and once had the chance of becoming professional for Arsenal, they added.\n\nMarjorie Vital, 68, and her son Ernie, 50, lived on the 19th floor.\n\nMs Vital's surviving son did not wish to speak or be present at the inquiry, but instead created a short film that was shown.\n\nHe said his mother was a full-time seamstress, who would make clothes for herself so she could afford to buy clothes for her sons.\n\nHis brother was a great dancer who loved Earth Wind and Fire.\n\nThe pair were found in a top-floor flat of the building.\n\nOver footage showing the charred wreckage of a former flat inside the tower, he said he had imagined his brother carrying his mother to the top floor when no other escape route was possible.\n\nHe said: \"We now have the evidence that their bodies were fused together in the intensity of the fire... It symbolised to me, their level of closeness that they had.\"\n\nMs Vital's sister, Paula Bellot, said in a statement they had lost touch in the months before the fire but never thought they would not have the opportunity to patch things up.\n\nShe said her sister had come to London from Dominica as a teenager and lived with their parents in North Kensington before moving to Grenfell Tower, where she was \"very proud\" of her home.\n\nThe day's proceedings opened with more commemorations to Rania Ibrahim, 30, and her daughters Fathia, four, and Hania, three, who lived on the 23rd floor of the building.\n\nA tribute from Rania's older sister Sayeeda, was read in a video to the inquiry.\n\nRania Ibrahim and her daughters Fathia, known as Fou-Fou, and Hania, lived on the 23rd floor of Grenfell Tower\n\n\"I am so grateful and proud to have her as my sister,\" she said.\n\n\"I raised her to be a strong, brave woman. She lived her life to the fullest.\"\n\nMrs Ibrahim said her sister came to the UK in 2009 from Egypt to look after her when she fell ill, and would be at the forefront of the fight for justice, had she survived the fire.", "An investigation by BBC Wales Investigates has exposed a secretive network of illegal hunters in south Wales.\n\nThe programme team went undercover with two badger-baiting gangs as part of a six-month investigation.\n\nWearing a hidden camera \"John\", a former special operations soldier, infiltrated one group to reveal the criminal activity of badger digging and lamping, where wild animals are torn apart and the hunters' own dogs are often abused.\n\nI've had some experiences in the military that I thought would prepare me for dealing with this and I knew there was going to be some violence towards these animals but what I saw was shocking.\n\nTo these people, killing animals is a sport - the more brutal, the better.\n\nThe BBC team was able infiltrate the gangs using social media.\n\nThey had discovered that convicted badger baiter Christian Latcham from the Rhondda Valleys, south Wales, was active in online groups for legal hunting with dogs.\n\nHe then put them in touch with another man - Tomas Young, 25, from the Gwent Valleys - who invited us out on what turned out to be illegal hunting trips.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe gangs are mostly working-class guys in their twenties. They use social media like Snapchat to organise digs and share pictures.\n\nThese people are very suspicious and guarded.\n\nThere were a number of occasions where I was questioned quite heavily about my background.\n\nThey asked if I was an undercover police officer or if I was wearing recording equipment and I had to use my skills to try and persuade them that that wasn't the case.\n\nI didn't feel afraid as such but I got the feeling that if I'd have been found out, it might have turned nasty. I feared they might have used the dogs to intimidate me.\n\nI went with them three times to try to capture evidence.\n\nThe first time Tomas invited me \"lamping\" - hunting at night with high-powered torches - in the Forest of Dean. I didn't know at the time that this would be illegal hunting.\n\nBut on the way there, they started talking about the types of animals we were going to see - deer, boar, possibly some foxes and maybe even some badgers if they were out.\n\nThey said there would be \"loads of guys\" out hunting that night and that they knew of gangs that came from as far away as Newcastle to go lamping in the Forest.\n\nTomas and another man - Ryan Harrison - had three dogs with them - one which was big, quite aggressive-looking, with a pit bull sort of setting and two lurcher-type dogs.\n\nWe went into a field and Ryan shone the lamp at some deer - I could see about six to eight pairs of eyes in the dark.\n\nThe dogs immediately started chasing them down and the two men were getting really, really excited.\n\nOne deer ran straight into a fence and got trapped.\n\nOne of the lurchers had it by the back legs and was trying to drag it back through the fence.\n\nThere was an awful noise, the sound of the deer screaming, trying to get away.\n\nAt this point, Ryan jumped on it, and started to struggle with it but the deer kicked him in the face and at that point he let go.\n\nThe deer ran off and managed to escape from the dogs but without doubt it was injured and was in awful pain.\n\nHidden camera footage shows a deer being attacked by the one of the hunters' dogs\n\nRyan had been injured - he had damage to his mouth where the deer had kicked him and his hands were also hurt but to him it was all part of the sport and the injuries were badges of honour.\n\nThe night was about to get even worse.\n\nWe drove to another area, where we spotted some wild boar.\n\nVery, very quickly, the two guys and their dogs were out of the vehicle and ran off chasing the boar.\n\nI chased after them and when I caught up with them, the scene in front of me was horrific.\n\nOne lurcher was on the back end of the boar and the bull cross dog had latched onto its snout.\n\nRyan was trying to drag the boar down and the animal was really strong, kicking out, fighting for its life.\n\nTomas then pulled out a large knife and started stabbing the boar.\n\nIt died in front of me. It seemed to make the men quite frenzied.\n\nTomas even filmed himself stabbing the boar on his phone and played it back in the car afterwards.\n\nI'd never seen anything like it before; somebody hunting down and killing a wild animal like that, just to see how tough and violent their dogs could be.\n\nIt's a badge of pride to have an injured dog which carries on fighting.\n\nThe boar's carcass was hidden in undergrowth and Tomas told me that \"one of the boys\" would pick it up later.\n\nI also went out with Tomas and some other men on a couple of badger digs, which is where they send a terrier into a badger sett wearing a transmitter collar so they locate it in the sett from above ground.\n\nOnce they hear that it's found a badger, they will dig down into the sett so the other dogs can pull it out and fight it to the death.\n\nThe first time, they didn't get anything, despite them digging for around eight hours.\n\nTomas got frustrated with his dog because although it seemed to have found a badger, it hadn't latched onto it and let it get away.\n\nHe was getting quite a lot of ribbing from the other guys in the group, saying his dog wasn't tough enough.\n\nThat's what really gets to these guys, if their dog isn't aggressive enough and doesn't immediately go down and attack the badger - they think that's a reflection of them as a handler.\n\nWhat they want is to see the dog come back out with injuries on it because that's a sign of a tough dog.\n\nThey then photograph these dogs - with their injuries - and share the photos with other illegal hunters with a view to breeding them.\n\nOn the way home, Tomas told me he was disappointed with his dog's performance. Then he told me he'd shot dogs before when they hadn't worked in the way he'd wanted them to.\n\nThe litters of prized working dogs can go for quite a bit of money - a few hundred pounds a pup.\n\nThe second time, I went with Tomas and Ryan up towards the Forest of Dean area again, and quite quickly they found a sett.\n\nYou could hear some growling from the dog that was underground so they started digging down and they could see the black and white fur of the badger.\n\nThey thought this was an adult so sent one of the bigger lurcher dogs into the ground to pull it out.\n\nTwo dogs eventually dragged it out but it was a cub.\n\nIt had no chance and within seconds it was torn apart.\n\nRyan took it off the dogs and threw it on the side.\n\nThey weren't happy it was a cub because they don't put up much of a fight and the whole aim of this exercise for the badger baiters is for their dogs to have some credible combat; a proper fight with an adult badger who could do some damage to the dogs.\n\nThey were going to leave this cub, but I saw it was still alive, it was still breathing and I had to tell them to put it out of its misery.\n\nHidden camera footage of the gang illegally digging for badgers in west Wales\n\nI thought I was going to blow my cover then because that could have been something that alerted them that I wasn't 100% the way there were, as much as I was trying to act like I was.\n\nIt was difficult to see how these men treat their dogs; some of them were kicked or dragged and there was a lot of abuse thrown at them.\n\nYou could see the dogs cowering at times, it appeared they were afraid of their owners.\n\nIt's very common to have the bottom part of a dog's jaw being damaged or ripped away in a fight with a badger.\n\nBut when dogs come out of the setts on the digs I filmed they would turn them around and push them straight back in to carry on looking for the badger.\n\nGenerally badger baiters don't take them to vets with their injuries because that would be recorded and reported so they stitch up their wounds themselves.\n\nThey are valuable dogs for hunting and breeding so they're a commodity to them and they'll protect the commodity but they don't have any concern about the feelings of the animal.\n\nAnd they're quite happy to dispose of them once they're no longer a useful commodity.\n\nTomas told me he had shot dogs before which hadn't performed properly on hunts.\n\nMy lasting feeling after being undercover with these people is that what they are doing is just horrific.\n\nIt was far, far worse than what I expected to see.\n\nThey don't care if the animals they kill suffer; they're just killing them for sport.\n\nExposed: The Secret World of Badger Baiters on BBC One Wales at 22:35 and on BBC iPlayer.", "Mr Trump - seen through a phone - speaks from the Oval Office at the White House\n\nUS President Donald Trump may not \"block\" Twitter users from viewing his online profile due to their political beliefs, a judge in New York has ruled.\n\nDistrict Judge Naomi Reice Buchwald in Manhattan said that blocking access to his @realDonaldTrump account would be a violation of the right to free speech.\n\nThe lawsuit against Mr Trump and other White House officials stems from his decision to bar several online critics.\n\nThe White House has yet to comment on the judge's ruling.\n\nThe case was brought by The Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University on behalf of seven Twitter users who had been blocked by Mr Trump for criticising him or mocking him online.\n\nMr Trump's Twitter account has steadily grown since taking over the US presidency\n\nOn Wednesday the judge agreed with their argument that the social media platform qualifies as a \"designated public forum\" granted to all US citizens.\n\n\"This case requires us to consider whether a public official may, consistent with the First Amendment, 'block' a person from his Twitter account in response to the political views that person has expressed, and whether the analysis differs because that public official is the President of the United States,\" the judge said in her opinion.\n\n\"The answer to both questions is no.\"\n\nThe judge rejected argument by Mr Trump's lawyers that the \"First Amendment does not apply in this case and that the President's personal First Amendment interests supersede those of plaintiffs\".\n\nMr Trump has over 52 million followers on Twitter, his preferred social media platform which he joined in March 2009.\n\nHe often eschews the official US presidential Twitter account, @POTUS, as well as his own White House press office, to make official announcements.\n\nOne of the people that Mr Trump blocked, Holly O'Reilly, who uses the account @AynRandPaulRyan, was blocked last May after posting a GIF of Mr Trump meeting with Pope Francis.\n\nThe photo, which some said showed the Pope glaring at Mr Trump, was captioned: \"This is pretty much how the whole world sees you.\"\n\nShortly after being blocked, she told Time Magazine that \"it's like FDR took my radio away\", referring to Franklin Delano Roosevelt - the World War Two-era president who spoke directly to Americans with his so-called fireside chats.\n\nEarlier in the trial, Judge Buchwald suggested the president, who was not in court, could simply mute the accounts he does not want to see.\n\nPeople on Twitter are unable to see or respond to tweets from accounts that block them.\n\nBut if Mr Trump muted an account, he would not see that user's tweets but the user could still see and respond to his.\n\nIt's unclear if Mr Trump will now unblock his critics, but the judge hinted the president could face legal action if he did not comply with the ruling.\n\nShe wrote that \"because all government officials are presumed to follow the law once the judiciary has said what the law is, we must assume that the President [and his social media director] will remedy the blocking we have held to be unconstitutional\".\n\nWhen it comes to Twitter, the First Amendment grants the American people the right to speak about the President - but it doesn't force him to listen.\n\nWhile the court has ruled the blocking is unconstitutional, it said the ability to mute a person was not - and so the safe space nurtured by the president and his social media team will remain mostly intact. As I type this, he follows just 46 people, mostly family and Fox News presenters.\n\nFor many of those he blocked, it's become a badge of honour - a #blockedbytrump topic sprung up as a way of celebrating being shut out by The Donald.\n\nBut Trump's tweets are a major means by which the president communicates with his people. However history looks back at what is happening within his administration today, tweets will form a crucial part of that record.\n\nAnd while some have argued that anyone blocked by Trump can see his tweets by just logging out, that doesn't necessarily give the whole picture. One tweet sent on Wednesday does not appear in the feed for logged-out users, for example, as it is a \"reply\".\n\nBlocking also prevents people from replying to or quoting what was said.\n\nThe bigger impact here, however, is that this ruling applies to all public officials in the US.\n\nAnd so it won't just be Mr Trump thumbing through and unblocking those who he deems unsavoury.", "Ladybower reservoir in Derbyshire supplies water for drinking and hydro electricity\n\nEngland is facing water supply shortages by 2050 unless rapid action is taken to curb water use and wastage, the Environment Agency has warned.\n\nIts new report says enough water to meet the needs of 20 million people is lost through leakage every day.\n\nPopulation growth and the impact of climate change are expected to add to supply pressures.\n\nThe agency wants people to have a personal water target and has urged them to use water more wisely at home.\n\nThe study, the first major report on water resources in England, says that population growth and climate change are the biggest pressures on a system that is already struggling.\n\nIn 2016, some 9,500 billion litres of freshwater were taken from rivers, lakes, reservoirs and underground sources, with 55% of this used by public water companies, and 27% going to the electricity supply industry.\n\nBut in addition to the 3 billion litres a day that are wasted through leakage, there is a considerable price being paid in terms of the sustainability of these supplies.\n\nAccording to the Environment Agency, extraction of groundwater - the water beneath the earth's surface - is not at a sustainable level for 28% of groundwater bodies and up to 18% of surface waters.\n\nA year earlier in 2016, unsustainable extraction meant that at least 6% and possibly up to 15% of river water bodies did not achieve \"a good ecological status or potential\".\n\nThe majority of chalk streams also failed to meet that standard, with over extraction of water being responsible in a quarter of the streams that were tested.\n\n\"We need to change our attitudes to water use,\" said Emma Howard Boyd, the Environment Agency chair woman.\n\n\"It is the most fundamental thing needed to ensure a healthy environment, but we are taking too much of it and have to work together to manage this precious resource.\"\n\nAddressing the questions of how to reduce the amount of water that is being used, Michael Roberts, from Water UK, said water companies were tackling the question head-on.\n\n\"It's actually everyone's issue,\" he told the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme.\n\n\"In the home we have to do our bit and as companies we have to do our bit - but the good news is that domestic consumption has been coming down for the last decade, and in terms of leakage, we are leaking a third less than we did 30 years ago, but there is a heck of a lot more to do.\"\n\nOn average, people use 140 litres every day in England. The Environment Agency says it will work with government and industry to establish a personal consumption target and come up with cost-effective measures to meet it.\n\nThe government has already suggested that an individual's water use be reduced, in its 25-year plan, published earlier this year.\n\nThe water industry says that three quarters of water used in the home goes towards washing ourselves, our clothes and how we flush the toilet. Greater awareness could help cut that amount significantly.\n\n\"We'd love to see a really ambitious target of per capita consumption per day,\" Nicci Russell from Waterwise, who campaign for water efficiency, told the BBC.\n\n\"It's around about 140 litres per day and we'd like to see it at 100 or less, we think that's perfectly do-able over the next 20-25 years.\"\n\nBut Environment Minister George Eustice has told BBC Radio 5 live that the proposed Environment Agency household water guidelines are \"not a cap\" and that \"nobody need worry that we're shutting off the taps\".\n\n\"It's more a target really to encourage individual households to think about their water, to encourage the use of, for instance, flushing systems on toilets that are more economical in the way they use water, and basically get the types of innovation that we need within households over a period of time, so that we are using water more carefully.\"\n\nThe big questions for the future, according to the Environment Agency, are the impacts of climate change and population growth.\n\nRising temperatures will affect the timing and amount of rainfall that flows into rivers and replenishes groundwater supplies.\n\nAlthough average summer rainfall is not predicted to change, more rainfall is likely to occur in large downpours in the future, increasing the chances of droughts and floods happening at the same time.\n\nThe report warns that reduced summer rain and increased evaporation might damage wetland areas.\n\nIncreased areas of stagnant water during droughts coupled with increased temperatures could see the spread of mosquito-borne diseases such as dengue fever and West Nile virus.\n\nWater leaks in England waste three billion litres per day\n\nThe population of England is predicted to increase to 58.5 million by 2026 - the report says that much of this increase is likely to take place in areas where water supplies are already stressed.\n\nIf no action is taken to reduce use and increase supply of water, \"most areas will not meet demand by the 2050s\" if both emissions and population growth are high.\n\nEven low population growth and modest climate change \"suggest significant water supply deficits by the 2050s, particularly in the South East\".\n\nThe National Infrastructure Commission has already suggested that moving water from north to south should be considered as part of future development.\n\n\"Today's report reflects our own findings, that the country faces the real risk of drought and that we need to take urgent action now to address it - by reducing demand, as well as by increasing supply, said Sir John Armitt, who chairs the commission.\n\n\"Our recommendations include the need for a new National Water Network, to help move supplies from areas with water surpluses to those in greatest need.\n\n\"But there must be a concerted effort by industry to encourage consumers to use water more efficiently - and with a fifth of our mains water lost to leakages, they must also take steps to halve the amount lost this way by 2050.\"\n\nInvestment in nuclear power and renewable energy will likely lead to much lower rates of abstraction and consumption by 2050, the study says.\n\nHowever, if future energy scenarios involve carbon capture and storage (CCS), this would require much higher freshwater abstraction and consumption levels, as the technology needs extra water to function, and would also increase the amount of cooling water needed at conventional power plants to which CCS equipment is attached.", "What do you do if a half-tonne racehorse is running straight at you?\n\nIf you are At The Races presenter Hayley Moore, you stand your ground and tackle the animal using your bare hands.\n\nMs Moore was working at Chepstow Racecourse when Give Em A Clump stumbled and unseated his rider.\n\nShe was knocked to the ground, but kept hold of the reins, unsaddled the gelding and then got back to her day job.\n\nFootage courtesy of At The Races TV.", "There have been 67 murders in the capital in 2018\n\nThe UK \"is fast becoming the biggest consumer of cocaine in Europe\", the security minister has said.\n\nBen Wallace said the \"high-margin, high-supply drug\" was \"fuelling\" an increase in violence on the streets.\n\nTechnology had enabled young dealers to evade detection and order drugs direct from \"serious\" gangs, he told MPs.\n\nThe minister said he was \"not deaf\" to Labour claims that police cuts had increased the pressure on officers trying to deal with the problem.\n\nLabour MP David Lammy warned of more killings in London if the authorities did not take urgent action, adding that ministers must ask themselves \"do black lives matter?\"\n\nThe Tottenham MP has previously linked the spike in London's murder rate, with 67 killings so far this year, to the cocaine trade.\n\nHe warned MPs the murder rate could rise to 100 by the autumn and he could not help thinking that more attention would have been paid if this level of violent crime was happening in a \"leafy shire\".\n\nHis comments came as MPs debated the government's serious violence strategy.\n\nThe minister said the ubiquity of smart phones and growth of encryption had, increasingly, cut out the \"middle men\" when it came to international drug-dealing.\n\n\"Young people have the ability to order drugs, and gangs have the ability to have delivered to their door large packets of drugs from Albanian or Serbian drug gangs, or indeed from local drug gangs,\" he said.\n\n\"That has put a real power into a system where at the same time the UK is fast becoming the biggest consumer of cocaine in Europe, so there is a high demand by the consumer.\"\n\nLabour's David Lammy said young people were picking up knives for their own protection\n\nCocaine was, he said, no longer \"the preserve of the yuppie or the rich\" and its increasing use in rural communities such as his Lancashire constituency was causing turf wars between different criminal gangs as they sought to enforce their so-called \"county lines\".\n\n\"It is a high-margin, high-supply drug at the moment, and that is fuelling that increased violence.\n\n\"With those serious organised criminals...they don't just put a 15-year-old in a house or they 'cuckoo' the house; they provide a weapon to enforce the drug line.\n\n\"And sometimes, if the 15-year-old is not a willing participant, they will ruthlessly enforce that county line with violence, and they will kill those people and they'll kill the local drug dealers if they get in their way.\"\n\nPromising that new measures to crack down on the possession of knives and a consultation on extending stop and search powers would be brought before Parliament within weeks, Mr Wallace warned the UK could not \"arrest our way\" out of some of challenges it faced.\n\n\"I wish I had more money,\" he said. \"I didn't come in here to cut things. There is sometimes a suggestion that we had a choice and we chose not to spend money.\"\n\nDavid Lammy, said demand for drugs was \"driving violence\" and young people living on estates were picking up knives not because they were gang members but because they feared for their lives.\n\n\"They are hiding them in bushes on the way to school and they're finding them on Saturdays and Sundays because they're scared,\" he said.\n\nThe Tottenham MP suggested there was a racial dimension to how the issue was being treated, questioning whether the authorities would be talking about awareness-raising exercises and funding for at-risk children if \"50 or 60 white middle-class young people were killed in Surrey or Kent in the space of five months\".\n\n\"This debate must also quite properly, as it has already done, land on the issue of whether in fact black lives matter in this country.\n\n\"If we don't solve this problem by the autumn we will be over 100 - you heard it here first - young people, more than New York, dead in this country.\n\n\"Do black lives matter or not? That is the question for the minister.\"\n\nHis colleague Lyn Brown said for the past year her East Ham community had been \"haunted\" by violence as she read out the names of the nine young people killed since the start of 2017.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nOver 3,500 singers have come together to lead a chorus of amateur voices in a mass sing-along to remember the Manchester Arena attack victims.\n\nTwenty-two people died and hundreds injured when a bomb was detonated outside a concert on 22 May 2017.\n\nManchester Together in Albert Square featured songs by Elbow and Oasis.\n\nIt follows a memorial service at Manchester Cathedral, which saw Prince William join political leaders and the families of the victims to remember.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Who were the 22 victims of the Manchester Arena attack?\n\nSome of those who have gathered have a connection to what happened on the night, while others have come to show their support.\n\nGina and Casey Hankey, from Stoke, said they were at the arena.\n\n\"We did the arena visits, so this is another step. The atmosphere has been good so far, but it's still a bit sad.\"\n\nRachel and Mia, from Bolton, said they had come \"to show we won't be beaten and show you carry on and remember those who died\".\n\nJulie, from Eccles, who came with her son Louis, said they wanted \"to pay our respects as it just touched everybody\".\n\n'This is the place' - At the scene: Kaleigh Watterson, BBC News\n\nLast year, a vigil was held in Albert Square with thousands gathering to honour those who lost their lives and to show solidarity in the face of hatred.\n\nThis year, thousands gathered again on the same spot in an atmosphere that was much more upbeat.\n\nTony Walsh's poem This Is The Place, which left many in tears a year ago was this time set to a dance beat, with the crowd clapping along, cheering and giving it a rapturous round of applause.\n\nTonight is emotional, there is no doubt about that, but it also feels like a celebration of Manchester's spirit, which guided the city in those dark days last May.\n\nAhead of the singing, the Bishop of Manchester, the Right Reverend David Walker, led those assembled in a minute's silence.\n\nHe also told the crowd that the 22 candles lit in tribute to the victims at Manchester Cathedral had been made from the remnants of the hundreds left around the city in the aftermath of the attack.\n\nThe crowd also heard from some of those singing, including two members of the A City United Choir, a one-off coming together of the signing groups attached to the city's Premier League football teams.\n\nNine-year-old Molly said she was taking part because it was \"a good thing to do for all the people who can't be here\", while Matty, 14, said the unity in singing \"is what Manchester's all about\".\n\nThousands crammed into Albert Square for the two-hour event\n\nThe sing-along saw performances from 10 singing groups, including the Manchester Survivors Choir, who sang a tearful version of Andra Day's Rise Up to rapturous applause, and the Parrs Wood High School Harmony Group.\n\nThe former is made up of people who were caught up the attack last year, while the latter saw their post-attack tribute - a version of Ariana Grande's My Everything - go viral and earn them the chance to perform with the star at the One Love Manchester concert.\n\nMany at the sing-along were wearing the bee emblem, a symbol of Manchester's defiance\n\nThat concert was held two weeks after the homemade device was detonated outside Grande's concert.\n\nDaren Buckley, who is in Manchester Survivors' Choir, said he had found comfort in singing, but that his recovery was far from complete.\n\n\"It's strange because I never used to have fear over anything. I have flashbacks,\" he said.\n\nThe two-hour event saw the choirs sing versions of many popular songs, including Labi Siffre's Something Inside So Strong, Simon and Garfunkel's Bridge Over Troubled Water, Emile Sande's Wonder, Clean Bandit's Symphony and Coldplay's Fix You.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Bells rang out at St Ann's Church, Manchester Town Hall and St Mary's Roman Catholic Church\n\nIt also saw poet Tony Walsh call for the crowd to join him in making a \"minute's noise for the 22\" and \"in solidarity with everyone that was injured, mentally and physically [and] for those who were first on the scene\".\n\nIt concluded with a mass sing-along of five songs - Oasis' Don't Look Back In Anger, Elbow's One Day Like This, Grande's One Last Time, Take That's Never Forget and The Beatles' All You Need Is Love.\n\nThe Oasis song, which was introduced via a video message by Noel Gallagher, became an anthem of defiance in the aftermath of the attack and was sung by a crowd in Manchester's St Ann's Square following a minute's silence on 25 May 2017.\n\nPeople have been writing tributes to those who died on St Ann's Square's paving stones\n\nAs happened a year ago, many people have once again left flowers in St Ann's Square\n\nFrom 21:30 BST, song lyrics chosen by members of the public will be projected onto its pavements and buildings.\n\nYou can view special coverage of the \"Manchester Together\" commemoration event between 19:00 and 21:00 BST on the BBC news channel or via the BBC News website.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The mother, who cannot be identified, was sentenced at Birmingham Crown Court\n\nA mother who forced her daughter to marry a relative almost twice her age has been sentenced to four-and-a-half years in prison.\n\nThe woman from Birmingham, who is in her 40s, duped the then 17-year-old into going to Pakistan in September 2016 to wed the man.\n\nThe girl became pregnant by him when she was 13 and he was 29, which her mother saw as a \"marriage contract\".\n\nThe case is the first successful prosecution of its type.\n\nSentencing the mother at Birmingham Crown Court, Judge Patrick Thomas QC said the victim had been \"sold for her passport\".\n\nNeither the mother nor daughter can be identified for legal reasons.\n\nJurors had heard the daughter, now aged 19, was fooled into travelling to Pakistan on the promise of getting an iPhone for her 18th birthday.\n\nWhen the plan to marry her to the relative 16 years her senior was revealed, the girl protested. In response her mother threatened to burn her passport and assaulted her.\n\n\"It takes no imagination to understand the terror she must have felt\", the judge said.\n\n\"You had cruelly deceived her. She was frightened, alone, held against her will, being forced into a marriage she dreaded.\n\n\"You must have known that was her state of mind. Yet for your own purposes, you drove the marriage through.\"\n\nProsecutor Deborah Gould read a victim statement to the court in which the girl said she was proud of herself for coming forward and wanted other young women who found themselves in similar situations to ask for help.\n\nThe court heard how the wedding was the defendant's idea. The victim's father, who is divorced from her mother, eventually found out and told social services and police.\n\nThe mother was found guilty on Tuesday of two counts of forced marriage and a count of perjury after she lied to the High Court about the incident.\n\nThis sentence sends a strong message to potential perpetrators that forcing a person to get married is illegal and punishable by a lengthy term in custody.\n\nAs the first case of its kind, campaigners hope those who are silently suffering will be encouraged to seek help and speak out about the trauma and psychological damage caused by the coercive measures enforced by their relatives.\n\nThe irony is those who claim to love them the most are the ones who are destroying their lives through manipulation and deception.\n\nThe man the victim went on to marry first had sex with her when she was 13 after the \"marriage contract\" was made.\n\nShe was then forced to have an abortion upon her return to the UK.\n\nThe court was told this amounted to \"significant trauma\" which \"fundamentally affected\" her.\n\nThe new offence of forced marriage came into effect in June 2014, but prosecutions have been rare.\n\nIn June 2015, a man was jailed at Merthyr Crown Court for offences including forcing a woman into marrying him, while there is at least one other live case in the courts.\n\nIf you or someone you know has been affected by forced marriage you can find several organisations that may be able to help here.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Theresa May went head-to-head with Jeremy Corbyn in the House of Commons. Here's what happened.\n\nAfter three weeks of sometimes fiery Brexit clashes, we were back on to more familiar territory as Jeremy Corbyn fired questions at Theresa May about the outsourcing of NHS services to the private sector.\n\nThe Labour leader had come armed with a bevy of quotes and statistics to back up his overarching point that the health service in England was being bled dry by profiteers.\n\nMrs May parried his first attack by saying spending on private health services had doubled under the last Labour government.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by BBC Daily Politics and Sunday Politics This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. End of twitter post by BBC Daily Politics and Sunday Politics\n\nMr Corbyn said it was \"jackpot time for the privateers\" under her government and raised the case of Surrey NHS paying Virgin Healthcare £1.5m because they weren't chosen for a contract.\n\nA National Audit Office report this week had said NHS England's handling of private contracts was \"putting patients at risk of serious harm\", he added.\n\nThe NAO report had not identified any actual harm to patients, said Mrs May. Mrs May normally attempts to embarrass Mr Corbyn by bringing up the record of the NHS in Wales, which is run by Labour, and today was no exception.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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End of twitter post 2 by BBC Daily Politics and Sunday Politics\n\nMr Corbyn ignored the Wales jibe, as he generally does, and launched an attack on the record of NHS outsourcing giant Capita, accusing Mrs May of \"tearing up the founding principles of the NHS and putting private profit before public service\".\n\nThe PM accused Labour of always \"scaremongering\" about Tory plans for the NHS at general elections.\n\n\"From the party that opposed the NHS in the first place, that is a bit rich,\" Mr Corbyn replied, sparking a noisy eruption from MPs and an intervention from Speaker Bercow.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. PMQs: Corbyn and May on health service privatisation numbers\n\nMr Corbyn moved on to the growing shortage of GPs, needling Mrs May about Jeremy Hunt's promise, back in 2015, to recruit 5,000 more of them by 2020.\n\nMrs May sidestepped the question, trumpeting an increase in doctors across the NHS and saying the government was committed to delivering 5,000 more GPs.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jeremy Corbyn and Theresa May trade statistics over the number of medical staff in the NHS.\n\nShe then took a shot at embarrassing Mr Corbyn with a quote from Shadow Health Secretary Jonathan Ashworth, who had said Labour would still buy services from the private sector when needed.\n\nMr Corbyn said Mr Ashworth was dedicated to the NHS, \"not to handing it over to private contractors\". He then quoted a letter from \"Anne\", who had been so concerned about the standard of care at a private nursing home that \"I can't leave my mum knowing that her needs aren't catered for\".\n\nMrs May sympathised with Anne and said the government was looking into the \"quality of care\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Daily Politics and Sunday Politics This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. End of twitter post 3 by BBC Daily Politics and Sunday Politics\n\nThe NHS was celebrating its 70th birthday, said Mr Corbyn, with the longest A&E waiting times on record, the worst cancer referral rates. falling GP numbers and a record funding squeeze - wasn't it time to end the \"siphoning off\" of billions to private companies and \"give the NHS the funding that it needs?\"\n\nMrs May spiced up her closing swipe at Mr Corbyn's economic policies by quoting Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell, who told the BBC his job was to \"overthrow capitalism\".\n\nThis would bankrupt the economy and cost jobs, said the PM. The Conservatives had been able to increase spending on the NHS - treating more patients and ensuring better outcomes - because of the way they had run the economy, 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 4 by BBC Daily Politics and Sunday Politics This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. End of twitter post 4 by BBC Daily Politics and Sunday Politics\n\nThe SNP's leader at Westminster Ian Blackford called on citizenship fees to be scrapped for young people.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 5 by BBC Daily Politics and Sunday Politics This article contains content provided by Twitter. 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You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. End of twitter post 6 by BBC Daily Politics and Sunday Politics\n\nMeanwhile, the Speaker enjoyed a reasonably serene question time and then weathered a hostile point of order from his long term critic, Andrew Bridgen. This was followed by Ken Clarke's version of a Spartacus moment in defence of the Speaker (who was accused of muttering an insult about the Commons leader Andrea Leadsom last week):\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. We've all done it: Clarke on muttering insults\n\nHere's what the BBC's Andrew Neil and Laura Kuenssberg made of it:\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different 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. End of twitter post 8 by BBC Daily Politics and Sunday Politics\n\nHere's the BBC's Mark D'Arcy's take on it:\n\nHo-hum. That was the least interesting PMQs for some weeks. Perhaps the major nugget of information to emerge was the PM's promise of action on flammable cladding on tower blocks - a Conservative MP, Nigel Huddlestone, managed to get that information out before Labour could launch another Grenfell Tower attack…. A choreographed exchange which is a measure of how concerned the government is about the issue.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. May: We'll take \"strongest possible action\" to stop another Grenfell Tower tragedy\n\nJeremy Corbyn's NHS attack was the familiar blend of statistics about services and a letter from a worried NHS user, and the PM's answers relied on equally familiar attacks on the Labour-led Welsh government's stewardship of the NHS and the record of the Blair-Brown Governments.\n\nThis was an almost wholly sterile exchange, bordering on ritualistic. But with the government divided over NHS funding and talking of unwinding the Lansley reforms from the coalition years, a better targeted attack could well have caused Theresa May more discomfort.\n\nSo, a missed opportunity for Jeremy Corbyn, because he would not stray from his comfort zone.\n\nAs for the other big players, the SNP's Ian Blackford continued to explore immigration issues to some effect, although as a long-serving former Home Secretary, the PM was able to respond in some detail.\n\nThe Lib Dems' Sir Vince Cable tried to deploy his trademark acerbity by inviting the PM to thank Labour for their support on Brexit - but his delivery was rather spoiled by the heckling around him, not to mention the gestures and grimaces of the DUP Leader Nigel Dodds, who is well aware of his position in TV shot behind the Lib Dem leader, and is happy to exploit it. Sir Vince faltered and the PM was dismissive.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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End of twitter post 9 by BBC Daily Politics and Sunday Politics\n\nOutside the questions from party leaders, the PM was clearly briefed on the Conservative backbench questions on cancer, hospital safety, stem cells and other issues - and had some announcements to make in answer.\n\nA classic of the genre was her answer to Tom Pursglove, where she had chapter and verse on his marathon-running and the constituency charities it benefited. For an MP in a traditionally marginal seat, this provided a positive story for his local press - a valuable bonus.\n\nAn audio download of some of the key exchanges, and what Andrew Neil and his Daily Politics guests made of the exchanges.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Liz Rawlings This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Mark van Dongen had told his father Kees that he was scared of Berlinah Wallace\n\nWarning: this story contains vivid descriptions of dreadful injuries.\n\nBerlinah Wallace has been convicted over an acid attack on her former partner, Mark van Dongen, that left him so badly disfigured he chose to end his life. BBC News examines the extraordinary price he paid for rejecting her.\n\nWhen Dr Nic White first saw Mark van Dongen in the street in the early hours of 23 September 2015, in only his underwear, she thought he'd played a prank by covering his face in mud.\n\nShe said: \"I was woken by the sound of somebody shouting: 'Help me, somebody help me, please.'\n\n\"I looked out of the window and there was a guy standing there in his boxer shorts and he looked a really odd colour from his head down to his shoulders.\n\n\"My doorbell rang a few times and I knew there was something desperate going on, and it was him.\n\n\"He looked like he was covered in a clay sort of mud, which I later realised was his skin melting.\"\n\nWallace was cleared of murder and manslaughter but convicted of applying a corrosive fluid\n\nThe night before, 28-year-old Mr van Dongen had arrived at Wallace's flat, in the affluent Westbury Park area of Bristol, to reiterate that their five-year relationship was over - and to say he was moving in with his new girlfriend, 46-year-old Violet Farquharson.\n\nIt followed multiple break-ups between Mr van Dongen and Wallace, and mixed signals from him about whether they had a future together.\n\nIn the weeks preceding the acid attack, the engineer had reported Wallace, now 48, to the police for harassment and blackmail, saying she had made 14 silent phone calls to Miss Farquharson and kept threatening to kill herself.\n\nHe had also told his father he was scared of Wallace, who had once poured boiling water on him, while friends at work said they had seen scratches he said had been inflicted by Wallace during a jealous rage.\n\nSo perhaps it was surprising he decided to stay the night at her flat - it was a choice he would bitterly regret.\n\nAnother of Wallace's neighbours, Thomas Sweet, left his flat armed with a golf club as he feared violence and wanted to be able to defend himself.\n\nHe said: \"I heard what sounded like foxes fighting.\n\n\"It sounded like someone in a lot of pain, shouting: 'Help me.'\"\n\nEleanor Elcocks was also woken by the screaming.\n\nShe said: \"He was shouting and screaming and saying: 'Help me, I'm going to die.'\"\n\nEach day Nic White would see the marks Mr van Dongen left on her doorbell, as the acid seared into the metal while it simultaneously melted his skin\n\nThe neighbours phoned 999 and walked Mr van Dongen to a shower at a building around the corner on Ladysmith Road - unwittingly taking him back towards Wallace's flat.\n\nMr Sweet said: \"He became distressed and was saying: 'She lives there, she lives there.'\n\n\"We reassured him we were taking him to a different flat.\"\n\nMr Sweet said under the bathroom light it was clear Mr van Dongen had dreadful injuries.\n\n\"I told him the police were on their way.\n\n\"He said: 'They need to be here, she needs to pay.'\"\n\nMr van Dongen and Wallace, who were both HIV positive, had met on a dating site for people with the virus\n\nParamedic Dean Carter said he arrived at the scene to find Mr van Dongen with chemical burns to his face, abdomen, chest and thighs.\n\n\"Mr van Dongen kept repeating: 'I can't see'. At one point he asked me if he still had eyelids,\" Mr Carter said.\n\nHe said Mr van Dongen was frothing at the mouth with what looked like \"grey-coloured paint\".\n\nPC Thomas Green, one of the first police officers to arrive at the scene, described how Mr van Dongen's eyes had turned grey, adding that \"the irises had essentially dissolved\".\n\nHe travelled in the ambulance with Mr van Dongen, who was \"screaming in pain\" as he was administered gas and air and pointing at a tattoo on his stomach that said \"Berlinah\".\n\n\"He said: 'Berlinah Wallace - she needs to go to prison for this.'\"\n\nMr van Dongen worked as an engineer in the construction industry\n\nPC Green said Mr van Dongen asked for officers to check on Miss Farquharson's welfare.\n\n\"He made reference to him being concerned that Berlinah was going to go to her house,\" PC Green said.\n\nWhen police arrived at Wallace's flat to arrest her, they found the fashion student sitting on her sofa.\n\nPC Mathew Griffin asked her what the substance she had thrown was.\n\n\"She said it was acid and then indicated to a glass on the floor and said she had been distressing some fabric,\" the officer said.\n\nMr van Dongen had been taken to a decontamination room in Southmead Hospital in Bristol where, according to Dr Rachel Oaten, he let out a blood-curdling scream on seeing his reflection.\n\n\"He said: 'Kill me now. If my face is going to be left looking like this I don't want to live.'\"\n\nWallace's trial heard how she had researched the effects of sulphuric acid\n\nIt took 10 days for police to trace his family in Belgium and so during this time he was alone in intensive care.\n\nWhen his brother Bartje van Dongen finally arrived at the hospital, he didn't recognise Mark.\n\nMr van Dongen spent two months in intensive care before being moved to Southmead's burns unit.\n\nDuring that time he suffered intense pain, recurrent septic chest infections, night terrors and post-traumatic stress disorder.\n\nBartje van Dongen has described his father as \"broken\"\n\nBartje van Dongen said: \"The continuous itching of his scars drove him out of his mind.\n\n\"On the arm all the muscle was gone, his bone was slowly being eaten away by the acid.\n\n\"My dad sat by his bed 22 hours a day scratching him and moving his arms to try to take the pain away.\"\n\nEach weekend Kees van Dongen would make the 800-mile road trip from Belgium to be by his son's bedside, sleeping in his van in the hospital car park, sometimes in freezing temperatures.\n\nEventually his marriage to Mark's and Bartje's stepmother broke down under the strain and he is now bankrupt. Bartje is fundraising to help his father rebuild his life.\n\nWallace said she believed she was throwing a glass of water\n\nBartje van Dongen said what Wallace did had ruined several lives.\n\n\"Once my dad was a very big man; now he is broken,\" he said.\n\nIt was a friend of the family who eventually helped to pay for Mark to be transferred to hospital in Overpelt, Belgium, so his father could be with him each day.\n\nOnce in Belgium, Mark applied for euthanasia, and, after a month, three doctors ruled that his \"unbearable physical and psychological suffering\" meant he was eligible.\n\nOn 2 January 2017, a catheter was inserted into his heart to allow the drugs that would stop his suffering to be administered. He was 29 years old.\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. Meet the women who travelled #HomeToVote on Friday\n\nIrish voters from around the world returned to cast their ballots in Friday's referendum on whether or not to repeal the country's Eighth Amendment. That clause in the Irish constitution in effect outlaws abortion by giving equal rights to the unborn.\n\nThe #HomeToVote hashtag has trended on Twitter for most of the weekend, as men and women shared their journeys home.\n\nFrom car shares, to offers of beds for the night, the movement was propelled by social media. A similar movement also took off ahead of the 2015 vote that legalised same-sex marriage.\n\nPeople on both sides of the argument travelled back to vote, but the movement was spearheaded by the London-Irish Abortion Rights Campaign - a pro-choice group that tried to mobilise an estimated 40,000 eligible emigrants.\n\nThe Eighth Amendment came into being after a 1983 referendum, so no-one under the age of 54 has voted on this before. For many, the vote was touted as a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to have their say on women's reproductive rights.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A warm welcome for people travelling #HometoVote in Dublin\n\nThousands of Irish women travel every year for abortion procedures in Britain. For women who made the reverse trip to vote Yes to repeal the Eighth, the journey held a lot of symbolism.\n\n\"I think of it every time I've travelled to and from the UK; it's always on my mind,\" 21-year-old student Bláithín Carroll said before boarding her plane back.\n\nBláithín Carroll says the vote is a chance for Ireland to \"really progress\" as a modern country\n\nKaren Fahy, 26, and Maria Mcentee, 24. travelled back from London to vote against the change.\n\nThey argue that young women opposed to abortion have been stigmatised for their views in the run-up to the referendum and believe many others like them have kept their opinions quiet.\n\n\"A lot of people don't want to get involved in the polarising debates online,\" Maria said. \"But you can kind of infer who is voting no, because they'll be the people who don't have repeal stickers on their picture or post things about repeal.\"\n\nThe 24-year-old said she had always been \"a bit indifferent\" to the abortion issue until she saw a campaign video showing a procedure.\n\nKaren Fahy (left) and Maria Mcentee (right) are a part of London-Irish United for Life\n\nCurrently living in the UK where abortion is legal (except in Northern Ireland), Karen said she had concerns about the proposal presenting abortion as \"the first and only choice\" for women with unplanned pregnancies.\n\n\"I don't want to see that coming to Ireland, and I think we can do a lot better,\" she said. \"We should be investing and providing support for women in crisis pregnancies.\"\n\n\"In those very difficult situations when there's a very severe disability, we should provide more child benefit and support women in education.\"\n\nAbortion is only currently allowed in Ireland when the woman's life is at risk, and not in cases of rape, incest or foetal-fatal abnormality (FFA).\n\nClara Kumagi, a keen repealer, has taken time off work in Tokyo to travel back thousands of miles to cast her vote. She was already on her way back there by Friday afternoon.\n\n\"I want to live in a country where I feel safe, where I know that I have the autonomy to make decisions about my own body,\" the 29-year-old said.\n\nClara says she always knew she wanted to return #HomeToVote to repeal, after being ineligible for the 2015 equal marriage ballot\n\n\"For me, the act of travelling was something that I felt was important to do. How many kilometres do Irish women travel every year? For me 10,000km felt like the least I could do.\"\n\nHer student brother also travelled travelling back from Stockholm to vote. Irish men living as far away as Buenos Aires and Africa have posted online about their journeys home. Pro-repeal men have shared their support for the movement using the #MenForYes hashtag.\n\nMother-of-three Amy Fitzgerald, 38, took three flights to return to Ireland from Prince Edward Island in Canada.\n\nAmy's flights were a birthday present bought by husband Padraig, whom she describes as her \"favourite feminist\"\n\n\"There's always people who will need an abortion,\" she said, reacting to accusations that the proposed new law could lead to abortion \"on demand\" as a back-up to contraception.\n\nThe government's proposed abortion bill would allow unrestricted terminations up to 12 weeks, with allowances made afterward on health grounds.\n\n\"No-one wants one until you actually need one. No little girl dreams of having one,\" Amy said.\n\nIrish actress Lauryn Canny, 19, who travelled back from LA to vote, said that that concern over abortion access loomed over her teenage years.\n\nShe recalls being \"constantly terrified\" of the risks of having sex while growing up.\n\n\"I remember one of my friends said: Well if I got pregnant, I would just commit suicide. I couldn't tell my Mam,\" she says.\n\nLauryn (second left) pictured with her sisters and mother, said every vote would count\n\n\"I have two baby sisters now, and they're six and seven, and I just really hope that when they are growing up they feel safer and feel like they're growing up in a more compassionate Ireland that will care for them if they're in crisis.\"\n\nLauryn was able to afford flights after her grandmother organised a \"whip-round\" to raise money.\n\nStudent Sarah Gillespie, 21, travelled back from the US to vote - but for the other side.\n\nShe felt so strongly about the issue that she cut short her time studying abroad in Pennsylvania to return to Ireland to canvas for a No vote.\n\nPhysics student Sarah rearranged her flights home to canvas against the repeal\n\nShe describes herself as a feminist, but believes the rights of the unborn should be considered too.\n\nHaving previously voted for marriage equality, she wants people to recognise that the issues are different, and that No voters were not simply voting according to strict religious beliefs.\n\n\"I would never judge or get angry at a woman who went abroad, I just wish there was better support here,\" Sarah said.\n\nShe hoped that, whatever the result, people respected the outcome.\n\nUnlike in other countries, most eligible voters outside Ireland had to physically travel back to cast their ballot.\n\nOnly those who have lived away for less than 18 months were legally entitled to take part in the referendum.\n\nBecause of that rule, Oxford University lecturer Jennifer Cassidy was ineligible to vote - but campaigned for repeal. Those ineligible used the #BeMyYes hashtag to encourage support for Yes.\n\nThe 31-year-old helped support the motion, alongside a number of Irish students\n\n\"I understand it to an extent - Ireland has a huge global community and policing that would be difficult,\" she said.\n\n\"But it seems illogical and counter-intuitive to the Irish narrative, which is one of emigrating for a while and then coming home.\"\n\nOxford University was one of several UK institutions whose student unions offered to help subsidise travel.\n\nUnder the current system, people are not routinely removed from Ireland's electoral register, so polling cards were being sent to the family homes of emigrants who were no longer eligible.\n\nIt was feared that if the result was close, people may have complained about the #HomeToVote movement and whether everyone was actually legal to vote.", "SpaceX rocket: Climbing above California before heading south towards Antarctica\n\nA joint US-German mission has gone into orbit to weigh the water on Earth.\n\nThe Grace satellites are replacing a pair of highly successful spacecraft that stopped working last year.\n\nLike their predecessors, the new duo will circle the globe and sense tiny variations in the pull of gravity that result from movements in mass.\n\nThese could be a signal of the land swelling after prolonged rains, or of ice draining from the poles as they melt in a warming climate.\n\nThe satellites were launched on Tuesday aboard a SpaceX rocket from the Vandenberg Air Force base in California.\n\nIt will take a number of weeks to prepare and test the spacecraft before they can start gathering data.\n\nThe satellites were assembled in Europe by Airbus\n\nThe first Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (Grace), which ran from 2002 to 2017, was widely regarded as transformative in the type of information it was able to gather, and maintaining the capability is now seen as a top priority for the American space agency (Nasa).\n\nThe follow-on mission again draws heavily on expertise from Europe, in particular from the German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ). Europe's biggest space company, Airbus, assembled the satellites at its factory in Friedrichshafen.\n\nThe Grace duo will obtain their data by executing a carefully calibrated pursuit in orbit.\n\nAs the lead spacecraft lurches and drags through the Earth's uneven gravity field, the second satellite will follow 220km behind, measuring changes in their separation to the nearest micron (a thousandth of a millimetre).\n\n\"That is about a tenth of the width of a human hair over the distance between Los Angeles and San Diego,\" Prof Frank Flechtner, the Grace-FO project manager at GFZ, told BBC News.\n\nWhat the Grace concept is brilliant at sensing is the big changes that occur in the hydrological cycle.\n\nGrace data can show whether agriculture is using groundwater in a sustainable way\n\nThese could, for example, be major movements of water from the ocean to the land during precipitation events.\n\n\"There was a period in 2011 when sea-level rise slowed down and went in the other direction very briefly,\" explained Nasa project project scientist Dr Frank Webb.\n\n\"From the Grace data we could see there were heavy rain seasons in Australia and South America, and that equivalent of mass was going into storage on land. Eventually, it was released back to the oceans and sea-level rise continued.\"\n\nThe ice sheets are losing about 400 gigatonnes to the oceans every year\n\nOne of the great contributions from the first Grace mission was to confirm the scale of change at the poles - to essentially weigh the ice sheets year on year.\n\nSatellites carrying altimeters can do this by measuring the change in shape of Antarctica and Greenland - but Grace provided completely independent insight through its gravity assessments. Antarctica was seen to be losing some 120 billion tonnes of ice a year; for Greenland, the figure was 280 billion tonnes.\n\n\"Mass loss from the ice sheets is an increasing contribution to total sea-level rise and, even though the poles are remote, this mass loss will have large impacts all around the world,\" said Prof Helen Fricker from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography.\n\n\"With the launch of Grace-FO, we can now continue to detect changes in the ice mass, to determine the extent to which ice is being lost, and find out if there has been any acceleration,\" she told BBC News.\n\nThe previous Grace pair used a microwave-ranging instrument to measure their separation.\n\nThe new satellites carry the same technology, but have now a laser system incorporated as well. It should give a roughly 10 times improvement in precision.\n\nAnd although this is unlikely to deliver an equivalent jump in the resolution of the gravity field, scientists are still hopeful they can get significant gains in performance.\n\nThe new pair will use both microwave and laser-ranging to measure their separation\n\nThe total cost for Grace-FO is on the order of $520m (€440m; £390m). The mission should work for at least five years.\n\nAs to what follows the follow-on, there is already talk about trying to widen involvement to include more EU member states.\n\nThis could eventually see a future Grace-like gravity mission pulled into the European Commission's Sentinel Earth-observation programme.\n\nThe same has already happened with the US-French Jason series, which has been measuring sea-surface height since 1992.\n\nFuture Jasons will be known as the Sentinel-6 mission - a status that has helped secure long-term funding.\n\n\"I think it's important we get an operational mission,\" commented Prof Flechtner.\n\n\"The 'e' in Grace stands for 'experiment', but the data is now being used for services, such as flood monitoring. My strong opinion is that it could be a Sentinel.\"\n\nTo be clear, however, the EC does not have a gravity option among the possibilities it is currently scoping for Sentinel expansion.\n\nJonathan.Amos-INTERNET@bbc.co.uk and follow me on Twitter: @BBCAmos", "The Brexit vote has left households worse off, Bank of England governor Mark Carney has said.\n\nThe vote to leave the European Union had lowered growth by \"up to 2%\", he told MPs on Tuesday.\n\nHowever, there could be a \"sharp pick-up\" in business investment when a Brexit agreement is struck, he said.\n\nMeanwhile, new figures showed the government finances have continued to improve, potentially giving the Chancellor more Budget spending power.\n\nGiving evidence to the Treasury Committee, Mr Carney said: \"Real household incomes are about £900 lower than we forecast in 2016. The question is why and what drove that difference. Some of it is ascribed to Brexit.\"\n\nAsked about the governor's comments on a visit to Argentina, Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson said: \"I believe the Chancellor of the Exchequer [Philip Hammond] has given an authoritative opinion on this matter, which is that it is absolutely not the case that Brexit has damaged the interests of this country.\"\n\nMr Carney said business investment was still being held back, but there was a chance of a \"sharp pick-up\" when the Brexit agreement is finalised.\n\n\"It's understandable why businesses are holding back - there's some big decisions that are about to be made - why wouldn't they want to wait until the path becomes clearer?\" he told MPs.\n\nMeanwhile, the government borrowed £7.8bn in April - the lowest figure for April since 2008, according to official figures.\n\nThe Office for National Statistics (ONS) also revised the borrowing figure for last year to £40.5bn, down from its previous estimate of £42.6bn.\n\nThe deficit was 2% of GDP last year - the lowest rate since 2002.\n\nWhen George Osborne took over as Chancellor in 2010, borrowing stood at 9.9% of GDP.\n\nSeveral years of austerity helped cut that figure and a policy of restricted spending has continued under Mr Hammond.\n\n\"The public finances were boosted in April by strong income tax receipts, which was helped by the strong rise in employment over the early months of 2018,\" noted Howard Archer, chief economic adviser to the EY Item Club.\n\nHow much money the Chancellor will have to play with will depend on how the economy performs this year.\n\nThe year got off to a disappointing start when bad weather restricted growth to just 0.1% in the first quarter.\n\nHowever, Mr Carney has reiterated his view that the slowdown is temporary: \"Our view is not that circumstances changed in the first quarter. It's more likely to have been temporary and idiosyncratic factors that slowed the economy.\"\n\nWith public sector net borrowing now £4.7bn below the Office for Budget Responsibility's official forecast - record levels of employment are keeping tax receipts healthy - a little bit of \"wriggle room\" has certainly opened up in the public finances.\n\nIf the trend continues, the government could announce more spending in the autumn Budget and still be on course to hit its own target of balancing borrowing and spending by the middle of the next decade.\n\nOf course there are many - including in the Labour Party - who say the Conservative focus on \"balancing the books\" and eliminating the deficit is the wrong approach and the government should borrow more to invest.\n\nAs the deficit falls, colleagues could become bolder in their spending requests.\n\nAnd the balance between keeping \"control\" of the public finances and loosening the spending reins may tip towards the latter.\n\nThe government has already made it clear the NHS is set for a major Budget boost.\n\nDetails of that are expected imminently.\n\nIf the economy does bounce back from its stupor in the first three months, as the Bank of England expects, then the chancellor could be rather more generous on spending by the end of the year than he may originally have expected.\n\nCorrection 5 July 2018: This article has been amended following a complaint to the BBC's Editorial Complaints Unit.", "Saffie-Rose Roussos was a \"beautiful, sensitive soul with an amazing magnetic personality\", her mother Lisa said.\n\nShe was at the arena with eight-year-old Saffie and was injured in the attack, as was Saffie’s elder sister, Ashlee Bromwich.\n\nShe said she would watch Saffie “with wonder”, adding that she loved to dance and make people laugh and would “leave little notes of 'I love you' everywhere”.\n\nSaffie’s father Andrew said she was his “perfect, precious beautiful daughter” who \"melted people's hearts\" with \"those big brown eyes\", adding: \"It's like the best artists got together and drew her from top to toe.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. David Lammy told the Today programme that Oxford University should offer a foundation year\n\nOxford University has apologised to David Lammy after retweeting a post labelling his criticism \"bitter\".\n\nThe original tweet, sent by a student, was in response to the Labour MP saying Oxford was \"a bastion of white, middle class, southern privilege\".\n\nMr Lammy asked if the tweet represented the university's official position - at which point a senior staff member apologised and took responsibility.\n\nThe row follows the university's report into its student population.\n\nOxford's director of public affairs, Ceri Thomas, said Mr Lammy's comments showed \"no sign of bitterness\" and there was \"work to do\" to improve diversity among students.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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\nMr Lammy's original remarks came as Oxford University data revealed eight of its 29 colleges included in the report accepted fewer than three black applicants in the past three years.\n\nThe university has a total of 38 colleges and permanent private halls.\n\nThe university said it was \"not getting the right number of black people with the talent to apply\".\n\nDirector of undergraduate admissions Dr Samina Khan told the BBC she was \"pushing hard\" on outreach activity to make sure those students felt welcome.\n\nMr Lammy told the BBC that Oxford was \"failing badly\".\n\nThe proportion of Oxford students identifying as black and minority ethnic was 18% in 2017, up from 14% in 2013. However, that figure still falls below the UK university average of 25%.\n\nThe most recent UK census showed 14% of the UK population identifies as black or minority ethnic.\n\nData in the university's report showed that, of the students that achieved three 'A' grades or higher in their A-levels nationwide, 20% identified as black and minority ethnic.\n\nOne college, Corpus Christi, which has around 350 students, admitted one black student resident in the UK in its 2015-2017 intakes.\n\nBalliol college, which has around 680 students, admitted two black students over the same period, despite receiving 46 applications.\n\nThe number of admissions from state schools, during the same period, rose by 1%, from 57% to 58%.\n\nThe report also showed a divide between the north and south of the UK.\n\nLondon and the South East made up 46.7% of UK applications between 2015 and 2017, (and 47.9% of students admitted) while the North East accounted for 2% (2.3% admitted).\n\nJust 11% of last year's Oxford undergraduates were from disadvantaged backgrounds\n\nSpeaking to Radio 4's Today programme, Mr Lammy said the university had to explain why - having looked at the data - a person was twice as likely to get in if they were white, not black.\n\nMr Lammy previously accused the university of \"social apartheid\", after a Freedom of Information request by him revealed 10 out of 32 Oxford colleges did not award a place to any black British pupil with A-levels in 2015.\n\nThis prompted more than 100 MPs to write to Oxford and Cambridge urging the universities to recruit more students from disadvantaged and under-represented backgrounds.\n\nReacting to the latest figures, Mr Lammy said the problem was \"self-perpetuating\".\n\n\"If you're on the 20th floor of a tower block estate and you're getting straight A's, you apply, go for a difficult interview.. you don't get in, then none of the other kids apply the following year.\"\n\n\"It's very elitist, very, very white,\" student Taiwo Oyebola said. \"For me, applying for Classics, I was very aware I'd be the only black person or one of a few people of colour.\"\n\n\"We have this joke in lectures, I go in and there's this group we call them the Eton row, because all the Eton boys sit there.\"\n\nJoshua Tulloch of the Oxford African and Caribbean students society said his organisation was involved in targeting younger black students.\n\n\"We have a vast access infrastructure which targets students from as young as Year 9,\" he said.\n\n\"The university is supporting us in making sure that we are visible and people can see that they can succeed in Oxford.\"\n\nOxford has said it must do more to attract talent from all backgrounds.\n\nThe university has agreed to a scheme which would fund the interview travel fees of applicants from disadvantaged backgrounds.\n\nIt said it is doubling its spring and summer schools, which work with students from under-represented backgrounds.\n\nThe best way to get news on the go", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. This video has been removed for rights reasons\n\nPhilip Roth began his career as an enfant terrible, whose fourth novel, Portnoy's Complaint, scandalised middle America.\n\nDecades later, he was the grand old man of American letters and many - perhaps including Roth himself - could not understand why he had not been awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.\n\nRoth wrote more than 30 novels about sex, death, art and politics, human weakness and imperfections and the experience of being Jewish in America.\n\nHis work often drew on his own life and frequently featured alter egos who bore a remarkable similarity to their creator (and sometimes shared his name).\n\nRoth's admirers considered him the greatest American novelist of the late 20th century, whose sparse but sensitive prose style they likened to Ernest Hemingway and William Faulkner.\n\nHis later novels in particular offered a fictional history of modern America that was sympathetic but unsparing in its attack on moral complacency and empty consumerism.\n\nPhilip Roth was born in 1933 in Newark, New Jersey, where many of his books were set. His parents were middle class first-generation Jewish immigrants from Europe.\n\nHe studied for a masters degree in English literature at the University of Chicago and began writing short stories.\n\nRevisiting his roots in Newark, New Jersey\n\nRoth's first book appeared in 1959. Goodbye Columbus was a collection of five stories and the title novella, a satirical tale of a nice middle-class Jewish boy's struggle to be assimilated into mainstream American society.\n\nIn a pattern that was to be repeated several times during Roth's career, it caused outrage in some quarters.\n\nHe was denounced for the unflattering portraits of some of the Jewish characters and accused of being a \"self-hating Jew\".\n\nOthers praised his wit and the liveliness with which he brought his world alive. The book won an award from the Jewish Book Council.\n\nThat controversy was as nothing to the storm that swirled around Portnoy's Complaint in 1969, a monologue supposedly delivered to his psychoanalyst by a \"lust-ridden, mother-addicted young Jewish bachelor\".\n\nIt was funny, explicit and for the time shockingly frank. There were attempts to ban the book in Australia and some US states, but it became a best-seller. Roth later said the book had \"put the id back into Yid\".\n\nThough Roth himself objected to being labelled a Jewish writer - \"If I am anything, I am an American writer,\" he protested - the Jewish experience was central to many of his later books.\n\nSeveral featured Nathan Zuckerman, first encountered in The Ghost Writer (1979) as a young man who apparently believes he has found Anne Frank (it seems she survived the Holocaust and was living in America).\n\nZuckerman appeared in 10 books in all, including two often numbered among Roth's best.\n\nIn American Pastoral (1997) Zuckerman narrates the tale of a former high school classmate, Swede Levov, whose teenage daughter rebels against her middle class background to become a terrorist in late 1960s America.\n\nIn The Human Stain (2000), Zuckerman tells the story of Coleman Silk, a college professor who is pilloried for a chance remark interpreted as racist, and who turns out himself to be a light-skinned African-American who has \"passed\" for white throughout his adult life.\n\nAnother alter ego, David Kepesh, appeared for the first time in a 1972 novel called The Breast, in which he awakes to find himself transformed into a giant breast.\n\nA character called \"Philip Roth\" appears in other books including The Plot Against America (2004), a counter-factual story set in the New Jersey of Roth's childhood in which the aviator and alleged Nazi sympathiser Charles Lindbergh, becomes US president and begins a programme of forced assimilation of American Jewry modelled on Nazi Germany.\n\nSeveral of his novels dealt with politics. Our Gang, published in 1971 straight after Portnoy's Complaint, is a political satire written almost entirely in dialogue with occasional stage directions.\n\nIn The Prague Orgy (1985) Zuckerman encounters the fragmented relationship between politics, sexuality and censorship in communist Czechoslovakia and in Operation Shylock (1993) \"Philip Roth\" travels to Israel to cover the trial of a former concentration camp guard, John Demjanjuk.\n\nPhilip Roth with former US President Barack Obama, who presented him with the National Humanities Medal in 2011\n\nI Married a Communist (1998) was set in the McCarthyite communist-hunting era of the 1950s and was reputedly prompted by Roth's failed marriage to the English actor Claire Bloom. She had persuaded him for a time to live in London, a city where he felt out of place.\n\nAnother admired novel, Sabbath's Theater (1995), featured as its protagonist an ageing sex-obsessed puppeteer and helped fuel complaints by Roth's detractors that he could be vain, grumpy, narcissistic and misogynistic.\n\nHis defenders argue that these apparently objectionable attributes are those of his fictional characters rather than of the author himself. In response to the claims of misogyny, they point out that his male characters are often depicted as weak, helpless and prey to the perversity of sexual desire.\n\nAs well as being a prolific writer, Roth was an academic, teaching creative writing at the Universities of Iowa and Princeton and later comparative literature at the University of Pennsylvania, until he retired in 1991.\n\nHe knew when to quit as a writer, too. In 2009 he gave up writing fiction and in 2014 he told the BBC he would make no more public appearances: \"I can guarantee you that this is my last appearance ever on television... absolutely [my] last appearance on any stage anywhere.\"\n\nHe had long since retired to rural Connecticut, where he re-read all his books back as far as Portnoy's Complaint, pronouncing himself broadly satisfied.\n\n\"I did the best I could with what I had,\" he told one interviewer, quoting the champion heavyweight boxer Joe Louis, adding that working at writing nearly every day for 50 years \"turns out to be an extremely taxing job and hardly the pleasantest of human activities\".", "Sophie Parker shares her story of being bullied for having a birthmark on her face. Her mum Frances stepped in and the bullying stopped.\n\nThe full interview can be viewed on the Victoria Derbyshire show on iPlayer.", "The chances of an interest rate rise this year have receded after Consumer Price Inflation fell to 2.4% in April - its lowest level since March 2017.\n\nThe fall from 2.5% in March was partly due to the timing of Easter, which meant a seasonal rise in air fares was not included in April this year.\n\nThe pound fell about half a cent against the dollar after the figures were released before rising to $1.3368.\n\nAnalysts now question the prospect of any rate rises this year.\n\n\"Inflation falling for the third month in a row further dents any hopes of a late-summer rate rise from the Bank of England,\" said Ben Brettell, senior economist at Hargreaves Lansdown.\n\nNeil Jones at Mizuho Bank said: \"It is starting to appear the weaker CPI is more structural and not just because of the bad weather. Brexit uncertainty continues to weigh and may indeed put the Bank on hold throughout the summer and beyond.\"\n\n\"The impact of recent increases in oil prices and previously announced hikes in utility tariffs should ensure that inflation proves more 'sticky' than it has done so far this year,\" he said.\n\n\"Against such a backdrop, and with the economy expected to recover in the second quarter, we expect the Bank of England to hike interest rates at its meeting in August.\"\n\nMike Hardie of the Office for National Statistics said the fall in inflation was partially offset by the rise in fuel prices, which are now at their highest level for three-and-a-half years.\n\nThe average price of petrol has risen to 127.22p a litre and diesel to 129.96p following a rapid rise in the cost of oil.\n\nThe figures did show the effect of the new sugar tax on soft drinks and juices.\n\nInflation keeps on coming in lower than expected. If you strip out volatile items such as food and fuel, then so-called \"core inflation\", Bank of England governor Mark Carney's preferred measure, is only 2.1% - barely above the 2% target.\n\nFrom being 90% sure a couple of months ago that a second interest rate rise would have happened by now, the markets now think it's unlikely before November.\n\nWhy raise rates even then? The thinking now is - inflationary pressures may have abated for now, but the Bank has to look two years ahead.\n\nAt the last count (first three months of the year), the average pay rise was 2.9% and it may go higher.\n\nThe pound has weakened against the dollar recently and if higher oil prices, priced in dollars, are here to stay, they are likely to push up the cost of imported goods.\n\nThe Bank isn't at all sure the threat from above-target inflation has gone for good.\n\nIn April, the pound climbed as high as $1.4325 on expectations that UK interest rates would soon be moving higher.\n\nHowever, since then, weaker economic data has reversed that thinking and the pound has fallen almost 7% from that April high.\n\nInflation on the Retail Prices Index (RPI) measure rose to 3.4%, from 3.3% in March.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Ravens and Jaguars defied President Trump at Wembley after his comments\n\nNFL teams will be fined if players kneel for the US national anthem under a new policy.\n\nThe American football league said players who do not stand for the Star-Spangled Banner can stay in the locker room until it has been performed.\n\nThe NFL also vowed to \"impose appropriate discipline on league personnel who do not stand and show respect for the flag and the Anthem\".​\n\nPlayers said the protests were against police brutality of African Americans.\n\n\"It was unfortunate that on-field protests created a false perception among many that thousands of NFL players were unpatriotic,\" said NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell in a statement accompanying Wednesday's new policy.\n\n\"This is not and was never the case. This season, all league and team personnel shall stand and show respect for the flag and the Anthem.\"\n\nNFL players were previously required to be on the field for the anthem, but there was no firm directive to stand during the song.\n\nThe policy includes the provision that clubs can develop their own rules - so long as they abide by the league's directive - to handle players who do not wish to stand.\n\nIt does not state how much clubs will be fined should their athletes protest on the field, but gives them the option to impose penalties on any player who breaks the new rules.\n\nThe statement comes a day after NFL teams pledged $90m (£67m) towards social justice initiatives, under an agreement reached with all 32 teams in the league.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Osi Umenyiora says Donald Trump is the one 'disrespecting the US flag'\n\nThe debate over the kneeling protests began in 2016, when San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick refused to stand for the anthem.\n\nSimilar demonstrations spread across the league, where most players are African American.\n\nThe protests began with San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick (c)\n\nSome kneeled, as Mr Kaepernick had done, while others linked arms to show solidarity for the movement.\n\nPresident Donald Trump was highly critical of the protests, calling them \"disgraceful\" and unpatriotic. He also urged the players to be fired.\n\nUS Vice-President Mike Pence walked out of an NFL game because players from Mr Kaepernick's team knelt during the anthem.\n\nDonald Trump started a staring contest with the NFL, and the NFL just blinked.\n\nWhat began as a few unscripted presidential comments at an Alabama campaign rally escalated into a public relations nightmare for America's most popular sports league, which saw its patriotism questioned from the White House bully pulpit.\n\nWithin a matter of weeks the NFL's popularity plummeted among conservatives and its financial bottom line was threatened - stark proof that Mr Trump can drive the opinions of his supporters even when his target is a national juggernaut that has spent years branding itself as a shared American cultural experience.\n\nNow protesting athletes, who always insisted they were kneeling to draw attention to the abused and ignored victims in American society, will have to save their demonstrations for the solitude of the pre-game locker room.\n\nOn the field, expressed love of anthem and flag will be mandatory.\n\nMr Trump holding a customised Patriots jersey he was presented with earlier this year\n\nThe NFL Players Association (NFLPA) issued a statement following the policy announcement saying they were not consulted.\n\n\"NFL players have shown their patriotism through their social activism, their community service, in support of our military and law enforcement and yes, through their protests to raise awareness about the issues they care about,\" the statement reads.\n\n\"The vote by NFL club CEOs today contradicts the statements made to our player leadership by Commissioner Roger Goodell and the Chairman of the NFL's Management Council John Mara about the principles, values and patriotism of our League.\"\n\nThe NFLPA also said it will be reviewing the policy and will challenge aspects that are inconsistent with the agreement in place between the league and the union.\n\nJed York, owner of the San Francisco 49ers team, abstained from voting on the new policy.\n\n\"I think there are a lot of reasons, and I'm not going to get into all of those reasons,\" Mr York told reporters, according to ESPN.\n\n\"But I think the gist of it is really that we want to make sure that everything that we're doing is to promote progress. And I think we've done a good piece of that so far.\"\n\nNew York Jets CEO and chairman Christopher Johnson said he prefers that players stand for the national anthem but will not make them pay any fines.\n\nMr Johnson told Newsday: \"I never want to put restrictions on the speech of our players\". He said the Jets would pay any fines associated with kneeling during the anthem and he would work with players on social justice issues.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by New York Jets This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and 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 New York Jets\n\nOn Twitter, Mr Pence voiced his support of the change with a succinct tweet that said: \"#Winning.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Vice President Mike Pence This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nNFL player Dominique Hamilton called the policy a step \"backwards\" for the league.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Dominique Hamilton This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nPresident Trump has repeatedly claimed credit for a ratings slide in the NFL. Last year the league saw a nearly 10% drop in viewership, according to Nielsen data. In 2016, there was an 8% decline.\n\nThough some fans appeared to tune out over the national anthem protests, other factors have also been cited.\n\nSome analysts blame the 2017 decline on the proliferation of games added through the expansion of Thursday Night Football.\n\nThe 2016 presidential election siphoned viewers while the league's domestic abuse scandal also played a role, according to a JD Power and Associates survey.\n\nLeague viewership figures were also declining even before the \"take a knee\" protests as more viewers dumped cable subscriptions.\n\nBut NFL games are still among the biggest television attractions. In 2017, NFL games accounted for 37 of the 50 most-watched programmes of the year, according to Nielsen.", "Bishop Curry speaks to the BBC's Religion Editor, Martin Bashir, about his royal wedding sermon.\n\nThe Most Reverend Curry of the US Episcopal Church quoted Martin Luther King during his 14-minute message and spoke about the power of love.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAn emotional memorial service marking the first anniversary of the Manchester Arena attack has been held.\n\nTwenty-two people were killed and hundreds injured when a bomb was detonated at the end of an Ariana Grande concert on 22 May 2017.\n\nPrince William and Prime Minister Theresa May joined families of victims at the Manchester Cathedral service.\n\nThe Dean of Manchester said it was for \"those whose lives were lost and those whose lives have been changed forever\".\n\nIt was broadcast to the crowds outside in Cathedral Gardens on a giant screen.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Who were the 22 victims of the Manchester Arena attack?\n\nWelcoming people to the service, the Very Reverend Rogers Govender said they had \"come together as people of different faiths and none\" to remember those affected by the attack.\n\nHe was followed by short addresses from a number of faith leaders, including Nidhi Sinha, Rabbi Warren Elf, Imam Irfan Chishti and Sukhbir Singh, and from humanist Dr Kevin Malone.\n\nThe Duke of Cambridge joined political leaders and the families of the victims at the service\n\nTwenty-two candles were lit in Manchester Cathedral for the victims\n\nA crowd also gathered in St Ann's Square, where tributes were laid a year ago\n\nIt also saw a bible reading from the Duke of Cambridge and performances from the Manchester Cathedral Choir and the Halle Youth Choir, who sang a rendition of Somewhere Over The Rainbow.\n\nThe service, which had been relayed live to screens in Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral, York Minster and Glasgow Cathedral, closed with a blessing from the Archbishop of York, Dr John Sentamu.\n\nAfter leaving the cathedral, Prince William, Mrs May and other political leaders, including Labour's Jeremy Corbyn, left messages on the \"Trees of Hope\" - a trail of trees which are being adorned with special tags for the anniversary.\n\nHundreds gathered in Cathedral Gardens to watch the service and those present spoke of love, not hate.\n\nTwo women hugged each other for support as two giant silver 22 balloons fluttered above them in the wind, while a teenage girl sobbed as photos of the victims were shown on a giant screen.\n\nTears rolled down a man's face behind his sunglasses, as he struggled to control his emotions.\n\nAnd as the Dean of Manchester announced the minute's silence, the whole crowd rose as one.\n\nPolice officers, firefighters, teens in Ariana Grande T-shirts and pensioners bowed their heads together and two men dressed in bee costumes stood next to a man waving an anti-IS banner.\n\nJust as it was a year ago, this was a city united.\n\nThe day of remembrance also included a national minute's silence at 14:30 BST and a mass sing-along in the city.\n\nAriana Grande, who recently called the attack \"the worst of humanity\", tweeted that she was \"thinking of you all\".\n\nThe singer, who headlined the One Love concert in Manchester less than two weeks after the terror attack, said on Twitter: \"I love you with all of me and am sending you all of the light and warmth I have to offer on this challenging day.\"\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\nRhiannon Graves, from Hull, was at the star's concert when the attack happened.\n\nJoining the throng outside the cathedral, the 17-year-old said she \"had to be here to show love and solidarity\".\n\n\"I had just left the concert arena when it went off - I'll never forget it.\"\n\nTributes to those who died have been left in a number of places across Manchester\n\nAfter the service, Prince William and Theresa May left messages on the Trees of Hope\n\nHer friend Lois Beaumont, 18, was also there and said she thought about it \"every day\".\n\n\"I wanted to come to show my respects for those who didn't make it or who were injured.\"\n\nA multi-faith group holding banners reading \"Manchester City United\" and \"Total Love\" were met with applause by those outside the cathedral.\n\nMohammed Khan, 66, said the group \"wanted to show solidarity with the victims\".\n\n\"We shall not be disunited. This attack was evil.\"\n\nCross-faith group #TurnToLove were greeted with applause outside the cathedral\n\nBefore the service, people who were caught up in what happened on the night have been sharing their reaction to the anniversary.\n\nAdam Lawler went to the concert with his friend Olivia Campbell-Hardy, who died in the suicide bombing.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'I'm going to try and live my best life'\n\nThe 16-year-old was hit by shrapnel and said he \"broke both my legs, lost seven teeth [and] nearly lost my right eye\".\n\n\"I regained vision in it, thanks to the amazing doctors. I nearly lost my tongue,\" he said.\n\n\"If I could go back in time, I would change everything. But I can't, so what I'm going to do is I'm going to try and live my best life.\n\n\"We won't be beaten because we're Manchester.\"\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\nDan Hett, whose brother Martyn died in the attack, told the BBC the support he had received had been \"overwhelming\".\n\nHe said he had been picked up off his feet and hugged by everyone from an \"old lady in a supermarket to a six-foot biker\".\n\nSpeaking before the memorial service, he said it illustrated the support which \"has come from every possible corner of Manchester\".\n\nHe also tweeted a photograph of him with his brother, which has been trending on social media, along with the hashtag #BeMoreMartyn.\n\nHundreds of people gathered outside the cathedral to watch the service\n\nElla McGovern, from Rossendale in Lancashire, suffered shrapnel wounds to her legs in the blast.\n\nThe 15-year-old has since climbed Ben Nevis and completed a 10k run.\n\nHer mother Louise McGovern said the anniversary would be \"extremely emotional\".\n\n\"I'm looking forward to being with everyone in Manchester - I think that will be very nice and positive - but I think I'm going to pack a few tissues.\"\n\nCath Hill says the Manchester Survivors' Choir want to \"make something positive out of this\"\n\nCath Hill, who is in Manchester Survivors' Choir, a group made up of people who were at the arena on the night of the concert, said while they had \"been through something really difficult... we do want to stand up and rise up and show everybody that we are carrying on\".\n\nDaren Buckley helped treat and comfort the wounded and dying\n\nDaren Buckley's life changed forever when the home-made device detonated metres away where he and his son were standing.\n\nYet the father of four's first instinct was not to flee, but to run to help the wounded.\n\nHe said: \"The scenes in the foyer I can't describe. It was like a nightmare.\"\n\nA year later he remains traumatised, saying: \"I have flashbacks. I must've died 200 times in my nightmares.\"\n\nGreater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham tweeted his support for everyone affected by the explosion.\n\n\"Today we come together, we remember each of the 22 people whose lives were taken,\" 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 3 by Andy Burnham This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nDan Smith, the second paramedic to arrive at the scene of the attack, said it would be a \"difficult day [as] this date will never be the same again\".\n\nHe said he did not want to dwell on the \"devastation\", but focus on the \"positives\" from the night, the lives that were saved and the amazing response from Manchester and beyond.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Eight-year-old Saffie Roussos was one of 22 people killed in the Manchester arena attack.\n\nIn a statement on Facebook issued ahead of her attending the service, Mrs May said the attack had been \"designed to strike at the heart of our values and our way of life, in one of our most vibrant cities, with the aim of breaking our resolve and dividing us. It failed\".\n\n\"As we gather in Manchester Cathedral... we will join in solidarity to remember the 22 children and adults who so tragically lost their lives that night.\n\n\"We will pause to think of their friends and family, of the many who were injured and to pay tribute to those who have come to their aid, offered support, expertise and kindness.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Diane Abbott This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 5 by Caroline Lucas This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nManchester United stars Ashley Young and Jesse Lingard were among the city's sports stars sharing their thoughts.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nCelebrities have also paid tribute to the victims of the attack on social media.\n\nManchester-born actress and Strictly Come Dancing star Gemma Atkinson posted a picture on Instagram of the Manchester bee symbol, which became an image of defiance and solidarity in the aftermath of the attack, while stars of the Manchester-based soap Coronation Street, including Lucy Fallon and Daniel Brocklebank, also paid tribute.\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 glouiseatkinson This article contains content provided by Instagram. 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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.\n\nCommunities all over Manchester joined in the silence, including people at Didsbury Mosque\n\nEngland's cricketers paused to observe the silence during a practice session at Lord's\n\nPeople attending RHS Chelsea Flower Show also stopped to pay their respects\n\nYou can view special coverage of the \"Manchester Together\" commemoration event between 19:00 and 21:00 BST on the BBC news channel or via the BBC News website.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The four artists competing for this year's Turner Prize have been announced with investigative art, works blurring fact and fiction and explorations of oppression dominating the shortlist.\n\nThe nominees are Lawrence Abu Hamdan, who is British but based in Beirut, London-based Helen Cammock and Tai Shani and Colombian Oscar Murillo.\n\nTheir works will go on show at the Turner Contemporary in Margate from 28 September until January 2020.\n\nThe winner is announced on 3 December.\n\nArts editor Will Gompertz has been looking at the artists and their work.\n\nBeirut-based Lawrence Abu Hamdan is an artist more interested in the ear than the eye. He thinks of himself as an \"audio investigator\" who makes films, installations, and gives performative lectures based on earwitness (not eyewitness) accounts from oppressed individuals, or, in another project, from racially-profiled individuals who are being judged on the basis of how they pronounce certain words or syllables.\n\nHelen Cammock is also interested in sound and history. She too makes films and gives spoken word performances.\n\nBut her area of investigation is past events and their histories; not a single, definitive written account but a variety of views and texts, which can be perceived differently when spoken by other people.\n\nFellow London-based artist Tai Shani shares Cammock's interest in the written word and associated assumptions, depending on the gender and perceived status of the author.\n\nShe also organises performances, makes films, and creates installations.\n\nThe difference with Shani is she's not that interested in multiple viewpoints of history, more in creating alternative, almost gothic worlds that blur fact and fiction, or truth and myth, with the intention of disrupting a real world dominated by, and centred around, a white, western, male point of view.\n\nOscar Murillo is a Colombian-British artist and the most established name on the shortlist.\n\nHe became an instant art world hit when he first emerged on the scene six years ago. His work made huge sums for a relatively unknown 20-something artist.\n\nThings cooled for a bit - but now he's back, with his semi-abstract paintings on unstretched canvasses hanging limply like curtains in a bedsit with too few hooks.\n\nThey are, in a way, more like objects in an installation than pictures to put on a wall. He, like his fellow nominees, is exploring the politics of identity, oppression, and marginalised people.\n\nThe winner will be announced on 3 December 2019 at an award ceremony broadcast live on the BBC.\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 Athletics\n\nPotentially one of the most pivotal moments in modern sport occurred not on a track, pitch or court, but in a plush office building in the Swiss city of Lausanne on Wednesday.\n\nThe Court of Arbitration for Sport (Cas) rejected Caster Semenya's challenge of rules meaning athletics' world governing body can restrict testosterone levels in female runners.\n\nIn short, one of the most dominant stars of modern athletics.\n\nA double Olympic gold medallist and three-time world champion over 800m, the 28-year-old South African has won her past 29 races over the distance.\n\nHowever, since her rise from unknown teenager to world champion in 2009, her gender, and possible advantages in her biology, have come under scrutiny.\n\nThe results of gender testing carried out 10 years ago have not been made public, although media reports claimed it showed both male and female characteristics including a higher-than-normal level of testosterone.\n\nThe International Association of Athletics Federations, which runs the sport, proposed a rule to restrict the level of testosterone permitted in female runners in events between 400m and a mile.\n\nWhat are disorders/differences of sex development (DSD)?\n\nPeople with a DSD do not develop along typical gender lines.\n\nTheir hormones, genes, reproductive organs may be a mix of male and female characteristics.\n\nThe term \"disorders\" is controversial with some of those affected preferring the term \"intersex\" and referring to \"differences in sex development\".\n\nWhat next after diagnosis?\n\nMost people with a DSD stay with the gender they were assigned as a baby. However others, who feel their assigned gender doesn't represent who they are, may choose to change their gender.\n\nPeople with a DSD may be infertile and need hormone therapy and psychological support to help them come to terms with their condition.\n\nWhat about elite athletes like Semenya?\n\nResearch commissioned by the IAAF showed in 2017 that female athletes with elevated testosterone had \"a competitive advantage\", claiming that high testosterone was responsible for as much as 3% improvement in runners.\n\nHowever those findings were contested by Semenya and her team.\n\nThey claim it is not clear how much DSD athletes benefit from their naturally higher levels of testosterone.\n\nDuring the early 1990s, Spanish hurdler Maria Jose Martinez-Patino successfully fought against a ban imposed after she was discovered to have XY chromosomes typically seen in men.\n\nShe demonstrated that her condition made her insensitive to the 'excess' testosterone in her blood.\n\nWhy is Semenya's case so important?\n\nSport has traditionally been divided into male and female categories, but Semenya's case and the science it has brought to the fore shows it may be an artificially binary distinction.\n\nIt had been suggested that, had the verdict gone against the IAAF, athletics might have introduced an 'open' category that men and women could, in theory, compete in side by side, and a 'protected' category based on hormone levels, rather than gender.\n\nAnd what about the future for Semenya now she has lost the case?\n\nA leading sport scientist has suggested she would be five to seven seconds slower over 800m if she reduces her testosterone in line with the proposed limits.\n\nShe could change to a longer distance. She has run the 5,000m twice this season, winning on both occasions.", "Link is increasing the fee it pays cash machine operators to keep remote free-to-use machines available.\n\nOperators will be offered up to £2.75 per withdrawal to persuade them to keep at-risk machines free.\n\n\"It is vital we continue to provide free access to cash to those who need it,\" said Link chief John Howells.\n\nBut Jenni Allen of Which? said: \"Boosting premiums for remote machines has so far not been enough to stop cashpoints closing around the country.\"\n\nMany of the machines are in deprived areas where cash use is higher, which means locals are hit if ATMs are withdrawn or a charge is introduced.\n\nLast year Which? claimed that 300 ATMs were closing a month, although the consumer group's analysis was disputed by Link.\n\nLink, the UK largest ATM network, said last summer that machines in remote locations could receive an extra subsidy, particularly if they are threatened with closure.\n\nToday it has announced a new super premium which will be introduced in April.\n\nIt will be offered to around 3,500 free-to-use ATMs that are currently 1km or more away from the nearest free-to use ATM, with between 50 and 100 eligible for the full £2.75 subsidy.\n\nCurrently, operators of eligible ATMs receive a top-up subsidy of up to 30p through Link's financial inclusion programme.\n\n\"These premiums will further safeguard ATMs in remote and less well-off areas,\" said Mr Howells.\n\nKaris Burns works at one of Britain's remotest cash machine locations\n\nOne of Britain's remotest cash machines is on Britain's most northerly island, Unst.\n\nIt's part of the Shetland Islands, north of Scotland and has an estimated population of 632.\n\nKaris Burns, pictured above, who works at P&T Coaches which houses the only cash machine on Unst, says: \"It's quite important to have a cash machine here, the only other place to get cash is at the local post office about half a mile away.\"\n\nShe said the machine is used \"about six or seven times a day, although in the summertime it's used a bit more\".\n\nThe summer usage is boosted by tourists who visit Unst, although Karis admits: \"We're quite remote.\"\n\nThe cost of taking out cash at the machine is £1.99.\n\nAccording to Link, Britain's remotest free-to-use machine is at Lloyds Bank branch in St Mary's on the Isle of Scilly (pictured).\n\nIt's 50km away from the next nearest ATM, at Penzance on the mainland, a ferry ride away.\n\nThere's just one ferry operator which sails up to seven times a week, with the journey taking a minimum of 2 hours and 45 minutes.\n\nLink's move follows a row over plans for a phased reduction in interchange rates, the fee operators receive from banks.\n\nThe fee is being cut from 25p to 20p over the next three years but the move which led to accusations that \"cash deserts\" could be created as operators shut less lucrative machines.\n\nThere are more than 50,000 free-to-use ATMs across the UK - and the vast majority will not be eligible for the new super premiums.\n\nCurrently, around 3,500 ATMs are protected - because they are more than 1km away from the next nearest free machine or are located in particularly deprived parts of the country where access to cash is vital.\n\nAround £100bn is spent in shops using coins and notes every year, according to the Federation of Small Businesses.\n\nIts national chairman Mike Cherry said the launch of the super-premiums \"highlight the fundamental failures of our ATM market\".\n\nHe said: \"The Payment Systems Regulator must now intervene and help the industry formulate a long-term strategy for maintaining free access to cash right across the UK.\"\n\nMs Allen of Which? Money agreed, saying: \"What is urgently needed is for a regulator to be given a duty to protect access to cash, so that the millions of people who rely on it in their lives are protected from rapid changes through ATM and bank branch closures.\"\n• None Thousands of cash machines may be axed", "As a relatively new defence secretary, Gavin Williamson once said that Russia should \"go away and shut up\".\n\nWell, the prime minister has told him to go away because in her view, he did not shut up.\n\nIn a leak investigation, that has broken the precedent of most leak investigations that end up with precisely no result at all, a rapid hunt of just a few days has resulted in the sacking of one of the most senior ministers in government, and one of the few ministers frankly, that the prime minister could more or less rely on.\n\nMr Williamson was for a while chief whip too, the keeper of the government's secrets.\n\nAnd, crucially, one of the few ministers who had good relations with the DUP. Indeed, brokering a deal on Theresa May's behalf in the wreckage of the 2017 general election.\n\nBut there was also a lot of resentment and frustration in government circles at how he sometimes behaved, suspicion often that he was too quick to seek his own political advantage, too interested in his own future, too entertained by the dark arts of Westminster.\n\nThat meant that as soon as the Huawei story broke, fingers were being privately pointed to him as the source of the leak. \"Operation get Gav\", as one of his allies described it.\n\nMinisters were quick to write to Number 10 demanding a full inquiry, some of them privately fuming that \"it must have been Williamson\".\n\nNumber 10 now says there was \"compelling evidence\" to prove that it was him.\n\nOfficials carrying out the inquiry did look at his phone.\n\nHe did, by his own admission, have a conversation on the particular day with the journalist who broke the story.\n\nDowning Street has made a very serious accusation and is sure enough to carry out this sacking.\n\nFor the prime minister's allies, it will show that she is, despite the political turmoil, still strong enough to move some of her ministers around - to hire and fire.\n\nMr Williamson is strenuously still denying that the leak was anything to do with him at all.\n\nThere is nothing fond, or anything conciliatory, in either the letter from the prime minister to him, or his reply back to her.\n\nAnd having had a fractious relationship with the National Security Adviser and Cabinet Secretary, Sir Mark Sedwill, some of Mr Williamson's friends believe that those looking into the affair were simply too quick to conclude the former defence secretary was responsible, treating him differently in this short investigation, compared to others who were on the list.\n\nOne senior Conservative also points out a rich irony here, saying: \"A government that governs by open leaking then sacks someone for not being open about their leaking. We have surely moved from the incompetent to the theatre of the absurd!\"\n\nThese are strange times indeed.", "Baby orangutans on the island of Sumatra are being captured and sold as pets, but charities are working to rescue the animals and confront the owners.\n\nThis is a series about the animals of Indonesia's Leuser rainforest and the people trying to save them. Leuser is one of the most biodiverse places on earth.\n\nPart one of a five part series.\n\nAdditional camerawork and production support by Shinta Retnani, Haryo Wirawan and Irendra Radjawali.\n\nFind out more about why palm oil is so controversial.", "Julian Assange is fighting extradition to the US\n\nTo his supporters, Julian Assange is a valiant campaigner for truth. To his critics, he is a publicity seeker who has endangered lives by putting a mass of sensitive information into the public domain.\n\nAssange is described by those who have worked with him as intense, driven and highly intelligent, with an exceptional ability to crack computer codes.\n\nHe set up Wikileaks, which publishes confidential documents and images, in 2006, making headlines around the world in April 2010 when it released footage showing US soldiers shooting dead 18 civilians from a helicopter in Iraq.\n\nBut later that year he was detained in the UK - and later bailed - after Sweden issued an international arrest warrant over allegations of sexual assault.\n\nSwedish authorities wanted to question him over claims that he had raped one woman and sexually molested and coerced another in August 2010, while on a visit to Stockholm to give a lecture.\n\nHe says both encounters were entirely consensual, and a long legal battle ensued which saw him seek asylum in the Ecuadorean embassy in London to avoid extradition.\n\nAfter spending almost seven years inside the embassy, Assange was arrested by British police on 11 April 2019. It came after Ecuadorean President Lenín Moreno tweeted that his country had taken \"a sovereign decision\" to withdraw his asylum status.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Julian Assange being dragged from the Ecuadorean embassy in London\n\nThe Wikileaks founder had always argued that he could not leave the embassy because he feared being extradited from Sweden to the US and put on trial for releasing secret US documents.\n\nOfficers removed him from the embassy's premises and took him into custody at a central London police station.\n\nOn 1 May 2019, Assange was sentenced to 50 weeks in jail for breaching his bail conditions.\n\nWeeks later, an investigation into the 2010 rape allegation against Assange was reopened by Swedish prosecutors.\n\nAssange gestures with a thumbs up after he was arrested by Met Police officers at Ecuador's embassy in London\n\nLater that month, the US filed 17 new charges against Assange for violating the Espionage Act, related to the publication of classified documents in 2010.\n\nWikileaks said the announcement was \"madness\" and \"the end of national security journalism\".\n\nAs Assange prepared to fight against extradition to the US, Swedish prosecutors announced that the investigation into the 2010 rape allegation had been dropped.\n\nProsecutors said the evidence against Assange was \"not strong enough to form the basis for filing an indictment\", ending a case that spanned a decade.\n\nIn April 2020 it emerged that Assange had fathered two children while living inside the Ecuadorean embassy.\n\nStella Morris, a South African-born lawyer, said she had been in a relationship with the Wikileaks founder since 2015 and was raising their two young sons on her own.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Julian Assange’s fiancée says she dreaded going public with their relationship\n\nCurrently jailed in London's Belmarsh Prison, Assange's legal fight against extradition to the US continues.\n\nDuring one extradition hearing in September 2020, a psychiatrist said Assange complained of hearing imaginary voices and music.\n\nMichael Kopelman, who had interviewed Assange about 20 times, told the court he would be a \"very high\" suicide risk if he were extradited to the US.\n\nAssange has been generally reluctant to talk about his background, but media interest since the emergence of Wikileaks has thrown up some insight into his influences.\n\nHe was born in Townsville in the Australian state of Queensland in 1971, and led a rootless childhood while his parents ran a touring theatre. He became a father at 18 and custody battles soon followed.\n\nThe development of the internet gave him a chance to use his early promise at maths, though this too led to difficulties.\n\nAfter pleading guilty to \"hacking\", Assange escaped prison on the condition he did not reoffend\n\nIn 1995 Assange was accused, with a friend, of dozens of hacking activities. Though the group of hackers was skilled enough to track detectives tracking them, Assange was eventually caught and pleaded guilty.\n\nHe was fined several thousand Australian dollars - only escaping a prison term on the condition that he did not reoffend.\n\nHe then spent three years working with an academic, Suelette Dreyfus - who was researching the emerging, subversive side of the internet - writing a book with her, Underground, that became a bestseller in the computing fraternity.\n\nMs Dreyfus described Assange as a \"very skilled researcher\" who was \"quite interested in the concept of ethics, concepts of justice, what governments should and shouldn't do\".\n\nThis was followed by a course in physics and maths at Melbourne University, where he became a prominent member of a mathematics society, inventing an elaborate puzzle that contemporaries said he excelled at.\n\nHe began Wikileaks in 2006 with a group of like-minded people from across the web, creating a web-based \"dead-letterbox\" for would-be leakers.\n\n\"[To] keep our sources safe, we have had to spread assets, encrypt everything, and move telecommunications and people around the world to activate protective laws in different national jurisdictions,\" Assange told the BBC in 2011.\n\n\"We've become good at it, and never lost a case, or a source, but we can't expect everyone to go through the extraordinary efforts that we do.\"\n\nHe could go for long stretches without eating and focus on work with very little sleep, according to Raffi Khatchadourian, a reporter for the New Yorker magazine who spent several weeks travelling with him.\n\n\"He creates this atmosphere around him where the people who are close to him want to care for him, to help keep him going. I would say that probably has something to do with his charisma.\"\n\nWikileaks and Assange came to prominence with the release of the footage of the US helicopter shooting civilians in Iraq.\n\nHe promoted and defended the video, as well as the massive release of classified US military documents on the Afghan and Iraq wars in July and October 2010.\n\nThe whistleblowing website went on to release new tranches of documents, including five million confidential emails from US-based intelligence company Stratfor.\n\nBut it also found itself fighting for survival in 2010, when a number of US financial institutions began to block donations.\n\nAssange told the BBC that in order to protect sources he would \"encrypt everything\"\n\nCoverage of Assange was then dominated by Sweden's efforts to question him over the 2010 sexual allegations. He said such efforts were politically motivated and part of a smear campaign.\n\nAssange turned to then Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa for help, the two men having expressed similar views on freedom in the past.\n\nHis stay at the Ecuadorean embassy was punctuated by occasional press statements and interviews. He made a submission to the UK's Leveson Inquiry into press standards, saying he had faced \"widespread inaccurate and negative media coverage\".\n\nConcerns over his health also surfaced but in August 2014, but Assange dismissed reports that he would be leaving the embassy to seek medical treatment.\n\nAssange later complained to the UN that he was being unlawfully detained as he could not leave the embassy without being arrested.\n\nIn February 2016, a UN panel ruled in his favour, stating that he had been \"arbitrarily detained\" and should be allowed to walk free and compensated for his \"deprivation of liberty\".\n\nAssange dismissed reports in 2014 that he would be leaving the embassy to seek medical treatment\n\nAssange hailed it a \"significant victory\" and called the decision \"binding\", leading his lawyers to call for the Swedish extradition request to be dropped immediately.\n\nThe ruling was not legally binding on the UK, however, and the UK Foreign Office responded by saying it \"changes nothing\".\n\nIn 2016, Sweden's chief prosecutor Ingrid Isgren travelled to the Ecuadorean embassy in London to question Assange over the 2010 rape allegation. Prosecutors had already dropped their investigation into the sexual assault allegations after running out of time to question him and bring charges.\n\nSince Sweden dropped its investigation into Assange, the European Arrest Warrant for him no longer stands.\n\nBut the Metropolitan Police said Assange still faced the lesser charge of failing to surrender to a court in June 2012, an offence punishable by up to a year in prison or a fine.\n\nAnd it was a warrant based on this charge which led to his arrest in 2019. Citing the warrant issued by Westminster Magistrates' Court on 29 June 2012, the Metropolitan Police said Assange had been \"taken into custody at a central London police station where he will remain, before being presented before Westminster Magistrates' Court as soon as possible\".\n\nMet Police officers dragged Assange out of the Ecuadorian embassy in London, where he had stayed since 2012\n\nThe police said they had been invited into the embassy by the Ecuadorean ambassador.\n\nEcuador's position vis-à-vis Assange changed after President Correa, a strong advocate of Wikileaks, was succeeded in office by Lenín Moreno.\n\nMr Moreno and his government had grown increasingly frustrated with Assange and his refusal to follow the rules they had imposed for his continued stay in the embassy.\n\nIn his video statement, President Moreno said he had \"inherited this situation\" and that Assange had ignored Ecuador's requests to \"respect and abide by these rules\".\n\nFrom the embassy's balcony in 2012, Assange urged the US to end its \"witchhunt\" against Wikileaks\n\nHis decision, Mr Moreno said, followed \"repeated violations to international conventions and daily-life protocols\" by Assange.\n\nHe said that in particular, Assange had \"violated the norm of not intervening in the internal affairs of other states\", most recently in January 2019 when Wikileaks had released documents from the Vatican.\n\nIn a video statement, President Moreno also said that he had requested that Great Britain guarantee that Assange would not be extradited to a country where he could face torture or the death penalty.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Merseyside Police said the girl remains in hospital with a serious head injury\n\nA two year-old girl has been shot in the head with a crossbow bolt at a house in Liverpool.\n\nThe child was hurt at a home on Oakhouse Park in the Walton area of the city on Tuesday afternoon when a \"crossbow was discharged\", police said.\n\nThe weapon involved has been seized and was being forensically examined, but no arrests have been made.\n\nThe girl remains in hospital with a serious head injury, Merseyside Police added.\n\nDet Insp Sabi Kaur said: \"I am sure the community in Walton will share our shock and distress at the fact a child could have been hurt in this way.\n\n\"Our inquiries are at a very early stage and we are still trying to establish the full facts, but we know it was an isolated incident.\"\n\n\"This incident shows the obvious dangers posed by [weapons] stored in Merseyside.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Mohamed Noor was taken into custody upon his conviction\n\nA former policeman in the US state of Minnesota has been found guilty of murdering an unarmed Australian woman.\n\nMohamed Noor shot Justine Ruszczyk Damond as she approached his patrol car to report a possible rape behind her Minneapolis home on 15 July 2017.\n\nNoor, 33, testified last week that he opened fire because he feared he and his partner were being ambushed.\n\nMs Damond, 40, a yoga instructor from Sydney, was engaged and was due to marry a month after the shooting.\n\nThe death drew international criticism and Australia's prime minister at the time, Malcolm Turnbull, said it was \"inexplicable\".\n\nNoor was handcuffed and taken into custody immediately upon being convicted by a jury on Tuesday of third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter.\n\nHe was acquitted of the most serious charge of second-degree murder with intent to kill.\n\nThe trial heard the victim, a dual US-Australian citizen, lay dying from a gunshot wound just over a minute after ending a phone conversation with her fiance.\n\nShe had told Don Damond that police had just arrived after she called them to report a possible sexual assault in the alley behind their home. No such attack was ever found to have occurred.\n\nNoor took the stand last week to say he recalled seeing a blonde female in a pink T-shirt approach his squad car on the night of the shooting.\n\nHe said he believed there was an imminent threat after he heard a loud bang and saw Ms Damond with her right arm raised.\n\nNoor said his partner, Officer Matthew Harrity, shouted \"Oh Jesus!\" and fumbled with his gun in its holster before \"he turned to me with fear in his eyes\".\n\nThe defendant said he \"had to make a split-second decision\" and shot Ms Damond across his partner through the car window.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Justine Damond's family hold a silent vigil at a beach in Sydney last year\n\nNoor told the court that upon realising he had shot an unarmed woman he \"felt like my whole world came crashing down\".\n\nProsecutors questioned whether the loud bang was real, pointing out that neither Noor nor his partner initially mentioned anything at the scene about hearing such a noise.\n\nMs Damond's fingerprints were not found on the squad car, the court heard.\n\nShe had moved to the Midwestern city to marry her boyfriend, Don Damond, and had adopted his surname ahead of their nuptials.\n\nMr Damond was in Las Vegas, Nevada, when investigators called him to say she was dead.\n\nHe told the court he learned from a second phone call that she had been shot by a police officer.\n\nMr Damond said contacting her family in Australia to tell them the news was the \"worst phone call\" he ever had to make.\n\nNoor is a former Somalian refugee whose family moved to the US and settled in Minneapolis.\n\nHe joined the police force in 2015, but was sacked after being charged in the shooting.\n\nThe fallout also cost Minneapolis Police Chief Janeé Harteau her job and was a factor in the election defeat of the city's mayor a few months later.\n\nThe Damond family have filed a civil lawsuit against the city and several police officers seeking $50m (£38m) in damages.\n\nMinneapolis Police Chief Medaria Arradondo apologised to Damond's friends and family in a statement released after Tuesday's verdict was read.\n\n\"This was indeed a sad and tragic incident that has affected family, friends, neighbours, the City of Minneapolis and people around the world, most significantly in her home country of Australia,\" he said.", "Derek Martindale was given a year to live\n\nIt has been a long time coming - more than three decades to be precise.\n\nAt long last a full public inquiry into the infected blood scandal has started a process which will attempt to give victims and their families some answers.\n\nPreliminary hearings last September set out the wide-ranging scope of the inquiry.\n\nNow witnesses, including those infected and affected, have begun giving evidence.\n\nIn other countries where haemophiliacs and others became infected with HIV and hepatitis C through treatment by their health systems, politicians have been held to account and full compensation has been paid.\n\nThe UK has not moved in the same way to try to establish who was responsible and why the biggest treatment disaster in the history of the NHS was allowed to unfold.\n\nA clotting agent, Factor VIII, was made from donated blood, some of which was infected and had come from paid foreign donors including prisoners. The big question is who at high levels of the NHS and government knew what and when.\n\nHere in the UK there has been one privately funded inquiry with no powers to compel witnesses to attend.\n\nNow, under Sir Brian Langstaff, the new statutory UK-wide inquiry is under way which in his own words will be \"independent of government, and frightened of no-one in the conclusions it may draw\".\n\nHe is well aware of allegations of a cover-up in Whitehall with documents destroyed.\n\nThe opening day of evidence has served as a reminder of what was inflicted on patients who went to the NHS for treatment in good faith.\n\nDerek Martindale, comforted by his son John sitting beside him, described being treated with blood products for his haemophilia in the mid-1980s but with no warning about the risks of contracting HIV and hepatitis C.\n\nHe asked for an HIV test and was told he was positive but was instructed not to tell anyone including his family and parents.\n\nHis brother, also a haemophiliac, later died with Aids and he spoke of the devastating impact on his parents.\n\nAt the end of Mr Martindale's evidence, people in the room stood and clapped.\n\nDr Hill didn't find out for 20 years that she had hepatitis C\n\nDr Carole Hill had a blood transfusion in 1987 but it wasn't until 2017 that she was told she had hepatitis C.\n\nIt transpired clinicians had carried out a test a few months earlier after she went in for another appointment.\n\nDr Hill said she was angry at the way she had been dealt with by the NHS in recent years.\n\nShe said better communication was required and more effort should be made to contact others who had blood transfusions and might have been infected with hepatitis C.\n\nPerry Evans told the inquiry of his sadness at the impact on friends and family when he revealed his health condition.\n\nHe was told he was HIV positive in 1985 following treatment for his haemophilia but it transpired doctors had known several months before and not told him.\n\nHe spoke movingly about living with HIV at a time of scare stories and stigma.\n\nVictims and their campaigning groups, supported by the judge, have called for more generous financial support.\n\nThe Scottish government increased payouts after the Penrose inquiry but England, Wales and Northern Ireland have lagged behind.\n\nHours before the first inquiry, it was announced at Westminster that total annual funding would be increased from £46m to £75m for recipients in England.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Martin Beard was told he was HIV positive at the age of 17\n\nThe authorities in Wales and Northern Ireland are likely to follow but this is subject to further discussions.\n\nComing late in the day and without much detail, the government's financial announcement did not seem to impress many of the key participants.\n\nThere has been no change to unpopular means-testing and no solid demonstration that there can be parity of payments across the UK.\n\nCompensation is another matter and could involve large sums of money.\n\nClaims could hinge on the findings of this infected blood inquiry and the extent to which it finds fault at the heart of government.", "Free-to-use cash machines have been disappearing at a rapid rate across the UK, according to a study by Which?\n\nNearly 1,700 machines started charging for withdrawals in the first three months of the year, with the majority starting to charge in March, according to the consumer lobby group.\n\nCardtronics, which runs most of those, and fellow provider NoteMachine are both likely to charge at more machines.\n\nThat could mean the country losing 13% of its free ATMs in only a few months.\n\nThe changes come after a reduction in the fee operators receive from banks each time an ATM is used.\n\nLink, which oversees ATMs, began to cut the fee, known as the interchange rate, last year. So far it has reduced the charge from 25p to 23p per withdrawal.\n\nLink said at the time that the move was aimed at protecting the ATM network. It left the fee for free-to-use ATMs - which are 1km or more from the next nearest cash machine - unchanged.\n\nAshleigh Cooper from Hebden Bridge in West Yorkshire has seen the number of cash machines dwindle from six down to two.\n\nMr Cooper, aged 60, said: \"It causes real problems especially on bank holidays. There are no banks here anymore. We have a mobile bank that visits every few weeks but that's no good to me.\n\n\"Hebden Bridge is quite a touristy area and there's usually a problem with one of the cash machines going out of order because it's run out of cash.\n\n\"The local cinema here was always a cash business but they're now having to accept digital payments or lose punters.\n\n\"For me it's like going back to the dark ages, it's crazy.\"\n\nATM operators receive the interchange fee from banks each time one of their cash machines is used.\n\nNoteMachine, which operates 7,000 cash machines across the UK, said the cut in the interchange rate meant it was considering introducing fees at up to 4,000 of its machines.\n\n\"Unless urgent action is taken to reduce the pressure on ATM operators by reversing the interchange fee reductions, NoteMachine will be forced to begin converting ATMs to surcharging,\" said chief executive Peter McNamara.\n\nRival ATM machine operator Cardtronics has said it is likely to convert another 1,000 of its ATMs over the coming months. It said it \"had been forced into charging a fee for cash withdrawals on some of our machines where Link's cuts have left us with no choice\".\n\nThere were about 52,000 free cash machines in the country at the start of the year.\n\nGareth Shaw, head of money at Which?, said: \"Communities are being stripped of free access to cash at an alarming rate that could hit the most vulnerable in our society the hardest, while denying millions of people free withdrawals.\n\n\"A regulator is desperately needed to get a grip of these rapid changes across the cash landscape and ensure all those still reliant on this important payment method aren't suddenly shut out from accessing the cash they need in their daily lives.\"\n\nReported charges range from 50p to £1.99 and the situation angered some of the respondents to the Which? survey.\n\nAnita Brakewell, from Blackpool, said: \"Being disabled means I don't have the option of walking to the next free cash machine, so these charges shut me out of cash that's important to my daily life.\n\n\"My town has also suffered from bank branch closures, making it hard to access the cash and financial services I need.\"\n\nAnd Robin Farnsworth, from Kirkcaldy, said: \"I stopped using the local cashpoint when it started charging me just to access my cash. I'm on a very tight budget and can't afford to be spending out just to get the money I need for everyday life.\"\n\nBank of England figures show that 2.2 million people are almost entirely reliant on cash.\n\nAnd last year's Access to Cash study, published in December, found that more than eight million people would struggle to cope in a cashless society, which would present real challenges for 25 million UK residents.\n\nHowever, cash use has halved in the past 10 years and in 2017, debit cards overtook notes and coins as the UK's most popular payment method.\n\nThere is a fierce, three-way, struggle going on over the future of our network of free-to-use cash machines.\n\nThe upstarts are independent operators like Cardtronics and Note Machine which now have the most ATMs.\n\nThen there are the banks. They have to pay the operators each time their customers use a non-bank machine.\n\nFinally, we have Link which runs the network and has been trying to get the operators to accept lower payments from the banks.\n\nTwo cuts to the payments have been pushed through, prompting Cardtronics to say it is being \"forced\" to charge the customer instead.\n\nAnd the backdrop is that we are using less cash, which means fewer withdrawals and less chance that a cash machine will pay its way.\n\nSo it's not clear where this will end.\n\nBut more charging will cause anger and frustration amongst those who depend heavily on cash.", "A church warden murdered a university lecturer and attempted to kill a former headmistress to benefit from their wills, a court has heard.\n\nBenjamin Field, 28, and Martyn Smith, 32, are accused of plotting the deaths of Peter Farquhar, 69, and Ann Moore-Martin, 83, in Buckinghamshire.\n\nOxford Crown Court heard Mr Field and Mr Smith persuaded the Maids Moreton residents to change their wills.\n\nThe pair deny murder and conspiracy to murder.\n\nPeter Farquhar lived at the house circled on the left, and Ann Moore-Martin on the right\n\nProsecuting, Oliver Saxby QC said Mr Field's \"project\" was to befriend a vulnerable person, get them to change their will and then \"make sure they died\".\n\nHe told the court Mr Field and Mr Smith murdered Mr Farquhar, who died in October 2015, and conspired to murder Miss Moore-Martin - who later died from natural causes in May 2017.\n\nMr Farquhar and Miss Moore-Martin lived three doors away from each other.\n\nMr Saxby said: \"The motive was financial gain - laced, as far as Benjamin Field is concerned, with a profound fascination in controlling and manipulating and humiliating and killing.\"\n\nHe said the church warden devised what he called \"exit strategies\" to use drugs and alcohol to make deaths look accidental.\n\n\"If he was to inherit their houses, they had to die. And if he was to enjoy his inheritance, he had to get away with it,\" he said.\n\nPeter Farquhar was a guest lecturer at the University of Buckingham and had written a number of books\n\nThe court heard the church warden \"relished\" his \"project\" and documented various stages in notes and diaries.\n\nMr Saxby told the jury Mr Field killed Mr Farquhar \"almost certainly by suffocating him\".\n\nHe said Mr Field \"tried to kill\" Miss Moore-Martin but his plan \"was cut short\" when her niece became involved.\n\nMr Saxby said Mr Smith, a magician, assisted Mr Field in his plan because \"he was greedy\".\n\nPeter Farquhar changed his will so Benjamin Field would inherit his home, pictured\n\nMr Field also burgled the homes of elderly people and planned to deceive a 101-year-old woman, the jury heard.\n\nThe court heard Mr Field's brother, Tom, defrauded Miss Moore-Martin by \"deceiving her\" into giving Benjamin Field £27,000 which she believed was for a dialysis machine he needed to survive.\n\nMr Saxby said Tom Field \"pretended to be extremely ill\" when he met Miss Moore-Martin.\n\nBenjamin Field, of Wellingborough Road, Olney, Buckinghamshire, denies murder, conspiracy to murder, possessing an article for the use in fraud and an alternative charge of attempted murder. He has admitted four charges of fraud and two of burglary.\n\nMr Smith, of Penhalvean, Redruth, Cornwall, denies murder, conspiracy to murder, two charges of fraud and one of burglary.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A Labour MP has accused Welsh ministers of being partly to blame for failings in Cwm Taf maternity services.\n\nAn independent review said units at Royal Glamorgan and Prince Charles hospitals were \"dysfunctional\" and mothers' worries were often ignored.\n\nPontypridd MP Owen Smith said issues seem to have been \"compounded\" by big service changes.\n\nHealth Minister Vaughan Gething has said he was \"determined\" to see improvements delivered.\n\nMr Smith said Welsh Government needs \"to look at itself about the way that decision was driven through\".\n\nMr Gething put Cwm Taf maternity services into special measures on Tuesday, meaning it will face increased scrutiny.\n\nBoth Welsh Conservatives and Plaid Cymru called on him to resign over the issue.\n\nPlaid has also laid a motion of no confidence in Mr Gething, which will be debated next week, saying the \"distressing\" report into Cwm Taf was \"part of a wider pattern of failing\".\n\nParty health spokeswoman Helen Mary Jones kept up the pressure on Mr Gething in the assembly.\n\n\"I'm just really concerned that this is suggesting that we have a minister who doesn't really have a grip on the system,\" she said.\n\n\"Eight reports over six years and nothing was done, until you called for a report years ago.\n\n\"During those years, children died. Mothers were traumatised and families were traumatised.\"\n\nPrince Charles Hospital now has an expanded special care baby unit and six en-suite delivery rooms\n\nMr Smith told BBC Wales said: \"I don't think we can forget the fact that part of the issue here is that there was a massive reorganisation of services.\n\n\"I and many other local politicians opposed it at the time, saying that amongst other things it wasn't necessarily going to solve the problem that it was meant to solve, i.e. difficulty in recruiting midwives.\n\n\"That seems to have been compounded by the reorganisation.\n\n\"The Welsh Government needs to look at itself about the way that decision was driven through in the light of significant local opposition and the way in which once the decision had been taken it was left to the health board to, sort of, clean up the mess.\"\n\nWhen asked about calls for Mr Gething to resign, Mr Smith said he had spoken to him earlier in the week and was reassured he was on top of the situation.\n\nEarlier, Paul Davies, leader of the Welsh Conservatives, called for Mr Gething and health board leaders to quit.\n\nMr Gething said: \"I am far from complacent about my responsibilities, not only in the sense of the whole performance of the service, not just the challenges but the good that the service does, but my responsibility to see through the improvement that I recognise is plainly required and [I'm] determined to see delivered.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'We picked the wrong day to be ill'\n\nThe chairman of the health board blamed a \"toxic\" culture for problems highlighted in the review.\n\nProf Marcus Longley told BBC Radio Wales' Good Morning Wales programme that the review's findings had \"sent a shock through the entire organisation\".\n\n\"Apologies are empty words if they aren't faced by action,\" he said.\n\n\"We have got some complex issues here that have built up over time. Clearly we have failed in our task.\"\n\nHe highlighted one issue raised in the report that \"doctors and midwives do not work as a unified team all of the time\".\n\n\"That is a really serious issue,\" he said. \"That has built up over many years. It has become custom and practice to work in the wrong way.\n\n\"It's not because we have got wicked or incompetent doctors or midwives at all.\n\n\"It's because those cultures, those working practices are developed which are toxic and we now need to unpack that.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jessica Western says she is still fighting to find out why her daughter Macie died\n\nDes Kitto, chief officer of the board of Community Health Councils (CHC) in Wales and former chief officer for patient watchdog Cwm Taf CHC, said the review was \"sickening to the stomach\".\n\nHe said the CHC raised concerns about the number of stillbirths and undertook unannounced visits but \"didn't seem to get any results\", so their concerns were escalated to regulators Health Inspectorate Wales which led to the Welsh Government involvement.\n\n\"Trust has been lost. It has got to be action now from the health board, and not words.\"\n\nHe also said he was unhappy the CHC was not made aware of an internal report by a consultant midwife, produced in September. The independent review criticised Cwm Taf for sitting on it.\n\n\"I don't think we had the full story,\" said Mr Kitto.\n\n\"I don't think there was an attempt to mislead, but patients have been let down and the responsibility goes back to the whole board - we should be looking at how they can rebuild the necessary trust.\"\n\nWhat does special measures mean for Cwm Taf maternity services?\n\nHealth organisations are rated regularly by Welsh Government, Wales Audit Office and Healthcare Inspectorate Wales, who decide if they need extra support.\n\nThere are four levels of intervention - and the most serious is special measures. Cwm Taf Morgannwg's maternity units are now at that scale, while the whole health board has also been upgraded to a targeted intervention status.\n\nMr Longley said there was now an \"enormous amount going on\" internally to deal with the 70 recommendations in the review and this was now the health board's \"top priority\".\n\nHe has not put a deadline on the work ahead and believes a number of root causes will take a long time to put right.\n\nMeanwhile, an independent panel will oversee an existing review into 43 cases involving mothers and babies and it has been recommended that this review will also stretch back to examine many more cases stretching back to 2010.\n\nWith its maternity services in special measures, Cwm Taf Morgannwg will not be left to its own devices and will be monitored at every stage.\n\nSome improvements are already in place, but the issues are so varied and deep-rooted it could take months or even years before maternity services are up to scratch and sticking plaster solutions certainly won't be enough.\n\nWhen I spoke to Marcus Longley, its chairman, he said there was a \"chill\" when the full scale of the problems emerged, but the issues stretched back a number of years and there was no easy fix.\n\nWhat's clear, although the health board insist they are safe, maternity services face a long road to recovery and it could take even longer to rebuild public trust.\n\nThe tremors of the independent review will be felt for some time.\n\nLooking further afield, the Welsh Government insist there is no evidence of similar problems elsewhere, yet we know the watchdog Health Inspectorate Wales will be shortly undertaking a review of care for mothers and babies across the country.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Football should introduce \"temporary concussion substitutions\" says a brain injury charity in the wake of a head injury suffered by Jan Vertonghen.\n\nThe Tottenham defender was treated for five minutes on the pitch and tried to play on but was led off after appearing unwell during a 1-0 Champions League semi-final first-leg defeat by Ajax.\n\nHeadway says a \"reliable diagnosis\" cannot be made on the pitch because the \"pressure is enormous and unfair, particularly in high-stake games such as Champions League semi-finals\".\n\nSpokesman Luke Griggs told BBC Sport: \"It is hugely disappointing that we are once again talking about concussion rather than the game itself.\n\n\"Concussion is notoriously difficult to diagnose. The symptoms may be hidden and require the individual to be honest about how they're feeling, while they can also be delayed in their presentation.\n\n\"Assessing a player for three minutes - or even five, as was the case with Jan Vertonghen - does not allow for medical staff to make a reliable diagnosis, particularly when this is conducted on the pitch under the gaze of tens of thousands of fans eager for the game to resume.\"\n\nHeadway has also called for an \"urgent review\" into concussion protocols.\n\n\"We believe the time has come for football to introduce temporary concussion substitutions that would allow for longer off-pitch assessments to be conducted,\" added Griggs.\n\n\"In addition, independent doctors with expertise in concussion and head injuries should make the ultimate decision as to whether or not a player is fit to continue.\n\n\"Not every head injury will result in a concussion. But allowing players to continue while showing clear signs of discomfort following a head injury is contrary to the 'if in doubt, sit it out' principle at the heart of all effective concussion protocols.\"\n\nSpurs boss Mauricio Pochettino said he believed medical staff followed the correct protocols before allowing 32-year-old Belgian international Vertonghen back on the pitch.\n\nNo ambulances were called to the stadium and Vertonghen was later seen walking freely through the media zone after the match.\n\n\"I wasn't involved. It was the doctor's decision,\" said Pochettino immediately after the game. \"The rules and the protocols are there. Our medical staff followed the protocol.\n\n\"He's OK. We hope it is not a big issue. He walked away from the stadium. We know we have to keep watching and monitoring him because it was a big knock.\"", "Fiona Onasanya was expelled by the Labour Party after her conviction\n\nDisgraced Fiona Onasanya has become the first MP to be removed by a recall petition.\n\nMs Onasanya, 35, was jailed in January for lying about a speeding offence.\n\nShe was expelled by Labour after her conviction and had been representing Peterborough as an independent.\n\nPeterborough City Council said 19,261 constituents had signed the petition. Ms Onasanya will be allowed to stand for re-election.\n\nThe council said the signatures represented 27.6% of eligible residents. The threshold required to remove Ms Onasanya was 10%.\n\nCommons Speaker John Bercow confirmed the recall petition had been successful.\n\nHe told MPs: \"Fiona Onasanya is no longer the member for Peterborough and the seat is accordingly vacant.\n\n\"She can therefore no longer participate in any parliamentary proceedings as a member of parliament.\"\n\nMs Onasanya, who was jailed for perverting the course of justice, has become the first MP to be removed by the recall process, introduced by David Cameron in 2015.\n\nShe was first elected to Parliament as a Labour MP with a slender majority of 607 in 2017.\n\nThe process by which the electorate can remove an MP before the end of their term was introduced in the UK in 2015 in response to the 2010 MPs' expenses scandal.\n\nThe recall procedure can only be triggered under certain circumstances, including if an MP is convicted in the UK of an offence and sentenced or ordered to be imprisoned or detained - and all appeals have been exhausted.\n\nFor a recall petition to be successful, 10% of eligible registered voters need to sign the petition. It remains open for six weeks.\n\nIf successful, a by-election is called and the recalled MP is allowed to stand as a candidate.\n\nThe first recall petition against an MP was triggered in July 2018 against North Antrim MP Ian Paisley after he failed to declare two holidays paid for by the Sri Lankan government.\n\nThe petition was unsuccessful, as it was short of 444 signatures, and Mr Paisley remained an MP.\n\nThe petition against Ms Onasanya is the first time a recall petition has been held in England.\n\nA third MP, Chris Davies, Conservative member for Brecon and Radnorshire, is facing a recall petition in Wales after he was convicted for a false expenses claim.\n\nLabour Party chairman Ian Lavery said: \"Labour campaigned hard for a victory in this recall petition.\n\n\"Labour will vigorously fight the by-election here in Peterborough.\"\n\nNigel Farage said his new Brexit Party would contest the by-election, but a spokesman said no decision had yet been taken on whether Mr Farage would be the candidate.\n\nThe by-election in a city which voted 61% Leave in the 2016 EU referendum potentially offers the former UKIP leader a route to a seat in Parliament after seven unsuccessful attempts.\n\nMeanwhile, the former MP George Galloway - a Brexiteer - also declared on Twitter his intention to stand in the by-election.\n\nConservative parliamentary candidate for Peterborough Paul Bristow said: \"The people of Peterborough deserve a better MP who will vote in Parliament to deliver Brexit.\"\n\nFiona Onasanya made her first and last speech in the Commons last week following her release from prison\n\nThe by-election in Peterborough will come in the middle of one of the most tumultuous times in modern political history.\n\nBrexit has shaken up political alliances like never before, but we don't know what impact that will have, and who it will favour.\n\nThe by-election could be an opportunity for the new parties to test the popularity of what they're offering, but the question is what party will they be taking voters from?\n\nAnother possibility is that Brexit has made everyone so fed up with politics that people in Peterborough will just decide not to vote at all, and we will see a very low turnout.\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. Ben McDonald's death was \"out of the blue\"\n\n\"He was really fit, really healthy, there was no indication that was going to happen.\"\n\nBen McDonald, 25, died after going into cardiac arrest at the finish line of the Cardiff Half Marathon in October 2018.\n\nA defibrillator was used and although it did not save him, his family want more of them in public places.\n\n\"He was very special,\" said Ben's mother Ruth McDonald, from the Vale of Glamorgan.\n\n\"He was just gorgeous, funny, happy, always smiling, he just wanted every moment to be special.\n\n\"One of his favourite mottos is 'happiness is only real when shared' and he just loved being with people.\"\n\nBen McDonald loved snowboarding and spent two seasons in the Alps\n\nBen's brother Andrew said he loved being active.\n\n\"He was just extremely sporty, extremely active, he loved being outdoors, he loved playing, everything you can hurt yourself doing,\" Andrew said.\n\nThe youngest of four children, Ben had worked at the Cardiff White Water Centre since the age of 16 and was also a qualified teacher.\n\nRuth McDonald said her son was \"always smiling\"\n\nThe 25-year-old was part of a group of seven who took part in the annually-held half marathon race, along with his girlfriend, his brother Steve and his wife, Andrew and his wife and his sister's husband. They had been \"planning it for months\" and were \"getting quite competitive\".\n\n\"It all started so happy, it was a beautiful sunny day, he ran the race, he exceeded the time he set for himself, he beat one of his brothers and then he collapsed as he crossed the finish line,\" Ruth said.\n\n\"He died more or less straight away.\"\n\nRuth said medics used CPR and a defibrillator, but he could not be saved.\n\n\"He was really fit, really healthy, there was no indication that was going to happen,\" she said.\n\n\"I think what we've learnt is life is unpredictable, we don't know what lies around the corner.\n\nBen McDonald (third in from the left) ran the Cardiff Half Marathon with family members\n\n\"Screening might have saved Ben, it might not have done. A defibrillator could have saved Ben, but it didn't.\n\n\"But we really endorse the fact that we need defibrillators everywhere, so that people can get instant or as instant help as possible and screening might show things up.\n\n\"So it's important young people getting involved in sports activities have their hearts checked over.\"\n\nShe added: \"We didn't think this would happen to us... Ben was going to be fine and we'd see him get married and have children and get old and that didn't happen.\n\n\"Enjoy every moment with your children because you never know which moment is the last moment and family life is precious, tell those you love, you love them.\"\n\nA second man, Dean Fletcher, 32, from Exeter, also died at the event after crossing the finishing line within minutes of Ben on 7 October.\n\nIn the wake of Ben's death, his charity page, in aid of Maternity Africa in north Tanzania, received hundreds of donations, raising almost £21,000 for the charity.\n\nThe family have since all had heart screening and want to help raise awareness of the importance of defibrillators in public places.\n\nAndrew said: \"It's so stereotypical to be like 'he was a great guy, he was lovely, everyone loved him', but he was. He was above and beyond that.\"\n\nHe added: \"It was just so out of the blue, it could happen to anybody, our motto was live for that moment.\n\nThe family all have a tattoo, similar to one Ben also had, showing the things he loved\n\n\"You can't live your life scared, but there are things you can do, wear a helmet if you're out snowboarding, if you can get your heart checked out, get it checked out.\n\n\"If it saves one person's life [heart screening] that's good, because it's not just the person who dies that suffers, everybody suffers and that's the hardest part.\"\n\nVicki Edwards, Ben's sister said they are trying to do \"things that he loved\".\n\nAmong the plans is a festival style event, BenJam, which will be held on Thursday evening as a \"way to remember his birthday\".\n\nMoney raised from ticket sales will go to the Welsh Hearts charity.\n\nVicki said over 200 people have bought tickets and they hope to make it an annual event.\n\nThe Welsh Government said it has provided funding totalling £586,000 for a project called Save a Life Cymru, which aims to improve access to CPR training and increase the awareness and use of defibrillators.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Joseph McCann, 34, is said to have links to Watford, Aylesbury and Ipswich\n\nA suspected triple rapist being hunted by police may have been mistakenly released from prison, it has emerged.\n\nJoseph McCann, 34, is alleged to have abducted and raped three women in north London and Watford last week.\n\nHe was not - but should have been - referred to the Parole Board before he was released from prison in February, while halfway through serving a sentence for burglary.\n\nThe Ministry of Justice said an \"urgent review\" of the case was under way.\n\nMcCann was jailed in 2008 for aggravated burglary after admitting breaking into the home of an 85-year-old man.\n\nJoseph McCann is known to use false names, most recently Joel, the Met said\n\nHe was given an Indeterminate Sentence for Public Protection (IPP) with a minimum term, or tariff, of two-and-a-half years.\n\nThis meant the Parole Board had to decide if it was safe to release him once his tariff expired in 2010.\n\nIn 2017 he was released on licence, which meant he could be sent back to jail if he reoffended or breached his parole conditions.\n\nLater that year, while on licence, McCann was arrested and charged with a further burglary.\n\nHe was given a three-year jail sentence.\n\nMcCann's case should have been referred to the board before he was released but in February this year he was dealt with as a \"determinate sentence\" prisoner.\n\nThis meant he was automatically released 18 months into his sentence.\n\nA £20,000 reward has been offered by the Metropolitan Police for information about McCann's whereabouts that leads to his arrest and prosecution.\n\nDetectives described McCann as \"extremely dangerous\" and said people should call 999 if they saw him.\n\nHe is described as white, with a muscular build, a bald head or shaved blond hair, a light-coloured short beard, and the name \"Bobbie\" tattooed on his stomach.\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. Jessica Western says she is still fighting to find out why her daughter Macie died\n\nThe full extent of the problems with maternity services at two hospitals in the south Wales valleys rings out when the voices of women and families are listened to.\n\nAs one said: \"I want having a baby to be a good experience. It's ruined it.\"\n\nWomen repeatedly stated they were not listened to and their concerns were not taken seriously or valued.\n\nThey spoke of being ignored or patronised while being cared for at the Royal Glamorgan Hospital in Llantrisant and Prince Charles Hospital in Merthyr Tydfil.\n\nOften, their suspicions and concerns were found to have reflected a genuine problem that emerged later, but at the time they were dismissed when they tried to voice their concerns.\n\nA major independent review has found Cwm Taf health board's maternity services were \"under extreme pressure\" and the health minister has ordered them be put into special measures.\n\nIt was prompted by 25 serious incidents, including eight stillbirths and four neonatal deaths, between January 2016 and last September.\n\nThe independent review team has released a separate, damning 78-page report, which shares the views of 140 family members, including mothers about their experiences at the hospitals.\n\nNearly two thirds of women questioned felt they had not had good quality care during their pregnancy.\n\nThe review said: \"Many women had felt something was wrong with their baby or tried to convey the level of pain they were experiencing but they were ignored or patronised, and no action was taken, with tragic outcomes including stillbirth and neonatal death of their babies.\"\n\nOne woman said she felt worthless, adding: \"I'm broken from the whole experience, the lack of care and compassion.\"\n\nOn the care itself, repeatedly the review team heard from mothers who did not always believe the right level of skills and expertise were available at the right time.\n\nThere was a failure to seek a second, more senior opinion, and to escalate concerns, especially with women with complex pregnancies.\n\nOne mother said: \"He told me there was no point calling the consultant on a Sunday as no one would come.\"\n\nAnother said: \"I never saw the same consultant. They didn't know me, and they didn't want to know me. I was pushed in and out of rooms with all sorts of people.\"\n\nMothers faced too many variables in the service offered - from the time of day they used it, to staffing levels and the communication skills of the staff they met.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'We picked the wrong day to be ill'\n\nSarah Handy's experience is highlighted in the report as illustrating a number of serious issues.\n\nIn pain, she was begging to see a doctor when she arrived in hospital in April 2017 and was left for nearly three hours without examination before being told it was constipation.\n\nMs Handy, 33, was sent back home to Merthyr Tydfil with laxatives and pain relief and that evening her baby Jennifer was delivered prematurely by her husband and mother-in-law.\n\nDespite their efforts to give CPR to save her life, Jennifer died.\n\nThe review said it showed:\n\nMs Handy said after the report came out: \"Today it's been proven in black and white that we were right to highlight our concerns and push for further investigation into our Jennifer's death.\n\n\"We just wish that this report will now do what it promised and improve the quality of care so that no other family has to go the traumatic experience we went through.\"\n\nOn communication, although individual staff were spoken of as excellent, many women felt during their care this aspect was extremely poor.\n\nWhen concerns were raised, there was a \"significant dissatisfaction\" with how they were dealt with, with dismissive attitudes.\n\nMany women were not listened to or taken seriously, one saying she was \"laughed at\" when she expressed concern.\n\nOther responses included: \"I was never asked, never believed.\n\n\"If only they had asked the right questions.\n\n\"Most importantly, we were not listened to. By the time we were it was too late.\"\n\nThe review said women reported an \"almost callous and brutal use of language\" and disregard for feelings.\n\nWhen one mother was concerned that she may be losing her baby she was told to \"prepare for the worst - it could be a miscarriage\" and then told to go home as \"there wasn't a lot she could do.\"\n\nYounger mothers in particular often felt their concerns were dismissed, which became an \"emerging theme\" for the review team.\n\nThere were failures to apologise, lack of access to notes and comprehensive investigations over concerns.\n\nWith high risk pregnancies, one woman interviewed believed that there was a lack of expertise and that \"anything different from the norm, they didn't seem set up to deal with it\".\n\nAnother described the antenatal clinic as being \"like a cattle-market\".\n\nWhen babies were lost, \"many women and families received no bereavement counselling or support and continue to experience emotional distress\".\n\nOne mother talking about the demand on midwives and doctors in the Royal Glamorgan Hospital, said it was \"no way a reflection on them\".\n\n\"They would always spend as much time as possible with me but unfortunately when needs must I was left with some questions but again this was due to staff shortages,\" she said.\n\nAnother said: \"There were so many jobs for one midwife to do and then people wonder why mistakes get made. They are human and are exhausted\".\n\nThe review published two parallel reports into Cwm Taf maternity services and the experiences of mothers\n\nThe review team said it was disappointing that lessons had not been learnt from a review of Furness General Hospital services four years ago.\n\nProf Jean White, chief nursing officer, said: \"It should be a joyous occasion giving birth to a child. Many of the women who shared their stories had care well below the standards we expect and that's not right.\n\n\"I think over time there appears to be a culture that has developed rather than an open culture where people are encouraged to say what's gone wrong, there is a blame culture.\"\n\nIn the words of another parent: \"Listen to women and families and believe what they tell you when they are in pain.\"\n\nThe review team concludes: \"The strong message heard from women and families in Cwm Taf is that they don't want their experiences to happen to anyone else and the importance to them that the organisation learns from these experiences to ensure that improvement and change occurs.\"\n\nCwm Taf chief executive Allison Williams said she was deeply sorry, is taking the findings very seriously but recognised \"significant work\" was still needed.\n\n\"Some of the feedback we have received from patients is extremely distressing and their experience in our maternity service has been totally unacceptable,\" she added.\n\nIf you have been affected by stillbirth, the following organisations might be able to help:", "Sir Gavin Williamson is in the spotlight again, after he resigned from the government amid accusations of bullying and harassment.\n\nFormer chief whip Wendy Morton has handed over a series of expletive-laden text messages from Sir Gavin to Parliament's bullying watchdog and made a complaint to Tory HQ about his conduct.\n\nFollowing a report in the Guardian that Sir Gavin told a senior civil servant to \"slit your throat\" and \"jump out of the window\" when he was defence secretary, No 10 said it would be conducting its own informal investigation.\n\nIn his resignation letter, Sir Gavin said allegations about his \"past conduct\" were becoming a distraction for the government - even though he \"refutes the characterisation of these claims\" and has apologised to the recipient of some text messages.\n\nThis is the third time Sir Gavin has had to leave government, having already been sacked from cabinet twice previously - as education secretary and defence secretary.\n\nHis rise through the Conservative ranks has been blown off course by a number of separate scandals.\n\nHowever, he has been widely seen as a political survivor, serving under four different prime ministers.\n\nThe 46-year-old was raised near Scarborough, North Yorkshire, by Labour-supporting parents.\n\nEducated at state schools, he became involved in Tory politics while studying at Bradford University and later went on to become a county councillor in North Yorkshire.\n\nA former fireplace salesman, he also ran a pottery firm, making and selling ceramic tableware, before being elected as MP for South Staffordshire in 2010.\n\nSir Gavin began his parliamentary career as a ministerial aide to David Cameron, acting as the then-prime minister's bag carrier and eyes and ears at Westminster.\n\nHe remained in this important role until Mr Cameron left office in June 2016.\n\nAfter Theresa May became prime minister, he was made chief whip, responsible for keeping MPs in line and enforcing party discipline.\n\nIn the aftermath of the disastrous 2017 election, he played a crucial role in paving the way for the Conservatives' agreement with the Democratic Unionists to prop up Mrs May's minority government.\n\nSir Gavin Williamson (right) shakes hands with the DUP's Sir Jeffrey Donaldson, after the party signed a deal to prop up Theresa May's government\n\nIn his role as chief whip he was known for keeping a tarantula called Cronus on his desk.\n\nDescribing his methods in the whips office, he told the Conservative Party conference in 2017: \"We take a carrot and stick approach... Personally I don't much like the stick, but it is amazing what can be achieved with a sharpened carrot.\"\n\nNick Timothy - a senior adviser to Mrs May - described Mr Williamson as an \"excellent\" chief whip, who was \"a shrewd tactician\" and \"a judge of character\".\n\n\"Even MPs who don't like him admit that he was the best chief whip the party has had in decades - and he did it through some of the hardest years,\" he said in a tweet.\n\nSir Gavin's promotion to defence secretary in November 2017 came as a surprise to some within the Tory Party and the armed forces. He had no military background and little opportunity to build up a public profile because his role in the whips office meant he did not speak in Parliament.\n\nWhile at the Ministry of Defence he lobbied successfully for more funding for the military, often to the irritation of the Treasury.\n\nBut he was derided in the press for telling Russia to \"shut up and go away\", and for suggestions the UK should respond in kind to \"acts of warfare\" by the Kremlin.\n\nHis downfall came after an inquiry into a leak from a top-level National Security Council meeting about whether to allow Chinese firm Huawei to help build the UK's 5G network.\n\nSir Gavin denied leaking information from the meeting, but Mrs May said she had \"lost confidence in his ability to serve\" and sacked him in May 2019.\n\nSir Gavin faced protests from pupils in the summer of 2020 after their A-level results were downgraded\n\nHe was not on the backbenches for long and returned to cabinet as education secretary in July the same year, when Boris Johnson became prime minister.\n\nWhen the Covid pandemic broke out in 2020, the role became even more high profile, with Sir Gavin responsible for tricky areas including home-learning and managing the return to classrooms and exams when schools fully reopened.\n\nHe was widely criticised for U-turning over getting all primary school pupils back in school after lockdown and there were also clashes with footballer Marcus Rashford over his campaign to provide children with free meals during holidays.\n\nPerhaps the biggest debacle was the chaos of the 2020 school exam period, with multiple U-turns over how to grade pupils after examinations were cancelled because of the pandemic.\n\nThis resulted in his department's most senior civil servant and the head of the exams watchdog both leaving their roles.\n\nSir Gavin stayed put until September 2021, when he was replaced by Nadhim Zahawi.\n\nSome argued he had been made a political fall guy - used as a lightning rod for the criticism of how the government had dealt with the challenges Covid posed to education and taking the blame for decisions that were never down to an individual minister.\n\nBut in March, the news he would receive a knighthood for his political and public service prompted anger from some teachers and parents, who blamed him - at least in part - for the mistakes on schools policy during the pandemic.\n\nSir Gavin returned to cabinet as a minister without portfolio under Mr Sunak in October. But it took less than two weeks for concerns to be raised about his appointment following claims he had bullied a fellow Conservative MP.\n\nIn texts sent to then-Chief Whip Ms Morton in the run-up to the Queen's funeral in September he appeared to complain that MPs who were not favoured by Prime Minister Liz Truss were being excluded from the ceremony at Westminster Abbey.\n\nIn the messages, published by the Sunday Times, Sir Gavin reportedly warned Ms Morton \"not to push him about\" and that \"there is a price for everything\".\n\nHe was quoted by the paper as saying he regretted \"getting frustrated\" and was happy to \"work positively with [Ms Morton] in the future as I have in the past\".\n\nNo 10 described the messages as \"unacceptable\" but the prime minister's official spokesman insisted Mr Sunak had full confidence in Sir Gavin.\n\nWhen he resigned, the prime minister said he accepted his resignation with \"great sadness\" but understood his decision to step back.\n\nSeparately an unnamed official at the Minister of Defence said Sir Gavin \"deliberately demeaned and intimidated\" them.\n\nThe official said they raised concerns to the Ministry of Defence's human resources department, but did not make a formal complaint at the time.\n\nSir Gavin did not deny using the language attributed to him but said he \"strongly\" rejected allegations of bullying.\n\nHowever, the pressure of multiple accusations and inquiries became too great, and Sir Gavin was forced to step down.\n\nWriting in his resignation letter, he said he would \"clear my name of wrongdoing\" but it remains to be seen if this consummate Westminster operator can, once again, bounce back.", "Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has opened a parliamentary debate, calling on MPs to declare a national climate emergency on climate change.\n\nShadow business secretary Rebecca Long Bailey said this is \"the first step towards taking more radical action\".\n\nLabour is also calling on the government to commit to achieving net zero emissions before 2050.\n\nThe UK is currently committed to reducing carbon emissions by 80% compared to 1990 levels by 2050.\n\nThe debate in Parliament comes after a series of protests by the environmental activists Extinction Rebellion.\n\nThe group described a meeting with Environment Secretary Michael Gove on Tuesday as \"very disappointing\" because he refused to declare a climate emergency.\n\nMr Gove said he \"shared their high ideals\" to tackle climate change but added that \"we should show that we're making a difference rather than simply telling everyone how important it is to change\".\n\nThe Welsh and Scottish governments have both declared a climate emergency, along with dozens of towns and cities, including Manchester and London.\n\nSpeaking on BBC Radio 4's Today programme Ms Long Bailey said Labour wanted the government to establish a target for net zero emissions \"well before\" 2050.\n\nShe also called for \"a green industrial revolution\" to \"harness the huge economic potential that low carbon and renewable technology will bring\" such as onshore and offshore wind and tidal technology.\n\n\"This isn't just about tackling climate change it is a huge economic opportunity to rebuild Britain,\" she said.\n\nThousands of Scottish school pupils took part in climate protests last month\n\nDozens of towns and cities across the UK have already declared \"a climate emergency\".\n\nThere is no single definition of what that means but many local areas say they want to be carbon-neutral by 2030.\n\nSome councils have promised to introduce electric car hubs or build sustainable homes to try to achieve that goal.\n\nIt's a much more ambitious target than the UK government's, which is to reduce carbon emissions by 80% (compared to 1990 levels) by 2050.\n\nWhat would it mean to acknowledge a climate emergency or climate crisis? Well, it would put the climate at centre stage of government policy.\n\nFor years politicians have devised fine policies on the environment, only to see them fail as other issues jostled to the political fore.\n\nThe UK for instance is legally committed to long-term climate change targets - but it's already slipping away from its medium-term goals.\n\nTransport and agriculture are especially culpable.\n\nEnvironmentalists say it's inconceivable that any government caring about the climate thinks expanding Heathrow is compatible with cutting emissions.\n\nIn terms of how the government is run under an emergency scenario - it would have to move towards the equivalent of a war footing.\n\nThis sounds melodramatic, but it would mean that cutting greenhouse gas emissions becomes a central goal of the UK's economic policy, with all governments taking responsibility - not just the Business Department and Defra.\n\nThis, according to Professor Jim Watson from the UK Energy Research Centre, means a central role for the Treasury.\n\nIt would monitoring emissions as closely as we monitor GDP growth and employment, and ensure that all government decisions are compatible with a net zero pathway.\n\nDeclaring an emergency or a climate crisis could have psychological advantages too: If we keep repeating a phrase it tends to become reality in our minds. That would help keep the climate at the forefront of decision-making.\n\nThere are problem with the emergency definition, though.\n\nFirst, is the slow relentless nature of climate change itself. Can we see climate change as an emergency in the way we accept that, say a flu pandemic is an emergency?\n\nThen there's the timescale.\n\nFrom 1939-1945, a state of emergency won the war. But that was six years of toil and sweat… not 32 years as we struggle towards our 2050 date for eliminating emissions.", "The boy was found injured in the Somerford Grove area of Hackney\n\nA teenage boy has been stabbed to death in an attack in Hackney, east London.\n\nThe 15-year-old victim was found injured in Somerford Grove at about 21:00 BST on Wednesday and died shortly after, police said.\n\nA shopkeeper said a boy ran into his store pleading for help, saying he had been stabbed in the back.\n\nA second boy, aged 16, found nearby Shacklewell Road, was also stabbed but did not sustain life-threatening injuries.\n\nA man from Elif Food Centre, who did not want to be named, told BBC London he tried to help one of the victims.\n\nHe said: \"One boy came running into the shop last night saying 'I have been stabbed in the back. Help me. Help me.'\n\n\"We called an ambulance and now police have seized our CCTV.\"\n\nTwo friends of the victim spoke of their shock after visiting the crime scene.\n\nOne said: \"It came as a surprise to us because he was a good guy.\n\n\"We did music together. He didn't only produce afrobeats, he made drill music as well. He also sold some beats to some big artists.\n\n\"I never thought that any of my friends would be murdered. I'm shocked.\"\n\nThe other friend added: \"I saw him the day before yesterday. He was a good friend, a nice lad.\n\n\"I'm so done. It doesn't feel safe any more.\"\n\nThe 15-year-old boy is one of the youngest victims to be stabbed to death in London so far this year\n\nPolice said a Section 60 stop-and-search order had been put in place for the whole of Hackney. No arrests have been made in connection with the killing.\n\nMet Commissioner Cressida Dick described it as a \"terrible, terrible thing\" as the force revealed statistics showing a drop in homicides compared to the previous financial year.\n• None 311Fewer knife crime victims under the age of 25\n\nSpeaking about the latest stabbing in Hackney, Ms Dick said the two boys were with a group of other boys and a girl, adding there was \"some sort of confrontation with another group\".\n\nAnother boy, aged 16, was found stabbed near the crime scene\n\nJust off a busy main road there is a huge cordon surrounding the Somerford Grove estate.\n\nElif Food Centre, a 24-hour off-licence, is also taped off as police officers stand guard.\n\nRight in the middle of the cordon a big blue tent can be seen - the spot where the victim died.\n\nResidents have been telling me they are shocked and scared as only six days ago another person was stabbed to death in Hackney.\n\nHours later, officers were called to another, unrelated, stabbing near Camden Town Tube station.\n\nA man suffered \"life-threatening\" injuries in the attack on Camden Road shortly after midnight.\n\nSo far this year, more than 40 murder investigations have been launched in the capital by the Metropolitan Police and British Transport Police.\n\nTwenty-nine of those cases are stabbing investigations.\n\nLondon mayor Sadiq Khan said he was \"deeply saddened\" by the latest killing.\n\n\"This horrific violence has absolutely no place on our streets,\" he said.\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.", "Children's services in England are at breaking point and need a £3.1bn minimum funding boost by 2025, MPs say.\n\nThe Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee said current funding levels were unsustainable.\n\nIts report said as services tried to respond to growing demand, amid severe funding pressures, many were reliant on the goodwill of staff.\n\nThe government said £494m of funding would help children and social work improvements would reduce demand.\n\nThe MPs said overall, England's local authorities had been grappling with budget cuts of 29% since 2010.\n\nThe committee follows a long line of organisations, including councils, children's charities and economists, to raise the alarm over funding levels.\n\nIn children's services, this has led managers to divert funds from the early-intervention non-statutory preventative services that can catch problems before they become crises, to statutory services, which they are obliged to provide by law, at the more severe end of need.\n\nSpending data from the National Audit Office (NAO) shows England's local authorities spent 59% of their children's services budget on statutory services in 2010-11.\n\nBut by 2017-18, councils were spending 75% on statutory services.\n\nAnd despite this, budgets for statutory services in many areas were overspent.\n\nEarlier this year, the NAO found that 91% of councils had overspent the budgets they had set for children's services at the start of the year.\n\nThis amounted to a national overspend of £872m.\n\n\"In recent months, a growing number of local authorities have suggested that they may only be able to provide core services in the future,\" the County Councils Network said.\n\nClive Betts, who chairs the committee, said: \"Over the last decade we have seen a steady increase in the number of children needing support, whilst at the same time funding has failed to keep up.\n\n\"It is clear that this approach cannot be sustained and the government must make serious financial and systemic changes to support local authorities in helping vulnerable children.\n\n\"They must understand why demand is increasing and whether it can be reduced.\n\n\"They must ensure that the funding formula actually allows local authorities to meet the obligations for supporting children that the government places on them.\"\n\nEngland's Children's Commissioner, Anne Longfield, said this situation was letting down many vulnerable children who were not receiving the help they needed.\n\n\"We cannot just continue to cross our fingers and hope that vulnerable children will be all right - and this report must be a final wake-up call to the government,\" she said.\n\n\"This year's Spending Review is the moment to act. Ministers must accept that children's services are in desperate need of funding to improve what they offer children rather than just stand still or go backwards.\"\n\nThe government said it aimed to help parents \"who face difficulties, to strengthen their family relationships so they can properly support their children\".\n\nA spokesperson said the government was putting an extra £410m into social care this year, including children's, alongside £84m over the next five years to keep more children at home with their families to reduce the demand on services.\n\nThey said the number of children's services rated outstanding was growing, adding: \"To help continue this trend we are raising the bar in our social work profession, by focusing on improved training and recruitment.\"\n\nBut Kathy Evans, chief executive of Children England, said one very clear and urgent message emerged from the report.\n\n\"There is simply no getting away from the fact that austerity policies are leaving thousands of children and families and many essential local services at absolute breaking point.\"\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\nWildlife organisations have welcomed new legislation making beavers a protected species in Scotland.\n\nIt is now illegal to kill beavers or destroy established dams and lodges without a licence.\n\nThe Scottish Wildlife Trust said legal protection for beavers was \"an important step\" to enable the species to \"expand its range.\"\n\nFarming leaders have raised concerns about the damage caused to agricultural land from beavers' dam-building.\n\nThe animals were reintroduced to Scotland's waterways a decade ago.\n\nThere are currently about 450 beavers in Scotland, in Tayside and mid-Argyll.\n\nScottish Wildlife Trust chief executive Jo Pike said beavers were \"unrivalled as ecosystem engineers.\"\n\nShe said: \"Granting beavers protected status is an important milestone for the return of the species to Scotland's lochs and rivers.\n\n\"It follows decades of work by countless organisations and individuals to demonstrate the positive impacts that beavers can have.\n\nMs Pike said the trust accepted that land managers must have the ability to deal with \"localised negative impacts\" caused by beavers.\n\nShe said: \"However, it is equally important to ensure lethal control is only used as a last resort, and this does not threaten the successful spread of beavers into other areas of Scotland.\"\n\nFarmer Adrian Ivory said beaver dams cost his business thousands of pounds every year\n\nAdrian Ivory is farm manager at Strathisla Farms in Perthshire. Last year beavers set up home close to his wheat field.\n\nHe told the BBC that the beavers damming on a nearby burn resulted in his crop being destroyed.\n\nHe said: \"The big problem for us with the dams is that it costs me as a business £4,000-£5,000 a year, pulling dams out of watercourses, trying to sort banks out.\n\n\"These are problems that we shouldn't really be having to deal with.\n\n\"We are trying to produce quality food for the population to eat and this is just causing real problems and a cost to my business.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "British Steel has secured a £100m loan from the government to pay its EU carbon bill, a source close to the company has said.\n\nThe money means the private equity-owned firm will avoid a steep EU fine.\n\nThe firm said earlier this month it needed the funds to settle its 2018 pollution bill due at the end of April.\n\nSky News said the government money was used to pay for the company's carbon credits - and that British Steel would repay the money on commercial terms.\n\nThe firm has been hit by a European Union decision to suspend UK firms' access to free carbon permits until a Brexit withdrawal deal is ratified.\n\nThe EU's emissions trading system's rules allow industrial polluters to use carbon credits to pay for the previous year's emissions, or trade them to raise money.\n\nEach free permit gives a firm the right to emit a ton (1,000kg) of carbon dioxide (CO2).\n\nThe Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (Beis) declined to comment on British Steel specifically, but said it was in \"regular conversation with a wide range of companies\".\n\nBeis is expected to make a formal announcement on Wednesday.\n\nBritish Steel has previously said ministers and officials from the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy had \"been responsive and supportive\".\n\nPrivate equity firm Greybull Capital rescued Tata Steel's long products business - which makes steel for the rail and construction sectors - during the depths of the steel crisis in 2016, saving more than 4,000 jobs.\n\nIt paid a nominal £1 fee for the assets, but pledged to plough up to £400m into the business which it rebranded British Steel.\n\nWorkers had to take pay cuts and reductions in their pensions in return, but the company has since returned to profit.\n\nThe company employs 4,000 people at its Scunthorpe plant and has sites in Teesside, Cumbria and North Yorkshire.", "The bag sold in Aldi in January, left, with the BabaBing bag launched in March 2018\n\nSupermarket chain Aldi has stopped selling a baby changing bag after being accused of copying another company's design.\n\nBabaBing, a Keighley-based child and baby products firm, claims a bag sold by Aldi in January has similarities to one it started selling in 2018.\n\nThe BabaBing bag retails at £49.99, with Aldi's selling for £17.99.\n\nThe retailer said it always listens to feedback and would be happy to meet the firm to discuss its concerns.\n\nBabaBing contacted the supermarket in early January to say its 'Mani' product was \"identical or at least very similar\" to a bag on sale in Aldi during a week-long baby-themed promotion.\n\nThe company said the Aldi bag and its internal items were the \"same size and shape\" as its bag, with similar design features across the two products.\n\nIn response Aldi told the company its research suggested that \"similar bags have been on the market for some time\".\n\nHowever, it said it would not be selling the product again in a future 'Specialbuys' promotion as planned, \"without any admission of liability\".\n\nThe BabaBing (left) and the Aldi bag (right) come with changing mats and bottle holders\n\nNick Robinson, managing technical director at BabaBing, said: \"It's no coincidence, the number of features that are identical to ours - it's not them designing a bag.\n\n\"In my view they've taken our bag and blatantly copied it.\"\n\nWhen asked about the price difference, the company said: \"They're not overpriced, they're very competitively priced and the quality is far better than Aldi.\"\n\nAn Aldi spokesperson said: \"We aim to provide our customers with products of a similar high quality to the leading brands, but at a fraction of the price.\n\n\"We sell a wide range of baby products that are hugely popular with parents and we will consider Mr Robinson's views when planning future ranges.\"\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A BBC Panorama investigation revealed Mr Curry's identity and that his home was in Los Angeles\n\nA man who plotted to dump a vulnerable American pensioner in England so he could be treated on the NHS has been jailed.\n\nRoger Curry, who had dementia, was discovered in a Hereford bus station car park on 5 November 2015.\n\nWorcester Crown Court was told Simon Hayes was part of the plot to \"abandon [Mr Curry] so he could receive care from local health care providers\".\n\nHayes, 53, claimed he had found Mr Curry \"face down\" in a country lane.\n\nMr Curry, who is in his 70s, was found without any identification, but later traced to Los Angeles after an international campaign for information.\n\nSimon Davis QC, prosecuting, said Hayes, of Henlade, Somerset, had told police a \"pack of lies\" which led them on a \"wild goose chase\".\n\nHowever, his motivations for getting involved in the plot remain unclear.\n\nThe court heard Mr Curry was cared for in a residential home for eight months - at a cost to the NHS of up to £20,000 - before being flown back to the United States in July 2016.\n\nMr Davis said Hayes had exchanged a series of texts and calls with \"best mate\" Kevin Curry, the victim's son.\n\nKevin Curry flew with his mother and father to London Gatwick in November 2015, but later left without his father.\n\nMr Davis said it had \"clearly\" been planned to \"dump\" Mr Curry so he could receive care from local health care providers.\n\nHayes, in a fake military uniform and putting on an American accent, took Mr Curry to Hereford bus station, close to the city's hospital, the court heard.\n\nHe told a nurse and paramedics he had found Mr Curry but could not give any contact details because he was \"working with the SAS\" at their nearby camp.\n\nWhile appealing for information, police suspected Mr Curry had been deliberately abandoned.\n\nAfter he was able to provide his name, they tracked down Kevin Curry in California, but he claimed nobody called Roger lived at his address.\n\nSimon Hayes admitted perverting the course of justice in March\n\nHowever, for reasons unknown, Hayes subsequently called West Mercia Police, identifying himself as the man who handed in Mr Curry.\n\nBut he again lied, claiming he and a \"Canadian Army serviceman\" had found Mr Curry, that he lived in Los Angeles, and at the time had been \"attending a course\" at the base, the court heard.\n\nPolice spoke to his father Ken, who Hayes claimed he had been visiting in Taunton. Mr Hayes confirmed his son knew Roger and Kevin Curry.\n\nHayes was arrested and in March admitted perverting the course of justice and a separate case of fraud, in relation to a false character reference.\n\nHe was jailed for two-and-a-half years on Tuesday.\n\nMr Davis said Mr Curry's son was under investigation in the US for elder abuse, fraud and kidnapping.\n\nKevin Curry previously told BBC's Panorama his father had become unwell on a trip to the UK and he had left him with a friend to take him to hospital.\n\nJudge Daniel Pearce-Higgins QC said Hayes' false information caused \"an enormous waste of police and public resources\".\n\n\"I cannot find any case remotely similar to the facts of this case, curiously because there appears to be no apparent benefit to the defendant,\" he said.\n• None The abandoned man with no memory\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Stephen Coxen had denied the rape charges against him and the case was found not proven in a criminal court\n\nA woman who successfully sued a man for raping her has said she is \"shocked\" but \"not surprised\" that he has declared himself bankrupt.\n\nLast October a sheriff ruled that Stephen Coxen had raped the woman after a night out in Fife in 2013 and ordered him to pay her £80,000.\n\nThe case was unusual because Mr Coxen had previously faced a criminal trial but the case was found not proven.\n\nThe woman, a former St Andrews University student who cannot be named for legal reasons, said she was raped after a night out in the town by Mr Coxen, whom she had met earlier in the evening.\n\nThe victim was a student at the University of St Andrews\n\nMr Coxen, from Bury in Greater Manchester, had denied the charges, claiming the sex was consensual.\n\nThe case was found not proven, which means in legal terms that he was cleared, after a criminal trial in November 2015.\n\nThe woman, known as Miss M, later took out a civil action against Stephen Coxen, which was heard at the Personal Injury Court in Edinburgh.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio's Good Morning Scotland programme, the woman said her main focus had been gaining justice in the case and not money.\n\nShe said: \"Initially, the day I found out I was very shocked. I wasn't surprised.\n\n\"I think a little part of me always thought he might do this. He was the man that raped me, he is the man I've spent five years fighting against and I think it's just highlighting the type of person that he is.\n\n\"But I don't think people should just think about this as terrible that he's made himself bankrupt, because really, I've never wanted to go after him for money.\n\n\"The whole point of my whole process - my whole fight over the years is really just for a sheriff to say 'you know he did rape you - this did happen'.\"\n\nDamages were awarded at the Personal Injury Court in Edinburgh\n\nCivil cases require a lower standard of proof than criminal cases, with judgements made on the balance of probabilities rather than beyond reasonable doubt.\n\nIn this case - understood to be the first of its kind in Scotland - the sheriff in the civil court ruled Mr Coxen raped the woman despite the not proven verdict in the criminal court, and demanded he pay damages.\n\nSheriff Robert Weir said the evidence from Miss M had been \"cogent, compelling and persuasive\".\n\nHe said that Mr Coxen took advantage of the 18-year-old student when she was incapable of giving meaningful consent because of the effects of alcohol.\n\nDavid Robertson (left) and David Goodwillie faced a civil action after a decision not to prosecute them\n\nThe sheriff said Miss M had been distressed and had resisted, but Mr Coxen had continued to rape her.\n\nMr Coxen, who was also aged 18 at the time, denied rape and said they had consensual sex.\n\nIn 2017, another woman, Denise Clair, won a civil case against footballers David Goodwillie and David Robertson.\n\nBut the case was different as Ms Clair, who waived her right to anonymity, brought the civil action after the Crown had decided against prosecuting the pair in the criminal courts.\n\nThe judge in the civil court found the rapes had happened and awarded Ms Clair £100,000 damages from the men.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The failed bid to merge with rival Asda cost Sainsbury's £46m, the supermarket giant has said.\n\nIn April, a proposed merger between Sainsbury's and Asda was blocked by the UK's competition watchdog over fears it would raise prices for consumers.\n\nSainsbury's said that like-for-like sales growth slowed in the fourth quarter, especially over the Christmas period.\n\nIt added it would accelerate investment in its stores and technology.\n\nIn the year ending 9 March, profit before tax fell to £239m, from £409m the previous year.\n\nCosts for the year included the failed Asda bid, restructuring costs of £81m and defined benefit pension expenses of £118m.\n\nRetail analyst Steve Dresser said in a tweet that the second half of the year was \"poor for Sainsbury's really\", taking into consideration \"Halloween, Christmas, Mother's Day, Valentine's Day, Comic Relief\" and a \"hot summer in first half too\".\n\nSainsbury's chief executive Mike Coupe was not his usual Tiggerish self when presenting this set of results.\n\nHe gave the impression of someone trying to make the best of a less-than-ideal outcome - which, of course, he was.\n\nIn his ideal world, he would have been talking about the final preparations for the merger with Asda, but that was blown out of the water by the Competition and Markets Authority last week.\n\nInstead, he was left to describe a fairly mundane set of annual results in glowing terms.\n\nThey show a company that is fighting hard on all fronts - trying to compete against aggressive low-price rivals and a resurgent Tesco, while at the same time finding the money to improve its stores, reduce debt and maintain dividend payments to shareholders.\n\nOnce you include restructuring costs and a £46m hit on the failed deal with Asda, statutory profits were down one-third to £219m - a tiny number for a company that has annual sales of £32bn.\n\nSainsbury insiders had warned against expecting a big strategic relaunch, a Plan B after the Asda failure.\n\nShareholders will still be disappointed that there wasn't one, and will no doubt be pressing hard on whether - or rather when - it will emerge.\n\nChief executive Mike Coupe told the BBC's Today programme: \"Well, we draw a line under the past... The authorities blocked the [Asda] deal, but we think our business is adapting to the changing world of retail, and we will will carry on investing in our business.\"\n\nMr Coupe said Sainsbury's would invest in 400 supermarkets over the next year and would continue to put money into online sales.\n\nThe investment will include refurbishment of some big stores, including Hedge End near Southampton.\n\nHe added that he would be \"sticking to the company\" when questioned about whether he had been asked to step down after the failed merger.\n\nOn a media call, he said \"I'm planning to stay,\" adding that shareholders and the board had been supportive.\n\nSainsbury's shares took a big tumble in February after a preliminary decision against the merger by the competition watchdog, falling from 287.9p per share to 234.5p over the course of a day.\n\nThe share price dipped as low as 216p in the last week of April.\n\nLaith Khalaf, a senior analyst at Hargreaves Lansdown, said: \"The market's been worried about Sainsbury's ever since the tie-up with Asda fell through, and while underlying performance hasn't been stellar, the supermarket's beaten expectations, and that's provided the share price with a much-needed fillip.\n\n\"However, it's a bit premature to pop any champagne corks just yet.\"\n\nHe said one-off costs had led to a \"steep decline\" in reported profits, adding that \"the supermarket's debt pile also looks pretty high, though the good news is the pension scheme has moved into surplus\".\n\nMr Khalaf added: \"Perhaps most concerning is that sales growth is flatlining at best. In some bits of the business, notably clothing and general merchandise, sales are in retreat. Of course, this all contrasts with a resurgent Tesco, which makes Sainsbury's sales performance look pallid by comparison.\"", "Sarah Handy was discharged from hospital with painkillers then baby daughter Jennifer died after she was born suddenly at home\n\nA mother whose baby died after failures at a hospital at the centre of a damning report has said she still has no faith in its maternity services.\n\nSarah Handy was sent home with painkillers and laxatives before giving birth to Jennifer, who died a short time later.\n\nA highly-critical report said maternity services at Royal Glamorgan and Prince Charles hospitals were \"dysfunctional\".\n\nThe independent review found services for expectant and new mothers were \"under extreme pressure\" with patients' worries often ignored.\n\nIt was prompted by concerns over the deaths of a number of babies.\n\nAfter the report uncovered numerous failings, Health Minister Vaughan Gething put Cwm Taf maternity services into special measures.\n\nMrs Handy said: \"I've lost all confidence and trust in the service. I would be very, very scared to use the services again. There are a lot of questions that need to be answered.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'We picked the wrong day to be ill'\n\nMs Handy's case was one of those highlighted in the accompanying report, which carried concerns expressed by women and families over the quality of care they received.\n\nThe review team said her case included at least five failings in how the maternity service responded and dealt with her in April 2017.\n\nMs Handy, from Merthyr Tydfil, wants to see more staff and more safeguards in place: \"Doctors, midwives, across the board really, listening to patients and patients feeling much more valued.\"\n\nSamantha Gadsden said, despite improvements, there were still staffing issues\n\nMeanwhile, doula Samantha Gadsden - a birth companion to pregnant women - said she saw some \"pretty horrible things\" while working in Cwm Taf.\n\n\"Coerced vaginal examinations, lack of informed consent, free-birthing women - choosing to give birth without a midwife - being reported to social services and I witnessed a midwife lose her temper and walk out of a house with a baby without telling the parents,\" said Ms Gadsen.\n\n\"One of my clients was criticised for her choice to free birth while her baby was there fitting in the hospital and she was there still being told off by the consultant.\"\n\nMs Gadsden told BBC Wales she was \"shocked\" the problems have only just come to light, but insists there have been improvements.\n\n\"There was a time when I would literally put my head in my hands knowing I was going to be working in that health board but that is no longer the case.\n\n\"There are new consultant midwives, there's the new birth centre there, so things are changing.\"\n\nUnison Cymru's head of health Paul Summers said there was a problem with staffing levels and a blame culture meant staff had been too scared to speak out - and those that did, did not feel they were listened to.\n\n\"There's a big job to do in rebuilding the trust and confidence of staff,\" he added.\n\nDr Clea Harmer, chief executive at Sands, the stillbirth and neonatal death charity, said: \"It is incredibly sad that for so many parents the first time they truly feel their voice has been heard, since suffering the devastation of the death of their baby, is a report into failings at a maternity unit that may have led to that bereavement.\"\n\nShe highlighted the testimony of one mother, who recalled a woman coming in and saying \"'Just to let you know the baby's died.' She didn't break it gently. Then she just walked away.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jessica Western says she is still fighting to find out why her daughter Macie died\n\nCwm Taf Morgannwg health board had already been planning changes and since March, specialist neonatal care is now only provided on one site - Prince Charles Hospital. The Royal Glamorgan still has a midwife-led unit for less complicated births.\n\nChief executive Allison Williams said: \"We completely understand the anxiety people may be feeling and we would encourage people to talk to their community midwife to ensure that they have their questions answered.\"\n\nShe offered a public apology saying she was \"deeply sorry for the failings\" identified.\n\nShe said the health board fully accepted the findings and putting things right was now the organisation's utmost priority.\n\n\"Some of the feedback we have received from patients is extremely distressing,\" she added.\n\n\"I would also like to say sorry to our staff who have felt that their concerns have not been listened to.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Pete Wishart said he would release a \"substantial and far-reaching\" manifesto\n\nSNP MP Pete Wishart has announced his candidacy to replace John Bercow as the Speaker of the House of Commons.\n\nThere is speculation Mr Bercow will announce his retirement this summer, although he has not yet confirmed this.\n\nConservative MP Sir Edward Leigh and Labour's Chris Bryant have both voiced an interest in the job.\n\nMr Wishart wrote on Twitter that he would release a manifesto on Wednesday to become \"the first post-war Speaker from beyond the two main parties\".\n\nThe Speaker of the House of Commons is in charge of selecting MPs to speak and keeping order during debates. The position is filled via a secret ballot of members.\n\nThe position is traditionally seen as an impartial role, and the Speaker is expected to resign from their party.\n\nMr Bercow has been in the job since June 2009, and was re-elected unopposed after the 2015 and 2017 elections.\n\nThere is speculation that he will announce his retirement this summer - although he has not spoken about his plans publicly, always insisting he would tell MPs first.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Pete Wishart This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 Chris Bryant was one of the first to declare an interest in the job, saying the next Speaker should focus on \"tending to the wounds\" caused by Brexit rows and harassment scandals.\n\nSir Edward - who has represented Gainsborough since 1983 - said he would be a \"traditional speaker\" who did not speak very much.\n\nMr Wishart - who chairs the Scottish affairs select committee - meanwhile said his candidacy would be \"based on a solid agenda of reform seeking to secure equality of all MPs\", saying his manifesto would be \"substantial and far-reaching\".\n\nHis announcement prompted criticism from some independence supporters online, who told Mr Wishart that SNP members should be at Westminster to \"settle up, not settle down\".\n\nBut his party leader, Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, defended the move, saying: \"For as long as the SNP is in the House of Commons, we should be trying to make it work as well as we can, and undo some of the barriers that are in the way - we've seen all too powerfully in the Brexit debate how Scotland's voice is not being heard.\"\n\nThere have also been calls for the next speaker to be a woman, with Labour's Gloria de Piero and Tory Nicky Morgan saying in a joint article in the Times that electing another man to the post would be a \"setback\" and a \"missed opportunity\".\n\nDame Eleanor Laing, currently a deputy Speaker under Mr Bercow, has announced her interest in taking up the top job.", "Sales of Apple's iPhones fell at their steepest-ever rate, according to data for the three months to the end of March.\n\nThe firm said revenue from the iPhone dropped by 17%, compared with the same period a year earlier, to $31bn.\n\nHowever, Apple chief executive Tim Cook said sales were stronger towards the end of March, including in China where it cut iPhone prices to boost demand.\n\nApple lifted its outlook for the three months to June.\n\nThat sent shares more than 5% higher in after-hours trading.\n\nThe company had warned of slowing iPhone sales earlier this year, especially in China, where Apple competes with cheaper rivals such as Huawei Technologies and Xiaomi.\n\nBut Mr Cook said price adjustments in China, lower Chinese taxes on the iPhone and new trade-in and financing deals helped sales start to recover toward the end of the quarter.\n\nHe also credited improving demand for products such as the Apple Watch, along with progress in US-China trade talks.\n\nApple chief executive Tim Cook and Oprah Winfrey at the launch of Apple TV+ in March\n\n\"The trade relationship, versus the previous quarter, is better. The tone is better,\" Mr Cook told Reuters. \"The sum of all of this together, it helped us.\"\n\nApple has lifted its guidance for its third quarter revenue to between $52.5bn and $54.5bn.\n\nFor the three months to March, total sales hit $58bn compared to analysts' estimates of $57.3bn.\n\nHowever, that is below total sales of $61.1bn in the second quarter last year. And while demand improved in China, sales in the region were still down by 20%.\n\nProfits for the second quarter fell to $11.5bn compared to $13.8bn in the same period a year ago.\n\nApple is attempting to shift its reliance on the iPhone towards services and last month unveiled its new TV streaming platform, Apple TV+, to take on the likes of more established companies such as Netflix.\n\nServices revenue rose to $11.4bn from $9.8bn in the same quarter last year.\n\nBut Yoram Wurmser, principal analyst at eMarketer, said long-term growth in services and, to a less extent, other devices \"depend on having as many users as possible in the Apple ecosystem, and that's still primarily about the iPhone\".\n\n\"The long-term growth of the company still depends directly and indirectly on iPhone sales,\" he added.", "Police found the women's remains at a flat in Vandome Close\n\nA man has been charged with preventing the lawful burial of two women whose bodies were found in a freezer.\n\nThe pair's remains were found clothed and on top of each other at a flat in Vandome Close, Canning Town, east London, on Friday.\n\nDetectives have said it may take a week before the women are formally identified.\n\nZahid Younis, 34, of Vandome Close, is due to appear at Wimbledon Magistrates' Court on Thursday, Scotland Yard said.\n\nHe faces two counts of preventing the lawful and decent burial of a dead body.\n\nSpeaking on Wednesday, Det Ch Insp Simon Harding said a chest freezer, measuring a few feet wide, had been removed from the crime scene.\n\nWork to identify the women was ongoing, he said, and post-mortem examinations would be carried out on Friday.\n\nThere are fears for Mary-Jane Mustafa, 37, who went missing last May.\n\nThe Met has appealed for anyone who has visited the flat in the last year to contact them.\n\nA 50-year-old man arrested on suspicion of murder has been released under investigation.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Wikileaks co-founder Julian Assange is currently jailed in the UK, and is fighting extradition to the United States on espionage charges.\n\nThe 48-year-old Australian was arrested in April 2019 at the Ecuadorean embassy in London, where he had been staying since 2012.\n\nHe sought asylum at the embassy to avoid extradition to Sweden on a rape allegation that he denied.\n\nAfter his arrest, he was sentenced to 50 weeks in jail for breaching his bail conditions and is currently being held at Belmarsh prison in London.\n\nAn investigation into the 2010 rape allegation has now been dropped by Swedish prosecutors.\n\nBelow is more information on how events have unfolded:\n\nJulian Assange arrives in Sweden on a speaking trip partly arranged by \"Miss A\", a member of the Christian Association of Social Democrats. He has not met \"Miss A\" before but reports suggest they have arranged in advance that he can stay at her apartment while she is out of town for a few days.\n\n\"Miss A\" and Mr Assange attend a seminar by the Social Democrats' Brotherhood Movement on \"War and the role of media\", at which the Wikileaks founder is the key speaker. The two reportedly have sex that night.\n\nMr Assange reportedly has sex with a woman he met at the seminar on 14 August, identified as \"Miss W\".\n\nSome time between 17 and 20 August, \"Miss W\" and \"Miss A\" are in contact and apparently share with a journalist the concerns they have about aspects of their sexual encounters with Mr Assange.\n\nMr Assange applies for a residence permit to live and work in Sweden. He hopes to create a base for Wikileaks there, because of the country's laws protecting whistleblowers.\n\nThe Swedish Prosecutor's Office issues an arrest warrant for Mr Assange based on allegations of rape and molestation.\n\nBoth women reportedly say that what started as consensual sex became non-consensual.\n\nWikileaks quotes Mr Assange as saying the accusations are \"without basis\" and that their appearance \"at this moment is deeply disturbing\".\n\nA later message on the Wikileaks Twitter feed says the group has been warned to expect \"dirty tricks\".\n\n\"I don't think there is reason to suspect that he has committed rape,\" says one of Stockholm's chief prosecutors, Eva Finne.\n\nProsecutors say the investigation into the molestation allegation will continue, but it is not a serious enough crime for an arrest warrant.\n\nThe lawyer for the two women, Claes Borgstrom, lodges an appeal against this decision to a special department in the public prosecutions office.\n\nMr Assange is questioned by police in Stockholm and formally told of the allegations against him, according to his lawyer at the time, Leif Silbersky. The activist denies the allegations.\n\nSweden's Director of Prosecution Marianne Ny says she is reopening the rape investigation against Mr Assange.\n\n\"Considering information available at present, my judgement is that the classification of the crime is rape,\" she says.\n\nThe Wikileaks founder (an Australian citizen) is denied residency in Sweden. No reason is given, although an official on Sweden's Migration Board tells the AFP news agency \"he did not fulfil the requirements\".\n\nStockholm District Court approves a request to detain Mr Assange for questioning on suspicion of rape, sexual molestation and unlawful coercion. Ms Ny says he has not been available for questioning.\n\nBy this time Mr Assange has travelled to London. His British lawyer, Mark Stephens, says his client offered to be interviewed at the Swedish embassy in London or Scotland Yard or via videolink. He accuses Ms Ny of \"abusing her powers\" in insisting that Mr Assange return to Sweden.\n\nSwedish police issue an international arrest warrant for Mr Assange via Interpol.\n\nThe Wikileaks founder gives himself up to British police and is taken to an extradition hearing. He is remanded in custody pending another hearing.\n\nMr Assange is granted bail by the High Court and is freed after his supporters pay £240,000 in cash and sureties.\n\nMr Assange held up a court document to the media after he was released on bail\n\nA British court rules that Mr Assange should be extradited to Sweden.\n\nLawyers lodge papers at the High Court for an appeal against extradition.\n\nThe High Court upholds the decision to extradite Mr Assange.\n\nMr Assange wins the right to petition the UK Supreme Court directly after judges rule that his case raised \"a question of general public importance\".\n\nThe Supreme Court rules that he should be extradited to Sweden.\n\nEcuador's foreign minister says Mr Assange has applied for political asylum at Ecuador's embassy in London.\n\nEcuador's foreign minister claims the UK has issued a \"threat\" to enter the Ecuadorean embassy in London to arrest Mr Assange. The Foreign Office says it reminded Ecuador that it has the power to revoke the diplomatic immunity of an embassy on UK soil and says Britain has a legal obligation to extradite him.\n\nEcuador grants asylum to Mr Assange, saying there are fears his human rights might be violated if he is extradited. Mr Assange describes it as a \"significant victory\", but the UK government expresses its disappointment.\n\nMr Assange spoke to the media and his supporters from the Ecuadorean embassy in August 2012\n\nThe UK insists it will not grant Mr Assange \"safe passage\" to Ecuador as it seeks a diplomatic solution. Downing Street says the government is legally obliged to extradite him to Sweden.\n\nNine people who put up bail sureties for Mr Assange are ordered by a judge to pay thousands of pounds each after his failure to appear in court.\n\nEcuador's ambassador says Mr Assange has a chronic lung infection \"which could get worse at any moment\". The embassy says it has sought assurances Mr Assange will not be arrested if he is taken to hospital.\n\nMr Assange says he will leave London's Ecuadorean embassy \"soon\" after two years of refuge. He does not clarify when he will depart but says it is \"probably not\" for the reasons reported in the UK press. Stories had suggested he required medical treatment.\n\nSwedish prosecutors drop their investigation into one accusation of sexual molestation and one of unlawful coercion against Mr Assange because they have run out of time to question him. The more serious allegation of rape is not due to expire until 2020.\n\nScotland Yard announces it will no longer be sending officers to stand guard outside the Ecuadorean embassy in London. Officers had been there since 2012, at an estimated cost of more than £12m.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police says the effort is \"no longer believed proportionate\" but it will be deploying \"a number of overt and covert tactics to arrest\" Mr Assange.\n\nA United Nations panel rules that Mr Assange should be allowed to walk free and be compensated for his \"deprivation of liberty\".\n\nThe UN's Working Group on Arbitrary Detention says the Wikileaks founder has been arbitrarily detained by UK and Swedish authorities since his arrest in 2010, and the detention violates his human, civil and political rights.\n\nMr Assange hails it a \"significant victory\" and calls the decision \"binding\" - but UK Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond brands the ruling \"ridiculous\".\n\nThe UK Foreign Office says the report \"changes nothing\" and it will \"formally contest the working group's opinion\".\n\nBefore the ruling, police said he would still be arrested if he left the embassy.\n\nSweden's chief prosecutor Ingrid Isgren travels to London to question Mr Assange at the Ecuadorean embassy.\n\nMs Isgren listened as the questions were put to him by an Ecuadorean prosecutor, under an agreement worked out with Ecuador.\n\nOutgoing US President Barack Obama commutes the prison sentence given to US army private Chelsea Manning for leaking classified documents to Wikileaks.\n\nMr Assange says he stands by his offer to agree to be extradited to the US if Mr Obama granted clemency to Manning.\n\nUS Attorney General Jeff Sessions says arresting Mr Assange is a priority. No charges have been filed against him in the US, but American media outlets report that federal prosecutors are considering charges.\n\nChelsea Manning is released from Fort Leavenworth military prison in Kansas.\n\nSweden's director of public prosecutions announces that the rape investigation into Mr Assange is being dropped.\n\nThe Ecuadorean government confirms Mr Assange was granted Ecuadorean citizenship in December and asks the UK to recognise him as a diplomatic agent - a move that would give him immunity. The UK refuses.\n\nLawyers for Mr Assange ask for a UK warrant for his arrest to be dropped.\n\nAn arrest warrant for Mr Assange is upheld by Westminster Magistrate's Court.\n\nEcuador says the country's latest efforts to negotiate the departure of Mr Assange from its London embassy have failed.\n\nEcuador removes extra security at its London embassy following claims that $5m (£3.7m) has been spent to protect Mr Assange.\n\nThe UK and Ecuador confirm they are holding talks over the fate of Mr Assange. Ecuador's President Lenin Moreno says he was never \"in favour\" of Mr Assange's activities.\n\nMr Assange is given a set of house rules at the Ecuadorean embassy - which include cleaning his bathroom and taking better care of his cat.\n\nThe cat could often be seen peering out of the embassy's windows\n\nHe is warned that his feline companion could be confiscated and is also told to look after its \"wellbeing, food and hygiene\".\n\nEcuador also says it will partially restore Mr Assange's internet connection.\n\nWikileaks lawyers say its co-founder is going to launch legal action against the government of Ecuador, accusing it of violating his \"fundamental rights and freedoms\".\n\nIt claims the government of Ecuador has refused Mr Assange a visit by Human Rights Watch general counsel Dinah PoKempner, and has not allowed several meetings with his lawyers.\n\nIn a statement, Wikileaks said: \"Ecuador's measures against Julian Assange have been widely condemned by the human rights community.\"\n\nMr Assange's lawyer, Barry Pollack, says his client will not be accepting a deal between the UK and Ecuador to allow him to be released.\n\nThe agreement was rejected over fears it could be used as a pretext to extradite him to the US.\n\n\"The suggestion that as long as the death penalty is off the table, Mr Assange need not fear persecution is obviously wrong,\" Mr Pollack says.\n\nThe passport would allow Mr Assange, who was born in Townsville, Australia, in 1971, to return to the country.\n\nThe Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) confirmed that the government had approved a passport application filed by Mr Assange in 2018.\n\nWikiLeaks tweets that a \"high level source within the Ecuadorean state\" has told them Mr Assange is to be expelled from the embassy within \"hours or days\".\n\nA senior Ecuadorean official says no decision has been made to remove him from the London building.\n\nMr Assange is arrested at London's Ecuadorean embassy by Metropolitan Police officers for \"failing to surrender to the court\".\n\nEcuador's President Lenin Moreno says Mr Assange's asylum was withdrawn after his repeated violations of international conventions.\n\nBut WikiLeaks tweets that Ecuador has acted illegally in terminating Mr Assange's political asylum \"in violation of international law\".\n\nMr Assange is sentenced to 50 weeks in jail after being found guilty of breaching the Bail Act.\n\nSweden reopens an investigation into a rape allegation made against Mr Assange in 2010, which he denies.\n\nThe case was dropped two years before as Swedish prosecutors said they could not progress the case while Mr Assange was still inside the embassy.\n\nEva-Marie Persson, Sweden's deputy director of public prosecutions, said it would reopen because there was still \"probable cause to suspect\" that Mr Assange had committed the alleged rape.\n\nThe US justice department files 17 new charges against Mr Assange, accusing him of violating the Espionage Act by publishing classified military and diplomatic documents.\n\nThe indictment said Mr Assange had \"repeatedly encouraged sources with access to classified information to steal and provide it to Wikileaks to disclose\".\n\nWikileaks tweets that the announcement is \"madness\" and the \"end of national security journalism and the first amendment\".\n\nA Swedish prosecutor says an investigation into an allegation of rape against Mr Assange in 2010 has been discontinued.\n\nDeputy chief prosecutor Eva-Marie Persson says that because so much time has passed since the allegation was made, the evidence has weakened considerably.\n\nMr Assange fled to the UK when the allegation of rape, which he denies, was made in 2010.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Scientists found cocaine in freshwater shrimps when testing rivers for chemicals, a study said.\n\nResearchers at King's College London, in collaboration with the University of Suffolk, tested 15 different locations across Suffolk.\n\nTheir report said cocaine was found in all samples tested. Other illicit drugs, such as ketamine, were also widespread in the shrimp.\n\nThe researchers said it was a \"surprising\" finding.\n\nProfessor Nic Bury, from the University of Suffolk, said: \"Whether the presence of cocaine in aquatic animals is an issue for Suffolk, or more widespread an occurrence in the UK and abroad, awaits further research.\n\n\"Environmental health has attracted much attention from the public due to challenges associated with climate change and microplastic pollution.\n\n\"However, the impact of 'invisible' chemical pollution (such as drugs) on wildlife health needs more focus in the UK.\"\n\nProfessor Nic Bury from the University of Suffolk was one of the researchers\n\nThe study, published in Environment International, looked at the exposure of wildlife, such as the freshwater shrimp Gammarus pulex, to different micropollutants.\n\nResearchers collected the samples from the rivers Alde, Box, Deben, Gipping and Waveney.\n\nThey said in addition to the drugs, banned pesticides and pharmaceuticals were also widespread in the shrimp that were collected.\n\nThe potential for any effect on the creatures was \"likely to be low\", they said.\n\nDr Leon Barron, from King's College London, said: \"Such regular occurrence of illicit drugs in wildlife was surprising.\n\n\"We might expect to see these in urban areas such as London, but not in smaller and more rural catchments.\n\n\"The presence of pesticides which have long been banned in the UK also poses a particular challenge as the sources of these remain unclear.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Having become the first Indian sprinter to reach a final at a global athletics event in 2013, the 18-year-old was already the national champion at 100m and 200m, and an Asian Games bronze medallist.\n\nSuch was the excitement about her potential that the Sports Authority of India's director general Jiji Thomson described her as a \"sure shot Olympic medallist\" of the future, and a place in a final on her Commonwealth Games debut looked within her reach.\n\nBut then, less than a fortnight before the opening ceremony in Glasgow, she \"failed\" a test that had nothing to do with fitness, form or even doping, and was dramatically withdrawn from the national team.\n\nLike South African 800m sensation Caster Semenya before her, Chand discovered - in bold newsprint - that her natural levels of the hormone testosterone were normally only found in men. It did not take long before reporters were outside her parents' humble home asking them and her six siblings if she was a boy or a girl.\n\nThe third of seven children to a weaver couple from the state of Odisha, Dutee is born on 3 February 1996 Becomes Indian national under-18 champion for 100m when she clocks 11.8 seconds in 2012 Wins a 200m bronze at 2013 Asian Games and is first Indian to reach a global sprint final at the World Youths, coming sixth in 11.62 seconds 100/200m double at Asian Junior Athletics Championships, prompting the Athletics Federation of India to ask for a gender test in July Wins a case in July 2015 overturning her ban on competing\n\nShe has now been cleared to race by a landmark ruling questioning the validity of so-called gender tests around naturally high testosterone levels in female athletes.\n\nThe Court of Arbitration for Sport (Cas) has suspended the International Association of Athletics Federations' \"hyperandrogenism\" rules for two years. The rules will be scrapped if the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) cannot provide new evidence supporting them.\n\nHowever, Chand's career has been on hold for a year, leading to her missing both the Commonwealth Games and Asian Games after she refused to subject herself to the \"corrective\" treatment (hormone suppression therapy and sometimes even genital surgery) prescribed by the IAAF, International Olympic Committee (IOC) and other leading sports bodies.\n\n\"I am who I am,\" said Chand with a mixture of defiance and dismay at the time.\n\nInstead of the sprinter she has spent years training to be, she became the focus of a challenge to sport's rules on gender, a cause celebre and evidence in a scientific debate about testosterone.\n\nConcerns about men masquerading as women to win medals have been around for almost as long as women have been allowed to play sport, which is surprising given how rare it is. In fact, the last case most people can agree on is German high jumper Dora/Heinrich Ratjen. He nearly won a bronze medal at the 1936 Olympics.\n\nUndeterred by the unlikelihood of a man successfully passing himself off as a woman, the IOC started comprehensive \"gender verification\" testing in 1968.\n\nInitially, this was done by asking female athletes to drop their underwear, but eventually a less humiliating method was found: checking swabs of cheek tissue for chromosomes, women being XX, men XY.\n\nUnfortunately, Mother Nature is not as black-and-white as your typical blazer would like his competitions to be, and it turns out there are a dozen different conditions that would once have been lumped under \"hermaphrodite\", but are now referred to by the less pejorative term of intersex, or disorders of sexual development.\n\nSport first cottoned on to this when Spanish hurdler Maria Jose Martinez-Patino was told in 1985 that she was an XY \"man\", but refused to quit or feign injury (as it is widely believed many had before) and spent the next three years fighting ignorance and ridicule to line up alongside women again.\n\nShe got there in the end, proving her Y chromosomes were the product of a rare genetic syndrome. She was also able to show that her condition meant she was insensitive to testosterone: it was in her blood, but it was no good to her.\n\nSadly, Martinez-Patino's most competitive years were behind her. It is not known what happened to the 13 women who \"failed\" gender tests at Olympics between 1972 and 1984.\n\nBut sport seemed to have learned something, though, mainly that it did not know enough about these complicated issues, and by the end of the 1990s gender verification was shelved, apart from in cases of extreme suspicion.\n\nAnd then Semenya burst onto the scene.\n\nA junior champion in 2008, the muscular teenager took seven seconds off her personal best for 800m over the next nine months, breaking the South African record and setting a world-leading time in the process. The IAAF felt \"obliged to investigate\", if only to rule out doping.\n\nHours before the start of the 800m final at the 2009 World Athletics Championships, a race Semenya would win by a huge margin, it was leaked that the sport's governing body had also asked for a gender test.\n\nAfter Semenya's crushing win at the 2009 Worlds, a Russian rival sniped, \"just look at her\".\n\nA young girl with a rare condition, and an even rarer talent, was subjected to a medical examination by media.\n\nSemenya, now 24, returned to racing in 2010, and won silver medals at the 2011 Worlds and 2012 Olympics. But she has never run as fast as she did as an 18-year-old.\n\nBruce Kidd, the 1962 Commonwealth champion in the imperial version of the 10,000m, the six miles, has spent the last half century as a leading academic in the field of physical and health education. The Canadian is also a self-confessed Olympian \"of the old school\", a champion of sport's ability to unite.\n\n\"What a remarkable story Semenya should have been,\" said Kidd.\n\n\"Wouldn't it have been better if the authorities had raised her hand as a great new champion? Instead they hit the moral panic button.\n\n\"There has been a long current in modern sport that there must be something wrong with strong women. In the last 20 years it has become a kind of biological racism.\"\n\nAshamed at the leaks and lack of scientific rigour, but stung by the reaction to Semenya's physique from some quarters, the IAAF asked an expert working group to come up with a plan for women with \"excessive androgenic hormones\", or hyperandrogenism.\n\nAndrogenic hormones are any natural or synthetic substance that control the development of male characteristics - everything from the formation of testes, to male pattern baldness - with the best known being testosterone.\n\nThere is some disagreement over the normal spectrum of testosterone levels for men and women in general, but everybody agrees that typically there is a gap that emerges between the sexes during puberty.\n\nAs we have seen, though, there are some women with conditions that give them masculine amounts of testosterone, which the IAAF's working group, in conjunction with the IOC's Medical Commission, decided was anything above the bottom of the male range, 10 nanomoles per litre (nmol/L) of blood.\n\nIn April 2011, the new rules came into force. From this moment on, a confidential investigation could be made into any athlete where there were \"reasonable grounds\". This could be a complaint from a rival, or as a result of an anomaly in a drugs test.\n\nThe process would be handled by experts, and \"an effective therapeutic strategy\" would be offered to any athlete found to have elevated levels of androgen.\n\nPart of this investigation would include finding out if the athlete is benefiting from the testosterone. As was seen in the Martinez-Patino case, androgen insensitivity syndrome (AIS) means those elevated levels of the hormone can give a false picture of what is actually happening.\n\nBut while all this is being established, the athletes are ineligible to compete. Sounds reasonable… doesn't it?\n\nPeter Sonksen is a professor of endocrinology (the study of hormones) at St Thomas' Hospital in London. It was his research for the IOC that eventually led to the development of an anti-doping test for Human Growth Hormone, but he is far from impressed with its work on testosterone.\n\n\"They have got it completely wrong with this idiotic rule,\" Sonksen told me.\n\n\"This rule is unfair, gross and unscientific. It is clear discrimination.\"\n\nSonksen's main objection to the 10 nmol/L threshold is that the research he did for his HGH study found 16% of his male athletes had lower than expected testosterone, whereas 13% of his female athletes had high levels of testosterone \"with complete overlap between the sexes\".\n\nIn other words, the gap that exists for testosterone between men and women in the general population does not exist among elite athletes.\n\nThis research has been leapt upon by a growing body of campaigners who question the premise that testosterone is a significant factor in any discussions about differences between the sexes' athletic performances.\n\nFor them, men's greater height, leaner body mass, narrower hips and higher counts of oxygen-carrying red blood cells are all more persuasive than testosterone.\n\nBut this is where we enter disputed territory, and a number of experts reacted angrily to what they saw as the misuse of Sonksen's HGH data. For them, there is little doubt of testosterone's impact, although most admit it is part of the mix, as opposed to being the only ingredient.\n\nDavid Epstein is an award-winning writer for the US magazine Sports Illustrated, but he is perhaps better known as the author of \"The Sports Gene\", a myth-debunking look at \"nature versus nurture\".\n\nThe book details the many physical differences between men and women, including testosterone, which, when you add them all up, explain why unisex sport is a non-starter for most athletic pursuits. As he explains, elite men's running times are about 11% faster than women's, with even bigger differences in jumping and throwing.\n\n\"For lots of good reasons, we have decided to have a class of athletes who aren't men,\" Epstein explained.\n\n\"But biological sex is not binary. That means whichever line you draw between men and women it is going to be arbitrary.\"\n\nFor now, Epstein agrees with the IAAF's experts that testosterone is probably \"the best line we can draw\", although he would prefer it if those experts at least admitted they were making an educated guess.\n\nJoanna Harper is a medical physicist based in Oregon who could run two-hour-23-minute marathons as \"a young man\", but is now an age-group national champion as \"an old lady\".\n\nAs part of her sex change in 2004, she had therapy to suppress her testosterone levels. For her, there is no real argument about testosterone's effect.\n\n\"Women's sport is like a testosterone-handicap event,\" Harper told me.\n\n\"But you cannot have women's equality without women's sport, so you have a dilemma with no perfect solution.\"\n\nThere are two things that everybody does agree on: the women in question deserve to be treated with sensitivity and in confidence, and any consent they give to treatment must be informed.\n\nA 2013 report revealed that four female athletes from \"developing countries\" had recently come to France for hormone therapy and extensive genital surgery. These cases were dealt with anonymously, and as far as anybody knows they are still competing.\n\nBut confirmation that young women are being operated on to comply with sport's rules on what \"normal\" female genitalia should look like has provoked outrage. Are male athletes subjected to the same scrutiny?\n\nThe details of Chand's condition have not been published or leaked, thankfully, but it is believed she was offered hormone therapy and \"feminising\" surgery.\n\nIt is ironic then that her failure to tick the \"anonymity box\" on her test form saved Chand from being rushed into medical procedures a probably traumatised teenager cannot be expected to understand. The media attention she has received has been intrusive at times, but it also alerted intersex campaigners to her fate.\n\nThe first person to come to Chand's aid was Dr Payoshni Mitra, a researcher on gender issues, and she helped galvanise opinion behind taking Chand's case to the Court of Arbitration for Sport.\n\n\"We were able to convince (the Sports Authority of India) that these rules are unethical and need to be abolished,\" said Mitra. \"Institutionalised genital mutilation is just scary.\"\n\nChand's challenge was filed at CAS last October, with the SAI paying the bill. Her supporters hoped to get her reinstated immediately and the IAAF rules ripped up within six months. An online \"Let Dutee Run\" campaign got 5,646 signatures and the Indian media massed behind her.\n\nIn the end it was late July 2015 when Chand won her case and was allowed to run once more, with the IAAF \"hyperandrogenism\" rules suspended for two years pending further investigation.\n\nIt is impossible to research Chand's story without developing huge sympathy for the position she found herself in. Her life was turned upside down.\n\nIt is also clear that elite sport has always been about unfair advantages, be they Usain Bolt's long legs, Michael Phelps's out-of-proportion wingspan, or Sir Bradley Wiggins's cardiovascular system. Sport is not fair.\n\nBut if women's sport is to have meaning there must be some boundaries. And if testosterone is so irrelevant, how do we explain the fact that many of the best performances ever achieved by women came during an era when they were pumped full of it as part of an ideological struggle between East and West?\n\nThere are no easy answers here.\n\nAs Harper, with her special insight into testosterone's effect, puts it: \"A level playing field is probably impossible to ever achieve, but a more level playing field is worth striving for.\"\n\nThis feature was first published in October 2014 and updated in the wake of Dutee Chand being cleared to race on 27 July 2015.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. On Tuesday, before he was sacked by Theresa May, Gavin Williamson said in a BBC interview that he had never leaked anything from the NSC\n\nGavin Williamson has been sacked as defence secretary following an inquiry into a leak from a top-level National Security Council meeting.\n\nDowning Street said the PM had \"lost confidence in his ability to serve\" and Penny Mordaunt will take on the role.\n\nThe inquiry followed reports over a plan to allow Huawei limited access to help build the UK's new 5G network.\n\nMr Williamson, who has been defence secretary since 2017, \"strenuously\" denies leaking the information.\n\nIn a meeting with Mr Williamson on Wednesday evening, Theresa May told him she had information that provided \"compelling evidence\" that he was responsible for the unauthorised disclosure.\n\nIn a letter confirming his dismissal, she said: \"No other, credible version of events to explain this leak has been identified.\"\n\nResponding in a letter to the PM, Mr Williamson said he was \"confident\" that a \"thorough and formal inquiry\" would have \"vindicated\" his position.\n\n\"I appreciate you offering me the option to resign, but to resign would have been to accept that I, my civil servants, my military advisers or my staff were responsible: this was not the case,\" he said.\n\nThe inquiry into the National Security Council leak began after the Daily Telegraph reported on the Huawei decision and subsequent warnings within cabinet about possible risks to national security over a deal with Huawei.\n\nBBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg said sources close to the former defence secretary had told her Mr Williamson did meet the Daily Telegraph's deputy political editor, Steven Swinford, but, she pointed out \"that absolutely does not prove\" he leaked the story to him.\n\nAccording to Sky News defence and security correspondent Alistair Bunkall, Mr Williamson swore on his children's lives that he was not responsible for the leak.\n\nSecurity correspondent Frank Gardner said the BBC had been told \"more than one concerning issue\" had been uncovered regarding Mr Williamson during the leak inquiry and not just the Huawei conversation.\n\nDowning Street has made a very serious accusation and is sure enough to carry out this sacking.\n\nFor the prime minister's allies, it will show that she is, despite the political turmoil, still strong enough to move some of her ministers around - to hire and fire.\n\nMr Williamson is strenuously still denying that the leak was anything to do with him at all.\n\nThere is nothing fond, or anything conciliatory, in either the letter from the prime minister to him, or his reply back to her.\n\nThe National Security Council (NSC) is made up of senior cabinet ministers and its weekly meetings are chaired by the prime minister, with other ministers, officials and senior figures from the armed forces and intelligence agencies invited when needed.\n\nIt is a forum where secret intelligence can be shared by GCHQ, MI6 and MI5 with ministers, all of whom have signed the Official Secrets Act.\n\nThere has been no formal confirmation of Huawei's role in the 5G network and No 10 said a final decision would be made at the end of spring.\n\nHuawei has denied there is any risk of spying or sabotage, or that it is controlled by the Chinese government.\n\nMrs May said the leak from the meeting on 23 April was \"an extremely serious matter and a deeply disappointing one\".\n\nIt is vital for the operation of good government and for the UK's national interest in some of the most sensitive and important areas that the members of the NSC - from our armed forces, our security and intelligence agencies, and the most senior level of government - are able to have frank and detailed discussions in full confidence that the advice and analysis provided is not discussed or divulged beyond that trusted environment.\n\n\"That is why I commissioned the cabinet secretary to establish an investigation into the unprecedented leak from the NSC meeting last week, and why I expected everyone connected to it - ministers and officials alike - to comply with it fully. You undertook to do so.\n\n\"I am therefore concerned by the manner in which you have engaged with this investigation.\"\n\nForeign Secretary Jeremy Hunt said the prime minister had no alternative but to sack Mr Williamson, but he said on a personal level he was \"very sorry about what happened\".\n\nWhen asked whether there should be a criminal inquiry into the NSC leak, new defence secretary Ms Mordaunt said: \"The prime minister has made her decision.\n\n\"What I'm focused on is getting on with the job.\"\n\nLabour's deputy leader Tom Watson has called for a police inquiry to investigate whether or not Mr Williamson breached the Official Secrets Act.\n\nThat sentiment was echoed by former national security adviser Lord Ricketts. He told BBC Newsnight that on the face of it, the leak was a breach of the official secrets act and therefore the police ought to be considering an inquiry.\n\nLib Dems leader Vince Cable said Mr Williamson's sacking was \"absolutely extraordinary\" and the PM did it in \"such a forthright way\".\n\nHe added that he believed it was \"clearly a police matter\". His deputy, Jo Swinson, has asked the police to open an investigation.\n\nBut Scotland Yard said in a statement that it was a matter for the National Security Council and the Cabinet Office, and it was not carrying out an investigation.\n\nDefence Committee chairman Julian Lewis told the BBC that Mr Williamson's sacking was a \"loss\" when looked at \"purely\" from the point of view of defence.\n\nHe said he thought \"very highly\" of Ms Mordaunt - the first woman to take the role of defence secretary.\n\nRory Stewart has been confirmed as the new international development secretary, taking over from Ms Mordaunt.\n\nMr Stewart said he believed the prime minister and national security adviser had \"made the right decision\" in sacking Mr Williamson.\n• None Inquiry to be held into Huawei leak", "John Radford, formerly known as John Worboys, is due to appear at Westminster Magistrates' Court on 23 May\n\nJohn Worboys has been charged with four sexual offences, the Metropolitan Police has said.\n\nThe 62-year-old, who has changed his name to John Radford, was charged on 1 May with two counts of administering a substance with intent.\n\nHe was also charged with two counts of administering a stupefying or overpowering drug with intent.\n\nEach of the four charges relate to four separate individuals between 2000 and 2008 in London, the Met said.\n\nThe force added that the allegations were made in early 2018.\n\nRadford is due to appear at Westminster Magistrates' Court on 23 May.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "On Thursday, voters will go to the polls to elect 462 councillors to Northern Ireland's 11 councils.\n\nBut who are the young people who want your vote?\n\nBBC News NI met the youngest candidates from each of Northern Ireland's largest parties.\n\nTwo of them are canvassing while studying for their A-level exams and one is in her final week of university.\n\nThey spoke to the BBC's Erinn Kerr about moustaches, memes and making a difference.\n\nFull lists of the candidates standing in each council area can be found on the Electoral Office's website.", "Last updated on .From the section Athletics\n\nCaster Semenya has lost a landmark case against athletics' governing body meaning it will be allowed to restrict testosterone levels in female runners.\n\nThe Court of Arbitration for Sport (Cas) rejected the South African's challenge against the IAAF's new rules.\n\nBut Cas said it had \"serious concerns as to the future practical application\" of the regulations.\n\nOlympic 800m champion Semenya, 28, said in response to the ruling that the IAAF \"have always targeted me specifically\".\n\nNow she - and other athletes with differences of sexual development (DSD) - must either take medication in order to compete in track events from 400m to the mile, or change to another distance.\n\n\"For a decade the IAAF has tried to slow me down, but this has actually made me stronger. The decision of Cas will not hold me back,\" said Semenya in a statement.\n\n\"I will once again rise above and continue to inspire young women and athletes in South Africa and around the world.\"\n\nPreviously, she had said that she wanted to \"run naturally, the way I was born\".\n\nCas found that the rules for athletes with DSD were discriminatory - but that the discrimination was \"necessary, reasonable and proportionate\" to protect \"the integrity of female athletics\".\n\nHowever, Cas set out serious concerns about the application of the rules, including:\n• None Worries that athletes might unintentionally break the strict testosterone levels set by the IAAF;\n• None Questions about the advantage higher testosterone gives athletes over 1500m and the mile;\n• None The practicalities for athletes of complying with the new rules.\n\nCas has asked the IAAF to consider delaying the application of the rules to the 1500m and one mile events until more evidence is available.\n\nSemenya is still eligible to compete at the Diamond League meet in Doha on Friday and can make an appeal against the Cas ruling to the Swiss Tribunal Courts within the next 30 days.\n• None 'Nobody has truly won - one side has just lost less than the other'\n\nWhat are disorders/differences of sex development (DSD)?\n\nPeople with a DSD do not develop along typical gender lines.\n\nTheir hormones, genes, reproductive organs may be a mix of male and female characteristics, which can lead to higher levels of testosterone - a hormone that increases muscle mass, strength and haemoglobin, which affects endurance.\n\nThe term \"disorders\" is controversial with some of those affected preferring the term \"intersex\" and referring to \"differences in sex development\".\n\nThe new rules come into effect on 8 May, which means athletes who want to compete at September's World Championships - also in Doha - will have to start taking medication within one week.\n\nThose affected by the rules will have to have a blood test on 8 May to test their eligibility. A statement from the IAAF said that no athlete \"will be forced to undergo any assessment\" and that any treatment was up to the individual athlete.\n\nAthletes with differences of sexual development (DSD) have higher levels of natural testosterone, which the IAAF believes gives them a competitive advantage - findings that were disputed by Semenya and her legal team.\n\nHer lawyers had previously said her \"genetic gift\" should be celebrated, adding: \"Women with differences in sexual development have genetic variations that are no different than other genetic variations in sport.\"\n\nThey have also suggested that Semenya \"does not wish to undergo medical intervention to change who she is and how she was born\".\n• None Semenya Q&A - why is this case so pivotal?\n• None What Semenya ruling means for women and sport\n\nWhat are the proposed changes?\n\nThe rules, applying to women in track events from 400m up to the mile, require athletes to keep their testosterone levels below a prescribed amount \"for at least six months prior to competing\".\n\nHowever, 100m, 200m and 100m hurdles are exempt, as are races longer than one mile and field events.\n\nFemale athletes affected must take medication for six months before they can compete, and then maintain a lower testosterone level.\n\nThe rules were intended to be brought in on 1 November 2018, but the legal challenge from Semenya and Athletics South Africa caused that to be delayed until 26 March.\n\nThe United Nations Human Rights Council has called the plans \"unnecessary, harmful and humiliating\" and South Africa's sports minister called them a \"human rights violation\".\n\nWhat next for Semenya?\n\nOn Friday, Semenya won 5,000m gold at the South African Athletics Championships - a new distance for her, and one outside the scope of the IAAF rule change.\n\nIt was only the second time Semenya had run the distance and she finished more than 100m ahead of defending national champion Dominque Scott.\n\nHowever, Scott said she was unsure whether Semenya could be a serious Olympic contender over the longer distance.\n\nSemenya is national and Commonwealth champion at 1500m, and also broke the African 400m record in August.\n\nWhat is the difference between transgender and intersex?\n\nWe have heard a lot about transgender over the past year. Obviously that's a natural discussion that's going to take place, but Semenya is not transgender.\n\nIntersex is a term used to refer to differences of sexual development in individuals. It can relate to men and women and can manifest itself externally, with varied external genitalia or characteristics, or internally in relation to chromosomes and testosterone.\n\nIt can have health repercussions on athletes. Individuals can live their life not knowing they have any DSD.\n\nTransgender describes a person whose gender is not the same as, or does not sit comfortably with, the sex they were assigned at birth.\n\nThey may have reassignment to make that transition or they may wish to identify themselves as male or female without making any physiological transitions.\n\nEighteen-time Grand Slam champion Martina Navratilova: \"The verdict against Semenya is dreadfully unfair to her and wrong in principle. She has done nothing wrong and it is awful that she will now have to take drugs to be able to compete. General rules should not be made from exceptional cases and the question of transgender athletes remains unresolved.\"\n\nMarathon world record holder Paula Radcliffe: \"I understand how hard a decision this was for Cas and respect them for ruling that women's sport needs rules to protect it.\"\n\nMegha Mohan, BBC Gender and Identity reporter: \"The spectrum of identity stretches far beyond the binary, say human rights activists, so shouldn't Semenya's physical abilities be celebrated the same way as Usain Bolt's height and Michael Phelps's wingspan are? Either way this verdict does not signal the end of the debate.\"\n• 31 July 2009: 18-year-old Semenya runs fastest 800m time of the year to win gold at the Africa Junior Championships.\n• August 2009: Semenya undertakes a gender test before the World Championships in Berlin. She is unaware of the purpose of the test, with Athletics South Africa president Leonard Chuene telling her it is a random doping test.\n• 19 August 2009: Semenya wins 800m world gold, breaking the world-leading mark she set in July. After her victory, the news of Semenya's gender test is leaked to the press.\n• November 2009: There are reports that Semenya's test has revealed male and female characteristics. The results are not made public.\n• 6 July 2010: Semenya is cleared by the IAAF to compete again.\n• 22 August 2010: Semenya wins the 800m at an IAAF event in Berlin.\n• 11 August 2012: Semenya wins 800m silver at the 2012 London Olympics. This is later upgraded to gold after Russian winner Mariya Savinov is given a lifetime ban for doping violations. Semenya is also upgraded to 2011 world gold.\n• July 2014: India sprinter Dutee Chand, 18, is banned from competing after a hormone test shows natural natural levels of testosterone normally only found in men.\n• 27 July 2015: Chand is cleared to compete; the Court of Arbitration for Sport suspends, for two years, the introduction of an earlier version of IAAF rules requiring female athletes to take testosterone-suppressing medication.\n• 20 August 2016: Semenya wins 800m gold at the Rio Olympics, but the decision to allow her to compete is\n• 4 July 2017: Research commissioned by the IAAF finds female athletes with high testosterone levels have a \"competitive advantage\".\n• 26 April 2018: The IAAF introduces new rules for female runners with naturally high testosterone.\n• 19 June 2018: Semenya says she will challenge the \"unfair\" IAAF rules.", "An investigation by BBC Arabic has found evidence of alleged war crimes in Libya being widely shared on Facebook and YouTube.\n\nThe BBC found images and videos on social media of the bodies of fighters and civilians being desecrated by fighters from the self-styled Libyan National Army.\n\nThe force, led by strongman General Khalifa Haftar, controls a swathe of territory in the east of Libya and is trying to seize the capital, Tripoli.\n\nUnder international law the desecration of bodies and posting the images online for propaganda is a war crime.\n\nThe Foreign Office says it takes the allegations extremely seriously and is concerned about the impact the recent violence is having on the civilian population.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Motorhome owner Alan Nicoll recalls the \"terrible time\" he had during a finance dispute\n\nPolice are investigating claims that a West Lothian motorhome firm duped customers and business associates out of hundreds of thousands of pounds.\n\nBBC Scotland has learned that dozens of Gill's Motorhomes clients are owed substantial sums for vehicle hire bookings that never materialised.\n\nSeveral customers also claim they lost thousands after buying used vehicles that were still owned by finance firms.\n\nAnd two men claim to have lost tens of thousands over a failed franchise plan.\n\nGill's Motorhomes, which has now ceased trading, told BBC Scotland that all of its customers who prepaid to hire a vehicle would receive a full refund.\n\nThe Dechmont-based company, whose sole director is David Gill, also said it aimed to \"recompense\" two businessmen who each invested close to £100,000 in planned Gill's-branded franchise operations in England \"as and when we are able\".\n\nIn a statement, police said they were \"investigating reports of a fraudulent scheme linked to a business in Dechmont, West Lothian\".\n\nAlan Nicoll says he had to pay a finance company £10,000 or lose his motorhome\n\nBBC Scotland traced a number of Gill's customers, all of whom claimed to have lost thousands of pounds.\n\nAlan Nicoll, from East Kilbride, and Fort William-based Ingrid Anderson both bought ex-hire motorhomes from Gill's - only to discover later that the vehicles were still subject to leasing agreements.\n\nIn October Mr Nicoll, 55, paid Gill's a £5,000 deposit for a motorhome before finding out a few days later that there was outstanding finance on the vehicle.\n\nHe said he agreed to pay Gill's the outstanding balance of £32,000 after receiving assurances from the firm that it would clear the debt with the finance company as soon as it received his money.\n\nIn emails seen by BBC Scotland, Mr Nicoll was repeatedly told by Gill's that the issue was being addressed.\n\nBut the finance company did not receive the money.\n\nIn March, it informed Mr Nicoll that Gill's had ceased trading and that it wanted to recover the vehicle.\n\nMr Nicoll said: \"I decided to reach a settlement and paid the finance company £10,000.\n\n\"Between my partner and myself, it was a terrible time.\n\n\"You can understand a business going underneath, but for them to do what they did was just lowlife.\"\n\nMrs Anderson shows the receipt for her purchase of a used motorhome\n\nIngrid Anderson, who is in her 60s, told BBC Scotland that she paid Gill's company Motorhome Hire Scotland £35,000 for a second-hand Bailey Advance 655 in late 2017.\n\nBut when she tried to sell it a few months ago, a dealer informed her that there was still a lease agreement on the vehicle.\n\nMrs Anderson claimed she was later told by the finance company involved that she would have to pay an outstanding balance of £20,500 or it would repossess the vehicle.\n\nShe said she tried to resolve the matter with Gill's but the company went silent at the end of February.\n\n\"I was devastated when I discovered there was a lease agreement on the motorhome and I could lose it,\" she said.\n\n\"My lawyer is currently reviewing the legal position and I have informed the police about my case.\"\n\nIngrid Anderson faces a bill of more than £20,000 in order to keep her motorhome\n\nA statement emailed to the BBC by Gill's Motorhomes read: \"Historically every year since inception we have sold off our ex-hire motorhomes and in the majority of cases we paid off the finance owed on them.\n\n\"Regrettably due to a variety of unforeseen circumstances the business was unable to continue trading and as a direct result of those circumstances it rendered it impossible for us to make the final finance payments on three vehicles.\"\n\nA number of people also came forward to the BBC to say they had lost substantial sums trying to rent motorhomes from Gill's.\n\nDerek Burke paid Gill's £1,472 upfront after being offered an \"early bird\" rental discount on 23 February.\n\nDerek Burke set up an online group for people who lost money after dealing with Gill's Motorhomes\n\nMr Burke, from Burntisland, said he only found out that there might be a problem when he tried to alter the rental dates several weeks later.\n\nHe told BBC Scotland: \"We tried to contact them (Gill's) several times by phone to rearrange the dates, to see if that was possible but there was no answer on the phone.\n\n\"So I emailed them and again there was no answer.\"\n\nMr Burke set up an online group and found others with similar accounts of dealings with Gill's. So far more than a dozen have come forward.\n\nHe said: \"There were several people posting who had booked with Gill's Motorhome Hire Scotland and they couldn't get hold of anyone - the same situation I was in. And they had paid upfront as well.\n\n\"There's an awful lot of anger, as you can imagine.\"\n\nMr Burke has also approached the police over his case.\n\nThis page from Gill's Motorhomes was removed several weeks ago\n\nTwo Spaniards have also claimed to have lost substantial amounts of money in their dealings with Gill's.\n\nXavi Pena, from Barcelona, said that in January he hired a motorhome from Gill's to travel around Scotland with his wife, two-year-old son and parents-in-law.\n\nHe explained: \"We were asked to pay the full amount of £1,800 in order to lock the motorhome.\n\n\"That was clearly a mistake from our side, but we were keen to secure it given that my parents-in-law were travelling all the way from Australia, where they live.\n\n\"About 10 days before our trip I tried to contact the company again in order to agree on the pick-up location and time but they had vanished completely.\n\n\"Their website was not operative, they didn't answer emails or calls. In the end we had to rent another motorhome.\"\n\nSanti Miralda says the company failed to respond after he tried to amend his booking\n\nSanti Miralda, 49, also from Barcelona, said he paid Gill's more than £1,500 upfront in February to rent a vehicle.\n\nMr Miralda, who runs a language school in the Spanish city, said alarm bells started ringing when he tried to alter his booking a few weeks later.\n\n\"I tried to contact them (Motorhome Hire Scotland) to ask for a change and that was when I realised that I had been ripped off.\n\n\"The web page has disappeared and they do not answer any mail or phone calls.\"\n\nBBC Scotland has established that the Gill's Motorhomes' website went offline in early March, with the message: \"Our site is currently unavailable.\"\n\nIn mid-April, a new message appeared, stating that Gill's Motorhome Hire Ltd had ceased trading.\n\nIn a statement, Gill's Motorhomes said it took bookings in advance \"like any other motorhome hire company\".\n\nIt continued: \"All of our customers who prepaid will receive a full refund, indeed most have already.\n\n\"Like any other business associated with travel we provided an 'early bird' discount for customers who paid in advance. We have offered this facility since inception in 2015.\n\n\"We notified our customers via email as soon as it became clear that we were unfortunately unable to continue trading.\n\n\"We provided clear and concise instructions on how our customers could get their money back. Most, if not all, have now successfully followed those instructions.\"\n\nChris Nowell, 56, from Stafford, claims he is about £90,000 out of pocket after signing a franchise agreement with Gill's Motorhomes last year.\n\nHe said the fee of £75,000, plus VAT, included marketing and website costs involved in renting out Gills-branded vehicles in Birmingham from 1 April.\n\nChris Nowell says he has lost about £90,000 over the franchise agreement with Gill's\n\nMr Nowell, who is a former director of JCB, told the BBC that he had concerns back in February about how the franchise was proceeding and began a legal process of withdrawing from the agreement.\n\nHowever, on 1 March he received an email from Gill's saying that it had ceased trading.\n\nHe says he has not received a penny of his money back.\n\nHe told BBC Scotland: \"I feel that essentially I have been duped into taking on the franchise.\n\n\"I feel it was never a properly established franchise, and they weren't in a position to deliver what they promised when they started.\n\n\"I have lost so far a great deal of money but I also feel awful for the other people, particularly the people who were booking through the Gill's website for Birmingham where I was due to open a franchise.\n\n\"They've lost their holidays and they've lost, in some cases, their bookings.\"\n\nAnother \"franchisee\", Alan Amos, says he paid out about £100,000 late last year to take on a Gill's Motorhome hire franchise in Swindon.\n\nHe also claims to have received nothing back from Gill's.\n\nHe told BBC Scotland: \"I have to pay off a £50,000 loan and will have to sell off my house and downsize. I've also got to find a job.\n\n\"I can't figure out where all the money has gone. I have been stressed out in a way I have never been before.\"\n\nIn a statement, Gill's said: \"Two people progressed their intentions to proceed with our franchise model and they had invested funds in that regard.\n\n\"We had a very strong and sustainable franchise model which had been scrutinised by many industry professionals including representatives for both individuals concerned.\n\n\"A substantial investment was made by ourselves in our franchise model but very regrettably we were unable to sustain the costs associated with this business due to unforeseen circumstances.\n\n\"We are deeply disappointed with what has happened and we aim to recompense these people as and when we are able.\"\n\nA Police Scotland spokeswoman said: \"We are investigating reports of a fraudulent scheme linked to a business in Dechmont, West Lothian.", "Public hearings begin on Tuesday in the public inquiry into the contaminated blood scandal in the UK.\n\nThousands of NHS patients with haemophilia and other bleeding disorders are believed to have been infected with HIV and hepatitis viruses through contaminated blood products in the 1970s and 80s.\n\nMartin Beard found out he was HIV positive at the age of 17, and was told at the time he had only two years to live. He describes living through \"a very difficult, dark time\" at the height of the stigma surrounding HIV.\n\nThe inquiry opened in September 2018 and is expected to hear evidence from many people who have been affected.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nGerard Batten has dismissed Nigel Farage's Brexit Party as a \"Tory-lite\" ego trip as he insisted only UKIP has a \"clear policy\" for leaving the EU.\n\nLaunching its European election campaign in Middlesbrough, the UKIP leader said democracy was under threat if the Brexit vote was not honoured.\n\nUKIP was a \"real political party\" with members and a rule book, he said.\n\nIts rival, he said, was a \"wholly owned subsidiary of one man's ego\" and a \"safety valve for disaffected Tories\".\n\nMr Farage, UKIP's figurehead for two decades, quit the party after a bitter fallout with Mr Batten last year.\n\nThe two parties are now competing against each other in elections to the European Parliament on 23 May.\n\nUKIP won the most votes and seats of any UK party when the polls were last held in 2014 but has been consumed by internal rows since then.\n\nMr Batten told activists EU membership had been a \"cancer at the heart\" of British life for more than 40 years, with the transfer of law-making powers \"rotting the soul\" of the country.\n\nHe said Theresa May \"never had any intention\" of delivering on the 2016 Brexit vote and had made the UK a \"laughing stock\".\n\nHe promised to campaign across England and Wales to get UKIP candidates elected on a policy of \"unconditional and unilateral\" withdrawal from the EU.\n\nThe UK should leave without a deal and offer to trade with the EU on a tariff-free basis, or under World Trade Organisation rules, with reciprocal rights for each other's citizens.\n\nLaunching a strong personal attack on Mr Farage, he suggested the Brexit Party was a \"safety valve for disaffected Conservatives\".\n\n\"UKIP is a real political party, that has a constitution, a governing body and a rule book,\" he said. \"It has members with rights who elect a leader.\n\n\"The Brexit Party has no members or structure. It is an autocracy. UKIP has policies and a manifesto. The Brexit Party does not.\n\n\"UKIP is a party of ordinary people from all social classes and backgrounds. The Brexit Party is an alternative Tory Party. It is Tory-lite.\n\n\"Their light blue colours tell you everything you need to know about it.\"\n\nOnly three of the 24 UKIP MEPs elected in 2014 have been selected to represent the party again, with the majority having since left the party.\n\nMr Batten has been criticised for selecting and then defending Carl Benjamin, a candidate in the South West of England who posted a message on Twitter in 2016 saying he \"would not even rape\" the Labour MP Jess Phillips.\n\nHe has described the comments as \"satire\" and said they should be seen in the context of Mr Benjamin's self-appointed stance as a freedom of speech campaigner.", "A formal inquiry is to be held into the leaking of discussions about Huawei at the National Security Council, the BBC has learned.\n\nThis follows the Daily Telegraph publishing details of a meeting about using the Chinese telecoms firm to help build the UK's 5G network.\n\nSeveral cabinet ministers have denied they were involved in the leak.\n\nCabinet Secretary Sir Mark Sedwill is to lead the inquiry, BBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg said.\n\nThe National Security Council (NSC) is made up of senior cabinet ministers and its weekly meetings are chaired by the prime minister, with other ministers, officials and senior figures from the armed forces and intelligence agencies invited when needed.\n\nIt is a forum where secret intelligence can be shared by GCHQ, MI6 and MI5 with ministers, all of whom have signed the Official Secrets Act.\n\nBut following Tuesday's meeting, the Daily Telegraph reported that the NSC had agreed to allow Huawei limited access to help build Britain's new 5G network, amid warnings about possible risks to national security.\n\nIt also reported that various ministers had raised concerns about the plan.\n\nCulture Secretary Jeremy Wright told MPs: \"We cannot exclude the possibility of a criminal investigation here and everyone will want to take seriously that suggestion.\"\n\nAmid speculation about who was behind the leak, several ministers have denied any involvement.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Huawei leak: Minister says he cannot rule out a criminal investigation\n\nHome Secretary Sajid Javid said divulging sensitive information was \"completely unacceptable\", adding: \"If it happens it should absolutely be looked at.\"\n\nDefence Secretary Gavin Williamson and Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt denied the leak had come from them, with Mr Hunt calling it \"utterly appalling\".\n\nSources close to International Trade Secretary Liam Fox also categorically denied that he had been involved.\n\nAccording to the Daily Telegraph, Huawei would be allowed to help build the \"non-core\" parts of the UK's 5G network, such as antennas.\n\nThere has been no formal confirmation of Huawei's role in the 5G network and No 10 said a final decision would be made at the end of spring.\n\nHuawei has denied there is any risk of spying or sabotage, or that it is controlled by the Chinese government.\n\nEarlier, former Defence Secretary Sir Michael Fallon told the BBC: \"All those involved should be investigated now to find out who this leaker is.\n\n\"Ministers are subject to the Official Secrets Act just like anybody else. It is an offence to divulge secret information from the most secret of all government bodies, which is the National Security Council. It has got to be stopped.\"\n\nWhen questioned, Prime Minister Theresa May replied: \"We don't comment on leaks and on those matters.\n\n\"On the overall matter of security and our telecoms network, we are very clear that we give that high priority. We want to ensure we see greater resilience in our telecoms network and that we are able to provide high levels of cyber security, but we also see diversity of suppliers.\"", "Campaigners have lost a High Court challenge against the government's decision to approve plans for a third runway at London's Heathrow airport.\n\nFive councils, residents, environmental charities and London Mayor Sadiq Khan brought the action after MPs backed the plans in June.\n\nThe campaigners said the runway would effectively create a \"new airport\", having a \"severe\" impact on Londoners.\n\nBut judges rejected the arguments, ruling the plans were lawful.\n\nTransport Secretary Chris Grayling said: \"The expansion of Heathrow is vital and will provide a massive economic boost to businesses and communities across the length and breadth of Britain, all at no cost to the taxpayer and within our environmental obligations.\n\n\"I now call on all public bodies not to waste any more taxpayers' money or seek to further delay this vital project.\"\n\nBut John Sauven, executive director of Greenpeace UK, said: \"This verdict will not reduce the impact on local communities from increased noise and air pollution, nor will it resolve Heathrow Ltd's financial difficulties or the economic weakness in their expansion plans.\"\n\nShirley Rodrigues, deputy London mayor for environment and energy, said: \"In challenging the decision to expand Heathrow, Sadiq has stood up for Londoners who have serious concerns about the damaging impact it will have.\n\n\"We will now consider the judgement and consult with our co-claimants before deciding our next steps.\"\n\nCampaigners said a third runway would effectively create a \"new airport\"\n\nThe case was brought against the transport secretary by five local authorities in London affected by the expansion - Hillingdon, Wandsworth, Richmond, Hammersmith & Fulham and Windsor and Maidenhead.\n\nResidents and charities including Greenpeace, Friends Of The Earth and Plan B also joined the action.\n\nThey argued that the government's National Policy Statement (NPS), setting out its support for the project, failed to account fully for the impact on air quality, climate change, noise and congestion.\n\nOutlining the case on behalf of campaigners, Nigel Pleming QC had said the plans could see the number of passengers using the airport rise to an estimated 132 million - an increase of 60%.\n\nBut lawyers representing Mr Grayling said the claimants' case was \"premature\", as they would have the opportunity to make representations at a later stage in the planning process.\n\nLord Justice Hickinbottom, sitting with Mr Justice Holgate, said in the ruling on Wednesday: \"We understand that these claims involve underlying issues upon which the parties - and indeed many members of the public - hold strong and sincere views.\n\n\"There was a tendency for the substance of the parties' positions to take more of a centre stage than perhaps it should have done, in a hearing that was only concerned with the legality, and not the merits, of the Airports National Policy Statement.\"\n\nThe ruling means the government will not have to devise a new NPS and put it to another vote in Parliament.\n\nIt won its first vote by a comfortable majority of 296 after Labour MPs were granted a free vote.\n\nThe decision to expand Heathrow follows almost half a century of indecision on how and where to add new airport capacity in south-east England.\n\nUnder the current £14bn plan, construction could begin in 2021, with the third runway operational by 2026.", "An investigation has begun after a defendant doused himself with acid as he was being sentenced in court.\n\nMarc Marshall, 54, was in the dock of Inner London Crown Court after being jailed for fraud when he poured a noxious substance onto his face.\n\nHe is in a critical condition in hospital and a female custody officer who was guarding him in the dock was also treated.\n\nThe Courts Service said it was \"deeply concerned\" about Monday's incident.\n\nThe case is likely to raise searching questions about security in court buildings and how the liquid, which has not yet been identified, was apparently taken into the dock.\n\nMarshall had been carrying a metal water bottle - although CCTV footage is believed to have shown that he had sipped from it as he passed through security.\n\nThe incident occurred at the south London court after Marshall had pleaded guilty to a series of cheque fraud offences involving £135,000.\n\nWhen the judge imposed a sentence of two years and four months imprisonment, Marshall was heard to wail and scream.\n\nAccording to one person who was present at the time, the defendant's face went white and there was a smell of acid.\n\n\"It looked like he had glue on his skin,\" the witness said.\n\nCourt officials ferried water jugs to the dock to dilute the substance on Marshall's face.\n\nIt is thought he had also drunk some of the liquid.\n\nHe was treated at the scene by a paramedic - who is said to have described his injuries as \"life-threatening\" - and taken by ambulance to St Thomas' Hospital.\n\nThe case had already been delayed because Marshall, who has changed his name a number of times, suffered serious medical problems after stabbing himself in the neck when he was arrested by police in 2016.\n\nA HM Courts and Tribunals Service spokesperson said: \"The safety and security of all court users is our priority and we're deeply concerned about the incident.\n\n\"Police are urgently investigating what happened and it would be inappropriate to comment further at this stage.\"\n\nThe Metropolitan Police said they were called to Court 10, Inner London Crown Court at 12:01 BST on Monday after reports of a serious assault.\n\n\"Officers, London Ambulance Service and London Air Ambulance attended and found a male aged in his fifties was found to have doused himself with a noxious substance.\n\n\"He has been taken to hospital for treatment of his injuries. His condition is critical.\n\n\"A female dock officer was also injured by some of the substance. Her injuries are not believed to be serious and she did not require hospital treatment.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Ineos chief Jim Ratcliffe was speaking to the BBC's sports editor Dan Roan\n\nBritain's richest man has called the government's attitude to fracking for gas \"pathetic\", accusing ministers of listening to a vocal minority rather than looking at the science.\n\nSir Jim Ratcliffe, whose firm Ineos is conducting exploratory fracking tests, said the north of England was sitting on potential huge energy resources.\n\nBut restrictions were making it unviable for firms, he told the BBC.\n\nOn Monday, the UK's shale gas tsar resigned after just six months.\n\nNatascha Engel, a former Labour MP, said fracking was being throttled by rules preventing mini earthquakes.\n\nCurrent government rules mean fracking must be suspended every time a 0.5 magnitude tremor is detected. But Ms Engel said the cautious approach to tremors had created a de facto ban on fracking.\n\nMr Ratcliffe said he agreed with Ms Engel's criticism. \"I think the government has been pathetic on the subject, frankly - honestly, I do,\" Mr Ratcliffe said.\n\nThe government was listening to \"a very vocal, but a minuscule, minority of people, and I think there's a high degree of ignorance\".\n\nMr Ratcliffe, whose company is carrying out tests in Nottinghamshire and has exploration rights in Yorkshire and Cheshire, believes the UK could emulate the shale gas boom in the US.\n\n\"America today is self sufficient in oil and gas... and it is because of this new technology, which is extremely safe and well proven,\" he said. With the demise of huge swathes of manufacturing in the north of England, expansion of the fracking industry would be a big creator of jobs, he added.\n\nHe told the BBC's sports editor Dan Roan: \"I feel really strongly that the northern economy is really important to the UK, and fracking has been so successful in America - it's transformed places like Pittsburgh.\n\n\"We've got towns in England which are not the happiest of places at the moment, so it makes me cross when people don't look at the science.\"\n\nIneos and Cuadrilla - which is already fracking for shale gas - have faced major protests from campaigners who say the process is environmentally unfriendly and causes earth tremors.\n\nFracking, or hydraulic fracturing, involves pumping water, sand and chemicals into the ground at high pressure in order to split rock formations and release gas. A number of countries have banned the process, including France and Germany.\n\nThe UK government defended its record on fracking against Mr Ratcliffe's criticism. A spokesperson for the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy said the government supports the shale industry \"because we believe it could have the potential to be a new domestic energy source, and create thousands of well paid, quality jobs\".\n\n\"We've worked to develop world-leading regulations based on the advice of scientists and in consultation with industry. We are confident these strike the right balance in ensuring the industry can develop, while ensuring any operations are carried out safely and responsibly,\" the spokesperson said.\n\nMr Ratcliffe has taken over cycling's Team Sky, and the renamed Team Ineos will compete in the Tour de Yorkshire on Thursday. There have been reports that environmental campaigners could protest along the route.\n\nThe billionaire rejected criticism that his move into cycling was an attempt to \"greenwash\" Ineos. \"It's nothing to do with it at all,\" he said. \"The sport is totally different.\"\n\nBut Simon Bowers, of Friends of the Earth, said Ineos's \"highjacking\" of cycling was \"shameless\", adding: \"Ineos's plans for fracking are completely incompatible with fighting climate change. Fossil fuels have no place in sports sponsorship.\"\n\nThe pro-Brexit businessman also dismissed reports about him allegedly leaving the UK to live in Monaco. \"I don't live in Monaco, I can tell you that,\" he said.\n\nBut is he thinking about a move? \"I don't really want to talk about where I live because that's my own private affair. But we have invested £2.5bn in the UK in the last 20 years... and I have never made a penny of profit in the UK. I'm many hundreds of millions short of getting that back.\n\n\"I have made lots of money in the US, Germany and Belgium, but am I supposed to go and live there? It's my private affair,\" he said.", "Julian Assange pumped his fist at photographers as he arrived at Southwark Crown Court ahead of the hearing\n\nWikileaks co-founder Julian Assange has been sentenced to 50 weeks in jail for breaching his bail conditions.\n\nThe 47-year-old was found guilty of breaching the Bail Act last month after his arrest at the Ecuadorian Embassy.\n\nHe took refuge in the London embassy in 2012 to avoid extradition to Sweden over sexual assault allegations, which he has denied.\n\nIn a letter read to the court, Assange said he had found himself \"struggling with difficult circumstances\".\n\nHe apologised to those who \"consider I've disrespected them\", a packed Southwark Crown Court heard.\n\n\"I did what I thought at the time was the best or perhaps the only thing that I could have done,\" he said.\n\nIn mitigation, Mark Summers QC said his client was \"gripped\" by fears of rendition to the US over the years because of his work with whistle-blowing website Wikileaks.\n\n\"As threats rained down on him from America, they overshadowed everything,\" he said.\n\nSentencing him, Judge Deborah Taylor told Assange it was difficult to envisage a more serious example of the offence.\n\n\"By hiding in the embassy you deliberately put yourself out of reach, while remaining in the UK,\" she said.\n\nShe said this had \"undoubtedly\" affected the progress of the Swedish proceedings.\n\nHis continued residence at the embassy and bringing him to justice had cost taxpayers £16m, she added.\n\n\"Whilst you may have had fears as to what may happen to you, nonetheless you had a choice, and the course of action you chose was to commit this offence,\" she concluded.\n\nAs Assange was taken down to the cells, he raised a fist in defiance to his supporters in the public gallery behind him.\n\nThey raised their fists in solidarity and directed shouts of \"shame on you\" towards the court.\n\nSpeaking outside court, Wikileaks editor-in-chief Kristinn Hrafnsson said the sentence was an \"outrage\".\n\nThe extradition process was now the \"big fight\" and would be \"a question of life and death\" for Assange, he said.\n\n\"It's also a question of life and death for a major journalist principle,\" he told reporters.\n\nI apologise unreservedly to those who consider that I have disrespected them by the way I have pursued my case.\n\nThis is not what I wanted or intended.\n\nI found myself struggling with terrifying circumstances for which neither I nor those from whom I sought advice could work out any remedy.\n\nI did what I thought at the time was the best and perhaps the only thing that could be done - which I hoped might lead to a legal resolution being reached between Ecuador and Sweden that would protect me from the worst of my fears.\n\nI regret the course that this took; the difficulties were instead compounded and impacted upon very many others.\n\nWhilst the difficulties I now face may have become even greater, nevertheless it is right for me to say this now.\n\nAssange now faces US federal conspiracy charges related to one of the largest leaks of government secrets.\n\nThe UK will decide whether to extradite Assange to the US in response to allegations that he conspired with former US intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning to download classified databases.\n\nHe faces up to five years in a US prison if convicted.\n\nWikileaks has published thousands of classified documents covering everything from the film industry to national security and war.\n\nAs Julian Assange arrived at court from Belmarsh High Security prison, photographers got a picture of him defiantly pumping his fist.\n\nHe's still got a beard but it's been trimmed - it's not the white, bushy beard he was wearing when he was hauled out of the Ecuadorean Embassy last month.\n\nThere's big international interest, and more than a dozen TV cameras outside.\n\nJournalists had to queue for two hours before the case opened to get a ticket to Court Number One, or to an overflow court where there was a videolink to the live proceedings.\n\nSupporters of Assange are outside court making their voices heard - one has been reading from her notes saying Assange is a political prisoner.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Video footage shows Julian Assange being dragged from the Ecuadorian embassy\n\nAustralian-born Assange was dramatically arrested by UK police on 11 April after Ecuador abruptly withdrew its asylum.\n\nAt a court hearing that same day, he was remanded in custody and called a \"narcissist who cannot get beyond his own selfish interest\" by district judge Michael Snow.\n\nDays later, Swedish prosecutors said they were considering reopening the investigation into rape and sexual assault allegations against him.\n\nAt the time, Assange said he had had entirely consensual sex with two women while on a trip to Stockholm to give a lecture.\n\nProsecutors dropped the rape investigation in 2017 because they were unable to formally notify him of allegations while he was staying in the embassy.\n\nTwo other charges of molestation and unlawful coercion had to be dropped in 2015 because time had run out.\n\nMore than 70 UK MPs and peers have signed a letter urging Home Secretary Sajid Javid to ensure Assange faces authorities in Sweden if they want his extradition.", "Thanks for joining us for reaction to the sacking of Gavin Williamson as defence secretary - that's where we will leave our live updates for this evening.\n\nHis departure follows an inquiry into a leak from a top-level National Security Council meeting, over a plan to allow Huawei limited access to help build the UK's new 5G network.\n\nHe has been replaced by Penny Mordaunt, who will become the UK's first female defence secretary.\n\nMr Williamson has \"strenuously\" denied leaking information from the meeting, but the PM said \"no other credible version of events\" has been found to explain the leak.\n\nLabour's deputy leader Tom Watson and Liberal Democrat leader Sir Vince Cable have both said they think the police should get involved in the matter.\n\nBut Scotland Yard said in a statement that it was a matter for the National Security Council and the Cabinet Office, and it was not carrying out an investigation.", "There are \"no plans\" for Jussie Smollett to return to the sixth season of Empire, TV network Fox says.\n\nThe actor, who plays Jamal, was accused of staging a racist and homophobic attack on himself in January - which he's always denied.\n\nHe was charged with allegedly lying to police, but Chicago prosecutors later dropped the case.\n\nThe decision was criticised by Chicago authorities, with Mayor Rahm Emanuel calling it a \"whitewash of justice\".\n\nSmollett's character was removed from the final two episodes of season five and now it looks unlikely he will return for the new season.\n\nIn a statement, Fox said: \"By mutual agreement, the studio has negotiated an extension to Jussie Smollett's option for season six, but at this time there are no plans for the character of Jamal to return to Empire.\"\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nThe Jussie Smollett case has been a complicated one to keep up with:\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 27 March: The two sides in the Jussie Smollett case\n\nPolice claimed the attack was planned by the actor as a publicity stunt but Smollett has always maintained his innocence.\n\nPresident Trump called the case an \"embarrassment\" for the country while Chicago's mayor said the actor took \"no sense of ownership of what he's done\".\n\nThe city of Chicago has started legal action against Smollett to try to recover the cost of its investigation into the alleged attack.\n\nHis legal team is also being sued for defamation by the Osundairo brothers who say they continue to be accused of carrying out the assault.\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "Clashes have broken out between police and protesters as \"yellow vest\" demonstrators and labour unions held a traditional May Day rally.\n\nDozens of people were injured and more than 300 arrested, as so-called \"black block\" protesters in dark clothes and face masks also took to the streets.\n\nSome protesters smashed shop windows and threw projectiles at the police, who responded with tear gas and water cannon.\n\nIt follows months of demonstrations by the \"yellow vests\" or \"gilets jaunes\", whose original protests about fuel prices have expanded to wider complaints about economic inequality.\n\nFrench President Emmanuel Macron has made a series of concessions to the movement - most recently with a wave of tax cuts.", "A landslide destroyed more than a dozen homes in the Bolivian city of La Paz on Tuesday.\n\nLocal media reported that 17 houses were lost, but no deaths were reported as authorities had evacuated the area.", "Defence Secretary Gavin Williamson has been sacked by the prime minister after information from a National Security Council meeting was leaked to a newspaper. Here is Theresa May's full letter dismissing him.\n\nThank you for your time this evening. We discussed the investigation into the unauthorised disclosure of information from the National Security Council meeting on 23 April.\n\nThis is an extremely serious matter, and a deeply disappointing one.\n\nIt is vital for the operation of good government and for the UK's national interest in some of the most sensitive and important areas that the members of the NSC - from our Armed Forces, our Security and Intelligence Agencies, and the most senior level of government - are able to have frank and detailed discussions in full confidence that the advice and analysis provided is not discussed or divulged beyond that trusted environment.\n\nThat is why I commissioned the cabinet secretary to establish an investigation into the unprecedented leak from the NSC meeting last week, and why I expected everyone connected to it - ministers and officials alike - to comply with it fully. You undertook to do so.\n\nI am therefore concerned by the manner in which you have engaged with this investigation.\n\nIt has been conducted fairly, with the full co-operation of other NSC attendees.\n\nThey have all answered questions, engaged properly, provided as much information as possible to assist with the investigation, and encouraged their staff to do the same. Your conduct has not been of the same standard as others.\n\nIn our meeting this evening, I put to you the latest information from the investigation, which provides compelling evidence suggesting your responsibility for the unauthorised disclosure.\n\nNo other credible version of events to explain this leak has been identified.\n\nIt is vital that I have full confidence in the members of my cabinet and of the National Security Council. The gravity of this issue alone, and its ramifications for the operation of the NSC and the UK's national interest, warrants the serious steps we have taken, and an equally serious response.\n\nIt is therefore with great sadness that I have concluded that I can no longer have full confidence in you as secretary of state for defence and a minister in my cabinet and asked you to leave Her Majesty's government.\n\nAs you do so, I would like to thank you for the wider contribution you have made to it over the last three years, and for your unquestionable personal commitment to the men and women of our Armed Forces.\"\n\nIt has been a great privilege to serve as Defence Secretary and Chief Whip in your government. Every day I have seen the extraordinary work of the men and women of our armed forces, who go to incredible lengths to defend our country.\n\nI am sorry that you feel recent leaks from the National Security Council originated in my department. I emphatically believe this was not the case. I strenuously deny that I was in any way involved in this leak and I am confident that a thorough and formal inquiry would have vindicated my position.\n\nI have always trusted my civil servants, military advisers and staff. I believe the assurances they have given me.\n\nI appreciate you offering me the option to resign, but to resign would have been to accept that I, my civil servants, my military advisers or my staff were responsible: this was not the case.\n\nRestoring public confidence in the NSC is an ambition we both share. With that in mind I hope that your decision achieves this aim rather than being seen as a temporary distraction.\n\nAs I said there has been no greater privilege than working with our armed forces and I will continue to stand up for our service personnel and the superb work they do.\"\n• None Inquiry to be held into Huawei leak", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Have drinking habits changed? The Nine spoke to a variety of people one year on from the introduction of minimum pricing\n\nMinisters are hopeful that new statistics will show Scotland's drinking habits have changed after a new law pushed up the price of cheap, high-strength alcohol.\n\nIt is a year since the introduction of a minimum price for drinks depending on how many alcohol units they contained.\n\nPublic Health Minister Joe Fitzpatrick said he was proud that the government had implemented the measure.\n\nHe was hopeful figures would show there had been a \"positive impact\".\n\nThere were 1,235 alcohol-related deaths in Scotland in 2017 and almost 35,500 hospital admissions.\n\nThe Scottish government introduced minimum unit pricing in May last year in a bid to cut consumption and save lives.\n\nMr Fitzpatrick said: \"I'm really proud to be part of the government that introduced minimum unit pricing - the first in the world.\"\n\nHe told BBC Scotland that new data on the effect of the policy was due to be published in mid-June.\n\n\"I'm very hopeful that this will show that there has been a positive impact,\" he said.\n\n\"Anecdotally I'm hearing from a number of people who have changed their drinking habits and there's some anecdotal evidence to suggest that when the evidence comes out in June, it will be positive.\"\n\nBBC Scotland's The Nine has spoken to people around the country about how they have been affected by the new drinking laws.\n\nConor, Rebecca and James are studying in Dundee\n\nFirst-year anatomy student Conor, 18, reckons he drinks about 20 units a week - mostly lager.\n\nHe supports minimum unit pricing but it has had little effect on his drinking habits. In fact, he drinks more than he did last year as he has embraced his new university life.\n\n\"You're young, you drink and I don't think that will ever change, no matter what law you put in place,\" he said.\n\nRebecca, 21, is in her third year of an international business degree.\n\nShe \"pre-drinks\" gin with friends before going to bars and clubs, as she finds it more affordable.\n\n\"I don't think it's affected me too much,\" she said. \"It's affected more own brands and I wouldn't tend to buy them anyway.\"\n\nMeanwhile, engineering student James, 21, said he had seen his friends switch from drinking cheap cider to \"better quality\" drinks.\n\n\"It's cut out the really cheap and unhealthy stuff, it's made that less of an option,\" he said.\n\n\"Obviously it's there if you really want to drink it but why would you when you can pay the same amount for better-quality alcohol?\"\n\nSachin Patel has seen an increase in profits at his shop in Muirkirk\n\nSachin Patel no longer sells Frosty Jacks cider in his shop in Muirkirk, Ayrshire, after its price rose from about £3.50 to about £11.50.\n\nCustomers refused to pay the increased price, instead opting for fruit ciders or even spirits.\n\nMr Patel said he could now match the prices offered by supermarkets, which used to sell spirits as \"loss leaders\" to entice customers into the store.\n\nA bottle of Glens vodka used to be £9.99 - now he sells it at minimum unit price of £13.13.\n\n\"Because of that our profit margin is increased,\" he said. \"That works better for us as retailers even if the volume we sell is less, the margin is greater.\"\n\nHe has concerns that the new law has led to an increase in violence against retailers.\n\n\"If someone wants alcohol, they're going to beg, borrow or steal,\" he said. \"The retailers are taking the brunt.\"\n\nBut he is generally in favour of the policy.\n\n\"For us, it protects the retailers. It's helped people limit the amount of alcohol they consume because they're on a budget. On the whole I think it's a good idea.\"\n\nDanny is an alcoholic and has to beg for money for drink\n\nDanny, 45, is an alcoholic who says he \"drinks as much as possible\" every day.\n\nHe said he has seen an increase in shoplifting since the new law pushed up the price of cheap drink. He can get a bottle of stolen vodka for £5 on the black market.\n\nAnd he says he has to beg on the streets to feed his addiction.\n\n\"I don't want to say it's for a can of beer,\" he said. \"You say it's for something to eat, some place for the night.\n\n\"Because they'll not give you the money because they'll say you'll spend it on drink, you'll spend it on drugs.\n\n\"And I'm not a bad person, I'm an alcoholic. I've got serious problems, issues inside and I consume the drink to help with the problems.\n\n\"But the price of the drink is ridiculous.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Theresa May: \"I have voted consistently in Parliament for us to leave the European Union.\"\n\nTheresa May has said she hopes the UK will leave the EU well before the new 31 October Brexit deadline.\n\nShe told MPs there was no reason the UK could not leave in a matter of weeks once MPs backed an agreement, which they have so far rejected three times.\n\nShe signalled she hoped to get Labour backing for any new customs proposal before putting it to Parliament again.\n\nShe said their aims were \"very similar\" and \"sometimes people use different terms to mean the same thing\".\n\nLabour wants the PM to sign up to the idea of a customs union with the EU, something she has adamantly opposed up to now, and some have suggested she is moving in their direction.\n\nMost Conservative MPs have said they would not support the move, saying it would mean the UK would not have an independent trade policy.\n\nMrs May chose to open talks with Jeremy Corbyn after Parliament rejected the withdrawal agreement she has negotiated with the EU a third time late last month.\n\nAfter this defeat, the EU extended the deadline for the UK's departure - originally set for 29 March - until 31 October.\n\nMrs May told MPs she hoped the extension would be \"terminable\" well before this date and the UK would find itself outside the EU \"as soon as possible\".\n\nAppearing before the Liaison Committee of senior MPs, she said the choice facing Parliament was the same as when it last rejected her agreement.\n\nMPs could opt to agree a deal and leave in an orderly fashion, to leave without a deal, hold another referendum, or to stay in the EU by revoking Article 50 - only the first of which she found \"acceptable\".\n\nShe said she was \"convinced\" that reaching out to Labour to try and build a majority for any deal was the right thing to do.\n\nIf no agreement was reached, she said the government would stand by its commitment to give MPs the chance to vote on a series of options, with ministers abiding by the outcome.\n\nPressed by Labour MP Hilary Benn on whether this would include a customs union, Mrs May pointed out that Parliament had already rejected the idea on more than one occasion.\n\nBut she added: \"Various terms are used in relation to customs. Sometimes people use different terms to mean the same thing, sometimes it is meaning different approaches.\n\n\"But what I think is important when we comes to that process is that anything we put before the House, I hope would would be able to get agreement with the opposition so there is a process that everyone can stand behind.\"\n\nAsked whether she was prepared to soften her opposition to a customs union, she said both sides needs to \"identify\" what they were trying to achieve.\n\nOn the issue of post-Brexit trade, she said the government and Labour had \"very similar\" objectives, which were to protect jobs and to ensure as frictionless as trade as possible.\n\nBut Labour MP Yvette Cooper said MPs felt \"they were going around in circles and paralysed like nothing is changing\".\n\nConservative MP Bernard Jenkin, who voted against the deal three times, said the PM had been under no obligation to agree the terms of the extension offered by the EU.\n\nIn response, she told him that if all Conservatives had voted to leave the EU the UK would no longer be a member.\n\nWhile the UK's policy was to leave with a deal, she insisted this was \"not entirely in the hands of the UK government\" as it would be up to the EU to decide on any further extension.", "The Empire Windrush arrived at Tilbury Docks, Essex, on 22 June 1948\n\nMPs have reported the Home Office to the equalities watchdog over the Windrush scandal, accusing it of unlawful discrimination.\n\nThe group of 87 says the Home Office discriminated as a \"direct result\" of so-called hostile environment policies.\n\nThe letter to the Equalities and Human Rights Commission claims the government broke, and is breaking, equalities law.\n\nThe Home Office said it was \"committed to righting the wrongs experienced by the Windrush generation\".\n\nThe Windrush scandal involved the wrongful detentions and deportations of some members of the Windrush generation - the thousands of people who travelled to the UK from the Caribbean in the years after World War Two.\n\nIn the letter, David Lammy - chair of the all party parliamentary group on race - says the Home Office is acting in breach of equalities legislation by \"routinely\" discriminating on the basis of Britons' race.\n\nIt adds: \"Clearly, the Windrush scandal represents one of the gravest breaches of equality law and the rights of British citizens in recent memory.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\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.\n\nA review by a Home Office taskforce of 11,800 Caribbean cases identified 164 who were deported or detained who might have been resident in the UK before 1973.\n\nThe taskforce has traced 137 of those people, of whom 19 are known to have died.\n\nAt least 18 would receive a formal apology, the government said last year. This month, the government said there was \"no cap\" on possible compensation for those affected.\n\nMany of the new arrivals were children\n\nIn the letter, the MPs call on the commission to look into how the Home Office contributed to the government's \"hostile environment\" policy and its impact on the Windrush generation.\n\nThey also argue the Home Office breached the public sector equality duty, which means public bodies have to have \"due regard\" to eliminate discrimination and advance equality.\n\nThe signatories are from six different parties, with most from Labour and none from the Conservatives.\n\nThey include shadow home secretary Diane Abbott, Green Party MP Caroline Lucas, Luciana Berger from The Independent Group, the SNP's Alison Thewliss and Liberal Democrat Alistair Carmichael.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Glenda Caesar wants compensation for loss of earnings, stress, and lost pension\n\nMr Lammy said: \"The gross mishandling and abuse of the Windrush generation by the Home Office raises serious questions over whether British citizens were discriminated against on the basis of their race and ethnicity, in breach of equalities legislation.\n\n\"More than a year after I first raised this in Parliament, nothing has changed. Justice must mean not only due compensation and reparation, but changes to the institution and immigration laws that created this crisis.\"\n\nThe \"hostile environment\" approach to curbing illegal immigration has been blamed for members of the Windrush generation, who were in the UK legally, being wrongly threatened with deportation.\n\nThe letter said the policy was \"deeply discriminatory\", arguing that black Britons are being discriminated against, while white Britons are not.\n\nA Home Office spokeswoman said: \"The home secretary and the immigration minister are committed to righting the wrongs experienced by the Windrush generation and the recently launched compensation scheme is a crucial step in delivering on that commitment.\n\n\"The Windrush generation have given so much to this country and we will ensure nothing like this ever happens again, that is why the home secretary commissioned a lessons learned review with independent oversight by Wendy Williams.\"\n\nThe commission said it would consider the issues raised.", "More than 250 free-to-use cash machines are disappearing a month as operators shut unprofitable ones, the network co-ordinator Link has said.\n\nThere are 53,000 free machines in the UK - but the number is shrinking at a record rate as people use less cash.\n\nNow the Payment Systems Regulator (PSR) is cracking down on the closures and asking for more network protection.\n\n\"Free-to-use ATMs continue to play a vital role in helping people access their money,\" the regulator said.\n\nHannah Nixon, the PSR's managing director, said: \"The requirements we intend to place on Link will help ensure that Link achieves their commitment to protecting the geographic spread of free-to-use ATMs across the UK.\"\n\nLink's ATM Footprint Report found that between the end of January and the start of July 2018, the number of free-to-use ATMs fell from 54,500 to 53,200.\n\nThat is partly because people are using cash less, Link said, thanks to the rise in popularity of new payment methods such as contactless transactions.\n\nBut it is also because cash machine operators such as Cardtronics and Note Machine, who get a fee from our banks each time we use one, are finding that fewer of their machines are economic to run.\n\nUnder pressure from banks, Link is cutting the fee it pays to operators while trying to restrict the resulting closures in city centres,\n\nLink said it had set up \"specific arrangements to protect free-to-use ATMs more than 1km away from their next nearest free-to-use ATM\".\n\nThe organisation has earmarked some 2,365 free machines in remote and rural areas that it wants to remain open.\n\nBut 76 of these protected cash machines closed between January and July, 21 of them without even a Post Office nearby to get cash over the counter.\n\nThe PSR says it is concerned and is taking action to ensure Link meets its commitments.\n\nIt is also seeking renewed commitments from banks that consumers will continue to be offered services, allowing them to access their cash.\n\nBut the regulator's intervention on ATM closures may be \"too little, too late\", warned Nicky Morgan, Chair of the Treasury Committee.\n\nShe said: \"The PSR is rightly concerned by the closures, but I fear its regulatory intervention may be too little, too late. It must ensure that Link is held to its commitment to maintain the broad geographic spread of free-to-use ATMs.\n\n\"The Committee has been clear that this is a major test of what is a relatively new regulator, but the banks, the ATM deployers, and Link itself also have a duty to ensure consumers don't lose out.\"\n\nJenni Allen, managing director of Which? Money, said: \"Link is failing on its commitment to protect access to cash for people in remote and rural areas who need it most.\n\n\"The PSR must now urgently intervene to stop further closures and ensure that no more consumers are suddenly stripped of their access to cash.\"\n\nThere are plenty of cash machines in King's Lynn town centre, you'll find most major banks here on the High Street.\n\nBut some of the surrounding villages have been listed as the worst places in the country when it comes to accessing cash.\n\nLauren, who lives in Narborough in Norfolk, told me she has to travel 10 minutes in her car to get to her closest ATM. She says she always has to be organised and often gets cash back at supermarkets.\n\nLily lives in King's Lynn and told me her closest cash machine is at a Tesco Express which is 15 minutes away. She says she avoids using cash when she can, but does need it for nights out and getting a taxi home.", "Some see him as a reckless 'hacktivist' – others, a campaigner for truth.\n\nJulian Assange lived in the Ecuadorian embassy for seven years and is the man behind whistleblowing site Wikileaks.\n\nAfter being removed from the embassy and arrested, Assange is serving a jail sentence in the UK for jumping bail.\n\nBut why was he there in the first place?", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'Suzanne' says she believes her ex-husband was \"protected because of his job\"\n\nPolice officers and staff accused of domestic abuse are a third less likely to be convicted than the general public, figures from 37 forces suggest.\n\nThey show 3.9% of claims against police led to a conviction from 2015-18 in England and Wales, compared with 6.2% among the population as a whole.\n\nPolice domestic abuse lead Dame Vera Baird said the issue does not \"appear to be taken as seriously\" as it should.\n\nThe Home Office said it was bringing in reforms \"to improve police integrity\".\n\nFigures from the Freedom of Information request, conducted by the Bureau of Investigative Journalism (TBIJ), also found that more than four allegations of domestic abuse against police staff were recorded each week.\n\nFewer than a quarter of those allegations led to disciplinary action.\n\nThere are 200,000 members of the police workforce in England and Wales according to latest figures, of whom 122,000 are police officers.\n\nSuzanne - not her real name - told the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme her ex-husband, a police officer, was violent towards her for years.\n\nShe said she eventually called police when he threatened her with a knife, but they did very little.\n\n\"The police turned up and the only advice they gave him was he should leave the house and go for a walk to calm down.\n\n\"I don't remember them talking to me at all,\" she added.\n\nSuzanne said the violence escalated and her ex-husband hit their six-year-old son.\n\nWhen she filed for divorce, she said he raped her.\n\nShe moved out with her children and reported him to his boss.\n\nSuzanne believes her ex-husband was \"protected because of his job\"\n\nA domestic abuse officer came to investigate, but Suzanne says they did not take a statement and no record was made on file.\n\nA few months later, her son was seen by a teacher being pushed into a car by his father.\n\nIn a police interview - which Suzanne says she only saw four years later - her son said his father \"tried to strangle him and had his hands on his throat\", she said.\n\nNo charges were brought against her ex-husband.\n\nShe believes he was \"protected because of his job\".\n\nAfter years of suffering post-traumatic stress, she decided to go back to the police and obtain access to her police file, but she found nothing on record.\n\nThe force said it would investigate her complaint but because there was nothing on file it closed the case.\n\nThe police watchdog, the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC), asked the force to reinvestigate Suzanne's case last year. And now 16 months later, the force has said it cannot uphold her complaint.\n\nHer husband has since retired but Suzanne now plans to sue the force - which cannot be named for legal reasons.\n\nThe national domestic abuse charity SafeLives said the figures showed just \"the tip of the iceberg\".\n\nChief executive Suzanne Jacob said it \"would urge every police force to pay close attention to what these stories and statistics show us - that women are being silenced and abused by people in positions of trust and power.\"\n\nDame Vera Baird QC said she was \"not surprised that these issues don't appear to be taken as seriously as they should be by the police\".\n\nDame Vera Baird said some officers were \"quite resistant to hearing about wrongdoing in colleagues\"\n\nThere was a \"defensive, mutually supportive culture\" among police officers, she said, which can make \"forces and probably some individual officers quite resistant to hearing about wrongdoing in colleagues.\"\n\nIn Northumbria, where she serves as police and crime commissioner, she said she would look into creating a system where any criminal investigations against police staff would be handed over to a neighbouring force to carry out.\n\nThe Home Office said it was \"essential that every allegation of domestic abuse is taken seriously.\n\n\"Where allegations are made against those working for the police, their status and powers mean it is even more important that these are thoroughly investigated to maintain public confidence.\"\n\nIt added: \"Where officers commit a serious breach of the standards expected of them, disciplinary and, if required, criminal proceedings should follow.\n\n\"We are also implementing a wide-ranging programme of reforms to improve police integrity, including improving the transparency of the disciplinary system and strengthening the powers of the IOPC.\"\n\nFollow the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme on Facebook and Twitter - and see more of our stories here.\n• None 'Domestic abuse happens to men too'", "Alex Hepburn was found guilty earlier this month of rape following a retrial\n\nA \"foul sexist\" cricketer has been jailed for raping a sleeping woman.\n\nEx-Worcestershire player Alex Hepburn assaulted the victim at his Worcester flat after she had consensual sex with his then teammate Joe Clarke in 2017.\n\nThe 23-year-old was found guilty of rape earlier this month and sentenced to five years at Hereford Crown Court.\n\nJudge Jim Tindal told him the sexual conquest \"game\" he had set up on a WhatsApp group was \"laddish\" behaviour that \"demeaned women\".\n\nHe told Hepburn he had \"arrogantly\" believed his victim would consent, during the attack.\n\n\"You thought you were God's gift to women,\" he said.\n\n\"You did see her at that moment as a piece of meat, not a woman entitled to respect.\"\n\nHepburn was found guilty of one count of oral rape and cleared of one rape charge following a retrial at Worcester Crown Court.\n\nThe woman woke up after a night out on 1 April and wrongly believed she was having sex with Mr Clarke before realising it was actually Hepburn, the trial was told.\n\nHepburn posted rules of the \"stat chat\" game about many women he and Mr Clarke could have sex with on a WhatsApp group a week before the rape.\n\nHis bid to collect \"as many sexual encounters as possible\" as part of the game was \"foul sexism\", Judge Tindal said.\n\n\"It demeaned women and trivialised rape - a word you personally threw around lightly,\" the judge said.\n\n\"Only now do you realise how serious rape is.\"\n\nIn a victim impact statement, read to the court by prosecutor Miranda Moore QC, the woman said she suffered recurring nightmares in the form of \"a repeat of the rape\", which had also led to the collapse of her relationship with her then boyfriend.\n\nDescribing her ordeal as evil and a \"heinous crime\", she added: \"I take off my hat to anyone who can hold down a healthy happy relationship, after being raped.\n\n\"I am flooded with guilt that I can't ever seem to escape.\"\n\nThe trial was told the woman met Mr Clarke in a nightclub before returning to his flat where they had sex.\n\nHe left his bedroom during the night to be sick and remained passed out in his bathroom.\n\nHepburn found the woman asleep on a mattress after arriving back at the flat \"alone, drunk and frustrated\" and he \"saw a chance\" and attacked her, the court heard,\n\nThe woman only realised it wasn't Mr Clarke when Hepburn spoke in an Australian accent.\n\nHepburn's barrister, Michelle Heeley QC, said her client had expressed \"true remorse\", adding: \"He has lost everything: his career, his good character and ultimately his liberty.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nTottenham face a daunting task to keep their Champions League hopes alive after Ajax secured a crucial advantage in the semi-final first leg.\n\nDonny van de Beek's 15th-minute goal, steered cleverly past Hugo Lloris from close range, put Erik ten Hag's exciting young side firmly in the driving seat going into the second leg in Amsterdam next Wednesday.\n\nSpurs struggled to overcome the absence of forwards Harry Kane and Son Heung-min - injured and suspended respectively - and their job was made even harder by the loss of defender Jan Vertonghen after he suffered a facial injury in the first half.\n\nVertonghen's problem raised questions about player welfare after he was allowed to continue, albeit for only a few seconds, when he was clearly badly shaken up after an aerial collision involving team-mate Toby Alderweireld and Ajax goalkeeper Andre Onana. He eventually had to be supported by two members of the Spurs staff as he went off.\n\nTottenham tried to force the pace after the break with plenty of possession, but it was Ajax who came close to adding a second when David Neres struck the inside of the post with Lloris beaten.\n\nAjax held on to their lead in relative comfort and it will need a stirring Spurs comeback to prevent the Dutch side facing either Barcelona or Liverpool in the final on 1 June.\n• None 'Don't rule out Spurs - but brilliant Ajax deal in brutal reality'\n• None 'We're still alive' - Pochettino says Spurs must 'believe' in second leg\n• None Analysis and reaction from the Tottenham v Ajax match\n\nTottenham were not lacking in effort on what many regarded as the biggest night in their history, a first Champions League semi-final staged in their magnificent new stadium.\n\nIt was quality and threat that was missing, with Spurs unable to compensate for the damaging suspension of Son and the injury to top goalscorer Kane.\n\nThe burden fell on to Christian Eriksen and Dele Alli, along with Lucas Moura, but they were simply unable to trouble Ajax on a night of pure frustration for manager Mauricio Pochettino, his players and the supporters who packed this arena and backed their team superbly.\n\nSpurs also missed the midfield industry of the injured Harry Winks and were hit further by the loss of defender Vertonghen, who was surprisingly allowed to carry on briefly despite a heavy blow to the head and apparent questioning by referee Mateu Lahoz.\n\nThe Premier League side are still not out of this tie, and if their Champions League run to the last four has proved anything, it is that they must never be discounted.\n\nHowever, they were second best and lacking in punch here. They will need to produce much better if their dream of advancing to the Champions League final in Madrid is to be realised.\n• None Tottenham v Ajax - how you rated the players\n• None Football Daily: Spurs toppled by Ajax & the handling of head injuries in football\n\nAjax's advance to the Champions League semi-finals has made them the talk of European football after the manner in which they eliminated holders Real Madrid and Italian champions Juventus.\n\nAnd it was easy to see what all the fuss is about as the visitors demonstrated maturity, composure and class in such a high-pressure environment to overcome Spurs.\n\nAjax took the game by the scruff of the neck early on, secured the goal their superiority deserved, then took the sting out of matters when required to close out the win.\n\nCaptain Matthijs de Ligt, just 19, showed leadership qualities beyond his years in defence, organising and ordering more experienced team-mates with expertise.\n\nAnd in Barcelona-bound Frenkie de Jong, 21, and fellow midfielder Van de Beek, who is just a year older, this is an Ajax team with the class and youthful appearance that plays to this club's greatest traditions.\n\nAjax have almost come from nowhere after the group stages - but this is a team that looks like they have the quality and confidence to go all the way.\n• None 'It's in our DNA': How Ajax build success, and prepare for break-up\n• None English sides have lost just three of their past 30 home matches against Dutch opposition in European competition, with Spurs accounting for two of those defeats (also in March 2008 against PSV).\n• None Only one of the 17 previous teams to lose the first leg at home in a European Cup/Champions League semi-final has progressed into the final (Ajax in 1996).\n• None Ajax have scored in nine consecutive Champions League away games for the first time.\n• None Ajax have won their past four away games in the Champions League, having failed to win any of their previous 12.\n• None Tottenham had scored in their previous 20 Champions League games before Tuesday, with Ajax the first side to stop them scoring since Bayer Leverkusen in November 2016.\n• None Ajax have scored 161 goals this season, 63 more than Spurs (98).\n• None Ajax's Dusan Tadic has created 32 chances in the Champions League this season, the most by any player.\n• None The Dutch side's Nicolas Tagliafico has been shown twice as many yellow cards than any other player in the Champions League this season (six). Indeed, only Alessio Tacchinardi (nine, Juventus 2002-03) has been shown more yellows in a single campaign.\n\n'A bit of a let down' - analysis\n\nThe control and calmness to finish the way Donny van de Beek did summed up the first half. He turned inside the area and there was no pressure on him at all. Spurs were just running around like they were in a practice match.\n\nThey never really got into their stride and they were being dominated by a young side. It was a bit of a let down.\n\nSpurs have got quality players but, as a team, there was a gulf in class. Ajax played together and took their training on to the pitch, whereas Spurs played like individuals in the final third.\n\n'We are still alive' - what they said\n\nTottenham boss Mauricio Pochettino on BT Sport: \"In the first half we did not start in a good way. Ajax showed more energy, it was difficult for us to play. It was our lack of energy.\n\n\"After we conceded the goal - 25 to 30 minutes in - we started to be in the game. Moussa Sissoko provided good energy.\n\n\"Second half we pushed them and tried to create chances. It was an even game in the second half.\n\n\"We are alive. It's only 1-0 down. We need to believe we can go there and win the game.\n\nOn playing with a five-man defence: \"I can accept it was a mistake the shape we used - but there were not too many options. I am not happy - you cannot guess what happens if we play in a different way.\n\n\"It was the not the shape that conceded the goal. Our approach to the game was not good. I am the manager so I have responsibility.\"\n\nOn Vertonghen's head injury: \"We will assess him in the next few days and we will see.\"\n\nAjax boss Erik ten Hag said: \"Winning 1-0 at Tottenham is an amazing result. We have to learn lessons from tonight, and next week we have to finish it.\n\n\"It's an excellent result. We won, we are satisfied - but we are only halfway through. If you want to get to the final, you have to improve - everyday we want to get better.\n\n\"We're good at defence too. We can play football in different styles, defend really well. I am satisfied.\"\n\nEpic comebacks, record-breaking all-English classics, the world's biggest superstars... is the Champions League your favourite football tournament?\n\nDo you prefer it to the World Cup, the Premier League with this season's incredible title race, La Liga or even the unpredictable EFL?\n\nTell us why. Get involved and contact us here.\n• None Attempt missed. Lucas Moura (Tottenham Hotspur) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the right. Assisted by Dele Alli with a headed pass.\n• None Attempt missed. Toby Alderweireld (Tottenham Hotspur) header from the centre of the box is just a bit too high. Assisted by Christian Eriksen following a set piece situation. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nLionel Messi's two second-half goals - including a stunning free-kick - earned Barcelona a handsome advantage and left Liverpool with an almighty task in their Champions League semi-final.\n\nThe Reds were in the ascendancy despite going behind to Luis Suarez's first-half strike - but they were then hit by a double sucker-punch from the Barcelona number 10.\n\nThe Argentine forward's first was instinctive, as he followed up Suarez's shot that came off the bar, but the second was majestic as he found Alisson's top-right corner from around 25 yards out. That was his 600th goal for the Spanish giants.\n\nLiverpool came agonisingly close to a potentially crucial away goal when Roberto Firmino's strike was cleared off the line, before Salah somehow struck the post rather than scoring with the follow-up.\n\nBarcelona's Ousmane Dembele should have put the tie out of the Premier League side's reach in the closing seconds, but he scuffed it straight at Alisson from a few yards out.\n• None 'I don't know how he does it' - Messi marks 600th Barca goal in style\n• None I don't know if we can play much better - Klopp on Reds' 3-0 defeat\n\nReds out of luck at Nou Camp\n\nWhat more could Klopp ask of his men in the second leg on Tuesday (20:00 BST kick-off at Anfield) after a display where they constantly probed and pressured the competition favourites?\n\nMaybe some luck could have gone their way. Sadio Mane, with 15 goals in his past 18 games, shot well over from eight yards out after he was found by Jordan Henderson's ball from the right in the first half.\n\nAnd in their period of domination after the interval, Ter Stegen was at full stretch to push away Milner's shot before the German dived low to his right to make a one-handed stop from Salah's drive.\n\nLiverpool refused to let their heads drop after Messi's mini-show. However, they must have thought the gods are not shining on them this year after both Firmino and Salah missed clear-cut chances you would have put money on them to score.\n\nThe Reds have been known to produce miracles with a 3-0 deficit. They will need to produce another next week.\n\nThis was the La Liga champions at their most fluid - a supreme example of unpredictable, attacking football with the frontline of Messi, Suarez and Philippe Coutinho all on the same wavelength.\n\nPerhaps more importantly for coach Ernesto Valverde, his defence - disjointed at times against Manchester United in the last eight - was far more resolute against a more fearsome attack.\n\nAfter a period of pressure, they took the lead in the 26th minute when Suarez ran in behind Joel Matip and steered in Jordi Alba's excellent diagonal through-ball.\n\nThe Catalan side conceded possession after the break but, bar those two efforts from Milner and Salah, looked comfortable - before Messi relieved the pressure on his backline with two goals in a seven-minute spell.\n\nHis opener came slightly fortuitously to him after Suarez tried to capitalise on Matip's unintended through-ball.\n\nThat was goal number 599 for the club, so it was only fitting that the next one was something special - a free-kick that looked to be heading for the top corner as soon as it left his boot.\n\nSubstitute Dembele should have put the tie completely beyond the Reds but, like Mane, lacked accuracy with the goal in front of him.\n\nAnother bad away day for Reds - the stats\n• None Messi scored his 600th Barcelona goal, 14 years to the day since he scored his first against Albacete in May 2005.\n• None Barcelona extended their record Champions League run of 32 home matches without defeat (W29 D3 L0), with this their first home win over Liverpool in European competition at the fifth attempt.\n• None Liverpool suffered their joint-heaviest Champions League defeat, also losing 0-3 to Real Madrid in October 2014.\n• None The Reds have lost the away leg of their past six major European semi-finals, four of which have been in the Champions League (previously 2006-07, 2007-08 and 2017-18).\n• None Barcelona (502) became the second team to score 500 Champions League goals, after Real Madrid (551).\n• None Only former Real striker Raul (33) has scored against more different Champions League opponents than Messi (32), scoring his first goal in his third appearance against Liverpool.\n• None Messi has scored eight free-kicks this season - twice as many as any other player in the top five European leagues (England, France, Germany, Italy and Spain).\n• None Attempt saved. Ousmane Dembélé (Barcelona) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Lionel Messi.\n• None Attempt missed. Ousmane Dembélé (Barcelona) left footed shot from the right side of the box is high and wide to the left. Assisted by Ivan Rakitic.\n• None Attempt missed. Jordan Henderson (Liverpool) header from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the left.\n• None Attempt missed. Jordan Henderson (Liverpool) header from the centre of the box is too high. Assisted by Roberto Firmino with a cross.\n• None Mohamed Salah (Liverpool) hits the right post with a right footed shot from the right side of the six yard box. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "The leaflets contained information on Conservative candidates Daniel McNally and Paul Rickett for the East Lindsey District Council elections\n\nA scout leader has resigned after getting children in his troop to deliver election leaflets on behalf of two Tory council candidates.\n\nThe group leader and other volunteers in Lincolnshire, quit after a complaint was made, the Scout Association said.\n\nAccording to the Grimsby Telegraph, the scouts were used by Daniel McNally and Paul Rickett in return for a year's use of allotment space to grow vegetables.\n\nMr Rickett said it was \"nothing more than an innocent decision on my part\".\n\nThe newspaper reported Matt Whall, leader of the Marshchapel scout group, near Grimsby, had apologised in a message posted on the village's Facebook page, saying he had not done it for financial gain but had \"hoped to run a soup kitchen for the community using veg grown in the village\".\n\n\"I did not ask the scouts to distribute leaflets for political gain or promotion but did something purely with the motive to provide an enriching opportunity for the young people in the group,\" he added.\n\nMr Rickett, a candidate in the East Lindsey District Council election, said: \"It is regrettable that, what was, in reality, local community minded people trying to help each other out, has taken on a political dimension.\n\n\"This was never my intention. Asking the scouts to help me leaflet around Marshchapel for me was nothing more that an innocent decision on my part.\"\n\nThe Scout Association said it was \"clear this was a genuine error\" and the leader's resignation prompted other group leaders to quit, but did not disclose how many had left.\n\n\"Members of the movement in uniform, or individuals when acting as representatives of the movement, must not take part in any party political meetings or activities that endorse any particular political party or candidate,\" a spokesman said.\n\nThe Marshchapel scout group would continue to operate and volunteers were working to \"minimise the impact to the young people\" in the club, the spokesman added.\n\nMr McNally and the Conservative Party have been approached for a comment.", "A public inquiry has been hearing from victims of the contaminated blood scandal.\n\nThroughout the 80s and 90s thousands of people developed hepatitis C and HIV as a result of 'the worst treatment disaster in the history of the NHS'.\n\nStephen Nicholls and Carolyn Challis are just two of hundreds that are expected to give evidence.", "Last updated on .From the section Athletics\n\nPlans to classify female athletes by their testosterone levels \"contravene international human rights\" says the United Nations Human Rights Council.\n\nOlympic 800m champion Caster Semenya, 28, is challenging the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) over its bid to restrict levels of testosterone in female runners.\n\nThe UN called the plans \"unnecessary, humiliating and harmful\".\n\nThe IAAF said the motion given to the UN contained \"inaccurate statements\".\n\nUnder the IAAF rules, female athletes with naturally high testosterone levels would have to race against men or change events unless they took medication to reduce those levels.\n\nThe regulations will apply to women in track events from 400m up to one mile and require that athletes have to keep their testosterone levels below a prescribed amount \"for at least six months prior to competing\".\n\nThe issue was discussed at the UN Human Rights Council's 40th session in March, at which delegates asked for a detailed report to be put together for a future meeting.\n\nIn the meantime, the body put on record its \"concerns\" with the IAAF proposals.\n\nThe council said it wanted governing bodies \"to refrain from developing and enforcing policies and practices that force, coerce or otherwise pressure women and girl athletes into undergoing unnecessary, humiliating and harmful medical procedures in order to participate in women's events in competitive sports\".\n\nWriting in the British Medical Journal, experts recently claimed the IAAF's regulations risked \"setting an unscientific precedent for other cases of genetic advantage\".\n• None Semenya could miss most of 2019 season\n\nSpeaking in June, two-time Olympic champion and three-time world champion Semenya called the rule \"unfair\", adding: \"I just want to run naturally, the way I was born.\"\n\nThe IAAF intended to bring in new rules on 1 November 2018 but the subsequent legal challenge prompted that to be delayed until the Court of Arbitration for Sport (Cas) had ruled on the matter.\n\nThat ruling was due on 26 March but Cas has postponed it until next month.\n\nA win for Semenya would see her free to continue competing the way she has always done, but a loss means the South African athlete could end up not competing altogether, competing against men or having to take medicine to lower her hormone levels.\n\nSemenya has previously been asked to undertake gender testing by athletics chiefs, but no results have officially been made public.\n\nTestosterone is a hormone that increases muscle mass, strength and haemoglobin, which affects endurance.\n\nHow has the IAAF responded to the UN's motion?\n\nIn a statement provided to BBC Sport, the IAAF said \"It is clear that the author is not across the details of the IAAF regulations nor the facts presented recently at the Court of Arbitration for Sport.\n\n\"There are many generic and inaccurate statements contained in the motion presented to the UN Human Rights Council so it is difficult to work out where to start.\n\n\"The common ground is that we both believe it is important to preserve fair competition in female sport so women are free to compete in national and international sport.\n\n\"To do this it is necessary to ensure the female category in sport is a protected category, which requires rules and regulations to protect it, otherwise we risk losing the next generation of female athletes, since they will see no path to success in female sport.\"", "Three gang rappers, along with two other men, have been jailed for killing a teenager in Ipswich.\n\nA rivalry between two gangs, played out in music videos posted on YouTube, resulted in the murder of 17-year-old Tavis Spencer-Aitkens.\n\nHe was stabbed 15 times on 2 June in retaliation for a clash between the Neno and J-Block gangs earlier that day.\n\nPassing sentence at Ipswich Crown Court, judge Martyn Levett said: \"When they identified their target, they chased him, hunted him down as a pack and set upon him in a pitiless attack.\"\n\nYou can hear a special documentary about this story on BBC Sounds.", "Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg has revealed a series of changes to the firm's portfolio of social platforms, including Instagram and Whatsapp.\n\nThe new designs and features for its apps are a direct response to widespread criticism of how the firm protects user data.\n\nMr Zuckerberg said the company plans to put privacy first.\n\nHe acknowledged that there was much to do to rebuild trust.\n\nIn a speech to developers, Mr Zuckerberg described the firm's new focus on privacy as \"a major shift\" in how the company is run.\n\nSome of the more visible changes to those who use the firm's products will include:\n\n\"The future is private,\" Mr Zuckerberg said - adding, in a nod to the tech giant's stream of privacy scandals: \"I know we don't have the strongest reputation on privacy right now, to put it lightly\".\n\nHe said Facebook was focused on looking at ways to encode privacy across the firm's entire infrastructure.\n\n\"It's not going to happen overnight and to be clear we don't have all the answers,\" he said.\n\nHe has previously said that he believes that people will want to talk privately in small groups and communities in the future.\n\nHowever he will have to convince the public that Facebook is the place to do this, some commentators noted.\n\n\"The big question is how it will perform in a regulated social media world in 2019 and beyond,\" said social media consultant Matt Navarra.\n\n\"My verdict: it will go the distance and bounce back, but its reputation will remain in tatters for years to come.\"\n\nPrivate private private - that's the future of Facebook, as Mark Zuckerberg has said before, but he offered more details today.\n\nThe design changes are the biggest refresh in around five years. It puts greater emphasis on groups and private interactions, encrypted messages that Facebook itself won't be able to access.\n\nAnd, here's the big news... it will no longer be blue. The desktop apps show Zuckerberg has things like Apple's iMessage in his sights.\n\nBut Facebook needs to prove this is more than just a paint job if it's to get out of its current troubles.\n\nMark Zuckerberg made a brief mention about the company not having a good reputation on privacy right now - almost smirking as he said it. The company is working to regain trust, he insists.\n\nAt the same time it must show it continues to innovate even with all its bigger distractions. That's perhaps the bigger risk to Facebook here: while it's fixing its problems, competitors are working hard to gain ground.\n\nOther announcements included a new feature called Secret Crush, part of Facebook Dating, which will let Facebook members in some countries tag up to nine of their friends to whom they are attracted.\n\nIf the recipient of the crush is also using the feature and nominates them as well, then both parties will receive a message to say they have matched.\n\nFacebook Dating will roll out in 14 new countries including the Philippines, Vietnam and Singapore. It is not currently available in Europe or the US.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: Dave Lee tries out the new Oculus Quest\n\nThe firm also revealed the launch date for its new stand-alone, wireless VR headset, Oculus Quest - which does not require a connection to a PC, smartphone or games console.\n\nMark Zuckerberg announced that everyone attending the conference would be given one as a gift.\n\nIt will go on general sale on 21 May.\n\n\"Facebook remains deeply committed to its vision for VR as the next computing platform despite a slow start,\" commented analyst Geoff Blaber from CCS Insight.\n\n\"New Oculus products will further refine the VR experience but there remains a disconnect between Facebook's vision and the reality which is dominated by gaming rather than social interaction.\"", "The boy told the inquest he did not know how serious allergies could be\n\nA boy who flicked a piece of cheese at a teenager with a dairy allergy who later died did not mean to harm him, an inquest has heard.\n\nKaranbir Cheema, 13, who also had other allergies and asthma, suffered from a severe reaction at his school in west London on 28 June 2017.\n\nHe was taken to hospital in a life-threatening condition and died two weeks later.\n\nAn inquest into Karanbir's death heard a piece of cheese landed on his neck.\n\nA boy, who cannot be named for legal reasons, told Poplar Coroner's Court he did not know why he threw the cheese, describing it as \"immature behaviour.\"\n\nThe court heard he was given it by a friend during break time at William Perkin Church of England High School in Ealing.\n\nHe then threw the piece of cheese at Karanbir - but said he was not specifically his target.\n\n\"After that he just said 'I am allergic to cheese',\" the boy said.\n\n\"I apologised and went to class after.\"\n\nThe boy admitted he did not know how serious allergies could be and thought they could simply cause a rash or fever.\n\n\"I didn't mean to hurt him and obviously I feel bad now\", the boy said.\n\nIn a statement, Karanbir's mother Rina said her son was \"extremely diligent\" at managing his allergies.\n\nInformed that cheese had been put down his neck, she said a consultant at the hospital questioned this because contact through the skin would not cause such a bad reaction.\n\nGiving evidence, Rajvnder Saini who worked at the school, said an Epipen kept in the school for Karanbir had expired in July 2016.\n\nAn email was sent to the boy's mother in February 2017 to inform her, the court heard.", "The Xiahe mandible was found in 1980 in Baishiya Karst Cave\n\nScientists have found evidence that an ancient species of human called Denisovans lived at high altitudes in Tibet.\n\nThe ability to survive in such extreme environments had previously been associated only with our species - Homo sapiens.\n\nThe ancient ancestor seems to have passed on a gene that helps modern people cope at high elevations.\n\nDetails of the study are published in the journal Nature.\n\nThe Denisovans were a mysterious human species living in Asia before modern humans like us expanded across the world tens of thousands of years ago.\n\nUntil recently, the only fossils came from a few fragments of bone and teeth from a single site in Siberia - Denisova Cave.\n\nBut DNA had shown that they were a distinct branch of the human family.\n\nNow, scientists have identified the first Denisovan fossil from another site. It's a mandible (lower jawbone) discovered in 1980 at Baishiya Karst Cave, 3,280m up on the Tibetan Plateau.\n\nA technique called uranium-series dating was used on carbonate deposits on the bone. This yielded a date of 160,000 years ago for the mandible.\n\nCo-author Jean Jacques Hublin, from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, said finding evidence of an ancient - or archaic - species of human living at such high elevations was a surprise.\n\n\"When we deal with 'archaic hominins' - Neanderthals, Denisovans, early forms of Homo sapiens - it's clear that these hominins were limited in their capabilities to dwell in extreme environments.\n\n\"If you look at the situation in Europe, we have a lot of Neanderthal sites and people have been studying these sites for a century-and-a-half now.\n\n\"The highest sites we have are at 2,000m altitude. There are not many, and they are clearly sites where these Neanderthals used to go in summer, probably for special hunts. But otherwise, we don't have these types of sites.\"\n\nAn autumn view of Jiangla River Valley, where Baishiya Karst Cave is located\n\nOf the Denisovans on the Tibetan Plateau, he said: \"It's a plateau... and there are obviously enough resources for people to live there and not just come occasionally.\"\n\nWhile the researchers could not find any traces of DNA preserved in this fossil, they managed to extract proteins from one of the molars, which they then analysed applying something called ancient protein analysis.\n\n\"Our protein analysis shows that the Xiahe mandible belonged to a hominin population that was closely related to the Denisovans from Denisova Cave,\" said co-author Frido Welker, from the University of Copenhagen, Denmark.\n\nThe discovery may explain why individuals studied at Denisova Cave had a gene variant known to protect against hypoxia (oxygen deficiency) at high altitudes. This had been a puzzle because the Siberian cave is located just 700m above sea level.\n\nPresent-day Sherpas, Tibetans and neighbouring populations have the same gene variant, which was probably acquired when Homo sapiens mixed with the Denisovans thousands of years ago.\n\nIn fact, the gene variant appears to have undergone positive natural selection (which can result in mutations reaching high frequencies in populations because they confer an advantage).\n\n\"We can only speculate that living in this kind of environment, any mutation that was favourable to breathing an atmosphere impoverished in oxygen would be retained by natural selection,\" said Prof Hublin.\n\n\"And it's a rather likely scenario to explain how this mutation made its way to present-day Tibetans.\"", "Police and health and safety officials are investigating the incident\n\nA teenage boy has been airlifted to hospital with serious injuries after being hit by a falling tree branch while on his way to school.\n\nThe incident happened on a footpath near Ysgol Bryn Elian in Old Colwyn, Conwy county, at about 08:55 BST.\n\nAn air ambulance took the boy to Alder Hey Children's Hospital in Liverpool at 10:25.\n\nAn investigation by the Health and Safety Executive has been launched.\n\nNorth Wales Police has cordoned off an area of Llanelian Road while the investigation is ongoing.\n\nCh Insp Owain Llewelyn said: \"Although the boy sustained a number of serious injuries, they are not now thought to be life-changing or threatening.\n\n\"The boy is receiving the hospital treatment he needs and we wish him all the best with his recovery.\n\n\"I would also like to again thank everyone who assisted this morning, their quick response was greatly appreciated.\"\n\nPolice, firefighters and paramedics were called to the scene shortly before 09:00\n\nYsgol Bryn Elian tweeted: \"We can confirm that an incident has taken place this morning at Ysgol Bryn Elian involving one pupil.\n\n\"The fire service, police, ambulance and air ambulance were all in attendance. The school remain in contact with the family.\"\n\nConwy council said it has been informed and was offering support to the school.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "MPs have approved a motion to declare an environment and climate emergency.\n\nThis proposal, which demonstrates the will of the Commons on the issue but does not legally compel the government to act, was approved without a vote.\n\nLabour leader Jeremy Corbyn, who tabled the motion, said it was \"a huge step forward\".\n\nEnvironment Secretary Michael Gove acknowledged there was a climate \"emergency\" but did not back Labour's demands to declare one.\n\nThe declaration of an emergency was one of the key demands put to the government by environmental activist group Extinction Rebellion, in a series of protests over recent weeks.\n\nAddressing climate protesters from the top of a fire engine in Parliament Square earlier, Mr Corbyn said: \"This can set off a wave of action from parliaments and governments around the globe.\n\n\"We pledge to work as closely as possible with countries that are serious about ending the climate catastrophe and make clear to US President Donald Trump that he cannot ignore international agreements and action on the climate crisis.\"\n\nThousands of Scottish school pupils took part in climate protests last month\n\nDozens of towns and cities across the UK have already declared \"a climate emergency\".\n\nThere is no single definition of what that means but many local areas say they want to be carbon-neutral by 2030.\n\nSome councils have promised to introduce electric car hubs or build sustainable homes to try to achieve that goal.\n\nIt's a much more ambitious target than the UK government's, which is to reduce carbon emissions by 80% (compared to 1990 levels) by 2050.\n\nLabour's motion also calls on the government to aim to achieve net-zero emissions before 2050 and for ministers to outline urgent proposals to restore the UK's natural environment and deliver a \"zero waste economy\" within the next six months.\n\nThe Welsh and Scottish governments have both already declared a climate emergency, along with dozens of towns and cities, including Manchester and London.", "How do you get ready for unprecedented meeting between two wildly unpredictable men. And is there time?\n\nBack in September, North Korean leader Kim Jong-un vowed to \"tame\" Donald Trump, deriding the president as a \"mentally deranged US dotard\".\n\nPresident Trump replied by calling Mr Kim a \"maniac\" and a \"madman\", and warning he would be \"tested like never before\". Later they traded barbs over who had a bigger nuclear button.\n\nSix months on, those high-stakes playground spats form part of a bizarre diplomatic backdrop to a summit no-one saw coming. Mr Trump surprised the world on Thursday when he announced, via a South Korean official, that he had agreed to meet Mr Kim.\n\nThe major negotiating point of their meeting will be de-nuclearisation of the North Korean regime. Beyond that, little is yet known about potential objectives and concessions on either side.\n\nIt is a remarkable gamble by the US president, one that would make him the first American leader to meet a North Korean counterpart. The careful choreography and delicate diplomacy required by international talks have not always come naturally to the Trump team, and now its staff have on their hands one of the most high-profile bilateral summits in US history.\n\nThe talks are scheduled to take place within two months. For both sides, preparation will be key, but how do you prepare for an unprecedented meeting between two wildly unpredictable men?\n\nThe US will begin with key Korea positions in the state department vacant. Chief North Korea envoy Joseph Yun resigned in February and the widely expected appointment of Victor Cha as ambassador to Seoul fell through the same month, over a policy disagreement.\n\n\"I expect they are going to face a few problems,\" said Jim Hoare, a former British charge d'affaires in Pyongyang, of the American effort.\n\n\"If they had a proper apparatus to deal with East Asia, it might be different. But they have only an acting officer in charge of East Asian matters, the state department has been battered and there's no ambassador in South Korea. So I don't know who Trump is talking to about North Korea, I'm not sure anybody does.\"\n\nThe decision to agree to the historic meeting is said to have unfolded in an impulsive and haphazard way not uncommon to the new administration. The New York Times reports that the president, upon hearing that South Korean official Chung Eui-yong was in the White House, summoned Mr Chung to the Oval office and asked about Mr Kim.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The South's Chung Eui-yong talks to reporters at the White House\n\nWhen Mr Chung said the North Korean leader wanted to meet Mr Trump, the president immediately agreed and told the South Korean official to make the announcement to the press.\n\nNot for the first time, Mr Trump's own Secretary of State, Rex Tillerson, was caught on the hop. \"In terms of direct talks... we're a long ways from negotiations,\" Mr Tillerson had told reporters just hours before the surprise announcement.\n\nPrevious presidents have resisted visiting North Korea, leery of conferring prestige on the regime. Bill Clinton reportedly considered a trip to Pyongyang in late 2000, shortly after a visit by then-Secretary of State Madeleine Albright had laid potential groundwork, but ultimately focused on late-term priorities elsewhere.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The unlikely triangle: Trump, Rodman and Kim Jong-un\n\n\"A meeting with the US president is the coin of the realm,\" said Christopher Hill, a former US ambassador to South Korea, \"and here we have a president just prepared to do it without too many details of what the North Koreans have in mind.\"\n\nBut the president's oft-derided impulsiveness may prove to be an asset in this case, said Stephen Hadley, a former national security adviser to George W Bush.\n\n\"His style has already produced a breakthrough,\" said Mr Hadley.\n\n\"He was much criticised for rhetoric on North Korea that was viewed as irresponsible and bellicose but it got both North Korea's attention and China's attention.\n\n\"The trick now is to convince China that the status quo is not sustainable and convince North Korea that holding on to nuclear weapons might be more of a risk to their security than giving them up.\n\n\"And I think Trump's approach has had a pretty good impact in both of those directions already.\"\n\nThe speed of the decision leaves significant details up in the air. The location presents an interesting conundrum. Mr Kim has not left North Korea since becoming leader and is unlikely to accept an invitation to Washington. A visit by Mr Trump to Pyongyang would be a considerable PR gift to the North Koreans and is equally unlikely.\n\n\"It's going to be difficult getting the protocol right, who defers to who and under what circumstances etc, so it's important to find a place that's neutral,\" said Mr Hoare.\n\nPossible contenders include China, the demilitarised zone between the two Koreas and somewhere in international waters. In 1989, George HW Bush met the Soviet leader, Mikhail Gorbachev, on a Soviet cruise ship off the coast of Malta.\n\nMore important still than the location for Mr Trump will be a meticulous understanding of both the US and North Korean objectives. For a president known to struggle with dense briefing papers - preferring instead short, image-led presentations - preparation could be a challenge.\n\n\"If he doesn't do the homework he's going to have a problem,\" said Mr Hoare. \"He will be facing people who have been working on US matters for years and years and years. They won't speak but they will have briefed Mr Kim very thoroughly.\"\n\nAnother key consideration will be the way things look. The summit will take place in a media ecosystem completely different to that of 1961, when President John Kennedy met Nikita Khrushchev in Vienna, or of 1972 when Richard Nixon made his famous overture to China. Every word will be covered in real time on cable news, every stray bit of body language subjected to rigorous analysis.\n\nBut if Mr Trump can avoid diplomatic gaffes and get along well enough with Mr Kim, his straight-shooting style of politics may prove to be as much of an asset in dealing with North Korea as it has been a liability elsewhere.\n\n\"He has already surprised a lot of people by bringing Kim to the table,\" said Mr Hadley. \"It just might be that his unconventional style produces a surprising result from the meeting.\"", "Theresa May went head-to-head with Jeremy Corbyn in the House of Commons. Here's what happened.\n\nBrexit this week - as Jeremy Corbyn made repeated attempts to get Theresa May to say what her government's policy is on customs arrangements with the EU when Britain leaves in 10 months time.\n\nThe Labour leader began - as is rapidly becoming his habit - with a short, punchy question. Did she agree with her Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson, that one of the options being considered by the government, a \"customs partnership\", is \"crazy\"?\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by BBC Daily Politics and Sunday Politics This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. End of twitter post by BBC Daily Politics and Sunday Politics\n\nMrs May listed all the things she wanted from a post-Brexit customs policy - frictionless trade, no hard border in Ireland etc - before launching an attack on Mr Corbyn's past views on the EU, saying he had opposed the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP).\n\nLabour's policy on the customs union, she claimed, would mean signing up to TTIP. Cue a puzzled shake of the head from the Labour leader.\n\nDeputy Speaker Lindsay Hoyle, standing in for John Bercow, who is attending the funeral of his predecessor, Lord Martin of Springburn, in Glasgow, reminded the PM that it was not her job to set out Labour policies.\n\nMr Corbyn continued to hammer away at Mrs May's unwillingness to say which customs option she prefers, quoting the Remain-supporting business secretary Greg Clark, who had warned on the BBC's Andrew Marr show on Sunday that not signing up to a customs partnership would cost jobs.\n\nMrs May trumpeted the government's record on employment.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by BBC Daily Politics and Sunday Politics This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. End of twitter post 2 by BBC Daily Politics and Sunday Politics\n\nMr Corbyn quoted Ken Clarke, the veteran Tory Europhile and longest-serving MP, who told the BBC's Newsnight that Mrs May had to control the \"wild right-wing people\" in her cabinet who he said were pushing her towards a hard Brexit. Mr Clarke offered a wry smile from the backbenches.\n\nThe PM offered another broad restatement of the government's Brexit aims and another attack on Labour, who she accused of going back on their manifesto promise to come out of a customs union.\n\nSurely, after 23 months of negotiations the government can do better than this, said Mr Corbyn. Why don't they heed the advice of the CBI and the TUC and accept Labour's policy of a new customs union? When will MPs get to debate the much-delayed trade bill? What is her preferred customs option and when it will be ready to be implemented?\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jeremy Corbyn: \"These negotiations are in a shambles\"\n\nMrs May said progress had been made in Brussels and she had set out two customs options. \"Questions have been raised about both of those options and further work continues,\" she explained. And that was much as we were going to get.\n\n\"He has spent an entire career opposing a customs union, now when the British people want to come out he wants to stay in,\" she told the Labour leader.\n\nMr Corbyn said the Brexit talks were in a \"shambles\" because the government is \"divided\" - how can they get a good deal for the UK when they can't agree among themselves and are more interested in furthering their own careers?\n\nMrs May ended the exchanges with a standard defence of her government's record on jobs - and a swipe at Labour over their failure to take target councils in Thursday's local elections.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Theresa May: \"He has spent an entire career opposing a customs union\"\n\nThe SNP's leader at Westminster Ian Blackford raised the other major talking point at Westminster - Donald Trump's decision for the US to leave the Iran nuclear deal - and efforts by UK, France and Germany to hold it together.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Daily Politics and Sunday Politics This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. End of twitter post 3 by BBC Daily Politics and Sunday Politics\n\nMPs also showed their approval of Lindsay Hoyle's handling of the session with some appreciative cheers, at the end of the shorter-than-recently PMQs session.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nLabour's Matt Western kept up the pressure on Theresa May over cabinet divisions on post-Brexit customs arrangements.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 BBC Daily Politics and Sunday Politics This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. End of twitter post 4 by BBC Daily Politics and Sunday Politics\n\nFormer cabinet minister Ken Clarke had a dig at Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson's description of one of the government's post-Brexit customs options as \"crazy\". The two each praised the other's \"unswerving loyalty\". The exchange came during a statement on the Iran nuclear deal.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHere's what the BBC's Andrew Neil made of 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 5 by BBC Daily Politics and Sunday Politics This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. End of twitter post 5 by BBC Daily Politics and Sunday Politics\n\nHere's the BBC's Mark D'Arcy's take on it:\n\nA clear win for Jeremy Corbyn. OK, the government's visible divisions over a post-Brexit customs union presented him with an open goal, but you still have to score. He did.\n\nThe PM had to fall back on formulaic holding answers and boilerplate attacks on Labour, mixed with a bit of local election crowing. And most telling of all were the muted \"hear hears\" she extracted from her troops.\n\nBoth pro and anti Tory factions on Brexit are uneasy at the moment - and the mainstream MPs, who would back the PM more or less whatever she did, are aching for a clear lead.\n\nJeremy Corbyn's call for the Trade Bill to be brought back before MPs for its long-delayed Report Stage was a well-targeted reminder that the government seems to believe it can't win a vote on the customs union issue with its current policy.\n\nLindsay Hoyle did a good job presiding over a quiet-ish PMQs - and while some on twitter have been contrasting his approach to John Bercow's, he didn't have to deal with any serious outbreak of disorder, or any major bouts of backbench ranting.\n\nOnly once did he have to shut down a prolix questioner…. Which he did fairly clinically.\n\nHe got through the list of questioners in less than 40 minutes, which the PM will probably be grateful for. A 3.5 for artistic impression, for understated elegance; a 4.0 for technical merit, for keeping PMQs a bit closer to time.\n\nWhat pundits are saying on Twitter\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 6 by Alex Wickham This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Katy Perry has sent Taylor Swift an actual olive branch, seemingly ending the beef between the two megastars.\n\nSwifty, who is about to start her Reputation tour, shared a video of the package she received from Katy - which appeared to include a note with the words \"miscommunications\" and \"deeply sorry\" written on it.\n\nThe olive branch is a symbol of peace.\n\nThe pair reportedly fell out in a row over backing dancers, before writing songs about each other.\n\nTaylor's Bad Blood is thought to be about Katy, while Swish Swish is said to be about Taylor.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Taylor Swift Updates This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nTaylor's Instagram story shows a package containing an olive branch and a written note that opens: \"Hey old friend\".\n\n\"I just got to my dressing room and found this actual olive branch,\" Taylor said in the video.\n\n\"This means so much to me.\"\n\nTrying to figure out exactly what the note says is a bit of a tougher job though, as fans noted.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Frank Pallotta This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nKaty and Taylor were said to have been friends before their feud\n\nThe two haven't been friends since at least 2014, when rumours emerged before the release of Taylor Swift's hit Bad Blood.\n\nTaylor talked about falling out with a high-profile star in a Rolling Stone interview at the time, saying the person did something \"so horrible\" that made them \"straight-up enemies.\"\n\nShe got more specific: \"She basically tried to sabotage an entire arena tour. She tried to hire a bunch of people out from under me.\"\n\nStraight after that article, Katy posted a cryptic tweet about Regina George - the villain of the 2004 comedy Mean Girls.\n\n\"Watch out for the Regina George in sheep's clothing,\" she tweeted.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by KATY PERRY This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nKaty spoke about the tension between the two stars in a Carpool Karaoke interview with James Corden.\n\n\"She started it, and it's time for her to finish it,\" Katy said.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 4 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\nKaty then apologised to Taylor during a 24-hour YouTube live stream ahead of her album Witness being released last year.\n\n\"I'm ready to let it go,\" she said in an interview.\n\n\"Absolutely, 100%. I forgive her, and I'm sorry for anything I ever did, and I hope the same from her, and I think it's actually - I think it's time.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 5 by Pop Crave This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\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.", "Theresa May's portrait has had to be taken down at Oxford University\n\nA picture of Theresa May has been taken down at the University of Oxford to protect it from protests by students.\n\nThe picture of the prime minister, part of a celebration of women who had studied at the university, had been \"obscured\" by critical messages.\n\nThe portrait had been \"plastered\" with messages about issues including immigration, Windrush and Brexit.\n\nA university spokesman said removing Theresa May's picture was \"absolutely not done to make a political point\".\n\nInstead, the university authorities say, the picture had been taken down to keep it safe from \"mainly humorous satirical messages\".\n\nProtesters had used Twitter to say that the university should not be putting up pictures of Mrs May - making reference to the Windrush scandal.\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\nThe Universities Minister Sam Gyimah entered the argument on Twitter, saying it was \"utterly ridiculous\" that \"even portraits are being no-platformed\".\n\nHe said the university faculty \"should get a grip\" and \"put the portrait back in a more prominent place\".\n\nMrs May's government last week promised to protect free speech in university - and above her portrait in Oxford an invitation had been added: \"Free space - share your thoughts.\"\n\nMessages added to the picture included \"school of geography and hostile environment?\" and a picture of Mrs May and Donald Trump captioned \"complicit relationship\".\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 picture was on display at the university's school of geography, as part of a series of portraits of \"outstanding female graduates\" from the department.\n\n\"It has now been taken down and will be re-displayed so it can be seen as intended,\" said a statement from the university.\n\n\"We remain proud of her success and that of all the graduates celebrated in the display.\"", "Drinking lots of cranberry juice is no way to fix a urine infection, say new draft guidelines from health body the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence.\n\nAlthough some studies have claimed it may help, NICE says there is not enough good evidence to recommend it.\n\nInstead, people should drink plenty of water or fluids and take painkillers.\n\nThey can also speak to their doctor who might prescribe antibiotics, but these drugs will not always be necessary.\n\nUrinary tract infections (UTIs) are caused by bacteria. Sometimes the body can fight a mild infection alone without medication.\n\nWhen antibiotics are needed, the shortest course that is likely to be effective should be prescribed to reduce the risk of antimicrobial resistance, says NICE.\n\nIt might be more appropriate to get a back-up prescription to be used only if symptoms do not improve within 48 hours or if they worsen rapidly or significantly at any time.\n\nProf Mark Baker, director for the centre of guidelines at NICE, said: \"We recognise that the majority of UTIs will require antibiotic treatment, but we need to be smarter with our use of these medicines.\n\n\"Our new guidance will help healthcare professionals to optimise their use of antibiotics.\n\n\"This will help to protect these vital medicines and ensure that no one experiences side effects from a treatment they do not need.\"\n\nA consultation on the draft guidelines for England will close on 5 June.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "In 2015, Iran agreed a long-term deal on its nuclear programme with a group of world powers known as the P5+1 - the US, UK, France, China, Russia and Germany.\n\nIt came after years of tension over Iran's alleged efforts to develop a nuclear weapon. Iran insisted that its nuclear programme was entirely peaceful, but the international community did not believe that.\n\nUnder the accord, Iran agreed to limit its sensitive nuclear activities and allow in international inspectors in return for the lifting of crippling economic sanctions.\n\nHere is what was meant to happen according to the plan, formally known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA).\n\nIran's uranium stockpile will be reduced by 98% to 300kg for 15 years\n\nUranium can have nuclear-related uses once it has been refined, or enriched. This is achieved by increasing the content of its most fissile isotopes, U-235, through the use of centrifuges - machines which spin at supersonic speeds.\n\nLow-enriched uranium, which typically has a 3-5% concentration of U-235, can be used to produce fuel for commercial nuclear power plants. Highly enriched uranium has a purity of 20% or more and is used in research reactors. Weapons-grade uranium is 90% enriched or more.\n\nIn July 2015, Iran had two uranium enrichment plants - Natanz and Fordo - and was operating almost 20,000 centrifuges.\n\nUnder the JCPOA, the country was limited to installing no more than 5,060 of the oldest and least efficient centrifuges at Natanz until 2026 - 10 years after the deal's \"implementation day\" in January 2016.\n\nIran's stockpile of enriched uranium was also reduced by 98% to 300kg (660lbs), a figure that must not be exceeded until 2031. It must also keep the stockpile's level of enrichment at 3.67%.\n\nIn addition, research and development must take place only at Natanz and be limited until 2024.\n\nNo enrichment is permitted at Fordo until 2031, and the underground facility must be converted into a nuclear, physics and technology centre. The 1,044 centrifuges left at the site are allowed to produce radioisotopes for use in medicine, agriculture, industry and science.\n\nIran is redesigning the Arak reactor so it cannot produce any weapons-grade plutonium\n\nIran had been building a heavy-water nuclear facility near the town of Arak. Spent fuel from a heavy-water reactor contains plutonium suitable for a nuclear bomb.\n\nWorld powers had originally wanted Arak dismantled because of the potential military use. Under an interim nuclear deal in 2013, Iran agreed not to commission or fuel the reactor.\n\nUnder the JCPOA, Iran said it would redesign the reactor so it could not produce any weapons-grade plutonium, and that all spent fuel would be sent out of the country as long as the modified reactor existed.\n\nIran must also not build additional heavy-water reactors or accumulate any excess heavy water until 2031.\n\nIran is required to allow IAEA inspectors to access any site they deem suspicious\n\nAt the time of the agreement, then-US President Barack Obama's administration expressed confidence that the JCPOA would prevent Iran from building a nuclear programme in secret. Iran, it said, had committed to \"extraordinary and robust monitoring, verification, and inspection\".\n\nInspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the global nuclear watchdog, were tasked with continuously monitoring Iran's declared nuclear sites and verifying that no fissile material is moved covertly to a secret location to build a bomb.\n\nIran also agreed to implement the Additional Protocol to their IAEA Safeguards Agreement, which allows inspectors to access any site anywhere in the country they deem suspicious.\n\nUntil 2031, Iran will have 24 days to comply with any IAEA access request. If it refuses, an eight-member Joint Commission - including Iran - will rule on the issue. It can decide on punitive steps, including the reimposition of sanctions. A majority vote by the commission suffices.\n\nA UN ban on the import of ballistic missile technology will remain in place for up to eight years\n\nBefore July 2015, Iran had enough enriched uranium and centrifuges to create eight to 10 bombs, according to the then Obama administration.\n\nUS experts estimated at the time that if Iran had decided to rush to make a bomb, it would take two to three months until it had enough 90%-enriched uranium to build a nuclear weapon - the so-called \"break-out time\".\n\nThe Obama administration said the JCPOA would remove the key elements Iran would need to create a bomb and increase its break-out time to one year or more.\n\nIran also agreed not to engage in activities, including research and development, which could contribute to the development of a nuclear bomb.\n\nIn December 2015, the IAEA's board of governors voted to end its decade-long investigation into the possible military dimensions of Iran's nuclear programme.\n\nThe agency's then-director-general, Yukiya Amano, said the report concluded that until 2003 Iran had conducted \"a co-ordinated effort\" on \"a range of activities relevant to the development of a nuclear explosive device\". Iran continued with some activities until 2009, but after that there were \"no credible indications\" of weapons development, he added.\n\nIran also agreed to the continuation of a UN ban on its imports and exports of conventional arms until 2020. Restrictions on its import of ballistic missile technology will remain in place until 2023.\n\nThe nuclear deal allowed Iran to sell crude oil again on the international market\n\nSanctions previously imposed by the UN, US and EU in an attempt to force Iran to halt uranium enrichment crippled its economy, costing the country more than $160bn (£119bn) in oil revenue from 2012 to 2016 alone.\n\nUnder the deal, all nuclear-related sanctions on Iran were lifted and the country was able to resume selling oil on international markets and using the global financial system for trade. It also gained access to more than $100bn in assets frozen overseas.\n\nHowever, in May 2018, then-US President Donald Trump abandoned the JCPOA, calling it \"defective at its core\". He reinstated all US sanctions on Iran that November as part of a \"maximum pressure\" campaign to compel the country to negotiate a replacement that would also curb its ballistic missile programme and its involvement in regional conflicts.\n\nBut Iran refused and saw its economy plunge into recession and the value of its currency fall to record lows, which in turn caused inflation to soar to the highest level in decades.\n\nWhen the sanctions were tightened in 2019, Iran began breaching the deal's restrictions, arguing that the JCPOA allowed one party to \"cease performing its commitments... in whole or in part\" in the event of \"significant non-performance\" by others.\n\nBy November 2021, Iran had amassed a stockpile of enriched uranium that was many times larger than permitted, including at least 17.7kg (39lb) of material enriched to 60% purity - just below the level needed for a bomb. It had also resumed enrichment activity at Fordo; installed more centrifuges, and of a more advanced type, than allowed; and taken steps in the production of enriched uranium metal, which is a key material in nuclear weapons.\n\nIran had also significantly curtailed access for international inspectors by ceasing implementation of the Additional Protocol of its IAEA Safeguards Agreement.\n\nTalks to save the JCPOA and bring Iran back into compliance began in May 2021, after Joe Biden succeeded Mr Trump as US president. He says the US will rejoin and lift the sanctions if Iran reverses its breaches. His Iranian counterpart, Ebrahim Raisi, says the US must make the first move.\n\nIf the negotiations were to fail and Iran was confirmed to have violated the deal, all UN sanctions would automatically \"snap back\" in place for 10 years, with the possibility of a five-year extension.", "Greggs shares tumbled on Wednesday after the bakery chain said that March's cold snap had hit sales.\n\nThe Beast from the East forced the temporary closure of several stores and added to overall weaker trading in early spring.\n\nLike-for-like sales slowed to 1.3% in the first 18 weeks of the year, down from 3.5% for the same period in 2017.\n\nAlthough sales this month had rebounded, Greggs warned that full-year profits could be flat as a result.\n\nThe company's failure to keep delivering annual profit growth sparked an investor exodus, with shares sliding almost 15% to £10.78, valuing it at £1.1bn.\n\nNick Bubb, an independent retail analyst, commented: \"The overall message is that, despite tight cost control, underlying profits for the year are now likely to be only flat compared to last year, which is obviously a bit disappointing.\"\n\nBefore Wednesday's trading update, analysts had forecast annual pretax profit before one-off items of £87.1m - up from £81.8m this year - according to Reuters data.\n\nGreggs said the year began well, with sales rising 3.2% in January and February, but the combination of the bad weather, fewer people going into its shops and cautious consumer conditions led to the March slump.\n\nDemand for its food-to-go range was particularly badly hit during that period.\n\n\"Trading conditions in March and April have been very difficult in the market generally and Greggs is no exception to that,\" said chief executive Roger Whiteside.\n\nSales in May had started more strongly but still lagged the growth recorded in January and February.\n\n\"Those customers that are coming are spending more ... but there are just fewer of them out shopping and consumer spending underlying trends appear to be under pressure,\" Mr Whiteside added.\n\nBecause of the uncertainties about footfall, Greggs said it was being cautious about the outlook for sales for the rest of the year: \"Taking into account trading conditions in the year to date, and our more cautious outlook, we currently believe that underlying profits for the year are likely to be at a similar level to last year.\"\n\nThe Newcastle-based retailer has nearly 1,900 shops across the UK.", "Last updated on .From the section Man Utd\n\nSir Alex Ferguson no longer needs intensive care after having emergency surgery on Saturday for a brain haemorrhage, Manchester United have announced.\n\nFerguson, 76, will continue his rehabilitation as an inpatient at Salford Royal Hospital.\n\nThe Scot retired as United manager in May 2013 after winning 38 trophies during 26 years in charge.\n\n\"His family have been overwhelmed by the level of support,\" the club added.\n\nThe family continue to request \"vital\" privacy as Ferguson enters the next stage of his recovery.\n\nHe was last seen in public at Old Trafford last month when he presented outgoing Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger with a commemorative trophy.\n\nReacting to the update on his condition, Wenger said: \"It's fantastic news. He has worked very hard and deserves a long period of enjoying life. I hope he's back soon and in good shape.\"\n\nYaya Toure wished Ferguson a speedy recovery before the midfielder gave a farewell speech following his final game for Manchester City.\n\nThe most successful manager in the history of the British game, Ferguson's trophy haul at Old Trafford included 13 Premier League titles, two Champions League crowns, five FA Cups and four League Cups.\n\nFerguson famously won the Treble of Premier League, FA Cup and Champions League in 1999, the year in which he was knighted.\n\nA host of Premier League managers, including Wenger and Manchester City's Pep Guardiola, sent their good wishes over the weekend to Ferguson.\n\nWenger described Ferguson as \"an optimistic man\" with Guardiola saying his thoughts were with Ferguson's wife Cathy and the rest of his family.\n\nGuardiola said on Wednesday night it was \"amazing news\" that he had left intensive care.\n\nFerguson became United manager in November 1986 after spells in charge of Scotland, Aberdeen, St Mirren and East Stirlingshire.", "A report by Amnesty International found the Met Police's Gang Violence Matrix tracked a disproportionate number of minorities\n\nThe data watchdog is investigating the Met Police's gangs database following accusations it is \"not fit for purpose\".\n\nA report by Amnesty International found the force's Gang Violence Matrix was \"racially discriminatory\" and breaches human rights law.\n\nThe database, set up in the wake of the 2011 London Riots, holds information on about 3,800 persons of interest.\n\nThe Met Police said the matrix helped \"prevent young lives being lost\".\n\nThe report found the matrix tracked a disproportionate number of minorities, as well as 1,500 people who police had assessed as posing no danger of committing violence.\n\nThe Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) confirmed it was \"in contact with the Metropolitan Police Service as part of an investigation into their use of a gangs database\".\n\nThe Met's Gang Violence Matrix was set up in 2012 in response to the London riots\n\nFigures from July 2016 showed 78% of the people listed were black. Police figures show 27% of those prosecuted for youth violence are black.\n\nAbout 13% of London's population is black.\n\nThe matrix uses various intelligence including history of violent crime, entries on social media and information from bodies including local councils to identify gang members.\n\nThey are then given a score assessing the risk they posed. Around 40% of those on the list have a \"harm score\" of zero, the report found.\n\nThose with a zero score may be in custody and therefore not currently offending.\n\nBeing on the matrix could affect access to housing, education and job centre services, the report claimed.\n\nThe Met Police said the matrix was used \"to reduce gang-related violence and prevent young lives being lost\"\n\nThe charity's UK director, Kate Allen, said: \"There is clearly a huge problem with knife crime violence at the moment in London, but the gangs matrix is not the answer.\n\n\"The entire system is racially discriminatory, stigmatising young black men for the type of music they listen to or their social media behaviour, and perpetuating racial bias with potential impacts in all sorts of areas of their lives.\n\nIndividuals identified on the matrix are offered support to divert them away from both offending and becoming a victim of violence, Scotland Yard said.\n\nThe Met said it was working with Tottenham MP David Lammy, Amnesty International and the ICO to \"help understand the approach taken\".\n\nIt is understood that officers in Manchester and Birmingham gather similar information on gang links.\n\nHave you been affected by any of the issues raised in this article? You can get in touch, in confidence, by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist, in confidence. You can also contact us in the following ways:\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Drinks from three of the UK's largest cinema chains have been found to contain unacceptably high levels of bacteria, a BBC investigation has found.\n\nFizzy drinks from Cineworld, Odeon and Vue were tested in 30 cinemas, for BBC One's Watchdog programme.\n\nEnvironmental health expert Tony Lewis said he was \"concerned\" it was \"an indicator of hygiene failure\".\n\nTraces of the bacteria salmonella, which can cause food poisoning, were reportedly discovered in two drinks from branches of Odeon cinemas. Listeria had also been found, in a drinks holder, Watchdog said.\n\nThe investigation tested drinks at 10 branches of each company. It also looked for bacteria on the seat fabric, on the cup holder and in ice cubes.\n\nThe results were sent to London Metropolitan University's \"superlab\" to be tested.\n\nAccording to Watchdog, out of the seven cinemas with drinks with high bacteria levels:\n\nMr Lewis, head of policy at the Chartered Institute of Environmental Health, said: \"That's the highest I've seen. And that is an indicator of equipment not being kept clean. That's a worry.\"\n\nSalmonella bacteria can cause vomiting, stomach cramps and fever\n\nHe said high bacteria levels in fizzy drinks were particularly concerning because they were ingested immediately.\n\nIce containing bacteria levels above an acceptable level - more than 1,000 units of bacteria per one millilitre of liquid - were found in nine cinemas, Watchdog said.\n\nFour of those ice samples were from Cineworld branches, two were from Vue, and three from Odeon.\n\nThe highest bacteria count in ice was 10 million bacteria in one millilitre of liquid, and was found in the same Odeon branch as the highest bacteria-filled drink.\n\nMr Lewis said: \"Ultimately, it's about people cutting corners And it's also about managers, owners of cinemas, managers of cinemas, not taking their responsibilities seriously and potentially keeping on top of the issues.\"\n\nWatchdog reported mixed results on bacteria on the seats and in drinks holders. Since those bacteria are unlikely to reach your mouth, they are thought to be less of a concern.\n\nThe cinema chains have all told the programme they take hygiene \"incredibly seriously\" and have robust cleaning procedures in place.\n\nOdeon and Cineworld said seats, drinks holders and drink dispensers were thoroughly cleaned daily, with the ice machines emptied and fully cleaned weekly.\n\nOdeon said it was therefore \"surprised and disappointed at the Watchdog findings\" and had immediately launched its own investigation, adding it had \"taken immediate steps\" and \"further strengthened procedures\" across the UK.\n\nCineworld said the branches tested \"have all been awarded the maximum food hygiene rating of five by their local authority\" and its cleaning procedures were compulsory for all branches.\n\nVue rejected the findings, saying it \"follows strict hygiene procedures daily\".\n\nIt also said it undertook its own independent tests regularly, \"conducted by a qualified clinical microbiologist with nationally recognised accredited training\", and worked with \"third-party water experts, exceeding the requirements for water testing\".\n\nThe full report can be seen on Watchdog Live at 20.00 on Wednesday, 9 May, on BBC One.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Mr Mahathir said he hoped a swearing-in ceremony would be held on Thursday\n\nFormer Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad has scored a historic victory in the general election.\n\nAt the age of 92, Mr Mahathir defeated the Barisan Nasional coalition, which has been in power 60 years.\n\nHe had come out of retirement to take on his former protege Najib Razak, who has been beset by allegations of corruption and cronyism.\n\nMr Mahathir told reporters: \"We are not seeking revenge, we want to restore the rule of law\".\n\nThe election commission said Mr Mahathir's opposition alliance had won 115 seats, over the threshold of 112 seats needed to form a government.\n\nHe said he hoped a swearing-in ceremony would be held on Thursday. Mr Mahathir will become the oldest elected leader in the world.\n\nA government spokesman later declared nationwide public holidays for Thursday and Friday.\n\nWith only a few seats left to count, official results showed Mr Mahathir's Pakatan Harapan alliance, along with an ally in Sabah state, Borneo, had won 115 seats with BN on 79 seats.\n\nOpposition supporters poured on to the streets in celebration as the results became clear.\n\nMahathir Mohamad's supporters took to the streets of Kuala Lumpur in celebration\n\nThe campaign pitted Mr Mahathir's opposition group against the BN, led by incumbent Prime Minister Najib Razak.\n\nThe BN and its major party, the United Malays National Organisation (UMNO), have dominated Malaysian politics since the country won independence from Britain in 1957, but the once-powerful coalition has seen its popularity decline in recent years.\n\nIn the previous election, in 2013, the opposition made unprecedented gains, winning the popular vote, but it failed to win enough seats to form a government.\n\nIn a dramatic turn of events, then-opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim was sentenced to five years jail on sodomy charges, which he said were part of a political smear campaign.\n\nMr Mahathir, who was once an integral part of BN and a mentor to Mr Najib, abandoned the coalition in 2016.\n\nAs he left, he said he was \"embarrassed\" to be associated with a party \"that is seen as supporting corruption\".\n\nMr Najib has been embroiled in a corruption scandal, which saw him accused of pocketing some $700m from the 1Malaysian Development Berhad, a state investment fund. He has vehemently denied all allegations and been cleared by Malaysian authorities.\n\nThe fund is still being investigated by several countries and Mr Najib has been accused of stifling Malaysian investigations by removing key officials.\n\nMr Najib (L) was a former protege of Mr Mahathir (C)\n\nThe government recently passed a law redrawing election boundaries, leading to accusations that it had gerrymandered constituencies to ensure they were filled by Malay Muslims, who are traditionally BN supporters.\n\nIn the days before the poll, election reform group Bersih 2.0 accused the Election Commission (EC) of multiple \"electoral crimes\", including irregularities in postal voting and failing to remove dead people from the electoral roll.\n\nA controversial fake news law was also recently introduced, which critics say could be used by the authorities to muffle dissent.\n\nMr Mahathir is himself being investigated under that law after alleging that his plane had been sabotaged.\n\nMalaysians had their fingers marked with indelible ink, showing that they had voted\n\nThe government had insisted the election would be free and fair, with Mr Najib saying that the EC acted \"for the good of all\".\n\nVoters were electing 222 members of parliament as well as state assembly members in 12 of the 13 states.\n\nMalaysia uses a first-past-the-post electoral system, where the party that gets the most seats in parliament wins even if it does not win the popular vote.", "A bill to guarantee bereavement leave and pay for those who lose a child has made it through its stages in the Commons.\n\nThe Parental Bereavement (Leave and Pay) Bill, which aims to create a legal entitlement of at least two weeks leave and pay for parents, cleared its final Commons hurdle with unanimous support.\n\nThe private member's bill will now undergo further scrutiny in the Lords before it becomes law.\n\nIt was brought forward by Conservative Kevin Hollinrake in consultation with his Conservative colleague Will Quince, whose son was stillborn at full term in October 2014.\n\nThe draft legislation had been dubbed \"Will's Bill\" in honour of the campaigning by Mr Quince, but he said it should be referred to as \"Robert's Bill\" in honour of his son.\n\nHe said: \"When members of the public, who in some cases have a bit of disdain for politicians, say 'You MPs you do nothing, what do you do for us?', well today we're doing something for tens of thousands of bereaved parents up and down this country.\n\n\"We know the good this bill will do.\"\n\nThe government offered its support to the bill along with Labour and other opposition parties.", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nHuddersfield Town ensured Premier League survival after a battling draw at Stamford Bridge damaged Chelsea's hopes of playing in next season's Champions League and left Swansea City on the brink of relegation.\n\nThe Terriers produced a defensive masterclass to secure the point they needed to stay up and celebrated wildly with their travelling fans after the final whistle.\n\nThe Yorkshire side's supporters chanted \"We are staying up\" as manager David Wagner was given the bumps by his players on the pitch. Meanwhile, Chelsea manager Antonio Conte waited patiently to shake hands and congratulate every Huddersfield player.\n\nAfter the visitors linked arms and clapped their fans, Wagner said his team would be celebrating all the way back to Huddersfield.\n\n\"We have cancelled the flight and will go home by coach,\" said the German.\n\nThe Terriers did not have a shot on goal in the first half but took a surprise lead in the 50th minute when Laurent Depoitre finished Aaron Mooy's ball over the top.\n\nChelsea dominated possession but were guilty of some poor finishing.\n• None We believed in the impossible - Wagner\n• None How did you rate the players in Huddersfield's draw at Chelsea?\n\nAntonio Rudiger wasted two glorious chances before the FA Cup finalists finally equalised in fortuitous fashion - Mathias Jorgensen's clearance striking Marcos Alonso in the face before flying into the net.\n\nHuddersfield goalkeeper Jonas Lossl produced a wonderful save to push Andreas Christensen's header onto the post as Chelsea searched for a winner, but the Terriers held firm to ensure a second successive season in the Premier League.\n\nChelsea must now win away at Newcastle on Sunday and hope Liverpool lose at home to Brighton to qualify for the Champions League.\n\nMeanwhile, at the bottom, Swansea must overturn a nine-goal difference on the final day of the season if they are to stay up.\n\nThey have to win at home to relegated Stoke and hope Southampton lose heavily at home to champions Manchester City.\n\nOne of the season's great success stories\n\nGiven they had a run-in against champions Manchester City, Chelsea - both away from home - and Arsenal, few gave Huddersfield much chance of staying up in recent weeks.\n\nHowever, Wagner's battlers will grace the top-flight again next year after securing an unlikely point for the second successive game.\n\nHaving held City to a goalless draw on Sunday, they frustrated the 2016-17 champions on Wednesday.\n\nWagner's side came with a plan to pack the defence and frustrate the hosts - and they executed it to near-perfection.\n\nHuddersfield were happy to defend deep and allow Chelsea to enjoy most of the possession.\n\nThere was a touch of fortune, however, that Chelsea's best two chances fell to Rudiger.\n\nThe Germany defender was guilty of an incredible miss from point-blank range in the 13th minute, after Cesar Azpilicueta's downward header from a corner. Rudiger later headed another great opportunity over the bar.\n\nAlvaro Morata rounded Lossl but could not finish while Huddersfield's keeper produced the save of the match from Christensen as the visitors completed one of the great stories of this Premier League season.\n\nWhat next for Conte?\n\nThis could yet prove to be Conte's final game in charge at Stamford Bridge. The Chelsea boss has another year left on his contract but said it was up to the club to \"take the best decision\" when asked if he will still be in charge next season.\n\n\"We have another game to play, the FA Cup final, then the club for sure will do the best to improve the situation,\" said Conte.\n\nHis side brought the curtain down at home with a result which summed up their underwhelming league form.\n\nHaving won the title in impressive style 12 months ago, Chelsea's defence of the championship ended long ago.\n\nWhile they won 51 points from a possible 57 in front of their own fans last term, they managed just 37 this time after a mixed set of results which included an opening weekend defeat to Burnley and a 3-0 loss against Bournemouth on 30 January.\n\n\"We dropped many points this season,\" added Conte. \"I'm realistic. I think at the end of the season you finish in the position that you deserve.\n\n\"If we stay fifth in the table it means we deserve to stay in this position.\"\n\nChelsea dominated Huddersfield but despite ending the match with substitutes Eden Hazard and Olivier Giroud on the pitch, they failed to do enough to beat a gutsy Huddersfield side.\n• None Huddersfield's draw means that all three promoted teams have avoided relegation this season - this is only the third time this has happened in the Premier League (2001-02 and 2011-12).\n• None The Blues have lost just one of their last 51 Premier League home games against promoted sides (W42 D8), v Bournemouth in December 2015.\n• None Marcos Alonso has been directly involved in nine Premier League goals this season (7 goals, 2 assists), more than any other defender.\n\nChelsea's final league game of the season is away to Newcastle United on Sunday (15:00 BST) but they will be back in action on 19 May when they take on Manchester United in the FA Cup final (17:15)\n\nHuddersfield are getting ready for a final-day party at home to Arsenal (15:00) on Sunday.\n• None Offside, Chelsea. N'Golo Kanté tries a through ball, but Álvaro Morata is caught offside.\n• None Attempt missed. Olivier Giroud (Chelsea) left footed shot from the centre of the box misses to the right.\n• None Attempt blocked. Cesc Fàbregas (Chelsea) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Eden Hazard.\n• None Attempt blocked. Willian (Chelsea) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by N'Golo Kanté.\n• None Attempt saved. Álvaro Morata (Chelsea) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the top centre of the goal. Assisted by Eden Hazard.\n• None Attempt missed. Eden Hazard (Chelsea) left footed shot from outside the box misses to the right. Assisted by Cesc Fàbregas.\n• None Attempt blocked. Antonio Rüdiger (Chelsea) right footed shot from the left side of the six yard box is blocked.\n• None Attempt saved. Andreas Christensen (Chelsea) header from the centre of the box is saved in the top left corner. Assisted by Antonio Rüdiger.\n• None Attempt blocked. Antonio Rüdiger (Chelsea) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.\n• None Attempt blocked. Antonio Rüdiger (Chelsea) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.\n• None Attempt blocked. Marcos Alonso (Chelsea) left footed shot from the left side of the six yard box is blocked. Assisted by Cesc Fàbregas with a cross. 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. Listen to the song of the South Georgia Pipit - free now from predation by rats\n\nThey have gone, or so it seems.\n\nThe biggest rat eradication programme ever undertaken appears to have rid South Georgia island in the South Atlantic of its pest problem.\n\nA survey of the British Overseas Territory has found no trace of the rodents that had been attacking the local birdlife.\n\nThe outcome is a triumph for the South Georgia Heritage Trust, the Scottish charity that led the £10m campaign to protect the biodiversity hotspot.\n\nHelicopters were used to systematically drop poison pellets across the island's coastal fringes in three phases starting in 2010/11.\n\nBut international best practice had required the extermination team to wait two years after the last distribution of rodenticide before assessing its work.\n\nThat has just now been completed with experts combing the island with sniffer dogs.\n\nTraps were also set, along with enticing \"chew sticks\" pasted with peanut butter. But there is not a jot of evidence to suggest any live rats are still present.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prof Mike Richardson: \"The brown rat is a voracious predator in the wrong place\"\n\nProf Mike Richardson, the chair of the restoration project steering committee, said it had been a nerve-wracking wait for the survey's result to come through.\n\n\"We've been on tenterhooks; would there be a remnant enclave somewhere? But I'm pleased to say over the last six months, not a single sign of a rodent has been found. And so to the best of our knowledge, this island is now rodent-free,\" he told reporters.\n\nFirst visited by the great explorer James Cook in 1775, the UK overseas territory is rightly famed for its wildlife. Thousands of tourists flock to the 170km-long island each year to see its seals, penguins, and albatrosses. Indeed, millions of birds, representing more than 30 different species, breed on this sub-Antarctic landmass - and all of them must nest either on the ground or just below it in burrows because there are no trees.\n\nAnd it is this behaviour that exposed them to predation from the invasive rodents that got on to the territory when sealers and whalers started using it as a base in the 19th and 20th Centuries.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Alison Neil: \"It's taken a decade of work to get to this point\"\n\nThe rats and mice were voracious, eating birds alive - albatrosses, petrels, prions; anything they could get their teeth into, and that included chicks that were often several times their own size.\n\nOf particular concern, though, was the plight of the South Georgia Pipit (Anthus antarcticus), the world's most southerly songbird; and a duck - the South Georgia Pintail (Anas georgica georgica). These two land birds live nowhere else on the planet.\n\nThe good news is that their numbers are already bouncing back in the absence of the rats.\n\nMore than 300 tonnes of poison bait were spread across the island\n\nOne can never say never, but the chances of a rodent being alive on South Georgia today are very, very slim.\n\nDickie Hall, the director of the restoration project, paid tribute to his team.\n\nOver the past six months, the group monitored more than 1,500 sites. And in their search for any hangers-on, the three detection dogs in the party walked an extraordinary combined total of 2,420km.\n\n\"Dogs have an incredible sense of smell,\" Mr Hall said. \"They can detect rodent scent from several metres, or even tens of metres if conditions are right. So by walking through a piece of habitat, we can be very confident with these dogs of finding rodents if there are any present.\"\n\nSniffer dogs took part in the survey - they picked up no scents\n\nAlison Neil, the chief executive of the Dundee-based SGHT, also lauded those who worked in the field. In addition, she thanked the trust's many financial donors, including the tourists who go to the island.\n\n\"We get something like 9,000 of them a year on South Georgia. They all really contributed and we actually raised about £200,000 a season from the cruise ship passengers.\"\n\nOrdinarily, extermination on the scale seen in South Georgia would be very difficult to achieve - but for one factor. The sub-Antarctic island is covered by numerous glaciers and these effectively divided up the territory into convenient killing zones.\n\nWith rodents unwilling to cross ice fields, the project team knew it could clear areas and have confidence they would not be re-infested from places yet to be baited.\n\nGlaciers have blocked the spread of rodents, but these ice fields are now in rapid retreat\n\nAll this is knowledge that bears down heavily now on the future.\n\nClimate change has put the glaciers into rapid retreat. When this ice is gone, it will be much more difficult to tackle any future invasion - maybe even impossible.\n\nA big responsibility rests on current biosecurity protocols. Already, tourist ships are not allowed to dock in port; passengers come ashore on inflatables after inspection of their clothing and bags.\n\nGovernment and navy vessels that are permitted to tie up have had their cargo baited and fumigated. Sweeping ships with rat-detecting dogs is also being trialled.\n\n\"Invasive non-native species continue to be one of the biggest environmental threats to biodiversity,\" said Lord Gardiner, a minister at the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra). \"As the minister responsible for biosecurity, it's absolutely essential that all of this work is not put in jeopardy by one loose connection,\" he told BBC News.\n\nAnd Prof Richardson added: \"Even one pregnant rat getting back on to South Georgia could restart this whole cycle.\"\n\nSouth Georgia is where huge numbers of seabirds come to nest\n\nJonathan.Amos-INTERNET@bbc.co.uk and follow me on Twitter: @BBCAmos", "Drug users in Scotland consume the most cocaine in a single session, according to a worldwide survey of drug-taking habits.\n\nThe 2018 Global Drug Survey looked at the recreational drug use of 130,000 people across 44 countries.\n\nIn Scotland the amount of the drug consumed per session was more than double the global average.\n\nResearchers, who quizzed 15,000 cocaine users, said the drug can be delivered \"more quickly than a pizza\" in Glasgow.\n\nThe survey, which is self-selecting and conducted anonymously, found 36.7% of users in the city reported delivery of the drug \"within 30 minutes\".\n\nFor users in England that figure rises slightly to 36.8% - placing them fifth in the world rankings.\n\nScots were found on average to consume 1.2g of cocaine in a single session, signifcantly higher than both the figure in England (0.7g) and the worldwide average (0.5g).\n\nSome drugs experts have suggested cocaine in Scotland might be less pure.\n\nScotland also fared badly in the survey when it came to problem drinking\n\nThe survey also looked at alcohol use, and found Scotland had the highest proportion of respondents (4.2%) who sought emergency medical care after a drinking session.\n\nThe report said: \"This is double the level of English drinkers seeking medical treatment after drinking (2.1%), highlighting how entrenched a problem drinking is north of the border.\"\n\nProf Adam Winstock, consultant psychiatrist and addiction medicine specialist, and founder of the survey, said: \"The 2018 Global Drug Survey highlights how much more work there is to do with alcohol messaging in the UK.\n\n\"It is clear that the link between alcohol consumption and increased cancer risk is a message that is still not reaching UK drinkers and where it does, many chose to react to the message with scepticism.\n\nHe said the regularity of people ending up in accident and emergency departments was \"truly alarming\".\n\nProf Winstock added: \"That both England and Scotland are in the top five global nations needing emergency treatment after alcohol consumption is truly concerning.\n\n\"This is another finding that shows how much more work is required to drive home the message of responsible drinking.\"\n\nKaty MacLeod of Scottish Drugs Forum said the true weight of a drug sold as a \"gram\" can vary and seems to be lower in Scotland than elsewhere.\n\nShe said: \"The low purity of cocaine supplied in Scotland suggests that bulking agents have been used to dilute the drug and so the same weight in Scotland will have less cocaine than in other countries.\n\n\"Using with alcohol may mean that people are using cocaine to allow them to keep drinking alcohol and so it is alcohol that is driving this behaviour.\n\n\"Mixing alcohol with other drugs adds to the potential for harm to users and others.\"", "Former Labour leader Ed Miliband made an impassioned plea for the government to implement part two of the Leveson inquiry into press standards.\n\nMPs must keep their promise to victims of phone-hacking, he said, adding: \"This is a matter of honour.\"\n\nBut his amendment to the Data Protection Bill was defeated by nine votes.", "Some ethnic minority alcohol support services have seen an increase in inquiries following a BBC survey suggesting that, despite Sikhism forbidding drinking, 27% of UK Sikhs had a family member with a problem.\n\nThey reported a rise in contacts from both alcoholics and volunteers.\n\nNottingham's Bac-In has seen an almost sixfold increase in website hits.\n\nAnd UK Punjabi services the First Step Foundation and the Shanti Project have also seen an increase in interest.\n\nSohan Sahota, of Bac-In said: \"Average website hits are around 2,000 a month. We've had over 11,500 hits since the article.\"\n\nJaz Rai, director of the First Step Foundation, which works with UK Punjabis across England, said it had doubled the size of its weekly support group and was planning a women-only meeting to address the increased demand.\n\nThe Shanti Project, which works to provide culturally appropriate services for the Punjabi community in Birmingham, has also seen an increase.\n\nTina, a British Punjabi mother-of-two, contacted the BBC after reading its coverage of the issue.\n\nThe reports resonated very strongly with her own experiences, she said.\n\nHer husband - a heavy drinker - had been emotionally abusive towards her, Tina said, trying to convince her that she was going mad, and taking out loans in her name to finance his drinking after losing his job as a plumber.\n\n\"There's so much going on in Asian families that no-one addresses,\" she said. \"I just want our culture to open up.\n\n\"People need to wake up and realise that alcohol is poison,\" she said. \"I don't want my kids to go through what I went through. I don't want my daughter to think that it's normal.\"\n\nSharing stories about addiction can play a key role in the path to recovery, according to Alcoholics Anonymous.\n\nRecovering alcoholic Sanjay Bhandari told the BBC: \"The thing that resonated most with me was to hear other people's stories.\n\n\"What they experienced, what it was like, and how things got better gave me hope and inspiration, 'Well I can do that.'\"\n\nThe BBC's coverage sparked a discussion on social media, involving Sikh MPs, support services, and people directly affected by the issue.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi 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\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Manveer Singh This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nTalking about the issue openly was a good first step towards challenging cultural norms and tackling the problem head on, said Jasvir Singh, on BBC Radio 4's Thought for the Day programme.\n\n\"To overcome any fear of shame, it's important to look at alcohol misuse as a health condition and treat it with empathy and understanding rather than condemnation and judgement of the person or their family.\"\n\nTina's name has been changed.\n\nIf you have been affected by any of the issues discussed in this article, please see the resources listed on BBC Action Line.\n\nCorrection: This story originally said a BBC survey had suggested 27% of UK Punjabis had a family member with a drinking problem. This has been amended to reflect the fact this figure relates only to British Sikhs.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"It was a nightmare, it wasn’t safe enough to drive\"\n\nBMW is extending a UK recall of its cars after the BBC's Watchdog found that vehicles could cut out completely while they are being driven.\n\nIt is recalling 312,000 vehicles: the BMW 1 Series, the 3 Series, the Z4 and its X1 petrol and diesel models made between March 2007 and August 2011.\n\nIt said it now recognised there may have been similar problems in cars not covered by the first recall.\n\nThe German carmaker initially recalled cars in the UK after Narayan Gurung, who was travelling with his wife on Christmas Day in 2016, died when their Ford Fiesta crashed into a tree to avoid a broken-down BMW in Guildford, Surrey.\n\nThe BMW had suffered an electrical fault, causing its brake lights to fail and resulting in the vehicle stalling on a dark A-road.\n\nAn investigation by Watchdog has found that the fault could affect a wider number of cars.\n\nNarayan Gurung was killed on Christmas Day in 2016 when his car swerved to avoid a stalled BMW\n\nOne BMW owner, Mwape Kambafwile, told the BBC how his BMW 3 Series car had cut out completely while he was driving in December 2016.\n\n\"I just thought to myself if I was driving on the motorway with my family in the car, that could have been very dangerous,\" he said.\n\nMr Kambafwile said he took his car to BMW who called the next day to say that they had found the fault, which looked like \"the cable had burnt out and no current was passing through the fuse box\".\n\nBMW allowed Mr Kambafwile to take the car home without any warning not to use it, he said.\n\nHe refused to drive the car and was furious to later discover that petrol versions of the same vehicle had been recalled for the same fault.\n\nIt recently emerged that BMW had failed to tell the UK's Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency about the electrical fault in some of its cars that led to the death of Mr Gurung.\n\nBMW said it had worked with the DVSA and rejected suggestions it had ignored instructions or provided incorrect information.\n\nAn inquest revealed that the carmaker had received complaints of an electrical issue that caused a total power failure as early as 2011.\n\nBMW recalled 500,000 cars in the US in 2013, as well as in Australia, Canada and South Africa.\n\nCommenting on Watchdog's investigation, BMW said: \"We now recognise that there may have been some cases of similar power supply issues in vehicles not covered by the original recall.\n\n\"In order to reassure customers with concerns about the safety of their vehicles, we are voluntarily extending the recall.\n\n\"We are therefore announcing today that we will take the proactive step of expanding the existing UK recall to cover all vehicles potentially affected by the power supply issue.\"\n\nBMW said that it will open a customers' complaints line and will contact affected owners directly.\n\nWatch Watchdog at 8pm tonight on BBC One", "London can offer top universities, museums and culture, despite the \"eye-watering\" cost of living\n\nLondon has been ranked as the best city in the world for university students.\n\nThe top 30 rankings for student cities, produced by the QS higher education data analysts, has previously put Montreal and Paris in first place.\n\nThe ratings are based on factors such as the number of top universities in a city, the local jobs market, the diversity of the culture and the quality of life.\n\nBut London ranked poorly on one of the measures - affordability.\n\nThe ranking of university cities, rather than the quality of institutions, is produced by the QS higher education group, which publishes the annual World University Rankings.\n\nThe comparisons, which include a survey of the views of 50,000 students, are an attempt to quantify some of the attractions and disadvantages of cities for students.\n\nFor students in London there is a higher concentration of world-class institutions than in any other city, including Imperial College, University College London, the London School of Economics and King's College.\n\nStudents also have access to the cultural life of museums, theatres, cinemas and restaurants.\n\nStudents put a high value on cities feeling \"welcoming\", says a survey of prospective applicants\n\nIt is also seen as a good place to connect with employers and get a job.\n\nLondon achieved a high rating for being a very international city, with high levels of tolerance and diversity, so that overseas students would not feel isolated or excluded.\n\nBut when it comes to cost of living and affordability, London does badly, being seen as expensive and difficult for student budgets.\n\nBen Sowter, research director at QS, says the results show that London \"remains a great place to study, despite eye-watering costs\".\n\nIn second place is Tokyo in Japan, which does very well in terms of the \"desirability\" of the city. This measures factors such as safety, pollution and quality of living.\n\nAcross all cities, Toronto in Canada is rated highest for this desirability, ahead of Tokyo and Amsterdam.\n\nTokyo scored highly for being seen as a \"desirable\" city to live in\n\nAustralia has been pushing for a growing slice of the international market in overseas students and Melbourne is ranked as the third best city for students and Sydney is ninth.\n\nBoth the Australian cities perform highly in being outward looking and allowing students to mix, with Canadian and New Zealand institutions scoring highly on this measure.\n\nIn the academic World University Rankings, US universities dominate, taking all four of the top places in a league table headed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.\n\nBut there are no US cities in the top 10 student cities, compared with two in Germany, Berlin and Munich. And there are only two US cities in the top 30, Boston and New York.\n\nParis, which for several years was the top-rated city, has been ranked fifth.\n\nMelbourne scored highly for being an open city with a good quality of life\n\nIn terms of the most affordable student cities, Budapest in Hungary is rated top, followed by Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia.\n\nA separate annual study, published this week by another part of the QS group, says the two top factors for overseas students were the perceived quality of teaching and whether university locations were seen as \"welcoming\".\n\nThe International Student Survey, based on 67,000 prospective applicants, also warns that 39% of EU students thought that Brexit \"has made me less interested in studying in the UK\".\n\nThey feared that Brexit would make UK universities more expensive and \"less welcoming\" to students from EU countries.\n\nLondon's success in the rankings is likely to raise the long-running debate about the UK's attitude towards overseas students and visa requirements.\n\nA study earlier this year from the Higher Education Policy Institute found international students were worth £20bn per year to the UK economy.\n\nLondon alone gains £4.6bn, said the analysis - with Sheffield the biggest beneficiary in proportion to the size of its local economy.\n\nThe think tank said the findings supported calls to remove international students from immigration targets.\n\nThe Home Office has argued that there is no limit on the numbers of legitimate students.\n\nThe editor of Global education is sean.coughlan@bbc.co.uk", "Cancer patients are being put at risk by immigration rules, say specialist doctors.\n\nNHS hospital trusts are struggling to recruit genetic counsellors, who identify people at risk of hereditary cancer and other serious conditions.\n\nSome hospitals rely on foreign workers, who now find it difficult to get visas as immigration rules have tightened.\n\nThe Home Office said priority was given to people working in occupations with shortages.\n\nSteph Burcher, a genetic counsellor from New Zealand, has been working at an NHS trust in London for the past two years.\n\nHaving arrived on a young person's working visa which was about to run out, she applied for a sponsored work visa in order to stay.\n\nLast month, she was refused the document and has now moved back to New Zealand, with the option to reapply each month.\n\nShe said: \"It was really disappointing to get confirmation. I really enjoy my job and would like to continue doing it but unfortunately I can't without a visa.\n\n\"I'm aware of a lot of NHS workers who are struggling to get their visas at the moment. There's a lot of uncertainty.\n\n\"It's really difficult for my employers. At the moment they've said they will hold the job open for me but I can't expect them to do that indefinitely.\n\n\"It has a huge impact on my team members - we're already two members of the team down, so they're already operating at capacity and really struggling with the workload.\"\n\nMs Burcher added: \"It's having a huge impact on our patients as well. There are already huge waitlists for them and it's only going to get worse.\"\n\nForeign workers who are offered a job in the UK have to apply for a tier 2 visa. These are granted up to a monthly limit, with priority given to applicants in a \"shortage occupation\" like nursing and those earning high salaries.\n\nCancer specialists are now calling for genetic counselling to be placed on the shortage occupation list, to increase the chances of rota gaps being filled.\n\nDr Katie Snape, a consultant cancer geneticist, told the BBC some patients were now waiting months for outpatient appointments, outside the NHS's 18-week target to be seen.\n\nShe said: \"There is a nationwide shortage of genetic counsellors at the moment. We have advertised posts and been unable to appoint either UK or EU-trained genetic counsellors into those positions.\n\nGenetic analysis can give an early warning of who is at risk of cancer\n\n\"The problem has now been compounded because we have highly skilled professionals from other countries that are unable to get work visas, effectively because they don't earn enough money to get the points needed for the visa.\n\nDr Snape said there was no doubt waits were getting longer. \"It varies depending on hospital trust and where you are in the UK. People can wait now six, nine, 12 months, and we know of even longer in some cases.\n\n\"It's absolutely devastating when someone gets a diagnosis of an advanced and incurable cancer. We absolutely know that assessing genetic risk can enable us to early-detect and prevent and cure cancers.\n\n\"So the fact that we are unable to provide safe genetic cancer services in this country I think is awful.\"\n\nThe impact of these delays could have a profound effect on patients, according to Prof Jayant Vaidya, a leading breast cancer surgeon.\n\nHe said: \"This is important for cancer, because in a small proportion of breast cancers, women can be identified as being predisposed to developing cancer.\n\n\"If they can be given preventative treatment, they have a much better outcome than if they develop the cancer later on, and that's why it's so important to identify such women and give treatment, in which case they can be cured.\"\n\nA spokesperson for the Home Office said: \"The shortage occupation list is set following advice from the independent Migration Advisory Committee and kept under regular review.\n\n\"It is important that our immigration system works in the national interest, ensuring that employers look first to the UK resident labour market before recruiting from overseas.\n\n\"When demand exceeds the monthly available allocation of tier 2 (general) places, priority is given to applicants filling a shortage or PhD-level occupations.\"\n\nHealth and Social Care Secretary Jeremy Hunt told the Health Service Journal he supported the idea of a dedicated visa category for health and social care workers - which would enable more to come into the UK.\n\nHe said: \"I think it is a really interesting idea. And it's something I should probably raise with the new home secretary.\"", "Sophie Lionnet's body was found on a bonfire in her employers' garden in September 2017\n\nThe trial over the alleged torture and murder of a nanny by her employers is \"stranger than fiction\", a jury heard.\n\nProsecutor Richard Howell QC told the Old Bailey Sabrina Kouider and Ouissem Medouni treated French national Sophie Lionnet as \"less than human\".\n\nThe couple blame each other for killing Ms Lionnet, whose body was burnt in the garden of their Wimbledon flat.\n\nThe pair admit perverting the course of justice by disposing of the 21-year-old's body but deny murder.\n\nIn his summing up speech, Mr Howell said the accused were driven by a \"preposterous\" obsession with Ms Kouider's ex-boyfriend, and former Boyzone pop star, Mark Walton.\n\n\"Of all the cases this historic building has heard, this must without hesitation enter the category of the more bizarre,\" Mr Howell said.\n\n\"Expressions such as 'you really could not make it up' and 'truth is stranger than fiction' come readily to mind.\n\n\"The defendants made a truly odd couple. There is a unique bond between them that has kept them together on and off for many years, a bond based partly in love and something close to it.\n\n\"But, as far as this trial is concerned, the point that really matters is that together they were a truly toxic combination.\"\n\nOuissem Medouni and Sabrina Kouider deny murder but admit perverting the course of justice\n\nDuring the trial, Ms Kouider, 35, and Mr Medouni, 40, were accused of torturing Ms Lionnet in the lead-up to her death.\n\nMr Horwell said they regarded \"submissive\" Miss Lionnet as \"expendable\" and killed her out of \"revenge and punishment\".\n\nMr Walton, a founder member of Boyzone, was praised by Mr Horwell for his \"integrity and honesty\" in giving evidence to the court.\n\nHe added: \"Walton is a wealthy man - and good luck to him for that - but it is of course a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune will often be parted from it.\"", "One of the three men who have been reportedly relocated, Kim Dong-chul, was sentenced to 10 years' hard labour after appearing before the media to confess in March 2016\n\nThree Americans detained in North Korea are on their way home after being released in what is likely to be a goodwill gesture ahead of unprecedented talks between the leaders of US and North Korea.\n\nUS President Donald Trump tweeted: \"I am pleased to inform you that Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is in the air and on his way back from North Korea with the 3 wonderful gentlemen that everyone is looking so forward to meeting.\"\n\nTheir release came after a meeting between Mr Pompeo and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un.\n\nA White House statement said the three men appeared to be in good health and were able to walk on to their plane unassisted.\n\nThe only other US prisoner to be released by North Korea under Donald Trump's presidency was university student Otto Warmbier, who returned to the US in a coma and died days later.\n\nTwo of the newly released detainees were jailed in 2017, after Mr Trump became president. Here is what we know about the three men.\n\nKim Hak-song worked at the Pyongyang University of Science and Technology (PUST) and was held on suspicion of \"hostile acts\" on 6 May 2017. He was reportedly detained while in Pyongyang Station.\n\nThe university, which mostly teaches the children of North Korea's elite, was founded in 2010 by a Korean-American Christian entrepreneur, with much of the costs funded by US and South Korea Christian charities.\n\nSeveral foreign lecturers are thought to teach there.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un: From enemies to frenemies\n\nKim Hak-song had previously described himself as a Christian missionary who intended to start an experimental farm at PUST, Reuters news agency reported, citing an online post by Mr Kim.\n\nHe is, reports say, an ethnic Korean born just across the North Korean border in China who emigrated to the US in the 1990s. He is said to have gone on to study agriculture in Yanbian, a Chinese prefecture which borders North Korea, before moving to Pyongyang.\n\nTwo weeks before Kim Hak-song was arrested, Kim Sang-duk - also known as Tony Kim - was detained on espionage charges.\n\nHe was trying to leave the country after spending a month working at PUST. South Korean media said he was 55 and had been involved in humanitarian work in the North.\n\n\"Some officials at PUST told me his arrest was not related to his work at PUST,\" the chancellor of the university, Chan-Mo Park, told Reuters news agency.\n\n\"He had been involved with some other activities outside PUST, such as helping an orphanage.\"\n\nMr Kim studied accounting at two American universities and had worked as an accountant in the US for more than a decade, his Facebook page says.\n\nHe had also taught in Yanbian.\n\nA South Korea-born US citizen, Kim Dong-chul is a pastor in his early 60s.\n\nHe was detained in 2015 on spying charges and sentenced to 10 years' hard labour in 2016.\n\nBefore his trial, he was presented at a government-arranged press conference, where he apparently confessed to stealing military secrets in collusion with South Korea - a claim rejected by Seoul.\n\nIn an interview with CNN in January 2016, Mr Kim said he lived in Fairfax, Virginia.\n\nHe said he used to run a trading and hotel services company in Rason, a special economic zone near the border zone in north-east North Korea.\n\nHe told CNN he had left a wife and two daughters behind in China, but had had no contact with them since his detention.", "The lead singer of indie band Frightened Rabbit has been reported missing amid concerns for his welfare.\n\nScott Hutchison, 36, has not been seen since he left the Dakota Hotel in South Queensferry at 01:00 on Wednesday.\n\nThe musician, originally from Selkirk in the Scottish Borders but currently based in Glasgow's Dennistoun, is now believed to be in Edinburgh.\n\nHis family reported him missing and police in the city are appealing for information on his whereabouts.\n\nHis brother and bandmate Grant posted an appeal on Instagram saying the police had Scott's phone but gave no further details.\n\nHe wrote: \"Has anyone seen my brother/bandmate/best friend? He's in a very fragile state and has been missing since last night and we're all incredibly worried. He was in a hotel in South Queensferry and hasn't been seen or heard from since 1am.\n\n\"Please repost and share and get in touch with me @grabbit if you have any info. His phone is with the police. If somehow you are reading this Scott then can you just let someone know you are safe please? We love you very much. Grant x\"\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 grabbit This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nA message on the band's official Twitter page read: \"We are worried about Scott, who has been missing for a little while now. He may be in a fragile state and may not be making the best decisions for himself right now.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Frightened Rabbit This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 comes after \"worrying\" tweets were sent by Scott shortly before he was last seen.\n\nAt about 23:00 on Tuesday he wrote: \"Be so good to everyone you love. It's not a given. I'm so annoyed that it's not. I didn't live by that standard and it kills me. Please, hug your loved ones.\"\n\nMinutes later he added: \"I'm away now. Thanks.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Scott Hutchison This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by Scott Hutchison This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 tweets received messages of support for Scott, including one from Edith Bowman, who wrote: \"You ok fella? Sending love and a shoulder if you need it.\"\n\nScott Hutchison was last seen after visiting the Dakota Hotel in South Queensferry\n\nInsp Graeme Dignan said: \"We are keen to locate Scott as soon as possible to ensure he is safe and well and would urge anyone who can assist with our ongoing inquiries to come forward.\n\n\"If you believe you have seen him since the early hours of Wednesday morning or know where he currently is, then please contact police immediately.\n\n\"I'd also urge Scott to get in touch with family, friends or with police, to let us know he is alright.\"\n\nCCTV shows Scott at the Dakota Hotel, where he visited before he disappeared.\n\nHe is described as white, 6ft tall with a stocky build, dark hair and a thick beard.\n\nHe was last seen wearing a dark baseball cap, navy blue hooded jacket, grey or khaki trousers and white trainers.\n\nFrightened Rabbit was originally formed with Scott on vocals and guitar and brother Grant on drums.\n\nThe lineup changed with the addition of Billy Kennedy, Andy Monaghan, Simon Liddell and former band member Gordon Skene, who left in 2014 after five years.\n\nThey released their debut album Sing the Greys in 2006, and went on to release four more albums.\n\nScott and Grant had recently formed a new band called Mastersystem, joining forces with Justin and James Lockey from Editors and Minor Victories.\n\nTheir debut album, Dance Music, was released last month.\n\nScott had also hinted at a sixth Frightened Rabbit album being released before the end of the year, saying they had five or six songs that were coming together.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A fired-up Ed Miliband called for a promised press inquiry to be carried out\n\nMinisters have seen off a bid to force them to implement a second stage of the Leveson inquiry into press standards.\n\nDespite an impassioned speech by former Labour leader Ed Miliband, the government won by 304 votes to 295.\n\nCulture Secretary Matt Hancock, who promised a \"press standards\" review in Northern Ireland before the vote, said it was a \"great day\" for a free press.\n\nDUP MP Ian Paisley called it a \"Leveson for Northern Ireland\" and the nine DUP MPs who voted backed the government.\n\nNorthern Ireland was not covered by the original Leveson inquiry in 2012.\n\nHacked Off, which has been campaigning for statutory regulation of the press since the phone-hacking scandal, insisted the vote \"was not the end\" and the \"fight goes on in Parliament and the courts\".\n\nBut the News Media Association, which represents local and national newspapers, said the freedom of the press had won the day in the face of \"dangerous anti-media\" proposals.\n\nMr Miliband moved the amendment to the Data Protection Bill, which was backed by the SNP, and would have meant a new inquiry into press standards.\n\nFive Conservative rebels voted with Labour - Crispin Blunt, Peter Bone, Ken Clarke, Dominic Grieve and Philip Hollobone - and one Labour MP, John Grogan, voted with the government.\n\nBut the votes of nine DUP MPs were crucial for the government.\n\nMr Miliband told ministers that their decision to axe Leveson had been \"contemptible\" and it was a \"matter of honour about the promises we made\" to the victims of phone hacking, saying the then Prime Minister David Cameron had pledged in 2012 to launch the second part of the inquiry.\n\nA second amendment to the Data Protection Bill which would have required publishers not signed up to a state-approved regulator to pay their own and their opponent's legal costs in relation to alleged data breaches was dropped after the SNP withdrew its support.\n\nThe requirement to pay costs - which was due to have been tabled by Labour deputy leader, Tom Watson - would have stood even if the publisher won.\n\nCulture Secretary Matt Hancock said it would have made it \"near impossible\" to uncover stories of abuse as he highlighted the work of The Times' chief investigative reporter Andrew Norfolk, who uncovered the Rotherham child abuse scandal.\n\nMr Hancock says the press has cleaned up its act since the Leveson report was published and it would harm press freedom to re-open it - and it would have had a \"catastrophic\" impact on local newspapers.\n\nThe government tabled a series of amendments in a bid to avoid Commons defeats, with one allowing the Information Commissioner's Office to give advice on how to seek redress in cases of complaints against the press.\n\nMr Hancock also said Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary would be undertaking a review of how police forces were adhering to new media relations guidance, as recommended by Sir Brian Leveson.\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\nHe added a person would also be responsible for reviewing press standards in Northern Ireland, which were not covered by the original Leveson 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 3 by Stormont Tweets This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 Department of Digital, Culture, Media and Sport later clarified that this would form part of its proposed UK-wide review of journalists' compliance with the new data protection regulations, to be undertaken by the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) in four years time.\n\n\"Within this ICO review, or aligned to it, we will make sure there is an independent named reviewer for Northern Ireland,\" a spokesman said.\n\nThe newspaper industry was united in its opposition to a second phase to the inquiry. But Sir Brian Leveson has said he \"fundamentally disagrees\" with claims changes to the media landscape meant it was unnecessary.\n\nIn a letter to ministers in February, he said the \"full truth\" about the extent of unlawful behaviour at tabloid newspapers had yet to be exposed.", "England fans were targeted by Russian supporters at a Euro 2016 match in Marseilles\n\nRussian authorities have given their \"assurance\" fans will be safe from violence at the World Cup finals.\n\nOfficials have a \"blacklist\" of known hooligans and have banned anyone responsible for trouble at Euro 2016 from attending, the Foreign Affairs Committee heard.\n\nForeign Office minister Harriett Baldwin was responding to concerns of other MPs.\n\nAbout 10,000 England fans are expected to travel to Russia in June.\n\nThere were violent clashes when Russian fans charged England supporters in the stadium when the two countries played each other in Marseille at Euro 2016.\n\nTrouble was also reported in the city's streets between England, Russia and France fans.\n\nFights involving football fans also broke out in the streets of Marseille\n\nMs Baldwin told the committee that Russia was \"responsible\" for running a safe World Cup in June and had given its \"assurances\" to Fifa and the UK government.\n\nShe said the threat of hooliganism had been a focus of two years of planning ahead of the event.\n\nThe deployment of police officers who will be based in the country during the tournament was \"at least as large as any other country\" and co-operation with Russian authorities was \"strong\", Ms Baldwin said.\n\nConservative MP Priti Patel questioned the minister about whether she was concerned there would be a repeat of the violence against England fans in Marseille.\n\nHarriet Baldwin said she had been given \"assurances\" by Russian officials\n\nMs Baldwin said it had been a \"specific focus\" of authorities and she welcomed the banning of hooligans.\n\nShe said: \"I think this is an area where the police co-operation has been extensive but clearly as with any football event this is a risk that does need to be closely worked on and the risk of violence needs to be mitigated.\"\n\nAsked if there were particular groups England fans should be aware of, Ms Baldwin said there is a \"blacklist of known troublemakers\" numbering about 1,800 people.\n\nThe committee also heard that a \"mobile embassy\" will tour the cities hosting England games to assist fans.\n\nShe said the Foreign Office's preparations had been affected by the expulsion of 23 UK diplomats from Russia in the wake of the poisoning of Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia in Salisbury in March.\n\nBut Ms Baldwin said her department had adapted to meet the challenge.\n\nCommittee chairman Tom Tugendhat questioned the advice that fans from LGBT communities should exercise caution, and he suggested they could not rely on the assurances that Russian police would protect them.\n\nHe said: \"We are not talking about fans being a little bit cautious, we're talking about fans realising that the police force there may not be on their side.\n\n\"That the law enforcement authorities may actually be working against them and that the state that they would expect to turn to in terms of protection may be the organisation that is going to repress them the harshest.\"\n\nMs Baldwin said she \"accepts\" Mr Tugendhat's comments but there had been \"assurances\".\n\nShe urged fans to check the Foreign Office's dedicated website as well as the general travel advice for Russia before making their decision whether to travel.", "The UK government has reached a settlement with former Libyan dissident Abdul Hakim Belhaj over a long-running rendition case, the BBC understands.\n\nMr Belhaj claims MI6 helped the US kidnap him in Thailand in 2004 to return him and his wife to Libya, where he says he was tortured.\n\nThe attorney general will make a statement in Parliament on Thursday.\n\nThe settlement terms are unknown but Mr Belhaj, 52, has previously demanded an apology and a token £1 in damages.\n\nA leading opponent of the then Libyan leader Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, Mr Belhaj says he was abducted in Bangkok - along with his pregnant wife, Fatima Boudchar - while attempting to fly to London to claim UK asylum.\n\nMr Belhaj claims MI6 provided key intelligence in 2004 on his movements which ultimately led to the capture and rendition of him and his wife by the US to Libya.\n\nRendition is the process of sending a suspect for interrogation in another country where torture may be practised.\n\nNow a politician in Libya, Mr Belhaj spent six years in prison upon his return to the country and Moroccan-born Ms Boudchar was released shortly before giving birth.\n\nHuman rights charity Reprieve says Ms Boudchar and her son will be in Parliament for Thursday's statement.\n\nAbdul Hakim Belhaj led an Islamic fighting group against the Libyan government\n\nMr Belhaj was born in 1966 in the Souq al-Jumaa area of Tripoli and studied at al-Fateh University, where press reports say he earned a civil engineering degree.\n\nHe became an opponent of Libyan leader Col Muammar Gaddafi and commanded the now defunct Libyan Islamic Fighting Group which staged a low-level insurgency war and three times attempted to assassinate Col Gaddafi.\n\nHe fled the country in 2001 but was arrested three years later in Thailand and was returned to Libya by, he says, the CIA.\n\nHe then spent six years in prison where he says he was tortured regularly.\n\nMr Belhaj is now a politician in Libya.\n\nOnce regarded by Western intelligence services as a terrorism suspect, Mr Belhaj alleges he was tortured by his Libyan jailers and questioned by British intelligence officers during his detention.\n\nFormer foreign secretary Jack Straw, who was responsible for MI6 at the time, has denied he was aware of the rendition of Mr Belhaj.", "Helicopter shots of a police raid on Sir Cliff Richard's home in 2014 were used sparingly and nothing private was broadcast, lawyers for the BBC have told the High Court.\n\nSir Cliff is suing the BBC over the misuse of private information and breaking data protection rules.\n\nGavin Millar QC, for the BBC, said shots were focused on what the police were doing, not the singer's home.\n\nMr Justice Mann reserved his judgement and will hand it down \"in due course\".\n\nFootage of a search of the singer's flat in Sunningdale, Berkshire, was broadcast in August 2014 as part of a report on South Yorkshire Police's sexual assault inquiry into the singer.\n\nSir Cliff was not arrested or charged.\n\nThe 77-year-old singer says broadcasting the images of the search of his home was a \"very serious invasion\" of privacy, but the BBC says the story was in the public interest.\n\nIn his final submissions, Mr Millar said shots had been taken from the air to illustrate the story.\n\n\"Officers were shown walking in and out,\" Mr Millar told Mr Justice Mann.\n\n\"It was not directed at (Sir Cliff's) home but directed at what the police officers were doing.\n\n\"They didn't show anything private in the sense of his private life.\"\n\nHe said the singer must accept \"some reduction in his private life\" as the singer had \"used that status to give his opinions on moral and religious issues in interviews\".\n\nSouth Yorkshire Police conducted the search of Sir Cliff's flat while investigating an allegation the singer sexually assaulted a boy under the age of 16 in Sheffield in 1985.\n\nSir Cliff denied the allegation and in June 2016 it was announced he would not face any charges.\n\nA BBC spokesman has said the BBC reported Sir Cliff's \"full denial of the allegations at every stage\".", "The growing use of streamed TV services has encouraged users to seek out faster speeds\n\nThere has been a marked improvement in home broadband, according to an annual survey by the UK's communications watchdog Ofcom.\n\nIt said that average fixed-line download speeds rose by 28% over the year to 46.2 megabits per second, while uploads gained by 44% to 6.2 Mbps.\n\nIt added that the typical household now consumed 190 gigabytes of data a month, in large part due to the use of Netflix and other streamed TV services.\n\nBut rural consumers still lag behind.\n\nThe regulator said the primary reasons for the discrepancy were less availability and reduced take-up of cable and fibre services in the countryside.\n\nLater this month, internet service providers will be obliged to quote average peak-time speeds in their adverts and other promotional materials, rather than the \"up to\" figures that have been more common.\n\nThe report's numbers were generated by installing speed-testing boxes at about 4,700 volunteers' properties in November.\n\nOfcom has also broken down its results by nation, revealing that England had the fastest speeds while Wales had the slowest:\n\nThe watchdog highlighted that many households could improve their speeds at no extra cost by asking to be switched to fibre where it was available.\n\nIt noted that 93% of UK properties now had access to superfast services but said that about 40% still subscribed to a copper-based \"standard\" ADSL (asymmetric digital subscriber line) package.\n\nThe report also highlighted that Virgin Media - the UK's biggest cable provider - had made improvements, particularly over the peak evening period.\n\nOfcom ascribed this to an investment in additional network capacity, although the Thinkbroadband news site noted that a critical BBC Watchdog investigation was likely to have spurred matters on.\n\nVirgin's \"up to 200 Mbps\" package was singled out for delivering the fastest measured download speeds, averaging 193.6 Mbps over a 24-hour period.\n\nBut Ofcom noted that the firm had launched an even faster 300 Mbps deal in 2017. However, too few of its volunteers had subscribed to generate a report.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Stephen Heaney pictured on the morning of the Belfast Marathon\n\nA runner from Limavady who died after collapsing during the Belfast marathon has been named.\n\nStephen Heaney, 50, collapsed at the Sydenham bypass, five miles into the race.\n\nThe event's organisers said two ambulances were quickly at the scene to take the man to the Royal Victoria Hospital.\n\nIt's understood it was his first marathon, although he was a regular runner.\n\nAbout 17,000 people took part in Monday's Belfast Marathon\n\nMr Heaney was among 17,000 runners taking part in the 37th annual Belfast City Marathon.\n\nFormer Belfast Lord Mayor Alderman Brian Kingston told the BBC that the runner's death was \"terrible news\".\n\n\"It's a day all about fitness, achievement, about people wanting to push themselves that bit extra, to achieve a great physical feat,\" he said.\n\n\"That a man has died is the worst possible news.\"\n\nHe said a fatality was \"a rare event\" and had not happened at the Belfast marathon for nearly 30 years.\n\n\"This very much overshadows everything that has happened on the day and everyone will want to convey condolences to the family,\" he said.\n\nPulse Fitness in Limavady posted a tribute on Facebook on the day of the marathon stating: \"Our day started with so much excitement but unfortunately ended with broken hearts.\n\n\"Today we lost our special friend, who will always be remembered forever. RIP Stephen.\"\n\nDUP councillor Alan Robinson said: \"The Limavady community is stunned at the dreadful news that began to filter through yesterday.\n\n\"The gentleman was well known and from a well respected family circle.\n\n\"Obviously the entire community's heart goes out to his family and his friends as they deal with this sudden and tragic loss.\"", "Ireland's Ryan O'Shaughnessy reached the Britain's Got Talent final in 2012\n\nIreland will take part in the Eurovision Song Contest final for the first time since 2013 after making it through the first semi-final in Lisbon.\n\nIsrael, Cyprus and Finland - featuring former X Factor semi-finalist Saara Aalto - were among the other nine countries who progressed.\n\nBut Greece and Belgium, who had been tipped to qualify for Saturday's main event, failed to make it through.\n\nA further 18 countries will take part in the second semi-final on Thursday.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Eurovision This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 UK, represented by SuRie, is automatically in Saturday's final as one of the \"Big Five\" countries. The other four are Germany, Italy, Spain and France, while hosts Portugal also automatically qualified for the final.\n\nThe acts making it through the first semi-final were:\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\nIsrael's Netta is among the favourites for the main prize after competing in the first semi-final with her track Toy, which has a powerful message of female empowerment - and a quirky chicken dance.\n\nCyprus, another country widely-tipped to win the grand final, was represented by pop star Eleni Foureira, who brought the tropical and catchy beats of her track Fuego.\n\nBorn in Albania, Eleni first established herself as one third of Greek group Mystique in 2007.\n\nCyprus' Eleni Foureira is among the favourites to win the contest\n\nThe Czech Republic's Mikolas Josef has been touted as the nation's answer to Justin Bieber. The 22-year-old's rendition of Lie To Me - a bouncy, swaggering tale of young love - has clear mainstream appeal.\n\nHe had to go to hospital after sustaining a neck injury during rehearsals.\n\nOther notable acts included Finland's Saara Aalto, who won over UK audiences during her time on The X Factor in 2016, despite losing out in that contest to Matt Terry.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Eurovision This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nRyan O'Shaughnessy represented Ireland, which has more Eurovision wins - seven - than any other country, but has not won the competition since 1996.\n\nHis song Together is about the end of a love affair and features two males dancers as the splitting couple.\n\nSome viewers may remember him for reaching the Britain's Got Talent final in 2012.\n\nSuRie said it was a dream to represent the UK at Eurovision\n\nThe fates of the semi-finalists were decided by a combination of votes from national juries and viewers.\n\nThe nine unsuccessful countries included Azerbaijan, which had previously never failed to qualify from a Eurovision Song Contest semi-final since first entering a decade ago.\n\nThe other stories to fall at the semi-final stage were Armenia, Belarus, Croatia, FYR Macedonia, Iceland and Switzerland.\n\nThe UK's hopes in the grand final at Lisbon's Altice Arena on Saturday night will rest on London-born singer SuRie, who will perform her ballad Storm.\n\nSpeaking at the first semi-final, the singer, whose real name is Susanna Marie Cork, said she was excited for Saturday, adding: \"It's such a dream.\"\n\nBulgaria also made it through to the final\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.", "Vodafone will pay €18.4bn (£16.1bn) for cable networks in Germany and eastern Europe owned by US firm Liberty Global.\n\nThe deal will allow Vodafone to expand its mobile, TV and broadband services in Hungary, Romania and Czech Republic.\n\nIt will also create a stronger \"quad play\" competitor for Deutsche Telekom in Germany.\n\nThe long-expected deal with Liberty Global, which also owns Virgin Media, is Vodafone's biggest since its £112bn takeover of Mannesmann in 2000.\n\nVodafone said the transaction, which includes Unitymedia in Germany, would create a \"converged national challenger\" in the country.\n\nDeutsche Telekom, which is Europe's biggest telecoms operator by revenue and owns T-Mobile, has voiced strong objections to the move.\n\nIts chief executive, Timotheus Höttges, said it would distort competition: \"I personally will fight for fair competition for our customers, to ensure that we do not face a disadvantage.\"\n\nHe has also questioned whether regulators would approve the tie-up.\n\nHowever, Vodafone chief executive Vittorio Colao said that deal \"creates a strong competitor to Deutsche\".\n\nVodafone already owns the largest cable business in Germany after it acquired Kabel Deutschland for €7.7bn five years ago.\n\nUnitymedia is the second-largest cable network, operating in the three of Germany's 16 states that Vodafone does not already cover.\n\nMr Colao said that there was \"no geographical overlap\" between the two businesses.\n\nMike Fries, chief executive of Liberty Global, said: \"Even together, Liberty Global and Vodafone, whose cable networks don't compete or overlap, will be half the size of the incumbent operator. It's time to alter market dynamics by unleashing greater investment and competition.\"\n\nVodafone offers only mobile services in Hungary, Romania and the Czech Republic, but buying Liberty's cable business will allow to expand into TV and broadband in those markets.\n\nAs part of the deal, the company will pay Liberty Global €10.6bn in cash, which the US business said would \"provide significant additional flexibility to optimise growth and shareholder returns\".\n\nVodafone has also agreed to a €250m break fee if the acquisition does not complete.\n\nShares in Vodafone rose 1.2% to 210.1p in morning trading in London.", "Summer Grant died when the bouncy castle blew away while she was still inside\n\nTwo fairground workers have been found guilty of manslaughter by gross negligence after a bouncy castle blew away with a young girl still inside.\n\nSummer Grant, seven, died in hospital after she was rescued from the inflatable - which bounced for 300m - in Harlow, Essex, on 26 March 2016.\n\nWilliam Thurston, 29, and his wife Shelby, 26, failed to ensure the bouncy castle was \"adequately anchored\" to the ground, the court heard.\n\nThey will be sentenced in June.\n\nThe three-week trial heard Summer only had \"a few minutes\" left of her turn on the bouncy castle, but Mrs Thurston said she decided to \"let them finish their go\" before taking the inflatable down.\n\nProsecutor Tracy Ayling QC said: \"While Summer was in the bouncy castle, it blew away from its moorings and bounced 300 metres down a hill. Having hit a tree, it came to rest.\"\n\nShe said the Thurstons, of Whitecross Road, Wilburton, Cambridgeshire, did not monitor weather conditions to ensure it was safe to use on the day.\n\nShelby and William Thurston have been found guilty of manslaughter by gross negligence\n\nMr Thurston said he was aware that Storm Katie was due to arrive two days later, but believed it was \"not hugely significant\".\n\nChelmsford Crown Court had heard the bouncy castle - called Circus Superdome - had lifted \"suddenly\" while Summer was inside.\n\nMr Thurston said he felt \"a sense of disbelief\" and \"froze for a second\" before giving chase.\n\nHe told the court how he unzipped an emergency exit on the inflatable, carried Summer out and placed her in the recovery position, describing it as \"the worst thing I'd ever seen\".\n\nSummer suffered \"multiple traumatic injuries to the head, neck and chest\" and died later in hospital.\n\nCordons were set up at the fairground at Harlow Town Park after the incident\n\nDet Ch Insp Daniel Stoten, from the Kent and Essex serious crime directorate, said the Thurstons had acted \"disgracefully\" putting up a bouncy castle in 36mph winds.\n\n\"The Thurstons held a huge responsibility to ensure the safety of the children that used their rides.\n\n\"They treated this responsibility with total disregard, putting profit before safety,\" he said.\n\n\"Summer Grant was a beautiful little girl with a beaming smile and a caring nature. Her parents Cara and Lee, her sister Lily and her wider family have suffered an unspeakable loss.\"\n\nDavid Kerr-Sheppard, the Essex Air Ambulance pilot who attended the scene, told the trial conditions were squally with \"sudden, sometimes violent bursts of wind that could easily change direction\".\n\nHe said the weather was not suitable to fly Summer to a London hospital and she was instead taken by road to Princess Alexandra Hospital in Harlow.\n\nJenny Hopkins, of the East of England Crown Prosecution Service, said after the verdicts: \"This should have been a happy, family day out at a funfair.\n\n\"It resulted in Summer's death. I hope that these convictions today will be of a small comfort to Summer's family.\"\n\nThe couple were also found guilty of a health and safety offence. They were convicted by majority verdicts of ten to two after 11 hours of deliberations by the jury.\n\nJudge Mr Justice Garnham, who delayed sentencing for four weeks, said he would be \"seriously considering imprisonment\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Argentina's president spoke on television in an address to the nation\n\nArgentina is to start talks about a financing deal with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Wednesday amid reports it is seeking $30bn (£22bn).\n\nFinance minister Nicolas Dujovne is due to fly to the IMF's Washington offices.\n\nAfter recent turmoil that saw interest rates hit 40%, President Mauricio Macri said IMF aid would \"strengthen growth\" and help avoid crises of the past.\n\nThe talks come 17 years after Argentina defaulted on its debts and 12 years since it severed ties with IMF.\n\nMr Macri said in an address to the nation on Tuesday: \"Just a few minutes ago I spoke with (IMF) director Christine Lagarde, and she confirmed we would start working on an agreement.\"\n\n\"This will allow us to strengthen our program of growth and development, giving us greater support to face this new global scenario and avoid crises like the ones we have had in our history,\" he said.\n\nLocal media and Bloomberg reported that Argentina was seeking $30bn, although the government declined to comment.\n\nThe peso has lost a quarter of its value in the past year amid President Macri's pro-market reforms.\n\nLast week the central bank raised interest rates from 33.25% to 40%.\n\nMany people still blame IMF austerity requirements for policies that led to a financial and economic meltdown in 2001 to 2002 that left millions of middle class Argentines in poverty.\n\nArgentina eventually defaulted on its debts. And although its last IMF loan was paid down in 2006, the country severed ties with the Washington-based body.\n\nMr Macri said Argentina was suffering as a result of high oil prices and the expectation that US interest rates would rise in the coming months.\n\nDescribing Argentina as a \"valued member\" of the IMF, Ms Lagarde said: \"Discussions have been initiated on how we can work together to strengthen the Argentine economy and these will be pursued in short order.\"\n\nArgentina is in the middle of a pro-market economic reform programme as Mr Macri seeks to reverse years of protectionism and high government spending under his predecessor, Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner.\n\nInflation, a perennial problem in Argentina, was at 25% in 2017, behind Venezuela as the highest in Latin America.\n\nThis year, the central bank has set an inflation target of 15% and has said it will continue to act to enforce it.\n\nLast week's rate rise to 40% was the third increase in eight days in an attempt to boost the peso.\n\nNews of the new talks may be controversial in some quarters. Many people in Argentina still blame the IMF for the policies that led to the 2001 financial and economic crisis. The country defaulted on $80bn (£59bn) of sovereign debt - the biggest in history.\n\nMillions of middle class Argentines were plunged into poverty as a result.\n\nHowever, Mr Macri said the new negotiations with the IMF would give the country \"greater support to face this new global scenario and avoid crises like the ones we have had in our history\".\n\nMarkets reacted positively to the news, with both local shares and the peso recovering some ground.\n\nMiguel Kiguel, a former Argentine finance official who runs local consultancy Econviews, tweeted: \"An IMF line of credit is the least expensive option for growth in Argentina.\"\n\nArgentina has had a turbulent relationship with the IMF.\n\nIn 2013 the country was censured by the Fund over the inflation and economic growth data published by the administration of President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner. It was a step in a process that could ultimately have led to Argentina's expulsion from the IMF.\n\nEarlier, many had blamed the IMF for contributing to a financial and economic crisis that came to a head around the end of 2001, which set back living standards severely.\n\nRelations have improved under the current president, Mauricio Macri, whose approach to economic policy was much more consistent with that favoured at the IMF.\n\nThe prospect of a new IMF loan will test that improvement. It will come with economic policy conditions, including almost certainly spending cuts and tax rises, which are likely to aggravate political strains in Argentina.", "A potential new cure for baldness has been discovered using a drug originally intended to treat osteoporosis.\n\nResearchers found the drug had a dramatic effect on hair follicles in the lab, stimulating them to grow.\n\nIt contains a compound which targets a protein that acts as a brake on hair growth and plays a role in baldness.\n\nProject leader Dr Nathan Hawkshaw told the BBC a clinical trial would be needed to see if the treatment was effective and safe in people.\n\nOnly two drugs are currently available to treat balding (androgenetic alopecia):\n\nNeither is available on the NHS and both have side-effects and are not always very effective, so patients often resort to hair transplantation surgery instead.\n\nThe research, published in PLOS Biology, was done in a lab, with samples containing scalp hair follicles from more than 40 male hair-transplant patients.\n\nThe researchers, from the University of Manchester, first latched onto an old immunosuppressive drug, cyclosporine A, used since the 1980s to prevent transplant organ rejection and reduce symptoms of autoimmune disease.\n\nThe scientists found that the drug reduced the activity of a protein called SFRP1, a key growth regulator that affects many tissues including hair follicles.\n\nBut because of its side effects, CsA was unsuitable as a baldness treatment.\n\nThe team went on to look for another agent that targeted SFRP1 and found that WAY-316606 was even better at suppressing the protein.\n\nDr Hawkshaw said the treatment could \"make a real difference to people who suffer from hair loss\".\n\nHair loss is a daily occurrence and generally nothing to worry about. Some types are temporary and some are permanent.\n\nYou should see a doctor because of:\n\nA British Association of Dermatologists spokesman told the BBC: \"This is a very interesting study.\n\n\"As the researchers say, hair loss is a common disorder and it can cause considerable damage to emotional health, including loss of self-esteem and confidence.\n\n\"That said, more research will need to be done before it can be used by people with hair loss.\n\n\"For individuals with hair loss, treatments can be very hit and miss. There isn't one which is universally effective.\n\n\"For that reason new treatments are exciting as they give people more treatment options that may be effective.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Haspel: 'I would never take CIA back to interrogation programme'\n\nThe self-proclaimed mastermind of the 9/11 attacks has asked for permission to share information about Gina Haspel, nominee for CIA director, at her confirmation hearing.\n\nKhalid Sheikh Mohammed, who is held at Guantanamo Bay, has asked a judge if he can share six paragraphs of information, the New York Times says.\n\nMr Mohammed was tortured by the CIA following his capture in 2003.\n\nMs Haspel is facing a grilling from senators at the hearing.\n\nHer nomination has faced opposition over her role at a secret CIA prison in Thailand where detainees were waterboarded in 2002.\n\nMs Haspel told the Senate intelligence committee that under her leadership the agency would not restart a secret detention and interrogation programme under which suspects were tortured.\n\nShe told committee members that, in retrospect, \"it is clear... that CIA was not prepared to conduct a detention and interrogation programme\".\n\n\"Having served in that tumultuous time, I can offer you my personal commitment, clearly and without reservation, that under my leadership the CIA will not restart such a detention and interrogation programme,\" she added.\n\nMs Haspel declined to confirm whether she had overseen waterboarding sessions. She told the committee she supported the CIA's decision to destroy videotapes of the interrogations, saying it was to protect the identities of agents.\n\nSenator Kamala Harris asked Ms Haspel if she agreed with a statement made by President Trump that torture works as an interrogation method.\n\nShe replied: \"Senator, I don't believe that torture works.\"\n\nThe hearing was briefly interrupted by a protester who was escorted out by police.\n\nKhalid Sheikh Mohammed, pictured here in a 2012 courtroom sketch, is accused with others of executing the attacks of 11 September 2001\n\nThe request by Mr Mohammed to supply information to the intelligence committee was submitted to army judge Col James Pohl, according to one of Mr Mohammed's lawyers, Lt Col Derek Poteet.\n\nThe request includes an attachment called \"Additional Facts, Law and Argument in Support\", which includes the six paragraphs, the New York Times reported. Col Poteet said he was not able to describe the information.\n\nIt is not clear if the request has been allowed.\n\nKhalid Sheikh Mohammed, who is of Pakistani origin but was born in Kuwait, was captured in Pakistan in 2003 and transferred to Guantanamo, in Cuba, in 2006.\n\nCIA documents confirm that he was subjected to waterboarding - simulated drowning - 183 times.\n\nMs Haspel, who is President Donald Trump's choice to replace now Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, is facing a tough hearing in the Senate where the narrow Republican majority makes her confirmation uncertain.\n\nMany Democrats have spoken out against her nomination.\n\nShe is a career intelligence officer with more than 30 years of experience but controversially ran a prison in Thailand where suspected al-Qaeda members were subjected to waterboarding in 2002. Correspondents say she was known for her harsh views.\n\nThe so-called \"black sites\", where the CIA carried out \"enhanced interrogation\" techniques, were closed by former US President Barack Obama.\n\nHowever, President Trump has since spoken out in favour of the harsh interrogation of suspects.\n\nProtesters gathered outside the Senate in Washington ahead of Ms Haspel's testimony", "The House of Lords has backed calls for the UK to effectively remain in the EU's single market after Brexit.\n\nAn amendment to the EU Withdrawal Bill obliging the UK to stay in the European Economic Area after it leaves the EU in 2019 was backed by 245 votes to 218.\n\nThis was despite neither the government nor the Labour leadership backing it.\n\nMinisters warned that staying in the EEA would not give the UK \"control of our borders or our laws\" and the issue will now return to the Commons.\n\nPro-EU MPs said they were hopeful of getting the Commons support needed to prevent the changes being overturned.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBut to do so they will have to defeat the two largest parties if Labour maintains its opposition to the amendment in the Commons.\n\nLabour urged its peers to abstain in Tuesday's vote on EEA membership - an arrangement which would see the UK retain full access to the EU's internal market of 300 million consumers in return for making financial contributions and accepting most EU laws.\n\nUnder what is known as the \"Norway model\" - Norway is one of three countries outside the EU which is an existing EEA member - free movement laws would also apply, so EU citizens can move to all EEA countries to work and live.\n\nSupporters of the \"Norway-style\" plan think keeping the maximum-possible access to the single market should be the top priority - but critics say it would mean the UK would still be subject to EU laws after Brexit, but with no say in how they are made.\n\nEnter the word or phrase you are looking for\n\nBefore the EEA vote, shadow foreign secretary Emily Thornberry told Labour rebels that their idea to keep the UK in the single market would \"not work\" and a \"British bespoke deal\" was needed instead.\n\nBut Labour's Lord Alli, who signed the amendment, said continued EEA membership was vital for protecting service sectors such as retail, tourism, transport, communications, financial services and aerospace.\n\nHe accused the party leadership, which supports maintaining a customs union with the EU after Brexit and hopes to replicate the benefits of the single market, of \"complete cowardice\" by ordering peers to abstain.\n\n\"The customs union only will benefit our European neighbours in their imports,\" he said.\n\n\"Without an EEA equivalent it will damage our profitable export business and therefore the jobs and livelihoods of many thousands of people.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Can the House of Lords stop the Brexit Bill?\n\nMore than 80 Labour peers defied the party whip by voting for the amendment, while among those Conservative rebels backing the amendment were former party chairman Lord Patten and former deputy prime minister Lord Heseltine.\n\nBut Brexit minister Lord Callanan said it would not satisfy the British public's desire, as expressed in the Brexit referendum, for more \"direct control\" over how the country is run.\n\n\"On borders it would mean that we would have to continue to accept all four freedoms of the single market, including freedom of movement,\" he said.\n\n\"On laws it would mean the UK having to implement new EU legislation over which in future we will have little influence and, of course, we will have no vote.\"\n\nThe government's Brexit bill also suffered a series of other defeats at the hands of peers.\n\nThe Lords voted to remove the exact date of Brexit - 29 March 2019 - from the wording of the EU Withdrawal Bill by 311 votes to 233. And an amendment which means the UK could continue to participate in EU agencies after Brexit was backed by 298 votes to 227.\n\nThe government is expected to seek to reverse a number of the Lords amendments when the bill returns to the Commons.", "The Galileo system was conceived to give Europe an independent sat-nav capability\n\nAn executive at Airbus says that work on the Galileo sat-nav system will have to be moved out of the UK if the company wins a key contract.\n\nGalileo has become something of a political football in Brexit talks.\n\nThe EU says it would have to stop the UK from accessing the encrypted part of the network when it leaves next year.\n\nColin Paynter, the company's UK managing director, said that EU rules required Airbus to transfer all work to its factories in France and Germany.\n\nMr Paynter was speaking at a Commons committee hearing on Exiting the European Union on Wednesday.\n\nThe system was conceived to give Europe its own satellite-navigation capability - independent of US GPS - for use in positioning and timing applications, such as in finance, telecommunications, the utilities, and to support the emergency services and the military.\n\nThe UK has played a key role in the programme, and Airbus is currently bidding for the renewal of a contract covering the Galileo ground control segment - potentially worth about 200 million euros. This work is currently run out of Portsmouth.\n\nAbout 100 people are currently employed by Airbus on these services. Most would likely have to move to where the work is, but it's possible some could be reallocated to other projects.\n\n\"One of the conditions in that bid documentation from the European Space Agency is that all work has to be led by an EU-based company by March '19,\" Mr Paynter told the committee.\n\n\"Effectively that means that for Airbus to bid and win that work, we will effectively novate (move) all of the work from the UK to our factories in France and Germany on day one of that contract.\"\n\nColin Paynter said the work would be transferred to Airbus factories in France and Germany\n\nAsked by Committee chair Hilary Benn MP whether the Brexit transition period could mitigate this condition, Mr Paynter replied: \"No, because this area of Galileo - and many areas of Galileo - is classed as a security-sensitive procurement. I believe that isn't covered in the transitional arrangements.\"\n\nThe UK's access to Galileo's encrypted service, which would be required for military and security uses of the system, would be blocked by the EU after Brexit.\n\nThis warning prompted the Business Secretary Greg Clark to announce that the government would look into options for developing its own satellite-navigation system.\n\nAsked by Labour MP Pat McFadden whether developing a British sat-nav system was feasible, Mr Paynter replied: \"I think the key thing for me is, it's not up to industry to determine whether there's a requirement or need for an independent UK system... I would say that, in terms of feasibility, I think after such a long and deep involvement with the Galileo programme as UK industry, we have all the skills and capabilities needed to support that programme should it come out.\"\n\nBut Dr Bleddyn Bowen, who researches space and defence at the University of Leicester, told the committee: \"Technically, yes, it's feasible - Britain could do it. But it will cost a lot of money and it will run over budget.\"\n\nHe added: \"You need to look at the other GNSSs - global navigation satellite systems - that have been built. The Americans are currently building their third generation of GPS satellites, which have become notorious for cost overruns and delays because they're encountering new technological problems as they improve the system.\n\n\"Britain has just built the satellites for the Galileo system. That means Britain has to build a new satellite-navigation system - not the same one. That will mean new technological developments and innovations as well, which will cause delays.\"\n\nAccording to one estimate, the UK has paid about 1.4 billion euros into the 12-14 billion-euro Galileo programme since 2005.\n\nEstimates for the cost of an indigenous system in the range of £3-5bn were probably right, Mr Paynter said. That was money Dr Bowen told the committee could be better spent elsewhere, filling missing capability gaps in the British space programme.", "The public is being offered the chance to attend a service of thanksgiving for Professor Stephen Hawking, who died in March aged 76.\n\nIt will take place in Westminster Abbey on 15 June and up to 1,000 tickets are available in a ballot.\n\nDuring the service, the scientist's ashes will be interred between Sir Isaac Newton and Charles Darwin.\n\nHis daughter, Lucy Hawking, said she wanted to give some of her father's admirers the chance to remember him.\n\nThe family were grateful to Westminster Abbey for giving her father \"such a distinguished final resting place\", she said.\n\nThe Dean of Westminster, The Very Reverend Dr John Hall, said the event would celebrate \"not only his remarkable achievements as a scientist, but also his character and endurance through his years living with a devastating illness\".\n\nProfessor Hawking is considered one of the world's most renowned theoretical physicists.\n\nHis funeral was held on 31 March at the university church, Great St Mary's, in Cambridge.\n\nActor Eddie Redmayne, who played Professor Hawking in the film about his life, The Theory of Everything, was one of several speakers there.\n\nIn addition to Professor Hawking's friends and family, the service will be attended by colleagues, academics and schoolchildren.\n\nAfterwards, Westminster Abbey will open its doors to the public to allow people to pay their respects at his grave.\n\nThe ticket ballot closes at midnight on 15 May, and applications can be made at stephenhawkinginterment.com.", "Medical experts have told Natalie's parents that the birthmark is not causing any damage to her vision\n\nA baby girl has been dubbed a \"little superhero\" due to the Batman mask-like birthmark covering a third of her face.\n\nFour-month-old Natalie Jackson was born with the black birthmark which is expected to grow as she gets older.\n\nParents Lacey and Andrew said instead of getting it removed they would encourage Natalie to be proud of it.\n\nHer mum said: \"People tell us how amazing her birthmark is and how gorgeous she is and we couldn't agree more.\"\n\nMrs Jackson and her husband Andrew, who is originally from Hull, said they were initially \"filled with panic\" when they first saw the distinctive mark across her daughter's face.\n\nThe superhero nickname came about after baby Natalie met her brothers for the first time\n\nNatalie was born on 9 January at Sanford USD Medical Centre in South Dakota in the US, where the family now live.\n\n\"She was so beautiful but it looked like a bruise and I was worried in case it was something I had done to her during my pregnancy,\" said Mrs Jackson.\n\n\"Medics said it was just a birthmark though, and she was breathing and healthy.\"\n\nHer superhero nickname came after her brothers Elliot, seven and Devin, four, met their sister for the first time.\n\nMrs Jackson said: \"One of the boys asked, 'What's that on her face mum? What's that black mark?'\n\n\"I told him it was her superhero mask. I told them that, because of it, she could achieve anything.\"\n\nAlthough her parents worry the birthmark may attract cruel comments, they are determined their daughter will embrace her uniqueness.\n\n\"We'll always tell her it's a part of who she is and who she is supposed to be,\" Mrs Jackson said.\n\n\"We know she will come up against some difficulties, but her mark means she is going to be stronger no matter what life throws at her.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Tests and high stakes exams are a major source of anxiety: Drawings by children in counselling\n\nSally, now 20, believes her mental distress should have been spotted years before she received treatment that helped her.\n\nShe says she became ill when she first started secondary school.\n\nTeachers noticed, describing her as \"an odd child\", but in the end it was Sally herself who had to ask her doctor for help and she was 16 and on the edge of suicide before she got any effective treatment.\n\nThe charity Young Minds says it is not uncommon for families to have to wait 18 months even to get an assessment for their child, let alone treatment.\n\nIn December, the government announced plans to overhaul children's mental health care in England, with proposals limiting waiting time to four weeks and allowing children to access mental health support in schools.\n\nNow a report from MPs has branded the strategy \"unambitious\", providing no help to most of the children who need it.\n\nBut ministers reject the suggestion, saying their proposals will transform the system.\n\nSally says by the age of 12 she had very poor attendance and was self harming.\n\nAt 15 she Googled her symptoms and made herself an appointment with her GP.\n\nBut she says she had too little emotional intelligence or vocabulary to explain herself clearly to medical staff.\n\nOne nurse even accused her of being manipulative for crying and a doctor asked her if she was self diagnosing when she said she thought she might be depressed.\n\nShe says she got no effective treatment until she was 16 and found herself no longer able to tell what was real and what wasn't.\n\nShe was suicidal and was eventually admitted to hospital and began the struggle towards recovery.\n\nNow she is well enough to be taking a degree, holding down a part time job to help fund her studies.\n\n\"There are some absolute angels working in services and some really skilled people,\" she says.\n\n\"And there also some people who have clearly never had a collaborative conversation with a young person in their lives.\"\n\nOf her treatment she says: \"What I have got has been good. It's just that it's been so bitty.\"\n\nMPs on the Education Select Committee and the Health and Social Care Committee say the government's plans risk leaving hundreds of thousands without proper care.\n\nThey are particularly concerned at the long time frame: \"Rolling out the plans to only 'a fifth to a quarter of the country by 2022-23' is not ambitious enough,\" they argue.\n\nThey worry that health and education workforces lack capacity to meet the proposed additional demands and fear the government could have underestimated the level of need as the proposals are based on out-of-date figures on demand for mental health services among children and young people.\n\nThey also say there is too little emphasis on:\n\nDr Sarah Wollaston, chair of the Health and Social Care Committee, called for services to be joined up \"in a way which places children and young people at their heart and that improves services to all children rather than a minority\".\n\nRob Halfon, chair of the Education Committee, called for urgent action by government \"to address the mental health issues which children and young people face today\".\n\nPoppy was just five when she started scratching herself until she bled in frustration and anger.\n\nShe was also lashing out at her mother and at her elder sister.\n\nBut while she was violent and angry at home, she was quiet and compliant at school.\n\nThe family and their GP were bewildered.\n\nBut Poppy was lucky as her school is among just over 200 to have onsite counselling from the charity Place2Be.\n\nPoppy had weekly appointments with a counsellor and so did her mother, Caroline.\n\nAfter six months Caroline says she gained \"an understanding of my child which I had never had before\".\n\n\"It was a moment which transformed her life and our life as a family.\"\n\nPoppy's distress stemmed from a highly sensitive awareness of what was going on around her and an inability to filter much of it out.\n\nShe finds change very hard to handle and can very easily feel a failure as she has very high expectations of herself.\n\nShe did her best to behave perfectly throughout the school day but, according to Caroline, \"it would all come to pieces at home\".\n\nWhile Poppy, now seven, hasn't changed as a person, her family now understand how to help her cope.\n\nCaroline believes the outcome would have been very different without the charity's quick and effective intervention.\n\n\"It would have carried on getting worse and I dread to think where we would potentially have ended up.\n\nPlace2Be says it wants to see all schools with enough dedicated funding, support and training to be able to run services like theirs.\n\nBut school leaders warn that funding for professional mental health services in schools has \"plummeted\".\n\n\"There are not enough resources there already,\" said Paul Whiteman general secretary of the National Association of Head Teachers.\n\n\"Teachers aren't the ones who should be treating mental health. We should leave that to the experts in that field.\"\n\nSarah Brennan, chief executive of Young Minds said: \"If the government is serious about improving children's mental health services it needs to guarantee increased long term funding and place more emphasis on preventing mental health problems from developing.\"\n\nAnd Dr Andrew Moldynski of the British Medical Association said: \"Rather than diverting funds from schools which are already struggling with their own limited resources, the government must provide the urgent funding required to ensure that Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services has a universal reach and staff are adequately supported to oversee meaningful change.\"\n\nBut a government spokeswoman said the proposals would \"transform mental health services for children and young people, including the first ever waiting time standards for those with the most serious problems\".\n\n\"This will be supported by a new workforce - larger than the entire current workforce - and backed by £300m of additional funding that will also provide significant additional resources for all schools. This builds on what good schools are already doing, without adding unnecessarily to teachers' workloads.\n\n\"We agree that every young person should be able to access mental health support - however we need to ensure we get this right, which is why we will pilot this approach to make sure services are correct.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A Bedfordshire mother says treat mental health as 'serious as cancer'\n\nSome names have been changed", "A woman who believed she had been charged £99 for £5 worth of petrol at Asda says the supermarket's new payment system is an \"absolute joke\".\n\nJade Louise took to Facebook when she saw a £99 debit on her online bank after topping up at the weekend.\n\nBut the money never left her account, according to the supermarket and banks.\n\nThe £99 is in effect a holding charge introduced to help cut down fraud and stop people inadvertently going into the red.\n\nThe pre-authorised amount is cancelled as soon as the correct value is paid.\n\nA Mastercard spokesperson told the BBC: \"Last year, a change in industry rules meant that petrol stations with automated fuel pumps were required to pre-authorise a value equivalent to a full tank of fuel, so that customers didn't fill up with more fuel than they could afford.\"\n\nUnder the previous system, motorists had just £1 taken from their accounts as a pre-authorisation to confirm that their card was valid.\n\nThe new system is designed to protect consumers and the petrol station, according to Mastercard.\n\n\"If customers don't have the required funds in their bank account, a further step is available to petrol stations which allows them to check what available funds a customer has, enabling a lower value of fuel to be dispensed,\" the spokesperson explained.\n\nIn short, that means that if you only have £40 available in your account, you will only be able to buy £40-worth of petrol, under the new system.\n\nAsked about the £99, Mastercard said: \"While some customers may see a request for a higher amount than the fuel they bought - perhaps on their mobile banking app - these funds are not taken from their account. Only the value of the petrol dispensed is withdrawn.\"\n\nIn other words, the money never leaves a consumer's account - only the actual amount they spend is taken.\n\nJade Louise got a shock when she viewed her online statement after buying a fiver's worth of petrol at Asda in Dewsbury over the Bank Holiday weekend.\n\nShe used the pay-at-the-pump system which allows motorists to buy petrol without having to go into a kiosk.\n\n\"All I wanted to do was top up my almost full tank, because having two children, you never know when you'll need it,\" she told the BBC.\n\n\"Anything could happen over the next few weeks that might mean I can't afford to put fuel in, so as a precaution to make sure I can get me and my children from A to B, I sometimes top up silly amounts like £5 to keep it at full.\"\n\nSo when she saw the £99 pending transaction (pictured above) on her account, she took to Facebook to warn others of the charge.\n\n\"They should have notices on the petrol pumps making customers aware of this .... absolute joke!!!\", she wrote.\n\nShe said: \"I've been told the money doesn't actually leave your account, it's just ring-fenced until Asda claim the second transaction of the actual amount of fuel you took. Regardless, for three days I was unable to access my money.\"\n\nAsda said: \"We take any customer complaint seriously, but it's important to clarify that at no point has Asda taken or held Jade Louise's money as a result of this transaction.\n\n\"Visa and MasterCard have increased the minimum pre-authorisation amount at pay at the pump petrol pumps for all retailers and unfortunately, there seems to have been a delay in Jade Louise's bank releasing the hold.\"\n\nThe supermarket said it was unaware of anyone else having any problems using the system.\n\nEven though the new higher pre-authorisation level was set last year, it is only now being introduced. Asda is trialling it at three sites over the next two months at petrol stations in Dewsbury, Barry and Widnes.\n\nIt is likely to be introduced more widely and at rival supermarkets when their petrol stations are upgraded.", "Hand car washes and nail bars have been identified as sectors at risk of labour exploitation\n\nFirms which exploit staff could face higher financial penalties and increased risk of prosecution under recommendations to the government.\n\nA report by a government-backed body has made 37 recommendations including that big companies should put more pressure on their suppliers.\n\nThe report is by Labour Market Enforcement (LME), set up last year to oversee a crackdown on exploitation.\n\nIt also recommends a pilot scheme to licence hand car washes and nail bars.\n\nSir David Metcalf, head of LME, also called for action to enforce holiday pay, and said leading companies should be named and shamed if they fail to correct any non-compliance in their supply chains.\n\nHe said: \"This strategy sets out how we can toughen up enforcement activity to protect vulnerable workers and ensure that good, compliant firms are not undercut by unscrupulous competitors.\n\n\"It's important the government has the necessary powers to crack down on bad bosses who exploit and steal from their workers - that includes bigger penalties to put employers off breaking the law.\"\n\nThe government will respond officially to the report later in the year.\n\nHowever, business minister Andrew Griffiths said: \"We will not accept illegal behaviour from bosses who exploit their workers and cheat the competition which is why we are already cracking down on irresponsible company directors and boosting protections for workers.\n\n\"We will enforce holiday pay and give new rights for every worker to get a payslip and a list of their rights when they start a job.\"\n\nUnions also called on the government to crack down hard on exploitation.\n\nUnite assistant general secretary Steve Turner said: \"The government needs to put its money where its mouth is with enough resources to make its threats a reality for bad bosses.\n\n\"Ministers could also show they are serious about standing up for workers by calling time on the insecurity currently endured by around one million working people and ban the use of exploitative zero-hours contracts.\"", "Childish Gambino has released a music video for his single This is America.\n\nThe video is a social commentary on current issues, including police violence, racism and gun crime.\n\nMusic journalist Natty Kasambala talks through the surprise video which premiered on Saturday Night Live.", "Faster, more frequent trains are being promised by Network Rail as it embarks on a digital overhaul to cope with rising passenger numbers, ageing equipment and the construction of HS2.\n\nThe aim is for 70% of journeys to benefit from digital technology by the time HS2 reaches Manchester in 2033.\n\nRoutes into various London mainline stations and across the Pennines will be the first to benefit.\n\nNetwork Rail described it as \"a turning point in the history of our railways\".\n\nMore than half the UK's analogue signalling systems will need to be replaced in the next 15 years.\n\nThat would cost about £20bn but deliver very little benefit to passengers, said Network Rail chief executive Mark Carne.\n\n\"New digital signalling offers a more cost-effective alternative that also brings significant benefit for rail users, such as more capacity, speed and reliability,\" he said.\n\n\"Not since the railway transformed from steam to diesel in the 1960s has a technological breakthrough held such promise to vastly improve our railway.\"\n\nDigital train control is already a reality on Crossrail and on Thameslink services through London Bridge, which uses \"fly-by-wire\" automatically operated trains.\n\nIn the five years to 2024 the industry is planning to introduce it across the Pennines, the southern end of the East Coast main line into King's Cross and on some major commuter routes into Waterloo.\n\nThe digital technology will safely allow more services to operate every hour by running trains closer together, improving frequency and capacity and reducing signal failures.\n\nTrack is currently divided into long sections separated by traffic lights, but these will become shorter and the signalling system will be visible in the train's cab.\n\nThe programme will be launched at an event in York on Thursday to be attended by Transport Secretary Chris Grayling.\n\nHe said: \"We're not going to transform a Victorian system overnight - there's been not enough done for many, many years.\n\n\"Passenger numbers have doubled, the railways are bursting at the seams. We're now spending £20bn over the next five years to try and create a more reliable network.\"", "Marco and Gloria, an Italian couple in their 20s, moved to London to find work as architects. Only a few months later, they died in the Grenfell Tower fire.\n\nMarco's family and friends have written a children's book turning what happened into a fairy tale - but unlike real life, the story has a happy ending.", "The University of Warwick is ranked 11th in the UK, according to the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2018\n\nEleven students have been suspended from the University of Warwick after misogynist and racist messages made in a Facebook group chat emerged.\n\nStudent online papers The Boar and The Tab obtained screenshots from a group message, with one talking about raping \"100 girls\".\n\nThe Boar says 98 screenshots have been submitted as evidence.\n\nThe university said it was \"actively\" investigating and would not comment further.\n\nThe students that have been temporarily suspended are all men and are facing \"disciplinary processes\".\n\nOne message said: \"Sometimes it's fun to just go wild and rape 100 girls.\"\n\nWhile another said: \"Rape the whole flat to teach them all [a] lesson.\"\n\nThe messages came to light after three formal complaints were made to the university.\n\nAt one point, a user wrote: \"Rape her in the street while everybody watches,\" with another responding it \"wouldn't even be unfair\".\n\nStudent newspapers obtained the screenshots after complaints were made to the university\n\nElliot Mulligan, co-editor of The Boar, said they received a \"tip-off\" and were all \"shocked, quite angry and quite disturbed\" when they saw the screenshots.\n\nWarwick Editor of The Tab Rohini Jaswal, 18, said her \"tummy turned\" when she read the messages.\n\n\"We were confronted with pages of vile language. There's no sense of what's appropriate.\"\n\nThe first year history and politics student said the initial reaction from the university \"wasn't intense enough\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA spokeswoman for the university's student union [SU] said it \"condemns the content\" of the messages and hopes to see a conclusion \"as swiftly as possible.\"\n\n\"The SU has been supporting the victims and will continue to do so,\" she added.\n\nThe Boar tweeted advice to students and the university's student's union is holding a sexual violence awareness event after the messages came to light.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or 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 Boar This article contains content provided by Twitter. 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End of twitter post by The Boar\n\nWest Midlands Police said it is \"investigating to see if any police action needs to be taken.\"\n\nA University of Warwick spokesman said: \"A possible student disciplinary incident is currently being actively investigated.\n\n\"We cannot comment further on this matter until those investigations, and any subsequent disciplinary processes, are concluded.\"\n\nA member of the elite Russell Group, the university is ranked 11th in the UK, according to the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2018.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The new unit will take over the work of the Historical Enquiries Team\n\nCabinet ministers have raised concerns over plans to introduce a new body that would investigate unsolved killings from the Troubles in Northern Ireland.\n\nIntroducing a new \"Historical Investigations Unit\" was a major part of the 2014 Stormont House agreement.\n\nIt was agreed then to create a new independent body to deal with killings where there had been no prosecutions.\n\nBut several ministers told colleagues on Tuesday that the proposal was unacceptable in its current form.\n\nIn what has been described as a \"spat\", Defence Secretary Gavin Williamson is understood to have raised concerns that military veterans might not have enough protections under the proposed system.\n\nAnother minister who expressed worries said there had not been a huge argument, but that it had been made clear to the government that it had to do more to make sure that former military personnel weren't unfairly targeted, or dragged through the courts.\n\nOne cabinet source told the BBC: \"This has got catastrophe written all over it for the government and will carry very little sympathy with the majority of the British public who won't be able to get their heads round us not getting behind our veterans.\"\n\nBut others familiar with the process said that the new HIU would \"end the current witch hunt\" where veterans and former police officers are already hit disproportionately, providing a new system that is fair, independent and proportionate. Figures obtained by the BBC challenge the claim that investigations are unfairly focused on the security forces.\n\nThe defence secretary is understood to have raised objections\n\nIt is hoped the proposed unit would be able to investigate terrorist killings more vigorously than under the current piecemeal system. The plan was also included in the Tories' Northern Irish election manifesto.\n\nA source said: \"We want to find a way forward and we believe that the right way is to consult on this. Leaving the status quo as it exists is to let down our armed forces, as the current system it hits our armed forces disproportionately.\"\n\nThey suggested the idea of providing a statute of limitation for veterans would be legally impossible.\n\nA Number 10 source said it was hoped the consultation would be carried out \"expeditiously\" although they would not be drawn on a date.\n\nThe Northern Ireland Office has circulated a draft consultation document on \"legacy\" matters to the main Stormont parties.\n\nIt is understood the draft does not contain a controversial suggestion for a so-called statute of limitations.\n\nIt would have prevented the prosecution of former soldiers for offences connected to the Troubles.", "Stormy Daniels says she was paid by Mr Cohen to keep quiet about a sexual encounter with Mr Trump\n\nA company used by President Donald Trump's personal lawyer to pay off porn star Stormy Daniels also received $500,000 (£368,000) from a firm tied to a Russian oligarch, US media report.\n\nThe firm, Columbus Nova, acknowledged the payment but said it was a consultancy fee.\n\nIt was one of several businesses - including major corporations - which paid a shell company set up by Michael Cohen after the 2016 election.\n\nMr Cohen is yet to comment.\n\nLast month the FBI seized papers from Mr Cohen's office following a request from Special Counsel Robert Mueller, who is investigating suspected Russian meddling in the 2016 election.\n\nMr Cohen's company, Essential Consultants LLC, last year received half a million dollars from Columbus Nova, a New York-based investment company affiliated with a firm controlled by Russian oligarch Viktor Vekselberg, according to the New York Times.\n\nThe Associated Press also said it had reviewed financial documents that appeared to support the claims first made by Ms Daniels' lawyer, Michael Avenatti, in a memo posted online that described details of payments but did not provide a source.\n\nA lawyer for Columbus Nova said late on Tuesday that the payment to Essential Consultants was a business consulting fee related to potential investments and had nothing to do with Mr Vekselberg.\n\n\"Reports today that Viktor Vekselberg used Columbus Nova as a conduit for payments to Michael Cohen are false. The claim that Viktor Vekselberg was involved in or provided any funding for Columbus Nova's engagement of Michael Cohen is patently untrue,\" Richard Owens said in a statement.\n\nMs Daniels, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford, alleges she had a sexual relationship with Mr Trump in 2006 - a claim the president has denied.\n\nMr Cohen paid Ms Daniels $130,000 (£92,000) during the 2016 presidential campaign in exchange for signing a non-disclosure agreement. The payment was made via Essential Consultants.\n\nThe documents reportedly show that Essential Consultants also received a $200,000 payment from AT&T as the corporation sought approval from the Trump administration for its planned acquisition Time Warner.\n\nAT&T confirmed to CNN a payment for an undisclosed amount for \"insights into understanding the new administration\".\n\n\"Essential Consulting was one of several firms we engaged in early 2017 to provide insights into understanding the new administration,\" the company said on Tuesday.\n\n\"They did no legal or lobbying work for us, and the contract ended in December 2017.\"", "President Donald Trump said the deal was defective and that maximum sanctions on Iran would be re-imposed.", "As a result of Owen Scott's actions, one of his daughters will be wheelchair-dependent for the rest of her life\n\nA man who tried to kill his three children and step-daughter in a hammer attack before crashing his car at 92mph has had his jail term increased.\n\nOwen Scott had been jailed for life for four counts of attempted murder and dangerous driving after the crash near Penistone, South Yorkshire.\n\nScott, 29, of Hampshire, had his minimum term increased by the Court of Appeal from 14 to 24 years.\n\nThe children were inside the car when he crashed it into a pub last August.\n\nTwo girls, aged seven and eight, and two boys, aged 21 months and nine months, were seriously injured with all four youngsters suffering brain damage in the crash.\n\nAs a result of her injuries, one of his daughters will be wheelchair-dependent for the rest of her life.\n\nChallenging the original sentence, Solicitor General Robert Buckland said the 14-year term for Scott, from Fawley, had been unduly lenient.\n\nThe crash happened at the junction of Bower Hill, Coates Lane and the A629\n\nHe said a series of aggravating factors, including the gross abuse of trust and the vulnerability of the young victims, meant the case fell outside normal sentencing guidelines.\n\nLord Justice Treacy, sitting with two other judges, said: \"Four young lives have been grievously affected, their mother's life has been blighted and the level of harm which has been done is very high indeed.\n\n\"It follows from that analysis that the sentence imposed below was unduly lenient.\"\n\nScott had been in a cocaine-induced psychotic episode, when he deliberately crashed into the Travellers Inn, near Penistone, early on 23 August last year.\n\nThe court heard he had collected the children from his former partner's home in Southampton on the pretext of taking them on a shopping trip.\n\nScott then drove to the Isle of Wight, Liverpool and Greater Manchester before arriving in Huddersfield ahead of the crash, which he claims to have no memory of.\n\nThe judge said: \"It is clear that some of the children were old enough to understand what the offender was doing whilst those attacks were taking place.\"\n\nDefence barrister Michelle Colborn further stressed Scott had little recollection of what happened.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The devastating Sichuan earthquake which struck 10 years ago left around 87,000 people dead.\n\nIn some places, it feels like time has stood still, and the ruins draws millions of tourists.", "Last updated on .From the section West Brom\n\nWest Bromwich Albion have been relegated from the Premier League after Southampton won 1-0 at Swansea City on Tuesday.\n\nThat result left West Brom five points from safety with one game remaining, Sunday's trip to Crystal Palace.\n\nIt means their eight-year stay in the top flight comes to an end.\n\nThe Baggies - currently on 31 points from their 37 games - had hoped to reach the final day and repeat their memorable escape of the 2004-05 season.\n\nWith Stoke and West Brom's relegation confirmed, Southampton's victory has virtually guaranteed their safety due to their vastly superior goal difference over Swansea and Huddersfield.\n\nThe Terriers will confirm their survival by taking a point from their next two fixtures against Chelsea on Wednesday (19:45 BST) or Arsenal on Sunday (15:00 BST)\n\nToo little too late?\n\nWest Brom were realistically consigned to their fate before Darren Moore took over as caretaker boss in April but it must feel like a case of what might have been for the Baggies supporters.\n\nThe former Albion defender was named Premier League manager of the month for April on Tuesday and the club's upturn since he took control of first team affairs evoked memories of their survival under Bryan Robson in 2004-05.\n\nIn that campaign, West Brom were bottom of the division and eight points from safety at Christmas but recovered to survive on the final day of the season thanks to an unlikely sequence of results.\n\nMoore has accrued 11 points from the 15 available since being named as caretaker and reeled in a 10-point gap to five points.\n\nVictories at Old Trafford against Manchester United and over Newcastle and Tottenham, as well as draws against Swansea and Liverpool, leave a question mark over what might have been if the Albion board had acted sooner.\n\nIn a message posted on Twitter on Tuesday, Baggies defender Kieran Gibbs wrote: \"Horrible feeling to be relegated, especially after our recent form as a team.\n\n\"It's been a wild season on and off the pitch and has been a huge learning curve. Whatever has gone on this season there are no excuses - we haven't been good enough for the majority of it.\n\n\"For that we are sorry to the WBA fans, who have been quite unbelievable considering the circumstances.\"\n\nHow the West Brom managers have fared during the 2017-18 season\n\nWhat went wrong for West Brom?\n\nOn the surface, the season began in serene fashion at The Hawthorns.\n\nWith Tony Pulis at the helm, Albion opened with consecutive victories to ensure their best start to a top-flight campaign since 1978-79, when the 'Three Degrees' of Cyrille Regis, Laurie Cunningham and Brendon Batson helped the club to a third-place finish.\n\nHowever, by November Pulis was gone after a dramatic downturn in results - coupled with supporter disenchantment over his defensive style of play - led owner Guochuan Lai to make a change.\n\nAlan Pardew was initially tasked with preserving the club's top-flight status but the owner then sacked chairman John Williams and chief executive Martin Goodman in February as the club's poor run of form continued.\n\nMeanwhile, a trip to Barcelona organised to boost morale ended with senior professionals Gareth Barry, Jonny Evans, Jake Livermore and Boaz Myhill having to apologise after a taxi was stolen from outside a fast-food restaurant in the early hours of the morning.\n\nThe quartet were interviewed but not arrested by police, while Pardew called their behaviour \"unacceptable\" and said he \"felt a bit let down\" after they had broken a midnight curfew.\n\nAt the time of Pardew's dismissal in early April the club had won just once in 18 league games, taking only eight points from a possible 54 and had suffered eight straight league defeats.\n\nAn absence of goals has left West Brom as the third lowest scorers in the Premier League this term.\n\nAnd their lack of firepower, coupled with a campaign that has not been quite as frugal defensively, had left them fighting an uphill battle throughout.\n\nPulis recognised the need for attacking reinforcements and signed Jay Rodriguez for £12m last summer, but the former Southampton striker has only managed seven league goals for the club.\n\nThe top scorer of the last two campaigns, Venezuela forward Salomon Rondon, is yet to break the 10-goal barrier and has also registered just seven in the league this season.\n\nWhen Daniel Sturridge - a striker with a proven record in front of goal - arrived at The Hawthorns on loan from Liverpool in January, it looked as though Pardew had found a promising solution to their problem.\n\nHowever, a hamstring injury picked up against Chelsea on 12 February meant that the England forward missed the next six games and has played just 21 minutes since as a substitute under Moore.\n\nA deal that was hailed as \"big coup\" for the club has thus far amounted to 99 minutes of football at a cost of around £3.8m for the club.\n\nAnalysis - Does Moore stay on as manager?\n\nDarren Moore's magnificent five-game stint in temporary charge may have lifted the mood of unremitting gloom at The Hawthorns but it cannot obscure a truly disastrous season when, until the beginning of last month at least, everything that could have gone wrong did.\n\nThe big question is what happens now.\n\nThe word is Darren Moore will not be the next manager, that he doesn't really want it, despite having overcome Jose Mourinho, Rafael Benitez and Mauricio Pochettino during his time as boss - leading to his nomination as April's manager of the month.\n\nSo if not Moore, who?\n\nAfter messing up the timing of Tony Pulis' departure and getting completely the wrong man - Alan Pardew - to replace him, West Brom simply cannot afford to make another mistake.\n\nThere won't be lots of money - spending too much on an underperforming squad and clauses that ensure cut price sales will see to that.\n\nOwner Guochuan Lai and chief executive Mark Jenkins will endeavour to navigate their way back to the top flight on a restrained budget but it will not be easy.\n\nHaving seen local rivals Wolves head in the other direction, the Baggies need to bounce back quickly.", "Google will ban all advertisements relating to Republic of Ireland's forthcoming referendum on abortion, which takes place on 25 May.\n\nOn Tuesday, Facebook started to block ads relating to the referendum that did not originate from advertisers inside Ireland.\n\nHowever, Google said all ads relating to the vote would be blocked.\n\nGoogle's ads appear on millions of websites, including its video-sharing platform YouTube.\n\n\"Following our update around election integrity efforts globally, we have decided to pause all ads related to the Irish referendum on the Eighth Amendment,\" the company said in a statement.\n\nVoters will decide whether to repeal the Eighth Amendment to the Republic of Ireland's constitution, which states \"the right to life of the unborn\".\n\nAt present, the country has a near-total ban on abortion, with terminations very rarely allowed.\n\nIn April, Irish data protection commissioner Helen Dixon said it was possible that foreign organisations could try to sway the referendum.\n\nIreland's electoral laws ban foreign organisations from funding campaign groups in the country. However, social media sites and search engines are not prohibited from carrying foreign-funded advertisements.\n\nGoogle said ads relating to the vote would be \"paused\" from 10 May.\n\nThere has been mounting pressure on social media companies for greater transparency, following revelations over who is behind political advertising campaigns and how they target us.\n\nClaims that Cambridge Analytica used data gathered from millions of Facebook profiles, and that Russia-backed advertising influenced the US presidential election, have led to fears that political campaigning on social media could be a threat to democracy.\n\nIn Ireland, there have already been complaints from local groups that foreign campaigners with big budgets were trying to sway the vote.\n\nWhether or not foreign entities really do have the power to unduly influence election results is unclear.\n\nBut recent scandals have shown that allowing political advertising on social media to go unchecked risks undermining confidence in the result and can leave the public feeling manipulated.\n\nThis latest move from Google and Facebook shows social media companies are now prepared to play a much more proactive role.", "Care homes operator Sunrise Senior Living will pay more than £2m in compensation after charging thousands of pounds in compulsory \"upfront fees\".\n\nThe Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) secured the deal for those who had paid the fees since 1 October 2015.\n\nPeople who have left or leave within two years of moving into one of the company's homes are eligible.\n\nSunrise chief executive Dr Natalie-Jane Macdonald said the firm made the move voluntarily.\n\n\"We previously charged an up-front community fee, which helped maintain the outstanding facilities and communal areas that our residents expect and enjoy,\" she told the BBC.\n\n\"However, we have agreed with the CMA that residents who stayed with us for shorter than average periods were not able to enjoy as much of the benefit of our facilities as residents who are with us for a longer time.\"\n\nShe added: \"The Care Quality Commission has recognised us as one of the best care providers in the UK. We are deeply proud of the care we provide.\"\n\nThe average individual payout from Sunrise will be about £3,000 and if the resident dies in this timescale, their family will receive the money.\n\nThe move comes as part of the CMA's continuing investigation into how some care homes charge for their services.\n\nLast November, the watchdog found that as well as charging the \"upfront fees\", some care homes were also billing families for weeks after their relatives had died.\n\nIt also highlighted how those paying for themselves were paying much higher charges than council-funded residents.\n\nThe average weekly charge for self-funders was £846 - 40% more than local authority rates.\n\nIn the Sunrise case, the CMA was concerned that the care home group's description of its \"upfront fees\" and how the money would be used was unclear.\n\nMoreover, prospective residents were having to pay out before they had secured a place at the home.\n\nThe CMA also raised concerns that the fee was non-refundable once someone had lived in the home for more than 30 days.\n\nGeorge Lusty, the CMA's senior director for consumer protection, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme said it was a \"really good outcome\", adding: \"We hope that this news will act as a spur to others to make sure they are doing the right thing by residents.\"\n\nThe CMA was looking into other similar cases, he said.\n\nSarah (not her real name) has told the BBC about her battle over fees requested by a Sunrise care home.\n\n\"I have just moved two relatives into a Sunrise home. It has been very stressful due to the way the contract is written.\n\n\"I was adamant I was not going to pay £5,000 per person before they moved in and Sunrise very quickly offered to remove this. Now I see why.\n\n\"Negotiations with Sunrise where almost impossible. They were almost entirely inflexible and although they have agreed to a 'fixed fee', the contract says they can change their minds whenever they want with 30 days' notice.\n\n\"Respite for two weeks for the two of them is costing just over £4,000 - a huge amount of money for people who have worked hard and been careful all their lives.\n\n\"Sunrise offer such superior care and environments to other homes, you feel a pressure to try and get them in there. It has been exhausting and emotional for me to organise, to say the very least.\n\n\"Once you are emotionally invested, Sunrise will not contractually commit to any of the verbal assurances and you feel vulnerable, once your relatives are in, that they will keep increasing your fee. It's a very stressful process,\"\n\nJanet Morrison, chief executive of charity Independent Age, said such fees were unacceptable and welcomed the refunds.\n\n\"It is vital that care home providers are completely transparent on what any fees or charges cover, so older people and their families are clear on what they are paying for,\" she said.\n\nAlex Hayman of consumer group Which? said it was a significant move by Sunrise: \"Other care home providers should now scrap these excessive charges, and we urge the government to swiftly act on its commitment to strengthen protections for all residents and their families.\"\n\nCaroline Abrahams, charity director at charity Age UK, said: \"It is a travesty that these type of fees were imposed on residents in the first place. We hope this sets a precedent for other providers to ensure they are not charging unnecessarily and that all fees are fair.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Princess Charlotte and Prince George arrive at the royal wedding\n\nSix bridesmaids and four pageboys played a major supporting role as Prince Harry and Meghan Markle tied the knot. Prince George and Princess Charlotte - Prince Harry's niece and nephew - were among the children, all aged between two and seven, under the spotlight of the world's media at St George's Chapel, Windsor.\n\nPrincess Charlotte was joined as a bridesmaid by Prince Harry's god-daughters - Zalie Warren, two, and three-year-old Florence van Cutsem - and Meghan's Markle's goddaughters. Sisters Remi and Rylan Litt, aged six and seven respectively, and four-year-old Ivy Mulroney are the daughters of Ms Markle's friends Benita Litt and Jessica Mulroney.\n\nAs a pageboy, Prince George wore a miniature version of the Blues and Royals frockcoats worn by Prince Harry and his brother and best man Prince William. The other pageboys were seven-year-old twins John and Brian Mulroney and Jasper Dyer, six, another of Prince Harry's godsons.\n\nThe Duchess of Cambridge arrived with Prince George (l), Jasper Dyer, Princess Charlotte (r) and Florence van Cutsem.\n\nThe bridesmaids had to be given a helping hand as they walked up the steps of St George's Chapel. Princess Charlotte turned to give a wave.\n\nThe designer of the wedding dress, Clare Waight Keller, was also behind the bridesmaids' dresses. Made of ivory silk radzimir, the high-waisted outfits with short puff sleeves and pleated skirt were hand finished with a double silk ribbon detail tied at the back in a bow.\n\nThe girls also wore a flower crown chosen by Prince Harry and Meghan, which replicated the blooms used in the bridal bouquet.\n\nPageboys John and Brian Mulroney accompanied Meghan Markle on the journey from her hotel to Windsor in a vintage Rolls-Royce.\n\nThey held the train of Ms Markle's dress as she walked up the steps of St George's Chapel.\n\nJust before Ms Markle arrived, the Duchess of Cambridge helped coax the children into position. They were handed flowers, ready for their big moment. And they walked back down the aisle with the newlyweds at the end of the service.\n\nA wave goodbye from Princess Charlotte after the service as the new Duke and Duchess of Sussex boarded a horse-drawn landau for the procession in front of cheering crowds.\n\nThe best way to get news on the go", "The UK's corporate regulatory system is \"not fit for purpose\" and would be overhauled under a Labour government, John McDonnell is to say.\n\nIn a speech, the shadow chancellor will say there \"will be no more Carillion scandals on Labour's watch\".\n\nThe firm, which employed about 20,000 people in the UK, collapsed with £1.5bn of debts in January.\n\nTwo MPs' committees said in a report this week it showed regulators were \"toothless\".\n\nThey also called for a potential break-up of the big four audit firms, after they \"waved through\" the indebted construction firm's accounts.\n\nSpeaking at a Labour event in central London, Mr McDonnell will say that he has commissioned an independent review of the UK's corporate auditing and accounting regime, by Prem Sikka, professor of accounting and finance at Sheffield University.\n\nHis findings will then be fed into Labour proposals to reform the regulatory system.\n\nMr McDonnell will say the MPs' report this week \"once again highlighted the catastrophic failure and inadequacy of our regulatory system\".\n\nMr McDonnell says there must be a crackdown on poor auditing and accountancy practice\n\nAccounting and pensions regulators \"have once more failed to do their jobs\" he will say, and the lack of transparency means \"nobody ever seems to be punished for their transgressions\".\n\nHe will criticise the \"regulatory maze\" - citing 29 regulators for the financial sector alone - for creating opportunities for \"waste, duplication, obfuscation and buck-passing\".\n\n\"That is why it is essential that we have a crackdown on poor practices in the accounting and auditing industry,\" he will say.\n\n\"Under the next Labour government the big six firms will not be allowed to continue to act like a cartel that prevents new market entrants or drive down standards.\n\n\"Otherwise it will further infect the rest of our economy and business community. \"\n\nThousands of people lost their jobs when Carillion collapsed in January.\n\nIt held numerous public contracts, such as the maintenance of schools and prisons, all of which had to be brought under government control, at a cost to the taxpayer.\n\nIn a damning 100-page report last week, the Work and Pensions and the Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy committees said:\n\nBut Carillion's former finance director, Richard Adam, said he rejected the committees' conclusions and objected to quotes in the MPs' report, which he said had been misattributed to him.\n\nAnd former chairman Philip Green said the board had \"always strived to act in the interests of the company and all its stakeholders\".\n\nResponding to the MPs' report, a KPMG spokesman said it had conducted its audits of Carillion \"appropriately\", and Ernst & Young said it was \"disappointed that despite all efforts the business was not rescued\".\n\nDeloitte said it was \"disappointed\" with the committees' conclusions while PwC said it was helping save \"thousands of jobs\" as the official receiver.", "The body of 85-year-old Rosina Coleman was found at her home in Romford\n\nA 65-year-old man has been arrested over the murder of an 85-year-old woman in her home in Romford.\n\nRosina Coleman was found beaten to death in Ashmour Gardens in Romford, east London, at about 11:30 BST on Tuesday.\n\nPolice described the killing as a \"cowardly assault\". A post mortem gave the cause of death as blunt force trauma to the head and neck.\n\nThe man was held on suspicion of murder at an address in Romford on Friday.\n\nPolice believe Mrs Coleman was attacked between 07:30 and 11:30 on 15 May.\n\nDet Ins Paul Considine said: \"Every fragment of information is beneficial to our investigation and it is imperative that we gather as much evidence as we can against the person responsible for this horrendous offence.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Duchess of Cambridge arrived with Princess Charlotte, who could just be seen peeking out of the car window", "A vigil has taken place to remember the 10 people who died and the 10 others injured after a student opened fire at a Texas high school, the state governor said.\n\nThe attacker has been identified as Dimitrios Pagourtzis, a 17-year-old pupil at Santa Fe High School.\n\nMost of the ten people who died were students, police said.", "Every royal wedding is different. But every royal wedding is an opportunity, in some way, to relaunch the Royal Family.\n\nBig weddings like this come along pretty rarely and they are now the object of global fascination.\n\nSo it represents a great opportunity to say: \"This is who the Royal Family are these days.\"\n\nBut this is a very different royal wedding.\n\nIt's different because of the style of the arrangements for the day itself.\n\nFrom small things, like the cake (not a traditional big heavy fruitcake covered with bullet-proof icing), to bigger things, like a gospel choir performing at the service.\n\nTo more remarkable decisions, like the invitation to 1,200 members of the public to enjoy the occasion in the grounds of Windsor Castle.\n\nThe Royal Wedding is being embraced as a people's celebration\n\nAfter the death in 1997 of Prince Harry's mother, Diana, Princess of Wales, she was described by the-then Prime Minister Tony Blair as \"the people's princess\".\n\nThis may not be \"the people's wedding\", but it is about as close to it as any royal wedding has got.\n\nRight from the start, the couple said they wanted to make this a more inclusive event - and they have done a fair bit, by royal standards, to make that happen.\n\nIt will look and feel different from the royal weddings that came before. And, of course, the wedding is also different because of the bride - very different.\n\nIt's not that she is a commoner. There have now been a fair few non-aristocrats marrying into the family over the years.\n\nNor is it that she is divorced, although it was only 82 years ago that a future king abdicated so that he could marry a divorcee - and 50-odd years ago that the late Princess Margaret relinquished the love of her life because he was divorced.\n\nMeghan Markle's family is not accustomed to the royal way of doing things\n\nNor is it that Meghan is American - marrying foreigners is par for the course for the British Royal Family.\n\nThe shambles over who would walk Ms Markle down the aisle is reminder of another, stark, difference - hers is a family, who don't appear to know the rules about becoming a member of the Royal Family, or - if they do - clearly couldn't care less.\n\nBut it is the fact that she is, in her own words, \"biracial\" - that her mother is African American - that is breathtaking, some might say revolutionary, for the Royal Family.\n\nAnd there's more. She has (or had) a job! She has (or had) a public profile! She is a very effective communicator, arguably better than any member of the Royal Family.\n\nWhat's more, she is a self-confessed feminist, a high-profile member of the #MeToo generation.\n\nSo the arrival of Meghan Markle marks a huge change for what is still a clearly traditional and, some would say, pretty hidebound institution.\n\nThere has been talk of her modernising - or even saving - the monarchy. The Royal Family continuously needs to renew itself, and it has proved pretty adept at that.\n\nMs Markle is certainly dragging them into the Instagram age, but just how much she can change it we will have to wait and see.\n\nShe has said previously: \"I never wanted to be a lady who lunches, I always wanted to be a lady who works.\"\n\nWell, the royal role is lunches. And teas. And opening hospitals and attending charity functions.\n\nAnd looking good, and nodding a lot, and not saying much beyond asking what people do and commenting on the weather.\n\nDon't get me wrong, it is important work - hard work, at times, often boring work, I imagine. But it is not what she is used to.\n\nSo we wait to see - does Meghan change the Royal Family? Or does the Royal Family change her?", "Northern services operate across the North East, North West and Yorkshire\n\nTrain services across large parts of the north of England are set to undergo a major change this weekend.\n\nRail routes covered by Northern will see current train times and stopping patterns change from Sunday.\n\nArriva Rail North Ltd, which operates the Northern franchise, says 90% of the services will be affected and there may be some disruption.\n\nThe firm operates services across the north from Liverpool, Manchester, Leeds, Sheffield and Newcastle.\n\nNorthern said it was \"a significant operational challenge\" and the biggest change in many years.\n\nIt said passengers should check their travel arrangements before embarking on a journey.\n\nNorthern said it expected some localised disruption to services\n\nThe company said there would be an extra 1,300 services added to the network.\n\nNorthern's train planners said their efforts were hampered by an electrification delay on parts of the routes \"leaving less than four months to fully re-plan our May 2018 timetable, less than half the normal time required\".\n\nA spokesman said: \"This is a significant operational challenge, and given the late nature of the planning for this, we do expect some localised service disruption, which could happen at very short notice while the new timetable beds in.\n\n\"We will continue to do everything we can to ensure we minimise any service disruption and keep customers informed.\n\n\"Over the last four weeks we have been focused on ensuring our customers know that timetables are changing with a 'check before you travel' message across stations, trains and online channels.\"\n\nIn April, a regional director of Arriva Rail North firm sent scathing tweets to people who complained about the services.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "From Charles taking Doria's hand, to \"thank you Pa\", here are some moments to remember...\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIt's been a tumultuous week for the Markles and the Raglands. Had all gone to plan, Doria Ragland's former husband, Thomas Markle, would have walked their daughter down the aisle.\n\nBut he underwent heart surgery this week, putting him out of the picture, while Ms Markle's half-siblings never received an invitation.\n\nThe bride's side of St George's Chapel seemed a very lonely place - Doria Ragland was the only member of the family there.\n\nDressed in a pale green Oscar de la Renta outfit, side-set hat and delicate nose stud, she looked emotional, deep in thought and, at times, a little lost.\n\nSo, at the signing of the register, she appeared relieved to take the guiding hand of Prince Charles - on what must have been a daunting and surreal occasion.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe first glimpse of the groom suggested Prince Harry, in full military regalia, was in typical buoyant spirits, smiling and laughing as he waved to the crowds of well-wishers on his arrival.\n\nBut the smile faded, and the emotion of the occasion was etched on his face, as he waited at the altar for his bride to arrive.\n\nAs she entered on the arm of his father, Prince Charles, Harry looked close to tears. He mouthed \"thank you Pa\" to his dad as he took his seat.\n\nDuring the service, the prince couldn't seem to relax. In contrast, Ms Markle cut a much calmer figure, smiling often and looking into the eyes of her husband-to-be.\n\nIt was only once out of the chapel and onto the streets in the carriage procession that Prince Harry seemed to breathe again - and relax.\n\nThe big reveal came as a burgundy Rolls Royce Phantom pulled up at the foot of the chapel steps.\n\nOut stepped pageboys - Brian and John Mulroney - and then came the bride, trailing a five-metre fine silk veil, embroidered with the flowers of each country in the Commonwealth.\n\nThe gap-toothed twins rushed around to lift the veil off the ground as Ms Markle walked alone into the chapel.\n\nTo fashion expert Jo Elvin, the sculpted white boat-neck gown by British designer Clare Waight Keller for French fashion house Givenchy, was a stroke of genius.\n\n\"It compliments her style that she's known for,\" she said.\n\nDavid Emanuel, who designed Princess Diana's dress, said it was \"very clever\" to include the Commonwealth flowers in the veil.\n\n\"I think Diana would have approved.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. US bishop wows with his wedding address\n\nThe American bishop Michael Curry, invited by Ms Markle, got the guests smiling and giggling in their pews.\n\nBishop Curry's theme was the power of love, and he soon had his audience falling a little bit in love with him.\n\nGesticulating in a style far removed from any other royal wedding ceremony, he addressed the audience as \"brothers and sisters\" and told them: \"There's power in love, don't underestimate it.\"\n\nThe bride and groom sat near the preacher, holding hands as he spoke.\n\nAnd when he went on for too long, carried away by the moment, he told them: \"We gotta get you all married!\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prince Harry and Meghan share their first kiss on the steps outside St George's Chapel\n\nIt's always The Moment in every royal wedding.\n\nUsually on the balcony at Buckingham Palace, this kiss had a rather more low-key, down-to-earth feel about it.\n\nThe bride, looking demure, and the prince held hands as they walked out of St George's Chapel and on to the West Steps.\n\nOne lip reader says Ms Markle discreetly asked her new husband: \"Do we kiss?\"\n\nTo which the prince quietly replied: \"Yeah\".\n\nA jubilant crowd, ready with their mobile phones, zoomed in. One for the album.\n\nThe best way to get news on the go", "Guests including David and Victoria Beckham, as well as George and Amal Clooney, have arrived.", "Motorists face tougher MOT tests on their vehicles from Sunday, as an updated test introduces new categories under which a vehicle can fail or pass.\n\nThe categories include \"dangerous\", \"major\" and \"minor\" which determine whether a car, van or motorcycle must be taken off the road or can be driven as long as repairs are carried out.\n\nThe MOT will also be tougher on diesel emissions.\n\nVehicles with a diesel particulate filter will now have to pass new tests.\n\nThat filter captures and stores exhaust soot to reduce emissions.\n\nA diesel vehicle will fail its MOT if there is smoke of any colour coming from the exhaust or there is any evidence that the diesel particulate filter has been tampered with.\n\nThese faults will be classed as \"major\" under the new categories.\n\nDefects found during an MOT will be categorised as:\n\nNamed originally after the Ministry of Transport, there are 30 million MOT tests a year in Britain. And around a third of them fail with indicators and lights being the most common cause. Now that number is set to rise - initially at least - as the test gets a bit tougher.\n\nIt will be especially strenuous on diesel cars, and that affects around half of UK road users. Most newer diesels have a particulate filter but if the tester sees any smoke at all emerging from the exhaust, that car will fail. If someone has tampered with the filter, that too is a 'fail'.\n\nThe advice as ever is to regularly check for any leaks, low tyre pressure and that all your lights - front, side and back - are working. Fail to prepare: prepare to fail.\n\nA wider range of a vehicle's parts will also be tested including: the tyres, to check if they are underinflated; the brake fluid, to investigate if it has been contaminated; and fluid leaks, to make sure they do not pose an environmental risk.\n\nThe full list can be found here.\n\nThere is good news for drivers of classic cars - vehicles more than 40 years old, or produced before 31 May 1978, will not need an MOT.\n\nA spokesman for the RAC motoring organisation said these vehicles were often \"rare classics\" and well maintained by their owners so were \"deemed not to be such a road risk\".\n\nThe best way to get news on the go", "Coverage of the ceremony from St George's Chapel in the grounds of Windsor Castle and procession.", "Meghan Markle has left her hotel with her mother Doria Ragland en route to marry Prince Harry.", "An H-6K bomber is believed to have landed on Woody Island\n\nChina has for the first time landed bombers on disputed territory in the South China Sea, its air force said, prompting fresh US warnings that it is destabilising the region.\n\nThe long-range H-6K bomber was among those which took part in drills on islands and reefs to improve China's ability to \"reach all territory\".\n\nThe sea, a key trade route, is subject to overlapping claims by six countries.\n\nChina has been accused of militarising the sea to support its vast claims.\n\nThe latest move could provoke new tension in the region.\n\nBeijing's defence ministry did not specify where the bombers landed but said the training involved simulated strikes against sea targets.\n\nAn H-6K pilot, Ge Daqing, was quoted in a statement as saying that the training \"sharpens our courage and enhances our capabilities in a real war\".\n\nExperts from the Asia Maritime Transparency Initiative (AMTI) said a video from the Chinese Communist Party's People's Daily newspaper showed an H-6K landing and taking off from a base on Woody Island, the largest of the Paracel Islands.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by People's Daily,China This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nWoody Island, which China calls Yongxing, is also claimed by Vietnam and Taiwan.\n\nAlthough China has deployed fighter jets to Woody Island in the past, this is the first time bombers have landed on a South China Sea island, the AMTI said. It added that an H-6K could reach all of South East Asia from the island.\n\nAnalysts say bombers will likely soon land in the Spratly Islands further south, where runways and hangars have been built on reefs.\n\nFrom there H-6Ks could reach northern Australia or US bases on Guam, says the AMTI.\n\nThe US has sailed warships close to artificial islands built by Beijing in the South China Sea to challenge what it sees as Chinese efforts to restrict freedom of navigation in a strategically important area.\n\nA Pentagon spokesman told Reuters news agency that the US \"remains committed to a free and open Indo-Pacific\".\n\n\"We have seen these same reports and China's continued militarisation of disputed features in the South China Sea only serves to raise tensions and destabilise the region,\" Lt Col Christopher Logan said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Rupert Wingfield-Hayes says China is determined to assert its control", "Josh Warrington made history by becoming the first man from Leeds to win a world boxing title with a stunning split-decision upset victory over Wales' Lee Selby.\n\nSelby, who was cut above both eyes by accidental head clashes inside the first six rounds, could not recover from a superb start by the Yorkshireman.\n\nThe judges scored the contest 116-112 115-113 113-115, giving Warrington the IBF world featherweight title at Elland Road, home of his beloved Leeds United.\n\nWarrington, 27, came into the fight as a 4-1 outsider with the bookmakers but produced the performance of a lifetime, showing relentless energy and courage as he continued to power forward for 36 pulsating minutes.\n\nSelby, 31, had said he would be at ease in the \"Lion's Den\" but he could not overcome what Warrington served up in front of a hostile crowd as he moved to 27 wins from as many bouts.\n\nThe Welshman came back into the contest in the middle rounds but Warrington finished strongly and could now be set for a trip to Belfast to face former two-weight world champion Carl Frampton in August.\n\nSelby's defeat was a first defeat in nine years and just the second in his career.\n\nStadium fights in the UK are becoming commonplace, so much so that this was the fifth in a little over a year in an outdoor arena.\n\nBut there was something of a throwback about this one, with Selby figuratively taking on the might of an entire football club.\n\nWarrington is synonymous with Leeds United - he is the chairman of their supporters' club - and there was palpable excitement in the air even before his extraordinary ring entrance.\n\nWarrington's ring walk will endure in the memory, with one of Leeds' greatest ever players, Lucas Radebe, leading out the challenger as the strains of the Kaiser Chiefs - named after Radebe's first club - played him in with 'I Predict A Riot'.\n\nBoth Ricky Hatton and Tony Bellew have fought at the football stadiums of the clubs they love, Manchester City and Everton respectively, but Leeds is not a city with split footballing loyalties and the wall of noise that greeted Warrington was special even by recent standards.\n\nHowever, the noise was equally loud for Selby's ring walk - a chorus of boos and abuse, rather than cheers and adulation.\n\nHaving made the bold statement that his previous four title defences, against Fernando Montiel, Eric Hunter, Jonathan Victor Barros and Eduardo Ramirez, were all tougher foes than Warrington, silencing the home crowd was to be no easy task, especially as Warrington began aggressively and on the front foot.\n\nWarrington was relentless in the early exchanges, tagging Selby above his left eye and opening a cut at the start of the second session from a clash of heads.\n\nHe won both the opening rounds and was asking more questions of Selby than many would have expected.\n\nA clash of styles and a clash of heads\n\nKnown as the 'Welsh Floyd Mayweather' for his mean defensive skills, Selby was expected to box off the back foot and allow Warrington to be the aggressor, but he was drawn into a toe-to-toe dust-up, arguably playing into Warrington's game plan perfectly.\n\nIt stood to reason that Warrington would have a good game plan for the Welshman, considering his trainer and father Sean O'Hagan prepared Samir Mouneimne, the featherweight who inflicted Selby's only previous career defeat in 2009.\n\nAnother clash of heads in the sixth round opened another cut, this time around Selby's right eye, and prompted a furious reaction from Selby's corner, especially when it seemed referee Michael Alexander was contemplating ending the action.\n\nHowever, with his cornerman Chris Sanigar minimising the damage from the cuts, Selby began to come on strong in the later rounds, still trading with Warrington but using his reach advantage to ensure he was landing when the home favourite was missing.\n\nHe may wish he had adopted the tactic from the start but Warrington continued to press with punches to the back of the head aggravating Selby, who complained throughout the contest to no avail.\n\nWarrington continued to come forward, however, and showed he has more than merited the big fights and pay days ahead.\n\nAfter the fight, Selby didn't speak to the media, but new world featherweight champion Warrington said: \"I can't put it into words, I've worked hard over the last 18 weeks and during that time I've had two baby girls born. I'm overcome with emotion, it was sheer grit, and the crowd got me through this.\n\nOn a potential fight with Carl Frampton in Belfast, Warrington added: \"I don't mind going anywhere.\n\n\"I've been a fan of Carl's and two weeks ago I said I would beat Lee Selby and go to Windsor Park. We will sit down with Frank Warren and get the fight sorted.\n\n\"But I prefer the end of the year as I need some time to be a dad and let this sink in.\"\n\nFrampton, who was ringside for 5 live, said: \"I would love to fight Josh Warrington. I would love him to come to Belfast and fight me.\n\n\"It was a fantastic performance. My next fight will be in Belfast, that's all I know.\"\n\nBBC Sport boxing correspondent Mike Costello: That was a special, special performance. Warrington was told he would need the performance of his life and he has produced it. It was a magical performance.\n\nFormer British and European champion Jamie Moore on BBC Radio 5 live: It's a fantastic performance and Josh has sent a statement out to the featherweight division.\n\nI don't think he will be ready to face Carl Frampton on 18 August. It would be unfair for Josh Warrington to do that. Three months turnaround is far too much.\n\nA lot of us have overlooked Josh Warrington. He has shocked a lot of people tonight.", "The Church of Scotland has moved a step closer to allowing ministers to conduct same-sex marriages.\n\nThe Kirk's General Assembly backed a motion which tasked a committee with drafting church law on the issue.\n\nIts legal questions committee was asked to report back to the annual meeting of the decision-making body in 2020.\n\nUnder the plans outlined in the motion, ministers and deacons would be allowed to conduct same-sex weddings \"if they wish\".\n\nThe motion was carried by 345 votes to 170 and the result was announced on the Church of Scotland's official Twitter feed.\n\nThe move comes almost a year after the Scottish Episcopal Church voted to allow gay couples to marry in church.\n\nIt became the first major Christian church in the UK to allow same-sex marriage.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Church of 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 Church of Scotland\n\nThe vote came after the Right Rev Susan Brown was installed as Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland at the beginning of the gathering in Edinburgh.\n\nA minister of Dornoch Cathedral in the Highlands, she was previously known for presiding over the wedding of Madonna and Guy Ritchie in 2000.\n\nHer appointment came in the year the Church marks the 50th anniversary of the ordination of women.\n\nThe 59-year-old is the fourth woman to hold the title.\n\nSpeaking before the ceremony, Mrs Brown said: \"The prospect of becoming Moderator of the General Assembly is slightly scary but incredibly exciting.\n\n\"It will be a challenging year but I am really up for it.\n\n\"As the ambassador for the Church, I am really looking forward to meeting people and hearing their stories as my theme is 'walking with'.\n\n\"I also want to highlight how important walking, which is an ancient spiritual tradition, is for our physical and mental health, an issue that I plan to raise with political leaders.\"\n\nThe Right Rev Susan Brown was installed as Moderator in a ceremony at the beginning of the General Assembly.\n\nNicola Sturgeon and the Duke of Buccleuch, who represented the Queen as Lord High Commissioner to the Assembly, were at the ceremony.\n\nDuring the ceremony her predecessor, the Very Rev Dr Derek Browning, welcomed the new Moderator saying, \"full-blooded, soul-warming, kind-hearted parish ministry,\" has been the centre of her work.\n\n\"On this year when we celebrate the 50th anniversary of the ordination of women to the Ministry of Word and Sacrament it is particularly special that you as a committed parish minister will be our Moderator,\" Dr Browning added,\n\n\"It is also a delight that having served in two Highland parishes that you will also represent that important part of our country for the first time in a number of years.\"\n\nAbout 730 commissioners from Scotland and beyond are attending the General Assembly on The Mound to make decisions on matters of Kirk policy and governance.\n\nThe Duke of Buccleuch was given an official welcome to Holyrood Palace in Edinburgh on Friday\n\nDuring the Church of Scotland's Assembly on Tuesday, a public procession will take place to mark 50 years of the ordination of women within the Kirk.\n\nNearly 300 people are expected to take part in the event in central Edinburgh, exactly half a century on from the Assembly's decision in 1968 to permit women to become ministers.\n\nWednesday brings discussion of a report from the Church and Society Council, which proposes the Kirk \"should, over the next two years, divest from fossil fuel companies unless there is clear evidence that these companies are themselves modifying their policy and practice\".\n\nThe General Assembly meets for a week every year in May. It has the authority to make laws determining how the Church operates and can also act as the Kirk's highest court.\n\nThis year's Assembly closes on Friday 25 May.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Five English pubs built after the Second World War have been given Grade II listed status by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport on the advice of Historic England.\n\nThe pubs are valued for their architecture and history, including one designed around the nursery rhyme \"This is the House that Jack Built\", and one themed around the Romans in Britain.\n\nTheir new listed status means they will receive special protection, so they can be enjoyed by current and future generations.\n\nIn post-war years, thousands of pubs were built in areas such as housing estates, next to shops, community halls, churches and in cities damaged by wartime bombing.\n\nFrom the 1960s onwards, themed pubs became increasingly popular.\n\nNewly-listed pub The Centurion in Bath was built in 1965 and features a large bronze figure of a Roman Centurion on its exterior and a statue of Julius Caesar in the lounge bar.\n\nThe building is a rectangular block of four floors, clad in reconstituted Bath stone, and retains many of its original fittings, including aluminium doors and rubber seals which formed part of a pressuring system to counteract draughts.\n\nThe Never Turn Back pub, built in 1957, is the only pub in the country with the name. It was chosen as a memorial to the Caister Lifeboat disaster of 1901 in which nine lifeboatmen died.\n\nThe pub's designer, AW Ecclestone, focused on using traditional materials like flint and cobbles, in a Moderne and Art Deco architecture styles that references its coastal location and association with the local lifeboat service.\n\nThe tower is designed to resemble a ship's wheelhouse and a lookout tower.\n\nEstate pub The Crumpled Horn in Swindon was built in 1975, designed by Roy Wilson-Smith and based on the theme of the nursery rhyme 'This is the House that Jack Built'.\n\nThe pub was built as an irregular eight-sided polygon and contains a single bar area with the layout of a spiralling \"nautilus shell\", reflecting the horn in the nursery rhyme the pub is named after.\n\nThe asymmetrical roof and ramshackle brickwork reflects the eccentric craftsmanship given by the architect.\n\nThe Wheatsheaf pub, built in 1970 under direction from pub designers John and Sylvia Reid, served the new residential estate Heatherside.\n\nThe stepped roof profile creates spaces filled with glazed panels, forming a series of windows at high level.\n\nToday the pub still has its 1970s features: woodwool ceiling panels, exposed brick, and quarry tiles.\n\nThe Queen Bess pub, named after a record-breaking blast furnace at the nearby Appleby-Frodingham steelworks, is one of the best-preserved surviving examples of a post-war pub built by a major brewery.\n\nBrewery Samuel Smith's of Tadcaster opened The Queen Bess in 1959 and designed the pub to be compatible with the new housing developments nearby.\n\nThe building has a modest exterior of brick, with a plain tile roof covering, designed to be compatible with the new housing developments nearby.\n\nThe pub retains a high proportion of original interior fixtures and fittings, including bar counters, back bars, fixed seating and door joinery and furniture.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAmerican Bishop Michael Curry has captured the world's attention with a long and powerful address at the wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle.\n\nThe Chicago-born bishop spoke passionately about the power of love, quoting Dr Martin Luther King Jr.\n\n\"There's power in love, don't underestimate it,\" he said. The wide-ranging and colourful speech was seen as a significant break from tradition.\n\nThe Most Reverend Michael Curry became the first black presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church - like the Church of England, part of the Anglican Communion - when he was appointed in 2015.\n\nHe has spoken out on social justice issues in the past, including LGBT rights and sexual abuse.\n\nThe address, replete with historical references, had churchgoers, including David Beckham and the Duchess of Cornwall smiling. Others appeared transfixed.\n\nThe bride and groom, who invited Bishop Curry to speak, sat near the preacher and held hands as they watched him speak.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nBishop Curry addressed the audience as \"brothers and sisters\".\n\n\"When love is the way, we will let justice roll down like a mighty stream and righteousness like an ever-flowing brook,\" he said, quoting the bible and raising his arms.\n\n\"When love is the way, poverty will become history. When love is the way, the Earth will be a sanctuary.\"\n\nHe continued, referencing the African-American spiritual song Down by the Riverside, which was sung by slaves: \"When love is the way, we will lay down our swords and shields down by the riverside to study war no more.\n\n\"When love is the way, there's plenty good room, plenty good room for all of God's children.\n\n\"Because when love is the way, we actually treat each other, well, like we're actually family.\"\n\nBut Bishop Curry appeared to realise he may have gone on speaking for too long, saying towards the end of the speech that he had better wrap up, as \"we gotta get you all married!\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Emily Nash This article contains content provided by Twitter. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBefore the ceremony, the Most Reverend Justin Welby, who officiated the ceremony in St George's Chapel, said he was thrilled the prince and Ms Markle had chosen Bishop Curry, describing him as a \"brilliant pastor, stunning preacher\".\n\nThe speech - described by some as the \"fire\" speech for the large number of references made to it by the preacher - lit up social media.\n\nFormer Labour Party leader Ed Miliband said the bishop could \"almost make me a believer\".\n\nHis Labour colleague David Lammy was also impressed.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by David Lammy This 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\nBishop Curry spoke at length in the last part of his speech about fire, quoting the late French philosopher and Jesuit priest Pierre Teilhard de Chardin.\n\nThe Frenchman, he said, had \"suggested that the discovery and harnessing of fire was one of the great technological discoveries of human history\".\n\nHe then listed the many uses of fire, from cooking food, to aviation, to \"broadcasting this wedding around the world\".\n\nThe preacher later returned to de Chardin, who he said had argued that \"if humanity ever captured the energy of love, it would be the second time in history that we have discovered fire\".\n\nWhen we discover the \"redemptive power of love\", he said, \"we will make of this old world, a new world\".\n\nTalking to the bride and groom, he finished his speech by saying: \"My brother, my sister, God love you, God bless you, and may God hold us all in those almighty hands of love.\"", "Prince Harry meets the crowds in Windsor, while Meghan Markle arrives at her hotel ahead of the couple's wedding on Saturday.", "The BBC meets couples across the UK sharing their big day with Harry and Meghan.", "Prince Harry looked relaxed, waving to the crowds, as he made his way to the chapel with his brother, the Duke of Cambridge", "Coverage: Live on BBC One (Football Focus at 14:00, live coverage starts from 16.10) and BBC Radio 5 live, and available to stream on the BBC Sport website, app and iPlayer\n\nChelsea manager Antonio Conte says he will shake Jose Mourinho's hand when his side face Manchester United in the FA Cup final at Wembley on Saturday.\n\nThe two managers have endured a tense relationship during their time in opposing dugouts in the Premier League.\n\nBut Conte said on Friday: \"Tomorrow I will shake his hand and both of us will think of the game.\n\n\"It is not important what happened [previously]. There is a normal relationship between me and him.\"\n\nA long-running feud stretches back to October 2016, Conte's first season in England, when the Italian upset Mourinho with his celebrations following Chelsea's 4-0 home win over United.\n\nIn January, Conte described the Portuguese as \"a little man\" following a barbed exchange in the media.\n\nIs Conte on his way?\n\nConte has been tipped to leave Chelsea this summer and when questioned about his future teased the media, declaring: \"I can say for sure this will be my last match, this season.\n\n\"For me and my players it will be the last game for us. Then, as you know very well, I have a contract and I'm committed to the club.\"\n\nMourinho refused to speculate about Conte's future, saying: \"Until it's official that Antonio leaves I don't know. Honestly, you ask me if I'm interested in it - I'm just curious about it.\n\n\"In relation to the match tomorrow, if it is his last match or if it isn't his last match I don't think it will change at all his approach to the game and his desire to make it through and his desire to win.\"\n\nAs well as his relationship with the Chelsea manager, ex-Blues boss Mourinho was also asked whether there was mutual respect with the Chelsea fans.\n\n\"The only thing I say in relation to Chelsea supporters is that since my first day in 2004 until my last day when I was sacked a couple of years ago, they were with me unconditionally,\" said the 55-year-old, who won eight trophies at Stamford Bridge.\n\n\"They supported me every day. They supported me every match. They supported me even on the days I was sacked - twice, once in 2008 or something and another one a couple of years ago.\n\n\"That I will never forget because they did what I think great supporters do, which is to support their manager unconditionally until the last day.\n\n\"In relation to Chelsea supporters, this I don't forget: they were phenomenal.\"\n\nWe deserve the chance to win - Conte\n\nConte lost last year's Cup final - and the chance to record a double in his first season - with a 2-1 defeat against Arsenal, a game he described as \"strange\".\n\nThis year, his team's defence of the Premier League title resulted in a fifth-place finish, 30 points behind champions Manchester City, and the 48-year-old former Juventus boss said: \"We have to fight against a really good team and we want to fight.\n\n\"For us this game is very important because we have in a difficult season [the chance] to finish the season with a trophy.\"\n\nSeason will not be judged on outcome - Mourinho\n\nMourinho says his team's campaign will not be judged on the outcome of Saturday's final.\n\nUnited finished second in the Premier League - their highest placing since the 2012-13 season - but will be without silverware this season if they fail to defeat the Blues.\n\n\"I'm not going to change my analysis of the season because of one match,\" Mourinho said.\n\n\"You can analyse the way you want to.\"\n\nThe former Chelsea boss has won 12 cup competitions during his club career and, in his first season in charge at Old Trafford, won both the Europa League and League Cup.\n\n\"I think the winning mentality doesn't have to do with records or history in finals,\" he added.\n\n\"I honestly think what we did in the past has nothing to do with tomorrow and the records don't matter. What matters is 11 against 11 and everybody trying to give their best.\"\n\nContests between the two finalists have been tight in recent years with only three or more goals scored on three occasions in the past 13 meetings.\n\nWhen asked whether Saturday's match will be an open game, Mourinho said: \"I still don't understand these words of 'entertaining'. You think 6-0 is entertaining? I don't think so.\"\n\nAnalysis - are both managers being negative?\n\n\"In Antonio Conte, I have seen and listened to a manager who has pretty much complained from the very first game of the season to the last day about his squad.\n\n\"That will have a negative effect because you are one of those players and he's saying you are not good enough. Not directly but by the complaints he's saying that.\n\n\"Jose Mourinho is saying certain things to players publicly. Maybe these players are actually starting to feel 'you're not the guy who is going get me motivated anymore'.\n\n\"There's a difference between application and mentality, and you looking at your manager and thinking 'you're annoying me a little bit in terms of the comments you are making about me, I don't feel like you are supporting me any more'.\"", "Sir Eric Pickles is among those going to the House of Lords\n\nDowning Street has nominated nine new Conservative peers, including a number of former ministers, to sit in the House of Lords.\n\nAmong those put forward for a peerage are former communities secretary Sir Eric Pickles and former trade and industry secretary Peter Lilley.\n\nThe move follows a series of government defeats in the Lords, where Theresa May does not have a majority, over Brexit.\n\nThe Democratic Unionists will get one new peer while Labour will get three.\n\nThe Lib Dems, which have more than 100 peers in the unelected chamber, said it was a \"desperate bid\" by Theresa May to quell opposition to her Brexit policy.\n\nThe full list of Conservative nominations is:\n\nAll six of the MPs on the list stood down at the 2015 and 2017 general elections. Of the former MPs nominated, Mr Lilley is the only prominent Brexiteer.\n\nThe government has suffered 15 defeats in the Lords during the passage of its flagship EU Withdrawal Bill, by majorities ranging from about 30 votes to more than 100.\n\nPeers have snubbed Theresa May by calling for negotiations on remaining within a customs union with the EU and staying within the European Economic Area.\n\nPeter Lilley and Sir Edward Garnier are among other Tory nominees\n\nThey could be asked to vote on these issues again if their amendments to the Bill are overturned by MPs.\n\nOther crucial Brexit legislation, relating to subjects such as trade and immigration, has yet to be considered by Parliament.\n\nAt the moment, 244 of the 780 peers in the House of Lords take the Conservative whip, more than any other party but well short of the number required to give the government a majority.\n\nAmanda Sater is a former Tory deputy chair and unsuccessful parliamentary candidate\n\nLabour leader Jeremy Corbyn has nominated the party's former longstanding general secretary Iain McNicol, veteran campaigner and ex-councillor Martha Osamor - whose daughter Kate is a member of the shadow cabinet - and socialist author and activist Pauline Bryan.\n\nThe list, which has to be approved by the Queen, is completed by former DUP MP Dr William McCrea, a Free Presbyterian minister who was MP for Mid Ulster between 1983 and 1997 and for South Antrim between 2000 and 2015.\n\nFriday's appointments have to be vetted by the House of Lords Appointments Commission although the body does not have the powers to reject individuals.\n\nSir Eric, a former leader of Bradford Council who served as MP for Brentwood and Ongar for 25 years and in the cabinet for five years, tweeted that he was \"looking forward to returning to Westminster\".\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\nLord Newby, the leader of the Lib Dems in the House of Lords, said it was a \"cynical response\" from the PM to losing a string of votes in recent weeks. \"The PM is running scared of the mounting criticism of her disastrous handling of Brexit,\" he said.\n\nThe PM has faced calls to limit the number of new peers she appoints amid anger at the size of the unelected chamber, which has 130 more members than the Commons.\n\nLord Fowler, the former Conservative cabinet minister who is now Lords Speaker, said he welcomed the PM's \"restraint\" in keeping numbers down - pointing out that 35 peers had either retired or died since the 2017 general election.\n\n\"The size of the House is falling, and our aim is to continue that progress,\" he said. \"The relatively modest size of today's list when compared with those under several previous prime ministers has demonstrated a welcome commitment to that pledge.\"", "Tensions between the UK and Argentina over the Falkland Islands have eased since 2015\n\nBoris Johnson is to make the first visit by a British foreign secretary to Argentina for 25 years.\n\nMr Johnson will seek to take advantage of the improvement in relations with Buenos Aires since President Mauricio Macri came to power in 2015.\n\nMr Macri has talked of lifting curbs on oil, fishing and shipping around the Falkland Islands as tensions eased.\n\nMr Johnson will also visit Peru and Chile, in an effort to boost post-Brexit trade, during the five-day tour.\n\nMr Macri has promised a \"new kind of relationship\" with the UK following a decade of tensions over the Falklands Islands, a UK overseas territory located about 530km (330 miles) off Argentina's coast, over which Buenos Aires has long claimed sovereignty and whose invasion in 1982 led to a 74-day military conflict with the UK.\n\nHis predecessors Nestor and Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner sought to isolate the Falklands economically, putting pressure on British and US companies not to drill for oil in the waters around the islands and requiring all vessels travelling between Argentina and the islands to seek prior permission.\n\nSince Mr Macri came to power, greater dialogue between the countries has resulted in more direct flights between the islands and Argentina and a project to help identify the remains of unknown Argentine soldiers who died during the conflict and were buried on the islands.\n\nThe UK is keen on deeper economic and political co-operation with Argentina but has insisted the question of the Falklands' sovereignty is not on the table.\n\nIn 2013 the islanders voted overwhelmingly to remain a UK territory.\n\nAs well as holding talks with Mr Macri, Mr Johnson will attend a meeting of G20 foreign ministers in Buenos Aires. This is a precursor to a summit of world leaders in the country in November which will mark the end of Argentina's annual presidency of the body.\n\nDuring his trip to Peru - the first by a British foreign secretary since the 1960s - Mr Johnson will venture into the Amazonian rain forest to visit an animal rescue centre and a school, whose electricity and drinking water are provided by a UK-funded solar heating scheme.\n\nThe focus of the final leg of his trip to Chile will be on trade, with the UK keen to increase its currently low level of exports to the country. Chile has a free trade agreement with the EU which the UK wants to roll over after Brexit.\n\n\"Latin America is a vibrant and dynamic part of the world that works closely with the UK on a number of issues including trade, security, science, infrastructure and education, among others,\" Mr Johnson said ahead of the trip.", "Luc Besson's lawyer said he \"categorically denies\" the rape allegation\n\nPolice in Paris are investigating a rape allegation made against Luc Besson, one of France's best-known film directors.\n\nThe complaint was filed by an actress at a Paris police station on Friday.\n\n\"Luc Besson categorically denies these fantasist accusations,\" the director's lawyer Thierry Marembert told the AFP news agency.\n\n\"[The complainant] is someone he knows, towards whom he has never behaved inappropriately.\"\n\nBesson, 59, a director, producer and screenwriter, is most famous for directing the 1988 film Le Grand Bleu, as well as Leon, Subway, The Fifth Element and action thriller Nikita.\n\nHe recently directed the sci-fi epic Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets, starring Dane DeHaan and Cara Delevingne.", "Lava burst from the ground in Kapoho on Thursday, two weeks after the first eruption\n\nIn early May, one of Hawaii's active volcanoes - which helped create the islands - erupted. Volcanic gases have been erupting from fissures ever since, producing dramatic photographs and video.\n\nTwo weeks later, it is still erupting. Here, volcanologists Tamsin Mather and David Pyle from Oxford University explain what's happening beneath the surface.\n\nKīlauea volcano is the most active volcano on Hawaii's Big Island.\n\nThere has been an ongoing eruption to the east of the summit in the East Rift Zone since 1983, mainly centred around the Pu'u 'Ō'ō vent.\n\n3 May: Ash spews from the Pu'u 'Ō'ō crater, as it erupts after an earthquake\n\nLava fountains and flows have covered more than 144 sq km and added more than 443 acres of new land to the island.\n\nAs of 2016, lava flows had already destroyed 215 structures and buried 14.3 km of roads.\n\nIn 2008 a new gas vent opened up at Kīlauea's summit in the Halema'uma'u crater. Over the following months and years, this slowly developed into a lava lake.\n\n6 May: The summit lava lake, which had dropped in level\n\nDuring March and April this year the lava level rose, and lava began to spill out across the crater floor.\n\nJust two weeks later, the lava had dropped out of sight.\n\n9 May: A plume rises from the Halema'uma'u crater, lit by the lava lake below\n\nKīlauea lavas are among the hottest on Earth. After magma spills out of the fissure, the surface quickly crusts over, forming a shell.\n\nInside, though, the lava is still red hot - and mobile.\n\nA road in Leilani Estates blocked by what was once flowing molten lava on 13 May\n\nAs the whole mass of lava creeps forward, the blocks and plates of cooled lava are carried along, giving the whole the appearance of a jumble of loose blocks.\n\nIn places, fresh lava breaks out from inside the flow, to form a narrow stream.\n\n12 May: A local, wearing her gas mask, walks by the molten flows in Pahoa\n\nThe emerging lava is red-hot at the opening, and progressively crinkles and crusts over as it flows downhill.\n\n13 May: A fissure spews lava and volcanic gas, east of Leilani Estates\n\nGeologists have been watching Kīlauea continuously since 1912, and have developed a simple understanding of how the magma flows under Kīlauea.\n\nIt rises out of the Earth's mantle under the summit, and then flows along subterranean fractures beneath the East Rift Zone.\n\n17 May: A geologist inspects cracks after an explosive eruption\n\nIn this phase of the eruption, the movement of the magma is causing new fractures to open at the surface.\n\nSome of these fractures just let hot gases escape; others turn into open fissures, erupting fiery curtains of lava.\n\n15 May: Erupting ash makes for a photo opportunity - from a safe distance\n\nThe steady lowering of the lava lake within Halema'umaʻu at the summit of Kīlauea raised the potential for explosive eruptions as the lava column drops to the level of groundwater beneath the volcano.\n\nThe mixing of groundwater with the hot magma can cause steam-driven explosions.\n\n15 May: The glow from open fissures lights up the volcanic gas at night\n\nSeventeen fissures have opened so far in the lower East Rift Zone spewing out dangerous lava and gases.\n\nSome of these gases, such as sulphur dioxide, reduce air quality and cause breathing problems, especially among risk groups such as asthmatics.\n\n15 May: A thick plume rises from one of the island's craters\n\nActivity can change rapidly and is hard to predict precisely.\n\nFuture outbreaks could occur both uprift (southwest) and downrift (northeast) of the existing fissures – or existing fissures can be reactivated.\n\nTamsin Mather and David Pyle are volcanologists and both professors at Oxford University's Department of Earth Sciences.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nBishop Michael Curry - the first black presiding bishop of the US Episcopal Church - gave a rousing sermon at the royal wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle.\n\nHere is his speech in full:\n\n\"And now in the name of our loving, liberating and life-giving God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Amen.\n\n\"From the Song of Solomon, in the Bible: Set me as a seal upon your heart, as a seal upon your arm; for love is strong as death, passion fierce as the grave. Its flashes are flashes of fire, a raging flame. Many waters cannot quench love, neither can floods drown it.\n\n\"The late Dr Martin Luther King Jr once said, and I quote: 'We must discover the power of love, the redemptive power of love. And when we do that, we will make of this old world a new world, for love is the only way.'\n\n\"There's power in love. Don't underestimate it. Don't even over-sentimentalise it. There's power, power in love.\n\n\"If you don't believe me, think about a time when you first fell in love. The whole world seemed to centre around you and your beloved.\n\n\"Oh there's power, power in love. Not just in its romantic forms, but any form, any shape of love. There's a certain sense in which when you are loved, and you know it, when someone cares for you, and you know it, when you love and you show it - it actually feels right.\n\n\"There is something right about it. And there's a reason for it. The reason has to do with the source. We were made by a power of love, and our lives were meant - and are meant - to be lived in that love. That's why we are here.\n\n\"Ultimately, the source of love is God himself: the source of all of our lives. There's an old medieval poem that says: 'Where true love is found, God himself is there'.\n\n\"The New Testament says it this way: 'Beloved, let us love one another, because love is of God, and those who love are born of God and know God. Those who do not love do not know God.' Why? 'For God is love.'\n\n\"There's power in love. There's power in love to help and heal when nothing else can.\n\n\"There's power in love to lift up and liberate when nothing else will.\n\n\"There's power in love to show us the way to live.\n\n\"Set me as a seal on your heart... a seal on your arm, for love is as strong as death.\n\n\"But love is not only about a young couple. Now the power of love is demonstrated by the fact that we're all here. Two young people fell in love, and we all showed up.\n\n\"But it's not just for and about a young couple, who we rejoice with. It's more than that.\n\n\"Jesus of Nazareth on one occasion was asked by a lawyer to sum up the essence of the teachings of Moses, and he went back and he reached back into the Hebrew scriptures, to Deuteronomy and Leviticus, and Jesus said: 'You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, all your soul, all your mind and all your strength. This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like it: Love your neighbour as yourself.'\n\n\"And then in Matthew's version, he added, he said: 'On these two, love of God and love of neighbour, hang all the law, all the prophets, everything that Moses wrote, everything in the holy prophets, everything in the scriptures, everything that God has been trying to tell the world... love God, love your neighbours, and while you're at it, love yourself.'\n\n\"Someone once said that Jesus began the most revolutionary movement in human history.\n\n\"A movement grounded in the unconditional love of God for the world - and a movement mandating people to live that love, and in so doing to change not only their lives but the very life of the world itself.\n\n\"I'm talking about power. Real power. Power to change the world.\n\n\"If you don't believe me, well, there were some old slaves in America's Antebellum South who explained the dynamic power of love and why it has the power to transform.\n\n\"They explained it this way. They sang a spiritual, even in the midst of their captivity. It's one that says 'There is a balm in Gilead...' a healing balm, something that can make things right.\n\n\"'There is a balm in Gilead to make the wounded whole, there is a balm in Gilead to heal the sin-sick soul.'\n\n\"And one of the stanzas actually explains why. They said: 'If you cannot preach like Peter, and you cannot pray like Paul, you just tell the love of Jesus, how he died to save us all.\"'\n\n\"Oh, that's the balm in Gilead! This way of love, it is the way of life. They got it. He died to save us all.\n\n\"He didn't die for anything he could get out of it. Jesus did not get an honorary doctorate for dying. He didn't... he wasn't getting anything out of it. He gave up his life, he sacrificed his life, for the good of others, for the good of the other, for the wellbeing of the world... for us.\n\n\"That's what love is. Love is not selfish and self-centred. Love can be sacrificial, and in so doing, becomes redemptive. And that way of unselfish, sacrificial, redemptive love changes lives, and it can change this world.\n\n\"If you don't believe me, just stop and imagine. Think and imagine a world where love is the way.\"\n\n\"Imagine our homes and families where love is the way. Imagine neighbourhoods and communities where love is the way.\n\n\"Imagine governments and nations where love is the way. Imagine business and commerce where this love is the way.\n\n\"Imagine this tired old world where love is the way. When love is the way - unselfish, sacrificial, redemptive.\n\n\"When love is the way, then no child will go to bed hungry in this world ever again.\n\n\"When love is the way, we will let justice roll down like a mighty stream and righteousness like an ever-flowing brook.\n\n\"When love is the way, poverty will become history. When love is the way, the earth will be a sanctuary.\n\n\"When love is the way, we will lay down our swords and shields, down by the riverside, to study war no more.\n\n\"When love is the way, there's plenty good room - plenty good room - for all of God's children.\n\n\"Because when love is the way, we actually treat each other, well... like we are actually family.\n\n\"When love is the way, we know that God is the source of us all, and we are brothers and sisters, children of God.\n\n\"My brothers and sisters, that's a new heaven, a new earth, a new world, a new human family.\n\n\"And let me tell you something, old Solomon was right in the Old Testament: that's fire.\n\n\"Pierre Teilhard de Chardin - and with this I will sit down, we gotta get you all married - French Jesuit Pierre Teilhard de Chardin was arguably one of the great minds, great spirits of the 20th century.\n\n\"In some of his writings, he said, from his scientific background as well as his theological one, in some of his writings he said - as others have - that the discovery, or invention, or harnessing of fire was one of the great scientific and technological discoveries in all of human history.\n\n\"Fire to a great extent made human civilisation possible. Fire made it possible to cook food and to provide sanitary ways of eating which reduced the spread of disease in its time.\n\n\"Fire made it possible to heat warm environments and thereby made human migration around the world a possibility, even into colder climates.\n\n\"Fire made it possible - there was no Bronze Age without fire, no Iron Age without fire, no Industrial Revolution without fire.\n\n\"The advances of fire and technology are greatly dependent on the human ability and capacity to take fire and use it for human good.\n\n\"Anybody get here in a car today? An automobile? Nod your heads if you did - I know there were some carriages. But those of us who came in cars, fire - the controlled, harnessed fire - made that possible.\n\n\"I know that the Bible says, and I believe it, that Jesus walked on the water. But I have to tell you, I did not walk across the Atlantic Ocean to get here.\n\n\"Controlled fire in that plane got me here. Fire makes it possible for us to text and tweet and email and Instagram and Facebook and socially be dysfunctional with each other.\n\n\"Fire makes all of that possible, and de Chardin said fire was one of the greatest discoveries in all of human history.\n\n\"And he then went on to say that if humanity ever harnesses the energy of fire again, if humanity ever captures the energy of love - it will be the second time in history that we have discovered fire.\n\n\"Dr King was right: we must discover love - the redemptive power of love. And when we do that, we will make of this old world, a new world.\n\n\"My brother, my sister, God love you, God bless you, and may God hold us all in those almighty hands of love.\"", "The Most Rev Bishop Michael Curry, choir conductor Karen Gibson and cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason\n\nAs Prince Harry married Meghan Markle, there was a lot of comment from American people about black influence on the wedding ceremony.\n\nIt combined elements of a traditional royal wedding with black culture.\n\nIn the US, people have used the hashtag #BlackRoyalWedding and welcomed the diverse feeling of the wedding.\n\nThis tweet had nearly 10,000 retweets and over 40,000 likes:\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Elamin Abdelmahmoud This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nElliot Conner in South Carolina welcomed the various elements of the wedding:\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Elliot Conner This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nOthers drew attention to the diverse feel of the wedding in general:\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Chloe🍄 This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 Chryl Laird This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBlack guests at the royal wedding included Idris Elba, Oprah Winfrey and Serena Williams.\n\nIdris Elba arrived holding hands with his fiancee. Sabrina Dhowre, dressed in a varsity-striped dress and jacket. Oprah Winfrey entered behind in an elegant pale pink dress with lace detailing at the neck\n\nAmerican Bishop Michael Curry captured the world's attention with a long and powerful address.\n\nThe Chicago-born bishop spoke passionately about the power of love, quoting Dr Martin Luther King Jr.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAs a result of his speech, Martin Luther King has been trending on Twitter all day. This is one of the most popular tweets.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Lydia 🌹❄️ This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nKaren Gibson and The Kingdom Choir performed Ben E King's soul classic Stand by Me during the service.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Lily Herman This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 7 by Dr Julia Baird This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBBC Young Musician 2016 Sheku Kanneh-Mason said he was \"bowled over\" to be asked to play at the wedding\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 J9 👩🏽‍⚖️ This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nTanya Kersey and Melanie Williams Oram sum up the sentiments of thousands of people.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 9 by tanyakersey This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 10 by Melanie Williams Oram This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 Remy Étienne LeBeau wishes the US would follow suit.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe best way to get news on the go", "The body of 85-year-old Rosina Coleman was found at her home in Romford\n\nA man has been charged with murdering an 85-year-old woman who was found dead in her home.\n\nRosina Coleman was discovered by a handyman at her house in Ashmour Gardens, Romford, east London, at about 11:30 BST on Tuesday.\n\nA post-mortem examination gave the cause of death as blunt force trauma to the head and neck.\n\nPaul Prause, 65, was charged with murder on Saturday and will appear at Redbridge Magistrates' Court on Monday.\n\nHe was arrested at an address in Romford on Friday.\n\nNeighbours described Mrs Coleman as \"incredible\" and someone who was \"always happy\".\n\nThe former seamstress was a mother of two and had lived on the road for decades with her husband Bill, who died about 11 years ago.\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. Monday was Gaza's deadliest day of violence in years\n\nThe UN human rights chief says Israel used \"wholly disproportionate\" force against Palestinian border protests which have left over 100 people dead.\n\nZeid Raad al-Hussein told a meeting in Geneva that Gazans were effectively \"caged in a toxic slum\" and Gaza's occupation by Israel had to end.\n\nIsrael's ambassador said Gaza's militant Islamist rulers had deliberately put people in harm's way.\n\nThe UN's Human Rights Council voted to set up an independent investigation.\n\nSome 60 Palestinians were killed by Israeli forces on Monday in the seventh consecutive week of border protests, largely orchestrated by Hamas, which politically controls the Gaza Strip.\n\nIt was the deadliest day in Gaza since a 2014 war between Israel and militants there.\n\nThe protests had been dubbed the Great March of Return, in support of the declared right of Palestinian refugees to return to land they or their ancestors fled from or were forced to leave in the war which followed Israel's founding in 1948.\n\nThe Israeli government, which has long ruled out a mass return of Palestinians, said terrorists wanted to use the protests as cover to cross into its territory and carry out attacks.\n\nWhile most Palestinians have demonstrated at a distance from the border, others threw rocks and incendiary devices towards the fence and tried to break through.\n\nIsrael's troops responded with what it calls \"riot dispersal means\", such as tear gas, and live fire which Israel permits under certain circumstances. This includes when there is a threat to soldiers' lives and when attempts are made to break down the fence.\n\nMr Zeid told the emergency session on Gaza that the \"stark contrast in casualties on both sides is... suggestive of a wholly disproportionate response\" by Israel.\n\nAn Israeli soldier was \"reportedly wounded, slightly, by a stone\" on Monday, he said, while 43 Palestinians were killed at the site of the protests. Seventeen more Palestinians were killed away from what he called the \"hot spots\".\n\nIsrael and the Palestinians have blamed each other for the deaths\n\nHe said there had been \"little evidence of any [Israeli] attempt to minimise casualties\". Israel's actions might, he said, \"constitute 'wilful killings' - a grave breach of the Fourth Geneva Convention\", an international law designed to protect civilians under occupation.\n\nMr Zeid said he supported a call for an \"international, independent and impartial\" investigation into the violence in Gaza, adding that \"those responsible for violations must in the end be held accountable\".\n\n\"The occupation must end,\" he said, \"so the people of Palestine can be liberated, and the people of Israel liberated from it.\n\n\"End the occupation, and the violence and insecurity will largely disappear.\"\n\nIsrael occupied Gaza in the 1967 Middle East war. Although it withdrew its forces and settlers in 2005, the UN still considers the territory occupied because Israel retains control over the territory's air space, coastal waters and shared border.\n\nIsrael's Ambassador Aviva Raz Shechter rejected the blame, saying it was \"Israel, certainly not Hamas\" which tried to avoid harming civilians.\n\nIsrael's ambassador accused the Council of bias against her country\n\nShe said the UN Human Rights Council had returned to its \"worst form of anti-Israel obsession\".\n\nThe US Chargé d'Affaires Theodore Allegra agreed, saying the \"one-sided action proposed by the Council today only further shows that the Human Rights Council is indeed a broken body\".\n\nTens of thousands of Palestinians have held weekly protests at the border in the lead-up to the 15 May anniversary of the mass displacement of Palestinians from land which became Israel in the war which followed Israel's founding in 1948.\n\nA senior member of Hamas, Salah Bardawil, has said 50 of those killed on Monday \"were from Hamas\". Israel has said it knew of \"at least 24 terrorists\" killed that day. It said most were \"active operatives\" from Hamas, and some from the Islamic Jihad militant group.", "Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have been declared husband and wife, following a ceremony at Windsor Castle.\n\nThe couple exchanged vows and rings before the Queen and 600 guests at St George's Chapel.\n\nWearing a dress by British designer Clare Waight Keller, Ms Markle was met by Prince Charles, who walked her down the aisle.", "From choosing the cake to the flowers and even the chair-covers, anyone who's ever planned a wedding knows it can be eye-wateringly expensive.\n\nBut when it comes to royal weddings - with all the VIPs, security and extra extravagance - the bill runs into millions.\n\nSo what do we know about the expected cost of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's wedding, and how much will the taxpayer be paying towards it?\n\nThe wedding will be held in Windsor. And crowds in excess of 100,000 people are expected to descend on the town.\n\nInvitations have been sent to 600 guests, with a further 200 invited to the couple's evening reception\n\nOn top of that, 1,200 members of the public will attend the grounds of Windsor Castle.\n\nAnd security will almost certainly be the biggest single cost.\n\nIn 2011, £6.35m was spent on security for the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge's wedding\n\nThe Home Office wouldn't comment when Reality Check contacted it, saying revealing policing costs could compromise \"national security\".\n\nLikewise, when we rang Thames Valley Police, it said: \"We aren't going to give you any data I'm afraid - even though we know you love numbers.\"\n\nHowever, we do know £6.35m was spent by the Metropolitan Police (ie the taxpayer) on security for Duke and Duchess of Cambridge's wedding.\n\nThat's based on a Freedom of Information request released to the Press Association.\n\nBut it's difficult to draw a direct comparison with Prince Harry and Ms Markle's wedding - the location and guest numbers are different.\n\nKensington Palace hasn't released any details of what it plans to spend on the wedding.\n\nThat's not really a surprise given that the official cost of Prince William and Catherine's wedding has never been revealed.\n\nThat leaves us with unofficial estimates and as such they need to be treated with some caution.\n\nBridebook.co.uk, a wedding planning service, says the total cost of the wedding could be £32m - including the cost of security.\n\nIt put the cost of the cake at £50,000, the florist at £110,000, the catering at £286,000, and so on and so on.\n\nReality Check contacted the company's owner, Hamish Shephard, to ask about the methodology used to arrive at the estimate.\n\nHe said the £32m figure had been based on the assumption that the Royal Family had paid for everything at market rate.\n\nBut in the absence of any official data, this is still guesswork - however well informed.\n\nFor example, we don't know if suppliers would offer a substantial discount for the privilege of providing their services for a royal wedding.\n\nMs Markle will walk down the aisle of St George's Chapel at Windsor Castle\n\nThe cost of security for the wedding will be met by the taxpayer.\n\nInitially, Thames Valley Police will have to absorb the cost itself.\n\nBut the force will be eligible to apply for special grant funding from the Home Office after the event in order to claim back some of the costs.\n\nSpecial grant funding is a separate pool of money forces can apply for if they have to police events outside their usual remit.\n\nAs for the rest of the total, the Royal Family has said it will be paying for the private elements of the wedding.\n\nEvery year the Royal Family gets a chunk of money from the annual Sovereign Grant, paid directly by the Treasury.\n\nThe grant is calculated on a percentage of the profits from the Crown Estate portfolio, which includes much of London's West End.\n\nSome members of the Royal Family benefit from additional income.\n\nFor example, Prince Charles gets money from the Duchy of Cornwall estate, a portfolio of land, property and financial investments.\n\nBut it's not clear which \"pots\" the palace will choose to fund the wedding from.\n\nRepublic, which campaigns for an elected head of state, and claims the overall cost of the monarchy is far higher than £82m, has submitted a petition against taxpayers' money being spent on the wedding.", "Troy Thomas (left) and Nathan Gilmaney have been convicted of murder\n\nTwo teenage criminals who stabbed a charity youth worker to death during a \"four-hour spree of violence\" have been convicted of murder.\n\nMoped riders Nathan Gilmaney, 19, and Troy Thomas, 18, from Maida Vale, west London, killed Abdul Samad, 28, as they tried to rob as many people as possible on the evening of 16 October.\n\nThe pair, described as \"21st Century highwaymen\" in court, had admitted manslaughter but denied murder.\n\nThey are due to be sentenced in June.\n\nProsecutor Oliver Glasgow QC told the Old Bailey the defendants were \"highwaymen of the 21st Century who thought they had the right to threaten and rob whoever they found, who attacked their targets in a brazen and shocking manner... for no reason other than simple aggression and blood lust\".\n\nHe added: \"By the end of their four-hour spree of violence, they had committed nine knife-point robberies, gratuitously stabbed four of their defenceless victims and killed Abdul Samad.\"\n\nAbdul Samad died after staggering home having been stabbed in the chest\n\nMr Samad handed over valuables when confronted in St Mary's Terrace, Paddington, but Gilmaney got off his moped and stabbed him in the chest anyway.\n\nHe collapsed on the doorstep of his home in front of his parents. Paramedics took him to hospital where he later died.\n\nThe court heard the defendants were unmoved by the plight of their victim and prowled the streets for their next target minutes later.\n\nThomas admitted robbing the victims, but denied responsibility for the violence.\n\nGilmaney had pleaded guilty to the robberies and violence, and admitted manslaughter, but claimed he did not intend really serious harm.\n\nThe jury found Thomas guilty of unlawful wounding and three counts of wounding with intent.\n\nThe defendants were caught on CCTV in a lift, having taken their balaclavas and helmets off, as they attended an address to sell their stolen goods\n\nCCTV footage on the night shows Gilmaney filling up their scooter with petrol\n\nMr Samad was due to marry his girlfriend Sultana Ahmed.\n\nMs Ahmed said in a statement her boyfriend was \"the change we needed to see in the world\" and said he \"lived for his job of helping children\".\n\nHis mother Layla Begum said the death left her whole family \"broken\".\n\nIn a statement provided to the Metropolitan Police, she added: \"I often feel like a dead woman walking around my home.\"", "The couple exchanged vows and rings before the Queen and 600 guests at St George's Chapel.\n\nThere were cheers from outside the chapel when they were declared husband and wife.", "The couple share a smile and take hands during their wedding ceremony in St George's Chapel.", "Jessica Patel's family said they were in \"unbearable pain\"\n\nA man has appeared in court charged with the murder of a pharmacist who was found dead at home in Middlesbrough.\n\nJessica Patel, 34, from Leeds, was found at her home in the Avenue on Monday. She had worked with her husband at Middlesbrough's Roman Road Pharmacy.\n\nMitesh Patel, of the Avenue, appeared before Teesside Magistrates' Court earlier charged with murder.\n\nThe 36-year-old was remanded in custody to appear at Teesside Crown Court on Tuesday.\n\nJessica Patel was found in her house in a popular area of Middlesbrough\n\nCleveland Police said a post-mortem examination showed she suffered \"serious injuries\" prior to her death.\n\nIn a tribute, her family said: \"We have lost Jessica, a kind-hearted, gentle and selfless person who was loved dearly by her family and friends.\n\n\"She was completely dedicated to all of her family and her loss has brought an unbearable pain.\"\n\nMrs Patel worked with her husband at Middlesbrough's Roman Road Pharmacy\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have been declared husband and wife, following a ceremony at Windsor Castle.\n\nThe couple shared their first kiss on the steps outside St George's Chapel.", "Ten people were killed and another 10 wounded when a gunman opened fire at Santa Fe High School in Texas. This is what happened.", "Ed Sheeran had to pull out of a number of dates of his Asian tour after \"a bit of a bicycle accident\"\n\nTwo members of hospital staff were disciplined for accessing Ed Sheeran's personal details with no legitimate reason, the BBC understands.\n\nIpswich Hospital said a medical staff member was given a written warning and a member of admin staff was sacked.\n\nIt said both cases of disciplinary action happened after 16 October, the date on which the singer was admitted to the hospital.\n\nSheeran had broken his right wrist and left elbow.\n\nThe singer, from Framlingham, Suffolk, told fans on Instagram he had \"a bit of a bicycle accident\".\n\nHis injuries meant he had to pull out of a number of dates of his Asian tour.\n\nEd Sheeran told fans on Instagram he had broken his wrist and elbow\n\nIpswich Hospital would not provide further details of the data breach incident but said in a Freedom of Information response to the BBC both staff members \"accessed patient information without legitimate or clinical reason\".\n\nIt said neither were referred to the Nursing and Midwifery Council or to other professional bodies.\n\nThe hospital previously said it launched a review of care given to \"high profile\" patients after Sheeran's visit.\n\nIt said the review covered \"confidentiality, privacy of the patient and their loved ones and practical considerations\".\n\nThe BBC understands the singer was asked to sign autographs and pose for photographs by some Ipswich Hospital staff while there.\n\nThe best way to get news on the go \n\n\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section FA Cup\n\nEden Hazard's first-half penalty decided the FA Cup final in Chelsea's favour at Wembley to leave Jose Mourinho and Manchester United empty-handed this season.\n\nHazard - in a moment which did not bode well for the World Cup meeting between England and Belgium in Russia in June - twisted and tore past Phil Jones before drawing a clumsy foul from the United defender after 22 minutes.\n\nHe calmly dispatched the penalty which was to prove to be the decisive moment in a final that was hard fought rather than distinguished.\n\nUnited, with striker Romelu Lukaku only fit enough for a place on the bench, raised their game after the break.\n\nAlexis Sanchez had a goal ruled out for straying just offside, with referee Michael Oliver using the video assistant referee (VAR) to confirm the call, Chelsea keeper Thibaut Courtois excelled with a succession of fine saves, and Paul Pogba wasted their best chance late on when he missed the target with a free header.\n\nThis may well be Antonio Conte's last game as Blues manager and if he leaves, he does so after delivering the FA Cup to follow last season's Premier League title.\n\nIf it is to be goodbye for Conte, his team delivered the famous old trophy in a manner that has become the Italian's trademark.\n\nHis side grabbed the initiative to take advantage of United's tentative first 45 minutes, securing a precious lead that they defended with great resilience and organisation for the rest of an attritional final.\n\nAnd it was a tribute to Conte that he inspired this performance following a flat end to their Premier League campaign, when a home draw with Huddersfield and a lame defeat at Newcastle left them fifth, out of the Champions League qualification spots.\n\nThis has been a season in sharp contrast to Conte's title-winning campaign. The 48-year-old has appeared at odds with the club's hierarchy, often detached and not quite the driven figure who arrived at Stamford Bridge in the summer of 2016.\n\nAnd yet he has delivered silverware, which has escaped Mourinho and Mauricio Pochettino at Tottenham this season - although the failure to finish in the top four is painful and likely to be the point at which Conte and Chelsea part company.\n\nOne fact is beyond dispute. The manager remains a hugely popular figure with Chelsea's supporters as they chanted his name. If he is leaving, he has given them another happy memory.\n• None 'I am committed to this club but I can't change' - Chelsea boss Conte\n\nThe sight of thousands of empty seats as Manchester United's players went up to receive their losers' medals summed up a bitterly disappointing day for Mourinho and his side.\n\nUnited's Premier League points tally of 81 was very respectable but it was still 19 behind champions Manchester City and this loss leaves a taste of anti-climax to their season.\n\n'They defended with nine players'\n\nThey deserve credit for finishing second and reaching the FA Cup final but too often the style of play has been stodgy and even the resilience United have demonstrated this season could not spark a recover at Wembley.\n\nAs United stumbled through the first half, they will have been desperately hoping they could dig deep in the fashion that saw them beat Spurs here in the semi-final. It was not to be, despite an improved second-half performance.\n\nUnited were thwarted by Courtois when they did break through, but this was a day when Mourinho and many of his players came up short.\n\nMourinho will feel the failure to win a trophy as acutely as anyone - especially as it came against the club where he enjoyed so much success.\n\nNow he must act to add an extra touch of stardust to this United team as they are functional rather than exciting, as proved in this final.\n\nThe big games are often decided by the big players and this is exactly why Chelsea were able to close out this win and salvage success from a season of underachievement.\n\nAnd, in contrast, so many of those Mourinho and Manchester United would have been counting on to make the difference did not make the expected contribution.\n\nWho performed best in the FA Cup final? How you rated the players...\n\nN'Golo Kante was magnificent in midfield - tireless and effective, a superb defensive buffer when United did finally exert pressure, while keeper Courtois was also outstanding.\n\nIn defence, Antonio Rudiger was a rock and Gary Cahill delivered a performance that was a timely reminder of why England manager Gareth Southgate included him in his World Cup squad.\n\nMatch-winner Hazard was always a threat and Southgate might have had an ominous feeling as he watched him go past Jones before drawing a clumsy foul from the man he may face when England meet Belgium in Russia next month.\n\nFor United, Jones had a nightmare, Sanchez was truly dismal and Pogba only raised a gallop after half-time. The Frenchman also missed arguably their best chance when he headed wide at a corner when unmarked and only eight yards out.\n\nFor all Mourinho's complaints about injustice, a clear penalty decided the fate of this final.\n\nWhy was Jones not sent off?\n\nThere was plenty of debate on social media after Oliver's decision to show a yellow card to Jones for conceding the spot-kick.\n\nThe referee's decision was dictated by a law change in 2016 intended to abolish \"triple punishment\" in such circumstances.\n\nBefore the change, any denial of a clear goalscoring opportunity inside the area resulted in the offender receiving a red card and a suspension, as well as conceding a penalty.\n\nUnder the amended Law 12, which relates to fouls and misconduct, a player judged to have made a genuine attempt to win the ball is shown a yellow card instead.\n\nThe law states: \"Where a player commits an offence against an opponent within their own penalty area which denies an opponent an obvious goalscoring opportunity and the referee awards a penalty kick, the offending player is cautioned if the offence was an attempt to play the ball.\n\n\"In all other circumstances (e.g. holding, pulling, pushing, no possibility to play the ball etc.) the offending player must be sent off.\"\n\n'Great desire to finish the right way' - what the managers said\n\nChelsea boss Antonio Conte: \"I'm very satisfied because today was very difficult.\n\n\"To win the FA Cup against a really strong team - a really great team like Manchester United - we must be pleased.\n\n\"It wasn't easy, but I'm very happy for our fans, for my players.\n\n\"I predicted at the start of the season the difficulty of this season. Despite this we finished fifth and have won the FA Cup.\n\n\"To miss a place in Champions League is not good. We must be honest to say this - but at the same time I think you have to know the real situation, to understand if this group of players did their best this season.\n\n\"An important trophy like this shows the great commitment of my players. It showed great desire to finish the season in the right way despite the great difficulty we have had.\"\n\nManchester United boss Jose Mourinho: \"Every defeat hurts, but for me personally the ones that hurt less are when you give everything and you go without any regrets.\n\n\"I prefer to lose like today than lose like we did at, for example, Newcastle. I leave my players happy with them. For me, that's really important.\n\n\"I knew the opponent I was going to play against. I knew they have a compact low block with lots of physicality where they try to close everything.\n\n\"I knew without a target man it would be difficult for us.\"\n• None Mourinho has lost his first cup final in charge of an English club, after winning each of the previous six (four League Cups, one FA Cup, one Europa League).\n• None Chelsea won their eighth FA Cup, taking them level with Tottenham - only Manchester United (12) and Arsenal (13) have won more.\n• None Seven of the past 10 FA Cup winners have been London clubs (Chelsea winning four, Arsenal three).\n• None Conte won a domestic cup final for the first time as a manager, after losing with Juventus against Napoli in the 2012 Coppa Italia, and the 2017 FA Cup with Chelsea against Arsenal.\n• None United's have won only one of their past four FA Cup final appearances.\n• None Mourinho's side had 18 shots in the game; they last attempted more shots without scoring in a match in October 2016 (38 in a 0-0 Premier League draw against Burnley).\n• None Hazard's penalty was the first scored in an FA Cup final (excluding shootouts) since Ruud van Nistelrooy for Manchester United against Millwall in 2004.\n• None Attempt missed. Nemanja Matic (Manchester United) header from the centre of the box is too high. Assisted by Antonio Valencia with a cross.\n• None Attempt missed. Alexis Sánchez (Manchester United) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the left. Assisted by Nemanja Matic.\n• None Attempt missed. Paul Pogba (Manchester United) header from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Anthony Martial with a cross following a corner.\n• None Offside, Chelsea. Cesc Fàbregas tries a through ball, but Olivier Giroud is caught offside.\n• None Attempt blocked. Anthony Martial (Manchester United) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Paul Pogba.\n• None Attempt saved. Nemanja Matic (Manchester United) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Ander Herrera. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Like many couples tying the knot, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle asked well-wishers to donate to charity, instead of sending gifts.\n\nBut, more unusually, everything from mugs and biscuit tins to swimsuits and candles has been made in honour of this couple's big day.\n\nSo Reality Check wants to know - how much do we spend on souvenirs for big royal occasions?\n\nThe prince and Ms Markle are to marry in Windsor, and visitors from around the world, as well as the UK and US, are expected to travel to the town to wish the couple well. The wedding has already been attracting global attention.\n\nAccording to the Centre for Retail Research, an estimated £30m will be spent on memorabilia (including overseas sales) in the run-up to the royal wedding.\n\nThis estimate is based on a survey of 1,200 UK shoppers, with results analysed by retailers and suppliers of memorabilia.\n\nThe bride and groom have also approved a range of official merchandise, produced and sold by the Royal Collection Trust.\n\nThe decorative border on Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's official china is inspired by the ironwork of the Gilebertus door of St George's Chapel, where they will be married.\n\nIn spring 2011, when the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge married, more than 190,000 items of wedding-related merchandise were sold, according to the Royal Collection Trust, worth almost £4m.\n\nThat was followed by the Queen celebrating her Diamond Jubilee, and by the end of the 2011-12 financial year, the Royal Collection Trust had sold 60,000 items of memorabilia. In both cases, commemorative china - manufactured in Stoke-on-Trent - was the most popular in the collection.\n\nThe numbers show that spending on royal merchandise has increased in recent years.\n\nIn 2006-07, retail sales were £9.1m, which had more than doubled by 2016-17, when sales were over £19m.\n\nOver that same time period, visitors to the royal properties - including Windsor Castle, Buckingham Palace and Holyrood Palace - grew from 2 million to 2.7 million.\n\nA younger generation of royals has taken centre stage over the past decade, from the wedding of Prince William and Catherine to the birth of three royal babies and the wedding of Prince Harry and Ms Markle.\n\nBut experts say that memorabilia is now just that - for the memories. Because it is now mass-produced, the collectables won't be as valuable in the foreseeable future.\n\n\"To be valuable, it has to have age or be rare or personal,\" says Roo Irvine, a BBC antiques expert.\n\n\"Each item used to be handmade and hand-painted - it told the story of someone in that time.\n\n\"Now, because it's mass-produced, it's more like royal merchandise than memorabilia. People collect it because they have a love for the Royal Family.\"", "Thousands of well-wishers are in Windsor, while hundreds more camped out overnight to secure the best viewing spot.\n\nWe spoke to people getting into the party spirit on the streets of Windsor.", "The order of service for the wedding of Prince Henry of Wales and Ms Meghan Markle.\n\n11:25 BST: Members of the Royal Family will arrive at St George's Chapel. The congregation stand as the royals are taken to their seats\n\n11:40: Prince Harry and Prince William arrive at the west door of St George's Chapel\n\n11:52: The Queen arrives at the chapel\n\nAt the entrance of the bride, all stand.\n\nA fanfare will sound at the bride's arrival.\n\nTo add a lustre to this day.\n\nThe Grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you: and also with you.\n\nGod is love, and those who live in love live in God and God lives in them.\n\nAll sit. The Dean of Windsor reads:\n\nIn the presence of God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit, we have come together to witness the marriage of Henry Charles Albert David and Rachel Meghan, to pray for God's blessing on them, to share their joy and to celebrate their love.\n\nMarriage is a gift of God in creation through which husband and wife may know the grace of God. It is given that as man and woman grow together in love and trust, they shall be united with one another in heart, body and mind, as Christ is united with his bride, the Church.\n\nThe gift of marriage brings husband and wife together in the delight and tenderness of sexual union and joyful commitment to the end of their lives. It is given as the foundation of family life in which children are born and nurtured and in which each member of the family, in good times and in bad, may find strength, companionship and comfort, and grow to maturity in love.\n\nMarriage is a way of life made holy by God, and blessed by the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ with those celebrating a wedding at Cana in Galilee. Marriage is a sign of unity and loyalty which all should uphold and honour. It enriches society and strengthens community.\n\nNo one should enter into it lightly or selfishly but reverently and responsibly in the sight of almighty God. Harry and Meghan are now to enter this way of life. They will each give their consent to the other and make solemn vows, and in token of this they will each give and receive a ring. We pray with them that the Holy Spirit will guide and strengthen them, that they may fulfil God's purposes for the whole of their earthly life together.\n\nAll remain standing as the Archbishop leads:\n\nFirst, I am required to ask anyone present who knows a reason why these persons may not lawfully marry, to declare it now.\n\nThe Archbishop says to the Couple:\n\nThe vows you are about to take are to be made in the presence of God, who is judge of all and knows all the secrets of our hearts; therefore if either of you knows a reason why you may not lawfully marry, you must declare it now.\n\nThe Archbishop says to the bridegroom:\n\nHarry, will you take Meghan to be your wife? Will you love her, comfort her, honour and protect her, and, forsaking all others, be faithful to her as long as you both shall live?\n\nThe Archbishop says to the bride:\n\nMeghan, will you take Harry to be your husband? Will you love him, comfort him, honour and protect him, and, forsaking all others, be faithful to him as long as you both shall live?\n\nThe Archbishop says to the congregation:\n\nWill you, the families and friends of Harry and Meghan, support and uphold them in their marriage now and in the years to come?\n\nThe Archbishop invites the people to pray, silence is kept and he says:\n\nGod our Father, from the beginning you have blessed creation with abundant life. Pour out your blessings upon Harry and Meghan, that they may be joined in mutual love and companionship, in holiness and commitment to each other.\n\nWe ask this through our Lord Jesus Christ your Son, who is alive and reigns with you, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.\n\nFrom the Song of Solomon: read by The Lady Jane Fellowes from the Nave\n\nMy beloved speaks and says to me: \"Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away; for now the winter is past, the rain is over and gone.\n\nThe flowers appear on the earth; the time of singing has come, and the voice of the turtle-dove is heard in our land.\n\nThe fig tree puts forth its figs, and the vines are in blossom; they give forth fragrance.\n\nArise, my love, my fair one, and come away.\"\n\nSet me as a seal upon your heart, as a seal upon your arm; for love is strong as death, passion fierce as the grave.\n\nIts flashes are flashes of fire, a raging flame. Many waters cannot quench love, neither can floods drown it.\n\nIf one offered for love all the wealth of one's house, it would be utterly scorned.\n\nAll remain seated while the Choir of St George's Chapel sing the Motet.\n\nby The Most Reverend Michael Curry\n\nKaren Gibson and The Kingdom Choir will sing 'Stand By Me' from the West End of The Chapel.\n\nHarry and Meghan, I now invite you to join hands and make your vows, in the presence of God and his people.\n\nThe bride and bridegroom face each other and join hands. The bridegroom says:\n\nI Harry, take you, Meghan, to be my wife, to have and to hold from, this day forward; for better, for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and to cherish, till death us do part; according to God's holy law. In the presence of God I make this vow.\n\nI Meghan, take you, Harry, to be my husband, to have and to hold, from this day forward; for better, for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and to cherish, till death us do part; according to God's holy law. In the presence of God I make this vow.\n\nHeavenly Father, by your blessing let these rings be to Harry and Meghan a symbol of unending love and faithfulness, to remind them of the vow and covenant which they have made this day, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.\n\nThe bridegroom places the ring on the fourth finger of the bride's left hand and, holding it there, says:\n\nMeghan, I give you this ring as a sign of our marriage. With my body I honour you, all that I am I give to you, and all that I have I share with you, within the love of God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit.\n\nThey loose hands and the bride places a ring on the fourth finger of the bridegroom's left hand and, holding it there, says:\n\nHarry, I give you this ring as a sign of our marriage. With my body I honour you, all that I am I give to you, and all that I have I share with you, within the love of God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit.\n\nIn the presence of God, and before this congregation, Harry and Meghan have given their consent and made their marriage vows to each other. They have declared their marriage by the joining of hands and by the giving and receiving of rings. I therefore proclaim that they are husband and wife.\n\nThe Archbishop joins their right hands together and says:\n\nThose whom God has joined together let no-one put asunder.\n\nAll remain seated while the Choir of St George's Chapel sing:\n\nThe blessing of the marriage\n\nBlessed are you, O Lord our God, for you have created joy and gladness, pleasure and delight, love, peace and fellowship. Pour out the abundance of your blessing upon Harry and Meghan in their new life together.\n\nLet their love for each other be a seal upon their hearts and a crown upon their heads. Bless them in their work and in their companionship; awake and asleep, in joy and in sorrow, in life and in death.\n\nFinally, in your mercy, bring them to that banquet where your saints feast for ever in your heavenly home. We ask this through Jesus Christ your Son, our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.\n\nGod the Father, God the Son, God the Holy Spirit, bless, preserve and keep you; the Lord mercifully grant you the riches of his grace, that you may please him both in body and soul, and, living together in faith and love, may receive the blessings of eternal life. Amen.\n\nThe prayers - led by Archbishop Angaelos and The Reverend Prebendary Rose Hudson-Wilkin from the Nave.\n\nFaithful God, holy and eternal, source of life and spring of love, we thank and praise you for bringing Harry and Meghan to this day, and we pray for them.\n\nLord of life and love: hear our prayer.\n\nMay their marriage be life-giving and life-long, enriched by your presence and strengthened by your grace; may they bring comfort and confidence to each other in faithfulness and trust.\n\nLord of life and love: hear our prayer.\n\nMay the hospitality of their home bring refreshment and joy to all around them; may their love overflow to neighbours in need and embrace those in distress.\n\nLord of life and love: hear our prayer.\n\nMay they discern in your word order and purpose for their lives; and may the power of your Holy Spirit lead them in truth and defend them in adversity.\n\nLord of life and love: hear our prayer.\n\nMay they nurture their family with devotion, see their children grow in body, mind and spirit and come at last to the end of their lives with hearts content and in joyful anticipation of heaven.\n\nLord of life and love: hear our prayer.\n\nLet us pray with confidence as our Saviour has taught us\n\nOur Father in heaven, hallowed be your name; your kingdom come, your will be done; on earth as in heaven.\n\nGive us today our daily bread. Forgive us our sins as we forgive those who sin against us.\n\nLead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil.\n\nFor the kingdom, the power, and the glory are yours, now and for ever. Amen.\n\nAll remain standing as the Dean of Windsor says:\n\nGod the Holy Trinity make you strong in faith and love, defend you on every side, and guide you in truth and peace; and the blessing of God almighty, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, be among you and remain with you always. Amen.\n\nThe organ plays as those who are signing the registers move from the Quire to the North Quire Aisle.\n\nAll sit at the conclusion of the organ music.\n\nDuring the Signing of the Register music is played by Mr Sheku Kanneh-Mason and the Orchestra.\n\nAll stand as the Bride and Bridegroom return to the Quire.\n\nThe procession of the bride and bridegroom\n\nAll remain standing during the Procession of the Bride and Bridegroom, until members of their families have left the chapel. The music played will be Symphony no.1 in B-flat by William Boyce and This Little Light of Mine by Etta James.\n\nAll remain standing as the Ecclesiastical Procession leaves by way of the Organ Screen and the North Quire Aisle.\n\nThereafter please leave the Chapel as directed by the Lay Stewards.\n\nThose in the Quire should leave by way of the South Door in order to stand on Chapter Grass to view the Carriage procession on Chapel Hill.", "Meghan has chosen a lily white, silk crepe Stella McCartney halter-neck dress for the newlyweds' private party.\n\nThe couple left Windsor Castle in a silver blue Jaguar E-Type Concept Zero, for a reception hosted by Prince Charles at Frogmore House.Castle.", "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.", "Sergei Skripal was exposed to a nerve agent from the Novichok group in Salisbury\n\nRussian ex-spy Sergei Skripal has been discharged from hospital, two months after being poisoned with a nerve agent in Salisbury.\n\nThe 66-year-old was found slumped on a park bench in the city on 4 March, with his daughter Yulia.\n\nThey were taken to Salisbury District Hospital's intensive care unit, where they were stabilised after being exposed to Novichok.\n\nMs Skripal was released on 9 April and was moved to a secure location.\n\nIt is not known whether Mr Skripal has been taken to the same location as his daughter.\n\nBBC home affairs correspondent Daniel Sandford said he understood that Mr Skripal is able to walk, and has talked to police at length, but is not completely recovered.\n\nHe said police sources indicated that the investigation could take months of carefully piecing together movements of people and cars from mobile phone records, CCTV, automatic number plate recognition and passenger flight records.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police said its investigation into the attack continued and it would not \"be discussing any protective or security arrangements that are in place\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. BBC Rewind looks back at cases of high-profile Russians targeted on foreign soil\n\nDirector of nursing Lorna Wilkinson said treating the Skripals had been \"a huge and unprecedented challenge\".\n\nShe added: \"This is an important stage in his recovery, which will now take place away from the hospital.\"\n\nRussian ambassador to the UK Alexander Yakovenko welcomed the news that Mr Skripal had been discharged, and repeated his demand for consular access to the former spy and his daughter.\n\nAt a news conference at his official residence in London, Mr Yakovenko said: \"We are happy that he is all right.\"\n\nThe Russian ambassador has previously claimed the UK is violating international law by not granting access to the Skripals.\n\n\"If they don't want our assistance, that's fine, but we want to see them physically,\" he said.\n\nBritain expelled 23 Russian diplomats in response to the attack in Salisbury, but Mr Yakovenko and others remain.\n\nDS Nick Bailey - the police officer who first attended the Skripals on the day of the poisoning - was also treated for exposure to the nerve agent, but was discharged in March.\n\nClinicians at the hospital had to keep the Skripals alive while their bodies could produce more enzymes to replace those that had been poisoned.\n\nWhen Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia were left in a critical condition, it seemed improbable that the two would survive.\n\nNow, less than three months on, both have been discharged from hospital.\n\nTheir personal safety will be a priority for the police - the two have been taken to a secure location.\n\nDetectives are continuing to investigate the attempted murder of the Skripals, though so far no suspects have been named.\n\nThey will have spoken at length to both Sergei and Yulia about what happened and why they may have been targeted.\n\nBut police say they are still working to establish the full facts of the attack.\n\nThe UK government has blamed Russia for the attack, with Prime Minister Theresa May describing the incident as \"brazen\" and \"despicable\".\n\nBut the Russian government denied any involvement and has accused the UK of inventing a \"fake story\".\n\nForeign Secretary Boris Johnson is due to speak at a conference in Paris on Friday intended to fight against impunity for the use of chemical weapons.\n\nSpeaking before the conference, he said: \"Assad's brutality in Syria and the attempted murders in Salisbury pose a grave threat to the Chemical Weapons Convention and to the rules-based order that keeps us all safe.\"\n\nYulia and Sergei Skripal were taken to Salisbury District Hospital after being found slumped on a bench\n\nIn 2006 Mr Skripal, a former Russian colonel, was jailed in Russia for 13 years for passing on the identities of Russian spies in Europe to the UK intelligence services.\n\nBut in 2010 he was part of a prisoner swap between Moscow and the United States. He eventually settled in Salisbury.\n\nWhen Ms Skripal was released she refused assistance from the Russian embassy, who claim they had been denied consular access to a Russian national.\n\nRecently the director general of MI5, Andrew Parker, publicly blamed Russia for the \"reckless\" poisoning, accusing the Kremlin of \"flagrant breaches of international rules\".\n\nSpecialist officers in protective suits retrieved samples from multiple sites in Salisbury\n\nThe investigation into the nerve agent attack saw the closure of areas of Salisbury, as police and specialist investigators identified where the Skripals were poisoned.\n\nThe highest concentration of the Novichok was found at the Skripals' front door.\n\nA multimillion pound operation to decontaminate nine locations in the city is under way. Two places that the Skripals visited - the Mill pub and a Zizzi restaurant - are among the places deemed to be still at risk.\n\nThe best way to get news on the go", "The pageboys and bridesmaids - accompanied by their mothers - have arrived at the royal wedding.\n\nPrincess Charlotte is among six bridesmaids and her brother Prince George is one of four page boys.\n\nOther bridesmaids include Prince Harry's goddaughters, Zalie Warren and Florence van Cutsem, Ms Markle's goddaughters, sisters Remi and Rylan Litt, and Ivy Mulroney.\n\nThe other pageboys are Harry's godson, Jasper Dyer and twin brothers Brian and John Mulroney.", "Louie and Derek Edyvean celebrated their diamond wedding anniversary in January\n\nA 1950s love letter has been returned to the woman who wrote it to her future husband more than 60 years ago.\n\nLouie Edyvean, 79, put it in a sugar jar with her marriage certificate but gave it to a charity shop by mistake after downsizing five years ago.\n\nThe china pot was bought by Cornwall resident, Cathy Davies, who gave it to her friend Lizzie Dixon.\n\nShe found the love letter after accidentally smashing the jar on the ground at her home in Roche.\n\nMs Davies put photos of the love letter and marriage certificate on a local Facebook group page, and says hundreds of people replied offering to help track the couple down.\n\nA member of their family spotted the post within five hours of it being posted and got in touch.\n\nThe letter was put in a jar and accidentally given to a charity shop\n\n\"I never thought we'd find them,\" she said.\n\n\"To actually find the couple was amazing.\n\n\"A friend of mine rang me and said, 'I think I know the daughter-in-law'. She was called Michelle Edyvean, which was the same surname as the elderly couple.\"\n\nMs Davies says she was then invited around to their house and personally delivered the love letter back to Derek and Louie.\n\n\"I went up the road, found their little bungalow, knocked on their door, and they invited me in,\" she said.\n\n\"They were the cutest couple.\n\nDerek and Louie Edyvean married at Roche Parish Church on 8 January 1958\n\n\"Louie hugged me and said, 'You're the lady who's been looking for us'.\n\n\"I gave it to them and they couldn't thank me enough. I left in tears and cried all the way home.\"\n\nLouie says she made a copy of their wedding certificate in 1961 after misplacing the original, which was in their antique sugar shaker all along.\n\nShe celebrates her 80th birthday next week after writing the love letter when she was a teenager.", "Moqtada Sadr has ruled himself out of becoming prime minister\n\nAn alliance headed by a former Shia militia chief who led two uprisings against the US-led invasion of Iraq has won the parliamentary elections.\n\nBut Moqtada Sadr, who is also staunchly opposed to Iranian involvement in the country, cannot become prime minister as he did not stand as a candidate.\n\nHowever, he is expected to play a major role in forming the new government.\n\nThe party of outgoing PM Haider al-Abadi was pushed into third place, behind a pro-Iranian alliance.\n\nMr Sadr's win represents a remarkable comeback for the cleric after he was sidelined for years by Iranian-backed rivals.\n\nThese elections were the first since Iraq declared victory over the Islamic State group in December. Some 5,000 American troops remain in Iraq supporting local forces, which were fighting IS.\n\nFinal results released by the election commission early on Saturday showed Mr Sadr's Saeroun bloc won 54 seats, compared to Prime Minister Abadi's 42. The pro-Iranian Fatah alliance went into second place with 47 seats.\n\nBut Mr Sadr's nationalist alliance - formed of his own party and six mainly secular groups, including the Iraqi communist party - failed to win more than 55 of the 329 seats up for grabs, so he faces the complex task of drawing together a governing coalition.\n\nMr Sadr, who made his name as a militia chief fighting US forces after the 2003 invasion of Iraq, has reinvented himself as an anti-corruption champion, and also campaigned on a platform of investing in public services.\n\nOn Monday, Mr Sadr's supporters had celebrated as early results came in\n\nThe defeat of Mr Abadi's alliance came as many voters expressed dissatisfaction with corruption in public life.\n\nDespite his poor showing, he may yet return as prime minister after negotiations which must now be completed within 90 days to form a new government.\n\nWhoever is named prime minister will have to oversee the reconstruction of Iraq following the battle against IS, which seized control of large parts of the country in 2014.\n\nInternational donors pledged $30bn (£22bn) at a conference in February but Iraqi officials have estimated that as much as $100bn is required. More than 20,000 homes and businesses were destroyed in the second city of Mosul alone.\n\nMore than two million Iraqis are still displaced across the country and IS militants continue to mount deadly attacks despite having lost control of the territory they once held.\n\nTurnout at the 12 May election was only 44.5% - much lower than in previous polls.", "Janet Daby was chosen from a shortlist made up of only black and ethnic minority women\n\nMembers of the Labour Party have selected Janet Daby to stand in the Lewisham East by-election.\n\nMs Daby was chosen after hustings in south-east London on Saturday from a shortlist made up of only black and ethnic minority women.\n\nShe beat Sakina Sheikh and Claudia Webbe to run as the party's candidate for the by-election on 14 June.\n\nBrenda Dacres pulled out of the contest on Friday because of health reasons.\n\nMs Daby said it was an \"honour\" to be put forward to run for Parliament.\n\nJeremy Corbyn congratulated Ms Daby and said she would make a \"great advocate\" for people in Lewisham.\n\nHeidi Alexander is Sadiq Khan's new deputy mayor for transport\n\nThe by-election was sparked by the resignation of Heidi Alexander, who is going to work for London Mayor Sadiq Khan.\n\nMs Alexander won the south-east London constituency by more than 21,000 votes in last year's general election, with the Conservatives second and Liberal Democrats third.\n\nShe is to become London's new deputy mayor for transport.\n\nJanet Daby's selection will be seen as a boost for the Labour Party's centrists.\n\nHer views on Brexit put her at odds with party leader Jeremy Corbyn.\n\nHe has ruled out remaining in the single market - but Ms Daby was cheered by Labour members as she told them she was \"pro-EU\" and wanted to \"stay in the single market and customs union\".\n\nHeidi Alexander claimed Jeremy Corbyn's shadow cabinet was dysfunctional when she quit it.\n\nSo there had been speculation that she might be replaced with a more left-wing candidate.\n\nBut Sakina Sheikh, who was backed by Momentum and is thought to be a favourite of Corbyn's, along with Claudia Webbe - who had the support of several unions - both lost by a long way.\n\nMs Daby received more than 60% of the vote.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Japanese family drama Shoplifters has received the coveted award for best film, the Palme d'Or, at the Cannes Film Festival.\n\nThe runner-up Grand Prix went to US director Spike Lee's anti-racism satire BlacKkKlansman.\n\nLed by actor Cate Blanchett, the jury announced their top picks after what was a politically charged festival.\n\nDisgraced Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein, who sparked the #MeToo movement, was particularly called out.\n\nWhile presenting an award, Italian actress Asia Argento said: \"I want to make a prediction: Harvey Weinstein will never be welcomed here ever again.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"We know who you are, and we're not going to allow you to get away with it any longer.\"\n\nOnly three female directors were among the 21 in contention for the festival's 71st top prize, many of which drew critical acclaim ahead of the famously unpredictable awards night.\n\nChoosing the winner of festival's top gong, which went to Japanese indie filmmaker Hirokazu Kore-eda, was \"painful\" in light of the strong competition, said Blanchett.\n\nPoland's Pawel Pawlikowski won the best director award for his love story Cold War.\n\nLittle-known Italian actor Marcello Fonte won best actor for his role as a hapless cocaine-dealing dog groomer who faces down a thug in Dogman.\n\nAnd a special Palme d'Or was awarded to French-Swiss Jean-Luc Godard for the film Image Book.", "Leonard Finch, who was known as Len, was still racing his bike aged into his 80s\n\nA founding member of a cycle club who kept racing his bike aged into his 80s has died in a crash.\n\nLeonard Finch was killed when he was involved in a collision while out on his bike at Great Waldingfield, Suffolk, on Thursday.\n\nThe 86-year-old was one of the \"skid kids\" who competed in cycle speedway on World War Two bomb sites and he helped set up Cycle Club Sudbury.\n\nHis family said he was \"truly one of the greats\".\n\nSuffolk Police said officers were called just before 15:00 BST to reports that a cyclist might have collided with a stationary lorry in Lavenham Road. Mr Finch died at the scene.\n\nIn a statement, Mr Finch's family said: \"Len was always a great help and inspiration to all of us.\n\n\"He was always cheerful and friendly and would do anything for anyone - provided it was to do with cycling.\"\n\nMr Finch spent more than 70 years in the saddle\n\nHe was still breaking records aged in his 80s\n\nMr Finch, who was known as Len, grew up in wartime Walthamstow, north-east London, and started cycle speedway racing at the age of 16 in 1946.\n\nTogether with his friends, he formed the Walthamstow Wolves.\n\nWhile the heyday of cycle speedway was short-lived, Mr Finch's passion for cycling remained.\n\nHis family said he \"lived for his cycling\" and was still breaking records into his 80s.\n\nMr Finch, standing on the far left of the picture, with his Walthamstow Wolves team-mates in 1950\n\nMr Finch, of Chilton, near Sudbury, was still an honorary member of CC Sudbury, and tributes were paid on the club's Facebook page.\n\nPolice have asked anyone who was travelling along the B1071 between Lavenham and Sudbury, from 14:30 to 15:00, and who has dashcam footage to come forward.\n• None The teenagers who raced bicycles on WW2 bomb sites\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Celtic became the first Scottish side to win successive domestic Trebles after beating Motherwell in the Scottish Cup final.\n\nBrendan Rodgers' side took an early lead at Hampden through Callum McGregor's sweetly struck half-volley.\n\nOlivier Ntcham's low shot doubled their advantage in a dominant first half.\n\nWell improved after the break with Curtis Main denied by Craig Gordon and substitute Gael Bigirimana's free-kick coming back off the crossbar.\n\nThe Steelmen's wait for a first trophy since their 1991 Scottish Cup final win continues and their defeat means Hibernian, who finished fourth in the Premiership, go into next season's Europa League qualifiers, with Celtic already bound for the Champions League qualifiers.\n• None Celtic 'can be better next season'\n• None How did you rate the players in Scottish Cup final?\n\nJock Stein's Celtic team in 1970 and Walter Smith's Rangers side of 1994 came within one game of doing the 'Double Treble' but both fell at the final hurdle.\n\nAfter beating Aberdeen to all three domestic trophies last term, Rodgers' men set about securing another clean sweep with a 2-0 League Cup final win over Motherwell in November and the clinching of the Premiership title - Celtic's seventh straight top-flight triumph - followed in April.\n\nAnd they enhance their reputation as the most successful club in the Scottish Cup with their 38th title.\n\nCeltic's record in cup football under Rodgers was already terrific before a ball had been kicked in this final. Seventeen games in the League Cup and Scottish Cup, 17 victories, 58 goals scored and only six conceded. The scale of Motherwell's task in winning the trophy and stopping the Double Treble was vast.\n\nThey went into it with some good memories of playing Celtic this season. Stephen Robinson's side drew twice with Rodgers' team and were unlucky not to win one of those. They would have felt confident that they had enough artillery to bother the champions if the champions happened to have a bad day. That's where their dreams perished. The champions did not have a bad day.\n\nMotherwell had a few encouraging moments early on when Celtic's defence looked vulnerable to the physicality of Ryan Bowman and Main, but such optimism was short lived. It only took 11 minutes for Celtic to hit the front. A Mikael Lustig cross from the right was headed out of the penalty box with McGregor more alive to the loose ball than anybody else inside Hampden.\n\nHe burst between two Motherwell players to touch the ball forward and then, on the half-volley on the edge of the box, he rifled a sumptuous shot into the top right-hand corner of Trevor Carson's net.\n\nThis season has seen all sorts of gongs bestowed on Celtic captain Scott Brown and all manner of tributes for his team-mates James Forrest and Kieran Tierney. All deserved. They have been excellent.\n\nMcGregor's contribution has been huge, too. He's a such clever player, a guy for big occasions such as this. That goal set Celtic on their way and they never looked back.\n\nThey went 2-0 ahead after 25 minutes and again it was a sweet strike from a midfielder that did the job.\n\nThis time it was Ntcham who drilled it low to Carson's right after Moussa Dembele's excellent hold-up play, and Motherwell's inability to appreciate the danger they were in, set it all up.\n\nDembele, hungry for work, was a nuisance to Motherwell who grew increasingly narky as the opening half wore on. Tierney in particular, came in for some treatment. Celtic were no saints either, it has to be said. Tom Rogic put in a bad one early in the second half as Motherwell attempted to pull off the unlikely.\n\nMain tested Gordon at one end and, at the other, Carson made a magnificent save from a close-range Dembele header before kicking away a Dembele shot just after. Motherwell never dropped their heads. They kept driving on, kept trying to drag themselves back into it with a goal.\n\nWith 11 minutes left, Chris Cadden burst through a gap in the Celtic defence and was hauled down just outside the box by Dedryck Boyata. The defender got a yellow card, the red staying in referee Kevin Clancy's pocket only because Tierney would probably have snuffed out the chance in any event.\n\nWell had a free-kick, though. And what a free-kick. Bigirimana's gorgeous effort came slapping back off Gordon's crossbar. Would it have made a difference? Impossible to say, but Celtic had lost all the fluency they had early in the match at that point.\n\nThey had done their work, in fairness. Not just in this cup final, but in the Premiership and the League Cup before it and how their supporters serenaded them at the end.\n\nDouble Treble winners. History men. This domestic season may not have been as thunderously impressive as last season, when they were unbeaten domestically, but when Clancy blew his final whistle, it confirmed the same glorious end result. Not invincible this time, but unstoppable all the same.\n• None Elliott Frear (Motherwell) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Attempt missed. Chris Cadden (Motherwell) header from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the left.\n• None Attempt saved. Tom Aldred (Motherwell) header from the centre of the box is saved in the top centre of the goal.\n• None Gael Bigirimana (Motherwell) hits the bar with a right footed shot from outside the box from a direct free kick.\n• None Dedryck Boyata (Celtic) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "We asked you what it was like to see the carriage travel through Windsor- and one word kept coming up.", "BBC royal correspondent Nicholas Witchell says the new Duke and Duchess of Sussex offer the potential to reach audiences who instinctively might not identity with the royal family.\n\nThe intensity of the feelings they have for each other was very visible at their wedding, he said.\n\nThe service itself was \"very Harry and Meghan\" with the gospel choir and \"passionate\" address by the Most Rev Bishop Michael Curry breaking new ground.\n\nHe added the couple will be pleased and relieved the day went so smoothly and successfully,", "St Ann's Square became the focus for tributes\n\nPeople can mark the first anniversary of the Manchester Arena attack on a tree trail planted in the city.\n\nTwenty-two people were killed by a suicide bomber at an Ariana Grande concert on 22 May last year.\n\nMembers of the public are invited to attach messages to 28 trees planted between Victoria Station - near the concert venue - and St Ann's Square.\n\nSir Richard Leese, leader of Manchester City Council, said it would be a \"moving and memorable sight\".\n\nThe attack also left more than 800 people with physical and psychological injuries after suicide bomber Salman Abedi detonated a home-made device.\n\nHundreds were injured after the Ariana Grande pop concert\n\nKnown as Trees of Hope, the trail is part of a programme of events, including a cathedral service and national one-minute silence, to mark the first anniversary.\n\nMembers of the public can write messages on specially designed tags to be attached to the Japanese maple trees until the evening of 27 May.\n\nSir Richard said: \"It promises to be a moving and memorable sight, which will help people to reflect on last year's events.\"\n\nEvery message will be kept, along with last year's tributes, in an archive of the city's response to the attack, a council spokesperson said.\n\nThousands gathered for a vigil outside Manchester Town Hall after the attack\n\nCompost made from some of last year's floral tributes will be used to nurture the trees, which will remain in the city centre.\n\nAny other tributes left in public spaces will be taken to be displayed at Wythenshawe Park.\n\nA minute's silence is to be held at the start of the Great Manchester 10k Run on Sunday afternoon.\n\nSingers will also perform in Albert Square on the evening of 22 May, while song lyrics will be projected around St Ann's Square between 22 and 26 May.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played\n\nTo play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "More than 100 people have died after a Boeing 737 airliner crashed near Cuba's main airport in Havana.\n\nThree women survived the impact and subsequent fire, and are in a critical condition in hospital.", "We talk to the black gospel choir, black British musician and African American preacher who took centre-stage at the royal wedding.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Meghan reveals her halter-neck evening dress before driving into the sunset\n\nPrince Harry and Meghan Markle have become husband and wife in a moving ceremony at Windsor Castle.\n\nAn emotional-looking prince and his smiling bride exchanged vows and rings before the Queen and 600 guests at St George's Chapel.\n\nMs Markle, wearing a white boat-neck dress by British designer Clare Waight Keller, was walked down the aisle by Prince Charles.\n\nAt the altar, Prince Harry told her: \"You look amazing.\"\n\nAfter the service the couple - who will now be known as the Duke and Duchess of Sussex - kissed in front of cheering well-wishers on the steps of the chapel.\n\nThousands of members of the public turned out in bright sunshine to see them driven around Windsor in a horse-drawn carriage.\n\nLater, Prince Harry drove the couple to their reception in a 1968 silver blue Jaguar that has been converted to run on electric power, with a registration plate that referenced the date - E190518.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nGuests at the wedding included Oprah Winfrey, George and Amal Clooney, David and Victoria Beckham and Sir Elton John, who later performed at the wedding reception.\n\nMs Markle's sculpted dress was designed by Ms Waight Keller for French fashion house Givenchy.\n\nMost striking was a diamond bandeau tiara, loaned to her by the Queen, and a trailing five-metre silk veil embroidered with the flowers of each country in the Commonwealth.\n\nPrince Harry, 33, and his brother and best man, the Duke of Cambridge, wore the frockcoat uniform of the Blues and Royals.\n\nHe was given special permission from the Queen to keep his short beard as it is customary to be clean-shaven when dressed in Army uniform.\n\nTheir 10 young bridesmaids and pageboys - including Prince George and Princess Charlotte - rose to the occasion.\n\nHowever, the excitement became too much for one of the younger ones who started crying just before Ms Markle, 36, entered the chapel.\n\nPrince Charles walked Ms Markle down the aisle, after her father, Thomas, was unable to attend for health reasons.\n\nMr Markle, 73, reportedly watched the ceremony from California. He told the US celebrity website, TMZ: \"My baby looks beautiful and she looks very happy.\"\n\nMs Markle's mother, Doria Ragland, stayed with her daughter overnight before accompanying her to the chapel.\n\nDressed in a pale green Oscar de la Renta dress, with a neat hat, an emotional-looking Ms Ragland sat alone on the bride's side of the chapel for some time.\n\nAs the witnesses were called to sign the register, Ms Ragland appeared to accept an outstretched hand from Prince Charles with some relief.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The couple gazed into each other's eyes as they exchanged vows\n\nIn her vows, Ms Markle did not promise to \"obey\" her husband, while the prince has broken with royal tradition by choosing to wear a wedding ring.\n\nPrince Harry's ring is a platinum band with a textured finish and Ms Markle's has been made from a piece of Welsh gold.\n\nThe wedding service combined British tradition with modernity and the bride's African-American heritage.\n\nThe Most Rev Bishop Michael Curry, the president of the US Episcopal Church, gave an address, the Rt Rev David Conner, Dean of Windsor, conducted the service and the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Most Rev Justin Welby, officiated.\n\n\"There's power, power in love,\" said Bishop Curry, who was invited to speak by Ms Markle.\n\n\"If you don't believe me think about a time when you first fell in love. The whole world seemed to centre around you and your beloved.\"\n\nIn a fiery, passionate speech, he also referenced the African-American spiritual song Down by the Riverside, which was sung by slaves, and when he realised he had gone on too long, he told his audience he had better wrap up as \"we gotta get you all married!\"\n\nSpeaking afterwards, Bishop Curry said it was \"a joyful thing\" to see diversity in the ceremony, adding: \"That happened today, in different ways, different songs, different perspectives, different worlds and all of it came together and gave God thanks.\"\n\nLady Jane Fellowes, the sister of Prince Harry's late mother, Diana, Princess of Wales, gave a reading from the Song of Solomon.\n\nKaren Gibson and The Kingdom Choir performed Ben E King's soul classic Stand By Me during the service.\n\nPrincess Charlotte with her mother, the Duchess of Cambridge\n\nThe Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh, who is recovering from a hip operation, were among the last to arrive\n\nAs the bride and groom signed the register, 19-year-old cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason - who won the 2016 BBC's Young Musician - performed three pieces by Faure, Schubert and Maria Theresia von Paradis.\n\nHe was accompanied by musicians from the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, the English Chamber Orchestra and the Philharmonia.\n\nThe gospel choir also performed Etta James' uplifting version of Amen/This Little Light of Mine as the newlyweds left the chapel.\n\nAfter the service, the duke and duchess travelled through Windsor along a route lined by tens of thousands of well-wishers.\n\nThe Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead said more than 100,000 people visited the town on Saturday.\n\nIt was a traditional wedding - the dress, the bridesmaids, the vows, the hymns. And it was very, very different.\n\nThe Palace made it clear in a stream of announcements that they wanted a different kind of wedding.\n\nBut it was the service that marked this out as a modern, diverse wedding for a modern, diverse couple: the Kingdom Gospel choir setting toes tapping, a young black cellist, and a breathtaking address from Bishop Curry, the President of the Episcopal Church.\n\nEvery royal wedding is a chance for the Royal Family to relaunch and reinvent. There may have been trouble in the week before the wedding. But that is in the past.\n\nThis wedding was about the future, a different future for 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. Skip twitter post by Kensington Palace This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAll 600 guests were invited to a lunchtime reception at St George's Hall, hosted by the Queen. The best man, the Duke of Cambridge, acted as compere.\n\nGuests were treated to a performance by Sir Elton John and were served langoustine canapes, Windsor lamb, and champagne and pistachio macaroons. Instead of a formal sit-down dinner, food was served in bowls.\n\nThe reception also included the cutting of the lemon and elderflower-flavoured wedding cake.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nGuest Suhani Jalota, the founder of the India-based Myna Mahila charity, said Elton John performed a \"mini-concert\". She added that speeches by the Prince of Wales and the groom were \"lovely\", adding: \"Some people were even crying.\"\n\nPosting on Instagram, David Beckham said: \"Watching Harry as happy as he was makes us all proud of the man and person he has always been... what a day.\"\n\nOther celebrities attending were tennis star Serena Williams, TV personality James Corden, singer James Blunt, actress Carey Mulligan and former England rugby player Jonny Wilkinson.\n\nPrince Harry's uncle, Earl Spencer; the Duchess of York, Sarah Ferguson; and the Duchess of Cambridge's sister, Pippa Middleton, were also invited.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nPoliticians, including Prime Minister Theresa May, were not invited, as it is not a state event.\n\nBut the former Prime Minister, Sir John Major - a special guardian on legal matters to Princes William and Harry after the death of their mother - was among the invited guests.\n\nAbout 1,200 members of the public - many who were recognised for their charity work - were invited into the grounds of Windsor Castle for the wedding.\n\nAmong them was 13-year-old Leonora Ncomanzi, who was overjoyed when she got a wave from the bride herself.\n\n\"Meghan waved at me! When she was in the carriage, she saw me and waved - we've got it on video,\" she said.\n\nAnd Pamela Anomneze, in her 50s, said it had been a \"wonderful feeling\" to catch a glimpse of the Queen.\n\nOn Saturday evening, the newlyweds are celebrating with 200 close friends and family at a private reception less than a mile from Windsor Castle at Frogmore House, hosted by Prince Charles.\n\nMs Markle was expected to break with tradition for royal brides and make a speech at the event.\n\nThe Royal Family will pay for the wedding, including the service, music, flowers and reception.\n\nThe best way to get news on the go", "Dan Jarvis has been MP for Barnsley Central since 2011 Image caption: Dan Jarvis has been MP for Barnsley Central since 2011\n\nDan Jarvis, the Labour MP who has been elected the first mayor of the Sheffield City Region, said there is a \"conversation to be had\" about the future of Yorkshire devolution.\n\nAmong the ex-soldier's first jobs will be to help the leaders of Sheffield, Barnsley, Doncaster and Rotherham councils agree a deal on the issue.\n\nA deal struck in 2015 with the then chancellor George Osborne paved the way for the region to take control of power over transport, strategic planning and skills and receive £900m over 30 years.\n\nBut the leaders of Barnsley and Doncaster councils have refused to agree to the proposal and have thrown their weight, together with Mr Jarvis, into securing a devolution deal for the whole of Yorkshire.", "Geoff Barlow's Labrador retriever Jake enjoyed the sea at Southbourne, Essex, having just learned to swim\n\nUK temperatures are forecast to soar over the weekend, with Monday heading for a record high.\n\nForecasters say temperatures could reach 28C (82F) on Monday in parts of England, making it the hottest early May Bank Holiday on record.\n\nThe highest temperatures are expected in south-east England, particularly around London, as well as in East Anglia and the East Midlands.\n\nNorthern England and Wales are likely to have highs of 23C.\n\nIt will be slightly cooler in south-west England, Scotland and Northern Ireland, with temperatures expected to range from 19C to 22C.\n\nThe warmest early May Bank Holiday Monday on record was 23.6C, in 1999 - and this Monday could be the hottest since 1978, when the holiday was first introduced.\n\nThe average high for the May Bank Holiday in London is about 18C.\n\nRed and Ginny soaked up the sun in Airmyn near Goole, East Yorkshire\n\nDominic Wong, in Bournemouth, went for a spontaneous dip after taking this photo\n\nJames and his dog Archie also basked in the sunshine in the Chiltern Hills, in south-east England\n\nMet Office forecaster Craig Snell said the record for Monday is likely to be broken, but not the record for the hottest day over the whole May Bank Holiday weekend - that was a temperature of 28.6C set on the Saturday in 1995.\n\nHe said: \"23.6C is what we've got to beat, and we're forecasting highs of at least 26C, 27C, possibly 28C, so I think we can safely say that's going to be beaten.\n\n\"But whether or not we will beat the record for the whole weekend put together, we'll be close, but at the moment looking at it we may just come short.\"\n\nWalkers were among those enjoying the Kennet and Avon Canal in Newbury, Berkshire\n\nIt will come in sharp contrast to last Monday, when some parts of the UK experienced \"unseasonably cold weather\" and saw more than half a month's rainfall in a day.\n\nMeanwhile the week before that, London experienced the warmest April day for nearly 70 years with temperatures over 29C, as well as the hottest London Marathon on record.\n\nAnd in early April, parts of Scotland, northern England and north Wales were covered in heavy snow.\n\nThe highest May temperature recorded in the UK was on 29 May 1944, when Regent's Park, Horsham and Tunbridge Wells reached 32.8C (91F).", "A restaurant in Bristol has started serving straws made out of pasta with its drinks.\n\nBrace and Browns on Whiteladies Road says it uses them to cut down on plastic.\n\nIt says people allergic to gluten should not use them but that the general reaction has been positive.", "Theresa May has asked officials to draw up \"revised proposals\" for post-Brexit customs arrangements after a key meeting with her most senior ministers.\n\nThe Brexit sub committee met to try to agree on a new model to replace the UK's membership of the customs union.\n\nOne of the government's preferred options - a \"customs partnership\" - has faced heavy criticism from Brexiteers.\n\nA succession of senior ministers challenged her over this plan in Wednesday's meeting.\n\nTwo separate sources have told the BBC that a narrow majority of ministers expressed fears about the proposal - what some have described as \"killing\" it.\n\nBut Downing Street denied this, saying the meeting acknowledged there were \"challenges\" to the existing proposals but that both the options put forward so far by the UK are still on the table.\n\nMrs May has now asked for more work to be done on both options.\n\nBrexit Secretary David Davis told MPs on Thursday that both options had merits and both had drawbacks \"which is why we are taking more time over them\".\n\nAll EU members are part of the customs union, within which there are no internal tariffs (taxes) on goods transported between them. There is also a common tariff agreed on goods entering from outside.\n\nThe UK government has said it is leaving the EU customs union so that it can strike its own trade deals around the world, something it cannot do as a member.\n\nThis means the UK and the EU will have to agree a new arrangement for what happens at their border post-Brexit.\n\nThe UK, which put forward two alternative proposals last year, has yet to confirm its favoured model.\n\nIt is under pressure to make progress on the issue before next month's EU summit.\n\nEnter the word or phrase you are looking for\n\nThe EU does not appear to be keen on either option.\n\nEarlier Mrs May told MPs there were \"a number of ways\" to deliver Britain's objectives on customs arrangements after Brexit.\n\nShe says the final arrangement must avoid a hard border between Northern Ireland and the Republic - which is part of the EU - and that a customs border down the Irish Sea would be unacceptable.\n\nOn the eve of the Brexit cabinet meeting, Brexiteers urged Mrs May to abandon the partnership option, presenting a 30-page dossier claiming it would make meaningful trade deals \"impossible\" to forge and render the UK's International Trade Department \"obsolete\".\n\nTheresa May therefore asked for more work to be done, and for revised proposals to be produced. Essentially, she told colleagues and officials to go away and come back with better ideas.\n\nYou can make your own judgement on whether that is a good thing or not. But it does mean that as things stand, the UK government, nearly two years after the referendum, does not have an agreed position on how customs will work after Brexit that has the full backing of the cabinet - let alone Parliament - and let alone the country or the rest of the EU.\n\nThat means too that the government is saying to Brussels, where demands are building for more detail: \"We're still not quite ready to talk.\"\n\nThree separate sources have also told me that six ministers out of the 11 on the committee expressed fears about the viability of the customs partnership - yes, the \"unicorn\" proposal we've discussed here before.\n\nThose ministers included Gavin Williamson and Sajid Javid, who were both Remainers during the referendum, but neither of whom as things stand were ready to back what's thought to be the PM's preferred option.", "Last updated on .From the section Championship\n\nCardiff City secured automatic promotion to the Premier League despite drawing at home to Reading, thanks to Fulham's defeat at Birmingham.\n\nThe Bluebirds dominated their tense encounter but were frustrated by the Royals.\n\nHowever, Fulham's loss - their first of 2018 in the Championship - brought relief and pure euphoria to the Welsh side.\n\nAnd Reading joined in the celebrations, with the draw sealing their survival.\n\nThe real scenes of jubilation, however, belonged to the home side, with Cardiff's fans streaming on to the pitch to mob their players as soon as the final whistle blew.\n\nManager Neil Warnock had said winning a record eighth promotion would be his \"greatest achievement\" - and it is no wonder, considering the Bluebirds were second from bottom and in disarray when he was appointed in October 2016.\n\nDespite working with modest means, the veteran manager signed resourcefully to assemble a group of players in whom he instilled a tireless work ethic and bloody-minded will to win.\n\nThe style of play may not always be aesthetically pleasing but, with a robust structure and sheer refusal to relent, this is a Cardiff team whose spirit mirrors that of their manager and supporters.\n\nThe Bluebirds started the day second in the Championship table, one point ahead of third-placed Fulham. Cardiff only needed to match Fulham's result at Birmingham to secure promotion.\n\nFor Reading, meanwhile, there was still the danger of relegation, which raised the stakes for both sides and fed a cacophonous atmosphere inside a sold-out Cardiff City Stadium bathed in sunshine.\n\nThe tension was palpable and, although the hosts sought to keep their fate in their own hands with a strident start to the game, the mutual sense of apprehension meant there were few early scoring opportunities.\n\nHowever, the anxiety soon eased thanks to events elsewhere.\n\nReading's fans were the first to celebrate, chanting \"We are staying up\" after discovering both their chief relegation rivals, Barnsley and Burton, were losing.\n\nAnd those cheers were soon drowned out when news of Birmingham's opening goal against Fulham was met with an almighty roar from the home supporters.\n\nIt was something of a reprieve for Cardiff, who were dominating possession and territory but unable to carve open their obdurate opponents.\n\nJunior Hoilett curled one effort narrowly wide and then had an appeal for a penalty rejected after he fell under a challenge from Tiago Ilory.\n\nAgain, the home nerves jangled but, again, Birmingham calmed them by doubling their lead against Fulham.\n\nThe second half followed the same pattern: Cardiff the aggressors, trying but failing to force their way through; their frustration tempered by the scoreline at St Andrew's.\n\nThat was to prove enough, with Che Adams' goal for Birmingham sealing Fulham's 3-1 defeat and sparking pandemonium in the Cardiff City Stadium stands and a premature pitch invasion from some supporters.\n\nThey took their seats for the closing moments and when the final whistle eventually went, the wild celebrations could begin in earnest as Cardiff toasted their return to the Premier League for the first time since 2014.\n• None Delay over. They are ready to continue.\n• None Delay over. They are ready to continue.\n• None Delay in match Sean Morrison (Cardiff City) because of an injury.\n• None Delay in match Yann Kermorgant (Reading) because of an injury.\n• None Attempt missed. Jamie Ward (Cardiff City) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by Gary Madine with a headed pass.\n• None Attempt missed. Nathaniel Mendez-Laing (Cardiff City) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the right following a set piece situation.\n• None Attempt missed. Kenneth Zohore (Cardiff City) left footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses the top left corner. Assisted by Joe Ralls.\n• None Attempt blocked. Kenneth Zohore (Cardiff City) right footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Joe Bennett. 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. Marr tells viewers he is having a kidney operation\n\nBBC presenter Andrew Marr will have an operation this week to remove a malignant tumour on his kidney.\n\nThe former political editor is expected to \"make a full recovery and will be returning to the airwaves soon\", his agent Mary Greenham said.\n\nThe broadcaster will not be hosting his weekly Sunday programme, the Andrew Marr Show, while he recuperates.\n\nThe 58-year-old told viewers at the end of Sunday's show: \"I am going to be away for a couple of weeks or so.\"\n\nHe added: \"I'm having a small hospital operation and I will be back as soon as I possibly can, so be kind please to whoever is sitting in this chair next week.\"\n\nIn her statement his agent added that he and his family \"have asked for privacy at this difficult time\".\n\nThe surgery comes five years after Marr suffered a stroke, which saw him take a nine-month break from his Sunday morning show.\n\nHe spent two months in hospital, followed by months of physiotherapy to help him walk again.\n\nThree months after his stroke, the broadcaster gave an interview to his own programme, in which he said he was \"lucky to be alive.\"\n\nA BBC spokeswoman said: \"Andrew is taking a period of time off for medical reasons.\n\n\"We wish him well and look forward to welcoming him back on our screens soon.\"", "Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson will have two days of talks with White House officials\n\nBoris Johnson is visiting Washington to urge the US not to scrap the international deal designed to prevent Iran acquiring nuclear weapons.\n\nThe UK and its European allies have until 12 May to persuade President Donald Trump to stick with the deal.\n\nMr Trump has strongly criticised the agreement, which he calls \"insane\".\n\nIn a call with Theresa May on Saturday, the president \"underscored his commitment to ensure that Iran never acquires a nuclear weapon\".\n\nIn the landmark deal - signed by the US, China, Russia, Germany, France, the UK and Iran - the latter agrees to limit its nuclear activities in return for the easing of sanctions on its economy.\n\nEuropean allies France, the UK and Germany all agree the current deal is the best way to stop Iran developing nuclear weapons and the UN also warned Mr Trump not to walk away from the deal.\n\nBut Mr Trump has threatened to withdraw unless the signatories agree to \"fix the deal's disastrous flaws.\"\n\nThe British Ambassador to the US says France, UK and Germany have been working together for weeks to figure out a new way to address Mr Trump's concerns that the terms of the agreement are too lenient.\n\nHowever, Sir Kim Darroch insists all three countries are looking at how a deal would work even without the US.\n\nIran's President Hassan Rouhani says the US will face \"historic regret\" if it pulls out.\n\nIn remarks carried live on state television, he said Iran had \"a plan to counter any decision Trump may take and we will confront it\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A timeline of what Trump's said about the Iran deal\n\nMr Johnson will meet US Vice-President Mike Pence, National Security Adviser John Bolton and foreign policy leaders in Congress.\n\nAhead of the trip, Mr Johnson said the UK and US are \"in lockstep\" on many global foreign policy issues, citing the response to the use of chemical weapons in Syria and the Salisbury poisonings.\n\nHe added: \"The UK, US and European partners are also united in our effort to tackle the kind of Iranian behaviour that makes the Middle East region less secure - its cyber activities, its support for groups like Hezbollah, and its dangerous missile programme, which is arming Houthi militias in Yemen.\"\n\nThe UK-US talks come after Israel revealed \"secret nuclear files\" accusing Iran of having run a secret nuclear weapons programme, which was reportedly mothballed 15 years ago.\n\nUS Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said the documents were authentic and show the 2015 Iran nuclear deal was \"built on lies\".\n\nIran, in turn, accused Mr Netanyahu of lying. Foreign Minister Javad Zarif said the documents produced by Israel were a rehash of old allegations already dealt with by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the UN's nuclear watchdog.\n\nMr Trump has until the deadline of 12 May to make a decision on the deal - the next deadline for waiving sanctions.\n\nEarlier this month, Mr Johnson said it was important to keep the deal \"while building on it in order to take account of the legitimate concerns of the US\".\n\nMr Johnson's discussions are also expected to cover the crisis in Syria and also North Korea, ahead of Mr Trump's meeting with Kim Jong-un, which now has a date and location arranged.", "Last updated on .From the section Man Utd\n\nFormer Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson had emergency surgery on Saturday for a brain haemorrhage.\n\nA United statement said the procedure \"had gone very well\" but Ferguson \"needs a period of intensive care to optimise his recovery\".\n\nThe Scot, 76, retired as United manager in May 2013 after winning 38 trophies during 26 years in charge.\n\nHe was at Old Trafford last Sunday when he presented Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger with a commemorative trophy.\n\nFerguson's family have requested privacy as he recovers in Salford Royal Hospital.\n\n\"We will keep Sir Alex and his loved ones in our thoughts during this time, and we are united in our wish to see him make a comfortable, speedy recovery,\" United later said in a tweet.\n\nThe most successful manager in the history of the British game, Ferguson's trophy haul at Old Trafford included 13 Premier League titles, two Champions League crowns, five FA Cups and four League Cups.\n\nFerguson famously won the Treble of Premier League, FA Cup and Champions League in 1999, the year in which he was knighted.\n\nUnited's club captain Michael Carrick said he was \"devastated\" to learn his former manager had needed emergency surgery.\n\n\"All my thoughts and prayers are with him and his family. Be strong boss,\" he wrote on Twitter.\n\nFerguson has been married to wife Cathy since 1966. His son Darren manages Doncaster Rovers but did not not take charge of their League One match against Wigan on Saturday.\n\nFerguson began his playing career with Scottish club Queen's Park as a 16-year-old striker whilst working as an apprentice tool-worker at Clyde Shipyards.\n\nHis most notable spell as a player came in a two-year stint at Rangers from 1967. He retired as a player in 1974 when he was on Ayr United's books.\n\nHe began his managerial career as a 32-year-old at East Stirlingshire before going to St Mirren, where he won his first trophy by taking the Scottish first division title in 1977.\n\nFerguson moved on to Aberdeen and turned them into a major force in a Scottish top division in which Rangers and Celtic had dominated.\n\nHe led them to three Scottish titles, four Scottish FA Cups, one League Cup and the European Cup Winners' Cup in 1983 by beating Real Madrid 2-1 in the final.\n\nFerguson managed Scotland in the 1986 World Cup in Mexico following the death of Jock Stein, although he was unable to take his country past the group stage.\n\nHe became Manchester United manager later that year.\n\nUnited celebrated their first Premier League triumph under Ferguson in 1993, the club's first league title for 26 years.\n\nWillie Miller, who served as Aberdeen captain under Ferguson, said he was \"staggered\" to hear the news.\n\n\"My thoughts are with the boss, Cathy and the boys. Hoping the great man does what he does best and wins this challenge,\" he added.\n\nEverton manager Sam Allardyce said: \"I hope he's in good hands and I hope the operation is a major success. As a personal friend, I hope he has a full recovery.\"\n\n'Keep fighting boss' - reaction from the football world\n\nFormer Manchester United midfielder David Beckham: Keep fighting boss. Sending prayers and love to Cathy and the whole family.\n\nMike Phelan, who was Ferguson's assistant for five years: You've won more than most and if anyone can, you can boss.\n\nUnited defender Ashley Young: Gutted to hear the news tonight about Sir Alex. Don't really know what else to say other than thoughts and prayers with you and your family, boss.\n\nFormer United goalkeeper Edwin van der Sar: Devastated about the news about Sir Alex and knowing all too well about the situation ourselves. Stay strong and hope together with everyone you recover.\n\nUnited defender Chris Smalling: Gutted to hear the news about Sir Alex. Stay strong boss. Thoughts are with you and your family.\n\nFormer England striker and Match of the Day host Gary Lineker: Very sorry to hear the news that Sir Alex Ferguson is seriously ill in hospital. Wish him all the very best.\n\nAberdeen FC: The thoughts and prayers of everyone connected with Aberdeen Football Club are with our former manager Sir Alex Ferguson and his family following tonight's news.\n\nLiverpool FC: A great rival but also a great friend who supported this club during its most difficult time, it is hoped that Sir Alex will make a full recovery.\n\nManchester City: Everyone at Manchester City wishes Sir Alex Ferguson a full and speedy recovery after his surgery.\n\nWorld football governing body Fifa: We join many across the world of football in sending our best wishes to Sir Alex Ferguson.", "This video can not be played\n\nTo play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "David Meek covered Manchester United for the Manchester Evening News from 1958 to 1995. He has ghosted the programme notes for every United manager from Sir Matt Busby through to Sir Alex Ferguson. Here he gives his personal recollections of Ferguson, who he used to meet at United's Carrington training ground each week for 26 years.\n\nI nailed my colours to the mast three years into Sir Alex Ferguson's trophy-laden 26-year reign as manager of Manchester United.\n\nBut this was before all the silverware started to arrive. It was in fact a turbulent time, as the Reds sank into the bottom half of the table after a run of 11 league games without a win, despite spending a lot of money on players like Gary Pallister, Danny Wallace, Paul Ince, Neil Webb and Mike Phelan.\n\nThey just weren't gelling - perhaps too many new faces introduced too quickly - and the mood was captured by one unhappy fan who held up a bed sheet at Old Trafford on which he had painted: \"Three years of excuses and we're still crap, ta-ra Fergie\".\n\nThe knives were certainly out as United approached the third round of the FA Cup with a tricky tie at Nottingham Forest and injuries to key players.\n\nTelevision commentator Jimmy Hill even said United looked like a beaten team in the warm-up.\n\nMy editor at the Manchester Evening News ran a phone-in asking readers to vote on whether Ferguson should be sacked. The result of the poll showed a majority in favour of him going and I was asked to write a story accordingly.\n\nIn fact, what I did was argue that if you deducted the votes of Manchester City fans wanting to cause mischief and you took into account the United supporters who couldn't be bothered to ring in, you were left with an overwhelming vote of confidence in Alex Ferguson.\n\nIt was all very tongue in cheek on my part and my editor wasn't best pleased, but it went into the paper before he could do anything about it. That was the moment I became a 'Fergie man', close enough to help write his programme notes for 26 years.\n\n\"Sir Alex is a man of confidence with an unshakeable belief in his abilities which, along with many other qualities, makes him the stand-out manager of all time. His attention to detail and capacity for hard work are unbelievable, as I mused one day when I sat sipping a cup of tea at 7.30am in the dining room at United's Carrington training ground waiting for his arrival. I was there as Sir Alex's 'ghost', to work with him on the column he writes in the match programme for all home fixtures. I'm used to the early starts. He likes to get this kind of job out of the way before the real business of his day involving his coaching staff and of course the players. This morning, though, I congratulate myself on arriving before him and get ready to enjoy telling him he's late. But then I'm told by one of the other early arrivals, a cleaner, that he is already here and in the gym while he waits for me! A few minutes later he's in the canteen with a bowl of porridge - with salt not sugar of course. He had found his work-out hard going, but then you would, wouldn't you, if you have turned 70 and been up since the crack of dawn because once awake you can't wait to start work. This is a manager as keen to get to grips with the day as he was when he first bounced into Manchester more than 26 years ago years ago, fresh from slaying the two Glasgow monsters of Rangers and Celtic as manager of Aberdeen. Now he can take life a little more leisurely, perhaps even get up a bit later. Though somehow I doubt it.\"\n\nIt wasn't just blind loyalty, though, toadying up to the manager - more a conviction that given time he would come good. For I knew all the far-sighted work he had done behind the scenes, putting an end to the drinking culture by transferring Norman Whiteside and Paul McGrath, and totally reorganising the youth set-up which was about to deliver the enormously promising FA Youth Cup-winning team containing players like Gary Neville, David Beckham, Ryan Giggs, Paul Scholes and Nicky Butt.\n\nMy support for the manager at a critical time in his career established a trust that would prove enormously helpful in 37 years covering Manchester United for my paper and, after my retirement from the Evening News, as a freelancer writing about the club, helping to set up the United museum at Old Trafford, and scripting the panels for the Munich tunnel.\n\nNot that it protected me completely from the occasional 'hairdryer' treatment when he considered the Evening News had let him down.\n\nFor instance, I felt the full force of his anger when we printed a story about his players visiting the SAS at Hereford in a bid to toughen up their attempts to win the league title. He slaughtered me and my editor because he said we were exposing his people to retaliation from the IRA. He said he was ending his co-operation with us, although he did tell me that it was nothing personal.\n\nThat helped, because I realised he had exploded with rage because he wanted me to go back and tell the editor that on no account must we print any more stories against his wishes.\n\nI learned then that this remarkable manager aimed to have control of not just his football club but everything else that had a bearing on its welfare. To an astonishing extent he succeeded because in addition to his anger he has a personality that can be extremely persuasive.\n\nFor a start, Ferguson has always had an air of authority about him, as Brian McClair, one of his first signings for United and now manager of the club's academy, explained to me. \"I remember meeting Alex Ferguson for the first time when I was playing for Celtic and in Monaco to receive the Golden Boot award as Europe's top scorer,\" he said.\n\n\"He was there representing Aberdeen and after the dinner and presentations he asked me what I was going to do. I told him that I wanted to take the opportunity of being in Monte Carlo by going to the famous casino, to which he said, 'Oh no you're not, son, you are going to your bed'.\n\n\"The funny thing was that even though I didn't play for his club and he wasn't my manager, that's exactly what I did. There was just something about the man that I didn't want to argue with. He has a natural authority.\n\n\"Somehow you just accept that what he says is right. I was young, but even so, that first experience of meeting him has never left me.\"\n\nBut for every tale of Fergie the hard man, like the time he dropped Jim Leighton for an FA Cup final replay and broke his heart as well as his career, there are just as many instances of Alex the softie, like his unsung charity work and supporting the boys' club he played football for when he was growing up in Glasgow, along with his readiness to pay his respects to old friends, be it a leaving party or a funeral.\n\nI doubt whether Alice, a long-time United supporter celebrating her 100th birthday in a nursing home in Leicester, will ever forget the unheralded arrival of Sir Alex to wish her many happy returns. At one point the matron rushed in to announce that the Queen's traditional telegram had arrived.\n\n\"Oh never mind the Queen,\" said Alice. \"Alex is here!\"\n\nEqually appreciative, I'm sure, is the long-serving member of staff who doesn't drive and clearly had a problem getting to United's isolated training ground at Carrington when her husband, who used to drive her to work every day, died. Now she comes to and from work in a taxi laid on by Sir Alex.\n\nI also experienced his concerned care. A few years ago I had bowel cancer and in addition to receiving the traditional flowers, I answered the phone at home one afternoon as I recuperated from the operation to hear a voice coming down the line: \"The Scottish beast is on his way.\"\n\nThe manager had not forgotten his programme ghost and he came to deliver an encouraging message. \"You can handle it,\" he said. Coming from him I found his words quite inspirational.\n\nWe all know how much Sir Alex has achieved in the game - more than any other British manager - but he has also touched the lives of so many away from the glamour of football, and these moments are also very precious.", "North Korea has made relatively little criticism of the US in recent weeks\n\nNorth Korea has warned the US about using \"pressure and military threats\" against it as the two countries prepare for a historic summit.\n\nA Foreign Ministry official said the US was deliberately provoking the North by suggesting sanctions will not be lifted until it gives up nuclear weapons.\n\nUS President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un are due to meet in the next few weeks.\n\nIt will be the first ever meeting between the two countries' leaders.\n\nNorth and South Korean leaders agreed last month to denuclearise the region, at a border summit which came after months of warlike rhetoric from the North and Mr Trump.\n\nMr Kim became the first North Korean leader to set foot in South Korea since the end of Korean hostilities in 1953.\n\nNorth Korea regularly criticises the US - but there have been few attacks in recent weeks, amid plans for the summit.\n\nThis latest statement is a reminder that discussions between the two countries will not be easy, says BBC Asia editor Michael Bristow.\n\nThe North Korean official, quoted by state news agency KCNA, said that Washington was \"misleading public opinion\" by saying the denuclearisation pledge resulted from sanctions and other pressure.\n\nThe US was also aggravating the current good atmosphere by deploying military assets on the Korean peninsula, they added.\n\n\"The US is deliberately provoking [North Korea] at the time when the situation on the Korean peninsula is moving toward peace and reconciliation thanks to the historic north-south summit and the Panmunjom Declaration,\" the statement said.\n\nDonald Trump says he will maintain a tough stance on North Korea\n\n\"This act cannot be construed otherwise than a dangerous attempt to ruin the hard-won atmosphere of dialogue and bring the situation back to square one.\n\n\"It would not be conducive to addressing the issue if the US miscalculates the peace-loving intention of [North Korea] as a sign of 'weakness' and continues to pursue its pressure and military threats against the latter.\"\n\nMr Trump has said he will maintain sanctions and other pressure on the North and suggested that his tough stance has helped facilitate reconciliation.\n\nOn 27 April Mr Kim met South Korean President Moon Jae-in at the border village of Panmunjon.\n\nThey said they would pursue talks with the US and China to formally end the Korean War, which ended in 1953 with a truce, not total peace, and made a commitment to the aim of \"a nuclear-free Korean peninsula\".\n\nMr Trump says a date and venue for the talks have been decided, but has not revealed them.", "The two boys were shot on Wealdstone High Street\n\nTwo boys aged 13 and 15 have been shot in north-west London.\n\nThe 15-year-old was found wounded in Wealdstone High Street at about 13:15 BST.\n\nMinutes later paramedics alerted police officers to the 13-year-old, who had also been shot on the same road. They are both in hospital.\n\nThe shootings come after Rhyhiem Ainsworth Barton, 17, was shot dead in the street in Southwark on Saturday evening while playing football.\n\nHis mother Pretana Morgan said he \"had so much potential\" and added that she \"couldn't have asked for a better son\".\n\nA jacket lies on the pavement at the junction of Palmerston Road and Wealdstone High Street\n\nPalmerston Road, just off Wealdstone High Street, was blocked off with police tape and manned by uniformed officers on Sunday evening.\n\nThe Met Police said the younger victim had suffered a shotgun pellet wound to the head.\n\nThe 15-year-old also suffered a head injury but neither was thought to be in a life-threatening condition, the force added.\n\nA shopkeeper said the 13-year-old was \"lucky to be alive\" and they believed a bullet had grazed the back of his head.\n\n\"He was holding his head down. I could not see his face but could see his white T-shirt was proper covered in blood,\" he added.\n\nIn a separate attack, a 22-year-old suffered non life-threatening wounds in a shooting in New Cross Road, Lewisham, at about 18:30.\n\nThere have been no arrests in any of the cases.\n\nForensics teams are at the scene in Wealdstone\n• None London killings: Why are they happening?\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A support vehicle crashed through a traffic island and narrowly missed a volunteer during the final stage of the Tour de Yorkshire cycle race.\n\nIt happened on the fourth day of the event as cyclists headed towards the finish line in Leeds, West Yorkshire.\n\nVolunteer Phillip Sullivan said he was shaken but unhurt after leaping out of the way, and wanted to make sure the driver of the car was OK.\n\nRace organisers have been contacted for comment.", "Women voting in Batroun, to the north of Beirut\n\nLebanon has held parliamentary elections for the first time in almost a decade.\n\nThe last elections in the country were in 2009, for what was supposed to be a four-year term.\n\nBut parliament extended its term twice due to instability in neighbouring Syria, and to reform the country's electoral laws.\n\nIt changed the voting system, reduced the number of districts, and allowed expatriate voting for the first time.\n\nHezbollah, the armed group considered a terrorist organisation by the United States and others, is seeking to increase its parliamentary representation.\n\nVoting for all 128 seats was supposed to close at 19:00 local time (16:00 GMT), however it was extended by an hour at some polling stations.\n\nTurnout was 49.2%, compared to 54% in 2009, Interior Minister Nohad Machnouk said.\n\nOfficial results are not expected until Monday or Tuesday.\n\nVoters in the northern city of Tripoli cast their ballots\n\nTens of thousands of Lebanese citizens living aboard already cast their votes earlier this week - the first time such expatriate voting has been allowed.\n\nThe change is down to the new electoral system being used.\n\nIt reduces the number of districts, and uses a list-based proportional system for voting, with seats distributed among the various Christian and Islamic groups.\n\nLebanon has long had a power-sharing political system between the different religious denominations. The number of seats in parliament is split between Christians and Muslims, and the president, prime minister, and speaker of the parliament must each come from a specific religious background.\n\nCurrent Prime Minister Saad al-Hariri caused a significant political crisis in November, when he fled the country for Saudi Arabia, announcing his resignation in a televised address in which he said he feared an assassination attempt.\n\nHe \"suspended\" his own resignation two weeks later after speaking to President Michel Aoun back in Lebanon, and withdrew his decision entirely in December.\n\nThe European Union said it had deployed election observers to all of Lebanon's voting districts.\n\nMajor issues facing the newly-elected parliament include the fate of a large number of refugees who have entered the country since the outbreak of the Syrian civil war, and continuing economic difficulties.\n\nBallot papers are divided by religious groups - a key part of Lebanon's political power-sharing arrangements\n• None 'Remember the days we tried to kill each other'", "A vintage light aeroplane has made an emergency landing on a beach after its engine failed.\n\nPilot Zac Rockey was praised for safely navigating onto the sand at Jacobs Ladder, Devon, which backs onto a tall steep cliff.", "Southern is advising people not to travel to Brighton as there are no direct trains between London and the south coast\n\nPassengers said there was \"absolute chaos\" at Gatwick Airport because of overcrowding on rail replacement services on the Brighton mainline.\n\nSouthern is advising people not to travel to the coast as there are no direct trains from London due to engineering work.\n\nPeople are waiting about two hours to board replacement buses, National Rail said.\n\nDisruption is expected to last until the end of the day and into Monday.\n\nSouthern posted on their website: \"There are currently large queues for the replacement bus services at Gatwick Airport and overcrowding at the station.\n\n\"As a result, customers should anticipate extended journey times and cancellations between London Victoria and Gatwick Airport to prevent further overcrowding.\n\n\"Services from Brighton towards London Victoria after 17:00 are expected to be extremely busy and journey times to be extended as a result.\"\n\nThe line between Gatwick Airport and Three Bridges is closed over the bank holiday weekend, affecting Southern and the Gatwick Express.\n\nBuses are running between the two stations.\n\nPassenger Aimee Atkinson made it back to Brighton but said the \"trains were absolutely rammed\".\n\nShe tweeted: \"Absolute chaos and fights @Gatwick_Airport trying to get rail replacement to Brighton @SouthernRailUK sort it out! A few workers trying to manage hundreds of people. My mum had to step in and help with crowd control.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by National Rail This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSouthern apologised and said \"Demand has been incredibly high and we have been getting as many buses as possible through to reduce queues.\"\n\nIt added that services on Monday \"are expected to be extremely busy as further good weather has been predicted\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Stunning colours in Barnt Green in Worcestershire, where temperatures reached 23C\n\nMuch of the UK has seen sunshine and blue skies ahead of the early May Bank Holiday Monday, which forecasters say could be the hottest on record.\n\nPeople have been enjoying the sun, with some roads busy and train services packed as crowds head to the coast.\n\nTemperatures peaked at 26C in Northolt in north west London.\n\nCyclists pass Belvoir Castle, Leicestershire ahead of an early May Bank Holiday Monday which could break temperature records\n\nMeanwhile, Wales saw a top temperature of 23.6C in Llysdinam, Powys, and in Scotland the mercury reached 21.8C in Edinburgh.\n\nIn Northern Ireland, the highest recorded was 20.8C in Katesbridge.\n\nThe warmest early May Bank Holiday Monday on record was 23.6C, in 1999 - and this Monday could be the hottest since 1978, when the holiday was first introduced. The average high for the May Bank Holiday in London is about 18C.\n\nThe scene at Fisherrow Harbour in Musselburgh, East Lothian, was a serene picture of blue\n\nSo many people decided to head to Brighton and other South Coast seaside destinations that Southern Rail \"strongly advised\" passengers not to travel. Engineering work had seen trains replaced by replacement bus services\n\nFour retired firefighters, members of a group set up to preserve a former London Fire Brigade engine, enjoy the Brighton seafront after travelling from London\n\nThe sun shines brightly in a garden in Manchester, where temperatures rose to 23C\n\nNot a cloud in the sky above Chichester in West Sussex, where temperatures are expected to stay at a pleasant 23C on Monday\n\nAnd also in Chichester, Itchenor Sailing Club shared this photo of the harbour where they are hosting an open day\n\nThe sea was glistening off the coast of Paignton in Devon, photographed by a runner\n\nBut some snow remained on the mountain of Ben Ledi in Perthshire - although hillwalkers enjoyed clear views and spells of sunshine\n\nMeanwhile in Poole, Dorset, this exotic sunset scene looks like it is straight out of a holiday brochure\n\nMany walkers made the most of the clear skies and took to the hills in the Brecon Beacons\n\nSunday in London began with a glorious red sunrise, pictured here over the city from Richmond Park\n• None How hot is it where you are?", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Lava flows are continuing from the Kilauea volcano in Hawaii\n\nA number of strong earthquakes have hit Hawaii's Big Island, a day after the eruption of the Kilauea volcano.\n\nOne 6.9 magnitude quake, south-east of the volcano, was the most powerful to hit the US state since 1975.\n\nIt briefly cut power and sent people fleeing from buildings but there was no tsunami warning.\n\nMeanwhile, several fresh eruptions spewed fountains of lava 30m (100ft), destroying several homes and leaving fissures on three streets.\n\nThe Civil Defense Agency told any remaining residents to evacuate.\n\nIt said there were deadly levels of dangerous sulphur dioxide gas in the air and emergency crews would not be able to help anyone affected.\n\nThe new volcanic activity in Mt Kilauea's lower east rift zone amounted to \"vigorous lava spattering\", the US Geological Survey (USGS) said, adding that additional outbreaks in the area were likely.\n\nThe USGS said \"vigorous lava spattering\" was happening\n\nThe lava was not travelling more than a \"few tens of yards\" from the vents, which were on streets in the Leilani Estates neighbourhood near Big Island's eastern tip, the USGS said.\n\nHowever, ground deformation was continuing and there was high earthquake activity in the area, it said. Meanwhile, the level of the lava lake inside the volcano was continuing to drop.\n\nTwo homes were destroyed in the latest activity, ABC quoted Hawaii island Mayor Harry Kim as saying.\n\nMaija Stenback, an eyewitness, told the BBC the eruption \"was like when someone plays the bass really heavy: you could really feel the power and the lava\".\n\n\"The colour was unbelievable, and the sound was unbelievable,\" she said.\n\n\"You could hear and feel the eruption a good half a mile away, and the closer you got, the more you could feel it.\"\n\nResidents described fleeing their homes on Thursday evening.\n\n\"My family is safe, the rest of the stuff can be replaced. When I bought here 14 years [ago], I knew that this day would eventually come. But the reality is sinking in now,\" one resident told Hawaii News Now.\n\nA spokesperson for Hawaii's Mayor, Janet Snyder, said \"elevated levels\" of sulphur dioxide were stopping people returning to evacuated areas.\n\n\"It is quite toxic and in fact, even our first responders find it too hazardous at this time to go back into the sub-divisions without heavy, protective equipment,\" she said.\n\nThursday's eruption prompted a local state of emergency and the mandatory evacuation of 1,700 residents.\n\nCommunity centres have been opened to provide shelter for evacuees.\n\nKilauea is one of the world's most active volcanoes and the eruption follows a series of recent earthquakes.\n\nOfficials had been warning residents all week they should be prepared to evacuate as an eruption would give little warning.\n\nA volcanic crater vent - known as Puu Oo - collapsed earlier this week, sending lava down the mountain's slopes towards populated areas.\n\nDr Dougal Jerram, an earth scientist at the University of Oslo, told the BBC that the quake had \"occurred in the middle of a housing estate effectively, erupting through the roads, with magma shooting 30 metres up into the sky\".\n\nHawaii's Governor, David Ige, said he had activated military reservists from the National Guard to help evacuate thousands of people.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Governor David Ige This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nEarlier this year, a false alert warning of an incoming ballistic missile caused panic, leading the US state to reassess its alert system.", "Jamie Acourt, pictured in police custody in Spain, was last seen in the UK in February 2016\n\nUK fugitive Jamie Acourt will not challenge his extradition from Spain after being arrested over alleged drug offences, the Spanish High Court has said.\n\nMr Acourt, who was one of Britain's most wanted fugitives, was arrested in Barcelona on Friday.\n\nHe was sought by police investigating the large-scale supply of drugs.\n\nOn Sunday, it was confirmed the 41-year-old from south London had accepted his extradition at a hearing in Madrid.\n\nAppearing via video-link from Barcelona in front of a High Court judge, Mr Acourt was denied bail.\n\nArmed officers arrested Mr Acourt after he left the Metropolitan Sagrada Familia Gym in the Spanish city on Friday afternoon.\n\nIt is thought Mr Acourt's extradition to the UK will happen relatively quickly\n\nHe was detained under a European Arrest Warrant as part of operation Captura, a joint effort by the National Crime Agency (NCA), Metropolitan Police and Spanish National Police.\n\nHe was last seen in the UK on 1 February 2016, in the Eltham area and was known to visit south-west London and areas of Surrey.\n\nMr Acourt was a former suspect in Stephen Lawrence's murder in 1993 but has always denied any involvement in the killing.\n\nHis transfer to Britain should happen relatively quickly, according to the BBC's Madrid correspondent Tom Burridge.", "Arlene Foster was interviewed on the BBC's Andrew Marr Show\n\nDUP leader Arlene Foster has said she she would like the European Union to take a more sensible approach to the Brexit negotiations.\n\nMrs Foster said she would like to see less rhetoric and more engagement from the EU on the way forward.\n\nThe EU's chief negotiator, Michel Barnier, was in Northern Ireland earlier this week.\n\nMrs Foster said she regretted the tone of what he had to say.\n\n\"What he [Mr Barnier] was saying was that it was up to the UK to come up with a solution and they would wait for that solution to come and that is not the way forward,\" Mrs Foster told the BBC's Andrew Marr show.\n\n\"The way forward is to have a negotiation where both sides are engaged in the negotiation and we look for a solution that will make the difference.\"\n\nMrs Foster said the DUP did not believe that the UK needed to stay in the customs union to have \"free flow between ourselves and the Republic of Ireland\".\n\n\"In August of last year, the government put forward various proposals,\" she said.\n\n\"We were disappointed there was not the engagement from the European Union at that time.\n\n\"What we would like to see from the European Union is less rhetoric and actually more engagement in relation to the pragmatic way forward.\"\n\nOn his visit to Northern Ireland, Mr Barnier said that the EU would consider \"any solution\" on Brexit which would allow it to maintain the integrity of the Belfast Agreement.\n\nHe said that it was important to maintain relationships in Northern Ireland.\n\nHe previously told a press conference on 30 April at the beginning of the all-island Brexit forum that his \"door is open\" to Arlene Foster and the DUP.\n\nHe said he had not approached the negotiations in a \"spirit of revenge\".\n\nThe UK and EU have agreed there should be no hardening of the Irish border\n\nThe UK government has said it is leaving the customs union but ministers have not yet agreed what will come next.\n\nPrime Minister Theresa May asked officials to draw up \"revised proposals\" after last week's meeting of her key Brexit committee.\n\nMrs Foster said she had a telephone conversation with Mrs May on Saturday about customs solutions.\n\nAll EU members are part of the customs union, within which there are no internal tariffs (taxes) on goods transported between them. There is also a common tariff agreed on goods entering from outside.\n\nThe UK government has said it is leaving the EU customs union so that it can strike its own trade deals around the world, something it cannot do as a member.\n\nThis means the UK and the EU will have to agree a new arrangement for what happens at their border post-Brexit.\n\nThe UK is under pressure to make progress on the issue before next month's EU summit.", "A cat named after the Lion King film character Simba has been found seven months after going missing - near Colchester Zoo's big cats enclosure.\n\nThe tabby was spotted trying to catch birds of prey close to the lion house.\n\nOwner Raymond Bateman thinks his pet had been living at the zoo, four miles from home, for at least a month, as the Colchester Gazette reported.\n\nHe said the cat disappeared after they began building an extension, as it was not feeling the love for the noise.\n\nThe family pet had always been shy and frightened of visitors, so the disruption caused by the builders was a bit much for the sensitive moggy, and it left.\n\nSimba was shy and did not usually like noise or strangers, its owner said\n\nThe Batemans put up posters but there were no real sightings of the five-year-old microchipped puss, \"although someone did say they saw a cat at Colchester Zoo a couple of months ago,\" Mr Bateman told the BBC.\n\nThe zoo is a favourite place for the family to visit, but they had never taken their cat there.\n\nHowever, Simba seemed keen to live up to its name and mix with the other kings of the cat world.\n\n\"We got a call from the zoo on Thursday to say he had been seen hanging around the birds of prey, trying to catch them close to the lion enclosure,\" said Mr Bateman.\n\nThe cat was scanned and returned home.\n\nZoo curator, Clive Barwick, said for some time staff had been \"aware of Simba's presence but he had always steered himself away from direct contact with anyone that approached him\", but they were \"delighted\" to have found his owner.\n\nMr Bateman said: \"He's got a few scratches on his nose and ears, and was like a different cat when he came back.\n\n\"For a while he was very brave, but now he's settled into his old ways, hiding under the bed if anyone comes round.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The government has talked publicly about two potential options for its customs relationship with the European Union after Brexit.\n\nHere's a look at them in more detail:\n\nThis would involve the UK acting on the EU's behalf when imports arrive from the rest of the world.\n\nWhat it means in practice is that the UK would apply the EU's own tariffs and rules of origin to all goods arriving in the UK that are intended for the EU.\n\nSo when goods - bits of machinery or computers or consignments of food - arrive at UK ports en route to the EU after Brexit, UK customs officials would collect the money due and hand it on to Brussels.\n\nA customs paper published by the government last year suggested that new IT systems could be used to track whether items eventually ended up in the UK or crossed into the EU, and tariffs would be charged accordingly.\n\nAn alternative suggestion was that all companies would have to pay whichever tariff rate (EU or UK) was higher, and then claim a potential refund once goods reached their final destination.\n\nThe UK paper doesn't say anything about whether the EU would have to put the same system in place for goods heading from the EU to the UK. But the assumption is that it would, which would mean a lot of additional work in big ports such as Rotterdam.\n\nSo could it work? No-one really knows, but it would take a long time to set up any new system of this kind.\n\nThe government acknowledges that the proposal is both unprecedented and untested. It doesn't happen anywhere else in the world.\n\nOne initial response from Brussels described the proposal as \"magical thinking\". And there is still a huge amount of scepticism. A lot would have to be taken on trust.\n\nSupporters of the idea in the UK say it would remove the need for customs processes at the UK-EU border, but would still allow the UK to negotiate its own trade deals around the world.\n\nCritics - including many leading backers of Brexit - say it is unworkable, and would not amount to a clean break with the EU. They fear it would mean the UK staying in the customs union by default.\n\nThe second proposal - also known as maximum facilitation or max-fac - aims to create as frictionless a customs border as possible, rather than to remove it altogether.\n\nIt would employ new technologies (including some that are still being developed) and automation to streamline procedures and remove the need for physical customs checks wherever possible.\n\nAccording to the government's customs paper, it would build on existing schemes such as authorised economic operators or trusted traders, and introduce unilateral improvements to the UK's customs regime to make trade with the EU and the rest of the world easier.\n\nThe paper acknowledges, though, that the EU would be required to implement equivalent arrangements at its borders to make any such scheme a success.\n\nThe EU says it is happy to discuss anything that would facilitate trade, but (again), it could take years to introduce some of the technology needed. So the timescale of Brexit is an issue.\n\nIn her speech at the Mansion House in March, the prime minister also said there would have to be specific provisions for Northern Ireland, including no new restrictions on small traders who carry out the majority of transactions across the Irish border.\n\nThe European Commission is cautious about that, and worried about opportunities for smuggling.\n\nCritics also argue that a streamlined arrangement is not the same as having no customs border at all, and that this proposal would not meet the challenge of maintaining an invisible border between Northern Ireland and the Irish Republic.\n\nBut supporters of Brexit tend to prefer this option overall, because they see it as a cleaner break with the European Union.\n\nIt's also worth remembering that there is one other large fly in the ointment here - the whole border debate isn't just about customs and tariffs. It's also about the rules and regulations which apply to products that move around the EU single market. So, even the most innovative customs system in the world doesn't get rid of the need for border checks entirely.", "It's not over - it's far, far from over.\n\nMany hundreds of seats are yet to declare. Many individual political stories yet to be told. So be very aware - the final shape of wins and losses for the government and the main opposition is unclear.\n\nBut at this stage of the morning, there is one message to both of the main parties at Westminster from this enormous set of elections - it's not us, it's both of you.\n\nLocal elections are about different issues in our villages, towns and cities. But at count after count, Tory and Labour candidates have been paying the price for Westminster's failure so far to settle the Brexit question. Council leaders from both parties saying openly that voters can't trust them any more because of how they have dealt with the issue - whether that is a sentiment among Leave voters in Sunderland who don't trust that we'll ever leave, or Remain voters in Bath who are furious that we likely will.\n\nOr more simply maybe, now we are nearly three years on from the referendum itself, this is a verdict on the competence of Westminster's biggest parties, on the mess of handling Brexit.\n\nThe beneficiaries? A Lib Dem recovery of sorts, a marked pick-up for the Greens, and independent councillors gobbling up seats in different pockets of the country. By traditional measures at this early stage, Labour is far from making the strides of a party marching towards Number 10. The Tories have so far escaped the worst. But their divisions over Brexit have cost them both - and neither of them have an obvious way out.\n\nBut as I say, many more results are yet to come in, and you can keep up with them here throughout the day.", "A couple who won £3m on a £10 scratch card in 2016 have had a giant Champagne bottle design mowed into their lawn.\n\nBillericay's Susan Richard, and her partner Barry Maddox, used some of their winnings to help family and friends, as well as buying new cars and seeing the world, but the lawn art was just a \"fun\" way to spend a bit of the money, they said.\n\nIt took three days to mow the Moet-inspired masterpiece.", "A 20-year-old man has died after he was found with stab wounds in Liverpool city centre on Sunday morning.\n\nPolice and paramedics were called to Hanover Street at about 04:00 BST after receiving reports of an injured man.\n\nThe man was taken to hospital, but later died from his injuries.\n\nDet Supt Lee Turner from Merseyside Police said: \"Knife crime will not be tolerated in Merseyside and those caught carrying a weapon will be brought to justice.\n\n\"These weapons can have severe consequences and we will not stand for this criminal behaviour.\"\n\nHanover Street and Wood Street are closed while police carry out their investigations.\n\nWitnesses and anyone with information has been asked to contact Merseyside Police.", "Arsene Wenger was among a host of Premier League managers to send support to Sir Alex Ferguson over the weekend after the former Manchester United boss had emergency surgery for a brain haemorrhage.\n\nThe Scot retired as United manager in May 2013 after winning 38 trophies during 26 years in charge.\n\n\"He's a strong man and an optimistic man,\" said Wenger.\n\n\"We wish him all the best and that he recovers quickly.\"\n\nFerguson was at Old Trafford last Sunday when he presented departing Arsenal boss Wenger with a commemorative trophy.\n\n\"I was on the pitch with him last week. He was very happy but anything can happen,\" Wenger added.\n\n\"I went to see him in the box after the game on Sunday. He looked in perfect shape. He told me he's doing a lot of exercise, he looked very happy.\"\n\nThe most successful manager in the history of the British game, Ferguson's trophy haul at Old Trafford included 13 Premier League titles, two Champions League crowns, five FA Cups and four League Cups.\n\nHe famously won the Treble of Premier League, FA Cup and Champions League in 1999, the year in which he was knighted.\n\nFerguson has been married to wife Cathy since 1966. His son Darren manages Doncaster Rovers but did not not take charge of their League One match against Wigan on Saturday.\n\nManchester City manager Pep Guardiola also sent his close friend his well wishes, revealing Ferguson had recently taken him out for dinner to congratulate him on winning the Premier League title with City.\n\n\"A big hug and our thoughts are with his wife Cathy and the Manchester United family,\" the Spaniard told Sky Sports before City's goalless draw with Huddersfield on Sunday.\n\n\"I was glad to have dinner with him two weeks ago, and hopefully he can recover as quickly as possible.\"\n\nIn a tweet on Sunday night, Manchester United thanked the \"wider football world\" for their messages of support.\n\nChelsea manager Antonio Conte: \"I'm very sad. I have had the possibility to know him and his wife and to understand that this is a special person. He's not a normal person. A manager who won many titles in his career.\n\n\"I think I appreciated a lot the man. And yesterday this news changed my day in a bad way, because we hope to see him quickly and to have our best wishes to recover very soon. Now it's very difficult. We want to stay very close also.\"\n\nLiverpool boss Jurgen Klopp: \"When I heard it yesterday on the way to London, I really couldn't believe it. It can happen to all of us.\n\n\"He will be in my prayers 100%. I wish him and his family all the best. He will be in a good shape again. I'm 100% sure. I'm looking forward to seeing him again.\"\n\nManchester City assistant manager Brian Kidd: \"He's such an iconic person as everybody knows. There was a really sombre mood yesterday evening and this morning. You think Sir Alex is really indestructible, we've all been brought up with him.\n\n\"What he did for Manchester United was unreal and the pressure he was under every day to produce. It's phenomenal.\n\n\"You know him, you lads have had your run-ins with him but you know where he's coming from; he wears his heart on his sleeve.\n\n\"The opportunity he gave me, I'm always indebted to him, god bless him. All the love in the world to him.\"\n\nPremier League executive chairman Richard Scudamore: \"It's obviously a big shock but the most important thing is to wish him well, and his family well, to respect their privacy, and hope that very, very soon he's back to his best.\n\n\"He's probably the most iconic figure of football from the last 30 years, and then when you add that to the fact that he's such a important role model to so many people around the world, he's captured the world. He's a national institution really, so therefore I'm not surprised really at the massive outpouring of support.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Football", "Last updated on .From the section Man Utd\n\nFormer Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson remains in intensive care after having emergency surgery on Saturday for a brain haemorrhage.\n\nA United statement said the procedure \"had gone very well\" but there is no update on the 76-year-old's condition.\n\nThe Scot retired as United manager in May 2013 after winning 38 trophies during 26 years in charge.\n\nHe was at Old Trafford last Sunday when he presented Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger with a commemorative trophy.\n\nFerguson's family have requested privacy as he recovers in Salford Royal Hospital.\n\n\"We will keep Sir Alex and his loved ones in our thoughts during this time, and we are united in our wish to see him make a comfortable, speedy recovery,\" United later said in a tweet.\n\n\"He needs a period of intensive care to optimise his recovery.\"\n\nThe most successful manager in the history of the British game, Ferguson's trophy haul at Old Trafford included 13 Premier League titles, two Champions League crowns, five FA Cups and four League Cups.\n\nFerguson famously won the Treble of Premier League, FA Cup and Champions League in 1999, the year in which he was knighted.\n\nUnited's club captain Michael Carrick said he was \"devastated\" to learn his former manager had needed emergency surgery.\n\n\"All my thoughts and prayers are with him and his family. Be strong boss,\" he posted on Twitter.\n\nFerguson has been married to wife Cathy since 1966. His son Darren manages Doncaster Rovers but did not not take charge of their League One match against Wigan on Saturday.\n\nFerguson began his playing career with Scottish club Queen's Park as a 16-year-old striker while working as an apprentice tool-worker at Clyde Shipyards.\n\nHis most notable spell as a player came in a two-year stint at Rangers from 1967. He retired as a player in 1974 when he was on Ayr United's books.\n\nHe began his managerial career as a 32-year-old at East Stirlingshire before going to St Mirren, where he won his first trophy by taking the Scottish first division title in 1977.\n\nFerguson moved on to Aberdeen and turned them into a major force in a Scottish top division in which Rangers and Celtic had dominated.\n\nHe led them to three Scottish titles, four Scottish FA Cups, one League Cup and the European Cup Winners' Cup in 1983 by beating Real Madrid 2-1 in the final.\n\nFerguson managed Scotland in the 1986 World Cup in Mexico following the death of Jock Stein, although he was unable to take his country past the group stage.\n\nHe became Manchester United manager later that year.\n\nUnited celebrated their first Premier League triumph under Ferguson in 1993, the club's first league title for 26 years.\n\nWillie Miller, who served as Aberdeen captain under Ferguson, said he was \"staggered\" to hear the news.\n\n\"My thoughts are with the boss, Cathy and the boys. Hoping the great man does what he does best and wins this challenge,\" he added.\n\nEverton manager Sam Allardyce said: \"I hope he's in good hands and I hope the operation is a major success. As a personal friend, I hope he has a full recovery.\"\n\n'Keep fighting boss' - reaction from the football world\n\nFormer Manchester United midfielder David Beckham: Keep fighting boss. Sending prayers and love to Cathy and the whole family.\n\nMike Phelan, who was Ferguson's assistant for five years: You've won more than most and if anyone can, you can boss.\n\nUnited defender Ashley Young: Gutted to hear the news tonight about Sir Alex. Don't really know what else to say other than thoughts and prayers with you and your family, boss.\n\nFormer United goalkeeper Edwin van der Sar: Devastated about the news about Sir Alex and knowing all too well about the situation ourselves. Stay strong and hope together with everyone you recover.\n\nUnited defender Chris Smalling: Gutted to hear the news about Sir Alex. Stay strong boss. Thoughts are with you and your family.\n\nFormer England striker and Match of the Day host Gary Lineker: Very sorry to hear the news that Sir Alex Ferguson is seriously ill in hospital. Wish him all the very best.\n\nAberdeen FC: The thoughts and prayers of everyone connected with Aberdeen Football Club are with our former manager Sir Alex Ferguson and his family following tonight's news.\n\nLiverpool FC: A great rival but also a great friend who supported this club during its most difficult time, it is hoped that Sir Alex will make a full recovery.\n\nManchester City: Everyone at Manchester City wishes Sir Alex Ferguson a full and speedy recovery after his surgery.\n\nWorld football governing body Fifa: We join many across the world of football in sending our best wishes to Sir Alex Ferguson.\n\nA type of stroke caused by bleeding in and around the brain. It results from the rupture of a cerebral aneurysm - a ballooning in an artery wall, causing it to thin and become weak. There are usually no warning signs, but it can sometimes happen during physical effort or straining. Symptoms include a sudden and very severe headache, being sick, seizures and loss of consciousness. It accounts for 5% of all strokes in the UK.", "The incident was said to have taken place in Malawi in 2009\n\nAn aid worker on a Scottish government-funded project was dismissed and reported to police for sexually abusing a 16-year-old girl, it has emerged.\n\nChristian charity Tearfund revealed details of the Malawi incident after the Scottish government contacted organisations it works with in the wake of the Oxfam abuse allegations.\n\nIt involved a staff member at a partner organisation of Tearfund in 2009.\n\nThe charity said it took \"swift and appropriate action\" to help the girl.\n\nTearfund added it was \"deeply saddened\" by the incident.\n\nThe Scottish government said International Development Minister Alasdair Allan had since met with Tearfund to \"discuss their response\".\n\nIn February, the UK's Charity Commission launched an investigation into Oxfam's handling of claims its staff in Haiti after the earthquake in 2010 had hired prostitutes.\n\nFollowing the Oxfam scandal, Mr Allan wrote to Scottish charities urging them to ensure robust policies were in place to protect vulnerable groups.\n\nDetails of the Malawi incident emerged in the Times newspaper after a freedom of information request obtained a report sent from Tearfund to the Scottish government.\n\nThe incident happened on a project that was part-funded with Scottish government cash.\n\nA spokeswoman for Tearfund said: \"The project was run by a partner organisation Tearfund was working with at the time and was partially funded by a grant from the Scottish government.\n\n\"The incident involved an employee of the partner organisation who abused someone within that organisation's care.\n\n\"When a Tearfund staff member in Malawi was notified of the allegation of abuse, even though the allegation did not involve a Tearfund staff member, we ensured the safeguarding procedures we had at the time were followed.\n\n\"A Tearfund Child Protection Officer also intervened to ensure that swift and appropriate action was taken.\n\n\"This included providing care for the individual who was harmed, and the partner organisation launching an investigation. The individual was provided counselling and moved away from the project.\"\n\nTearfund said it had ceased working with the partner organisation involved in 2010.\n\nThe freedom of information request says the incident was reported to the Malawi police but no charges were brought.\n\nA disciplinary panel of Tearfund's partner investigated the case and the staff member was dismissed for gross misconduct.\n\nA spokesman for the Scottish government said: \"The vast majority of those working in international development and humanitarian emergencies do so in a diligent and appropriate manner.\n\n\"However we are deeply concerned about any reports of serious misconduct within the sector and we will not tolerate any form of human rights abuses or misconduct, wherever they take place.\n\n\"We expect all partner organisations to monitor their work closely, and to be pen, honest and transparent, especially on projects funded by the public sector.\"\n\nThe spokesman said Mr Allan's letter to international NGOs \"brought a report of an incident on a Scottish government part-funded Tearfund project to our attention for the first time\".\n\nHe added that the Scottish government would \"continue to work with partner organisations that demonstrate they have safeguarding policies in place to protect vulnerable groups\".\n• None Aid charity boss says 'we can be trusted'", "Last updated on .From the section Women's Football\n\nChelsea won their second Women's FA Cup as they beat London rivals Arsenal in front of a new competition-record crowd of 45,423 at Wembley.\n\nAfter a quiet first half, Ramona Bachmann brought the game to life with two fine strikes shortly after the break to put the Blues in control.\n\nThe Gunners, playing in their 16th final, were unable to respond late on.\n\nChelsea's victory kept alive their hopes of a domestic double, with four more games remaining of the Women's Super League One season and only goal difference separating them and leaders Manchester City.\n• None 'I'm only a role model because I'm female - I want to be known for my coaching'\n\nFor Arsenal, who had been bidding for their second domestic trophy of the season after lifting the Continental Tyres Cup in March, the defeat meant they were unable to add to their dominant record of 14 wins from 16 FA Cup finals.\n\nThe fourth Women's FA Cup final to be played at the national stadium endured a relatively subdued first half of few clear-cut chances, but it sparked into life when the lively Bachmann fired the ball into the roof of the net soon after half-time.\n\nThe 27-year-old Switzerland international soon doubled the lead, as her well-hit shot from the right-hand side was deflected into the far corner.\n\nArsenal, who had gone close through Miedema's deflected effort in the first half, pulled one back through the Netherlands striker, as she tucked the ball in after good work from Beth Mead.\n\nBut England forward Kirby's clinical finish to make it 3-1 added to a remarkable season that has seen her awarded both the PFA Women's Player of the Year and FWA Footballer of the Year award, as well as helping the Blues reach the semi-finals of the Women's Champions League.\n\nVictory saw Chelsea claim their fourth piece of major domestic silverware, all of which have come under boss Emma Hayes' tenure, since the former Arsenal assistant coach took charge in 2012.\n\nThe Blues' second FA Cup added to their 2015 league title and their triumph in 2017's one-off, transitional spring series.\n\nHayes - who is 33-weeks pregnant with twins and opted to follow the match from the dugout, seated, after health advice - has built a side full of talented internationals and her front three of Kirby, South Korea's Ji So-Yun and Bachmann delivered for their manager when it mattered after half-time.\n\nThe result saw the Blues avenge 2016's 1-0 loss to the Gunners at Wembley - a game in which Hayes had been critical of her side for \"not turning up\", but the same could not be said on Saturday.\n\nAlmost exactly 21 years since winning her first FA Cup on 4 May, 1997 with Millwall Lionesses - then aged just 14 - midfielder Katie Chapman captained the Blues as she earned her 10th winners' medal in the competition.\n\nThe former Arsenal star has also started in all 10 of those final successes.\n\nHer new record cup win capped another marvellous campaign for the heavily-decorated 35-year-old, who performed well in the relatively deep holding role for the Blues at Wembley.\n\nThe former Wolfsburg forward's two goals were vital but her movement, quick feet and tireless work ethic brought world-class quality to the game.\n\nHayes' capture of Bachmann from the German side, who have knocked Chelsea out of Europe three seasons in a row, has been a key part of their recent success and may well yet play a pivotal role as they look to achieve their long-term target - winning the Women's Champions League.\n\n'The last thing I needed was something nervy' - what they said\n\nChelsea manager Emma Hayes told BBC Sport: \"This is more enjoyable than the first time around [2015's victory] because that was such a dominant performance from us.\n\n\"The quality of the goals showed the difference between the two sides.\n\n\"The last thing I needed was something too nervy and that was the most relaxed I've felt in a final in my entire career.\n\n\"With a record crowd, I'm very pleased that people watching today have watched a very high standard of football.\"\n\nArsenal Women boss Joe Montemurro told BBC Sport: \"We're obviously disappointed but Chelsea are a powerful team.\n\n\"They've got players who can play on the big stages and they did that. The more we play these big games and these big teams, the more we'll learn and get better.\n\n\"We need to be smarter and maybe a little bit braver in the way we set up defensively.\n\n\"We're making small steps. We can't change it overnight. My projects are always long term, they're never short term.\n\n\"Whatever eleven Chelsea put out is a strong team. We're a little bit different. We've got a very young squad. The future is bright.\"\n\nThe better team won, it's as simple as that. Chelsea's players showed up today and the Arsenal team was undone by individual class.\n\nI'm struggling, going through the Arsenal team, to name any outstanding players.\n\nThese Arsenal players will have regret, they will have left this pitch thinking 'I could have done better'. Chelsea felt that two years ago and you could see they didn't want that feeling again.\n\nThe lack of experience in the Arsenal team showed and when Chelsea took the lead it went flat and they didn't have a response.\n\nArsenal's big players did not shine and that's the complete opposite for Chelsea. The front three for Chelsea were absolutely fabulous.\n\nChelsea built the momentum and even when Arsenal got a goal back, their response was to score another goal. They controlled every ebb and flow of this game.\n\nYou can now add WSL 1 notifications for line-ups, goals, kick-off, half-time and results in the BBC Sport app. Visit this page to find out how to sign-up.\n• None Attempt saved. Eniola Aluko (Chelsea Ladies) right footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.\n• None Erin Cuthbert (Chelsea Ladies) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Attempt missed. Erin Cuthbert (Chelsea Ladies) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the left.\n• None Goal! Arsenal Women 1, Chelsea Ladies 3. Francesca Kirby (Chelsea Ladies) left footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Hannah Blundell.\n• None Attempt blocked. Francesca Kirby (Chelsea Ladies) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.\n• None Goal! Arsenal Women 1, Chelsea Ladies 2. Vivianne Miedema (Arsenal Women) left footed shot from the centre of the box to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Beth Mead. 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. What is the EU customs union?\n\nA new \"customs partnership\" with the EU - which is fiercely opposed by some Tory Brexiteers - is still on the table, the business secretary says.\n\nGreg Clark warned about the effect of border checks on manufacturing jobs, saying whatever replaces the customs union was of \"huge importance\".\n\nHe added whichever option was chosen would \"take some time\" to put in place.\n\nHe said if the partnership model was adopted, \"we would not in effect be leaving the European Union\".\n\nBut Mr Clark was supported by former home secretary Amber Rudd, while Remain-supporting Tories criticised pro-Brexit \"ideologues\", saying they did not represent the party at large.\n\nAll EU members are part of the customs union, within which there are no internal tariffs (taxes) on goods transported between them. There is also a common tariff agreed on goods entering from outside.\n\nThe UK government has said it is leaving the EU customs union so that it can strike its own trade deals around the world, something it cannot do as a member. But ministers have not yet agreed how to replace it.\n\nThe UK is under pressure to make progress on the issue before next month's EU summit.\n\nHow to avoid customs checks has become a key Brexit debating point\n\nSpeaking on the BBC's Andrew Marr Show, Mr Clark said the UK would leave the customs union in 2019 with Brexit, and that finding the right replacement was of \"huge importance\", pointing to the needs of manufacturers like Toyota to avoid friction at the borders.\n\nAt last week's Brexit sub-committee meeting of senior ministers, several are believed to have voiced concerns about one of the two options put forward by the government - whereby Britain would collect tariffs on behalf of the EU for goods destined for member states.\n\nMr Clark said the ministers had had \"a much more professional, collegiate discussion\" than reports suggested.\n\nAnd he said the partnership proposal had not been killed off, saying it offered the \"very important\" feature of avoiding paperwork at UK-EU borders.\n\nBut he added that this model was \"not perfect\" because arrangements would be needed to refund firms if they were only liable for lower UK rates.\n\nHe said this, and an alternative proposal of using technology and advanced checks to minimise border disruption, needed \"further work\", and that whichever was chosen, \"it will take some time to have them put in place and available\".\n\nThe business secretary said it was \"possible\" this could take two or three years after the UK leaves the EU, suggesting that different elements of the plan could be implemented at different times.\n\nFormer home secretary Amber Rudd - who resigned last Sunday over a deportations row - backed Mr Clark's comments.\n\nMs Rudd, a leading voice in the 2016 campaign to stay in the EU, tweeted that the business secretary was \"quite right\" to argue for a \"Brexit that protects existing jobs and future investment\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Amber Rudd 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\nSome Tory MPs are urging Theresa May to drop one of her customs proposals\n\nMrs May has been repeatedly urged by Brexiteers to abandon the partnership option, which critics say would keep the UK tied to EU rules.\n\nThe Sunday Telegraph quoted a cabinet source saying it would be \"unimaginable for the prime minister to press on with the hybrid model after it has been torn apart by members of her own Brexit committee\".\n\nSpeaking on ITV's Peston on Sunday, influential backbench MP Jacob Rees-Mogg - who has previously labelled the proposal \"cretinous\" - dismissed warnings about the impact on jobs if it is rejected.\n\n\"This Project Fear has been so thoroughly discredited that you would have thought it would have come to an end by now,\" he said.\n\n\"We will have control of goods coming into this country - we will set our own laws, our own policies, our own regulations, and therefore we will determine how efficient the border is coming into us.\"\n\nThe customs debate is central to the question of border between Northern Ireland and the Republic, with supporters of a customs union saying anything else will mean checks and a \"hard border\".\n\nBut Arlene Foster, who leads the Democratic Unionist Party, said a \"free flow\" of trade did not require a customs union, adding that a border was already in place between the two different jurisdictions.\n\nHowever, some pro-EU Tories are still pushing for much closer economic ties to the EU.\n\nAsked about Mr Rees-Mogg and other Brexiteers, former education secretary Nicky Morgan told Pienaar's Politics on BBC Radio 5 live people who \"shout loudest\" did not necessarily represent the majority of Conservatives.\n\nShe said Tory rebels on her side of the debate would be prepared to defy the party whip in key votes \"in the national interest\" but that the MPs who were \"sabre-rattling about leadership\" were those who wanted \"the hardest of hard Brexits\".\n\nAnd ex-business minister Anna Soubry told The Sunday Politics Mrs May had to \"see off\" those who operate a \"party within a party\" who do not represent \"the country at large\".\n\n\"These are ideologues,\" she added.\n\nThe CBI welcomed Mr Clark's commitment to \"frictionless\" trade, saying the customs union should remain in place \"unless and until an alternative is ready and workable\".\n\nLabour, meanwhile, faced criticism of its position on Brexit from pro-EU voices in the party.\n\nThe leadership was accused of \"complete cowardice\" by Labour peer Lord Alli for not supporting a Lords amendment aimed at keeping the UK within the European Economic Area (EEA), like Norway, after Brexit.\n\nEEA members get access to the single market - with free movement of people, goods, service and money - without being EU members.\n\nBut shadow international trade secretary Barry Gardiner said such an arrangement would reduce the UK to being a \"rule taker\" without a seat at the table when decisions on regulations are made.\n\nLabour says it would seek to draw up a new customs union with the EU after Brexit, and would try to persuade Brussels to change the rules and allow it to strike deals around the world.\n\nShadow chancellor John McDonnell told the Marr show that despite the criticism, the party had not lost votes by not being \"anti-Brexit\" or \"trying to reverse the referendum\".\n\n\"What people want is a traditional British compromise,\" he said.\n\n\"Respect the referendum result, but get the best deal you can to protect our economy and protect our jobs.\"", "Princess Charlotte is seen with her new brother in the photograph taken on her third birthday\n\nPhotographs of Prince Louis' first days at home have been released by the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge - including an image of the new royal baby being kissed by his older sister.\n\nPrincess Charlotte is seen cuddling the sleeping prince in the photo taken on 2 May, her third birthday.\n\nA second picture shows Prince Louis on 26 April, when he was three days old, propped on top of a white cushion.\n\nBoth photos were taken by the Duchess of Cambridge at Kensington Palace.\n\nCatherine also released pictures to mark other milestones in her children's lives, including the official photographs of her newborn daughter, and Prince George and Princess Charlotte's first days at nursery school.\n\nKensington Palace said Prince William and Catherine were \"very pleased\" to share the photographs.\n\nIt added: \"Their Royal Highnesses would like to thank members of the public for all of the kind messages they have received following the birth of Prince Louis, and for Princess Charlotte's third birthday.\"\n\nPrince Louis was born at the Lindo Wing of St Mary's Hospital, Paddington, on 23 April.\n\nPrince Louis was photographed by his mother at Kensington Palace three days after his birth\n\nThe photograph, taken three days later, shows him in a white outfit. He does not look at the camera, but is wide-eyed and staring at something to his right.\n\nPrincess Charlotte is sitting with Prince Louis in the other photo. She puts a protective arm around her new brother and plants a kiss on his forehead.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge emerge from St Mary's in London with their newborn prince.\n\nPrince George, who will turn five in July, does not appear in the latest photographs.\n\nHe was last seen in public outside St Mary's Hospital when he and Princess Charlotte were taken by their father to meet the latest addition to their family.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "Manchester United's landscape - and that of British football - changed forever just after 9am on Wednesday, 8 May 2013.\n\nThis was when the domestic game's towering figure called time on the successes, trials and tribulations of 26 years at Old Trafford. Sir Alexander Chapman Ferguson announced his retirement.\n\nThe 71-year-old Scot, with a stand bearing his name and a statue on the concourse outside, will take charge of his final game at the self-styled Theatre of Dreams when United face Swansea City on Sunday.\n\nIt was an announcement that came as a seismic shock to football's system, coming so soon after a series of bullish statements from Ferguson hinting at exactly the opposite of walking away.\n\nHow swiftly the scenery has been moved at Old Trafford. It was only in March, as Ferguson prepared to face Real Madrid in the Champions League, that he wrote these words in his programme notes:\n\n\"This is what it is all about - a packed Old Trafford, the floodlights on, the pitch glistening and two of the greatest and most romantic clubs in the game about to do battle.\n• 1974: Ends a playing career that took in Queen's Park, St Johnstone, Dunfermline, Rangers, Falkirk & Ayr United.\n• June 1978: After managerial spells with East Stirlingshire & St Mirren, appointed at Aberdeen and goes on to win three Scottish titles, four Scottish cups, one League Cup and one European Cup Winners' Cup.\n• May 1990: Lee Martin scores winner in FA Cup final replay against Crystal Palace - first silverware of Ferguson's reign.\n• May 1993: Wins first English league title, ending 26-year wait for United to be champions.\n• May 1999: Two late goals against Bayern Munich win Champions League to complete an unprecedented treble.\n\n\"People ask me why I don't retire after so many years in the game, but how could anyone with an ounce of passion for football in their soul voluntarily walk away from the opportunity to be involved in this kind of occasion?\"\n\nAnd yet he has.\n\nAfter winning 13 Premier League titles, two Champions Leagues, two domestic league and FA Cup doubles and a career spent building a monument to success at a stadium that grew in size in line with the successes he fashioned, Ferguson will take his leave.\n\nFrom the now demolished Manor Ground in Oxford on 8 November 1986 to The Hawthorns and West Bromwich Albion on Sunday, 19 May 2013, Ferguson has cast a giant shadow over all he surveyed.\n\nFrom the early years of struggle, which ended with the 1990 FA Cup win against Crystal Palace in a Wembley replay, through all the glories at home and abroad, Ferguson concludes his time at Old Trafford as a uniquely enduring personality. Given the quick fix demands and impatience of the modern Premier League era, his like will never been seen again.\n\nFollowing his aborted first retirement in 2002, there was never going to be the uncertainty of a long goodbye but the speed with which whispers about his retirement turned to a scream painted a picture of a stunning series of events.\n\nAt the weekend it was announced Ferguson would require hip surgery in the summer, prompting a rush of bets at the bookmakers in support of Everton manager David Moyes as his successor.\n\nFinally, definitively, the rumours on the golf course at Dunham Massey in Greater Manchester on Tuesday - scene of a United players versus coaches game - led to the official announcement.\n\nSay what you like about Ferguson, and plenty will, but no-one can question his stellar contribution to football and British sporting life.\n\nCharismatic, explosive, contrary. Love him or hate him, football in general and Manchester United in particular will be poorer for his departure.\n\nWhat they say United director Sir Bobby Charlton: \"He is such a fantastic manager. Everything he has done has been fantastic.\" Former United captain Bryan Robson: \"Ferguson is probably the greatest club manager ever. It is unbelievable to change around probably four different squads and have the success he has.\" Striker Michael Owen, who played for United for three years: \"To say I played under him for three years is a proud thing to say.\" Ex-United striker Ruud van Nistelrooy: \"2001-2006, 219 games, 150 goals under the most successful manager in football history. It was a unique privilege.\"\n\nHe was a character of rare contrasts. Members of the media who were often on the wrong end of his rages also found themselves receiving his kindness and support in troubled times.\n\nHis former assistant with Scotland, and briefly at Old Trafford, Walter Smith, once told me: \"He is so well read, interesting and great company.\n\n\"If you asked me the old question about who you would have at your ideal dinner party, Sir Alex would be at mine.\"\n\nFor all the talk of the \"hairdryer\" and the fiery temper that could see players, officials and the media verbally demolished, Ferguson was never a managerial dinosaur sticking to old values and principles.\n\nFerguson, and this was one of his greatest skills, moved with football's times. Whereas it would be hard to imagine Brian Clough or Bill Shankly coping with some of today's more money-driven quirks, Ferguson adapted in his management techniques and tactically.\n\nHe was devout in his pursuit of attacking football and trust in young players. The history and tradition of Manchester United ran red through his veins.\n\nFerguson was a moderniser but one principle never changed. He ruled, and anyone who challenged that rule was moved on. It applied to the greatest as strictly as anyone else, with Roy Keane, David Beckham, Jaap Stam and Ruud van Nistelrooy the prime exhibits.\n\nBut to suggest Ferguson simply ruled by iron fist is to do him a grave disservice. How could his United teams play with such freedom and flair if they lived in fear of their manager?\n\nPlayers spoke of his gift for man-management, his ability to say the right things at the right time. In short, he is a man who deserves his place among the true greats - and even those who support fierce rivals such as Liverpool cannot seriously argue with that.\n\nPerhaps there were signs that he was getting ready to say goodbye but few detected them. Assistant Mike Phelan admitted Ferguson was \"too distraught\" to face the media after this season's Champions League defeat to Real Madrid in March, believing Turkish referee Cuneyt Cakir's decision to send off Nani with United ahead robbed them of victory.\n\nThe pain was obvious, particularly as Ferguson has always believed United could have achieved more than the two Champions League wins he brought. Did he believe his last great chance, and the opportunity to win the tournament at Wembley as Sir Matt Busby's United did against Benfica in 1968, had gone?\n\nIf this was a low, surely the highest high was the night in Barcelona's Nou Camp in May 1999 when stoppage-time goals from Teddy Sheringham and Ole Gunnar Solskjaer turned defeat into victory and had Ferguson uttering his now famous phrase: \"Football - bloody hell.\"\n\nFerguson has even added to football's own lexicon with phrases such as \"Fergie Time\" coined to describe those extra minutes many felt he was awarded simply by force of character that allowed United to win so many games.\n\nOne phrase sums up Ferguson more than any other - winner. And now United must find a man to cope with the pressure of succession.\n\nUnited infamously botched the next move after Busby retired in the late '60s. Ferguson will remain in the boardroom but his influence must surely be limited.\n\nMoyes, so strongly supported and admired by Ferguson, is the heavily-backed favourite but has no serious European pedigree or record of success in 11 years at Goodison Park. There are others who suggest Moyes's work at Everton has set the platform for the sort of opportunity Old Trafford would afford him.\n\nJose Mourinho is expected to be available shortly when he leaves Real Madrid, but Chelsea is his expected destination and senior figures inside Old Trafford are known to have reservations about his style and also his tendency to be a short-stay coach.\n\nAn outsider could be Borussia Dortmund's Jurgen Klopp, whose masterly guidance has taken them to an all-Bundesliga Champions League final against Bayern Munich. He is a progressive coach and looks to have the confidence and personality to cope with Old Trafford's unique demands.\n\nAnd what of promotion from within? Ryan Giggs is coming towards the end of his Old Trafford playing career but it would be a gamble of epic proportions to entrust the task of succeeding Ferguson to a managerial novice.\n\nWhatever the next twist in this drama, one thing is certain. Sir Alex Ferguson's power, influence and personality means football in this country will never be the same again.", "A Turkish football fan goes above and beyond for his team and other stories that may have passed you by, in this week's In Case You Missed It.", "Sex workers took part in the May Day march event in Glasgow\n\nA group of sex workers have taken part in the May Day march in Glasgow for the first time.\n\nCampaigners from the charity Scot-Pep and the Sex Worker Advocacy and Resistance Movement attended the event.\n\nThe protest is part of efforts to decriminalise sex work and to win better protection against deportation for migrant sex workers.\n\nThe May Day march on Sunday was led by members of the Glasgow Equal Pay Campaign.\n\nWith this year marking the 100th anniversary of women being given the right to vote, the focus was on equality.\n\nMembers of the Glasgow Equal Pay Campaign were dressed in the style of the women workers at Ford's Dagenham plant\n\nThe sex workers taking part were also be highlighting the problem of violence against those working in the industry.\n\nScot-Pep tweeted afterwards: \"So many good reactions today - someone came up to us and said 'I've been part of the trade union movement for decades, good on you for being being here!\"'\n\nSpeaking ahead of the demonstration, sex worker Harley said: \"I've never been a part of a workers' movement before, but I think it is vital for sex workers to be visible in places like this.\n\n\"Too often we are talked down to and made to feel like our struggles are not welcome in the workers' rights movement, we're here to say that we can speak for ourselves and no longer be spoken for. We demand workers' rights.\"\n\nFellow sex worker Molly added: \"It's important for sex workers to be here on this iconic day for workers of all sorts. We are so often overlooked by the trade union movement, which in the past has even supported the continued criminalisation of our workplaces.\n\n\"Ironically, criminalisation makes us very vulnerable to workplace exploitation and abuse. We're here demanding labour rights and solidarity, not criminalisation and poverty.\"\n\nThe Glasgow May Day poster was designed by Lorna Miller\n\nMembers of the Glasgow Equal Pay Campaign took part in the march dressed in the style of the women workers at Ford's Dagenham plant, who campaigned on the issue in 1968.\n\nThe 2018 May Day poster was designed by artist Lorna Miller, who combined three generations of Glasgow campaigners.\n\nMary McArthur was a suffragette who founded the women's trade union league, Agnes McLean was union convenor at Rolls Royce in Hillingdon and led strikes for equal pay, and Denise Phillips is a home carer and part of the current Glasgow City Council collective dispute.\n\nJennifer McCarey, chairwoman of Glasgow Trades Council, said that 50 years since the strike at Dagenham \"Glasgow is currently at the forefront of Scotland's largest equal pay battle\".\n\n\"Our May Day celebrations will be led by these campaigners,\" she added.\n\nThe annual protest and celebration of rights is part of International Workers Day, which takes place on May Day each year.", "The Palais de Tokyo is the first gallery in the city to open its doors to nudists\n\nA Paris gallery has opened its doors for the first time to nudists with 161 visitors appreciating art in the raw.\n\nThe Palais de Tokyo, a contemporary art museum in the exclusive 16th arrondissement (district), held the one-off event on Saturday.\n\nAfter leaving their clothes in the cloakroom, visitors were able to view exhibitions before the gallery opened its doors to clothed art lovers.\n\nThe Paris Naturist Association hailed the idea as a great opportunity.\n\nLast year, the French capital created a dedicated zone for nudists in the Bois de Vincennes park.\n\n\"The mentality is changing these days,\" Julien Claude-Penegry, the director of communications for the Paris Nudist Association, told Reuters news agency. \"Nudists are overcoming barriers, taboos, or mentalities that were obstructive.\"\n\nLocal newspaper Le Parisien reports that the visit was a \"great success\" for the men and women in \"Adam and Eve attire\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Le Parisien This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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\"The atmosphere was very nice,\" said one male nudist, adding: \"Of course, in the vast spaces of the Palais de Tokyo, one feels more vulnerable when one is naked. And you experience the works differently.\"\n\n\"You interact more with the sculptures especially,\" said Parisian student Marta, 23. \"In some rooms where there was music, people moved like they were dancing.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "Bounty hunter Patty Mayo's channel has had multiple videos taken down\n\nYouTube stars are complaining after hundreds of videos containing adverts for an essay-writing service were removed from their channels.\n\nIt follows a BBC Trending investigation which found more than 250 channels had YouTubers plugging EduBirdie.\n\nMany of the adverts urge students to use EduBirdie to hire a \"super smart nerd\" to write their essays.\n\nYouTube says promotion of essay-writing services is banned by its advertising policies.\n\nThe adverts appear in the middle of videos covering a range of interests including: pranks, video games, fashion and dating.\n\nIn most of them, the YouTube star breaks off from what they are doing, in order to promote EduBirdie.\n\nThe BBC investigation uncovered more than 1,400 videos with a total of more than 700 million views containing EduBirdie adverts.\n\nIn response to the discovery, universities minister Sam Gyimah said YouTube had a moral responsibility to act because the adverts were \"enabling and normalising cheating potentially on an industrial scale.\"\n\nUniversities minister, Sam Gyimah, said the ads presented cheating as \"a lifestyle choice\"\n\nYouTube emailed some channels warning that it would take down videos which contained EduBirdie adverts if they did not edit out the promotions by Friday.\n\nSince then a wave of disgruntled YouTubers have turned to Twitter to complain at the removal of their videos.\n\nOne channel, To Catch A Cheater, said 49 of its videos - a year's worth of work - had disappeared.\n\nAldosWorldTv said it had lost more than 30 videos, and questioned why he had been able to post so many videos containing the adverts.\n\nTwinzTV, a US-based pranks channel posted on Twitter that \"YouTube deleted 138 of our videos without any explanation\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Twinztv This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSome YouTubers, like Patty Mayo, who makes bounty hunter videos, said they had been in the process of editing out the offending adverts when their videos were taken down.\n\nIn several of his ads Patty Mayo urged viewers to \"hire the super smart nerds at Edubirdie.com to write your essays and your papers for you.\"\n\nHe told BBC Trending that he did not condone or endorse cheating.\n\nYouTube has declined to comment on how many videos have come down, or if it also will allow channels to re-upload the videos without the adverts from EduBirdie, a company based in Ukraine.\n\nIn a statement given to the BBC last week it said: \"YouTube creators may include paid endorsements as part of their content only if the product or service they are endorsing complies with our advertising policies.\n\n\"We do not allow ads for essay writing and so paid promotions of these services will be removed when we discover them. We will be working with creators going forward so they better understand that in video promotions must not promote dishonest activity.\"\n\nSome YouTube stars including Adam Saleh and JMX had already taken down videos containing EduBirdie adverts before the purge on Friday.\n\nAdam Saleh had already removed EduBirdie ads from his channel\n\nEssay-writing services are not illegal. But any university student found to have submitted work done by someone else would face disciplinary action.\n\n\"If you've worked hard to get to university, you potentially throw it all away by cheating and getting found out. It is wrong, full stop,\" Mr Gyimah told the BBC.\n\nEduBirdie is run by a company called Boosta which operates several online essay-writing companies. It says it cannot be held responsible for what social influencers say on their channels.\n\n\"We give influencers total freedom on how they prefer to present the EduBirdie platform to their audience in a way they feel would be most relevant to their viewers,\" its said in a statement.\n\n\"We do admit that many tend to copy and paste each others' shout-outs with a focus on 'get someone to do your homework for you', but this is their creative choice.\n\nIt added that a disclaimer on its website suggested work provided by EduBirdie was supplied only as a sample or a reference.\n\nEduBirdie's own channel on YouTube has also been severely pruned back. Where once there were dozens of videos, there is now just one left, a guide to how to write an introduction to an essay.", "Police said the attack happened at Railway Street at about 02:00 BST on Saturday morning\n\nA 17-year-old boy has been charged with causing grievous bodily harm with intent after a 38-year-old woman was attacked with a cordless drill in Strabane, County Tyrone.\n\nThe boy has also been charged with possession of an offensive weapon in a public place and theft.\n\nThe incident happened in the Railway Street area of Strabane on Saturday morning.\n\nThe woman is in a \"stable condition in a critical care unit\" in hospital.\n\nPolice said she had sustained \"a very serious head injury\".\n\nThe 17-year-old boy is due to appear at Omagh Magistrates' Court on Monday.", "Flash floods in the Turkish capital, Ankara, have caused havoc.\n\nCars were swept away and businesses hit, in the Mamak district of the city.\n\nSo far injuries to six people have been reported.", "With more than 100,000 tourists expected in Windsor for the wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, souvenir sellers are filling their shelves.\n\nDerek has been selling them for 40 years, and has even spoken to the Queen about his window display.", "In France, disabled people are twice as likely to be unemployed.\n\nA new chain of coffee shops has opened and is almost entirely run by staff with learning disabilities.\n\nFor the managers, the trick is about finding jobs best suited to each individual.", "Jean-Marc Janaillac tendered his resignation after staff at the airline rejected a new pay deal.\n\nThe survival of strike-hit Air France is in the balance, according to the country's economy minister.\n\nBruno Le Maire's warning that Air France could \"disappear\" comes as staff begin another round of industrial action over a pay dispute.\n\nDespite the French state owning 14.3% of the Air France-KLM parent group, the loss-making airline would not be bailed out, he said.\n\nOn Friday Air France-KLM's chief executive quit over the crisis.\n\nAir France-KLM is one of Europe's biggest airlines, but has seen a series of strikes in recent weeks.\n\nMonday's walk-out is the 14th day of action, as staff press for a 5.1% salary increase this year.\n\nThe government's response is seen as a test of labour reforms launched by French President Emmanuel Macron. There have also been strikes at the state-owned SNCF rail company.\n\nOn Sunday, Mr Le Maire told French news channel BFM: \"I call on everyone to be responsible: crew, ground staff, and pilots who are asking for unjustified pay hikes.\n\n\"The survival of Air France is in the balance,\" he said, adding that the state would not serve as a backstop for the airline's debts.\n\n\"Air France will disappear if it does not make the necessary efforts to be competitive,\" he warned.\n\nDespite the strike, the airline insisted that it would be able to maintain 99% of long-haul flights on Monday, 80% of medium-haul services and 87% of short-haul flights.\n\nOn Friday, Jean-Marc Janaillac, chief executive of parent company Air France-KLM, resigned after staff rejected a final pay offer from him, which would have raised wages by 7% over four years.\n\nEmployees of Air France-KLM's French operations have staged a series of strikes in recent days\n\nAir France-KLM reported a net loss of €269m (£238m) in the first quarter of the year.\n\nBritish Airways and Lufthansa have already undergone heavy cost-cutting in recent years, amid rising competition from low-cost airlines and carriers from the Gulf states.\n\nBut many analysts say Air France has lagged far behind when it comes to restructuring and has failed to address its continued losses.\n\nThe group has already downgraded expectations of its financial performance for 2018.\n\nAir France merged with Dutch carrier KLM in 2004. The joint company flies tens of millions of passengers around the world every year.", "The Coronation Street set in Trafford Park has recently been extended\n\nPublic tours of Coronation Street's new set are to begin later this month after a council approved the plans.\n\nBased on the success of the temporary tours at the show's former site in Manchester in 2014 and 2015, ITV is opening the Salford-based soap's cobbled streets and set.\n\nPre-booked guided tours of the Trafford Park site will begin on 26 May, lasting about 90 minutes.\n\nIt is estimated it will bring £4m annually to the local economy.\n\nThe pre-booked tours are expected to attract nearly 1,500 visitors a day\n\nUp to 1,500 visitors a day can be accommodated on the tours, which will be held at weekends.\n\nHovis Ltd, a neighbouring flour mill on Trafford Wharf Road, expressed concerns for traffic when the plans were submitted to Trafford Council.\n\nThe mill said it had no objection to the plans but was concerned about the extra parking the attraction would entail and its effect on its delivery drivers.\n\nTrafford Council approved the plans on 23 April and has recommended an operational management plan to deal with traffic.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Arsene Wenger said his farewell to Emirates Stadium with a thrashing of Burnley to leave in the same way it all began for him as Arsenal manager 7,876 days ago - with victory.\n\nIn a season of discontent and occasional open rebellion, this was a day for a united front to celebrate the career of the manager who has brought so much success and style to Arsenal since starting his reign with that 2-0 win at Ewood Park in 1996.\n\nAnd in a campaign of disappointment that will now be viewed as the end of an era, the last hope of success snuffed out by the Europa League semi-final loss to Atletico Madrid, Wenger at least got the home send-off he so deserved - with a stylish win over Burnley.\n\nThe Clarets, who have a wonderful story of their own this season, were outclassed as Arsenal ran out 5-0 winners to give Wenger his 475th win in 826 Premier League games.\n\nThis was not the time to celebrate a single victory but to reflect on all the triumphs and pleasure Wenger has brought to Arsenal in almost 22 years, and everyone played their parts perfectly on and off the pitch. The differences of this season were set aside as the good and the great of Wenger's reign came into sharp focus.\n\nThe Emirates was draped in tributes to Wenger, with giant \"Merci Arsene\" banners outside the ground, while red T-shirts bearing the same slogan and the date were placed on each one of the 60,000 seats in the stadium.\n\nWenger, who is clearly departing with reluctance with 12 months still to run on his contract, made his entrance through a guard of honour formed by Arsenal and Burnley players, along with their manager Sean Dyche.\n\nAs he made his way towards the centre circle, huge applause reverberated around the arena that can stand as a monument to his footballing wisdom and financial expertise in the transfer market.\n\nThere have been fallow years and subsequent fall-outs with some Arsenal fans, but this was an occasion viewed through the prism of three Premier League titles - including two league and FA Cup doubles in 1997-98 and 2001-2002 - and \"The Invincibles\" season of those 38 unbeaten games in 2003-04.\n\nWenger's seven FA Cup wins have also earned him a place in history and many of the figures central to his achievements were here to pay their own tributes.\n\nMartin Keown and the great France midfield man Emmanuel Petit were backstage, and perhaps the most poignant sight of all was the return of David Dein to the Arsenal directors' box for the first time in 11 years.\n\nIt was a reminder of a once-unstoppable partnership between Wenger and the man who brought him to Arsenal - and perhaps things have never been quite the same since vice-chairman Dein left the board citing \"irreconcilable differences\" in 2007.\n\nAnd looking on from behind dark glasses was Arsenal owner Stan Kroenke, who, along with Arsenal's board, must replace the man Dein says is \"an impossible act to follow\".\n\nIn contrast to so much here this season, this was a day of complete satisfaction on and off the field, the sea of 60,000 red T-shirts watching a comprehensive attacking display that was Wenger's trademark from those glory days.\n\nAnd it was the potent strikeforce Wenger will leave behind that set up this easy win, with Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang and Alexandre Lacazette establishing the platform by half-time.\n\nSead Kolasinac, Alex Iwobi and a second from Aubameyang wrapped up sixth place - but this was Wenger's day.\n\nHis name swept around the stands inside the first two minutes, swiftly followed by that of Patrick Vieira, who has been linked as a potential successor.\n\nThe other great names who brought glory under Wenger were also recognised in song, from Thierry Henry and Keown to Dennis Bergkamp.\n\nBurnley's fans sang their own tribute to Wenger, but were also quick with a cutting comeback to the adulation by singing \"You Wanted Him Sacked\" at Arsenal's fans.\n\nOther former Arsenal players, such as Jens Lehmann, Robert Pires, Kanu and Sol Campbell, were there to join in the emotional post-match scenes.\n\nNo Arsenal fans left their seats once the real celebrations began at the final whistle - although the one note of dissent came when Arsenal chairman Sir Chips Keswick was jeered as he emerged to make presentations to retiring veteran Arsenal backroom man Vic Akers, ladies' captain Alex Scott and Per Mertesacker, who was given a final appearance before becoming the club's academy coach.\n\nArsenal's great statesman and double-winning goalkeeper Bob Wilson, who was goalkeeping coach when the French visionary was appointed, then paid homage to \"the greatest manager we have ever had\". His long-time assistant Pat Rice then presented Wenger with the gold Premier League trophy that was handed to the club after the Invincibles season.\n\nIt was then Wenger's turn to speak, and the Emirates fell silent for his final words, which started with a touch of typical Wenger class and humanity as he sent his best wishes to his old adversary and latterly friend Sir Alex Ferguson.\n\nWenger was receiving another presentation at Old Trafford just seven days ago, from Sir Alex Ferguson.\n• None Listen: Wenger has been a great man for Arsenal - Wright\n\nWenger, with his own giant image paraded on a floating flag behind him, spoke quietly with genuine emotion, ending with the message: \"I will miss you.\"\n\nA lap of honour saw Wenger being applauded with huge affection, the fractiousness of the last few months forgotten, especially by one youngster who got his wish after spending most of the afternoon holding up a placard reading: \"Arsene - please can I have your tie?\"\n\nWenger will cut the ties that have bound him to Arsenal at Huddersfield Town next week before this giant club starts to navigate a path away from the Wenger era.\n\nWith giant letters spelling out the day's main message \"Merci Arsene\" behind him, he waved one final goodbye as he disappeared down the tunnel. Now a new chapter will begin for Arsenal and Arsene Wenger.\n\n606 and out for Wenger in north London - the stats\n• None This was Arsenal Wenger's 606th and final home game in charge of Arsenal (W415 D120 L71), with this the 27th time that his team have won by five or more goals on home soil.\n• None Indeed, no manager has taken charge of more Premier League home games than Arsene Wenger (414), winning 286 of those. Only Sir Alex Ferguson has won more in the competition's history (305).\n• None Arsenal will finish the season having scored 54 league goals at the Emirates, their joint-highest tally of home goals in a Premier League campaign, along with 2004-05 (54).\n• None Sean Dyche suffered his 50th defeat as a manager in the Premier League, however only 11 of those have come this season, compared with 19 in 2014/15 and 20 in 2016-17.\n• None This was Burnley's joint-heaviest defeat in the Premier League and the third time they've lost by a five-goal margin (also 0-5 v Spurs and 1-6 v Man City in 2009-10).\n• None The Clarets have conceded more goals at the Emirates than any other away venue in the Premier League (13 in four games).\n• None Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang has now scored 20+ league goals in each of his last three seasons in the top five European leagues (25 in 2015-16 and 31 in 2016/17, both for Borussia Dortmund).\n• None Aubameyang has scored seven league goals at the Emirates this term, the most of any Arsenal player in their first seven home appearances in the Premier League.\n• None Alexandre Lacazette has been directly involved in nine goals in his last nine games in all competitions (eight goals and one assist), while also scoring and assisting in the same game for the first time for Arsenal.\n• None Among players to have scored 10+ goals in the Premier League this season, the Frenchman has scored the highest percentage of his goals in home games (79% - 11 of 14).\n\n'It is impossible to feel nothing' - what they said\n\nArsenal manager Arsene Wenger, speaking to BBC Match of the Day: \"It is impossible to feel nothing unless you are completely robotic.\n\n\"It is 22 years of total commitment and togetherness. Overall I would like to thank everybody. I had the luxury of doing this job for 22 years at the same club and I am grateful for that.\n\n\"It is difficult to analyse this season for what this team has done. At home it has been championship stuff, but away from home it has not been enough. We also went to the League Cup final and Europa League semi-final.\n\n\"The fans may be lost at the start next season, but they will have a new manager and they can continue the work as the basics are here.\"\n\nBurnley manager Sean Dyche, speaking to MOTD: \"I think Arsenal raised their performance considerably. After the results yesterday we suddenly had nothing to play for and that affects players, they need something on the game.\n\n\"Today Arsenal really turned up. It will be a different feel at home next weekend - our fans were great today and they know how good a season it has been.\n\n\"Arsene Wenger means a lot to the game, the only thing he'll be asking is if they could have done that more often. It's still quite fresh but in 10 years they'll probably be looking back and thinking 'what an era'.\"\n\nArsenal travel to Leicester for their penultimate game of the season on Wednesday (19:45 BST), while Burnley host Bournemouth on Sunday (15:00 BST).\n• None Attempt saved. Aaron Ramsey (Arsenal) left footed shot from a difficult angle on the left is saved in the top centre of the goal. Assisted by Henrikh Mkhitaryan with a through ball.\n• None Attempt blocked. Danny Welbeck (Arsenal) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Henrikh Mkhitaryan.\n• None Attempt missed. Héctor Bellerín (Arsenal) left footed shot from the centre of the box is too high.\n• None Goal! Arsenal 5, Burnley 0. Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang (Arsenal) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the top left corner. Assisted by Héctor Bellerín.\n• None Attempt saved. Johann Berg Gudmundsson (Burnley) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom right corner.\n• None Attempt missed. Jeff Hendrick (Burnley) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the left. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Suranne Jones starred in two series of Doctor Foster, winning a Bafta for best leading actress\n\nDoctor Foster actress Suranne Jones has said she is \"so gutted\" after pulling out of West End play Frozen due to illness.\n\nThe star, 39, apologised to fans after she missed the last four performances of the show's run, which finished on Saturday.\n\nJones, who played a mother whose child has been abducted, said the show subject matter was \"deeply affecting\".\n\n\"I'm certain it has contributed to my feeling under the weather,\" she added.\n\nPosting a message on her Instagram page, Jones said she was unable to finish Thursday's matinee at the Theatre Royal Haymarket in London after feeling dizzy on stage.\n\n\"I came back after an illness and it was perhaps too soon,\" she wrote.\n\n\"Anyone who knows the show knows it is a highly draining piece and after three months and a sickness I just wasn't able to end the run.\"\n\nShe said she had hoped to return to the stage for the final performance on Saturday but was told by her doctor she should not \"put myself through it and risk getting ill again\".\n\n\"This show has taken its toll on me,\" she said.\n\n\"You as the audience experience it once and always say how you are moved and drained by it. We as performers always think we can push through and carry on but sometimes we just can't.\"\n\nThe Bafta award winner said she plans to rest before filming begins for new eight-part BBC series Gentlemen Jack later this month.\n\nThe series, which is created and directed by Happy Valley writer Sally Wainwright, will be filmed in West Yorkshire and Copenhagen.\n\nJones played the role of Dr Gemma Foster, a woman who suspected her husband of having an affair, in the BBC One drama series Doctor Foster.", "Rosemary Carroll with Paul White, the leader of Pendle Conservatives at the election count\n\nLabour has demanded an apology after the Conservatives gained control of a council after reinstating a councillor suspended for sharing a racist joke on Facebook.\n\nRosemary Carroll's return to Tory ranks handed the party control of Pendle council in Lancashire by a single seat.\n\nShadow chancellor John McDonnell said it was \"unacceptable\".\n\nConservative Party chairman Brandon Lewis said he would \"have a look\" at the case.\n\nMr Lewis told Sky News Ms Carroll had taken part in diversity training and that her case had been \"dealt with locally\" last year.\n\nShe has previously said she meant to delete the post, which compared an Asian person to a dog, but ended up publishing it by mistake.\n\n\"The reality is when we have these issues we deal with them and she is a good example of that, that was dealt with at the time and it was dealt with locally to be fair as well,\" he said.\n\nMr McDonnell told the BBC's Andrew Marr Show: \"To have the Conservative Party take control of that council by reinstating a councillor who used the foulest, foulest joke, a racist joke is unacceptable.\"\n\nHe called on Mr Lewis, who tweeted his congratulations to the Pendle Tories after the election, to apologise and for Ms Carroll to be suspended again.\n\nConservative Business Secretary Greg Clark said he was sure that \"party authorities\" would be investigating.\n\nMs Carroll was suspended for three months in June 2017 over the incident. After the suspension expired, she continued to sit as an independent councillor for the Earby ward. Previously she had held the year-long post of Pendle's mayor between 2016 and 2017.\n\nPendle would have been a hung council following Thursday's local elections if she had continued as an independent, but on Friday the council said it had been notified Ms Carroll had \"re-joined the Conservative group\".\n\nThe Conservatives now control Pendle with 25 seats, ahead of Labour's 15 and the Liberal Democrats' nine.", "Relatives of the 16-year-old mourn in the village of Raja Kendua\n\nIndian police say they have arrested the main suspect in an alleged gang-rape and murder of a teenage girl.\n\nDhanu Bhuiyan and his accomplices are accused of burning the 16-year-old alive on Friday in the state of Jharkhand.\n\nShe was killed after her parents complained to village elders that she had been raped, according to police.\n\nThe elders had told two accused rapists to do 100 sit-ups and pay a 50,000 rupee (£550; $750) fine as punishment.\n\nThe men were allegedly so enraged by the penalty that they beat the girl's parents then set her on fire.\n\n\"The two accused thrashed the parents and rushed to the house where they set the girl ablaze with the help of their accomplices,\" Ashok Ram, the officer in charge of the local police station, told the AFP news agency.\n\nPolice say they have arrested 15 of the 18 people they want to investigate in connection with the incidents.\n\nThey say Mr Bhuiyan was arrested at a relative's house where he was hiding. The suspect has not commented on the accusations.\n\nThe girl was believed to have been abducted from her home while her parents were attending a wedding.\n\nShe was then allegedly raped by two men in a forested area near the village of Raja Kendua.\n\nUpon discovering the assault, the 16-year-old's parents went to village elders to pursue charges against the suspected perpetrators.\n\nThe victim and the accused appeared to have known each other, police inspector-general Shambu Thakur told AFP.\n\nA series of sexual assaults have triggered outrage across India\n\nCouncils of village elders carry no legal weight. However, they have significant influence in many parts of rural India and are a way of settling disputes without having to go through India's expensive judicial system.\n\nHowever, several village elders have been charged with passing unlawful orders and tampering with evidence.\n\nThe latest incident comes as India reels from a string of violent sexual crimes.\n\nAbout 40,000 rape cases were reported in India in 2016.\n\nMany cases, however, are believed to go unreported because of the stigma that is attached to rape and sexual assault.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Dr Joyce Tyldesley, of Manchester University, tells Today about the secrets of Tutankhamun's tomb\n\nEgyptian authorities have finished their quest to discover a secret chamber in the tomb of Tutankhamun - concluding that it does not exist.\n\nPreviously, officials said they were \"90% sure\" of a hidden room behind the wall of the boy king's famous 3,000-year-old tomb.\n\nOne theory suggested it could have been the tomb of Queen Nefertiti - who some think was Tutankhamun's mother.\n\nNew research, however, has concluded the chamber simply is not there.\n\nThe search for the hidden tomb began when English archaeologist Nicholas Reeves, examining detailed scans of the chamber, discovered what looked like faint traces, or \"ghosts\", of doors beneath the plaster.\n\nHis 2015 paper The Burial of Nefertiti, he argued that the relatively small tomb had originally been designed for Queen Nefertiti - and her remains could possibly lie further within the tomb.\n\nNefertiti's remains have never been discovered, but she has been the object of much speculation. A 3,000-year-old sculpture of the queen, immaculately preserved, has made her one of the most recognisable women of ancient Egypt.\n\nIt is also thought she may have ruled Egypt as pharaoh herself between the death of her husband and the ascension of Tutankhamun.\n\nThis bust of Queen Nefertiti, on display in Berlin, has added to her fame\n\nAfter Mr Reeves' sensational paper, a series of radar scans seemed to support his theory, leading Egyptian authorities to declare it was \"90% sure\" that a further chamber existed.\n\nA second scan also seemed to support the theory, which would have been the most significant discovery of Egyptian antiquities in decades.\n\nHowever, Italian specialists from the University of Turin used new penetrating radar scans to reach their conclusion, saying they were confident in the results.\n\n\"It is maybe a little bit disappointing that there is nothing behind the walls of Tutankhamun's tomb, but I think on the other hand that this is good science,\" said Dr Francesco Porcelli, head of the research team.\n\nHe said they had analysed three different sets of radar data and cross-checked the results, to eliminate \"complexity in the data\" which affected previous scan results.\n\nEgypt's Antiquities Minister, Khaled al-Anani, said the authorities in the country accepted the results.", "The American space agency Nasa has launched its latest mission to Mars.\n\nInSight will be the first probe to focus its investigations predominantly on the interior of the Red Planet.\n\nThe lander - due to touch down in November - will put seismometers on the surface to feel for \"Marsquakes\".", "A pall of smoke from the blast rose above Gaza\n\nSix Palestinians have been killed and others wounded in an explosion in the Gaza Strip, health officials say.\n\nIt is not clear what caused the blast in Deir al-Balah.\n\nThe Izzedine al-Qassam Brigades, military wing of the Hamas militant group, blamed Israel, but the Israeli military said it was not involved.\n\nA Palestinian source quoted by the Israeli newspaper Haaretz said that the victims appeared to be members of Hamas.\n\nThe explosion could have been caused by the handling of explosives inside a building, the source added.\n\nTensions in the region are high, with clashes between Palestinians and the Israeli military taking place along the Gaza-Israel border since demonstrations erupted more than a month ago.\n\nIsrael says Hamas, the militant group which dominates Gaza, is orchestrating the demonstrations in order to launch attacks.\n\nOn Saturday, Israel accused Hamas of setting fire to gas supplies and damaging crossing points where humanitarian supplies are brought into Gaza.\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\nFollowing Saturday's explosion, TV images showed a pillar of smoke rising near the coast.\n\n\"The IDF (Israel Defence Force) is not involved in this incident in any way,\" an Israeli military spokesman said.\n\nCorrespondents say explosions in Gaza in the past have been caused by Israeli air strikes, by feuding between Palestinian factions or by the mishandling of explosives by militant groups.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The All Under One Banner event saw thousands of people parade through the city centre of Glasgow\n\nTens of thousands of Scottish independence supporters have marched through Glasgow.\n\nThe organisers of the annual All Under One Banner event said they hoped about 40,000 people would attend, but said early estimates were up to 80,000.\n\nThe march left Kelvingrove Park at 11:30 and ended with a rally on Glasgow Green.\n\nThe event is one of a series being held across Scotland by All Under One Banner.\n\nThey estimated 20,000 people took part in last year's Glasgow march.\n\nPolice Scotland said there were an estimated 35,000 at Saturday's procession.\n\nThousands hit the streets of Glasgow for the Scottish independence march\n\nOrganisers had expected about 40,000 would attend the demonstration\n\nThe march snaked through the city centre towards Glasgow Green\n\nAll Under One Banner describes itself as a \"pro-independence organisation whose core aim is to march at regular intervals until Scotland is free\" and says it is open to \"everyone who desires to live in an independent nation\".\n\nCo-ordinator Neil Mackay said he was confident that a second referendum would happen soon.\n\n\"We are expecting up to 40,000 people today on the streets of Glasgow, and then we have a political rally at Glasgow Green,\" he said.\n\n\"The purpose is to grow the movement, to galvanise us and bring more people on board, and to give as good a representation of the movement as we can.\"\n\n\"As far as we're all concerned there will be another independence referendum, and it'll be before 2021 when Brexit finally happens. We're ready, and we'll be doing this every year all over Scotland.\"\n\nMr Mackay said people had travelled from all over Scotland and further afield for the march.\n\nHe added: \"People are also coming from England, we've got a strong English Scots for Yes contingent on the march today which is great.\n\n\"There's a delegation from Germany, and from people all around the world who have had flights and hotels booked for months.\"\n\nThe event also featured music and speeches, with marchers urged to \"bring your flags, banners, pipes and drums\".", "Rhyhiem Ainsworth Barton was \"trying to make a difference\" by learning to work with children, his mother said\n\nA 17-year-old boy shot dead in London \"had so much potential\" and \"was a good boy\", his mother has said.\n\nRhyhiem Ainsworth Barton was found in Warham Street, Southwark, after a reported shooting in nearby Cooks Road on Saturday evening.\n\nHe was hit while playing football with friends and died at the scene shortly before 19:00 BST. No arrests have been made as part of the murder probe.\n\nHis mother, Pretana Morgan, said she \"couldn't have asked for a better son\".\n\nShe told reporters on the Brandon Estate he was an aspiring architect who was \"trying to make a difference\" by learning to work with children.\n\n\"My son was a very handsome boy. He's got so much potential,\" said Ms Morgan, who is originally from Jamaica and also has a six-year-old daughter.\n\nPretana Morgan has been paying tribute to her son\n\nThe teenager's godmother, Lacey Main, also paid tribute, describing him as a talented rapper.\n\n\"Any loss of life is a loss. It doesn't matter where they come from. It doesn't matter what religion, what culture, what skin colour... a life is a life,\" she said.\n\nAbigael Adeoye, 17, who lived in the same building as Rhyhiem, said they were best friends and she had known him since primary school.\n\n\"I was with him everyday. He was really bubbly.\n\n\"He used to message me every day and say 'Abigael come and see me'. I should have told him to stay at home yesterday.\"\n\nA forensic blue tent has been put up by the police cordon in Warham Street\n\nWitnesses told the BBC a number of shots were fired around the street including one that missed a woman and went through a window.\n\nPolice tape surrounds much of the area around Aberfeldy House and the Met's homicide team is appealing for witnesses.\n\nBorough commander Simon Messinger said the violence had \"rightly caused concern\" and the \"fast-paced\" investigation was \"progressing all the time\".\n\nHe said additional officers would be on patrol for the rest of the weekend, supported by armed response officers on motorcycles, dog units and air support.\n\nA police team is searching the scene outside Aberfeldy House in Camberwell New Road\n\nMore than 60 people have been killed in the capital this year - about half were the result of stabbings.\n\nLondon mayor Sadiq Khan said his thoughts go out to the \"loved ones of the teenager who was tragically killed\".\n\nIn a separate incident, two boys aged 12 and 15 were shot in Wealdstone north-west London and taken to hospital.\n\nOn Friday, in another unrelated matter, a cyclist was shot at in Blenheim Grove in Peckham. Three men then made off on two mopeds.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "There are more than 50,000 junior doctors in England. The term covers those who are fresh out of medical school through to others who have a decade of experience behind them.\n\nSo what responsibilities do they have? The BBC News website talks to three doctors at different stages of their career.\n\nAfter graduating in 2014, Melody started two years of foundation training.\n\nThe first was spent in Scunthorpe Hospital, doing three four-month stints in different specialities, known as rotations. She worked in A&E, general surgery and gastroenterology.\n\nAt the moment, she is based at a GP practice, in the first of three rotations in her second year.\n\nHer day starts at 08:15, and she sees her first patient at 09:00, then more throughout the morning.\n\nAt the end of the surgery, she has a debrief with another GP to discuss the patients she has seen and talk about anything she is not certain about.\n\nThere are prescriptions to be written over lunch, notes to be updated, phone calls to be made about test results and then more patients to see during the afternoon.\n\nMelody's day working at the GP surgery ends between 18:30 and 19:30. But her work isn't over.\n\nOnce home, she has to fit in revision for exams, sometimes she has to prepare \"goodwill\" teaching sessions for other junior doctors and from time to time there are opportunities to present research to conferences.\n\nMoving from one rotation to another means moving from place to place every four months. Experiencing different hospitals and teams is all part and parcel of learning, but it can make life difficult.\n\n\"It's hard being the new kid on the block again. There are lots of things that are individual to each rotation - getting to know your way around a new hospital, coping with a different IT system,\" she says.\n\n\"And you've got to start from the beginning each time.\"\n\nMelody has eight years of training ahead of her - once she starts her chosen specialty of children's medicine next year - and that's if she doesn't choose to take time out along the way.\n\n\"It scares me a little bit because I see exhausted colleagues further along in training trying to juggle personal responsibilities, and I know the long days and nights are going to be even more challenging as I get older,\" she says.\n\n\"Sometimes I feel I'm letting family and friends down because I can't see them.\"\n\nIt's a long road full of real challenges, but they are also the \"real joys of medicine\", she says.\n\nJob: A&E trainee in north Yorkshire in her third year of speciality training\n\nAfter completing the two-year foundation programme in north-west England, Ellen went through a competitive process to qualify to do core surgical training.\n\nBut after completing the training, she decided surgery wasn't the right area for her.\n\nShe decided to take a year out to do research in London and then spent another year volunteering as a doctor in Africa, before settling on the specialty of emergency medicine.\n\nWorking in A&E is an unpopular lifestyle choice because of the hours, she says, but she loves the buzz.\n\n\"I really enjoy the immediacy of emergency medicine. Patients can arrive having any problems at all,\" she says.\n\n\"I get to see people at their worst moments - when I urgently need to find out what's wrong with them and sometimes save their life.\"\n\nEllen has to work one in every two or three weekends. She works blocks of night shifts, late shifts, twilight shifts and day shifts, which she says can make it difficult to see family and friends outside of work and have any other interests.\n\nLeading a nocturnal existence for three or four weeks on the trot is not unusual.\n\nWith each passing year, junior doctors are given more responsibility - for patients and for other more junior colleagues.\n\n\"I work with other junior doctors who will ask me for advice, doctors more senior than me who I will ask for advice and consultants too,\" Ellen says.\n\n\"It's important we are all there working together.\"\n\nEllen's career path has not been straightforward - but that's not unusual. Many junior doctors take time out during their training, to teach, travel or do research.\n\nShe now has five more years to go in emergency medicine before she completes her training.\n\nJob: Consultant in geriatric medicine after nine years of training\n\n\"Becoming a consultant after so many years of training wasn't a massive thing for me,\" Daniel says.\n\nHe had set his heart on becoming a champion for the most vulnerable people in society at an early stage of his training - straight after graduating in 2003.\n\nSince then, the multiple health problems of elderly people - particularly dementia, frailty and incontinence - have been his focus.\n\n\"Medicine is a vocation. I felt the need to be an advocate for older people because they are one of the worst-served populations in the NHS.\n\n\"But there's so little research into dementia compared to cancer, for example.\"\n\nHe took time out during his training, to gain experience of different specialties with the aim of becoming a better geriatrician.\n\nHe was also awarded funding to carry out research into why and how the health problems of older people arise.\n\nWith a wife and two children, training as a junior doctor and moving around the country to gain experience in different hospitals was \"a huge juggling act\".\n\nHe spent time in numerous different places, including Edinburgh, Oxford, Cambridge and north, east and south-west London, during his training.\n\nFamily life suffered, but Daniel says it's even worse for nurses in training.\n\nAs a consultant, he is often expected to be on call for seven days in a row, working from 07:00 until 20:00 or 21:00. Although he will be in the hospital quite a lot of that time, he can also take time out to do paperwork.\n\nDoing the very best for his patients is what drives him.\n• None What is the junior doctors row about?", "President Rouhani (right) says Iran is ready to \"confront\" any decision made by President Trump\n\nIranian President Hassan Rouhani has warned that the US will face \"historic regret\" if Donald Trump scraps the nuclear agreement with Tehran.\n\nMr Rouhani's comments come as the US president decides whether to pull out of the deal by a 12 May deadline.\n\nMr Trump has strongly criticised the agreement, calling it \"insane\".\n\nThe 2015 deal - between Iran, the US, China, Russia, Germany, France and the UK - lifted sanctions on Iran in return for curbs on its nuclear programme.\n\nFrance, the UK and Germany have been trying persuade the US president that the current deal is the best way to stop Iran developing nuclear weapons.\n\nBritish Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson is travelling to Washington on Sunday to discuss the matter with White House officials.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Rouhani: The US would regret leaving nuclear deal 'like never before in history'\n\nThe UN also warned Mr Trump not to walk away from the deal.\n\nHowever, he has threatened that the US will \"withdraw\" from the deal on 12 May - the end of a 120-day review period - unless Congress and European powers fixed its \"disastrous flaws\".\n\nIn remarks carried live on Iranian state television on Sunday, President Rouhani said: \"If America leaves the nuclear deal, this will entail historic regret for it.\"\n\nHe warned Iran had \"a plan to counter any decision Trump may take and we will confront it\".\n\nIran insists its nuclear programme is entirely peaceful and says it considers the deal non-renegotiable.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What is the Iran nuclear deal?\n\nLast week, Israel revealed \"secret nuclear files\" which it said showed Iran had run a clandestine nuclear weapons programme before 2003, and had secretly retained the technological know-how, in breach of the agreement.\n\nIran branded Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu a liar and said the documents he produced were a rehash of old allegations already dealt with by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the UN's nuclear watchdog.\n\nBut US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said the documents were authentic and showed the 2015 Iran nuclear deal was \"built on lies\".\n\nMr Trump is already unhappy that the current deal only limits Iran's nuclear activities for a fixed period and does not stop the development of ballistic missiles.\n\nHe also said it had handed Iran a $100bn (£72bn) windfall that it used \"as a slush fund for weapons, terror, and oppression\" across the Middle East.\n\nEconomic assets frozen by sanctions were returned to Iran under the terms of the deal. Iran has consistently denied US claims that it sponsors militant groups.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A timeline of what Trump's said about the Iran deal\n\nDuring two days of talks in Washington, Mr Johnson will meet US Vice-President Mike Pence, National Security Adviser John Bolton and foreign policy leaders in Congress.\n\nEarlier this month, he said it was important to keep the deal \"while building on it in order to take account of the legitimate concerns of the US\".\n\nOn Sunday, Mr Netanyahu again spoke out against Iran, saying it was better to confront Tehran sooner rather than later.\n\nAddressing a cabinet meeting, he accused Iran of supplying advanced weapons to the Syrian government that posed a danger to Israel.\n\nHe added: \"We are determined to block Iran's aggression against us even if this means a struggle. Better now than later.\"", "Most Facebook users in the US remain loyal, despite the recent data sharing scandal involving a political consultancy firm, a poll suggests.\n\nFacebook admitted last month that the data of 87 million users had been improperly shared with the UK-based firm, Cambridge Analytica.\n\nThe Reuters/Ipsos survey found no clear loss or gain in use since then.\n\nA quarter of Facebook users said they used it less or had left it but another quarter said they used it even more.\n\nThe remaining half said their use of the network had not changed.\n\nHowever, the survey was limited to the US and analysts are waiting to see how the social media giant's sales perform in the second quarter, when the scandal was at its height.\n\nIn the first quarter, its sales rose by nearly 50%, with profits reaching $4.9bn (£3.6bn) compared to $3bn last year.\n\nConducted online, the Reuters/Ipsos survey questioned 2,194 American adults between 26 and 30 April. The poll has a margin of error of three percentage points.\n\nSome 64% percent said they used Facebook at least once a day, down slightly from the 68% recorded in a similar poll in late March, soon after the Cambridge Analytica story broke.\n\nAsked if they were aware of their current privacy settings, 74% of Facebook users said they were, and 78% said they knew how to change them. Among Twitter users, this was 55% and 58%, while for Instagram users, it was 60% and 65%.\n\nMichael Pachter, an analyst at Wedbush Securities, told Reuters that Facebook had been lucky the data was apparently used only for political adverts and not anything more sinister.\n\n\"I have yet to read an article that says a single person has been harmed by the breach,\" he said.\n\nThere was no immediate comment from Facebook, which apologised for the data scandal and acted to rein in third-party apps using its data.\n\nAccused of using Facebook users' personal data to sway the outcome of the US 2016 presidential election and the UK Brexit referendum, Cambridge Analytica announced this week it was closing down\n\nFacebook said its own investigation into the company's use of its data would continue.", "England v Pakistan: Hosts bowled out for 184 in first Test at Lord's Last updated on .From the section Cricket\n\nEngland's new summer began with old failings as they were bowled out for 184 by Pakistan on day one of the first Test at Lord's. Joe Root's side, who did not win in seven Tests over the winter and have endured long-standing problems with their top order, succumbed to a string of poor shots. On a cloudy morning and faced with a green-tinged surface, Root opted to bat on winning the toss, only for his team to be undone by a Pakistan pace quartet that exposed their shortcomings. Former skipper Alastair Cook, who has struggled for consistency, made 70, but England lost their last five wickets for 16 runs. Opening bowler Mohammad Abbas took 4-23 and Hasan Ali, a star of Pakistan's Champions Trophy triumph in the UK last year, picked up 4-51. The tourists found themselves batting in the evening gloom, yet were taken to 50-1 by Azhar Ali and Haris Sohail, the latter dropped on 16 by Ben Stokes off Mark Wood. The suspicion is that Pakistan are stronger with the ball than with the bat, but, with sunshine forecast for Friday and the pitch likely to get better for batting, the tourists have the opportunity to take a firm grip on this match.\n• None Jonathan Agnew column: New summer, same old problems for England\n• None Pakistan players told not to wear smart watches by anti-corruption officials After a winter when they surrendered the Ashes and lost in New Zealand, England would have expected to feel more comfortable on home soil, where they have lost only one series in the previous five years. Though Pakistan can take credit for the way they used the conditions, they were helped by an England team that gave wickets away with a combination of recklessness and indeterminate footwork. Opener Mark Stoneman, under pressure to keep his place, was the first of five men to fall driving, bowled by Abbas by one that nipped through the gate. Hasan accounted for both Root and Dawid Malan, Root edging a drive at a ball so wide he could barely reach and Malan's flat feet led to a poke behind. Jonny Bairstow, promoted to number five, looked solid for 27 in stand of 57 with Cook, but he was bowled pushing at Faheem Ashraf. Stokes, playing his first match in England since the incident outside a Bristol nightclub in September, looked to have no trouble adjusting after a stint in the Indian Premier League but, like Bairstow, was dismissed out of the blue when Abbas pinned him leg before for 38. Jos Buttler, recalled largely on the back on his IPL form, had 14 from as many balls before he flashed Hasan to second slip. From there the tail, including debutant Dom Bess, folded in the space of six deliveries. Cook had managed only one half-century in 17 innings since 243 against West Indies at Edgbaston last summer, albeit if that was an unbeaten 244 in the fourth Ashes Test. Here, as he played his 153rd consecutive Test and equalled the record of Australia great Allan Border, he looked close to his best. Cook left the ball well and displayed assured footwork, but the most eye-catching feature of his play was as string of fluent cover drives. The opener survived a very close lbw review from Faheem on 23 but, that aside, was the solid presence that England's flimsy batting so desperately needs. Even Cook, though, was found wanting for his dismissal. A lack of footwork left him in no position to play a Mohammad Amir delivery that held its line up the Lord's slope and clipped the top of off stump. Pakistan's tour began in April and has already included three matches against counties and a Test victory in Ireland. Indeed, their XI for this match has more days of first-class cricket between them this summer than England's - 126 to England's 82. Their readiness for this match shone through with the accuracy of their bowling and quality of their catching. Captain Sarfraz Ahmed said he would have bowled if he had won the toss and was vindicated by a pace-bowling unit that barely bowled a short delivery and moved the ball, particularly in the air, throughout the day. Asad Shafiq's smart catch off Buttler at second slip and Amir's athletic dive to hold Wood at mid-on typified a near faultless display in the field. Although Imam-ul-Haq was lbw to Stuart Broad for four, Azhar and Sohail survived a tough period under the floodlights, even if Sohail was missed when third slip Stokes dived at a chance that would have gone straight to second slip Malan. 'It's deja vu for England' - what they said Former England captain Michael Vaughan on BBC Test Match Special: \"It's deja vu for England. It doesn't matter what conditions have been in the last couple of years, they have generally been 100-4 - whether Joe Root is at three or four, whether Bairstow is four, fix or six. It's like the brains have been trained. \"You've got to try and make it as difficult as possible for the opposition. Is positivity hitting a four or ending the day on 230-6 when you have grafted it out? \"Pakistan have surprised me - they have been tremendous. England now have to win every day.\" England batsman Alastair Cook on TMS: \"I reckon it's going to be a first-innings-plays-fourth-innings game. \"Pakistan took a big leap forward bowling us out for 180, but it can turn very quickly - 50-1 can be 80-4.\" The stats you may have missed\n• None Only once have England been bowled out for a lower score than 184 after winning the toss and batting in a Lord's Test, in 1955\n• None England lost their last five wickets for 16 in 34 balls in 25 minutes\n• None Alastair Cook and Mark Stoneman average 19 as an opening partnership from 19 innings, with a highest stand of 58. They have failed to put on more than 35 in their past 10 Test innings together\n• None Listen to 'The Doosra' - the BBC's new south Asian cricket podcast", "The pound is taking a turn in a new direction with vertical notes.\n\nWhat will be the only sterling bank notes of upright orientation in circulation are being printed by Ulster Bank.\n\nThe polymer £5 and £10 notes will enter circulation in Northern Ireland next year.\n\nAll four of Northern Ireland's banks print their own money, a tradition which dates back to the 19th century\n\nUlster Bank, which is part of Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS), has released the designs of its new notes, which will replace its paper currency.\n\nThey are based on the theme \"living in nature\".\n\nThe £5 note features Strangford Lough in County Down and Brent Geese.\n\nIts £10 denomination shows Lough Erne in County Fermanagh, the Irish hare and Guelder-rose shrubs.\n\nThe bank announced last year that it would be following the Bank of England by printing plastic money.\n\nHowever, Ulster Bank is going a step further with the new format.\n\nSwitzerland and Canada (who will introduce a vertical $10 note later this year), are among the few countries that have notes which are vertical in orientation.", "Northern said the strike meant any services that ran would be \"extremely busy\"\n\nRail passengers face disruption as Northern staff stage a 24-hour strike, days after travel chaos when new timetables were introduced.\n\nRMT union members at Northern are striking for 24 hours on Thursday in an ongoing dispute about safety involving driver-only operated trains.\n\nThe union said Northern had declared \"war on passengers\".\n\nNorthern called for \"meaningful\" talks and said the majority of trains running would be between 07:00 and 19:00 BST.\n\nThe firm faced widespread criticism over cancellations, delays and the implementation of a new timetable on Monday.\n\nThe government announced urgent plans to deal with Northern's \"poor performance\", which the transport secretary Chris Grayling will discuss with leaders from the north of England later.\n\nThe meeting comes as Thursday's strike from 00:01 to 23:59 BST is set to be followed by similar action on Saturday.\n\nA spokesman for Northern said it expected the \"trains and any replacement buses we operate to be extremely busy\".\n\nPassengers have been told to allow extra time for journeys, \"plan carefully and consider whether travel is necessary\".\n\nThe majority of available trains would run between 07:00 and 19:00 to get people \"into work and home again\", Northern said.\n\nAnthony Smith, chief executive of the independent watchdog Transport Focus, said Northern's passengers \"have had a torrid time recently and these strikes will mean yet more cancelled plans and disrupted journeys\".\n\n\"It is vital that all parties in this dispute get back around the table to resolve this matter without bringing the railway to a standstill,\" he added.\n\nRMT members have staged several previous walkouts over the driver-only issue\n\nThe latest strikes are going ahead as Northern \"refuse point blank to engage in talks\", according to RMT general secretary Mick Cash.\n\nHe said the operator had shown it was \"not capable of running a railway\" and had declared \"war on passengers and staff in the drive for increased profits\".\n\nThe union said passenger safety would be put at risk by getting rid of guards and extending driver-only services and has been in dispute with five operators for more than two years.\n\nNorthern's deputy manager director Richard Allan said it was \"disappointing\" the union had targeted the bank holiday weekend and \"the first week of the new timetable\".\n\n\"We urge RMT to move away from its nationally co-ordinated strikes and allow its local representatives to engage in meaningful discussions with us on how we better serve customers.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Formula 1\n\nWorld champion Lewis Hamilton says the return of female models to the F1 grid at this weekend's Monaco Grand Prix is \"a beautiful thing\".\n\nThe sport's owner Liberty Media stopped the use of 'grid girls' in January, saying their use was \"at odds with modern day societal norms\".\n\nModels for Swiss watchmaker Tag Heuer will feature on the grid at Monaco - though not in 'grid girl' roles.\n\n\"Women are the most beautiful thing in the world,\" Hamilton, 33, said.\n\n\"Monaco is a very elegant grand prix and when we pull up to the grid and there's beautiful women on the grid, that's the Monaco Grand Prix and that's a lovely thing.\"\n\nTraditionally, grid girls would hold driver placards on the grid but the Monaco models - who will include men - will only be there as representatives of Tag Heuer, taking pictures of the drivers to be posted on social media.\n\nLast month, Monaco organisers spoke of their opposition to Liberty's ban.\n\nFerrari driver Sebastian Vettel said he \"agreed with Lewis\".\n\n\"I like women. I think they look beautiful. The bottom line is that there is too much of a fuss nowadays,\" the German said.\n\n\"All the women that took part as a grid girl in the past did it because they want to. I'm sure if you ask any grid girl on Sunday if they're happy to stand there, their answer will be yes.\n\n\"I don't think there's anybody that forces them to do it.\"\n\nThe decision to drop grid girls proved controversial. Supporters of Liberty's stance agreed that the practice objectified women.\n\n\"I definitely don't think we should ever be supporting or pushing these women in general to feel uncomfortable. And if they are, then we shouldn't do it,\" Hamilton added on Wednesday.\n\nDarts similarly phased out its use of walk-on girls to lead players out earlier this year and there followed calls for other sports to do the same.\n\nBoxer Stacey Copeland told BBC Sport that the use of grid girls in F1 is 'unnecessary'.\n\nCopeland has children as mascots at her fights instead of ring girls.\n\n\"The sexual objectification of women in sport is not necessary,\" she said. \"It doesn't add anything and enough is enough.\n\n\"Change is always really tough and will have its ups and downs but just because we've always done something does not mean it should carry on.\n\n\"Grid girls in F1, ring girls in boxing are unnecessary and unequal so we have to over-correct. It does seem over the top to some but we have to do it.\"\n\nBut critics claimed the models were part of sport's glamour, while others blamed political correctness and some of those carrying out the roles were equally vocal about the ban.", "A man has been arrested on suspicion of preparation of terrorist acts, the Metropolitan Police has said.\n\nThe 19-year-old was arrested in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire, on Wednesday at 18:57 BST.\n\nAn address in the town is being searched, and the man is being questioned at a south London police station.\n\nPolice say the activity is connected to the arrest of an 18-year-old man by armed police in north London on Friday.\n\nThe 18-year-old man remains in custody, and a 20-year-old woman was also arrested in south London for failing to disclose information about acts of terrorism on Wednesday.", "Water-resistant sunscreen products work much less well after they have been worn in the sea, a consumer group has warned ahead of the summer holiday season.\n\nWhich? tested two products claiming to be water resistant and found the sun protection factor (SPF) dropped by up to 59% after 40 minutes in salt water.\n\nCancer Research UK welcomed the study, warning no sunscreen is 100% effective.\n\nCurrent UK tests allow manufacturers to claim a sunscreen is water resistant if the SPF drops by as much as 50% after two 20-minute periods of immersion.\n\nThe tests are carried out using tap water.\n\nHowever, Which? said its more rigorous tests in salt water, chlorinated water and fast moving water - conditions typically found on holidays - exposed \"serious flaws\" in the testing regime.\n\nIt said the SPF of one well-known international sunscreen dived by 59% after 40 minutes of immersion.\n\n\"In reality, sun protection is likely to drop even further - factors such as reflection from water, heat, light, sweat, towelling and rubbing all reduce the protection of sunscreens,\" Which? said.\n\nOverexposure to ultraviolet (UV) rays in sunlight is the main preventable cause of skin cancer, according to the charity Cancer Research UK.\n\nHowever, the Cosmetic, Toiletry and Perfumery Association (CTPA) said Which?'s findings were flawed and consumers should have confidence in water-resistant sunscreens.\n\nIts director-general Dr Chris Flower, a chartered biologist, said current testing methods worked well.\n\n\"In fact an SPF 30 product will stop approximately 96% of UV rays reaching the skin and after robust water resistance testing the product will still filter out at least 93% of the sun's UV rays,\" he said.\n\n\"This is clearly not the dramatic reduction in efficacy that Which? implies.\"\n\nWhich? called for tougher regulations like those in the US and Australia, where the SPF on a product's label must be the SPF it provides after immersion.\n\nIt added that UK water-resistance tests were \"unrealistic to the point of being meaningless\".\n\nCancer Research UK says it is essential when using sunscreen to put plenty of it on \"to get the protection listed on the bottle\".", "Victoria Cilliers almost died in the parachute jump\n\nAn Army sergeant has been found guilty of trying to murder his wife by tampering with her parachute.\n\nVictoria Cilliers, 41, survived the 4,000ft (1,220m) fall at Netheravon airfield in Wiltshire in April 2015.\n\nEmile Cilliers was plagued with debt and needed his wife's life insurance money to start a new life with his lover, Winchester Crown Court heard.\n\nHe was also convicted of trying to kill his wife by causing a gas leak at the family home.\n\nThe 38-year-old had denied two counts of attempted murder.\n\nMrs Cilliers, a highly-experienced parachuting instructor, suffered near-fatal injuries when both her main and reserve parachutes failed when she took part in a jump at the Army Parachute Association.\n\nThe trial heard that Cilliers, of the Royal Army Physical Training Corps and an experienced parachute packer, tampered with equipment he knew his wife was going to use.\n\nCilliers tampered with his wife's parachute before the jump\n\nThe jump took place at Netheravon airfield in Wiltshire in April 2015\n\nLines to the main canopy were twisted and essential parts were missing from the reserve.\n\nThe court heard the equipment had never failed in this manner anywhere in the world.\n\nMrs Cillier's survival was described as a \"near-miracle\", with it put down to the soft soil of the ploughed field where she landed.\n\nHer light weight was also attributed as a factor in helping to minimise her injuries.\n\nJust days earlier, Cilliers had caused a gas leak at their home in Amesbury, Wiltshire, by loosening a gas valve fitting in a kitchen cupboard.\n\nJurors heard Cilliers was £22,000 in debt and believed he was set to get a £120,000 life insurance payout in the event of his wife's accidental death.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prosecution barrister Hannah Squire said Cilliers was \"cold and calculating\"\n\nHe needed the money to pay off bills and start a new life with his lover, Stefanie Goller.\n\nCilliers was planning a new life with Ms Goller while also sleeping with his ex-wife Carly Cilliers, and arranging unprotected sex sessions with prostitutes.\n\nThe extent of his money problems was also revealed in messages sent between the married couple in December 2014 as their relationship began to break down.\n\nDet Insp Paul Franklin, of Wiltshire Police, said Cilliers had shown \"nothing but contempt\" for his family.\n\n\"On two separate occasions he made serious attempts to murder Victoria - one of these also endangered the lives of his two young children,\" he said.\n\n\"His selfish motives were simple - he believed that by killing Victoria his financial problems would be solved, his army career would continue with no danger of Victoria trying to damage it, and he could continue his illicit affair with his girlfriend.\n\n\"He has failed to accept any responsibility for his actions which reinforces our view that he is a cold, calculating and callous man whose only duty of care is to himself.\"\n\nMr Justice Sweeney said he would be seeking a report from the probation service to establish the \"dangerousness\" of the defendant.\n\n\"The burden now falls on me on what to do as far as this defendant is concerned, that too is a heavy burden,\" he said.\n\nA date for sentencing has not yet been set.\n\nThe jury also convicted him of a third count of damaging a gas fitting recklessly endangering life.\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. Nicola Sturgeon said a review of the 'gagged worker' case would be undertaken by the Scottish government's permanent secretary\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon has told MSPs she is \"absolutely horrified\" by a photo of a woman allegedly taped to a chair and gagged by male colleagues.\n\nMs Sturgeon said she had asked a top civil servant to conduct a full review into the circumstances and report to her personally as soon as possible.\n\nThe BBC obtained the photo of DeeAnn Fitzpatrick being restrained.\n\nShe claims it took place amid years of bullying and harassment at Marine Scotland's Scrabster office.\n\nMs Fitzpatrick, a Canadian national, said the incident happened in 2010 as a result of her blowing the whistle on a threatening and misogynistic culture at the Scottish government department's base on the far north Caithness coast.\n\nThe fisheries officer has taken her case to an employment tribunal.\n\nIn evidence to the ongoing tribunal, she claimed that one of the men involved, fellow fisheries officer Reid Anderson, told her: \"This is what you get when you speak out against the boys.\"\n\nHighlands MSP Rhoda Grant asked the first minister to intervene\n\nHighlands and Islands MSP Rhoda Grant, who has been supporting 49-year-old Ms Fitzpatrick, asked Ms Sturgeon at First Minister's Questions whether she would now intervene in the case.\n\nThe first minister said she was limited in what she could say because of an ongoing tribunal and internal investigation.\n\nHowever, she said: \"I can tell the chamber I have this morning asked the permanent secretary of the Scottish government to conduct a full review of the circumstances of this case, a review of the actions already taken and a review of the actions proposed to be taken and to report to me personally on her conclusions as soon as possible.\"\n\nThe Scottish government is responsible for Marine Scotland, which is the watchdog for the fisheries and aquaculture industries in Scotland.\n\nMs Sturgeon said: \"Bullying, abuse, sexism, racism, have no place in any work place and they will not be tolerated in the Scottish government or its agencies.\"\n\nShe added: \"I an absolutely horrified at the photo.\n\n\"I am also horrified at the circumstances in which it is alleged to have been taken.\"\n\nMs Fitzpatrick has been off work sick since November 2016.\n\nShe claims that over a period of almost 10 years she was subjected to threatening and misogynistic behaviour.\n\nThe BBC has seen emails showing Ms Fitzpatrick tried to raise the alleged restraint attack with one of her managers soon after it happened but it appears to have not been taken seriously.\n\nThe manager said he would have \"a word\" with the men involved - Reid Anderson and Jody Paske.\n\nHe added: \"I am sure they meant no harm and that was the boys just being boys.\"\n\nDeeAnn works as a fisheries officer checking the operation of the industry\n\nMr Anderson, who the BBC understands remains employed by Marine Scotland and has recently been promoted, did not respond to the allegations, although civil servants are usually unable to comment without government approval.\n\nMr Paske, who no longer works at Marine Scotland, told the BBC that the allegations were \"lies\".\n\nHe said: \"These are false allegations. I can't remember the event you mention, but if it did happen, it would have been office banter. Just a craic. Certainly nothing to do with abuse.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Listen to a clip from the recording that was posted online\n\nBoris Johnson has been targeted by a Russian prank caller pretending to be the new prime minister of Armenia.\n\nIn a recording posted online, the UK foreign secretary congratulates the caller on his election and goes on to discuss UK-Russia relations, the Salisbury poisoning and Syria.\n\nHe also expresses surprise and interest when the caller claims President Putin is \"influencing\" Jeremy Corbyn.\n\nThe UK government believes the Kremlin was behind the call.\n\nA senior UK diplomatic source said: \"This seems to be the latest desperate attempt by the Kremlin to save face after it was internationally shamed in the wake of the Skripal attack.\n\n\"Boris rumbled them pretty quickly and ended the call.\n\n\"It is tragic to see a major international power reduced to failed pranks you would usually only see on Trigger Happy TV.\"\n\nDowning Street said there would be a \"Whitehall investigation\" into how the caller was able to get through to the foreign secretary.\n\n\"Obviously this shouldn't have happened. An investigation is under way to determine the circumstances around this call and to make sure that this does not happen again,\" a No 10 spokeswoman said.\n\nThe 18-minute recording was posted on YouTube by pro-Kremlin British journalist Graham Phillips, BBC Monitoring reports.\n\nIt was credited to two prominent Russian political pranksters - Vladimir \"Vovan\" Kuznetsov and Alexei \"Lexus\" Stolyarov, who are in favour with the official Russian media.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by 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\nIt is not clear if the footage has been edited.\n\nAfter congratulating the caller, Mr Johnson talks of developing UK-Armenia trade and investment links. Asked about Russia, and the Salisbury poisoning, he says he is \"almost 100% sure\" that Mr Putin was behind the attack and that it is important to avoid a \"new Cold War\".\n\nHe advises the caller to show \"determination and firmness\" when dealing with Mr Putin.\n\nWhen the man claims the Russian president talked of his \"influence\" over the Labour leader and that his goddaughter \"met with people of Mr Corbyn\", Mr Johnson asks for more information.\n\n\"I am sure our intelligence will be listening on this line and they will draw the relevant conclusions,\" he says.\n\nDuring the conversation, the caller also describes what he says is a fake video of the aftermath of a suspected chemical weapons attack in Syria, to which Mr Johnson said it seemed to be \"very clear\" that the Syrian regime was behind a chlorine attack in Douma, \"almost certainly with Russian knowledge\".\n\nMr Johnson also jokes about the number of Russian oligarchs living in London.\n\n\"You throw a stone in Kensington and you'll hit an oligarch, some of them are close to Putin and some of them aren't,\" he says.\n\nThe Foreign Office said Mr Johnson realised the call was a hoax.\n\nIt added: \"We checked it out and knew immediately it was a prank call. The use of chemical weapons in Salisbury and Syria, and recent events in Armenia are serious matters.\n\n\"These childish actions show the lack of seriousness of the caller and those behind him.\"\n\nIn an interview with BBC Moscow, one of the hoaxers, Vladimir Kuznetsov, said they had been surprised at Mr Johnson's \"very diplomatic\" tone in private, compared with his \"flamboyant\" public persona.\n\nBut he said it was \"comic\" to suggest he immediately knew it was a prank: \"The conversation lasted for 20 minutes. What a silly statement.\"\n\nDetails of the call were published in the pro-Kremlin tabloid newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda, with the other hoaxer, Alexei Stolyarov, saying Mr Johnson had turned out to be \"a smart diplomat\".\n\n\"For the first time we spoke with an intellectual, and not a fool,\" he is reported as saying.", "There's no coincidence at all that the independent number crunchers, the Institute for Fiscal Studies and the Health Foundation, have come forward with calls for significantly more cash for NHS England today.\n\nTheir report says 3.3% extra every year would be required to keep the service as it is, and 4% a year if the health service is to get any better - and around the same to care for the elderly too.\n\nIt matters right now because behind closed doors in Whitehall, the Department of Health, Downing Street and the Treasury are grappling to agree not just how much the NHS really needs but also what the government can really afford.\n\nThe prime minister promised at Easter that there would be a long-term, fully-funded deal for the NHS with more resources, after years of historically low spending rises.\n\nBut insiders say the final settlement could be as low as 2% a year, still billions of pounds, even though the Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt is understood to be asking for at least 3%.\n\nDespite a series of fraught meetings between him, the prime minister and the chancellor, there is no agreement yet on how much the service might receive, for how many years the funding will be guaranteed or how it would be paid for.\n\nAnd I'm told there is no certainty that a deal will be reached in time for the health service's 70th anniversary in July.\n\nAny eventual long term settlement involves extra billions of taxpayers money. But if the government falls short there's a heavy potential cost. What to do next is an intensely political choice.", "In one week's time people in the Republic of Ireland will vote on whether they want to make changes to the country's strict abortion laws.\n\nIt's holding a referendum asking whether the Eighth Amendment should be repealed from its constitution. The amendment gives equal right to life for the mother and the unborn child.\n\nBut do people living in Ireland's cities see the issue differently from those living in its countryside?", "The Bank of England governor has said a \"disorderly\" Brexit could delay rises in interest rates as the Bank would be obliged to act to shore up the economy.\n\nMark Carney made clear what he described as a \"sharp Brexit\" could mean a reassessment of whether an interest rate rise is imminent.\n\nAnd whatever progress is made towards the \"new trading arrangements\" with the EU, weaker income growth \"is likely to accompany that adjustment\".\n\nHe was speaking at a London conference.\n\nMr Carney said that the negotiations were entering a \"critical phase\" and the Bank was prepared in case the transition was not \"smooth\".\n\nHe said the Bank was \"ready for Brexit whatever form it takes\" and suggested that it might be willing to tolerate higher inflation and retain ultra-low interest rates to support growth and jobs.\n\nThe Governor also said that weak growth in the first three months of the year may not just be down to the harsh weather.\n\nMr Carney said that recent weak growth may not just be due to the harsh weather of February and March\n\nConsumer spending statistics were weaker and the housing market was also showing signs of decline, the Governor argued.\n\nMany economists believe a weaker economy would also be likely to head off any plans to increase interest rates.\n\nThe governor also re-iterated the Bank's analysis that the referendum result had damaged the economy.\n\nPeople's incomes had been squeezed and spending had been cut back, he said, leaving households 4% worse off than the Bank expected before the referendum.\n\nBusinesses were also investing less than expected.\n\n\"As the consequences of sterling's fall showed up in the shops and squeezed their real incomes, [consumers] have cut back spending growth to rates about one half of those pre-referendum,\" he said.\n\nMr Carney argued the fall in the value of sterling happened because \"financial markets are valuing today what they expect tomorrow: a relative fall in real incomes as the UK moves toward its new trading arrangements\".\n\n\"Inflation rose well above the 2% target, peaking at 3.1% late last year, an overshoot entirely due to the referendum-induced fall in the exchange rate.\"\n\nHis speech comes two days after telling the Treasury Select Committee that households were £900 a year worse off due to the referendum.\n\nThose comments brought a sharp response from the Foreign Secretary, Boris Johnson, who said that it was \"absolutely not the case that Brexit has damaged the interests of this country\".\n\nMr Carney made clear that the Bank was preparing for all eventualities.\n\n\"A sharper Brexit could put monetary policy on a different path,\" the Governor said.\n\n\"For example, if the transition were disorderly, or the end state agreement materially worse than the average potential outcome, then the MPC [the Monetary Policy Committee, which sets interest rates] could once again be confronted by a trade-off between the speed with which it returns inflation to target and the support policy provides to jobs and activity.\n\n\"On this path, the MPC can be expected to set policy to manage any trade-off using the framework it applied following the referendum.\"\n\nAfter the referendum result the Bank cut interest rates and increased the amount of financial stimulus it provided to businesses.\n\nSenior sources have made clear that while interest rates cuts are not at present on the agenda, the speed with which any interest rate rises are brought in could be slowed if the negotiations with the EU do not progress as hoped.\n\nThe same sources also said that the Bank was ready for any eventuality and did not believe that a \"sharp Brexit\" was the most likely outcome.\n\nProgress via an implementation period was still probable and if it was agreed that could lead to a sharp pick up business confidence, for example.\n\nMr Carney said: \"The MPC has repeatedly emphasised that monetary policy cannot prevent either the necessary real adjustment as the UK moves to its new trading arrangements or the weaker real income growth likely to accompany that adjustment.\"", "Items including petrol, a bag of screws and a balaclava were found in an abandoned shed\n\nTwo teenage boys have been found guilty of plotting a Columbine-style shooting at a school in North Yorkshire.\n\nThe two boys, both 15, planned to shoot and kill pupils and teachers at the school in Northallerton.\n\nA jury heard they were motivated by their \"hero worship\" of Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, who killed 13 people and themselves at Columbine High School in Colorado in 1999.\n\nThe boys, who were 14 at the time, were found guilty of conspiracy to murder.\n\nThe two boys were found guilty of conspiracy to murder after a trial at Leeds Crown Court\n\nThe teenagers sat motionless alongside their tearful mothers as the verdicts were delivered.\n\nThe older of the two boys was also convicted of unlawful wounding after jurors heard he carved his name into his girlfriend's back, but cleared of a count of aggravated burglary.\n\nDuring a trial at Leeds Crown Court lasting three weeks the jury heard the boys had become \"fascinated\" with Harris and Klebold, which was the catalyst for their deadly plot.\n\n\"They intended to shoot and kill other pupils and teachers against whom they held a grievance,\" prosecutor Paul Greaney QC said.\n\n\"They also, like their heroes, intended to deploy explosives and researched bombing-making techniques to that end.\"\n\nPolice searched a number of locations in Northallerton when the teenagers were arrested in November\n\nHe said petrol and a bag of screws were found in an abandoned shack used as a hideout by the older boy, and they both downloaded a bomb-making manual from the internet.\n\nThe jury was also shown a conversation between the boys from May 2017, in which one told the other: \"I can't be bothered anymore.\"\n\nHis accomplice replied: \"Why not take some others out as well?\" and added: \"If you're gonna kill yourself, shoot up the school.\"\n\nThe older defendant was also said to have kept a \"kill list\" underneath his bed and a diary in which he discussed his motivations for wanting to carry out an attack.\n\nThe court heard he described his then girlfriend as \"his Dylan Klebold\" and encouraged her to give him access to her father's shotguns.\n\nThe older boy wrote in his diary about his desire to carry out an attack\n\nThe plot was uncovered when the younger boy told a schoolgirl via Snapchat they were planning to carry out a shooting.\n\nWhen she asked if he was joking, he responded: \"No. No one innocent will die. We promise.\"\n\nHe later told a teacher he needed to \"eliminate\" people at the school as they were \"infecting the gene pool\".\n\nNeither boy gave evidence during the trial.\n\nThe judge, Mrs Justice Cheema-Grubb, adjourned the sentencing to a later date.\n\nDet Supt Martin Snowden, head of Counter Terrorism Policing North East, said the boys had shown a \"very real interest in violence\" and a \"desire to act out their fascinations\".\n\nHe said: \"Disturbingly, they had gone beyond the fantasy and had begun to take very real steps towards making it a reality.\n\n\"Whatever their motivation, the intent of the defendants and the direction of their actions, placed others at risk.\n\n\"Thankfully, we'll never know if they'd have followed through with their plan.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Britain's Got Talent judge Amanda Holden has spoken about the loss of her son Theo, who was stillborn seven years ago.\n\nThe TV star was seven months pregnant when she lost her son in 2011.\n\nIn an interview with ITV Tonight to mark the 70th birthday of the NHS, Holden said her son \"looked so normal and so peaceful\".\n\n\"I was still his mummy,\" she said of her last moments with Theo. \"So I held him in my arms and I said goodbye.\"\n\nShe went on to praise the NHS staff who supported her and her husband Chris Hughes.\n\n\"I couldn't have done it without the incredible team around us,\" said Holden, who has two daughters.\n\n\"And, you know, my husband, obviously, was so strong and so amazing. But they got him through it too.\n\n\"And then subsequently the days and months afterwards the same team of people checked on us every single day.\n\n\"And it's not because I'm the telly or famous or anything like that. I believe they would have extended that care to any woman, to any family in my situation.\"\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 noholdenback 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\nThe Tommy's charity says 1 in every 225 births ends in a stillbirth in the UK.\n\nIt says the UK was ranked 24th out of 49 high income countries in 2016 for stillbirth rates, with Croatia, Poland and the Czech Republic among the countries that have better records.\n\nThe NHS Saved My Life - Tonight is on ITV on Thursday at 19:30 BST", "A severely disabled boy is suing a theme park for failing to provide a suitable \"changing places\" lavatory.\n\nAdam George, 11, claims Flambards Theme Park, in Cornwall, discriminated and failed to make reasonable adjustments for him under the Equality Act.\n\nChanging places toilets are required by an estimated 250,000 people in the UK who need extra specialist equipment.\n\nFlambards says it takes inclusion of all visitors seriously and has made adjustments to its toilets.\n\nThe company says a permanent changing places toilet would cost over £40,000 - an expense that could affect jobs.\n\nAdam, from Redruth in Cornwall, was born with a genetic condition that weakens his muscles, affects his speech and makes him a full-time wheelchair user. He also has autism.\n\nBut none of this has held him back and he loves outdoor activities.\n\nHis favourite place for a day out is the nearby Flambards Theme Park in Helston.\n\nHis mother, Rachel, says: \"He loves rides. He loves things that go up and down and move him suddenly.\n\n\"He can't climb, he can't walk, he can't jump, he can't run, so all of the physical sensations that are well known to be vital to a child's developments are out of Adam's bounds, so a theme park enables him to have so many of those vital experiences.\"\n\nIn order to use the toilet Adam has to be hoisted on to a table, then on to the loo. He then needs to be hoisted back on to a large changing table.\n\nRachel is a member of the group Changing Places, which aims to increase access for those who need the extra space, hoists and changing tables provided in these toilet facilities.\n\nIn the past 11 years, the group has successfully seen more than 1,000 of the toilets installed across the country.\n\nFlambards, though, doesn't have a toilet with changing facilities suitable for Adam's needs, so when the family visit, they need to hire a Mobiloo.\n\nThis is a large converted horse-box with the space and equipment Adam requires, but it can cost up to £350.\n\nThe Mobiloo has toilet facilities that mean Adam's mother Rachel can help her son\n\nUnder the Equality Act 2010, all service providers are under a duty to make \"reasonable adjustments\" to ensure that, as far as possible, disabled people enjoy the same experience as the non-disabled.\n\nRachel recognises that it is not reasonable to expect small cafes and shops to provide changing places toilets.\n\nBut she says: \"A place like Flambards, a theme park, where they expect people to arrive in the morning, stay all day, eat, drink, stay late for the fireworks show, I personally think it reasonable that I can use the toilet when I go there.\n\n\"So why shouldn't Adam? Why shouldn't all disabled people be able to have their toileting needs met with dignity and safety?\"\n\nAdam's case claims that Flambards has discriminated against him and failed to make \"reasonable adjustments\" for his needs.\n\nIt is believed to be the first case brought on whether the provision of a changing places toilet is \"reasonable\".\n\nIt raises the question of what is \"reasonable\" in terms of cost for a business to incur in order to comply with the Equality Act.\n\nRichard Smith, general manager at Flambards, says there are limits.\n\n\"Inclusivity is important to us to make sure that everyone has access to our park and the rides,\" says Mr Smith.\n\n\"However, there is an overall cost to put in a full-on changing places unit, and we've been quoted in excess of £40,000. That would have an effect on jobs possibly.\"\n\nAs an interim measure, Flambards has installed a mobile hoist and a changing bed in an existing disabled toilet.\n\nFlambards has installed a mobile hoist and a changing bed in an existing disabled toilet\n\n\"We're getting feedback from the disabled community on what's working and what's not, so we can carry on developing the structures we have in place,\" Mr Smith adds.\n\nBut Mrs George says the size of the toilet at Flambards and the equipment do not meet Adam's needs, and that she was not consulted when the park put in the new equipment.\n\nShe also disputes the £40,000 cost of a changing places loo, claiming one could be put in for closer to £10,000.\n\nThe Georges' solicitor, Chris Fry, of Fry Law, sees their legal challenge as part of a shift in society's understanding of disability.\n\n\"This case is part of an evolution in awareness of disability rights and how to enforce them,\" says Mr Fry.\n\n\"Adam's growing up in a more inclusive culture where disabled people quite rightly expect more for their money - if a venue advertises itself as accessible then it really should be fully accessible.\n\n\"This is a more inclusive world than it was, where a business can afford to provide the same service to everyone, society should expect them to do it.\"\n\nRobert Meadowcroft, chief executive of charity Muscular Dystrophy UK, said: \"Access to toilets is something that a lot of people take for granted, and it is shocking that families need to bring cases like this forward just to safeguard their children's dignity.\n\n\"We need to see building regulations changed so that all new buildings over a certain size - including theme parks - include changing places facilities.\"\n\nAdam just wants to spend days out with his friends, but whether he can depends in part on what the law decides is \"reasonable\" for others to provide in enabling him to go to the toilet.\n\nThe best way to get news on the go", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jeremy Corbyn is on his first trip to NI since becoming Labour leader\n\nJeremy Corbyn has told the BBC that if he is prime minister the UK government would take a neutral position in any border poll campaign.\n\nHe said he was not asking for or advocating a border poll, but would ensure the Good Friday Agreement is implemented \"to the letter\".\n\nMr Corbyn is on his first trip to NI since becoming Labour leader.\n\nHe also used his speech at Queen's University in Belfast to argue that Brexit must not lead to a hard border.\n\nThe leader of the opposition told his audience he was not asking for a border poll, but in an interview with the BBC he was asked how a Corbyn government would handle such a campaign if it happened on his watch.\n\n\"It's within the terms of the Good Friday Agreement that such a poll could be held if there was a willingness to do so, at that point you don't stand in its way, but it is within the terms of the Good Friday Agreement and I think the UK government should be neutral in that respect,\" he replied.\n\nDavid Cameron campaigned for the union in the 2014 Scottish independence referendum\n\nDavid Cameron's Conservative government campaigned for Scotland to remain in the UK ahead of the Scottish independence referendum in 2014, but Mr Corbyn said he would not take that approach.\n\n\"I think there has to be a decision within terms of the Good Friday Agreement, we're dealing with conjectures here, we're quite a long way off from any of this.\n\n\"We would be ensuring the Good Friday Agreement is carried out to the letter.\"\n\nMuch of his speech at Queen's University focused on Brexit, arguing that it must not be allowed to damage the fragile political settlement in Northern Ireland.\n\nHe also said there should not be a border in the Irish Sea.\n\n\"Let me be clear, Labour will not support any Brexit deal that includes the return of a hard border to this island,\" Mr Corbyn said.\n\n\"We are also clear there must be no effective border created in the Irish Sea either.\n\n\"That is why Labour has put forward a plan that would go a long way to solving this issue, a plan for which I believe there is a majority in Westminster.\"\n\nThe UK and EU have agreed that there will be no hard border, but are at odds on how to achieve that.\n\nA major sticking point is what arrangement will be put in place if the border cannot be solved in an overall deal.\n\nThe two sides accept the need for a 'backstop', but differ on how it should work.\n\nMr Corbyn suggested that Labour's proposal for a new comprehensive EU-UK customs union has the potential to prevent communities in Northern Ireland being divided.\n\nThe Labour leader also argued that maintaining an open border is not just about avoiding paperwork or tariffs. It also has symbolic significance, he said.\n\n\"An open border is a symbol of peace, two communities living and working together after years of conflict, communities who no longer feel that their traditions are under threat,\" Mr Corbyn said.\n\nMr Corbyn also said a solution must be found to end the deadlock at Stormont.\n\nNorthern Ireland has been without a government since January 2017, when power-sharing between the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) and Sinn Féin collapsed.\n\nHe called for the British Irish Intergovernmental Conference (BIIC) to be revived in order to help make progress.\n\n\"The British and Irish governments met many times during the last impasse - it seems to me a sensible way forward,\" he told the BBC.\n\n\"We must step up to find a creative solution in the spirit of the Good Friday Agreement that avoids a return to direct Westminster rule,\" Mr Corbyn commented.\n\nConvening the BIIC is favoured by nationalists, but opposed by the DUP and the Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) who regard it as a \"talking shop\".\n\nDuring Mr Corbyn's two-day visit to Northern Ireland, he will also meet business leaders in Belfast and Londonderry to discuss their concerns around Brexit.\n\nThe welcome Jeremy Corbyn received at Queen's University was almost as warm as the weather.\n\nHis speech was interrupted by rounds of applause from the audience several times, notably when he paid tribute to Mo Mowlam - the late Northern Ireland secretary - for her role in the Northern Ireland peace process.\n\nThe speech did not make reference to a border poll, but afterwards Mr Corbyn was asked if he would support such a move if elected prime minister, by an A-Level student sitting her politics exam this afternoon.\n\nMr Corbyn wished the student good luck and said if that was the desire of the majority of people, then it would happen under the terms set out in the Good Friday Agreement, but that he was not asking or advocating for it.\n\nHis trip so far has not been without criticism as the DUP East Londonderry MP Gregory Campbell accused Mr Corbyn of snubbing a request to meet with IRA victims.\n\nLabour said it hadn't received enough notice, but that the shadow Northern Ireland Secretary of State Tony Lloyd has taken up the invite on behalf of his party leader.\n\nEarlier this week, the Labour Party in Northern Ireland said it was disappointed that Mr Corbyn had not made plans to meet them during his visit.\n\nA Labour source said the party was in communication with Labour NI and would \"be in touch to arrange a future meeting\".\n\nPeople in Northern Ireland have been allowed to join Labour since 2003, and they have had their own constituency branch since 2008.\n\nWhether they can contest elections is currently subject to an internal review, which is understood to be in its final stages, but any decision to change the current policy would need to be taken by Labour's National Executive Committee (NEC).", "Some schools rated outstanding may no longer be as good as their rating suggests, Ofsted has said amid official criticism of its work in England.\n\nA National Audit Office report found 1,620 schools, mostly outstanding, had not been inspected for six years or more, and 290 for a decade or more.\n\nOutstanding schools were decreed exempt from routine inspections in 2011.\n\nOfsted bosses said there was no way of telling if these schools had since fallen into a \"mediocre\" category.\n\nAlthough, inspections can be triggered at any school if a safeguarding concern is raised, or if there is a significant drop in results.\n\nIt no longer goes into these top-rated schools on a regular basis.\n\nOfsted's director of corporate strategy, Luke Tryl, said: \"What we can't tell is if the levels of education in those schools judged outstanding 10 years ago are the same or whether it has changed to become middling, or mediocre or coasting.\"\n\nWhen asked by reporters if he was saying that some \"outstanding schools aren't really outstanding\", he replied: \"Yes.\"\n\nHowever, many schools will have their \"outstanding\" label highlighted on their websites and on banners outside their premises.\n\nAnd many parents base at least their initial views of such schools on these Ofsted rankings.\n\nThe NAO found the inspectorate's \"effectiveness has reduced\" as a result of the decision by the Department for Education and Ofsted to end routine inspections for outstanding and good schools.\n\nOfsted said it had since been lobbying the DfE to reinstate routine inspections every six years for a primary schools and every five or seven years for a secondary.\n\nSchools minister Nick Gibb said: \"If Ofsted has reason to believe a school is no longer meeting its previous high standards, we would expect it to use its powers to carry out a full inspection - this has always been the case - and remains so.\"\n\nHe added that the inspectorate was given £40m a year to provide a school inspection regime that is focused on the schools that need the most improvement.\n\nGeoff Barton, general secretary of the Association of School and College Leaders, said most parents were \"savvy enough\" to look at a range of evidence on school effectiveness and did not just rely on Ofsted rankings.\n\nHis organisation has also been arguing for inspections of outstanding schools to be reinstated, calling for one every five years or so.\n\nThe schools inspectorate was also found to have missed its own targets on the re-inspection of the weakest schools - those rated inadequate.\n\nThe target of 24 months for such a re-inspection had been missed in 6% of cases, 78 schools, between 2012 and 2016, the NAO said.\n\nThese schools would have weak teaching, weak leadership and possibly some behaviour issues, Ofsted said.\n\nThe NAO report said: \"Ofsted has extended some of the targets to allow schools more time to improve.\n\n\"This has also allowed Ofsted to spread re-inspections over a longer period.\"\n\nBut Ofsted told the NAO it had found it difficult to meet its inspection targets because of cuts to its budget and because it did not have enough inspectors.\n\nIn 2015, it took a decision to bring all its inspectors in house after a string of complaints about inspections that had been contracted out to private companies.\n\nThis had left it with a shortfall of inspectors, although this had improved in 2016-17, the NAO said.\n\nMatthew Coffey, Ofsted's chief operations officer, defended the decision to effectively reduce the number of inspectors, saying it was taken on quality grounds.\n\nBut he added that some of its most senior inspectors, HMIs (her majesty's inspectors), had left to run some of the numerous multi-academy trust chains being formed at the time.\n\nHe said: \"Becoming an HMI used to be a traditional end of career role, and it's not like that any more.\"\n\n\"It was a challenge\", he said, to compete with academy trusts able to pay salaries of £100,000 or more.\n\nHMIs were paid about £70,000, he said.\n\nAmyas Morse, the head of the NAO, said: \"The fact that Ofsted has been subject to constant cuts over more than a decade, and regular shifts in focus, speaks volumes.\n\n\"It indicates a lack of clarity about how best to obtain assurance about the quality of schools.\n\n\"The department needs to be mindful that cheaper inspection is not necessarily better inspection.\n\n\"To demonstrate its commitment, the department needs a clear vision for school inspection and to resource it accordingly.\"\n\nNick Brook, NAHT deputy general secretary, said it was essential to hold schools to account, but the current system was muddled.\n\n\"Schools and parents alike will be concerned to read that the NAO has concluded that the level of independent assurance about schools' effectiveness has reduced. Confidence in the quality and reliability of inspection is of paramount importance to all.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "On Friday 25 May, people in the Republic of Ireland voted on whether they want to make changes to the country's strict abortion laws, upheld in the Eighth Amendment of the Irish constitution.\n\nSo where does the law currently stand?\n\nSince 2013, terminations have been allowed in Ireland but only when the life of the mother is at risk, including from suicide. The maximum penalty for accessing an illegal abortion is 14 years in prison.\n\nIn 2016, the Irish Department of Health said there were 25 legal abortions carried out in Ireland.\n\nIn the same year, 3,265 women travelled from Ireland to the UK for a termination.\n\nAfter independence, Ireland retained many UK laws, one of which was the Offences Against the Person Act 1861 which criminalised abortion.\n\nHowever, in the early 1980s, following legal cases in other jurisdictions allowing the introduction of less restrictive abortion laws, some people became concerned that something similar could happen in Ireland.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The background and potential outcomes to the Republic of Ireland's abortion referendum\n\nIn 1983, after a referendum, an eighth amendment was added to the country's constitution known as Article 40.3.3.\n\nIn it, the state acknowledged \"the right to life of the unborn and, with due regard to the equal right to life of the mother, guarantees in its laws to respect, and, as far as practicable, by its laws to defend and vindicate that right\".\n\nAfter a further referendum in 1992, two other changes were made to the constitution in relation to women seeking to access terminations.\n\nThe Thirteenth Amendment said women were free to travel to other countries to access abortion services.\n\nThe Fourteenth Amendment stated that the constitution would not prevent people accessing information relating to \"services lawfully available in another state\".\n\nIn 2013, the law was changed when the Dáil (Irish parliament) voted to allow abortions under limited circumstances.\n\nThe Protection of Life During Pregnancy Act allowed terminations to be carried out where there is a threat to the life of the mother. They would also be allowed where there is medical consensus that the expectant mother will take her own life over her pregnancy.\n\nIn 2017, the Citizens' Assembly, a body set up advise the Irish government on constitutional change, voted to replace or amend the part of Ireland's Constitution which strictly limits the availability of abortion.\n\nSo on 25 May, 2018, the Irish people were asked if they wanted to remove the Eighth Amendment and allow politicians to set the country's abortion laws in the future.\n\nThe wording on the ballot paper read: \"Provision may be made by law for the regulation of termination of pregnancies.\n\nIn March, Health Minister Simon Harris outlined what would be in the government legislation if the people voted to repeal the Eighth Amendment.\n\nIf passed, women could access a termination within the first 12 weeks of pregnancy.\n\nHowever, beyond 12 weeks, abortions would only be permitted where there is a risk to a woman's life or of serious harm to the physical or mental health of a woman, up until the 24th week of pregnancy.\n\nTerminations would also be permitted in cases of fatal foetal abnormality.", "The photo was apparently taken backstage at the Rolling Stones' recent London show\n\nOasis star Liam Gallagher has met his 21-year-old daughter, Molly Moorish, for the first time.\n\nThe 45-year-old revealed the news by posting a photo of him standing alongside Molly, who was raised by her mother, the singer Lisa Moorish.\n\nThey were joined by Lennon and Gene, Gallagher's sons from his marriages to Patsy Kensit and Nicole Appleton.\n\nLast year the star admitted he had \"never got around\" to meeting Molly, saying he \"didn't get on\" with her mum.\n\n\"Got no problem with the girl whatsoever,\" he told GQ magazine.\n\n\"The girl's been looked after and clothed and fed and sent to lovely schools. I bought them a house and all that tack. I just think she's best off with her mum.\"\n\nAsked if he'd be open to meeting her, Gallagher replied he was \"open to everything\".\n\n\"They aren't good when they are forced, these things,\" he added. \"I think we leave it be. See what happens. Certainly [I] wouldn't turn her away.\"\n\nIt is thought the meeting took place at the London Stadium on Tuesday, where Gallagher was supporting the Rolling Stones.\n\nGallagher has a fourth child, a daughter named Gemma, from his relationship with US journalist Liza Ghorbani.\n\nIn February, he told the Daily Mirror he had \"not met the one in New York either\", adding: \"But I wish them well. If they ever need anything, give us a shout.\"\n\nMolly, who works as a model, reposted Liam's picture with the caption \"As You Were\" - a reference to his number one album from last year.\n\nFans inundated the father and daughter with their congratulations.\n\n\"It make me so happy see you all together,\" wrote one. \"The best family picture since the invention of families,\" added another.\n\nA third fan wrote: \"Your kids look so happy! Great genes by the way,\" while another added: \"Nice to see you and your daughter together for the first time LG!\"\n\nLiam Gallagher headlines the Coventry leg of BBC Music's Biggest Weekend festival on Sunday.\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.", "Tougher data privacy rules come into effect on Friday, impacting any organisation handling personal information linked to EU residents.\n\nThe General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is pretty complex and it looks like many firms are still struggling to understand what it means for them, even at this late stage. Many members of the public are none the wiser. So, how well do you understand the new law...?\n\nIf you can't see the quiz, click here.", "Deutsche Bank has said it will cut more than 7,000 jobs as Germany's biggest lender attempts to return to profit.\n\nThe bank said it would reduce global staffing levels from just over 97,000 to \"well below 90,000\".\n\nFollowing a review of the business, the number of jobs in Deutsche's equities sales and trading business is being cut by a quarter.\n\nThe bank - which employs 8,500 people in the UK - did not say which countries would be affected by the job cuts.\n\nDeutsche Bank employs about 66,000 people in Europe - including 42,000 in Germany, 21,000 in Asia and about 10,000 in North America.\n\nThe bank had already flagged up that job cuts were on the way last month, with chief executive Christian Sewing saying at the time that they would be \"painful but regrettably unavoidable\".\n\nOn Thursday, Mr Sewing said: \"We remain committed to our Corporate & Investment Bank and our international presence - we are unwavering in that.\n\n\"We are Europe's alternative in the international financing and capital markets business. However, we must concentrate on what we truly do well.\"\n\nThe job cuts are the first major move by Mr Sewing, who took up the role last month after his predecessor, John Cryan, was sacked.\n\nThe search for his replacement is understood to have begun after the bank reported an annual loss of €500m (£438m) at the end of February. That followed losses of €1.4bn in 2016, and €6.8bn in 2015 after restructuring and litigation costs.\n\nThe job cut announcement came ahead of Deutsche Bank's annual shareholder meeting.\n\nAt the meeting, the bank's chairman, Paul Achleitner, said that while Mr Cryan had \"set the ball rolling\" on reform, he had displayed \"shortcomings in decision-making and implementation\".\n\n\"You are right to expect the bank and its management to hit the targets it has set itself,\" he said. \"If there are signs those targets are in jeopardy... then we on the supervisory board have to act swiftly and decisively.\"\n\nDeutsche Bank's share price is currently trading at just below €11, down more than a third from 2017's high of €17.57. Before the financial crisis of 2007-08 the bank's shares hit a peak of €91.", "Freeman said making women feel uncomfortable was \"never my intent\"\n\nUS film star Morgan Freeman has apologised following allegations of sexual misconduct made by eight women and several other people.\n\nOne production assistant accused Freeman of harassing her for months during filming of bank robbery comedy Going in Style, CNN reported.\n\nShe said the 80-year-old touched her repeatedly, tried to lift her skirt and asked if she was wearing underwear.\n\nFreeman apologised to \"anyone who felt uncomfortable or disrespected\".\n\n\"Anyone who knows me or has worked with me knows I am not someone who would intentionally offend or knowingly make anyone feel uneasy,\" he said in a statement.\n\nMaking women feel uncomfortable was \"never my intent\", he said.\n\nHe is the latest well-known Hollywood figure to be accused of sexual misconduct after allegations of sex attacks by producer Harvey Weinstein led to the development of the #MeToo campaign against sexual harassment.\n\nThe production assistant was among eight women to tell CNN they had been the victims of harassment.\n\nShe told CNN that during the harassment another actor, Alan Arkin, \"made a comment telling him to stop. Morgan got freaked out and didn't know what to say\".\n\nMeanwhile a woman who worked on the 2013 film Now You See Me said staff knew \"not to wear any top that would show our breasts, not to wear anything that would show our bottoms\" or any close-fitting clothes if Freeman was around.\n\nMorgan is also said to have stared at women's breasts and asked women to twirl for him.\n\nCNN also said it had spoken to dozens more people who worked with or for Mr Freeman, some of whom praised Freeman and insisted his behaviour was always professional.\n\nThe best way to get news on the go", "The Duke of Cambridge is to visit Israel, the Palestinian territories and Jordan in the summer.\n\nHis five day trip will begin in Amman, the capital of Jordan, on Sunday 24 June and end in Jerusalem.\n\nHe will also visit the Jordanian city of Jerash, Tel Aviv in Israel and the Palestinian city of Ramallah.\n\nIt will be the first official tour of Israel or the Palestinian areas by a member of the Royal Family on behalf of the British government.\n\nIsraeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said it would be \"an historic visit, the first of its kind\".\n\nHe said the prince would be welcomed \"with great affection\".\n\nThe Duke of Edinburgh and the Prince of Wales have previously visited Jerusalem, but not as part of an official tour.\n\nIn 2016, the Prince of Wales went to Jerusalem for the funeral of former Israeli president Shimon Peres.\n\nPrince William's visit comes at a tense time for the region. In May the US inaugurated its first embassy in Jerusalem, despite Israel's sovereignty over Jerusalem not being recognised internationally.\n\nOn the same day 60 Palestinians were killed by Israeli forces during border protests organised largely by Hamas - a militant Islamist group.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sterling Brown: \"You didn't have to touch me\"\n\nMilwaukee police have released video of officers using a stun-gun on a basketball player over a parking violation.\n\nNBA player Sterling Brown was arrested and stunned in January after parking in a disabled space.\n\nUntil now, the police had refused to release the 30-minute video to the public; it shows that Mr Brown does not seem to physically resist the arrest.\n\nPolice chief Alfonso Morales apologised for his officers' behaviour after an internal investigation.\n\nSpeaking shortly after the release of the body cam footage, Mr Morales said he was sorry the incident \"escalated to this level\", declaring certain officers had \"acted inappropriately\" and had been disciplined.\n\nMr Brown announced on Wednesday he would be taking legal action against the Milwaukee police department.\n\nThe video, published on YouTube, shows officers pulling Mr Brown to the ground by his car, with one shouting, \"Taser, taser, taser\".\n\nMr Brown was briefly jailed but never charged with any crime.\n\nMilwaukee police chief Alfonso Morales, centre, said some of his officers were \"recently disciplined\"\n\nMr Brown made a statement after the release of the video.\n\nAfter \"what should have been a simple parking ticket\" turned into \"unlawful use of physical force\", the statement reads, Mr Brown said the police actions have \"forced me to stand up and tell my story\".\n\n\"Black men shouldn't have to have their guard up and instantly be on the defensive when seeing a police officer, but it's our reality and a real problem,\" the Milwaukee Bucks player said.\n\n\"I will take legal action against the Milwaukee Police Department to continue forcing change in our community.\"\n\nHis team also released a statement, calling the police's actions \"shameful and inexcusable\".\n\n\"There needs to be more accountability,\" the statement says.\n\nThe city has had problems before with police conduct toward black citizens.\n\nIn 2017, a former officer was acquitted of first-degree reckless homicide after shooting 23-year-old Sylville Smith in 2016.\n\nThe shooting sparked two days of unrest across Milwaukee.\n\nThe best way to get news on the go", "Cast your mind back to the first week of the year and it looked like the NHS was heading for Armageddon.\n\nAmbulances were queuing outside A&E units unable to handover their patients, trolleys were stacking up in corridors and there was hardly a bed free anywhere.\n\nJust five weeks on and it looks as if the ship has been steadied.\n\nOn Thursday, NHS bosses were heralding the improvement in performance seen during January.\n\nCan't find your health trust? Browse the full list Rather search by typing? Back to search\n\nIf you can't see the NHS Tracker, click or tap here.\n\nIs this true? Yes. But as with all statistics it depends which ones you choose and how you present them.\n\nThe flagship target for A&E is the four-hour waiting time target. During January 85.3% of patients were seen in four hours, up from the 85.1% recorded in December.\n\nBut does this represent a success? The target, after all, is 95% and has now been missed for 30 months in a row.\n\nThere are plenty in the health service - particularly those in the corridors of power - who argue it does, pointing out the health service has one of the toughest A&E targets in the world.\n\nPerformance this winter is on a par with the last one. This has come despite rising numbers of people coming to A&E - and more of those needing to be admitted on to wards amid the worst flu season since 2011.\n\nThis deserves recognition especially at a time when money is so tight. Talking to doctors, nurses and managers this winter, it is clear more work than ever has gone into planning.\n\nThere are now closer relationships between council care teams and hospitals, helping ensure frailer, older patients can be discharged back into the community when they are medically ready.\n\nPlacing GPs in A&Es - a government initiative which has been funded this winter - has also helped as they have been able to deal with some of the more minor cases.\n\nThis has meant that the rise in patients coming to A&E - up 5% this January compared with the previous one - has been absorbed without any deterioration in performance.\n\nBut you have to ask at what cost? Routine treatments, including hip and knee replacements, have been cancelled en masse. The figures for those are not yet available, but it is likely the waiting list has grown substantially.\n\nAnd none of this gets away from the fact it has still been incredibly difficult. You only need to watch this video of Scarborough A&E doctor Dr Adrian Harrop close to tears to realise that staff feel they are being pushed too far.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nNHS England's A&E supremo Keith Willett has said he hasn't experienced anything like this since the 1990s.\n\nAnd what about the impact on patients?\n\nWe learnt on Thursday that one in five patients who needed to be admitted to hospital in January experienced long delays for a bed. These are the sickest patients and yet hospitals are under so much pressure they are left waiting in corridors and side rooms for hours because beds are not available.\n\nDoctors are adamant this puts them at risk. A&E leads made that much clear when half of them put their names to a letter sent to the prime minister last month warning patients were dying because of the delays.\n\nWhat is clear is that no matter what measure you look at, the NHS is in a worse state than it has been for quite some time.\n\nIn terms of A&E waits, this winter and last winter have seen a marked deterioration in performance compared with the previous two. In fact, nothing like this has been seen since the four-hour target was introduced in 2004.\n\nThose working on the front line are pretty unanimous about what has caused this - a lack of money. Since 2010 health has been getting between 1% to 2% extra a year once inflation is taken into account. That compares with the more than 4% it has traditionally received.\n\nIt is by far the tightest period of funding the NHS has ever experienced - and at the moment there is little sign that will end.\n\nIn July the NHS turns 70. It will be a time for celebration, but also concern.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Stormy Daniels: \"Everyone should be treated with dignity and fairness\"\n\nThe California city of West Hollywood has proclaimed 23 May Stormy Daniels Day.\n\nIn a ceremony at the Chi Chi La Rue sex shop, West Hollywood granted the adult film star the key to the city.\n\nMs Daniels, real name Stephanie Clifford, says she had an affair with President Donald Trump over a decade ago, and has sued him over a non-disclosure agreement about the relationship.\n\nIn a Facebook post, the city said Ms Daniels \"has proven herself to be a profile in courage\".\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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End of facebook post by City of West Hollywood Government\n\nWest Hollywood Mayor John Duran and members of the city's council gave Ms Daniels the key to the city in a ceremony on Wednesday.\n\nAccording to the Hollywood Reporter, Ms Daniels thanked the city - one of the country's most famous gay neighbourhoods -and praised its tolerance.\n\n\"This community has a history of standing up to bullies and speaking truth to power, and I'm so very, very lucky to be a part of it,\" she reportedly said.\n\nMs Daniels' lawyer, Michael Avenatti, also attended, and reportedly praised his client's courage.\n\nMs Daniels' lawyer Michael Avenatti, right, also spoke to the press outside Chi Chi La Rue's sex shop\n\n\"This woman has a degree of fortitude that most of us can only dream about,\" he said, calling himself \"blessed\" to work with 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 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\nMs Daniels alleges she and Mr Trump slept together in a hotel in Lake Tahoe in 2006, months after the birth of his son Barron.\n\nCurrently under investigation in the US, Mr Trump's lawyer Michael Cohen told the New York Times that he paid Ms Daniels $130,000 to stay quiet about the alleged affair.\n\nMr Trump has disclosed reimbursing his lawyer for the payment.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The attack on the family's house in Salford was captured on CCTV\n\nTwo men who murdered four children by torching their home with petrol bombs have been given life sentences.\n\nZak Bolland, 23, and David Worrall, 26, were convicted of murdering Demi, Brandon, Lacie and Lia Pearson in Walkden, Salford in December.\n\nCourtney Brierley, 20, was cleared of their murders but found guilty of four counts of manslaughter following the blaze.\n\nBolland was jailed for a minimum of 40 years and Worrall for 37 years.\n\nA judge at Manchester Crown Court also sentenced Brierley to 21 years in a young offenders institution.\n\nMr Justice William Davis said the four children \"died a terrible death\".\n\nSandra Lever, the children's grandmother, said the offenders were \"evil\".\n\n\"To think and do anything like this with four babies in the house, and a woman, and two other children, it's just beyond me.\"\n\nLia, Demi, Brandon and Lacie died in the fire and their mother Michelle Pearson was left in a coma\n\nThe jury heard Bolland, who lived 300 yards from the Pearsons, was high on drink and drugs when he launched the fatal attack, which was motivated by a petty feud with the victims' 17-year-old brother Kyle Pearson.\n\nAlong with Worrall, he filled two glass bottles with £1.50 of petrol bought from a local garage, stuffing the tops with tissue paper as they prepared the attack shortly before 05:00 GMT.\n\nThey removed a fence panel from the garden of the family's home in Jackson Street, smashed a kitchen window and threw in the two lit petrol bombs.\n\nOne landed near the stairs, blocking the only exit to the ground floor and trapping the victims upstairs as flames engulfed the three-bedroom mid-terrace house.\n\nZak Bolland (left) and David Worrall were found guilty of the murders of four siblings\n\nDemi, 15, Brandon, eight, and Lacie, seven, all died in the blaze.\n\nTheir mother, Michelle Pearson, 36, was rescued, severely injured, along with her youngest daughter, Lia, aged three, who died in hospital two days later.\n\nNeighbour Karen Kormoss told the jury during the murder trial Mrs Pearson screamed \"not the kids\" as the flames took hold.\n\nShe said she saw the windows blown out and flames coming from upstairs and downstairs within two minutes.\n\nBolland and Worrall threw two lit petrol bombs at the family's home\n\nMrs Pearson dialled 999 but she was overcome with heat and smoke before completing the call.\n\nShe spent four months in a coma and still suffers with dreadful burns and has had several infections.\n\nShe has been told about the deaths of her children but \"it's questionable how much she's absorbed and is aware of what she's been told\", the court heard.\n\nBolland was found guilty of three counts of the attempted murder of Mrs Pearson, Kyle, and his friend Bobby Harris who was staying at their house.\n\nWorrall, of no fixed address, was found guilty of attempting to cause grievous bodily harm with intent.\n\nBolland's then-girlfriend Courtney Brierley was found guilty of four counts of manslaughter\n\nWorrall and Brierley broke down in tears as the verdicts were read out in court. Bolland blinked and looked down to the floor.\n\nThe court heard Bolland was friends with Kyle until the defendant's car was set on fire and his house windows smashed and he blamed the teenager.\n\nMrs Pearson had called police on at least five occasions in the two weeks before her children died, saying Bolland was threatening to use fire to harm her family.\n\nHe set their wheelie bin on fire two days before the fatal fire and threatened to \"kill 'em all\" four hours before he torched the house, the court heard.\n\nCCTV shown to the jury showed Bolland and Worrall at the address at 04:55 for one minute and five seconds. The cameras recorded a flash then a larger second one from the petrol bombs, before they fled.\n\nBolland, who admitted throwing the second petrol bomb but denied all other charges said he intended only to damage the house which he thought was not occupied.\n\n\"I heard like a big whoosh. I didn't look back,\" he told the jury.\n\nWorrall, who pleaded not guilty to all charges, said he thought they were only going to set fire to wheelie bins and denied throwing a petrol bomb.\n\nBrierley, from Walkden, said she did not know the two men had petrol bombs and claims Bolland had a \"controlling influence\" over her during their \"toxic\" relationship.\n\nDet Ch Insp Lewis Hughes said it was one of the \"most heartbreaking cases\" he had ever dealt with.\n\n\"I am glad that the sentences these three have received today reflect their atrocious acts, but nothing can change what has happened and nothing can bring back the children,\" he said.\n\nAn investigation into Greater Manchester Police by the Independent Office for Police Conduct was suspended pending the outcome of the trial.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "McDonald's shareholders have rejected a proposal asking the firm to report on its use of plastic straws, the latest part of a campaign pressing the firm to ban the items.\n\nThe idea, which was backed by activist group SumOfUs, won less than 8% of the vote at the company's annual meeting.\n\nMcDonald's had recommended against the measure saying it was \"unnecessary\" and \"redundant\".\n\nSumOfUs said the vote was \"not surprising\".\n\nSumOfUs has been pressing McDonald's to end its use of plastic straws due to the impact on the environment and wildlife. An online petition on the issue has attracted nearly 500,000 signatures.\n\nThe proposal, put forward by a small shareholder and published in an SEC filing in April, argued that McDonald's could face a consumer backlash on environmental grounds.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Five ways to break up with plastic\n\nIt said the company \"has an opportunity to improve its brand by demonstrating leadership in the elimination of plastic straws\".\n\nIt asked the firm to submit a report on efforts to find alternatives to plastic straws and to assess the business risks associated with continuing to use them.\n\nSondhya Gupta, senior campaigner at SumOfUs, said she has seen McDonald's take steps to address the issue since the campaign started.\n\n\"We hope McDonald's will continue to take this issue seriously and we look forward to them reporting back on a timeline for instituting these important reforms,\" she said.\n\nThere is growing consumer concern about the effects of plastic pollution, in part helped by TV programmes such as the BBC's Blue Planet II.\n\nEfforts targeting plastic straws in particular appear to be gaining traction.\n\nIn the UK, politicians have discussed the idea of a ban, while a growing number of cities in the US, including New York, are taking up the idea.\n\nCompanies are also taking action on their own. For example, Hilton on Wednesday pledged to eliminate plastic straws from the 650 hotels it manages directly around the world.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMcDonald's told shareholders that it already has a goal that by 2025, \"all of McDonald's guest packaging (including straws) will come from renewable, recycled or certified sources\".\n\n\"The requested report is unnecessary, redundant to our current practices and initiatives, and has the potential for a diversion of resources with no corresponding benefit to the company, our customers, and our shareholders,\" the McDonald's board said.\n\nThe firm has said it will start phasing out plastic straws in the UK. It is currently testing alternatives in the UK and Belgium.", "The Galileo system was conceived to give Europe an independent sat-nav capability\n\nThe UK wants the EU to repay £1bn if it is excluded from the Galileo satellite navigation system after Brexit.\n\nDavid Davis's Brexit department is also warning the scheme could cost the EU an extra €1bn (£876m) without the UK's continued involvement.\n\nThe row could harm wider post-Brexit security co-operation, the department says in a new paper.\n\nUK ministers are angry about the EU's decision to limit access to Galileo, an alternative to the US GPS system.\n\nThe UK played a major role in developing satellites for Galileo, which is expected to be fully operational in 2026.\n\nBut Brussels has cited legal issues about sharing sensitive information with a non-member state for its decision to shut British firms out of the project. Brussels has also said it will restrict access to encrypted signals from Galileo.\n\nIn its position paper, the UK government repeats its threat to build its own satellite navigation system - which has been estimated would cost up to £5bn - as a rival to Galileo.\n\nThe paper registers the UK's \"strong objection to its ongoing exclusion from security-related discussions\" about Galileo, which it says \"risks being interpreted as a lack of trust in the United Kingdom\".\n\nDowning Street said the UK has held \"constructive discussions\" with the European Commission on staying in the Galileo satellite navigation project.\n\nBut the BBC's Brussels reporter Adam Fleming said the EU had not accepted UK proposals for continued participation in the technology behind Galileo, nor co-operation on security and data protection.\n\nAsked if the EU would repay the £1bn already invested in Galileo if the UK was excluded from work on the project, European Commission spokesman Margaritis Schinas said: \"This issue is being discussed with our British partners, negotiations are ongoing, these are precisely the sort of issues we need to address.\"\n\nThe UK government has also threatened to block Galileo satellites from using ground tracking stations in British overseas territories, such as the Falklands.\n\nThe European Commission says the UK will have to apply to use the Public Regulated Service (PRS), a key element of the Galileo system, like any other non-EU country after its March 2019 departure.\n\nA navigation and timing signal intended for use by government agencies, armed forces and \"blue light\" services, PRS is designed to be available and robust even in times of crisis.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Why is there a row about Galileo?\n\nBrussels says the UK cannot immediately have access to it when it leaves the European bloc because it will become a foreign entity and PRS is for EU member states only.\n\nIn the Department for Exiting the EU position paper, UK officials warn that excluding the UK from Galileo contravenes the withdrawal deal agreed by Theresa May and the EU in December.\n\nIt says: \"Excluding industrial participation by UK industry in security-related areas risks delays of up to three years and additional costs of up to €1 billion.\n\n\"It will not be straightforward to effectively fulfil all Galileo security work elsewhere.\"\n\nSir Ivan Rogers, who quit as the UK's ambassador to the EU last year in protest at the \"muddled\" Brexit negotiations, suggested the EU was partly motivated by a desire to transfer work on Galileo to firms based in the EU.\n\nIn a speech on Wednesday, Sir Ivan said: \"The UK genuinely wants to remain a major player in the project, with privileged ongoing access from outside the EU, and views its capabilities and contribution to date as giving it the right to that ticket.\n\n\"For the EU, the decision to leave inevitably entails relegation to a different role and status in the project, and, let's be candid, offers scope for EU-located firms to take contractual business away from UK ones.\"\n\nArtwork: Galileo satellites are now launching on Europe's premier rocket, the Ariane 5\n\nSir Ivan also suggested in his speech that some in Brussels might also recall that the British government, under pro-EU Tony Blair, tried to prevent Galileo getting off the ground 18 years ago.\n\nHe said it was ironic that \"a much more Eurosceptic set of politicians\" were now \"complaining bitterly\" that \"post Brexit, the field might be somehow tilted more against the depth of participation we now are enthusiasts for\".\n\nSeparately, the UK has outlined the extent of existing law enforcement capabilities which would be lost if a bespoke security deal is not agreed after Brexit.\n\nAccording to details of a presentation seen by the BBC, the UK says there will be \"significant gaps\" in a wide range of areas including prisoner transfers, asset recovery, sharing of financial intelligence, victim compensation and access to criminal records for child protection vetting.", "Sameeh was at the wedding in rural Yemen in April that his father Ali was performing at when he was killed by a Saudi airstrike.\n\nMore than 250 people have been killed in April and May this year.", "Sabika Sheikh's funeral has taken place in her home country of Pakistan. The foreign exchange student was killed by a gunman at Santa Fe High School in Texas.\n\nSabika's uncle, Colonel Haider Ali, wants the US to make schools safer, not just for the sake of his niece, but also for American children.", "Michael Cohen, Donald Trump's once fiercely loyal lawyer, has struck a plea deal with prosecutors investigating possible campaign finance violations and tax fraud. Who is he anyway?\n\nWhen an FBI team raided Cohen's office in New York on 9 April, they arrived at a workspace fit for the silver screen.\n\nIt's 30-odd floors up at 30 Rockefeller Plaza, in a corner - but not very spacious - office at the Squire Patton Boggs law firm.\n\nCohen's office is decked out with paraphernalia from his time at the Trump Organization and on Trump's presidential campaign, as well as from superhero movies - Thor's hammer, Captain America's shield.\n\nAlso hard to miss - a nearly full-length impressionist-style painting of Cohen himself at the press secretary's podium in the White House briefing room.\n\nCohen has remained in Trump's inner circle for more than a decade, during ups and downs at the Trump Organization and on the campaign.\n\nBut as Cohen has been named a subject of a federal investigation in New York, his relations with Donald Trump have deteriorated.\n\nCohen, 51, had prided himself in going above and beyond the line of duty as the president's personal lawyer. He considered himself Trump's protector. He'll do anything for him, telling Vanity Fair last September he'd \"take a bullet\" for the president.\n\nThe day before the FBI raid, Cohen tweeted a month-old story about him with a Joyce Maynard quote: \"A person who deserves my loyalty receives it\" followed by his own pledge: \"I will always protect our @POTUS @realDonaldTrump #MAGA\".\n\nCohen is the son of an immigrant who escaped a Nazi concentration camp in Poland. He grew up in Long Island, right outside of New York City, before attending American University in Washington and Cooley Law School in western Michigan.\n\nTrump defended Cohen in an unrelated meeting after the FBI raided his office and hotel\n\nBack in New York, Cohen worked at a law firm, married an Ukrainian immigrant, ran a successful taxi business and made a failed run for New York City Council, all before entering Trump's orbit.\n\nCohen was introduced to Donald Trump by his son, Donald Jr, in 2006.\n\nCohen's family had purchased a number of properties in the Trump World Tower near the United Nations, and Cohen had become the treasurer of the building's board.\n\nHe had grown up idolising Trump, reading The Art of the Deal multiple times. So when Trump offered him a job after he had advised on a few legal matters, Cohen was shocked.\n\nHe took the job, becoming executive vice president and special counsel at the Trump Organization in 2007. From then on, he was practically part of the family - close with Trump's adult children, regularly dining with them and their spouses.\n\nHe was also an early fan of the idea of President Trump. In 2011, he helped launch a website, Should Trump Run?, to gauge public opinion. He was on board when Trump announced his candidacy in 2015.\n\nCohen's been described as the president's \"pit bull\" and extension of Trump himself. He speaks with a thick Long Island accent and avoids alcohol much like his boss. Cohen is high energy, speaks assertively and has an affinity for Hermes belts and eccentric jackets.\n\nCohen is not press shy. He prides himself on taking everyone's calls.\n\nWhen a CNN published a story about his role in covering up Donald Trump's alleged affair with adult film actress Stormy Daniels, he texted it to me.\n\n\"How do you feel about being called fixer?\" I asked him.\n\nCohen chats with friends ahead of a hearing on the FBI raid\n\nBut he's also visibly affected by what's written about him.\n\nIn late 2017 at the Trump International Hotel in Washington, Cohen was heard complaining about a recent story written about him. He called it \"fake news,\" saying the only news anyone should believe about him is what comes out of his own mouth.\n\nWell before the FBI raid, Cohen was named as a key figure in the alleged Russian effort to sway the 2016 presidential election in Trump's favour.\n\nThe \"Steele Dossier\" - a report by ex-British spy Christopher Steele, who was hired by research firm Fusion GPS to investigate Trump - specifically points to a trip Cohen allegedly made to Prague in late summer of 2016 to meet Kremlin representatives.\n\nCohen has repeatedly denied the report or having ever been to the Czech Republic. He recently tweeted another denial in light of a new report claiming Mueller has proof backing up that element of the dossier.\n\nBut it began to unravel for Cohen when the news broke of a hush money payment he made to adult film actress Stormy Daniels - who claims she had an affair with Trump before he was president.\n\nSince Special Counsel Robert Mueller began his investigation into possible campaign collusion with Russia, Trump had been advised by his other lawyers to keep his distance from Cohen.\n\nHowever - perhaps in a signal of loyalty - Trump had dinner with Cohen the night before Daniels' interview aired on CBS' 60 Minutes.\n\nThe raid on Cohen's office and hotel in search of files related to the Daniels payment and other matters, however, was a surprise.\n\nCohen was working out of the offices of a major New York law firm\n\n\"No-one saw this coming,\" a source familiar with Cohen's thinking on the matter said.\n\nOut of all the possible persons of interest to Mueller, Cohen has been closest to the president the longest - save the members of Trump's immediate family. He knows the most.\n\nAnd his legal troubles in New York come from a \"referral\" from the special counsel's office.\n\nThe southern district of New York - where Cohen's case is being handled - is known for being aggressive.\n\nAs the federal prosecutors reportedly considered charges against him, his loyalty to Mr Trump seemed to soften - he told ABC News that his top concern was his family.\n\nIn the immediate aftermath of the FBI raid, Trump came to his friend's defence - both on Twitter, complaining of a witch hunt, and in person, calling Cohen a \"good man\".\n\nBut his tone soon changed when Cohen's lawyer released audio of a conversation he had with Mr Trump about the Stormy payment.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Donald J. Trump This article contains content provided by Twitter. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThere were also reports that Mr Cohen claimed Mr Trump knew in advance of the infamous Trump Tower meeting in 2016 where Russians met members of the campaign with the promise of offering dirt on Hillary Clinton.\n\nRudy Giuliani, Mr Trump's current lawyer, said Mr Cohen had \"lied all his life\".\n\nIt means that while Trump could theoretically offer a presidential pardon to his former lawyer - as he recently did for Bush-era White House aide Scooter Libby - that now seems a remote possibility.", "Mr Trump has made a number of controversial decisions around complicated global issues recently\n\nThe decision to pull out of the summit with North Korea rounds off a momentous six weeks for US foreign policy.\n\nIt has provided a window on President Trump's approach to foreign affairs; one that may worry friends and potential enemies alike.\n\nIn mid-April there were the US-led strikes on Syria as punishment for the Assad regime's use of chemical weapons.\n\nLess than a month later, President Trump pulled the US out of the nuclear agreement with Iran, known as the JCPOA - a deal he had always insisted was bad for the US and bad for its friends in the region.\n\nIn mid-May he followed through on another campaign promise when the US symbolically moved its embassy in Israel to Jerusalem.\n\nNow, some 10 days later, he has pulled out of the summit with the North Korean leader Kim Jong-un.\n\nOne thing that Mr Trump has certainly demonstrated is his willingness to follow through on commitments he made during the campaign.\n\nBut both the decision to pull out of the JCPOA and the embassy move in Israel were approached with little real consideration of the wider context or consequences.\n\nThe Jerusalem embassy decision was made in isolation; it was never seen as part of any broader effort to move ahead with Israel-Palestinian peace.\n\nIt came at a time of growing tension in the Gaza Strip and, along with heavy-handed Israeli security tactics and the cynicism of the Hamas leadership, it may well have inflamed the violence.\n\nOf the Trump administration's much-trumpeted peace plan there is simply no sign.\n\nOn the Iran deal, there was again no apparent strategic vision. Would this step ultimately make it harder to constrain Iran's nuclear programme? Might it further strain relations with Washington's key Nato allies? And would it not also add an additional level of tension between the US and other key international players like China and Russia?\n\nThe earlier bombing in Syria was supposed to send a message to President Assad that enough was enough.\n\nBut again where was the wider strategy? Mr Trump has spoken about wanting to pull all US troops out of Syria, but this seems to fly in the face of another of the administration's stated goals which is to contain and curb Iran's rising influence in Syria and beyond.\n\nWill there be a return to the vitriolic exchanges of last year between Kim and Trump?\n\nNow we have the decision to pull out of the Singapore summit with North Korea. The problem here was probably a different one; over-optimism and plain lack of experience or realism.\n\nNorth Korea is certainly a difficult country to deal with. Previous administrations have tried to get deals. Twice they have reached agreement and twice they have collapsed.\n\nThe Americans say that this time they had been reaching out to the North Koreans to discuss the details about what might have been agreed and received little response.\n\nIt looks as though the summit might have turned into a photo opportunity for Kim Jong-un and that was simply unacceptable in Washington.\n\nBut this tells us something else about the highly personalised and dysfunctional approach of this administration to foreign affairs.\n\nThe summit idea emerged almost out of nowhere. It came as a welcome antidote to the growing level of invective between Washington and Pyongyang, as each traded nuclear threats with the other.\n\nBut it was almost stillborn at birth. The timescale was just far too short. Little preliminary work had been done. The issues were just too complex and the gaps between the two sides seemingly unbridgeable.\n\nTo even set the summit hare running was a decision that in large part reflected Mr Trump's ego and his bombastic self-belief in his own powers as a deal-maker. But that, it should be clear, is not how diplomacy works.\n\nTo a large extent, the US foreign policy machine is running in a void. Senior western diplomats point to the almost empty floor at the state department where the essential assistant secretaries for this region or another should be sitting. But they have simply not been appointed yet.\n\nThis is why the European governments negotiating with the Americans on a follow-on deal for Iran were aghast when they found that their efforts were simply not heading upwards in the US foreign policy machine. Vital pieces of that machinery were simply not in place.\n\nThe problem of the malaise at the state department and tumbling morale there may well be resolved by the new Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. But all you can say is better late than never.\n\nAlready some momentous foreign policy decisions have been made and the US and the world will have to live with the consequences.", "People with Romanian nationality have become the second most common non-British population living in the UK.\n\nThe Office for National Statistics says the total number of Romanian nationals rose by 25% from 2016 to 2017, reaching 411,000.\n\nOf the 65,176,000 residents in the UK, 6.2 million were non-UK nationals - up by 4%.\n\nThe number of people living in the UK but born abroad was up by 3% from 2016 - 9.4 million of the total population.\n\nA problem with the collection of statistics means there is no overall net migration figure.\n\nThe government has committed to a target to reduce net migration to below 100,000 in its manifestos of 2010, 2015 and 2017.\n\nThe figures show that 61% of the non-UK nationals number - or 3.8 million - are from the EU.\n\nWading through the vast amount of immigration data published by the Office for National Statistics, the Home Office, and the Department for Work and Pensions, one thing becomes clear: Britain remains an attractive destination for visitors and migrants.\n\nThe overall population is up, the number of visas is up, and citizenship applications are up.\n\nFor the growing number of Romanians coming to Britain, the attraction is mainly the ability to work and earn more than they would do in their home country.\n\nThere are signs however that the number of EU nationals seeking employment may have plateaued, with registrations for national insurance numbers in the 12 months to the end of March down 20% on the previous year.\n\nThe next set of figures, in August, will confirm whether that's a blip or a trend.\n\nPoland remains the most common non-UK nationality, with an estimated one million Polish people living in the UK.\n\nAfter Romania, third place goes to the Republic of Ireland, with 350,000 nationals in the UK.\n\nIndia falls to fourth with 346,000 nationals in the UK - a place formerly held by Romania.\n\nThe non-UK population - both those who are born abroad or are not British nationals - has increased every year since reporting began in 2004.\n\nThe number of applications by EU nationals for UK citizenship doubled to over 40,000 in the 12 months leading to March 2018.\n\nThe number of EU nationals issued permanent residence cards - available to those who have lived in the UK for five years - also rose to 168,000.\n\nBBC home affairs correspondent Danny Shaw said it highlighted \"the Brexit effect\", as people from the EU sought certainty that they could live in the UK after it leaves the union.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA woman who complained of a racist and misogynistic culture in a Scottish government department claims she was taped to a chair and gagged by two male colleagues as a warning to keep quiet.\n\nDeeAnn Fitzpatrick said the restraint took place amid years of bullying and harassment at Marine Scotland's Scrabster office.\n\nThe fisheries officer has taken her case to an employment tribunal.\n\nBBC Scotland has obtained a photo of the restraint incident.\n\nIt was taken by one of the men allegedly responsible.\n\nMs Fitzpatrick, a Canadian national, said it happened in 2010 as a result of her blowing the whistle on a threatening and misogynistic culture at Marine Scotland's office in Scrabster, on the far north Caithness coast.\n\nIn evidence to her ongoing tribunal, she said that one of the men involved, fisheries officer Reid Anderson, told her: \"This is what you get when you speak out against the boys.\"\n\nThe Scottish government is responsible for Marine Scotland, which is the watchdog for the fisheries and aquaculture industries in Scotland.\n\nIt said that it \"does not comment on internal staffing matters\".\n\nRhoda Grant, a Labour MSP for the Highlands and Islands, has been supporting 49-year-old Ms Fitzpatrick since 2010, when a concerned colleague of the fisheries officer alerted the politician to the alleged treatment.\n\nSeeing the photo for the first time, Ms Grant told the BBC: \"It's horrific. I'm kind of speechless.\"\n\nThe MSP said she had been told it had happened but seeing the photo seemed to make it \"10 times worse\".\n\nMs Grant said: \"She's been subject to a long period of harassment, horrendous behaviour towards her.\n\n\"In some of my dealings with DeeAnn it's very clear that there is a culture in that office that people can get away with what they say and what they do.\n\n\"It seems to me that it's out of control.\"\n\nMs Grant said the behaviour had been \"unacceptable\" eight years ago but the recent #Me Too movement, highlighting abuse against women, had made people see there should be a zero tolerance approach.\n\nThe BBC has seen emails showing Ms Fitzpatrick tried to raise the alleged attack with one of her managers soon after it happened, but it appears to have not been taken seriously.\n\nThe manager said he would have \"a word\" with the men involved - Reid Anderson and Jody Paske.\n\nHe added: \"I am sure they meant no harm and that was the boys just being boys.\"\n\nDeeAnn works as a fisheries officer checking the operation of the industry\n\nMr Anderson, who the BBC understands remains employed by Marine Scotland and has recently been promoted, did not respond to the allegations, although civil servants are usually unable to comment without government approval.\n\nMr Paske, who no longer works at Marine Scotland, told the BBC that the allegations were \"lies\".\n\nHe said: \"These are false allegations. I can't remember the event you mention, but if it did happen, it would have been office banter. Just a craic. Certainly nothing to do with abuse.\"\n\nWe asked the Scottish government to waive the civil service code in order to allow Ms Fitzpatrick to speak about her experiences but permission was not given.\n\nA spokeswoman said: \"The Scottish government has clear standards of behaviour which apply to all staff.\n\n\"Any concerns raised by staff are taken seriously and investigated fully.\"\n\nIn evidence to an employment tribunal against the Scottish government, Ms Fitzpatrick claimed that over a period of almost 10 years she had been subjected to behaviour including:\n\nThe employment tribunal is unable to consider the restraint incident as it occurred more than three years before the case was brought.\n\nBBC Scotland has also seen emails from the Scottish government's HR department threatening disciplinary action against Ms Fitzpatrick while she was at her father's deathbed in Canada.\n\nThe correspondence shows that in November 2016, Ms Fitzpatrick was told her father had suddenly become ill, and had days to live.\n\nShe told her line manager this by text message, and that she was on her way to the airport to catch an emergency flight.\n\nDeeAnn claims she has been subjected to threatening behaviour\n\nThe letter from the government's HR department, sent to Ms Fitzpatrick by email, acknowledged her father's illness and that she had indeed informed her line manager.\n\nBut it said: \"You are required to contact me as soon as you receive this letter to explain the reason(s) for your absence. Failure to do so may lead to disciplinary action.\"\n\nMs Fitzpatrick's sister-in-law Sherry Fitzpatrick told the BBC that the photograph of the restraint incident needs to be shown.\n\nShe said: \"We were horrified. We were sickened. We worry about what this has done to her.\n\nMs Fitzpatrick's sister-in-law said the Canadian national's home had been in Scotland for 25 years.\n\n\"She's not giving up and now her family is behind her, and we're not giving up until someone is made accountable for their actions,\" she said.\n\nSince her father's death in November 2016, Ms Fitzpatrick has been signed off from work.\n\nIt is unclear whether her alleged attackers ever faced disciplinary action but Ms Fitzpatrick herself faces a disciplinary hearing from her employers at the end of May.\n\nScrabster Harbour is an important port for the fishing industry\n\nHer internal disciplinary cites charges of being \"overzealous\" in her job and being rude to clients.\n\nMs Fitzpatrick has told supporters she believes it has been designed to get rid of her.\n\nHighlands and Islands MSP Ms Grant said: \"They [Ms Fitzpatrick's employers] just won't listen. So their way of resolving it is actually getting the woman out of the workplace, getting the woman out of the man's job.\"\n\nShe called on First Minister Nicola Sturgeon and Environment Secretary Roseanna Cunningham to \"get a grip of it\" and not allow women to be treated in this \"totally unacceptable\" way.\n\nA Scottish government spokeswoman said Ms Cunningham would not be made available for interview.\n\nShe added that in addition to the ongoing employment tribunal there were also \"internal procedures\" under way, and it would be \"wrong to pre-empt the outcome\".\n\nThe spokeswoman said these processes provided the \"proper avenues\" for Ms Fitzpatrick to contribute her position.\n\nThe best way to get news on the go", "Donald Trump called off the upcoming US-North Korea summit on Thursday morning, catching much of official Washington, and the world, by surprise. How he did it - in a personal letter to North Korean leader Kim Jong-un - offers revealing insight at Trump-style diplomacy and what might happen next.\n\nThe missive from Donald Trump - addressed to \"his excellency\", an unusual title for Mr Kim - begins a bit like a corporate form letter, thanking the North Korean leader for his \"time, patience and effort\".\n\nThere's a bit of a passive-aggressive dig at Mr Kim - pointing out that he was the one who wanted the meeting, even if that's \"totally irrelevant\" - and an emphasis that this was a \"long-planned meeting\" (the idea was first suggested in March and a date and time set just weeks ago).\n\nThe real meat of the letter comes at the end of the paragraph, however, as the president's pen turns poison.\n\nThe North Koreans announced Thursday morning that they had collapsed the tunnels at their nuclear test site, but they accompanied it with threats of nuclear war and a demeaning dig at Vice-President Mike Pence (called \"a political dummy\"). Mr Trump has shown time and time again that he won't abide verbal swipes from the North Koreans.\n\nHe responds to their nuclear sabre-rattling with another round of \"fire and fury\" style language, boasting about the massive and powerful US nuclear arsenal that Donald Trump prays to God will never be used. It's a return to the rhetoric of last summer, when it appeared the US and North Korea were headed toward a military confrontation. The start of the letter may be diplomat-speak, but this is Mr Trump's voice coming through.\n\nBy the second paragraph, the diplomatic gloves are back on. There's an emphasis on the recent thaw between the two nations (a \"wonderful dialogue\") and a hint that the door has not been fully slammed shut.\"\n\nThe president writes that he is still looking forward to meeting the North Korean strongman (nuclear apocalypse notwithstanding). And releasing three American prisoners, one of whom had been sentenced to forced labour in a sham trial, was a much-appreciated \"beautiful gesture\". There will certainly be some critics who question whether this is an appropriate place to turn on the charm.\n\nThe business letter template kicks in again in the closing paragraph, albeit with somewhat tortured prose. \"If you change your mind having to do with this most important summit, please do not hesitate to call me or write\". We have operators standing by!\n\nIt finishes on a wistful note. In his tweet announcing the time and place of the now-cancelled summit, the president had said the meeting could be a \"very special moment for World Peace\". His supporters broached the idea that he should win a Nobel Prize, which he acknowledged by saying \"everyone thinks so\", adding \"the prize I want is victory for the world\".\n\nInstead, it's a \"sad moment in history\".", "Hayden, nine, from Bromsgrove won the chance to be Aston Villa's mascot at Wembley for their Championship play-off final game against Fulham, on Saturday.\n\nHis parents, who filmed his lovely reaction, told their son he would be leading out the team alongside one of his heroes, club captain John Terry.", "A former member of Boyzone embroiled in the murder case of his ex-girlfriend's French nanny told jurors he \"never, ever\" had any contact with the victim.\n\nMark Walton was allegedly a focal point of his former partner's campaign of torture against Sophie Lionnet.\n\nSabrina Kouider, 35, and Ouissem Medouni, 40, beat the 21-year-old au pair into a confession that she was in league with Mr Walton to spy on the family, the Old Bailey heard.\n\nThey deny killing her hours later.\n\nMs Lionnet's body was thrown on to a bonfire in their garden in Southfields, south-west London, the court heard.\n\nSophie Lionnet's body was found after neighbours raised concerns about a fire in a back garden\n\nGiving evidence, Mr Walton, who is based in Los Angeles, told jurors his ex-partner, Ms Kouider, would \"flip\" during their two-year turbulent relationship.\n\nHe would support the fashion designer with thousands of pounds every month, even paying her rent long after she left him, he told the court.\n\nOn their relationship, he said: \"It was turbulent, probably the most turbulent relationship I had ever been in.\n\n\"She would go from a softly spoken French accent, then she would flip, get very angry, very loud and just not care where we were.\n\n\"She would just go crazy over something trivial.\"\n\nThe first he heard about Miss Lionnet was on 21 September last year when he was contacted by murder detectives, he said.\n\nReferring to accusations levelled at him by Ms Kouider, prosecutor Richard Horwell QC said: \"Have you ever been party to a plot to drug the people in the Wimbledon flat and, whilst unconscious, sexually abuse the occupants?\"\n\nHe said the last time he was in the UK was when he went to a meeting in October 2015 and he told jurors he had \"never, ever\" heard of Ms Lionnet or ever been in contact with her.\n\nMr Walton told jurors he \"created\" Boyzone in 1993 and was in the band for about a year before going on to be involved in Fifth Avenue.\n\n1993: Auditions take place for a new Irish boyband. Mark Walton, along with Keith Duffy, Ronan Keating, Shane Lynch and Richie Rock form Boyzone and are later managed by Louis Walsh\n\n2000s: After Boyzone, Mr Walton sets up a band called Fifth Avenue, and also gets involved with the management of Irish girlband B*Witched\n\n2017: Mr Walton named during the murder case of his ex-girlfriend's French nanny\n\nBy the time he met Ms Kouider in 2011 he was doing well financially in the music business, he said.\n\nMr Walton said he paid for Ms Kouider's nannies but she would fire them over accusations of stealing and of being interested in him, the court heard.\n\n\"I actually challenged Sabrina on this. I did not believe her,\" he told the court.\n\nMs Kouider and Mr Medouni have admitted perverting the course of justice but deny murder.\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. Hamid Ali Jafari says he prays for death so that he can join his father Ali in heaven\n\nA man whose father died in Grenfell Tower has told the inquiry into the fire he prays for death so he can join him in heaven.\n\nHamid Ali Jafari was moved to tears as he recalled searching for 82-year-old Ali Yawar Jafari after the blaze.\n\nHe added it sometimes felt his father's soul was present in his own son.\n\nAli Yawar Jafari, who lived on 11th floor with his wife, was described as a \"real hero\" for alerting neighbours to the blaze as it spread.\n\nSitting alongside his mother and two sisters, Hamid said: \"I think the happiest moment he had was when my son was born, because he was attached to him a lot.\n\n\"Both of them were connected to each other.\"\n\nHe added: \"When I am holding him I feel I am holding my dad because I can still smell my dad on my son.\"\n\nAli Yawar Jafari was described as a \"real hero\" for his actions on the night\n\nHis voice breaking, Hamid told the inquiry: \"I have never dreamed or thought of going to heaven but now I fight every day, every second, because I want to join my dad.\n\n\"And I pray every day - and even I request my friends to pray for me - that I die soon to meet my father.\"\n\nMr Jafari moved to the UK in 2003 from Afghanistan, where he worked as a jeweller. He died while trying to escape from Grenfell Tower after becoming separated from his wife and daughter.\n\nReferring to the days after the fire, Hamid recalled walking around the tower \"to share my feelings with my father\" but also the \"hopelessness\".\n\nIn a video tribute, Mr Jafari was described by his family as a \"kind person and a kind husband\".\n\nThey recalled his love for travel and animals, and how he once freed a pigeon whose legs were trapped in twine.\n\nHis daughter Maria said they were unable to show more happy photos to the inquiry because their memories had been lost in the fire on 14 June last year, which killed 72 people.\n\nAnthony Disson - known as Tony - who lived on the 22nd floor, was also remembered.\n\nIn a video tribute featuring his wife Cordelia and their sons Harry, Alfie and Charlie, he was described as a \"good dad, a brilliant husband and a wonderful granddad\".\n\nMr Disson, 65, was said to have been \"besotted with\" his granddaughter Talleulah. She used to call him \"dan-dad\".\n\nEven now, she still talks about her \"dan-dad\", Cordelia said.\n\nMr Disson was involved in the boxing gym at the bottom of the tower, where his sons trained.\n\n\"He loved his flat and he loved that he was still in the same area that he had grown up in,\" Mr Disson's son from a previous relationship, Lee, said in a statement.\n\nHe also recalled searching for his father everywhere and putting his name down as \"missing\".\n\n\"My heart was sinking but I prayed Dad had got out, or wasn't at home that night,\" he said.\n\nOn the third morning of tributes from families, the chairman Sir Martin Moore-Bick has been a quiet presence.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Grenfell Tower inquiry: What questions will be answered?\n\nSitting upright, light-framed glasses perched on his nose, he holds a pen in one hand and rests the other on top, listening intently from a makeshift desk set up on the stage.\n\nAs tearful relatives conclude tributes to their loved ones, sometimes in sorrow, sometimes with laughter, Sir Martin joins in the applause and nods reassuringly.\n\n\"I feel you get to know the man through your tributes, \" he told the family of Anthony Disson.\n\n\"Very powerful,\" he remarked as Hamid, son of Ali Yawar Jafari, shared how he could barely look his mother in the eye since the tragedy.\n\nTo the young Aiasha Mohamed, who read her mother's long and deeply-moving tribute to her sister Rania Ibrahim on camera, he said it had been profoundly moving.\n\n\"It must have taken a lot of effort to make it,\" he told her.\n\nZainab Deen, 32, and her two-year-old son Jeremiah, were found at each other's side on the 14th floor.\n\nIn a statement read by barrister Michael Mansfield QC, her father said they could not find a reason \"why such a handsome and cheerful boy was taken from us at the age of two\".\n\nZainab came to Britain from Sierra Leone as a child.\n\nHer father said: \"Zainab had it all. She was beautiful, smart, warm, caring and a confident and outgoing young woman. Her untimely death has left us heartbroken.\"\n\nThey also remembered \"beautiful grandson\" Jeremiah, saying: \"We will focus on how happy he made us when he was in our lives.\"\n\nAt Prime Minister's Questions, Theresa May said the government must take the \"strongest possible action\" to prevent another Grenfell tower tragedy.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. May: We'll take \"strongest possible action\" to stop another Grenfell Tower tragedy\n\nShe said the government is \"minded to go further\" than recommendations in Dame Judith Hackitt's report into building regulations by banning combustible materials in cladding on high-rise buildings.\n\nLabour leader Jeremy Corbyn said in response that \"justice had not yet been done\" as some of the building's residents are still in temporary accommodation.\n\nGary Maunders was remembered as a devoted family man with a great personality.\n\nThe 57-year-old painter and decorator was from the North Kensington area although he did not live at Grenfell Tower and had been visiting a friend on the 19th floor on the night of the fire.\n\nAna Pumar, the mother of his two youngest children, said: \"Sadly for us, future milestones will be reached without having their father present, and future memories will not involve their father which is heart-breaking for us.\"\n\nHis nieces, Chanel and Kenita Spence, grew up with Mr Maunders in their family home.\n\nIn a video featuring photographs from his life and the music of his favourite singer Marvin Gaye, they said he was more like a big brother than an uncle and \"the pain of losing him is indescribable\".\n\nThey said he loved football and making people laugh - an old-fashioned soul with values and respect for all.\n\nThe Manchester United fan was a talented footballer in his youth and once had the chance of becoming professional for Arsenal, they added.\n\nMarjorie Vital, 68, and her son Ernie, 50, lived on the 19th floor.\n\nMs Vital's surviving son did not wish to speak or be present at the inquiry, but instead created a short film that was shown.\n\nHe said his mother was a full-time seamstress, who would make clothes for herself so she could afford to buy clothes for her sons.\n\nHis brother was a great dancer who loved Earth Wind and Fire.\n\nThe pair were found in a top-floor flat of the building.\n\nOver footage showing the charred wreckage of a former flat inside the tower, he said he had imagined his brother carrying his mother to the top floor when no other escape route was possible.\n\nHe said: \"We now have the evidence that their bodies were fused together in the intensity of the fire... It symbolised to me, their level of closeness that they had.\"\n\nMs Vital's sister, Paula Bellot, said in a statement they had lost touch in the months before the fire but never thought they would not have the opportunity to patch things up.\n\nShe said her sister had come to London from Dominica as a teenager and lived with their parents in North Kensington before moving to Grenfell Tower, where she was \"very proud\" of her home.\n\nThe day's proceedings opened with more commemorations to Rania Ibrahim, 30, and her daughters Fathia, four, and Hania, three, who lived on the 23rd floor of the building.\n\nA tribute from Rania's older sister Sayeeda, was read in a video to the inquiry.\n\nRania Ibrahim and her daughters Fathia, known as Fou-Fou, and Hania, lived on the 23rd floor of Grenfell Tower\n\n\"I am so grateful and proud to have her as my sister,\" she said.\n\n\"I raised her to be a strong, brave woman. She lived her life to the fullest.\"\n\nMrs Ibrahim said her sister came to the UK in 2009 from Egypt to look after her when she fell ill, and would be at the forefront of the fight for justice, had she survived the fire.", "Milwaukee police have released video of officers using a stun-gun on a basketball player over a parking violation.\n\nNBA player Sterling Brown was arrested and stunned in January after parking in a disabled space.\n\nPolice chief Alfonso Morales apologised for his officers' behaviour after an internal investigation.", "Mr Trump - seen through a phone - speaks from the Oval Office at the White House\n\nUS President Donald Trump may not \"block\" Twitter users from viewing his online profile due to their political beliefs, a judge in New York has ruled.\n\nDistrict Judge Naomi Reice Buchwald in Manhattan said that blocking access to his @realDonaldTrump account would be a violation of the right to free speech.\n\nThe lawsuit against Mr Trump and other White House officials stems from his decision to bar several online critics.\n\nThe White House has yet to comment on the judge's ruling.\n\nThe case was brought by The Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University on behalf of seven Twitter users who had been blocked by Mr Trump for criticising him or mocking him online.\n\nMr Trump's Twitter account has steadily grown since taking over the US presidency\n\nOn Wednesday the judge agreed with their argument that the social media platform qualifies as a \"designated public forum\" granted to all US citizens.\n\n\"This case requires us to consider whether a public official may, consistent with the First Amendment, 'block' a person from his Twitter account in response to the political views that person has expressed, and whether the analysis differs because that public official is the President of the United States,\" the judge said in her opinion.\n\n\"The answer to both questions is no.\"\n\nThe judge rejected argument by Mr Trump's lawyers that the \"First Amendment does not apply in this case and that the President's personal First Amendment interests supersede those of plaintiffs\".\n\nMr Trump has over 52 million followers on Twitter, his preferred social media platform which he joined in March 2009.\n\nHe often eschews the official US presidential Twitter account, @POTUS, as well as his own White House press office, to make official announcements.\n\nOne of the people that Mr Trump blocked, Holly O'Reilly, who uses the account @AynRandPaulRyan, was blocked last May after posting a GIF of Mr Trump meeting with Pope Francis.\n\nThe photo, which some said showed the Pope glaring at Mr Trump, was captioned: \"This is pretty much how the whole world sees you.\"\n\nShortly after being blocked, she told Time Magazine that \"it's like FDR took my radio away\", referring to Franklin Delano Roosevelt - the World War Two-era president who spoke directly to Americans with his so-called fireside chats.\n\nEarlier in the trial, Judge Buchwald suggested the president, who was not in court, could simply mute the accounts he does not want to see.\n\nPeople on Twitter are unable to see or respond to tweets from accounts that block them.\n\nBut if Mr Trump muted an account, he would not see that user's tweets but the user could still see and respond to his.\n\nIt's unclear if Mr Trump will now unblock his critics, but the judge hinted the president could face legal action if he did not comply with the ruling.\n\nShe wrote that \"because all government officials are presumed to follow the law once the judiciary has said what the law is, we must assume that the President [and his social media director] will remedy the blocking we have held to be unconstitutional\".\n\nWhen it comes to Twitter, the First Amendment grants the American people the right to speak about the President - but it doesn't force him to listen.\n\nWhile the court has ruled the blocking is unconstitutional, it said the ability to mute a person was not - and so the safe space nurtured by the president and his social media team will remain mostly intact. As I type this, he follows just 46 people, mostly family and Fox News presenters.\n\nFor many of those he blocked, it's become a badge of honour - a #blockedbytrump topic sprung up as a way of celebrating being shut out by The Donald.\n\nBut Trump's tweets are a major means by which the president communicates with his people. However history looks back at what is happening within his administration today, tweets will form a crucial part of that record.\n\nAnd while some have argued that anyone blocked by Trump can see his tweets by just logging out, that doesn't necessarily give the whole picture. One tweet sent on Wednesday does not appear in the feed for logged-out users, for example, as it is a \"reply\".\n\nBlocking also prevents people from replying to or quoting what was said.\n\nThe bigger impact here, however, is that this ruling applies to all public officials in the US.\n\nAnd so it won't just be Mr Trump thumbing through and unblocking those who he deems unsavoury.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA couple obsessed with an ex-Boyzone singer have been found guilty of murdering their French au pair and burning her body in the garden.\n\nSabrina Kouider and Ouissem Medouni were convinced Sophie Lionnet was plotting to abuse people in their home, with the help of singer Mark Walton.\n\nThey tortured Ms Lionnet before her charred body was found at a house in south-west London on 20 September.\n\nAt the Old Bailey, the couple admitted burning her body but denied murder.\n\nJudge Nicholas Hilliard QC said he was sure the allegations against Ms Lionnet had \"no truth whatsoever\".\n\nHe will sentence Medouni, 40, and Kouider, 35, on 26 June.\n\nSabrina Kouider and Ouissem Medouni had been in an on-off relationship since meeting in 2001\n\nThe court heard the couple applied \"pressure and relentless intimidation\" to get Ms Lionnet to admit Kouider's ex-boyfriend Mr Walton, who was a founding member of Boyzone, had come to the house, and drugged and sexually abused the occupants.\n\nJurors heard more than eight hours of recordings in which Ms Lionnet was slapped and called \"worse than a murderer\" by her tormentors.\n\nKouider and Medouni dunked her head into water, starved her, hit with an electrical cable and beat her so badly she had five broken ribs and a cracked breast bone.\n\nHours before her death, a filmed \"confession\" showed an emaciated Ms Lionnet admit she had drugged Medouni so Mr Walton could sexually assault him.\n\nKouider and Medouni starved Sophie Lionnet - pictured here two days before she died\n\nProsecutor Richard Horwell QC told jurors that Kouider and Medouni had an \"unhealthy, myopic, all-consuming and groundless\" obsession with Mr Walton, which deprived them of reason and turned their au pair into \"something less than human\".\n\nAfter killing her in the bath, the couple threw Ms Lionnet on a bonfire in the garden of their home in Southfields as they barbecued chicken nearby.\n\nWhen neighbours alerted firefighters to the pungent-smelling smoke, Medouni said the charred remains were a sheep.\n\nThe pathologist's findings suggested Ms Lionnet suffered blunt force trauma to the head, neck and chest but the cause of death was unclear due to the burning of her body.\n\nKouider and Medouni had blamed one another for Ms Lionnet's death, each saying they were asleep at the time.\n\nThe couple dunked Ms Lionnet's head in the bath to make her \"confess\" to allegations she was \"in league\" with Mark Walton\n\nIn a statement read to the court, Ms Lionnet's mother said her daughter was killed by \"self-obsessed monsters\".\n\nCatherine Devallonne added: \"They starved, tortured and broke her until she could no longer fight. They took away her dignity and finally her life.\n\n\"Our Sophie will soon be laid to rest. No god will ever forgive you both for what you have done to our daughter.\"\n\nMs Devallonne had paid for a flight for Ms Lionnet to return home to Troyes in France the week after her death, but her ticket was never found.\n\nThe victim's father Patrick Lionnet said what the couple did to his daughter was \"beyond comprehension\" and \"unforgivable\".\n\n\"Sabrina and Ouissem have not only stolen the life of my daughter so brutally and without remorse, they have also stolen mine,\" he added.\n\nMark Walton travelled from America to give evidence during the trial\n\nAfter Kouider and Mr Walton split up, she received a caution for branding him a paedophile on a fake Facebook profile.\n\nShe reported him to police more than 30 times and also accused him of sexually abusing a cat, using black magic and hiring a helicopter to spy on her.\n\nMr Walton, who travelled from his home in Los Angeles to give evidence during the trial, told jurors that Kouider would \"flip\" during their \"turbulent\" two-year relationship.\n\nIn a written statement, ex-Blue singer Duncan James also denied claims by Medouni that he had threatened Kouider's landlord with a crowbar.\n\nAfter Thursday's verdicts, Mr Walton said in a statement that he had been affected \"emotionally and professionally\" by the \"tissue of lies\" Kouider had told in a bid to implicate him in the murder.\n\nHe added that he had given police access to his phones, social media and email accounts to help prove he had \"never met Sophie ever in my life\".\n\nDet Insp Domenica Catino said the couple were \"cowardly\" for blaming each other for Ms Lionnet's death.\n\nShe added: \"They were determined to do whatever it took to get what they wanted and neither one took any steps to help Sophie. It was always about them.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Sophie Lionnet moved to London from her home in north-east France in January 2016\n\nA couple who tortured their French au pair before burning her body in their garden have been convicted of her murder. Why did Sabrina Kouider and Ouissem Medouni kill 21-year-old Sophie Lionnet?\n\nAs a motive for murder, it is bizarre beyond belief.\n\nKouider, 35, suspected her former boyfriend Mark Walton, a founding member of the Irish pop group Boyzone, was having an affair with her young au pair.\n\nThe Old Bailey heard how she and 40-year-old Medouni applied \"pressure and relentless intimidation\" on Miss Lionnet to admit being in a sexual relationship with Mr Walton.\n\nThey insisted their young au pair had helped him come to the couple's home in the London suburb of Southfields to drug and sexually abuse the occupants.\n\nHours of footage recorded by Kouider and Medouni over several months showed a terrified Miss Lionnet also being accused of being a paedophile and a spy.\n\nThreatened with rape, prison and more violence, she eventually made a confession to having an affair with Mr Walton - a man who told the couple's trial that she'd never even met.\n\nOuissem Medouni and Sabrina Kouider had been in an on-off relationship since meeting in 2001\n\nMiss Lionnet, from Troyes in north-east France, had moved to the UK in January 2016 in order to improve her English.\n\n\"She was a pearl. Kind, gentle. She loved everyone, she loved making people happy,\" her aunt said, speaking about her niece at a march held a month after Miss Lionnet's death.\n\nDuring the au pair's employment by the couple, she became known to various people in the Southfields community.\n\nLocal restaurant owner Michael Cromer, who had been in talks with Kouider and Medouni to go into business together, said Miss Lionnet would join them when they went to meet him.\n\nMiss Lionnet's mother Catherine Devallonne and stepfather Stephane Devallonne have attended much of the trial\n\nShe would sometimes also visit his fish and chip restaurant alone.\n\n\"She was always very quiet. She didn't want to communicate much,\" Mr Cromer said.\n\nThe business owner could sense the au pair was struggling but never imagined what was happening at the couple's home.\n\n\"Her body language showed there was something wrong... there were times when she had tears in her eyes so I asked her why and she said her mum was not well.\n\n\"Once she said Sabrina beat her... I asked why, and she said she had dropped the butter.\"\n\nMichael Cromer said he never saw anything amiss when he visited the couple's home\n\nIn reality, the abuse had been going on for some time. The videos of the couple's interrogations of her showed the 21-year-old becoming thinner over the months.\n\nIt was only after it was too late that the alarm would be raised, albeit inadvertently, by neighbours who called 999 over a foul-smelling fire in the garden.\n\nThomas Hunt, one of the first firefighters on the scene, soon realised a body had been burnt when he spotted a nose and fingers in the remnants of the fire, as well as clothes and jewellery.\n\nHe told the jury that when he turned to Medouni, the defendant told him it was the carcass of a sheep.\n\nMiss Lionnet's body was so badly burnt the exact cause of her death has never been established, although post-mortem tests showed she had suffered fractures to her sternum, four ribs and her jawbone in the days before her death in September of last year.\n\nIn court, the couple blamed each other for the violence suffered by their au pair. Summing up the prosecution's case, Richard Howell QC described the \"odd couple\" as a \"truly toxic combination\".\n\nThe court heard fashion designer Kouider was \"obsessed\" with her former partner Mark Walton\n\nFaced with such torment, why did the 21-year-old not abandon the couple's home on Wimbledon Park Road?\n\nRuth Bowskill, a chief prosecutor at the CPS, said Miss Lionnet had wanted to leave and had written to her family in France telling them this.\n\nHowever, she believes Kouider and Medouni manipulated the \"particularly shy\" au pair, who knew little English, gaining control over her.\n\n\"Given the intimidation, the bullying and the behaviour towards her... it's likely that she didn't feel able to leave,\" Ms Bowskill said.\n\nInvestigators also never found the au pair's passport and a plane ticket her mother had bought her to return to France and believe the couple may have confiscated them.\n\nA thin-looking Miss Lionnet was filmed during a visit to a boxing gym in London a year before her death\n\nThe court was told about Kouider's erratic behaviour, including during her two-year relationship with Mr Walton.\n\nShe was accused of making up \"dreadful stories about people, often of a sexual nature\" and picking on those she saw as \"weak\".\n\nThe jury heard on one occasion she called police and accused Mr Walton of sexually abusing her cat - even though she did not have one.\n\nShe also accused him and his friends of flying helicopters over her home.\n\nThe court was told that in May 2017 Kouider was diagnosed with depression and borderline personality disorder.\n\nSunil Patel said he experienced Kouider's \"volatile\" side when she visited his shop\n\nWhile they would never have believed Kouider was capable of murder, some within the community had experienced how volatile the fashion designer could be.\n\n\"Sabrina was quirky, she had a bit of a temper,\" said Sunil Patel, who runs the local newsagent.\n\nMr Patel was aware of Kouider's fixation with Mr Walton.\n\n\"She was obsessed with this guy... she said 'have you seen this person', and she showed me this photo of a blond-haired man on her phone.\"\n\nThe couple denied murder, but admitted burning Miss Lionnet's body in the garden of their home\n\nMr Patel said that when he asked what had happened, she explained that he was \"a very dangerous person\" who had hurt her family.\n\n\"I said 'why didn't your nanny say anything about it?', and she said the nanny was complicit.\"\n\nMr Patel said although he thought Kouider's behaviour was \"weird\" he never imagined that her au pair, who also regularly visited the shop, was in any danger.\n\nSpeaking in October, Miss Lionnet's aunt described Kouider and Medouni as \"utterly contemptible\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A couple accused of killing a French nanny put her under \"relentless\" pressure to admit claims that a former Boyzone member had drugged and sexually abused occupants of their home.\n\nSophie Lionnet, 21, was allegedly murdered and thrown on a bonfire by her employers Sabrina Kouider and partner Ouissem Medouni last September.\n\nThey accused Ms Lionnet of being \"in league\" with Ms Kouider's ex and founding Boyzone member Mark Walton.\n\nProsecutor Richard Horwell QC told the Old Bailey the couple applied \"pressure and relentless intimidation\" to get her to admit Mr Walton had come to the house, and drugged and sexually abused the occupants with the help of an accomplice.\n\nMr Horwell told the court the defendants interrogated Miss Lionnet for hours about their \"perverted suspicions\" involving Ms Kouider's ex-partner.\n\nJurors were shown \"harrowing\" video footage of an emaciated Miss Lionnet making an apparent confession naming Mark Walton.\n\nMr Horwell: \"You will have seen the state of Sophie when she uttered the words that can be heard on that video clip and whatever may be said about that final confession it is anything but voluntary.\n\n\"Sophie had been subjected to violence and a relentless inquisition. Those are her very last words. Within hours, Sophie's life was taken from her.\"\n\nHe suggested one motive for killing her was \"punishment and revenge\".\n\nMr Medouni also had a \"prurient interest\" in whether Miss Lionnet was having sex with Los Angeles-based Mr Walton, jurors heard.\n\nMs Kouider, 35, and Mr Medouni, 40, deny murdering her at their home in Wimbledon, south-west London.\n\nHer body was found on a bonfire in the couple's back garden.\n\nSophie Lionnet's body was found after neighbours raised concerns about a fire in a back garden\n\nMr Horwell played snippets of more than eight hours of mobile phone recordings made by the defendants.\n\nIn extracts made in the weeks before Miss Lionnet's death, designer Kouider accused Miss Lionnet of being a paedophile and a spy and later said she could \"smell sex\" on her.\n\nMiss Lionnet was almost inaudible as she denied it, telling the defendants she was \"scared\".\n\nHer mother wept and fled the court as Ms Kouider was heard shouting at her daughter in a mixture of French and English.\n\nIn a recording on 11 September, Ms Kouider screamed: \"You destroy everything. I was trying to find myself again.\n\n\"I pray to god not to make me touch you. I don't want to make my hands dirty.\"\n\nThe following day, the defendants accused Miss Lionnet of helping a \"devil\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nAn attack on a referee at an amateur football match has been described as the \"worst assault on a match official on British soil\".\n\nSunday's incident occurred during a cup game organised by the Turkish Community Football Federation in north London.\n\nThe Federation says it is \"shocked and disgusted\" and \"strongly condemns\" the incident, which was filmed.\n\nPolice told BBC Sport they are investigating an alleged assault on a man in his late 20s.\n\nThe referee suffered only minor injuries during the game at New River sports centre in White Hart Lane, which saw Dumlupinar Yeni Malatyaspor beat GS FC 2-1.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police said it was called to a report of an assault at 19:15 BST in White Hart Lane.\n\nThe suspects had left the scene prior to their arrival and no arrests have been made, but enquiries are continuing.\n\n\"It was reported that the victim was surrounded and assaulted by several suspects,\" the police said.\n\nFootage of the incident was sent to charity Ref Support as part of its Referee Abuse Must Stop campaign.\n\nIt shows a man being tackled to the ground and kicked on the floor by a group of people on a football pitch.\n\n\"This is the worst assault on a match official we have seen on British soil,\" said Ref Support's chief executive Martin Cassidy.\n\n\"The subject needs to be taken seriously and the FA referees department needs to allow a pilot of body cams at grassroots level, to not only act as a deterrent to assaults and abuse but also as an evidence-collecting device.\"\n\nThe TCFF and the London Football Association are investigating the incident while the Football Association says it has started a disciplinary process.\n\n\"Both the London FA and the FA condemn any assault on a match official and have offered support to the referee,\" said the FA.\n\nThe TCFF said it is also meeting the team involved to \"discuss our options with regard to any action we will take against the club and individuals involved.\"\n\nThe Referees' Association (RA), a support network for referees, said: \"We are very concerned about abuse, assaults and poor practice, which has been highlighted by the recent incident in London. One assault is one too many.\"\n\nIan Braid, managing director of Duty of Care in Action Sport, added: \"The trend of increasing abuse of match officials is something sport, not just football, needs to address, not only for the wellbeing and welfare of the individuals involved but to address the trend of declining numbers of people volunteering to be an official.\"", "Sophie Lionnet's body was found on a bonfire in her employers' garden in September 2017\n\nThe trial over the alleged torture and murder of a nanny by her employers is \"stranger than fiction\", a jury heard.\n\nProsecutor Richard Howell QC told the Old Bailey Sabrina Kouider and Ouissem Medouni treated French national Sophie Lionnet as \"less than human\".\n\nThe couple blame each other for killing Ms Lionnet, whose body was burnt in the garden of their Wimbledon flat.\n\nThe pair admit perverting the course of justice by disposing of the 21-year-old's body but deny murder.\n\nIn his summing up speech, Mr Howell said the accused were driven by a \"preposterous\" obsession with Ms Kouider's ex-boyfriend, and former Boyzone pop star, Mark Walton.\n\n\"Of all the cases this historic building has heard, this must without hesitation enter the category of the more bizarre,\" Mr Howell said.\n\n\"Expressions such as 'you really could not make it up' and 'truth is stranger than fiction' come readily to mind.\n\n\"The defendants made a truly odd couple. There is a unique bond between them that has kept them together on and off for many years, a bond based partly in love and something close to it.\n\n\"But, as far as this trial is concerned, the point that really matters is that together they were a truly toxic combination.\"\n\nOuissem Medouni and Sabrina Kouider deny murder but admit perverting the course of justice\n\nDuring the trial, Ms Kouider, 35, and Mr Medouni, 40, were accused of torturing Ms Lionnet in the lead-up to her death.\n\nMr Horwell said they regarded \"submissive\" Miss Lionnet as \"expendable\" and killed her out of \"revenge and punishment\".\n\nMr Walton, a founder member of Boyzone, was praised by Mr Horwell for his \"integrity and honesty\" in giving evidence to the court.\n\nHe added: \"Walton is a wealthy man - and good luck to him for that - but it is of course a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune will often be parted from it.\"", "Trump insisted to reporters that he had a \"wonderful dialogue\" with North Korea, and refused to say who was to blame for the breakdown in talks.\n\n\"The dialogue was good until recently,\" he said.\n\nHe added that he thought he knew what went wrong, but declined to explain it - \"Someday, I'll give it to you, you can write about it in a book,\" he said.\n\nTwo days ago, Trump suggested that China was to blame\n\nChinese President Xi Jinping is a \"world-class poker player\" Trump said, after Kim travelled to China for his second meeting there in recent weeks.\n\n\"There was a difference when Kim Jong-un left China a second time,\" he said two days ago.\n\n\"There was a somewhat difference attitude after that meeting, and I'm a little surprised.\"\n\n\"Now maybe nothing happened. I'm not blaming anybody. But I'm just saying maybe nothing happened and maybe it did.\"\n\n\"But there was a different attitude by the North Korean folks after that meeting.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Meet the women who travelled #HomeToVote on Friday\n\nIrish voters from around the world returned to cast their ballots in Friday's referendum on whether or not to repeal the country's Eighth Amendment. That clause in the Irish constitution in effect outlaws abortion by giving equal rights to the unborn.\n\nThe #HomeToVote hashtag has trended on Twitter for most of the weekend, as men and women shared their journeys home.\n\nFrom car shares, to offers of beds for the night, the movement was propelled by social media. A similar movement also took off ahead of the 2015 vote that legalised same-sex marriage.\n\nPeople on both sides of the argument travelled back to vote, but the movement was spearheaded by the London-Irish Abortion Rights Campaign - a pro-choice group that tried to mobilise an estimated 40,000 eligible emigrants.\n\nThe Eighth Amendment came into being after a 1983 referendum, so no-one under the age of 54 has voted on this before. For many, the vote was touted as a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to have their say on women's reproductive rights.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A warm welcome for people travelling #HometoVote in Dublin\n\nThousands of Irish women travel every year for abortion procedures in Britain. For women who made the reverse trip to vote Yes to repeal the Eighth, the journey held a lot of symbolism.\n\n\"I think of it every time I've travelled to and from the UK; it's always on my mind,\" 21-year-old student Bláithín Carroll said before boarding her plane back.\n\nBláithín Carroll says the vote is a chance for Ireland to \"really progress\" as a modern country\n\nKaren Fahy, 26, and Maria Mcentee, 24. travelled back from London to vote against the change.\n\nThey argue that young women opposed to abortion have been stigmatised for their views in the run-up to the referendum and believe many others like them have kept their opinions quiet.\n\n\"A lot of people don't want to get involved in the polarising debates online,\" Maria said. \"But you can kind of infer who is voting no, because they'll be the people who don't have repeal stickers on their picture or post things about repeal.\"\n\nThe 24-year-old said she had always been \"a bit indifferent\" to the abortion issue until she saw a campaign video showing a procedure.\n\nKaren Fahy (left) and Maria Mcentee (right) are a part of London-Irish United for Life\n\nCurrently living in the UK where abortion is legal (except in Northern Ireland), Karen said she had concerns about the proposal presenting abortion as \"the first and only choice\" for women with unplanned pregnancies.\n\n\"I don't want to see that coming to Ireland, and I think we can do a lot better,\" she said. \"We should be investing and providing support for women in crisis pregnancies.\"\n\n\"In those very difficult situations when there's a very severe disability, we should provide more child benefit and support women in education.\"\n\nAbortion is only currently allowed in Ireland when the woman's life is at risk, and not in cases of rape, incest or foetal-fatal abnormality (FFA).\n\nClara Kumagi, a keen repealer, has taken time off work in Tokyo to travel back thousands of miles to cast her vote. She was already on her way back there by Friday afternoon.\n\n\"I want to live in a country where I feel safe, where I know that I have the autonomy to make decisions about my own body,\" the 29-year-old said.\n\nClara says she always knew she wanted to return #HomeToVote to repeal, after being ineligible for the 2015 equal marriage ballot\n\n\"For me, the act of travelling was something that I felt was important to do. How many kilometres do Irish women travel every year? For me 10,000km felt like the least I could do.\"\n\nHer student brother also travelled travelling back from Stockholm to vote. Irish men living as far away as Buenos Aires and Africa have posted online about their journeys home. Pro-repeal men have shared their support for the movement using the #MenForYes hashtag.\n\nMother-of-three Amy Fitzgerald, 38, took three flights to return to Ireland from Prince Edward Island in Canada.\n\nAmy's flights were a birthday present bought by husband Padraig, whom she describes as her \"favourite feminist\"\n\n\"There's always people who will need an abortion,\" she said, reacting to accusations that the proposed new law could lead to abortion \"on demand\" as a back-up to contraception.\n\nThe government's proposed abortion bill would allow unrestricted terminations up to 12 weeks, with allowances made afterward on health grounds.\n\n\"No-one wants one until you actually need one. No little girl dreams of having one,\" Amy said.\n\nIrish actress Lauryn Canny, 19, who travelled back from LA to vote, said that that concern over abortion access loomed over her teenage years.\n\nShe recalls being \"constantly terrified\" of the risks of having sex while growing up.\n\n\"I remember one of my friends said: Well if I got pregnant, I would just commit suicide. I couldn't tell my Mam,\" she says.\n\nLauryn (second left) pictured with her sisters and mother, said every vote would count\n\n\"I have two baby sisters now, and they're six and seven, and I just really hope that when they are growing up they feel safer and feel like they're growing up in a more compassionate Ireland that will care for them if they're in crisis.\"\n\nLauryn was able to afford flights after her grandmother organised a \"whip-round\" to raise money.\n\nStudent Sarah Gillespie, 21, travelled back from the US to vote - but for the other side.\n\nShe felt so strongly about the issue that she cut short her time studying abroad in Pennsylvania to return to Ireland to canvas for a No vote.\n\nPhysics student Sarah rearranged her flights home to canvas against the repeal\n\nShe describes herself as a feminist, but believes the rights of the unborn should be considered too.\n\nHaving previously voted for marriage equality, she wants people to recognise that the issues are different, and that No voters were not simply voting according to strict religious beliefs.\n\n\"I would never judge or get angry at a woman who went abroad, I just wish there was better support here,\" Sarah said.\n\nShe hoped that, whatever the result, people respected the outcome.\n\nUnlike in other countries, most eligible voters outside Ireland had to physically travel back to cast their ballot.\n\nOnly those who have lived away for less than 18 months were legally entitled to take part in the referendum.\n\nBecause of that rule, Oxford University lecturer Jennifer Cassidy was ineligible to vote - but campaigned for repeal. Those ineligible used the #BeMyYes hashtag to encourage support for Yes.\n\nThe 31-year-old helped support the motion, alongside a number of Irish students\n\n\"I understand it to an extent - Ireland has a huge global community and policing that would be difficult,\" she said.\n\n\"But it seems illogical and counter-intuitive to the Irish narrative, which is one of emigrating for a while and then coming home.\"\n\nOxford University was one of several UK institutions whose student unions offered to help subsidise travel.\n\nUnder the current system, people are not routinely removed from Ireland's electoral register, so polling cards were being sent to the family homes of emigrants who were no longer eligible.\n\nIt was feared that if the result was close, people may have complained about the #HomeToVote movement and whether everyone was actually legal to vote.", "What the asteroid strike might have been like\n\nThe ancestors of modern birds may have survived the asteroid strike that wiped out the rest of their kin by living on the forest floor.\n\nThe new theory, based on studying fossilised plants and ornithological data, helps explain how birds came to dominate the planet.\n\nThe asteroid impact 66 million years ago laid waste to the world's forests.\n\nGround-dwelling bird ancestors managed to survive, eventually taking to the trees when the flora recovered.\n\n\"It seems clear that being a relatively small-bodied bird capable of surviving in a tree-less world would have conferred a major survival advantage in the aftermath of the asteroid strike,\" said Dr Daniel Field of the Milner Centre for Evolution at the University of Bath.\n\nWe already know that the early ancestors of modern birds were probably capable of flight, and relatively small in size.\n\nScientists have now pieced together their ecology to better understand how these partridge-like bird ancestors managed to avoid destruction in a particularly bleak moment in the Earth's history.\n\n\"Teasing these stories from the rock record is a challenge when the action took place over 66 million years ago, over a relatively short period of time,\" said Dr Field, who led a team of UK, US and Swedish researchers.\n\nMore stories you might like:\n\nThe plant fossil record shows that the asteroid caused global deforestation and extinction of most flowering plants, destroying the habitats of tree-dwelling animals.\n\nBirds didn't move back into the trees again until the forests recovered thousands of years later.\n\n\"The recovery of canopy-forming trees such as palms and pines happened much later, which coincides with the evolution and explosion of diversity of tree-dwelling birds,\" said Dr Antoine Bercovici from Smithsonian Institution.\n\nTinamous resemble partridges and quail but have limited flight capability\n\nThe researchers found that once the forests had recovered, birds began to adapt to living in trees, acquiring shorter legs than their ground-dwelling ancestors and various specialisations for perching on branches.\n\nThey eventually diversified into ostriches and their relatives, chickens and their relatives, and ducks and their relatives.\n\n\"Perhaps the best modern analogue for one of the surviving birds lineages are modern tinamous - this is a modern group of flying relatives of ostriches: they are relatively small bodied, and live on the ground,\" said Dr Field.\n\nToday's \"amazing living bird diversity can be traced to these ancient survivors\", he added.\n\nThe research is published in the journal Current Biology.\n• None How birds got their beaks", "Instapaper will temporarily stop EU residents from using its service\n\nSeveral tech firms have opted to block EU residents from using their services because of concerns they are not compliant with a shake-up to the 28-nation bloc's data privacy laws.\n\nThe General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) comes into force on Friday.\n\nIt gives the public more rights over how personal information is used and raises the amount firms can be fined.\n\nThe UK's privacy watchdog has stressed that it accepts that some firms will have more work to do.\n\n\"It's an evolutionary process for organisations,\" blogged Information Commissioner Elizabeth Denham.\n\n\"Organisations must continue to identify and address emerging privacy and security risks in the weeks, months and years beyond 2018.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nEven so, Pinterest's news-clipping service Instapaper is one of the most high-profile services to announce that it will bar EU users from accessing its platform from Friday.\n\nIt has emailed users to say that this is a temporary measure and that it intends to \"restore access as soon as possible\".\n\n\"I know that it was too short notice,\" tweeted the service's chief Brian Donohue, who has not detailed in what ways the service would have been non-compliant.\n\n\"I underestimated the scope of work and it was not possible to complete by the deadline, this was the required alternative.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Brian Donohue This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 movie and TV review app Stardust has gone even further.\n\nIt has removed its product from EU versions of Google Play and Apple's App Store, and deleted all EU residents' records.\n\n\"Without deleting EU accounts entirely, we would be storing data about EU residents and therefore would be required to adhere to GDPR laws,\" it explained.\n\n\"So unfortunately, we cannot simply block access or freeze EU accounts for the time being.\"\n\nUnroll.me - a service that promises to declutter users' email inboxes of unwanted messages - is another product to have temporarily halted its service to EU customers and deleted accounts.\n\nSome start-ups have signalled that they are pulling out of the EU and do not intend to return.\n\nThey include Payver - a San Francisco-based dashcam app that pays users for video footage, which it uses to keep maps up to date.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Payver This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSeveral video games companies are also blocking EU citizens' access to older products rather than update them, and in some cases have pulled titles offline altogether.\n\n\"We don't have the resources to update Loadout to GDPR compliance, and a big portion of Loadout players come from the EU,\" it explained via the Steam store's website.\n\n\"Sadly, while big companies have the resources to comply with the GDPR, that's not always the case for small businesses.\"\n\nEuropeans inside and outside the EU will lose access to Ragnarok Online\n\nFor some, however, the situation has presented an opportunity.\n\nSeveral services have cropped up offering a way for website administrators to block EU-based visitors rather than check their pages meet the new requirements\n\nWebsite owners are being offered ways to block EU residents\n\nElsewhere, several of the larger tech firms have taken steps to overhaul their privacy measures.\n\nYahoo has rolled out new consent forms that allow users to pick which third-parties they want to allow the service to share data about them, in order to serve personalised ads \"and understand your interactions\".\n\nSome users who failed to set their preferences before midnight on 23 May will have found that third-party software - including their smartphone's native email app - will have stopped logging into the service until this was done and their password re-entered.\n\nYahoo is allowing users to specify which third-parties should be able to send them personalised ads\n\nApple's privacy management tools also went live earlier this week, as did Spotify's.\n\nSome users have, however, been surprised by the measures taken by the Forbes news site.\n\nIf users opt out of accepting \"functional cookies\" within its new privacy settings, they are blocked from viewing any content on its site until they change their minds.\n\nForbes users are presented with this notice if they opt out of receiving cookies within its new settings\n\nMeanwhile, many internet users are receiving a last flurry of emails asking them to opt into marketing communications.\n\nOrganisations do not need to obtain fresh consent if their customers opted in to such adverts in the past or they can cite other \"legitimate interests\" for writing to them in the future.\n\nBut if the sole basis for emailing them would be that they had not unticked a box in the past, then they should be removed from their contact lists.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Jane Merrick This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Ravens and Jaguars defied President Trump at Wembley after his comments\n\nNFL teams will be fined if players kneel for the US national anthem under a new policy.\n\nThe American football league said players who do not stand for the Star-Spangled Banner can stay in the locker room until it has been performed.\n\nThe NFL also vowed to \"impose appropriate discipline on league personnel who do not stand and show respect for the flag and the Anthem\".​\n\nPlayers said the protests were against police brutality of African Americans.\n\n\"It was unfortunate that on-field protests created a false perception among many that thousands of NFL players were unpatriotic,\" said NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell in a statement accompanying Wednesday's new policy.\n\n\"This is not and was never the case. This season, all league and team personnel shall stand and show respect for the flag and the Anthem.\"\n\nNFL players were previously required to be on the field for the anthem, but there was no firm directive to stand during the song.\n\nThe policy includes the provision that clubs can develop their own rules - so long as they abide by the league's directive - to handle players who do not wish to stand.\n\nIt does not state how much clubs will be fined should their athletes protest on the field, but gives them the option to impose penalties on any player who breaks the new rules.\n\nThe statement comes a day after NFL teams pledged $90m (£67m) towards social justice initiatives, under an agreement reached with all 32 teams in the league.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Osi Umenyiora says Donald Trump is the one 'disrespecting the US flag'\n\nThe debate over the kneeling protests began in 2016, when San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick refused to stand for the anthem.\n\nSimilar demonstrations spread across the league, where most players are African American.\n\nThe protests began with San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick (c)\n\nSome kneeled, as Mr Kaepernick had done, while others linked arms to show solidarity for the movement.\n\nPresident Donald Trump was highly critical of the protests, calling them \"disgraceful\" and unpatriotic. He also urged the players to be fired.\n\nUS Vice-President Mike Pence walked out of an NFL game because players from Mr Kaepernick's team knelt during the anthem.\n\nDonald Trump started a staring contest with the NFL, and the NFL just blinked.\n\nWhat began as a few unscripted presidential comments at an Alabama campaign rally escalated into a public relations nightmare for America's most popular sports league, which saw its patriotism questioned from the White House bully pulpit.\n\nWithin a matter of weeks the NFL's popularity plummeted among conservatives and its financial bottom line was threatened - stark proof that Mr Trump can drive the opinions of his supporters even when his target is a national juggernaut that has spent years branding itself as a shared American cultural experience.\n\nNow protesting athletes, who always insisted they were kneeling to draw attention to the abused and ignored victims in American society, will have to save their demonstrations for the solitude of the pre-game locker room.\n\nOn the field, expressed love of anthem and flag will be mandatory.\n\nMr Trump holding a customised Patriots jersey he was presented with earlier this year\n\nThe NFL Players Association (NFLPA) issued a statement following the policy announcement saying they were not consulted.\n\n\"NFL players have shown their patriotism through their social activism, their community service, in support of our military and law enforcement and yes, through their protests to raise awareness about the issues they care about,\" the statement reads.\n\n\"The vote by NFL club CEOs today contradicts the statements made to our player leadership by Commissioner Roger Goodell and the Chairman of the NFL's Management Council John Mara about the principles, values and patriotism of our League.\"\n\nThe NFLPA also said it will be reviewing the policy and will challenge aspects that are inconsistent with the agreement in place between the league and the union.\n\nJed York, owner of the San Francisco 49ers team, abstained from voting on the new policy.\n\n\"I think there are a lot of reasons, and I'm not going to get into all of those reasons,\" Mr York told reporters, according to ESPN.\n\n\"But I think the gist of it is really that we want to make sure that everything that we're doing is to promote progress. And I think we've done a good piece of that so far.\"\n\nNew York Jets CEO and chairman Christopher Johnson said he prefers that players stand for the national anthem but will not make them pay any fines.\n\nMr Johnson told Newsday: \"I never want to put restrictions on the speech of our players\". He said the Jets would pay any fines associated with kneeling during the anthem and he would work with players on social justice issues.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by New York Jets This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and 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 New York Jets\n\nOn Twitter, Mr Pence voiced his support of the change with a succinct tweet that said: \"#Winning.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Vice President Mike Pence This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nNFL player Dominique Hamilton called the policy a step \"backwards\" for the league.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Dominique Hamilton This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nPresident Trump has repeatedly claimed credit for a ratings slide in the NFL. Last year the league saw a nearly 10% drop in viewership, according to Nielsen data. In 2016, there was an 8% decline.\n\nThough some fans appeared to tune out over the national anthem protests, other factors have also been cited.\n\nSome analysts blame the 2017 decline on the proliferation of games added through the expansion of Thursday Night Football.\n\nThe 2016 presidential election siphoned viewers while the league's domestic abuse scandal also played a role, according to a JD Power and Associates survey.\n\nLeague viewership figures were also declining even before the \"take a knee\" protests as more viewers dumped cable subscriptions.\n\nBut NFL games are still among the biggest television attractions. In 2017, NFL games accounted for 37 of the 50 most-watched programmes of the year, according to Nielsen.", "Bishop Curry speaks to the BBC's Religion Editor, Martin Bashir, about his royal wedding sermon.\n\nThe Most Reverend Curry of the US Episcopal Church quoted Martin Luther King during his 14-minute message and spoke about the power of love.", "The sharp differences in household incomes across the UK have been set out in official government statistics.\n\nThe average disposable income per person (the ONS calls this household income), once taxes and benefits are accounted, was £19,432 in 2016.\n\nBut in Kensington & Chelsea and Hammersmith & Fulham in west London the average income was more than three times this at £58,816.\n\nIn contrast, in Nottingham - which has the lowest household income - the average income was £12,232.\n\nWe take a look at the figures in four charts which show the disparity in incomes depending on where people live across the UK.\n\nEngland had the highest disposable income in the UK in 2016 of £19,878. In contrast, Northern Ireland had the lowest disposable income of £15,719.\n\nEngland was also the only nation with a disposable income higher than the UK average.\n\nBut the strongest growth in incomes in 2016, compared to 2015, was in Scotland where incomes rose by 1.2%.\n\nIn contrast, England saw the slowest growth, with average incomes up by just 0.6% in 2016.\n\nAverage disposable income increased in all regions last year apart from in the North East and North West, which fell by 0.6% and 0.2% respectively.\n\nThe largest percentage increase was in the East of England at 1.3%, followed by Scotland at 1.2%.\n\nThe smallest percentage increase was in the South East at 0.3%, whilst the South West region remained flat.\n\nThe places with the highest disposable household income in 2016 are still in London and the south East.\n\nThe top seven places have remained unchanged since 2015, and the top five areas are all in London.\n\nDespite having the highest disposable income per head, Kensington & Chelsea and Hammersmith & Fulham showed a decline in growth between 2015 and 2016 of 1.3%.\n\nThe areas which had the least disposable income in 2016 were all within the north and midland regions of England, except for Derry City and Strabane in Northern Ireland.\n\nNottingham had the lowest disposable income per head in 2016, at 37.1% below the UK average. This was followed by Blackburn with Darwen and Leicester.\n\nThe best way to get news on the go", "Campaign groups are joining forces to boycott singer R Kelly\n\nR&B singer R Kelly took defiantly to the stage in the US state of North Carolina amid a campaign over his treatment of women.\n\nThe singer told the crowd on Friday night that he had \"been through a lot\" in recent days before launching into a number of sexually suggestive songs.\n\nProtesters demonstrated outside the venue against Kelly, who has been accused of sexual misconduct.\n\nThe singer denies wrongdoing and is not facing any criminal charges.\n\nIn one of his first performances since a campaign against him was launched, Kelly thanked his supporters at the Greensboro Coliseum for continuing to \"fight for me\".\n\nHe added that he had been asked to perform a more low key set before breaking into sexually explicit songs and at one point rubbing a fan's smartphone between his legs, the Associated Press (AP) news agency reports.\n\nKelly, 51, was removed from Spotify playlists this week as part of the streaming service's new \"Hate Content & Hateful Conduct\" policy, who has been hit with a number of allegations including trapping women in a sex \"cult\".\n\nHe has recently been targeted by the #MuteRKelly campaign, which calls for the singer to be boycotted.\n\nThe campaign gained momentum last week when it was picked up by the Time's Up movement against sexual harassment.\n\nTime's Up has called for \"appropriate investigations... into the allegations of R Kelly's abuse made by women of colour\". He denies the allegations and has said he \"supports the pro-women goals\" of the movement.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Why people are calling to #MuteRKelly... again\n\nIn April, Kelly faced a fresh allegation of sexual misconduct from a former partner who said he \"intentionally\" infected her with a sexually transmitted disease.\n\nIn 2008, Kelly was acquitted of 14 charges of making child pornography after a videotape emerged allegedly showing him having sex with a 14-year-old girl.\n\nKelly is one of the most successful R&B artists of all time, with 40 million records sold worldwide. His best known hits include I Believe I Can Fly and Ignition (Remix).", "The suicide rate among UK students is higher than among the general population of their age group, claim researchers.\n\nThe study, to be presented next month at the International Suicide Prevention Conference in New Zealand, has analysed figures for student suicides between 2007 and 2016.\n\nBut the Office for National Statistics cautions that \"year-to-year differences could reflect change in the population of students across time as opposed to change in the risk of suicide\".\n\nThere has been much concern about mental health worries on university campuses - but it has often been argued that suicide rates for students have been lower than the general population.\n\nBut the Hong Kong-based researchers say there no longer seems to be this \"protective effect against suicide\".\n\nMale students have consistently had higher suicide rates, but the research says there has been a particular increase among female students.\n\nDr Raymond Kwok, of the Centre for Suicide Research and Prevention, at Hong Kong University, said, \"between 2012 and 2016, there is a significant trend in rising suicides for UK female students, with the exception of those in Scotland\".\n\nResearchers say that between 2007 and 2016, student suicide rates increased by 56% - from 6.6 to 10.3 per 100,000 of the population.\n\nThe 2016 figures showed 146 student suicides, the highest in records going back to 2001. Between 2001 and 2007, there had been a pattern of falling numbers, but since then numbers have tended to rise.\n\nThese figures also do not specify the type of \"student\", whether at university or some other form of study.\n\nBut the Office for National Statistics said that this data \"cannot be used to ascertain the risk of suicide among students\".\n\nThe ONS says it is currently working on developing \"a robust method for understanding the risk of suicide among certain kinds of students\".\n\n\"Concerns about students' mental health have been increasing since the economic recession, but until now there has been no comprehensive analysis of UK student suicide data,\" said Edward Pinkney, who has tracked student suicide data and co-authored the analysis.\n\n\"This is the first time we can conclusively say that as far as suicide is concerned, there is a real problem in higher education,\" he said.\n\nThere have been warnings about anxiety and mental health worries among university students.\n\nA report published in autumn showed the numbers of students disclosing mental health problems had increased fivefold in a decade.\n\nThe analysis - from the Institute of Public Policy Research - showed higher rates of problems among female students.\n\nSir Anthony Seldon, vice-chancellor of the University of Buckingham and a campaigner on student well-being, said: \"Student suicide rates and emotional distress levels could be reduced at university if we acted differently.\n\n\"More support in transitions, better tutoring and early warning, more peer to peer support, an enhanced sense of belonging, would all enhance wellbeing and reduce risk.\n\n\"We are obsessed by reactive policy once students hit the bottom of the waterfall; we need to be putting preventative policies in place to prevent them ever tipping over the edge,\" said Sir Anthony.", "In his opening monologue as host of last week's Saturday Night Live Donald Glover described himself as \"an actor, a writer, and a singer\". And so he is. But he forgot to mention the fourth string to his gleaming bow of talents, the one that makes him more than just an entertainer.\n\nDonald Glover - or Childish Gambino as he calls himself when performing as a pop-rap-trap musician - is an artist.\n\nThat is, a fine artist, as in a person whose work might be exhibited in an art gallery or bought by a museum.\n\nIn fact, if the curators at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, or indeed the Metropolitan Museum up the road, are at all switched on, they should already be in discussions with him about acquiring the master video of This Is America for their institution's collection.\n\nWhy? Because it is a powerful and poignant allegorical portrait of 21st Century America, which warrants a place among the canonical depictions of the USA from Grant Wood's American Gothic to Edward Hopper's Nighthawks, from Emanuel Leutze's Washington Crossing the Delaware to America the Beautiful by Norman Lewis.\n\nI should say at this point, for those of you who have been busy collecting rock samples on the Moon during the past seven days, This Is America is a song by Donald Glover/Childish Gambino, which he posted on the internet last Saturday night along with a video directed by Hiro Murai, with whom he collaborates on his comically surreal TV series Atlanta. I should also point out it contains explicit violence, which is inappropriate for children and possibly unpalatable for some adults.\n\nIts subject of race, representation, opportunity and acts of extreme violence against African Americans is shared with the work of several other leading contemporary black American artists.\n\nThere's Kerry James Marshall's 1994 painting, Great America, for instance. Or, perhaps more obviously, Arthur Jafa's seven-minute video Love is the Message, the Message is Death from 2016, in which the artist has cut together a montage of archive footage that includes photographs of civil rights leaders and footage of the LA riots. Kanye West's gospel-cum-hip-hop Ultralight Beam acts as the backing track.\n\nThis Is America has already been watched by a gazillion people, commented on by almost as many, and deconstructed for meaning by media far and wide, from the Sun newspaper to the New Yorker.\n\nIt consists of a series of linked tableaus set in and around a vast whitewashed warehouse-type garage space (a nod, perhaps, to Michael Jackson's 1987 Bad video directed by Martin Scorsese, which itself is a nod to the \"Cool\" scene in the 1961 version of West Side Story).\n\nThe interior is empty except for a solitary red chair on which there is an acoustic guitar. A bald man with a beard walks towards the chair, picks up the guitar, sits down on the chair and starts to play.\n\nThe camera moves around him to reveal another man standing with his back to us. He is wearing trousers but no shirt. He jerks his neck in time to the electro-beats. He turns and starts to move his body in rhythmic but exaggerated gestures (choreography by Sherrie Silver). He walks towards the seated man who now has a hood over his head. The shirtless dancer takes a gun from behind his back, strikes a pose (read by many to be mimicking the fictional Jim Crow) and shoots the man from point blank range.\n\nNow the tune changes, it's darker, heavier. A boy rushes towards the bare-chested assailant (Childish Gambino), who places his gun carefully on a piece of red cloth held by the young lad who quickly exits stage right. Gambino turns to the camera and sings \"This is America\".\n\nWe're only 40-seconds in but already have enough symbolism and metaphor to provide a semester's worth of content for discussion on a cultural studies degree course.\n\nLike any decent work of art, the more you look the more you see.\n\nThere's the obvious stuff, such as how a culture obsessed with consuming sugary entertainment is wilfully ignorant to what's really going on (Gambino sings to, and dances with, a group of school children while in the background a Hieronymus Bosch-like world of murder and mayhem goes unseen or unacknowledged).\n\nColour is clearly a major theme. All the performers are black.\n\nThe space in which the action takes place is largely white.\n\nRed is deployed with a Faustian twist. At first it appears to be a colour of artistic expression: the guitarist sits on a red chair to play his music. But is then murdered.\n\nA choir sings joyfully against a red wall that echoes their red collars. Until, that is, Gambino machine-guns them down.\n\nBy the time we see him dancing on top of a red car we know his end is nigh.\n\nYou can fill your boots with pop-culture references or enjoy the more oblique art-historical asides (the R&B singer SZA poses like the Statue of Liberty, which in turn is based on Eugène Delacroix's 1830 pro-revolution painting Liberty Leading the People).\n\nThis Is America is not perfect, and certainly won't be to everyone's taste. For some it will be too ambiguous, too violent, and quite possibly seen as hypocritical. There is certainly an element of Jeff Koons' slippery superficiality at play.\n\nAnd it is grotesque. But so is the bloody violence of Goya's The Executions. Because it had to be.\n\nBoth pieces speak of man's inhumanity to man. The only real difference is the time and place.", "Prof Stephen Hawking's life will be celebrated at a service in June\n\nOrganisers of Prof Stephen Hawking's memorial service have seemingly left the door open for time travellers to attend.\n\nThose wishing to honour the theoretical physicist, who died in March aged 76, can apply via a public ballot.\n\nApplicants need to give their birth date - which can be any day up to 31 December 2038.\n\nProf Hawking's foundation said the possibility of time travel had not been disproven and could not be excluded.\n\nIt was London travel blogger IanVisits who noticed that those born from 2019 to 2038 were theoretically permitted to attend the service at Westminster Abbey.\n\nHe said: \"Professor Hawking once threw a party for time travellers, to see if any would turn up if he posted the invite after the party.\n\n\"None did, but it seems perfect that the memorial website allows people born in the future to attend the service.\n\n\"Look out for time travellers at the Abbey.\"\n\nIn 2009 Discovery Channel filmed the professor waiting for time travellers who never turned up to his party\n\nAfter the \"time traveller party\", held in June 2009, Prof Hawking remarked that the fact that no-one turned up was \"experimental evidence that time travel is not possible\".\n\nWithin 24 hours of the opening of the ballot for the thanksgiving service, to be held on 15 June, about 12,000 people from more than 50 countries had applied for tickets.\n\nWhile all applicants appear to be from the present day, a spokesman for the Stephen Hawking Foundation said: \"We cannot exclude the possibility of time travel as it has not been disproven to our satisfaction.\n\n\"All things are possible until proven otherwise.\n\n\"But so far we have had applications from all round the world, and we do mean round - there are no flat-Earthers here.\"\n\nPeople from as far away as the US, China, Bolivia and the South Pacific have asked to attend the event to celebrate the life of Prof Hawking, who died on 14 March, more than 50 years after he was diagnosed with a rare form of motor neurone disease.\n\nThousands lined the streets of his home city of Cambridge for his funeral on 31 March.\n\nThe ballot for tickets to his memorial service closes at midnight on 15 May.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "France is known the world over for its cuisine, fashion, culture and language.\n\nA key player on the global stage and a country at the political heart of Europe, France paid a high price in both economic and human terms during the two world wars.\n\nThe years which followed saw protracted conflicts culminating in independence for Algeria and most other French colonies in Africa, as well as decolonisation in south-east Asia.\n\nFrance was one of the key players in European integration as the continent sought to rebuild after the devastation of World War Two.\n\nA former economy minister who had never held elected office before, Emmanuel Macron won the May 2017 presidential election run-off by a decisive margin over his far-right challenger Marine Le Pen.\n\nThe 39-year-old former banker launched an independent campaign for the presidency little over a year before the election, and his En Marche! movement galvanised enough support from the centre-right and left to knock the traditional Socialist and Republican party candidates out in the first round of voting.\n\nThe following year saw President Macron's popularity fall as he tried to overhaul the economy, with major street protests in November 2018 over his attempt to wean the public off fossil fuels through price hikes.\n\nIn the April 2022 presidential election, Macron again defeated Le Pen in the second round of voting.\n\nPresident Macron appointed Elisabeth Borne prime minister in May 2022 following his presidential election victory. She is France's second woman prime minister after Edith Cresson in 1991-1992.\n\nBorne is a member of Macron's renamed Renaissance party and had previously served as minister of transport, minister of ecology and then labour minister.\n\nGrand Soir 3 is the late-night news programme of French public television network France 3.\n\nTelevision is France's most popular medium. The flagship network, TF1, is privately-owned and public France Televisions is funded from the TV licence fee and advertising revenue.\n\nSatellite and cable offer a proliferation of channels. France is also a force in international TV and radio broadcasting.\n\nPatron saint Joan of Arc is honoured for her role in the siege of Orleans and insistence on the coronation of Charles VII during the Hundred Years' War\n\n507 - Frankish leader Clovis defeats a Visigothic army at the battle of Vouillé and conquers Gallia Aquitania (southwest France) forming the basis of modern-day France.\n\n732 - Battle of Tours: Frankish and Burgundian soldiers under the Charles Martel inflict a significant defeat on invading Arab armies.\n\n742-814 - Charlemagne expands the Frankish state and unites most of western and central Europe, becoming the first recognized emperor to rule from western Europe after the fall of the Western Roman Empire.\n\n987 - Hugh Capet, Duke of France and Count of Paris founds the Capetian dynasty. His descendants gradually unify the country through wars and dynastic inheritance.\n\n11th Century - The Plantagenets, the rulers of Anjou, progressively build an empire from England to the Pyrenees that covers half of modern France. Tensions between French kings and the Plantagenets last until 1202-14 when Philip II of France conquers most of their continental possessions, leaving them England and Aquitaine.\n\n1337-1453 - Hundred Years' War: A series of armed conflicts between England and France originating from English claims to the French throne. The war leads to a broader power struggle involving factions from across Western Europe, fuelled by emerging nationalism on both sides.\n\n1415 - An English army under Henry V renews English claims to the French throne and decisively defeats a French army at Agincourt.\n\n1428-29 - Siege of Orleans: The watershed of the Hundred Years' War, taking place at the pinnacle of English power during the later stages of the war. The city held strategic and symbolic significance for both sides. The English besiegers are defeated by revitalised French defenders after the arrival of Joan of Arc.\n\n1453 - Battle of Castillon: decisive French victory ends the wear and sees England lose all its continental possessions except Calais, which France takes in 1558.\n\n1562-98 - French Wars of Religion: Civil war between French Catholics and Protestants or Huguenots. Up to four million people die from violence, famine or diseases. The fighting ends in 1598 when Henri of Navarre, who had converted to Catholicism in 1593, is proclaimed Henri IV. A pragmatic ruler, he issues the Edict of Nantes, which gives rights and freedoms to Huguenots, in order to end the religious warfare. He is assassinated in 1610 by a Catholic zealot.\n\nThe Protestant leader Henri of Navarre converted to Catholicism in order to secure his hold on France as Henri IV\n\n1620s - Huguenot rebellions against French state's centralising power and its increasing intolerance to Protestantism.\n\n1638-1715 - Louis XIV. France emerges as the leading European power during his long reign, which is marked by major conflicts, including the Franco-Spanish War (1635-1659), Franco-Dutch War (1672-78), the Nine Years' War (1688-1697) and the War of the Spanish Succession (1701-1715).\n\n1685 - Louis XIV revokes the Edict of Nantes, forcing thousands of Huguenots into exile and publishes the Code Noir providing the legal framework for slavery and expelling Jewish people from French colonies.\n\n1789 - Facing financial troubles, Louis XVI summons the Estates-General to propose solutions. Representatives of the Third Estate form a National Assembly, signalling the outbreak of the French Revolution.\n\n1792 - Monarchy is abolished and First Republic proclaimed.\n\n1793 - Louis XVI is convicted of treason and guillotined.\n\n1804-1814 - Napoleon crowns himself emperor of First French Empire. A series of military successes brings most of continental Europe under his control.\n\n1815 - Napoleon is defeated at Battle of Waterloo by an allied coalition - ending 23 years of war across Europe - and the Bourbon monarchy is re-established.\n\n1830 - The Bourbons are overthrown in the July Revolution, a constitutional monarchy under Louis Philippe I is introduced.\n\n1848 - Amid revolutions across Europe, Louis Phillippe is overthrown and a Second Republic is established.\n\n1852 - The president of the French Republic, Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte, Napoleon I's nephew, is proclaimed Napoleon III, emperor of the Second Empire.\n\n1870-71 - Franco-Prussian War. Prussian and German forces defeat French army, invade France and besiege Paris. Napoleon III overthrown. Third Republic proclaimed. Revolutionary government seizes control of Paris - the Paris Commune. Commune is bloodily suppressed by French government troops.\n\n1914-18 - World War One: massive casualties in trenches in north-east France; 1.3 million Frenchmen are killed and many more wounded by the end of the war.\n\n1939-45 - World War Two: Germany occupies much of France. Vichy regime in unoccupied south collaborates with Nazis. General de Gaulle, undersecretary of war, establishes government-in-exile in London and later in Algiers. Rise of French Resistance. Germans occupy all of France in 1942.\n\n1946-58 - Fourth Republic is marked by economic reconstruction and the start of the process of independence for many of France's colonies.\n\n1946-54 - Bitter war in French Indochina - Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia - for independence, between the Communist Viet Minh and French forces. France leaves after its army suffers major defeat at the battle of Dien Bien Phu in 1954.\n\n1954-62 - France faces another bitter anti-colonialist conflict in Algeria, which it treats as an integral part of France and is home to over one million European settlers. The conflict nearly leads to a coup and civil war in France itself.\n\n1957 - France joins West Germany and other European nations in the forming of the European Economic Community (EEC), now known as the European Union.\n\nThe Eiffel Tower in Paris was built from 1887 to 1889 as the centerpiece of the 1889 World's Fair\n\n1958 - French army in Algeria carries out coup attempt due to fears party politics in the unstable Fourth Republic will undermine the security of French's hold on Algeria. French army factions see wartime leader Charles De Gaulle as a guarantor that Algeria will remain French.\n\n1958 - De Gaulle returns to power on back of the crisis and founds the Fifth Republic, with a stronger presidency.\n\n1961 - French voters vote in favour of self-determination for Algeria in a referendum. Generals' Putsch. A failed coup attempt by four retired army general to force De Gaulle not to abandon French settlers in Algeria, and to deny Algeria independence.\n\n1962 - Algeria grains independence from French colonial rule.OAS (Organisation armée secrète) far-right paramilitaries attempt to kill De Gaulle for what they see as his abandonment of French settlers in Algeria by machine-gunning his presidential car. The attack fails.\n\n1968 - Civil unrest throughout France, with demonstrations, general strikes, and the occupation of universities and factories. The unrest begins with student protests against capitalism, heavy police repression sees sympathy strikes, which eventually involve almost a quarter of France's workforce.\n\nFrance has the largest defence budget in the European Union\n\n2015 - Seventeen people are killed in Islamist terrorist attacks, including at offices of satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo and at a Jewish supermarket in Paris.\n\nA series of coordinated Islamist terrorist attacks kill 130 people and injure 416 people in Paris - the deadliest in France since World War Two. Suicide bombers strike at outside the Stade de France in Saint-Denis during a football match. Others fire on cafés and restaurants. A third group carries out mass shootings at a music concert at the Bataclan theatre.\n\n2017 - Emmanuel Macron breaks the Gaullist/Republican-Socialist hold on the presidency through his La République En Marche! movement, drawing support from both the centre-right and centre-left.\n\n2022 - President Macron is returned to power for a second term.\n\nCyclists in the Tour de France head down the Champs Elysees in Paris\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A family who got out of their car in the middle of a safari park in the Netherlands – surrounded by cheetahs – had a lucky escape, its manager says.\n\nNiels de Wildt from Beekse Bergen park says cheetahs prey on small game and so the family's little boy was particularly at risk.\n\nHe also says the park makes it clear that visitors should not get out of their vehicles.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. One city, seven agents... and nowhere I can live\n\nThe dire shortage of private rental properties suitable for disabled people has been exposed by a new report.\n\nThe Equalities and Human Rights Commission said 93% of 8.5 million rental properties in the UK were not accessible to the disabled.\n\nIt called on ministers to take action to improve housing accessibility.\n\nThe government said it was providing councils with almost £1bn over the next two years to adapt properties for disabled people.\n\n\"We expect landlords to adapt properties for tenants. We are clear they must not unreasonably withhold consent if they are asked to make changes to homes,\" a Department of Housing, Communities & Local Government spokesman said.\n\nThe EHRC said its 18-month review found 365,000 disabled people were in homes unsuitable for their needs.\n\n\"Accommodation for disabled people in this country is not acceptable,\" said David Isaac, chairman of the commission.\n\n\"The lack of accessible housing stops disabled people from being able to live independently.\"\n\nNeil Heslop, chief executive of the Leonard Cheshire disability charity, said the report was a \"shocking indictment of how disabled people have largely been forgotten in the housing priorities of local and national government\".\n\nIt's difficult enough trying to find somewhere to live when you're able-bodied; it can be something of a nightmare when you have a disability.\n\nI recently visited seven estate agents in Derby, where I have family, to try to find a property I could move into without having to make any adaptations.\n\nDespite looking at hundreds of listings, no accessible properties were available to rent on the private market in the city.\n\nEven getting in and out of the estate agents' shops was rather difficult. Five of the seven I visited had significant steps up, meaning I was not able to get in independently.\n\nFinding somewhere to live independently as a wheelchair user is extremely difficult. In my case, all I need is a wet room bathroom to be able to shower myself.\n\nMany young people, with or without disabilities, face an uncertain economic climate due to short-term contracts, meaning that buying somewhere with a mortgage on the private market just isn't possible.\n\nAdditionally, for disabled people, only 7% of homes in England offer minimal accessibility features.\n\nTheoretically, newer properties are much more likely to be easily accessible, but that doesn't necessarily mean they will be ready for me to move into independently.\n\nMany of the flats I've looked around in the past few years don't even have that - many still have baths or showers with steps up.\n\nThe EHRC report said many local authorities in England, Scotland and Wales have not collected data or planned for the future, even though the number of disabled people is increasing.\n\nIt found that councils are only requiring about four in ten new homes to be accessible and adaptable, while just 5% required developers to construct wheelchair-accessible housing, which might include step-free bathrooms.\n\nJust seven councils authorities have taken either formal or informal action against a developer who did not deliver the required number of accessible and/or adaptable properties, it found.\n\nThe Equality Act (2010) says that changes or adjustments should be made to ensure someone with a disability has access to housing and that the individual should not have to pay.\n\nBut adjustments only have to be made if it is reasonable and there is only a duty to do so if not doing so places the disabled person at a substantial disadvantage.", "The UK's real wage squeeze will be the worst in modern history and the slowest for 200 years, according to union data.\n\nThe Trades Union Congress (TUC) says wages have lagged behind inflation since 2008 and are worth £24 less in real terms than in 2008.\n\nIt says they won't recover until 2025, by which time, it says, workers will have lost £18,500.\n\nThe government said its policies had boosted pay for the lowest earners and ensured workers kept more of it.\n\nNext week official figures for employment and average earnings are due. They may show average wage rises have risen above inflation for the first time in a year.\n\nBut that will not be enough to overturn the trend seen since the credit crisis.\n\nThe TUC compared the current wages squeeze with every major earnings crisis over the past 200 years.\n\nIt says this will be the biggest relative real wage loss since Lord Nelson's day and that even during the Great Depression era and the revival from the Second World War real wages recovered more quickly, in 10 years and seven years respectively.\n\nThe TUC's report comes as thousands of workers plan to march through London for a new deal for working people.\n\nTUC General Secretary Frances O'Grady is planning to give a speech to the marchers, saying: \"UK workers are suffering the worst pay squeeze for two centuries. It's taking wages longer to recover from this crash than from the Great Depression and Second World War.\n\n\"This means families are struggling to get by. Millions of kids are growing up in poverty despite having parents in work. Mums and dads are skipping meals and turning to dodgy lenders to make ends meet.\n\n\"That's why tens of thousands are marching today for a new deal for working people. We need great jobs in every region and nation of the UK, and higher wages for all workers, not just the bosses.\"\n\nHowever a Treasury spokesperson said wages are forecast to grow faster than inflation in each of the next five years and government policies were helping British workers.\n\n\"Our National Living Wage has boosted pay for the lowest earners by over £2,000 already, we are cutting taxes to help people keep more of what they earn, and we are making sure people have the skills they need to secure high-quality, well-paid jobs by investing in technical education and boosting apprenticeships,\" they said.\n\nThe TUC says its figures are based on annual average weekly earnings for total pay (including bonuses) adjusted with the CPI measure of inflation, which are then compared with long-run back data published by the Bank of England.\n\nThe forward looking ones are based on the OBR forecast to 2022, and then a projection to 2025 using the average forecast growth rate for the 2018-22 period.", "The national park is known for its mountain gorillas\n\nTwo British tourists are among three people to have been kidnapped in a national park in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).\n\nThe director of the Virunga National Park - known for its endangered mountain gorillas - said their vehicle was ambushed by gunmen who killed a park ranger and also seized the driver.\n\nThe incident took place just north of the city of Goma, North Kivu province.\n\nThe Foreign Office said it was supporting the families.\n\nIt also said it was in close contact with the DRC authorities.\n\nLocal media reports say the ranger shot dead was a female guard, while the UK citizens were taken along with their Congolese driver.\n\nPark director Emmanuel de Merode told the AFP news agency: \"I confirm that our vehicle was attacked. Three people were kidnapped, including two tourists.\"\n\nThe BBC's Louise Dewast, reporting from the country's capital Kinshasa, said the situation was \"very serious\".\n\nShe said there were armed groups operating in the park and there had been kidnappings before, with half of these involving a ransom.\n\nThe kidnapping took place in a military area and the national army was \"most likely\" responding to the situation, our correspondent added.\n\nThe national park, which runs along the border with Uganda and Rwanda, covers 3,000 sq miles (7,800 sq km).\n\nIt is a Unesco world heritage site and is home to critically-endangered mountain gorillas as well as lions, elephants and hippos.\n\nIn April, Mr de Merode, told the BBC World Service that recent attacks were part of \"a bigger picture which involves the trafficking of natural resources\".\n\nHe said the park was protected by around 800 rangers but there were also estimated to be between 1,500 and 2,000 militia in and around the park.\n\nThere have been a number of killings and kidnappings in recent years.\n\nFive rangers and a driver were killed in the park on 9 April.\n\nA week earlier, a park ranger died in an attack by armed men as he guarded the construction site of a hydroelectric plant.\n\nBBC Africa editor Will Ross said poachers were active in the park, which was also under threat due to the illegal felling of trees to make charcoal and plans for oil exploration.\n\nWildlife authorities have tried to protect it but 170 rangers have been killed over the last 20 years, he added.\n\nThe Foreign and Commonwealth Office advises against all but essential travel to Goma and has urged Britons not to go beyond the city.\n\nThe advice, which was last updated two days ago, says tourists are vulnerable if travelling without escorted transport in the eastern part of the country, and the \"risk of kidnap or injury as a result of armed or criminal activity remains high\".\n\nIt said that UK government staff were not always in the area and the British embassy's ability to offer consular assistance could be \"severely limited\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe UK's ethnic minorities have been \"disproportionately\" affected by the government's austerity and immigration policies, a UN inspector has said.\n\nTendayi Achiume, the Special Rapporteur on Racism, criticised the \"hostile environment\" brought in by Theresa May when she was home secretary to clamp down on illegal immigrants.\n\nThe rapporteur also expressed concern at the effect of the Brexit debate.\n\nBut she said UK racial equality laws had shown achievements in key areas.\n\nThe government said it was determined to tackle \"ethnic disparities\".\n\nMs Achiume's comments are contained in an end of mission statement following her two week fact-finding mission to the UK.\n\nBut former work and pensions secretary Iain Duncan Smith criticised the visit. \"These visits are completely pointless,\" he told the Times.\n\n\"They are politically motivated, they are inspired by the extreme left, and the idea is to kick the UK.\"\n\nMs Achiume is due to publish a full report in June 2019.\n\nThe first day of her visit coincided with Amber Rudd's resignation as home secretary following the Windrush scandal.\n\nMs Achiume said the Windrush Generation faced \"gross human rights violations and indignities\" as a result of government policies.\n\nShe recommended the government repeal the sections of the 2014 and 2016 Immigration Act which require landlords and employers to check a person's right to be in the UK.\n\nIt was \"no surprise that a policy that ostensibly seeks to target only irregular immigrants is destroying the lives and livelihoods of racial and ethnic minority communities more broadly\", she said.\n\nMs Achiume said that while the UK embraced a \"substantive vision of racial equality, and explicitly prohibited both direct and indirect forms of racial discrimination\" there was \"much to do especially in the arena of addressing structural forms of racial discrimination and inequality\".\n\nMs Achiume also raised concerns over the government's anti-terrorism Prevent programme, and hate crimes following the Brexit vote.\n\nShe said: \"The discourses on racial equality before, during and after the 2016 referendum, as well as the policies and practices upon which the Brexit debate has conferred legitimacy, raise serious issues at the core of my mandate.\"\n\nSpeaking at a news conference to mark the end of her trip, Ms Achiume also said she was \"shocked\" to find young black men were \"over-represented\" in police stop-and-searches, and in the prison system.\n\nShe added: \"Unsurprisingly, austerity has had especially pronounced inter-sectional consequences, making women of colour the worst affected.\"\n\nHowever, the prime minister's Racial Disparity Audit was described by Ms Achiume as a \"remarkable step in transforming racial equality into reality\" that is \"worthy of emulation by governments all over the world\".\n\nA website set up by the government highlights the disparities in educational attainment, health, employment and treatment by police and courts between ethnicities and Mrs May has promised to confront the \"uncomfortable truths\" exposed by it.\n\nA government spokeswoman said: \"We note that the special rapporteur commended UK legislation and policy to tackle direct and indirect racial discrimination...\n\n\"We have made great progress, but the prime minister is clear that if there is no rational explanation for ethnic disparities, then we - as a society - must take action to change them. That is precisely what we will do.\"\n\nThe government added it was wrong to term Home Office immigration policy as a \"hostile environment\".\n\nBut she said in light of the concerns raised by the Windrush scandal, rules were being reviewed to ensure that people lawfully in the UK are not disadvantaged by measures in place to tackle illegal migration.", "After the government was forced to apologise for declaring some of the so-called Windrush generation illegal immigrants, the Home Office is now reviewing the cases of asylum seekers affected by another aspect of its so-called \"hostile environment\" policy, who may have been inappropriately banned from studying.\n\nIbrahim - not his real name - received a letter four weeks ago from the Home Office telling him he was banned from further study.\n\nIt arrived two weeks before he was due to sit his English language exams.\n\nAs a 19-year-old asylum seeker from North Africa living in a foreign country and speaking a new language, he says his English classes - he was studying English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) - had become a lifeline.\n\n\"Sometimes I cry. I even thought I would kill myself… this is one way I can make my life better but now they closed that one way\", says Ibrahim, who came to England three years ago because he faced threats in his own country.\n\nHe is one of more than 50 asylum seekers Newsnight has been told about who may have had inappropriate study restrictions imposed upon them.\n\nIt is the result of rule changes introduced in January after the introduction of the government's \"hostile environment\" immigration policy.\n\n\"I've certainly heard of getting on for 100 cases,\" says Adam Hundt, a solicitor with Deighton Pierce Glynn. \"I think it's quite clear that this will be affecting thousands of people.\"\n\nSince the beginning of the year, asylum seekers who used to be classified as having been granted temporary admission have been placed on \"immigration bail\".\n\nThe change was introduced as part of the Immigration Act 2016 and it affects migrants lawfully in the UK but without leave to remain, like asylum seekers.\n\nThe government said it was only intended to be used on a case-by-case basis when proportionate - for example, when they want to know the whereabouts of an asylum seeker, they could specify a particular institution where they could study.\n\nDuring the passage of the legislation, the government gave assurances that it did not intend to impose a blanket ban on asylum seekers accessing education.\n\nBut campaigners and immigration lawyers say that appears to have been what has happened.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Explained: What is the 'hostile environment' policy?\n\n\"We see about 50 asylum seekers a week on average at our advice drop-in and everybody that has come with a bail form has the restriction on study,\" says Becky Hellewell, a case worker with the charity St Augustine's Centre in Halifax.\n\nHome Office staff are not the only group to have interpreted the guidance in this way.\n\nThe University of Leicester wrote to asylum seekers on its roll to update them that they were not permitted to use immigration bail conditions to study there.\n\nBut that should only have been the case if there was a restriction to study on their bail form - they should not have been prevented because they were on immigration bail.\n\nA statement from the university said: \"All email communications on this matter are in accordance with government guidance provided to all universities.\n\n\"We change and update our communications in accordance with guidance from the government.\"\n\nThe consequences for asylum seekers caught breaching these conditions can be severe.\n\nThey are liable to prosecution and could be subject to a fine and/or six months in prison.\n\nEarlier this week, the Home Office minister Baroness Williams clarified in the House of Lords that the new immigration provisions were not designed to prevent asylum seekers from studying.\n\n\"The Home Office is proactively looking to identify cases where this has been applied inappropriately and will apply a new bail notice to the individual,\" she told peers.\n\nThis clarification came too late for Ibrahim.\n\nHe had to take the Home Office to court in order to have his study ban lifted just a day before his exams.\n\nHe has now been issued with a new bail notice removing his study restriction.\n\n\"I think what we've seen with the implementation of immigration bail provisions is that it's different depending on what area you are in,\" says Kamena Dorling of the charity Coram, which works with vulnerable children and young people.\n\n\"It's not being applied in accordance with the guidance, nor is it being applied consistently.\"\n\nThe guidance that immigration officials were using has now been updated to say \"anyone who claims asylum should not have a study condition applied to them… If there is any doubt over whether study should be restricted, no study condition should be applied\".\n\nThe Home Office told Newsnight the study restrictions on immigration bail are not part of its \"compliant environment\" policy - the phrase preferred by the new Home Secretary Sajid Javid instead of \"hostile environment\".\n\nA Home Office spokesperson said: \"Immigration bail is a valuable tool which enables individuals who are liable to be detained to remain in the community, subject to certain conditions.\n\n\"The provisions are not designed to be used to prevent asylum seekers studying and we are proactively looking to identify cases where this may have happened so that we can correct it.\n\n\"We have also updated our guidance for staff so that they are absolutely clear when to apply restrictions and we are putting in place new safeguards, so that when the restriction is applied, it has to be approved by a senior officer. These steps will make sure such an issue does not arise in the future.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. South Wales Police Chief Constable Matt Jukes shows some of the knives recovered by his officers\n\nAll frontline police officers in south Wales could be armed with Tasers to face the increasing threat of gangs carrying knives.\n\nChief Constable Matt Jukes said while stabbings were rare, officers in the force were being assaulted daily and only 10% carry the stun equipment.\n\nHe said he wanted people to \"think twice\" before assaulting officers.\n\nBut human rights groups said Tasers could kill and should not be used to \"terrify people into compliance\".\n\nMost of the attacks faced by officers related to punching, kicking, biting and spitting, but Mr Jukes said the threat of weapons was growing due to a \"resurgence\" of gang culture.\n\nSamurai swords, hunting and combat knives are increasingly being found in stop and searches and drug raids across south Wales, with evidence suggesting groups linked to county lines - dealing drugs from one town to another - are likely to be carrying weapons.\n\nMr Jukes said some young people were telling officers they were carrying knives for protection.\n\nIn April, a review of Taser use in the force was sparked after officers found a large hunting-style knife when called to deal with a group of teenagers armed with hammers in the Llanrumney area of Cardiff.\n\nThe changes could see anything up to 100 percent of frontline police officers in south Wales armed with Tasers.\n\nChief Constable Matt Jukes said he wanted people to \"think twice\" before assaulting officers.\n\n\"You can only imagine the harm that can be done with these kinds of weapons,\" Mr Jukes said.\n\nIn September an officer was stabbed in Cardiff with a triple-bladed knife, causing a 4-5cm wound to his shoulder. The dealer was jailed for 11 years.\n\nWhile the majority of assaults happen during arrests and are fuelled by drink, drugs or mental health issues, Mr Jukes said other people were just \"plain nasty\" and made a habit of biting, kicking and spitting at officers.\n\nThis knife folds up to look more like a credit card which can be hidden away\n\nIn a seven-day period 18 officers were attacked across south Wales.\n\nOne officer in Ely, Cardiff was bitten on the calf while trying to arrest a woman.\n\nTwo officers were attacked - one punched in the face, breaking her glasses, and the other bitten - while trying to restrain a man in the Rhondda Valley.\n\nThe officers said it was the \"most scared they had been\" while on duty.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Bodycam footage captured the moment when a man having a \"psychotic episode\" tried to stab a police officer with two kitchen knives\n\nLast year the force brought in the use of controversial spit guards - which can be placed on suspects' heads to stop them spitting at officers.\n\nMr Jukes defended their use saying: \"I want officers to have the protection they deserve...because coming home from work, knowing you've been exposed to infectious disease is a deeply troubling thing\".\n\nHe said he did not think giving more officers with Tasers would lead to an increase in their use - but instead give officers confidence to use their presence to help de-escalate violent situations.\n\nThe use of spit hoods and Tasers on young people could not be ruled out, but would be taken very seriously by all officers, he said.\n\n\"What we will see is many more people thinking twice about assaulting officers, assaulting other people, putting themselves and the public at risk,\" he said.\n\nCorey Stoughton, advocacy director for human right's group Liberty, said: \"Tasers can and do kill - which is why they were initially intended for firearms officers only.\n\n\"There have been far too many examples of disturbing and inappropriate use, with BAME people and those with mental health conditions most affected.\n\n\"The use of Tasers on our streets has grown rapidly, but regulation remains woeful. Forces should be focusing on robust training and much tighter regulation - not rolling these lethal weapons out in the hope they terrify people into compliance.\"\n\nThis knife used by a dealer to stab an officer in Cardiff was described by a judge as \"one of the most vicious weapons\" ever seen in the capital", "The Virunga National Park director said the tourist's vehicle was ambushed by gunmen\n\nA search is continuing for two British tourists who were kidnapped in a national park in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).\n\nDRC army spokesman Major Guillaume Kaiko Ndjike told Reuters that soldiers had joined rangers in the search operation at the Virunga National Park.\n\nThe park's director said the tourists' vehicle was ambushed by gunmen, who killed a ranger and seized the driver.\n\nThe Foreign Office said it was supporting the families.\n\nIt also said it was in close contact with the DRC authorities.\n\nLocal media reports say the ranger shot dead was a female guard, while the UK citizens - who have not been named - were taken along with their Congolese driver.\n\nPark director Emmanuel de Merode told the AFP news agency: \"I confirm that our vehicle was attacked. Three people were kidnapped, including two tourists.\"\n\nThe incident took place just north of the city of Goma, North Kivu province.\n\nThe BBC's Louise Dewast, reporting from the country's capital Kinshasa, said the situation was \"very serious\".\n\nShe said there were armed groups operating in the park and there had been kidnappings before, with half of these involving a ransom.\n\nThe national park, which runs along the border with Uganda and Rwanda, covers 3,000 sq miles (7,800 sq km).\n\nIt is a Unesco world heritage site and is home to critically-endangered mountain gorillas as well as lions, elephants and hippos.\n\nIn April, Mr de Merode, told the BBC World Service that recent attacks were part of \"a bigger picture which involves the trafficking of natural resources\".\n\nHe said the park was protected by around 800 rangers but there were also estimated to be between 1,500 and 2,000 militia in and around the park.\n\nThere have been a number of killings and kidnappings in recent years.\n\nFive rangers and a driver were killed in the park on 9 April.\n\nA week earlier, a park ranger died in an attack by armed men as he guarded the construction site of a hydroelectric plant.\n\nThe national park is known for its mountain gorillas\n\nBBC Africa editor Will Ross said poachers were active in the park, which was also under threat due to the illegal felling of trees to make charcoal and plans for oil exploration.\n\nWildlife authorities have tried to protect it but 170 rangers have been killed over the last 20 years, he added.\n\nThe Foreign and Commonwealth Office advises against all but essential travel to Goma and has urged Britons not to go beyond the city.\n\nThe advice, which was last updated three days ago, says tourists are vulnerable if travelling without escorted transport in the eastern part of the country, and the \"risk of kidnap or injury as a result of armed or criminal activity remains high\".\n\nIt said that UK government staff were not always in the area and the British embassy's ability to offer consular assistance could be \"severely limited\".", "Nasa is sending a helicopter to Mars, joining the Mars rover when it launches in 2020.\n\nThe US space agency says \"the idea of a helicopter flying the skies of another planet is thrilling\".", "Pakistan has prevented a US diplomat from leaving the country after he allegedly killed a motorcyclist by driving through a red light last month.\n\nLocal press said on Saturday that a plane was sent by the US to collect Col Joseph Emanuel Hall, a military attache, but was denied clearance.\n\nUS officials have previously said he cannot be arrested or tried because he has diplomatic immunity.\n\nThe incident has increased political tension between the countries.\n\nAteeq Baig, 22, was killed in the crash in Daman-e-Koh, north of Islamabad, on 7 April.\n\nCCTV footage showed a white four-wheel-drive - said to be driven by Col Hall - ignoring the red traffic light at an intersection, crashing with a bike at speed and then braking.\n\nThe US embassy has denied reports in Pakistan's media that Col Hall was drunk while driving.\n\nThe dead man's father has called for the colonel to stand trial at Islamabad High Court (IHC).\n\nOn Friday, the IHC had ruled Col Hall does not have absolute immunity.\n\nHe had already been put on a travel \"black list\", which meant airports had been told not allow him to leave.\n\nNeither the US or Pakistan has officially commented on Saturday's news.\n\nRelations between Washington and Islamabad have been in the spotlight since US President Donald Trump's New Year's Day tweet, where he accused Pakistan of \"lies and deceit\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or 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\nIn January, the US government said it was cutting almost all security aid to Pakistan, saying it has failed to deal with terrorist networks operating on its soil.\n\nPakistan has denied the accusations and responded by saying it would no longer share intelligence with the US.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nFriday's dramatic meeting between South Korean President Moon Jae-in and his North Korean counterpart, Chairman Kim Jong-un, represents an unambiguous historic breakthrough at least in terms of the image of bilateral reconciliation and the emotional uplift it has given to South Korea public opinion.\n\nWhether the agreement announced at the meeting - the new Panmunjeom Declaration for Peace, Prosperity and Unification of the Korean Peninsula - offers, in substance, the right mix of concrete measures to propel the two Koreas and the wider international community towards a lasting peace remains an open question.\n\nThe symbolic impact of a North Korean leader setting foot for the first time on South Korean soil cannot be underestimated.\n\nMr Kim's bold decision to stride confidently into nominally hostile territory reflects the young dictator's confidence and acute sense of political theatre and expertly executed timing.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHis clever, seemingly spontaneous gesture to President Moon to reciprocate his step into the South by having him join him for an instance in stepping back into the North was an inspired way of asserting the equality of the two countries and their leaders.\n\nIt also, by blurring the boundary between the two countries, hinted at the goal of unification that both Seoul and Pyongyang have long sought to realise.\n\nThe rest of the day was full of visual firsts and a set of cleverly choreographed images of the two leaders chatting informally and intimately in the open air - deliberately advancing a powerful new narrative of the two Koreas as agents of their own destiny.\n\nHandshakes, broad smiles and bear hugs have amplified this message of Koreans determining their own future, in the process offsetting past memories of a peninsula all too often dominated by the self-interest of external great powers, whether China, Japan, or more recently, during the Cold War, the United States and the former Soviet Union.\n\nThe two leaders' joint statements before the international media were another pitch perfect moment for Mr Kim to challenge the world's preconceptions.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Kim Jong-un issues his pledge for peace with South Korea\n\nIn an instance, Mr Kim's confident and relaxed announcement to the press dispelled the picture of a remote, rigid, autocratic leader in favour of a normal, humanised statesman, intent on working to advance the cause of peace and national reconciliation.\n\nA cynic might see this as both a simple propaganda victory for Mr Kim, and also his attempt to lock in place the nuclear and missile advances the North has already achieved by calling for \"phased…disarmament\" - by intentionally downplaying the expectation of immediate progress while emphasising the need for step-by-step negotiations.\n\nThe joint declaration echoes the themes of past accords, including the previous Korean leaders summits of 2000 and 2007, and an earlier 1991 bilateral Reconciliation and Non-Aggression agreement.\n\nPlans to establish joint liaison missions, military dialogue and confidence building measures, economic co-operation, and the expansion of contact between the citizens of the two countries have featured in earlier agreements.\n\nHowever, Friday's declaration is more specific in its proposals, with the two countries pledging, for example, \"to cease all hostile acts against each other in every domain, including land, sea and air…\" and providing a series of key dates for the early implementation by both sides of a raft of new confidence building measures.\n\nThese include the cessation of \"all hostile acts\" near the demilitarised zone by 1 May, the start of bilateral military talks in May, joint participation by the two Koreas in the 2018 Asian Games, the re-establishment of family reunions by 15 August, and, perhaps most importantly of all, a return visit to the North by President Moon by as soon as the autumn of this year.\n\nCommitting to early, albeit incremental, steps in the direction of peace, appears to be motivated by the Korean leaders' wish to foster an irresistible sense of momentum and urgency.\n\nThe declaration also calls for future peace treaty talks involving the two Koreas, together with one or both of China and the US.\n\nThe logic of binding external actors into a definite - but evolving - timetable for progress on key issues is that it lowers the risk of conflict on the peninsula - something both Koreas are keen to avoid and which they have long had reason to fear given the past bellicose language of a \"fire and fury\" Donald Trump.\n\nPlaying for time is a viable option, given that President Moon is at the start of his five-year presidency - a marked contrast to the summits of 2000 and 2007, when the respective leaders of the South, Kim Dae-jung and Roh Moo-hyun, were already well into their presidential terms.\n\nMr Moon can count, therefore, on repeat meetings with Mr Kim, and the two men appear genuinely interested in sustaining their dialogue and making progress on the wide-ranging set of initiatives included in the declaration.\n\nMr Kim's own statements at the summit have also been a vocal argument in favour of identity politics, given his stress on \"one nation, one language, one blood\", and his repeated rejection of any future conflict between the Koreas - two themes that will have played well with a South Korean public that traditionally is sympathetic to a narrative of self-confident, although not necessarily strident, nationalism.\n\nPresident Trump says he will continue to exert maximum pressure on North Korea\n\nFor all of the stress on Koreans determining their common future, there is no escaping the decisive importance of the US.\n\nThe much anticipated Trump-Kim summit in May or early June will be critical in testing the sincerity of the North's commitment to a peaceful settlement.\n\nPyongyang's professed commitment to \"denuclearisation\" is likely to be very different from Washington's demand for \"comprehensive, verifiable and irreversible\" nuclear disarmament.\n\nNot only will the Trump-Kim summit be a way of measuring the gap between the US and North Korea on this issue; it will also be an important opportunity to gauge how far the US has developed its own strategy for narrowing the differences with the North.\n\nPresident Moon has cleverly and repeatedly allowed Mr Trump to assume credit for the breakthrough in inter-Korean relations, recognising perhaps that boosting the US president's ego is the best way of minimising the risk of war and keeping Mr Trump engaged in dialogue with the North.\n\nWhatever the long-term, substantive outcome from the Panmunjeom summit, the event has memorably showcased the political astuteness, diplomatic agility and strategic vision of both Korean leaders.\n\nThe dramatic events of Friday are a reminder that personality and leadership are key ingredients in effecting historical change, sometimes allowing relatively small powers to advance their interests in spite of the competing interests of larger, more influential states.\n\nDr John Nilsson-Wright is Senior Research Fellow for Northeast Asia, Asia-Pacific Programme at Chatham House and a senior lecturer in Japanese Politics and International Relations at the University of Cambridge", "Dennis Nilsen, on the right hand side, lured his victims to his flat before killing them, often by strangulation\n\nSerial killer Dennis Nilsen, who admitted killing at least 15 people in the 1970s and 1980s, has died in prison.\n\nThe 72-year-old was jailed for life in 1983, with a recommendation he serve at least 25 years.\n\nThe former civil servant murdered and dismembered several of his victims, most of them homeless young gay men, at his home in Muswell Hill, north London.\n\nHe was convicted of six counts of murder and two of attempted murder.\n\nThe Prison Service said Nilsen, who was born in Fraserburgh in Aberdeenshire, died at HMP Full Sutton near York.\n\nThe death of Nilsen will be investigated by the Prisons and Probation Ombudsman, as is normal for custody deaths, a spokesman added.\n\nNilsen was 37 when he was arrested, after human remains were found in a blocked drain at his home.\n\nHe and other tenants in his block of flats had complained to the landlord about the smell from the drains. An inspection by a plumber found pipes packed with human flesh.\n\nDuring his trial at the Old Bailey, the court heard the remains of three bodies were found at his home and bones from at least eight bodies were found at his previous address in Melrose Avenue, Cricklewood in north-west London.\n\nThe death of Nilsen - wearing glasses - will be investigated as is normal for custody deaths\n\nHe met his victims, all of them men, in a pub and he would take them back to his flat for a drink. Most were homeless, some were homosexuals and some were prostitutes.\n\nHis trial heard how Nilsen strangled many of his victims with a tie and then disposed of the bodies, either through hiding them under the floorboards or by cutting up the body and flushing parts down the toilet.\n\nOn many occasions, he would sit with their bodies for days before he dismembered them.\n\nNilsen admitted killing at least 15 people, but he was convicted of the murders of six men:\n\nThere were others who survived.\n\nMr Nilsen spent 11 years in the Army, with some time spent in the catering corps where he learned certain butchery skills.\n\nHe later served briefly as a probationary police constable before becoming a security officer with the Manpower Services Commission in 1974.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Female Iraqi MP, Dr Hanan al-Fatlawi, says she's been threatened because of her work\n\nIraqis have voted in the first parliamentary elections since the government declared victory over so-called Islamic State (IS) last year.\n\nAround 7,000 candidates from rival coalition alliances are vying for seats in the 329-member assembly.\n\nThe results are scheduled to be officially announced on Monday.\n\nDespite improved security, Iraq is still struggling to rebuild itself after four years of war against IS, a BBC correspondent says.\n\nHe says whoever wins will need to keep Iraq's fragile unity in the face of sectarian and separatist tensions.\n\nPrime Minister Haider al-Abadi had called on \"all Iraqis\" to take part in the election.\n\n\"Today Iraq is powerful and unified after defeating terrorism, and this is a huge achievement for all Iraqis,\" he said after casting his vote.\n\nPrime Minister Haider al-Abadi cast his vote in the capital Baghdad\n\nIraqis voted for rival lists of candidates. Most are predominantly Shia or Sunni, though the Kurds have their own lists.\n\nThe Shia-led government has won praise for the fight against IS militants, and security has vastly improved across the country.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Many Iraqis have lost faith in their politicians\n\nBut many Iraqis are disillusioned by widespread government corruption and a weak economy, the BBC's Martin Patience reports.\n\nThere is also frustration at a perceived lack of change. One Baghdad resident said that he \"regretted\" voting in the 2014 elections because \"all the promises are lies\".\n\nReuters reported that voter turnout in several polling stations in the capital appeared low, although the government partially lifted a curfew to encourage voting.\n\nSecurity around voting centres was tight. At least three people were killed in an attack near a polling station in the northern province of Kirkuk, according to local media.\n\nPeople turned out to vote in the city of Mosul, which was severely damaged in the fight against IS\n\nThe vote came just days after US President Donald Trump pulled out of the Iran nuclear deal.\n\nSome Iraqis fear their country could once again become a casualty in any struggle between America and Iran, our correspondent adds.", "The Irish version of Inhaler (Eli Hewson pictured bottom left) say they got there first\n\nThe son of U2's Bono has hit back in a row over the name of his band.\n\nEli Hewson, 18, the third child of the Irish rock legend, is frontman with a Dublin-based group called Inhaler - a name shared with a four-piece group of rockers from Hertford.\n\nThe English Inhaler say they were using the moniker before Bono's son's band and have demanded an apology.\n\nBut the Irish rockers accused their namesakes of trying to \"generate publicity\" by bringing up the issue.\n\nThe Dublin band said they had researched the name carefully and had used it first.\n\nLuca Centro (pictured) said his band were taking a stand \"for independent musicians\"\n\nIn a statement, the Irish group said: \"It is not uncommon for bands in different locations to have matching names.\n\n\"We have never been in dispute with anyone over our name. There are other bands called Inhaler on the planet, but we seem to be the one the Hertfordshire band have targeted for some reason.\"\n\nThe Dublin quartet say they have been together since late 2012, but finally settled on using the name Inhaler in February 2015 after careful research.\n\n\"Based on what the Hertfordshire band say online, their first gig was at Saracens Head Ware on March 24th 2016,\" the statement added.\n\nThe group sign off by saying they are prepared to let their namesakes \"have their limelight\" but plan on letting their \"music do the talking\".\n\nAccording to the English Inhaler's frontman Luca Centro, 17, the issue came to a head when an Irish newspaper used a picture of him, instead of Hewson, in an article about the Irish band.\n\nCentro said his \"psych noise punk rock\" band were not taking a stand for publicity, but for \"independent music\".\n\nBono, real name Paul Hewson, has fronted U2 since 1976\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Lord Kinnock (right) says objections to EEA membership are based on \"infantile leftist illusion\"\n\nJeremy Corbyn will commit \"a serious evasion of duty\" if he does not change his stance on Brexit, former Labour leader Lord Kinnock has said.\n\nThe peer told the Independent that Labour should endorse the UK staying in the European Economic Area (EEA) or risk \"sacrificing thousands\" of jobs.\n\nStaying in the EEA would mean the UK retained key aspects of the single market after leaving the EU.\n\nBut Mr Corbyn has opposed this idea as the UK would not make the rules.\n\nA Labour spokesman said the party would not be commenting on Lord Kinnock's remarks.\n\nLord Kinnock was one of the 83 Labour peers who defied the party leadership this week and voted for an amendment to the EU Withdrawal Bill in the House of Lords to keep the UK in the EEA.\n\nEEA membership would see the UK retain full access to the EU's internal market of 300 million consumers in return for making financial contributions and accepting most EU laws.\n\nUnder what is known as the \"Norway model\", free movement laws would also apply - so EU citizens could move to all EEA countries to work and live.\n\nNorway is one of three countries outside the EU which is an existing EEA member.\n\nSupporters of the plan think keeping the maximum-possible access to the single market should be the top priority.\n\nHowever critics of the Norway model say it would mean the UK would still be subject to EU laws after Brexit, but with no say in how they are made.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Can the House of Lords stop the Brexit Bill?\n\nLabour urged its peers to abstain in Tuesday's vote on EEA membership, but 83 of them defied the leadership and the amendment was backed by 245 votes to 218 in the House of Lords.\n\nThe issue will now return to the Commons and Lord Kinnock said: \"It would be a serious evasion of duty if Labour did not seize this chance to protect our country from the rockslide of 'hard' Brexit.\"\n\n\"By supporting continued EEA participation we can end the prime minister's deference to the cliff-edge kamikaze squad and force her, or her successor, into the pragmatic patriotism of putting country before party.\"\n\nEnter the word or phrase you are looking for\n\nLord Kinnock defended his refusal to abstain in the EEA vote, as Mr Corbyn had wanted, saying: \"I do not break the whip lightly.\n\n\"In this case, not continuing in the EEA would mean endangering, sacrificing, thousands of skilled and decently-paid jobs and, with them, the life chances of countless families and communities.\"\n\nHe added that objections to EEA membership were based on \"infantile leftist illusion\".\n\nIan Blackford, the SNP's Westminster leader, said he agreed with Lord Kinnock's warning that leaving the single market would \"destroy\" jobs.\n\n\"By walking hand-in-hand with extreme Tory Brexiteers... Labour will be just as culpable for the catastrophic damage to the economy,\" he added.\n\nThe government is expected to seek to reverse a number of the Lords amendments when the bill returns to the Commons.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Henry Curtis-Williams, 21, took his own life in 2016\n\nBritish universities say they risk \"failing a generation\" unless students get better mental health care.\n\nA Universities UK report found some students risked \"slipping through the gaps\" due to a lack of co-ordination between the NHS and universities.\n\nThe most up-to-date statistics show 146 students killed themselves in 2016. At Bristol, three students have died suddenly in the past month alone.\n\nAn NHS official said local services should collaborate with universities.\n\nHenry Curtis-Williams, a photography student, took his own life in 2016, aged 21.\n\n\"He had lost weight, he had dark shadows under his eyes, he was clearly in crisis,\" said his mother Pippa Travis-Williams.\n\n\"He changed from being that super-confident person to [becoming] just a shell of a person.\"\n\nThe number of deaths in 2016 was higher than the 134 students who killed themselves in 2015 - which in turn was the highest total since 2006.\n\nUniversities UK said that over the past five years, 94% of universities had seen a \"sharp increase\" in the number of people trying to access support services.\n\nThe report said data on students was rarely shared fully between universities and local health services, which could lead to students accessing \"treatment and support with incomplete information, or not accessing it at all\".\n\nThe report added students leaving their family homes to attend university often enrolled with a new GP.\n\nThey would then return home during holidays, meaning they were without their bespoke GP care for several weeks or months.\n\nUniversities UK's head of mental health, Professor Steve West, said the system had to be \"radically changed\".\n\n\"If we ignore it we will have failed a generation,\" he added.\n\n\"We will be setting ourselves up for huge costs and burdens on the NHS, but more than that we will be destroying lives.\"\n\nChief executive of Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust Paul Jenkins said: \"We need to improve the links between local NHS services and the support that universities provide.\n\n\"It is essential that these young people are provided with the right support at each step of the pathway.\"\n\nThe National Union of Students (NUS) said that mental health services in higher education were \"strained\" and \"at times non-existent\".\n\nIt welcomed the report, adding: \"A joined-up and coherent approach between the NHS and universities is exactly what students need.\"\n\nSome of the issues highlighted at universities are linked to the state of child and adolescent mental health services.\n\nYoung people who may have struggled to get treatment from these NHS services may find that problems resurface when they get to university.\n\nAlternatively, the transition to adult mental health provision at 18 will coincide with the start of student life away from home - and that can be disorientating.\n\nUniversities have been criticised for not investing enough in counselling services and not promoting more general well-being in student life.\n\nBut they argue that a wider strategy involving the government and the NHS as well as higher education is essential.\n\nIf you want to talk to someone, you can phone The Samaritans on 116 123 or email jo@samaritans.org.\n\nCalm can be contacted on 0800 58 58 58 (17:00-midnight).\n\nDetails of other organisations that can help are on the BBC Action Line website.", "Supermodel Naomi Campbell says the US actress's marriage to Prince Harry will \"show the world about race\".\n\nShe added that Princess Diana would have loved Meghan Markle.", "Female longsword world champion Lara Serviolle shows us what it's like to fight in the International Medieval Combat Federation tournament.", "This video can not be played\n\nTo play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "Iraq, home to some of the earliest known civilisations, has been a battleground for competing forces since the US-led overthrow of Saddam Hussein in 2003.\n\nThe mainly Shia-led governments that have held power since have struggled to maintain order, and the country has enjoyed only brief periods of respite from high levels of sectarian violence.\n\nInstability and sabotage have hindered efforts to rebuild an economy shattered by decades of conflict and sanctions, even though Iraq has the world's second-largest reserves of crude oil.\n\nRashid was elected as president in October 2022, replacing Barham Salih. He can serve a maximum of two four-year terms in the largely ceremonial post.\n\nHe is opposed to the normalization of diplomatic relations with Turkey as long as there continue to be border violations.\n\nUnder an informal agreement between political parties, the presidency is reserved for Kurds, the premiership for Shia Arabs, and the post of speaker of parliament for Sunni Arabs.\n\nMohammed Shia al-Sudani became prime minister in October 2022 after more than a year of political paralysis, though critics say he is struggling to deliver on his promises.\n\nIn an interview with the Wall Street Journal in 2023, he defended the presence of United States troops in his country, saying they were needed to hep Iraq's security forces defeat ISIS.\n\nThis contradicts the stance of several Iran-aligned groups that in part make up the Shia-dominated Coordination Framework, the political bloc that nominated him as prime minister.\n\nThere are hundreds of publications and scores of radio and TV stations. But political and security crises have resulted in an increasingly fractured media scene.\n\nTelevision is the main medium for news. Many media outlets have political or religious affiliations.\n\nThe partly-reconstructed Ziggurat of Ur, which was first built over 4,000 years ago in what is now southern Iraq\n\nc.5500-2270BC - Sumerian civilisation flourishes in southern Iraq: Along with nearby Elam, Egypt, the Indus Valley, China, Caral-Supe, and Mesoamerica it is one of the cradles of civilization. The world's earliest known texts come from Uruk and Jemdet Nasr.\n\n2334-2154BC - Akkadian Empire under Sargon the Great and his successors exercises influence across Mesopotamia, the Levant and Anatolia, sending military expeditions as far south as the Arabian Peninsula.\n\nc.1792-1750BC - Hammurabi, ruler of Babylon, issues the Code of Hammurabi, a law code which is among the first to establish the presumption of innocence.\n\n911-609BC - Neo-Assyrian Empire based in northern Iraq dominates the Near East, most notably under Ashurnasirpal II and Shalmaneser III.\n\n620-539BC -Neo-Babylonian Empire dominates the Levant, Canaan, Arabia, Israel and Judah, and defeats Egypt under Nebuchadnezzar II.\n\n539BC - Persians under Cyrus the Great defeat the Babylonians and region becomes part of the Achaemenid Empire.\n\n330BC - Macedonians under Alexander the Great conquer the region.\n\n632-654 - Muslim conquest of what is now Iraq and Iran.\n\n750-1258 - Abbasid Caliphate founds the city of Baghdad - under the caliph Al-Mansur - which becomes a centre of science, culture and invention in what is known as the Golden Age of Islam.\n\n1257-58 - Mongol armies under Hulagu Khan sack and destroy Baghdad, burning its extensive library. Estimates of those killed range from 200,000 to a million.\n\n1508 - Iraq comes under control of Safavid Iran.\n\n1639 - Treaty of Zuhab sees Iraq become part of the Ottoman Empire.\n\n1914 - World War One. Ottoman Turkey sides with Germany and Austria-Hungary.\n\n1915-16 - British troops invade and initially suffer a major defeat at the hands of the Turkish army during the Siege of Kut.\n\n1920 - Following the end of World War One, the League of Nations approves the British mandate in Iraq, prompting nationwide revolt.\n\n1921 - Britain appoints Feisal, son of Hussein Bin Ali, the Sherif of Mecca, as king.\n\n1941 - Britain re-occupies Iraq after pro-Axis coup during World War Two.\n\n1958 - The monarchy is overthrown in a left-wing military coup led by Abd-al-Karim Qasim. Iraq leaves the pro-British Baghdad Pact.\n\n1963 - Prime Minister Qasim is ousted in a coup led by the pan-Arab Baath Party.\n\n1963 - The Baathist government is overthrown, but seizes power again five years later\n\n1990 - Iraq invades and annexes Kuwait, prompting what becomes known as the first Gulf War. A massive US-led military campaign forces Iraq to withdraw in February 1991.\n\n1998 - US and British Operation Desert Fox bombing campaign aims to destroy Iraq's nuclear, chemical and biological weapons programmes.\n\n2003 - US-led invasion topples Saddam Hussein's government, marks start of years of violent conflict with different groups competing for power.\n\n2006 - Saddam Hussein is executed for crimes against humanity.\n\n2022 - 2,500 US. troops remain in Iraq as part of anti-ISIS operations despite the formal end of the US combat mission there in 2021.\n\nUS marines toppled the statue of Saddam Hussein shortly after the invasion in 2003. Years of instability followed", "French President Emmanuel Macron says fighting Islamist terrorism will be his top foreign policy priority.\n\nDefeating so-called Islamic State (IS) in Iraq and Syria must go hand-in-hand with anti-terror measures in Africa, he told some 200 French ambassadors.\n\nHe called the security of French citizens \"the raison d'être of our diplomacy\".\n\nIS-inspired terror attacks in France have killed more than 230 people since early 2015.\n\n\"We need an inclusive transition in Syria,\" he said, adding that France and its partners would have to invest in the reconstruction of both Syria and Iraq. \"We need to win the peace in both countries.\"\n\nHe also spoke of some \"specific results with the Russians\" on preventing further use of chemical weapons in Syria, but did not elaborate.\n\n\"Providing security for our citizens means that the fight against Islamist terrorism is our first priority,\" he said.\n\nWithin weeks of becoming president, Mr Macron held separate talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin and US President Donald Trump in Paris, visited French troops in troubled Mali and toured Central and Eastern Europe.\n\nBut recent opinion polls suggest a big slump in his popularity.\n\nBesides security, he stressed that French independence would be one of his foreign policy priorities. Another would be restoring French influence internationally.\n\nHe noted that poverty was a driver of African migration towards Europe, and stressed the importance of development aid for the Sahel region. That was the focus of talks he held on Monday with the leaders of Niger, Chad and Libya, and European partners.\n\n\"Africa is a continent of the future - we cannot just leave it alone,\" he said, outlining a strategy of \"creating an axis between Africa, the Mediterranean and Europe\".\n\nSoon after his May election triumph Mr Macron visited French anti-terror forces in Mali\n\nThis year some 125,000 migrants have crossed the Mediterranean on perilous journeys, during which more than 2,000 drowned. More than 90,000 of them reached Italy's shores, mostly fleeing violence and chaos in Libya.\n\n\"Italy and Libya expect more support from us, which we must provide,\" Mr Macron told the diplomats.\n\nHe announced that France would have a special envoy to steer negotiations on the migration crisis.\n\nHe is pressing the EU to help establish new centres in Chad and Niger to process asylum applications.\n\nThe idea is to curb the flow of asylum seekers who are exploited by people-smugglers in Libya and who risk their lives aboard overcrowded, unseaworthy boats. The new centres would focus on identifying genuine refugees who qualify for asylum.\n\n\"It's a human duty to welcome migrants,\" he said, while admitting that \"it's a considerable challenge for all European countries\".\n\nTurning to the EU's challenges, he said \"we can't let Europe get bogged down in technocratic quarrels\".\n\nThe answer to voters' sense of malaise with the EU, he said, was to reinvigorate democratic participation.\n\n\"Europeans need to take ownership of the European idea,\" he said, adding that the UK Brexit vote happened \"because for years we didn't dare to make proposals\".\n\n\"Europe suffered too much from being a crisis management union... we've got to build a union that is highly ambitious and protective.\"\n\nHe called for an EU of \"several formats\", to give space to those members wanting to integrate faster than others.\n\nA note on terminology: The BBC uses the term migrant to refer to all people on the move who have yet to complete the legal process of claiming asylum. This group includes people fleeing war-torn countries such as Syria, who are likely to be granted refugee status, as well as people who are seeking jobs and better lives, who governments are likely to rule are economic migrants.\n• None Is France already losing its Macron frisson?", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Eighty-two women take part in an equality march on the Cannes red carpet\n\nDozens of women film stars have held a protest at the Cannes film festival against gender-based discrimination in the industry.\n\nCate Blanchett, Kristen Stewart and Salma Hayek were among those taking part in the red-carpet demonstration.\n\nThe prestigious Cannes festival has come under criticism for failing to showcase more films by women directors.\n\nThe protest comes after a period of turmoil in the industry following allegations of sexual harassment.\n\nThis is the first Cannes festival since allegations of sexual abuse were first made against producer Harvey Weinstein last year. He has always denied engaging in non-consensual sex.\n\nThe actresses and film-makers linked arms to stroll along the red carpet. Cate Blanchett spoke of the film industry's gender inequalities.\n\n\"We are 82 women, representing the number of female directors who have climbed these stairs since the first edition of the Cannes film festival in 1946. In the same period, 1,688 male directors have climbed these very same stairs,\" the two-time Oscar winner said.\n\n\"The prestigious Palme d'Or has been bestowed upon 71 male directors, too numerous to mention by name, but only two female directors,\" Ms Blanchett remarked.\n\nThe women taking part in the protest included all of the festival's female jury members and many women actors, directors and producers.\n\n82 women took part in a Cannes protest against sexual harassment in the film industry\n\nProducer and activist Melissa Silverstein of Women and Hollywood said the protest was a \"massive milestone towards change\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Melissa Silverstein This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAt an event often more associated with the flashy and superficial, this was a moment of real heft and resonance.\n\nThe sight of 82 women walking slowly, silently and purposefully up the red-carpeted stars of Cannes' Grand Theatre Lumiere brought home the shocking under-representation of female film-makers at an event meant to celebrate the totality of world cinema.\n\nThe timing was perfect. The evening's film, Girls of the Sun, not only has a female director but also tells of a commando unit of female fighters in Kurdistan.\n\nSome of the 82 were familiar. Many were not. Together, though, they sent out a powerful statement that both this festival and the industry that sustains it would do well to heed.\n\nFor the 2018 festival, an anti-harassment hotline has been created.\n\nThe French Equality Minister Marlene Schiappa said it had received \"several calls\" since the gathering began on 9 May.\n\nThe allegations of sexual harassment made against well-known male film industry figures has created a public conversation about gender discrimination and sexual harassment in many industries.\n\nIt led to the creation of a #MeToo hashtag, giving women an opportunity to share their experiences.\n\nThe Time's Up movement was created by more than 300 actresses, writers and directors to help fight sexual harassment in the film industry and other workplaces.\n\nAt the Golden Globes in January, many film stars wore black gowns in support of the Time's Up movement, standing in solidarity with victims of sexual assault and harassment.\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.", "In the early hours of 14 June 2017 a devastating fire engulfed the Grenfell tower block in North Kensington, west London.\n\nThe building burned for several hours and 72 people were eventually confirmed to have lost their lives.\n\nRelatives of many victims were given the chance to commemorate their loved ones at the public inquiry in London.", "What a finale to an amazing Eurovision this year.\n\nIn the weeks leading up to the competition all the buzz was about the Israeli entry, Netta Barzilai. But in the past few days, her star seemed to have waned in favour of Cyprus’ glamourous Eleni Foureira.\n\nCertainly among the press, Netta had been written off – with Cyprus, France, Ireland and Italy thought to be the more credible acts.\n\nBy the half way point in the scoring, though, the national juries had confounded this and she was in a strong third position.\n\nAnd then for the public vote: the 25-year old gained the highest number of points possible from viewers at home.\n\nPerhaps they had seen someone, who was fun and quirky but who carried a meaningful and substantial message of accepting who you are.", "A body found at a marina on the banks of the Firth of Forth has been confirmed as missing Frightened Rabbit singer Scott Hutchison.\n\nThe discovery was made at Port Edgar, between the Forth Road Bridge and Queensferry Crossing, at about 20:30 on Thursday.\n\nMr Hutchison, 36, went missing in the early hours of Wednesday morning.\n\nHis family said there had been recent concerns about his mental health, and they were \"devastated\" by his death.\n\nMr Hutchison had spoken openly about his battle with depression over the years, with elder brother Neil saying he had done so \"in an attempt to help other people with similar conditions\".\n\nIn a statement released on Friday, the family said Mr Hutchison \"wore his heart on his sleeve, and that was evident in the lyrics of his music and the content of many of his social media posts.\n\n\"He was passionate, articulate and charismatic, as well as being one of the funniest and kindest people we knew. Friends and family would all agree that he had a brilliant sense of humour and was a great person to be around.\"\n\nThe statement added that relatives had \"remained positive and hopeful that he would walk back through the door, having taken some time away to compose himself\".\n\nAnd it described Mr Hutchison as a \"wonderful son, brother, uncle and friend\" who always had time for those he cared for.\n\n\"Depression is a horrendous illness that does not give you any alert or indication as to when it will take hold of you\", it added.\n\n\"Scott battled bravely with his own issues for many years and we are immensely proud of him for being so open with his struggles.\n\n\"His willingness to discuss these matters in the public domain undoubtedly raised awareness of mental health issues and gave others confidence and belief to discuss their own issues.\"\n\nHis Frightened Rabbit bandmates released a statement saying: \"There are no words to describe the overwhelming sadness and pain that comes with the death of our beloved Scott, but to know he is no longer suffering brings us some comfort.\n\n\"Reading messages of support and hope from those he has helped through his art has helped immensely and we encourage you all to continue doing this.\n\n\"He will be missed by all of us and his absence will always be felt but he leaves a legacy of hope, kindness and colour that will forever be remembered and shared.\"\n\nScott Hutchison was last seen after visiting the Dakota Hotel in South Queensferry\n\nThe singer and guitarist had last been seen on CCTV footage leaving the Dakota Hotel in nearby South Queensferry at 01:00 on Wednesday.\n\nTwo hours earlier, he had tweeted: \"Be so good to everyone you love. It's not a given. I'm so annoyed that it's not. I didn't live by that standard and it kills me. Please, hug your loved ones.\"\n\nShortly afterwards, he added: \"I'm away now. Thanks.\"\n\nFrightened Rabbit were formed by Mr Hutchison and brother Grant on drums. The band released their debut album Sing the Greys in 2006, and went on to release four more albums.\n\nThe brothers also released a critically-acclaimed album last month as part of Mastersystem - a supergroup that also included Justin Lockey from the band Editors.\n\nThe singer has spoken openly of his battle with depression\n\nNews of Mr Hutchison's death sparked tributes from fans and musicians.\n\nSnow Patrol singer Gary Lightbody paid tribute on Instagram to \"one of Scotland's most extraordinary song writers\".\n\nHe said Mr Hutchison \"wrote with such profound insight into loss and longing and listening to his words always made me feel this heady mix of wonder, elation and pain.\n\n\"That pain that also makes you feel someone understands what you're going through and you don't feel so alone\".\n\nFrightened Rabbit, pictured here at Glastonbury in 2013, released five albums\n\nStuart Murdoch, from Belle and Sebastian, wrote: \"Tragic news about Scott Hutchison. The whole music community in Scotland was praying for a different outcome.\"\n\nDJ Edith Bowman said: \"Can't really believe I'm reading this. Saddest awakening ever. Love and best wishes to all the Hutchison and Frabbit family.\"\n\nScotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon also tweeted: \"Heartbreaking news. My thoughts are with Scott's family, friends and fans. A remarkable and much loved talent.\"\n\nThe musician is originally from Selkirk but had been living in Glasgow.\n\nFrightened Rabbit were formed with Scott Hutchison on vocals and guitar and his brother Grant on drums, with the band's most recent line-up also featuring Billy Kennedy, Andy Monaghan and Simon Liddell.\n\nThey released the first of their five albums, Sing the Greys, in 2006, with Scott also releasing a solo album called Owl John.\n\nScott and Grant had recently formed a new band called Mastersystem, joining forces with Justin Lockey from Editors and his brother James, a film maker.\n\nTheir debut album, Dance Music, was released last month.\n\nScott had also hinted at a sixth Frightened Rabbit album being released before the end of the year, saying they had five or six songs that were coming together.", "Iraqis are voting in the first parliamentary elections since the government declared victory over so-called Islamic State (IS) last year.\n\nBut with the country still struggling to rebuild itself in many areas, some voters have lost faith in politicians.", "After three years under IS, the traditional spring festival takes on a new meaning for Mosul and its rebirth\n\nThe Mosul spring festival was held this week for the first time since 2003 - the year of the US-led invasion that toppled dictator Saddam Hussein.\n\nOrganisers said they revived the festival to symbolise the rebirth of Iraq's second city.\n\nMuch of it still lies in ruins after last year's war to destroy the jihadist extremists who called themselves Islamic State (IS), and the entity they declared as the caliphate.\n\nThe spring festival looked to be a success. Art students painted a mural 50m (165ft) long on the road and floats represented everything from the historic al-Nuri mosque - destroyed by IS - to the local cement factory which is presumably now working at full stretch. Youths marched with Iraqi flags.\n\nYoung girls took part dressed as brides while boys were dressed as soldiers. Following up were real fighters, veterans of the war against IS, from elite units of the Iraqi army to tough-looking Shia volunteers from the paramilitary Popular Mobilisation Units known as the Hashd.\n\nMosul's children also took part in the celebrations - the first in 15 years\n\nThey are mainly funded by Iran, and did a lot of the hard fighting against the jihadist extremists.\n\nThis spring could be a season of rebirth, for Mosul and the whole of Iraq. Remnants of IS carry out hit-and-run attacks and bombings, but by the blood-soaked standards of this country, security is much improved.\n\nA lot rides on the elections, due to be held on 12 May.\n\nWhoever ends up as prime minister faces huge challenges, not just reconstruction, but holding the country together and taking big steps to stop Iraq descending back into sectarian civil war.\n\nFor that to happen, the elections need to produce a government all groups in Iraq can trust. In a country that has seen so much sectarian killing, that is a tall order.\n\nIraqis can vote for rival lists of candidates. Most are predominantly Shia or Sunni, though the Kurds have their own lists. The three most likely candidates for prime minister are all Shias.\n\nThe current prime minister, Haidar al-Abadi, heads the Nasr list, which is tipped to get the most votes. But under the Iraqi system he will not be able to form a majority government, which means negotiations for a coalition that could go on for months.\n\nMost people believe that Mr Abadi's most serious rival for prime minister is the veteran paramilitary commander Hadi al-Amiri. He heads the Fatah list, which has become the political home of the Shia fighters of the Hashd and their supporters.\n\nMr Amiri, and Fatah, believe that the Iraqi people will show their gratitude for the sacrifices that the Hashd made in the fight against IS.\n\nIraqi flags are held aloft by marchers in the spring festival\n\nThe third frontrunner is Nouri al-Maliki, the former prime minister. He was forced out of office in 2014 after IS swept through Iraq, capturing Mosul and great swathes of predominantly Sunni territory.\n\nMr Maliki's sectarian policies so alienated Sunnis that, at first, many welcomed the jihadists. The brutality of IS quickly changed minds, but by then the jihadists had declared their caliphate.\n\nMr Maliki's past probably means he cannot be prime minister. But he is powerful and might want to be the kingmaker. A European diplomat said Mr Maliki was \"on manoeuvres\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. IS have gone but fear and hatred remain in Iraq\n\nIraq needs some good news after so many years of appalling suffering and this election, optimists say, could be a turning point. The bright scenario is that Haidar al-Abadi will win a second term and then work hard to bridge the divisions between Iraq's sects. Getting the economy right would help.\n\nBut this is Iraq, full of weapons, grudges and resentments, so there are always risks.\n\nSunnis I have spoken to are nervous about the Hashd fighters and their leader and candidate, Mr Amiri. He is very close to his fellow Shias in Iran, which for him is an entirely natural alliance.\n\nIt also makes the Iranians, through their friends in the Hashd, the strongest foreign force in Iraq.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Will Iran maintain its influence over Iraq?\n\nThe Americans have troops here, too. After US President Donald Trump's decision to abandon the Iran nuclear deal, there is obvious scope for trouble.\n\nIraq is fragile after the battering it has had since the Americans and their allies invaded in 2003.\n\nIf this election produces a result that most Iraqis can accept, and a government that most of them do not fear, this country has a chance to rebuild and to reconcile. But sadly, that is no certainty.", "The special relationship between Prince Harry and Meghan Markle is also big business in the US.", "The Fastest Shed has lived up to its name and beat its own record time, reaching 101mph\n\nA souped-up motorised shed has broken its own land speed record on a Welsh beach as it hit 100mph.\n\nThe Fastest Shed smashed its previous 80mph (129km/h) record for the fastest shed at a land speed event at Pendine Sands in Carmarthenshire on Saturday.\n\nOwner Kevin Nicks said it was \"marvellous\" to hit 101mph (160 km/h) in what he said was the only road legal motorised shed in the world.\n\n\"It couldn't have gone better, I'm so happy,\" said the 53-year-old gardener.\n\nMr Nicks, from Chipping Norton in Oxfordshire, spent more than £13,000 creating his bespoke shed on wheels, which now boasts a turbo-charged 400 brake horsepower engine that is more powerful than many sports cars.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The souped-up shed's previous best was 80mph\n\nHe first had the idea of creating a shed on wheels in 2015 when his old Volkswagen Passat lay broken on his drive - and he thought: \"Let's see if I can do something a little different.\"\n\nThe father-of-one initially spent £5,000 and 12 months making it roadworthy so he could \"take his daughter to school and pop to the shops\".\n\n\"I did everything, build the shed, connected the engine, build the chassis,\" said Mr Nicks, who lives in the same village as motoring broadcaster Jeremy Clarkson.\n\n\"The only thing I didn't do was felt the roof! I then thought 'I wonder how fast it could go'?\n\n\"I entered a few speed events and basically floored it. I hit 80mph to break the record, including the Guinness record. But it blew up so it needed some work.\"\n\nKevin Nicks created the Fastest Shed from his old Volkswagen Passat\n\nNow two years and 20,000 miles later, Mr Nicks has splashed out an estimated £8,000 on revamping the shed with a finely-tuned Audi RS4 engine.\n\n\"I've spent all winter doing it up and putting in a new engine and suspension, it's so quick off the mark.\n\n\"I had no idea how fast it would go - and it went well. It felt comfortable at 100mph, I was pleased.\"\n\nPendine Sands is synonymous with land speed attempts since Sir Malcolm Campbell broke the record in Bluebird in the 1920s\n\nMr Nicks said it was a \"magical moment\" breaking the record at Pendine, a beach which has become synonymous with land speed attempts since Sir Malcolm Campbell broke the record in the legendary Bluebird in the 1920s.\n\nHe was joined by a host of karts, three-wheelers and the most powerful street legal motorbikes as they hope to break the UK record of 194.5mph (313 km/h).\n\nSuperbike racer Zef Eisenberg will also attempt to break the land-speed record - and the 200mph barrier - on sand on his supercharged Suzuki Hayabusa.\n\n\"Pendine Sands is a notoriously difficult race track,\" said Eisenberg. \"Competitors have no idea what the surface is like until the tide goes out.\n\n\"It's not just the high-end engineering that makes breaking records on Pendine Sands difficult. As Pendine is a Ministry of Defence test fire site, you'll often end up encountering unexploded ordnance alongside giant washed-up jellyfish.\"\n\nEisenberg, from Guernsey, almost died after breaking the land speed record for a turbine bike 18 months ago as he crashed at 230mph (370km/h) and was in hospital for three months.\n\n\"No one in history, car or bike has ever exceeded 200mph on the sand at Pendine,\" he added.\n\n\"It's the holy grail of speed, where the best speed racers in the world have tried.\"", "Campaigners welcome the prime minister's decision to add two additional experts on the panel overseeing the Grenfell Tower disaster inquiry.\n\nThe move comes after Theresa May came under pressure from campaign groups, such as Grenfell United, who represent the victims' families.", "Thousands of people have joined a trade union march calling for a \"new deal\" for workers and public services.\n\nThe central-London demonstration, led by the Trades Union Congress, highlighted demands for better pay and job security.\n\nTUC research said the UK's real wage squeeze would be the worst in modern history and the slowest for 200 years.\n\nThe government said its policies had boosted pay for the lowest earners and meant workers could keep more of it.\n\nDemonstrators gathering at Saturday's march called for a higher minimum wage of £10 an hour, a ban on zero-hours contracts and greater funding for the NHS, education and other public services.\n\nAt a rally in Hyde Park at the end of the march, Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn told the crowd that his party would create a ministry to guarantee worker's rights.\n\n\"We will give workers more power by strengthening their rights and freedoms to organise together to improve their lives,\" he said.\n\nHe blamed eight years of government cuts for the lack of wage growth. \"They protect the tax havens and cut the spending for public services,\" Mr Corbyn said.\n\nThousands upon thousands of people marched through London's streets, some dancing, playing drums, shouting slogans and carrying banners aloft.\n\nNurses, teachers, office workers, ambulance crews, civil servants and cleaners joined the noisy and colourful demonstration.\n\nAs they arrived for the rally in Hyde Park the rain began and it became more like a festival in a soggy field. There were food stalls, bands playing and speeches from union leaders and peace campaigners.\n\nThe star of the show, Jeremy Corbyn - wearing a cream jacket and a big smile - was cheered like a pop star. The applause was long and loud.\n\nMark Serwotka, general secretary of the PCS union, told the crowd that 150,000 civil servants could ballot for strike action after members were offered a below-inflation 1% pay rise for the 11th year running.\n\nTUC general secretary Frances O'Grady said: \"There is a new mood in the country. People have been very patient but they are now demanding a new deal.\"\n\nMeanwhile, research published by TUC suggested wages in the UK had lagged behind inflation since 2008, and were worth £24 less in real terms than in 2008.\n\nMcDonald's workers marched to highlight their cause\n\nThe TUC also said wages would not recover until 2025, by which time, it said, the average worker would have lost £18,500.\n\nThe TUC's deputy general secretary Paul Nowack told the BBC that 17 years of falling wages in real terms amounted to the biggest relative wage loss since the Napoleonic Wars.\n\nIn the last eight years, a million more children from working families were living \"below the breadline\", he said.\n\n\"I don't think it's right that people who go out and work are struggling to put food on the table.\"\n\nElsewhere, economists said the slow wage growth was a result of low productivity in the UK, rather than austerity policies.\n\nPaul Johnson, director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies, told the BBC: \"That means that the amount we produce for each hour we work is basically the same as it was in 2008. If we're not producing any more, we're not in the end going to be able to earn any more.\"\n\nTens of thousands of workers joined the TUC demonstration, making it the largest in years\n\nA Treasury spokesperson said wages were forecast to grow faster than inflation in each of the next five years, and that government policies were helping British workers.\n\n\"Our National Living Wage has boosted pay for the lowest earners by over £2,000 already; we are cutting taxes to help people keep more of what they earn; and we are making sure people have the skills they need to secure high-quality, well-paid jobs by investing in technical education and boosting apprenticeships.\"\n\nThe TUC said its figures were based on annual average weekly earnings for total pay (including bonuses) adjusted with the CPI measure of inflation, which were then compared with long-run back data published by the Bank of England.\n\nThe forward-looking ones were based on the Office for Budget Responsibility forecast to 2022, and then a projection to 2025 using the average forecast growth rate for the 2018-22 period.", "Bishop Curry will travel to Windsor to take part in the service\n\nAn American bishop is to give the address at the wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle next week.\n\nThe Most Reverend Michael Curry became the first black presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church - like the Church of England, part of the Anglican Communion - when he was appointed in 2015.\n\nBishop Curry, from Chicago, said the couple's love had an \"origin in God, and is the key to life and happiness\".\n\nThe wedding will take place at Windsor Castle on 19 May.\n\nThe Dean of Windsor, the Rt Rev David Conner, will conduct the service before the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Most Reverend Justin Welby, officiates the ceremony in St George's Chapel.\n\nArchbishop Welby said he was thrilled the prince and Ms Markle had chosen Bishop Curry to carry out the address, describing him as a \"brilliant pastor, stunning preacher\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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End of twitter post by Archbishop of Canterbury\n\nMs Markle was baptised by the archbishop ahead of her nuptials to Prince Harry.\n\nBishop Curry, who was ordained as a priest in 1978, is the presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church and has spoken on issues including social justice, immigration policy and marriage equality.\n\nHe most recently campaigned for the creation of family day care providers, educational centres and investment in inner-city neighbourhoods in all three of his parish ministries - North Carolina, Ohio, and Maryland.\n\nIn North Carolina, he helped to refocus the church's development goals to fund malaria nets to save more than 100,000 lives.\n\nBishop Curry defended the Episcopal Church's move to allow same sex couples to marry in church in 2015, which caused some churches to cut ties.\n\nThe US Episcopal Church is one of only two Anglican churches worldwide that allow gay marriage in church - the other being the Scottish Episcopal Church.\n\nThe couple announced their engagement in November\n\nSpeaking after Kensington Palace announced his role on Saturday, Bishop Curry said: \"The love that has brought and will bind Prince Harry and Ms Meghan Markle together has its source and origin in God, and is the key to life and happiness.\n\n\"And so we celebrate and pray for them today.\"\n\nIt comes in the wake of other revelations about the wedding, with the Duke of Cambridge taking up the honour of being Prince Harry's best man, and Ms Markle's father set to walk her down the aisle.\n\nSome 1,200 members of the public have been invited to watch the ceremony on the grounds of the castle in Berkshire, and 250 members of the armed forces have been given ceremonial duties.\n\nThere is even a promise of confetti for train travellers hoping to catch a glimpse of the couple on their wedding day.\n\nWith less than a week to go, Prince Harry and Ms Markle's waxworks have been installed at Madame Tussauds, shops have stocked up on souvenirs, and Legoland's Windsor resort has recreated the wedding day.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nYou might think you know everything there is to know about the all-singing, all-dancing, Eurovision Song Contest, but do you know which is the rarest language?\n\nAs UK representative SuRie prepares to take to the stage with her song Storm, on Saturday for the Grand Final in Lisbon, she is thought to be the first entrant to release a version of her music video in sign language.\n\nClassically trained SuRie (a combination of her forenames Susanna and Marie), from Hertfordshire, was approached by fan Tom Moran, who sent her a video of himself signing the song.\n\nMoran, who is not deaf himself, uses sign language to talk to many of his family members who are deaf.\n\nSuRie was so moved by the gesture she invited Moran to help her film a signed version of the video.\n\n\"I had really been wanting to learn BSL (British Sign Language) for a while now,\" SuRie says. \"But this was the first time I had actually done it.\n\n\"He was there behind the camera signing with me to make sure everything was correct.\"\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\nMoran was impressed with SuRie's efforts and loved the finished product.\n\nHe said: \"It's so important that we increase the accessibility of music and inclusivity of Eurovision for all.\"\n\nWhile SuRie is the first to make her music more accessible ahead of the competition, this isn't the first time Eurovision has signed songs for the deaf community.\n\nSince 2015, the European Broadcasting Union (EBU), which produces the Eurovision Song Contest, has collaborated with the national broadcaster of each host nation to provide sign language interpreters as part of a scheme called Eurovision Signs.\n\nThe initiative uses International Sign, or IS, which is a more generalised version of sign language and combines signs from different sign languages.\n\nHowever, IS differs from other sign languages in the way it relies on gestures to convey meaning.\n\nInterpreters use signs, as well as body language, to translate the songs and also dance to the beat. The interpreter's aim is to tell the story of the song.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIt is up to the networks that broadcast the contest to provide Sign Language interpreters.\n\nSo far, nine countries are on board with Eurovision Signs including Denmark, Norway and the first host nation to take part, Austria.\n\nEva-Maria Hinterwirth of Austrian broadcaster ORF previously said: \"We always say that music is a language which is understood by everyone.\n\n\"And we felt that we should make this world [be]come reality, and to offer music to everyone, including deaf people.\"\n\nSweden is particularly renowned for providing interpreters.\n\nTommy Krångh from Sweden has become well-known for his enthusiastic signing of songs\n\nTommy Krångh became a viral hit after his enthusiastic interpretation of songs for Sweden's 2015 Eurovision heats amassed 3.7 million views on YouTube.\n\nAccessibility for disabled people is a hot topic amongst music fans.\n\nIn January, Sally Reynolds, who is deaf, took legal action against the organisers of a Little Mix concert after it only supplied a BSL interpreter for the headline act and not for the supporting acts.\n\nThe organisers had initially refused to provide an interpreter at all saying it was the customers responsibility to arrange it.\n\nBut Under the Equality Act 2010, any organisation which supplies a service to the public is under duty to make reasonable adjustments to ensure a disabled person's experience is as close as possible to that of someone without a disability.\n\nWalter and Kazha performed the chorus of their entry The War Is Not Over in Latvian Sign Language\n\nSuRie says: \"I think it's really important that music is inclusive and accessible to all people. Eurovision is great because it unites people through a love of great music, and that should be open to all.\"\n\nIn fact, one entry has already been performed in the Grand Final in Latvian Sign Language. In 2005, Walter and Kazha performed the chorus of their entry The War Is Not Over in sign.\n\nAnd here are a few more facts to get you one-up on your fellow Eurovision fans.\n\nMonika Kuszynska became the first wheelchair user to appear at Eurovision when she represented Poland in 2015 and Russia's semi-finalist this year, Julia Samoylova, performed in her wheelchair.\n\nThe singer of I Won't Break, has spinal muscular atrophy, a condition which weakens the muscles and makes movement difficult.\n\nSuRie has remained tight-lipped about her final performance in the final and is looking forward to seeing what her fellow-contestants have planned.\n\nBut when asked whether she would consider signing her music videos in the future, she emphatically replied, \"Definitely!\"\n\nInclusivity remains the cornerstone of the competition's ethos.\n\nLaunched in 1956, it was originally a way of uniting post-war Europe and the competition has gone on to become the largest non-sporting event in the world.\n\nWith this year's theme #AllAboard, let's hope Eurovision continues to work towards creating a diverse and welcoming space for everyone to celebrate music.\n\nYou can watch the Eurovision Grand Final this Saturday 12th May from 8pm BST on BBC One.\n\nFor more Disability News, follow on Twitter and Facebook, and subscribe to the weekly podcast.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Silvio Berlusconi was sentenced to four years in prison for tax fraud in 2013\n\nAn Italian court has lifted a ban on former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi holding public office.\n\nHe was barred in 2013 after receiving a four-year sentence for tax fraud, although he never spent time in prison.\n\nThe court decision comes just days after the 81-year-old agreed to his right-wing ally, the League party, talking to the anti-establishment Five Star party about forming a government.\n\nIf talks fail and a fresh election is called, Mr Berlusconi could now stand.\n\nThe court in Milan overturned the ban against the four-time prime minister and billionaire, which was due to remain in effect until 2019.\n\nHis lawyers had taken his case to the European Court of Human Rights.\n\nFollowing his conviction in 2013, Mr Berlusconi's sentence was automatically reduced to 12 months. It was then commuted to community service because of his age.\n\nBut his political influence has remained.\n\nDespite being officially barred from public office and expelled from the Italian Senate, he has continued to head the Forza Italia party, and his name appeared on ballot papers during Italy's 4 March general election.\n\nHe has also proven to be a point of contention in talks between League and Five Star - both populist parties - to form a government, ahead of Sunday's deadline.\n\nFive Star had urged the League to end its links with Mr Berlusconi, whom it sees as a symbol of the corrupt political practises it rejects.\n\nMr Berlusconi, on Wednesday, said he would not stand in the way of coalition between the two parties, although he said his Forza Italia party would not back a confidence motion of it in parliament.", "Poundworld employs about 5,500 staff in the UK\n\nDiscount retailer Poundworld has been put up for sale by its owner, private equity firm TPG, the BBC understands.\n\nThe chain had been looking at closing about 100 of its 355 stores as part of a restructuring plan, as it battled a tough retail environment.\n\nThat process has now been put on hold by US owner TPG after it received expressions of interest in the company.\n\nPoundworld, which employs about 5,500 people, is among many stores on the High Street which have been struggling.\n\nLike many retailers, it has been hit by falling consumer confidence, rising overheads, the weaker pound and the growth of online shopping.\n\nThe chain imports a lot of its stock and is having to pay more for it because of the fall in the value of the pound.\n\nThe process of finding a buyer will happen over a short timeframe, the BBC understands, to allow any new buyer to continue the restructuring process if required.\n\nIt had been expected to announce the terms of that process - known as a Company Voluntary Arrangement (CVA) - this month.\n\nCVA's have become popular among retailers because they allow firms to offload underperforming stores and reduce rents while avoiding administration.\n\nPoundworld, which has its headquarters in West Yorkshire, was formed in 2004, but it says it can trace its origins \"back to 1974 and a market stall in Wakefield, West Yorkshire\".\n\nPrivate equity firm TPG Capital, which bought a majority stake in Poundworld in 2015, also controls the restaurant chain Prezzo whose landlords agreed to a CVA last month. Prezzo is closing 94 branches.\n\nA number of other retailers have chosen to go through a CVA, including New Look and Carpetright, while House of Fraser is expected to make a formal CVA proposal next month, with a full restructuring in place by early 2019.\n\nEarlier this year, both Toys R Us UK and electronics chain Maplin went into administration.\n• None Six reasons behind the High Street crisis", "The M1 is being closed so a bridge can be put in place for the new Kegworth bypass in Leicestershire\n\nDrivers including football fans and people catching flights have been warned to expect disruption while part of the M1 is closed over the weekend.\n\nJunctions 23A to 24, near East Midlands Airport, will shut from 22:00 BST on Friday to 15:00 on Sunday.\n\nFulham FC fans had asked for the closure to be put back an hour because of their match against Derby County.\n\nBut Segro, which is putting a bridge in place for a new bypass, said it had advised of the closures since March.\n\nHighways England authorised the motorway closure but is not involved in the construction of the Kegworth bypass.\n\nFormer MP Tom Greatrex, who is chairman of the Fulham Supporters Trust, expects to be stuck in congested traffic for several hours after leaving the Pride Park stadium in Derby on Friday night.\n\nHe asked Highways England if they could close the road an hour later.\n\n\"It's not Highways England's fault as the game has been scheduled at short notice on a Friday night, but I thought it might make a bit of sense to avoid a whole load of chaos by starting an hour later,\" he said.\n\n\"The closure is going to start at 10 o'clock and at about quarter to ten, roughly, there will be about 30,000 other people coming out of the Derby ground.\n\n\"I would expect a chunk of those would normally be heading towards the M1 by car.\"\n\nPeople will be able to drive along the A453 instead while the M1 is closed\n\nSegro said in a statement: \"This project has taken months of intricate work with numerous organisations and we began advising of the closures in March to help people plan their diversions.\n\n\"Given the high level of planning and coordination involved in this project, we regret that we can't change the timings this close to start of the operation.\n\n\"We apologise for any inconvenience caused.\"\n\nFulham are playing against Derby County at Pride Park on Friday night\n\nTraffic was stopped for more than four hours on Friday morning on the northbound carriageway of the same stretch of motorway.\n\nThis was after a truck was involved in a crash and shed its load.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A dashcam has captured the moment a van driver thought to be sleeping at the wheel careered into the back of a lorry.\n\nDan Davies captured the crash in Northamptonshire on Thursday evening, where the driver miraculously left the scene with just minor injuries.", "Katrina Miles lived on the property with her parents and four children\n\nRelatives of the family at the centre of a suspected murder-suicide in Western Australia say they are \"stunned\" by what has happened.\n\nThe unnamed relatives of the Miles family said they were \"still trying to understand how this could happen\".\n\nKatrina Miles, her four children, and her parents Peter and Cynda Miles were all found shot dead at their property in Osmington, near Margaret River.\n\nPolice confirmed they believe the killer to be among the dead.\n\nPolice Commissioner Chris Dawson said they received a phone call from a man at the property alerting them to the shootings early on Friday morning.\n\n\"I wish to strongly emphasise that police do not believe any other person is involved in these crimes. Police are not searching for any other suspects,\" he told reporters.\n\nHe said three firearms found on the property belonged to Peter Miles, 61.\n\nRelatives of those involved, in a statement issued through the police, asked \"that the community refrain from speculating on the circumstances around this tragic incident\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The bodies of four children and three adults were found\n\nCommissioner Dawson said the body of a woman was found in the house on the rural property, while the bodies of a woman and four children were found in a nearby converted shed where Ms Miles lived with her children. A seventh person was found dead outside.\n\nLocal media report that Katrina Miles was aged 35, and had four children aged between 13 and eight.\n\nThe children's father had been notified of the killings and was \"understandably grieving\", Commissioner Dawson said.\n\nCynda Miles, 58, and her family were said to have been active members of their tiny rural community of Osmington, which is about 20km from Margaret River, a popular tourist and wine-growing area.\n\nMemorials have been posted on Katrina and Cynda's Facebook profiles.\n\nCynda Miles was well known in her community\n\n\"They were a very socially-aware family - doing their best to create a safe community - and that is why it is so shocking to think that could be destroyed so quickly,\" she told the Australian Broadcasting Corp.\n\nPamela Townshend, president of the Shire of Augusta-Margaret River, told Fairfax Media: \"It's sending shockwaves through the whole community - we're all linked in one way or another, every family.\"\n\nThis is Australia's worst mass shooting since a massacre in Port Arthur, Tasmania, claimed the lives of 35 people in 1996.\n\nThat incident led to comprehensive reform of the nation's gun laws, which included a ban on automatic and semi-automatic weapons.\n\nAustralia has had one other mass shooting since Port Arthur - the murder-suicide of a family of five in New South Wales in 2014.", "Mae Muller: Eurovision broke my heart but album kept me going , published at 01:08 Mae Muller: Eurovision broke my heart but album kept me going", "Eighty-two women, including the actress Cate Blanchett, have taken part in a symbolic protest at the Cannes film festival.\n\nThey are calling for women to have a greater voice in the film industry.\n\nEighty-two represents the number of films with female directors in the main competition's 71-year history.", "Brooklyn Nine-Nine was launched in 2013 and has gained a large following\n\nUS network NBC has picked up Brooklyn Nine-Nine, just one day after Fox announced it was cancelling the cult comedy.\n\nThe decision to end the series had sparked outrage among fans and celebrities alike.\n\nThe 13-episode sixth season will air next year.\n\nBrooklyn Nine-Nine follows a team of detectives in the New York City Police Department and has been praised for its inclusivity and diversity.\n\nFollowing Fox's decision to axe the series, fans quickly launched a social media campaign calling for it to be renewed, with the hashtag #Brooklyn99 used over 650,000 times on Twitter.\n\nCelebrities including the Backstreet Boys and director Guillermo del Toro weighed in with messages of support.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Guillermo del Toro This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 series' actors and writers credited fans for NBC's decision to save the series.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Dan Goor This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nActress Melissa Fumero, who plays Amy Santiago, shared celebratory gifs from the show, while Stephanie Beatriz, who appears as Rosa Diaz, thanked viewers.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Melissa Fumero This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as 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\nIn a statement, NBC Entertainment's Chairman Robert Greenblatt said: \"Ever since we sold this show to Fox I've regretted letting it get away, and it's high time it came back to its rightful home.\"\n\nBrooklyn Nine-Nine had been one of the longest-running comedies on Fox, with a 100% critics' rating on Rotten Tomatoes, as well as a 95% audience score.\n\nThe fifth season is currently being shown on E4 in the UK. The season finale will air on 20 May in the US.\n• None Brooklyn Nine-Nine is no more", "C.J. Poirer (left) is on his way to visit Becca Warren (right) after a beleaguered Twitter campaign\n\nA cash-poor young man has proven that perseverance and thousands of retweets are all it takes to conquer love.\n\nMichigan native CJ Poirier wanted to visit his Canadian girlfriend in Newfoundland but lacked the funds.\n\nWhen the 19-year-old failed to score a free flight by getting 530,000 retweets, he asked for celebrities to donate their retweets to his cause.\n\nHis campaigning finally paid off, and he will be on board a flight to visit his girlfriend next Monday.\n\nIt was a love story made for the social media age.\n\nMr Poirer met his girlfriend Becca Warren about a year ago online, where the two quickly bonded over video games and cartoons. But after six months of texting, they want to meet face to face.\n\nA plane ticket from Michigan to Newfoundland would cost about $800, a steep price tag for a barista, Mr Poirer 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\nThat is where Twitter came in.\n\n\"How many retweets to get a free round trip flight to Newfoundland and see my girlfriend?\" he asked.\n\nThey agreed that he would have to get 530,000 retweets by 9 May in order to get a free ticket.\n\nWhen he missed the mark - by about 498,000 retweets - the airline agreed to extend the deadline and let others \"donate\" their own retweets to his cause.\n\nMr Poirer tried to convince the likes of Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and rapper Drake to help him out, but it was Canadian skating celebrity duo Scott Moir and Tessa Virtue who pitched 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 2 by Tessa Virtue This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 Friday, Mr Poirer announced that he met the deadline, and that Air Canada would be giving him a free round-trip ticket to visit Ms Warren.\n\n\"WE DID IT!!!!!!\" he tweeted, sharing Air Canada's post.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 C.J. Poirier - #530KforBecca This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nHe has also raised $500 on a GoFundMe he created as a back-up plan to his Twitter challenge. He has not said what he plans to do with the money.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The boy was winched to safety\n\nA 13-year-old boy was left clinging to a cliff face by his fingernails after he started to climb it but got stuck.\n\nCoastguard teams and a search and rescue helicopter winched the child to safety from the 330ft (100m) cliff face in Langdon, Kent, on Friday.\n\nDover coastguard said the teenager started climbing from a terrace cut into the middle of the cliff.\n\nHe was 175ft (53m) from the bottom when he found himself unable to move up or down.\n\nHM Coastguard helicopter captain James Lorraine said the rescue was particularly difficult because of the boy's \"extremely perilous position\" on the cliff near Dover.\n\nHe said the child had been stuck for about 30 minutes when he was found, and rescuers knew he could not hold on much longer.\n\nAfter they were unable to reach him because of the dense shrubbery, the helicopter took over \"with only minutes to spare\", he said.\n\n\"Thankfully, the rescue went smoothly and the boy was reunited with his family at the base of the cliff.\"\n\nThe child had scrapes and bruises, but area commander Matt Pavitt said it was a miracle he escaped without injury.\n\n\"He was very, very lucky,\" he said. \"The boy had been clinging on by his fingernails to stop himself from falling from the sheer rock face for just over 30 minutes and if he had let go this would have been a very different outcome.\"\n\nFresh warnings have been issued to people visiting the coast to be aware of the dangers of the cliffs.\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. Nasa is sending the helicopter to Mars for a mission in 2020\n\nNasa is sending a helicopter to Mars, in the first test of a heavier-than-air aircraft on another planet.\n\nThe Mars Helicopter will be bundled with the US space agency's Mars rover when it launches in 2020.\n\nIts design team spent more than four years shrinking a working helicopter to \"the size of a softball\" and cutting its weight to 1.8kg (4lbs).\n\nIt is specifically designed to fly in the atmosphere of Mars, which is 100 times thinner than Earth's.\n\nNasa describes the helicopter as a \"heavier-than-air\" aircraft because the other type - sometimes called an aerostat - are balloons and blimps.\n\nSoviet scientists dropped two balloons into the atmosphere of Venus in the 1980s. No aircraft has ever taken off from the surface of another planet.\n\nThe helicopter's two blades will spin at close to 3,000 revolutions a minute, which Nasa says is about 10 times faster than a standard helicopter on Earth.\n\n\"The idea of a helicopter flying the skies of another planet is thrilling,\" said Nasa Administrator Jim Bridenstine.\n\n\"The Mars Helicopter holds much promise for our future science, discovery, and exploration missions to Mars.\"\n\nWhile the tiny craft is being called a helicopter rather than a drone, there will be no pilot.\n\nNasa provided this computer-generated image of the helicopter's design\n\nIt will be flying almost 55 million km (34 million miles) from Earth, too far away to send a remote control signal.\n\n\"Earth will be several light minutes away, so there is no way to joystick this mission in real time,\" said Mimi Aung, the project manager at Nasa's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.\n\nInstead, the helicopter will \"fly the mission on its own\".\n\nThe JPL team made the minuscule helicopter as strong as possible to give it the best chance of surviving.\n\n\"The altitude record for a helicopter flying here on Earth is about 40,000 feet,\" Ms Aung said. \"When our helicopter is on the Martian surface, it's already at the Earth equivalent of 100,000 feet up.\"\n\nThat is part of the reason why Nasa is calling the Mars helicopter a \"high risk\" project.\n\n\"If it does not work, the Mars 2020 mission will not be impacted. If it does work, helicopters may have a real future as low-flying scouts and aerial vehicles to access locations not reachable by ground travel,\" Nasa said in a statement.\n\nExisting Mars vehicles have been wheeled devices, which have to navigate around many obstacles in their path and have been confined to fairly large open spaces on the surface of Mars.\n\nOne such vehicle, the Spirit rover, got stuck in a patch of sand in 2009, where it eventually ran out of power and shut down.\n\nThe Mars 2020 rover - accompanied by its helicopter companion - is due to launch in July of that year and arrive on the red planet in February 2021.", "Leinster beat Racing 92 in a nail-biting Champions Cup final to be crowned European champions for a record-equalling fourth time.\n\nThree penalties apiece meant the scores were tied at 9-9 after 70 minutes.\n\nBut Isa Nacewa took over the kicking duties from Johnny Sexton and landed two penalties in the final six minutes to secure victory in Bilbao.\n\nRacing failed with a final shot to take the match to extra time when replacement Remi Tales hooked a drop-goal wide with the clock in the red.\n\nIt was the last act of a final in which neither team ever led by more than three and Leinster went in front for the first time with less than two minutes to go.\n\nAmid the tickertape and sprayed champagne, Leinster matched the record set by French giants Toulouse with their fourth crown.\n\nTheir latest triumph lacked the thrills of their five-try demolition of Ulster in 2012 or the drama of their comeback against Northampton in 2011, but meant no less to tearful Leo Cullen, who becomes the first man to win the trophy as a player and coach, and his number two Stuart Lancaster, who has rebuilt his reputation after England's dismal 2015 World Cup campaign.\n\nHowever, they found themselves down to their third-choice fly-half after three minutes.\n\nAll Blacks legend Dan Carter, initially named on the bench, pulled out of the match with a hamstring injury in the hours before kick-off, while Springbok Pat Lambie was soon forced off with a knee injury.\n\nHowever Tales, a 24-cap France international, filled in competently at 10 while scrum-half Iribaren, himself playing in place of injured lynchpin Maxime Machenaud, bought his side territory with precise kicking from hand.\n\nRacing's heavy-duty forward pack slowed down Leinster's usual slick recycling, while their rush defence denied the likes of centre Garry Ringrose any space.\n\nWhen Iribaren edged his side 12-9 ahead with nine minutes to go, it appeared that the combination would produce a surprise win.\n\nBut Racing's discipline and concentration wavered as fatigue told and Nacewa, playing his final European match for Leinster before retirement, punished them from the tee.\n\nBoth before and after the match, Leinster's players were quick to praise the work ex-England boss Lancaster has done behind the scenes since he was appointed in September 2016.\n\nFocusing on the technical side of Leinster's play, his arrival has coincided with a vast improvement in the team's European campaigns.\n\nAfter finishing bottom of their pool in 2015-16, Leinster went out in the semi-finals of last year's competition, and are now two matches away from adding the Pro14 title to this triumph at Athletic Bilbao's San Mames Stadium.\n\nLancaster has vowed to continue at the RDS after speculation linked him with the vacant director of rugby role at Harlequins.\n\nWhat they said\n\nLeinster senior coach Stuart Lancaster speaking to BBC Sport: \"It was tough on me and my family and my friends and all the people who supported me at the time [after his sacking by England]. But this is for them really, all the people who have stuck with me, and it's been nice to give them an opportunity to see me smile.\"\n\nLeinster fly-half Johnny Sexton speaking to BT Sport: \"We did it the hard way. We couldn't get going in the game. Every time we got into their 22 the ball was killed.\n\n\"It was very greasy and they slowed it down at the ruck, but I can't believe we are champions again. I'm so happy for the young lads and the coaches. Stuart Lancaster has been brilliant since he has come in.\"\n\nFormer England fly-half Paul Grayson on BBC Radio 5 live: \"Champions find a way to win. Leinster weren't at their best today, against a side that had nothing to lose, but in those crucial moments they found something more. No surprise Johnny Sexton was at the heart of it.\"\n\nReplacements: Gibson-Park for L. McGrath (62), J McGrath for Healy (55), Tracy for Cronin (62), Porter for Furlong (66), Conan for J Murphy (62).\n\nReplacements: Tales for Lambie (3), Rokocoko for Dupichot (29 to 37), Kakovin for Ben Arous (55), Avei for Chat (45), Johnston for Gomes Sa (55), Chouzenoux for Le Roux (69).", "The current generation of students is under increased pressure, the report suggests\n\nAlmost five times as many students as 10 years ago have disclosed a mental health condition to their university, say researchers.\n\nIn 2015-16, more than 15,000 UK-based first-year students disclosed mental health issues, Institute of Public Policy Research analysis suggests.\n\nThe 2006 figure was about 3,000 and the rise risks overwhelming university services, the IPPR says.\n\nUUK says a new framework, published on Monday, will boost the mental health and wellbeing of students and staff and help embed good mental health across all university activities.\n\nThe IPPR study analyses figures from the Higher Education Statistics Agency, which show a larger rise in disclosure of mental health conditions among female students.\n\nUntil 2009-10, the rate of male and female students reporting mental health issues was about the same, at about 0.5%.\n\nBy 2015, however, it had risen to 2.5% of female students and 1.4% of male students.\n\n\"So while male students are three times more likely to disclose a mental health condition than they were 10 years ago, female students are five times more likely,\" says the report.\n\nThe researchers also suggest that \"due to an imperfection in the way data is collected, the actual number of mental health disclosures is likely to be higher than described in this report\".\n\nThe report notes that official statistics show student suicides rose sharply between 2007 and 2015 - from 75 to 134.\n\nAnd separate figures show a record 1,180 students with mental health problems dropped out of university in 2015, a rise of 210% on five years earlier.\n\n\"The extent of support is currently too varied, and many university services are overwhelmed by the level of demand,\" said IPPR senior research fellow Craig Thorley.\n\nAt some universities one in four students is using or waiting to use counselling services, and some report dramatic increases:\n\nHigher education leaders plan to embed good mental health across all university activities\n\nThe authors suggest the current generation of undergraduates could be under greater pressure than previous generations because of increased study costs and an increasingly competitive jobs market, with more students determined to gain top degrees.\n\nThey also suggest that with a greater proportion of 18-year-olds going to university than in the past, students more closely reflect the population of young adults as a whole in terms of mental health - and there has been a steady growth in mental illness in young adults during the past 25 years.\n\nProf Steve West, vice-chancellor of the University of the West of England, who chairs UUK's working group on mental health in higher education, said its new framework was \"a step change\" in university support for students' mental wellbeing.", "The Grenfell Tower fire inquiry could become a whitewash unless there is a diverse panel to oversee proceedings, survivors and bereaved families say.\n\nThey say chairman Sir Martin Moore-Bick should sit with people from a range of backgrounds who understand the issues facing those affected by the blaze, in which 71 people died on 14 June.\n\nThey have started a petition calling for Theresa May to intervene.\n\nThe government said the process of considering the panel was ongoing.\n\nSir Martin's appointment as the inquiry chairman has already been criticised by residents, who say he is an establishment figure.\n\nVictims groups were further angered when the retired Court of Appeal judge said he would not appoint a member of the Grenfell community to the panel, arguing it would \"risk undermining impartiality\".\n\nAdel Chaoui, who lost four relatives in the fire, said their complaint was \"not about ethnicity\".\n\n\"It's nothing to do with whether you're black, white, Arab, whatever - it is to do with experiences,\" he said.\n\n\"(Sir Martin) is very, very good at what he does, but he does not necessarily understand us.\n\n\"At the same time, we are up against these industry bodies that are spending millions of pounds on legal resources that we are never going to get anywhere near.\"\n\nSir Martin has been criticised by some families as an establishment figure\n\nMr Chaoui said he and others would likely not attend the inquiry unless the format was changed.\n\nHe added: \"I'm really hoping the Prime Minister sees all we're asking for is a fair crack at justice.\"\n\nThe petition organisers say about 50 victims are backing the call for Downing Street to add people to the panel who have the \"breadth and experience\" of the \"big social issues\" that led to the tragedy.\n\nKarim Mussilhy, whose uncle Hesham Rahman died in the fire, said: \"We don't want to whitewash this inquiry, we don't want to feel like we're not being listened to, or belittled, or ignored just like the residents were before and after the [fire at the] tower.\"\n\nHesham Rahman's body was recovered from the 23rd floor of the tower block\n\nSir Martin has appointed three assessors to the inquiry, which will open its first procedural hearing on 11 December.\n\nOne of the assessors is from a black and ethnic minority background.\n\nBut Sandra Ruiz, who lost her niece in the tower blaze, has said the assessors have \"no decision-making capacity\".\n\n\"I think it's just a nod to what we've been asking but I don't think there's enough of a response there,\" she added.\n\nKarim Mussilhy and Sandra Ruiz are calling on Theresa May to use special powers to appoint more diverse panel members to the Grenfell Tower inquiry\n\nA government spokesman said: \"The prime minister has given a commitment to consider the inquiry panel after the chair determined what further expertise he required, and this process is ongoing.\n\n\"We would like to assure all those affected by the tragedy that legal representatives of core participants will receive all relevant evidence, be able to offer opening and closing statements at hearings, and will be able to suggest lines of questioning for witnesses.\"", "The $3.7bn (£2.7bn) bridge has been a flagship political project for Russia as it seeks to cement its hold on to the territory it annexed from Ukraine in 2014.", "The Farnese Blue diamond passed down through generations of royal families\n\nA rare blue diamond that has spent the past 300 years in Europe's royal houses has been sold at auction in Geneva for $6.7m (£5m).\n\nThe Farnese Blue was given as a wedding present to Elizabeth Farnese, daughter of the Duke of Parma, when she married Philip V of Spain in 1715.\n\nIt then passed down through the generations, moving from Spain to France, Italy and Austria.\n\nThe 6.1 carat diamond comes from the famous Golconda mine of India.\n\nIt sold after just four minutes of bidding at Sotheby's, easily passing the auction house's estimate of $3.5m-$5m.\n\n\"We were expecting a good result but we started from $3.5m and we ended up with $6.7m, so we exceeded our expectation,\" said Sotheby's jewellery specialist, Daniela Mascetti.\n\n\"Good jewels, well-designed, well-made, with a signature, with a perfect... slot in time, in age, do very well.\"\n\nAccording to the auctioneers' website, the pear-shaped diamond once formed part of a tiara owned by the ill-fated French Queen Marie Antoinette.\n\nThe identity of the new owner has not been revealed.", "Three of Nassar's victims (L-R) - Jade Capua, Kyle Stephens, Alexis Moore - confronted Nassar in court earlier this year\n\nMichigan State University has agreed to pay $500m (£371m) to gymnasts who were abused by ex-team doctor Larry Nassar.\n\nThe deal was announced by a California law firm representing 332 victims of Nassar, who assaulted women and girls under the guise of medical treatment.\n\nThe deal does not include any non-disclosure or confidentiality agreements, according to a statement from lawyers and the university.\n\nIt does not address allegations against other groups for which Nassar worked.\n\nIt does not address claims against USA Gymnastics, the US Olympic Committee, or the owners of the Texas facility where gymnasts trained, according to a statement from the California law firm of Manly, Stewart & Finaldi in Los Angeles.\n\nAccording to the lawyers, $425m will be paid to the claimants, and another $75m would be set aside for any future allegations against Nassar, 54, and the university.\n\nThe lawyers' statement does not address how the money will be allocated to each of Nassar's accusers.\n\n\"This historic settlement came about through the bravery of more than 300 women and girls who had the courage to stand up and refuse to be silenced,\" attorney John Manly said in the statement on Wednesday.\n\nHe added that it is their \"hope\" that \"the legacy of this settlement\" will serve to eradicate abuse in US sport.\n\nThe university's board chairman Brian Breslin also issued a written statement saying: \"We are truly sorry to all the survivors and their families for what they have been through, and we admire the courage it has taken to tell their stories.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What it was like to testify against Larry Nassar\n\n\"We recognise the need for change on our campus and in our community around sexual assault awareness and prevention\" he continued.\n\nMany of the young women who survived Larry Nassar's sexual abuse weren't just angry at what he had done to them, but at the institutions they felt had enabled him.\n\nMichigan State University was where he worked for decades, and many of the young gymnasts felt their complaints to staff there went ignored.\n\nThis settlement is an acknowledgement from the university that they could have done things so very differently. But for some survivors, like Rachel Denhollander, the first woman to go public with her story, there is a long way to go.\n\nShe says she is grateful for the settlement, but disappointed at the \"missed opportunity for reform\" at the university.\n\nFor so many of the women I watched in court throughout the harrowing sentencing earlier this year, speaking out wasn't just about getting justice for themselves - but about changing attitudes and processes so other survivors of abuse have a voice too.\n\nThe president of USA Gymnastics, which oversees the US Olympic team, as well as the entire board of directors resigned after at least 156 women came forward to testify against the disgraced ex-doctor.\n\nEarlier this year, the university's president and director of athletics resigned amid claims that school officials had been told of allegations against Nassar years ago but failed to act.\n\nFormer president Lou Anna Simon denied claims of a university cover-up as she stepped down on the same day that Nassar was sentenced for his crimes.\n\nThe settlement surpasses the $109m that Penn State University agree to pay in 2017 to settle claims by at least 35 people against American football coach Jerry Sandusky.\n\nNassar, 54, was sentenced to more than 100 years in prison for abusing female athletes he was supposed to be treating\n\nNassar is currently being held in federal jail and will likely remain there for the rest of his life.\n\nHe is serving a 60-year sentence for child pornography. If he is ever released he faces up to 175 years in state jail for sexual assault.", "There is a terrible shadow hanging over this wedding; the same shadow that hung over Harry for so long; the same shadow that hangs still over the House of Windsor and the writers and photographers who chronicle it.\n\nIt is the shadow of Diana, Princess of Wales.\n\nMuch has been made of Meghan Markle's ease with the pressures of the modern media.\n\nShe is a hugely impressive communicator, in front of the microphones and cameras, and through social media.\n\nShe has worked her way up in film and TV to a leading role in a successful show.\n\nAlong the way there have been countless interviews, tours and fan conventions.\n\nShe will, it is said, be at ease with the day-in, day-out exposure that goes along with being a high profile member of the Royal Family.\n\nShe was a success in the legal drama Suits and she made a decent name for herself there.\n\nBut she was not Hollywood royalty, and she was stalked neither by photographers nor by gossip websites.\n\nShe lived in the relative quiet of Toronto, she shopped and ate out where she wanted and when she wanted with little or no disturbance.\n\nNo one thought to stake out her father's house in Mexico, no one thought to pay her estranged relatives for interviews, no one made up stories about her childhood neighbourhood.\n\nWhen she stepped out of her house she didn't face a barrage of long lenses and shouted questions.\n\nShe had a pretty normal life and press exposure was controlled, on her terms and those of her publicists.\n\nWhatever smiles he manages with the press, he remembers the extraordinary attention his late mother Diana received - attention she cultivated as well as suffered from.\n\nCourtiers speak of his abiding distrust of the media.\n\nPrevious partners of his recoiled in horror at the exposure that being \"Harry's Girl\" brought.\n\nRelationships appeared to crumble under the weight of unceasing comment, speculation and intrusion into the lives of friends and family.\n\nMaybe Meghan Markle seemed different. She is strong and independent, like previous partners, like his mother Diana.\n\nBut she is also older, more mature, more confident in how she handles herself and what she wants to do with her life.\n\n\"I've never wanted to be a lady who lunches,\" she said, \"I've always wanted to be a lady who works\". Very different from most royal brides.\n\nBut as soon as the relationship was public, it was open season on Ms Markle. And on her friends and family\n\nPrince Harry made his anger - fury, by all accounts - clear with a public statement in November 2016 denouncing the intrusion.\n\nHis office detailed some of it: \"… [Meghan Markle's] mother having to struggle past photographers to get to her front door… the substantial bribes offered to her ex-boyfriend, the bombardment of nearly every friend, co-worker and loved one in her life\".\n\nIt made no difference. To newspapers, photographers and websites, everyone connected to her was fair game.\n\nAnd however strong Ms Markle might be, her relatives were always going to be weaker.\n\nIn Westminster Abbey, more than two decades ago, Diana's brother described his sister as the most hunted person of her age.\n\nNow, just days before her wedding, Ms Markle and her relatives hear the hounds at their feet.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Anwar Ibrahim says the opposition's election victory is \"a new dawn\" for Malaysia.\n\nReformist politician Anwar Ibrahim has hailed a \"new dawn\" for Malaysia on his release from prison, days after a stunning opposition election win.\n\nMr Anwar told jubilant supporters he fully backed his ally and former rival, Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamed.\n\nEarlier he was pardoned from what was widely seen as a politically motivated conviction for sodomy.\n\nMr Mahathir, who sought the pardon, has promised to step aside for Mr Anwar to become prime minister within two years.\n\nOnce seen as a future leader, Anwar Ibrahim then fell out with the government. He was jailed for a second time three years ago on what he said were trumped-up sodomy charges.\n\nAfter his release, he told a news conference he thanked the people of Malaysia, who \"stood by the principles of democracy and freedom\".\n\nMr Anwar said he had forgiven Mr Mahathir and stressed he would give full support to the new government, though not immediately be part of 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 Jonathan Head This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 and Mahathir have buried the hatchet already, it was a long time ago,\" Mr Anwar told the news conference at his home.\n\nFor years he had headed Malaysia's opposition movement, which last week defeated the former ruling party for the first time in the country's history.\n\nLast week's shock election victory followed a reconciliation between Mr Anwar and his 92-year-old erstwhile political mentor, who sacked and jailed him 20 years ago during his first stint as prime minister.\n\nSome prison officers celebrated Mr Anwar's moment of freedom with him\n\nMr Anwar walked free out of a hospital in the capital Kuala Lumpur where he had been undergoing treatment for a shoulder problem.\n\nSupporters camped out at the hospital trailed him to the Istana Negara royal palace where he met Mr Mahathir before being pardoned by the king.\n\n\"Long live Anwar,\" supporters on motorbikes yelled as they pulled into the royal compound in support of their newly-freed leader.\n\n\"He is a symbol of freedom to Malaysians like me,\" 59-year old Ahmad Samsuddin told the BBC.\n\n\"Finally. It feels like the tide of change is turning in Malaysia after so many years of injustice. Today is a historic day with Anwar's release and will get even better.\"\n\nThe story of the relationship between Mr Mahathir and Mr Anwar is one of extraordinary twists and turns.\n\nDuring the 1990s they were political allies, serving as prime minister and deputy prime minister respectively.\n\nBut Mr Anwar was sacked in 1998 and jailed a year later for abuse of power. In 2000 he was convicted of sodomy and given an additional nine-year jail term.\n\nIn 2004 his conviction was overturned and he led the opposition to unprecedented gains - though remained short of victory - in the 2008 and 2013 general elections.\n\nA year later when he was heading into a state election he seemed likely to win, he was sent back to jail.\n\nEvents took a remarkable turn earlier this year, when Mr Mahathir announced he would join forces with the opposition and run for top office once again.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Malaysian voters react in 2018 to Mahathir Mohamad's victory over Najib Razak\n\nMr Mahathir said he was sick of the corruption allegations plaguing the incumbent, Najib Razak, another of his former allies.\n\nOne condition for Mr Mahathir being allowed to lead the opposition coalition was that he agreed to secure a royal pardon for Mr Anwar who remained popular with his supporters.\n\nMr Mahathir agreed and further said he intended to hand the prime ministerial post to Mr Anwar within two years.", "Sixty three members of the Windrush generation could have been wrongfully removed or deported from the UK since 2002, the home secretary has said.\n\nSajid Javid told the Home Affairs Select Committee 32 were foreign offenders and 31 people removed by officials, rather than a court order.\n\nHe said the figures were provisional.\n\nIt was the first time specific numbers have been outlined since the scandal involving people who came to the UK from Commonwealth nations broke.\n\nLabour MP Yvette Cooper, who chairs the home affairs committee, said there were many \"unanswered questions\".\n\n\"It is shocking to find that 63 people may have been wrongly removed or deported and troubling that they have not yet been contacted,\" she said.\n\nThe Windrush migrants arrived between the late 1940s and 1973, mainly from the Caribbean, but some have been threatened with deportation in recent years. Many came to the UK legally as children but have no formal documentation, which has also led to them being refused jobs or healthcare.\n\nMr Javid said the 63 cases he outlined were identified from 8,000 records of removals from the UK of people aged over 45.\n\nHe told the committee: \"I've asked officials to be absolutely certain and thorough and check over every record and make sure.\"\n\nThe home secretary said he did not have information on how many Windrush immigrants had been detained.\n\nHe denied that there was a \"systemic\" problem in the Home Office, but said in the Windrush cases people had faced \"too large a burden\" in proving they had lived in the UK for many decades.\n\nIn a letter to committee chair Yvette Cooper, Mr Javid said a helpline set up after the Windrush cases emerged had received more than 11,500 calls. More than 4,482 of these were identified as possible Windrush cases. So far 526 people have now received documents confirming their right to be in the UK.\n\nPrime Minister Theresa May has announced a government review to understand how members of the Windrush generation \"came to be entangled in measures\" designed to tackle illegal immigration.\n\nWriting on Twitter, Labour MP David Lammy said Mrs May - a former home secretary - needed to come to Parliament to explain how the 63 people were removed, describing the revelation as \"truly a day of national shame\".\n\nMr Javid became home secretary last month after Amber Rudd resigned, saying she \"inadvertently misled\" MPs over targets for removing illegal immigrants.\n\nThe scandal had heaped pressure on Ms Rudd, who faced criticism after telling the home affairs committee she did not know about Home Office removals targets.", "Provocateur Lars von Trier is under fire again after a screening of his film, The House That Jack Built, prompted dozens to walk out.\n\nStarring Matt Dillon as a serial killer, one reporter, Roger Friedman said it was a \"vile movie. Should not have been made. Actors also culpable\".\n\nDillon plays an architect who kills several women and children in gruesome fashion. Uma Thurman also stars.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or 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 Oscar Predictor This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and 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 Oscar Predictor\n\nVon Trier had been banned from the festival for seven years for comments he made in a press conference for his sci-fi film Melancholia.\n\nThe Danish film-maker pushed organisers too far when he said (as a joke it was later assumed) he was a Nazi.\n\nNow, with The House That Jack Built, the offence has gone further - into the throng of the gathered press.\n\nIn one scene, as the killer Jack mutilates a girlfriend, he says: \"Why is it always the man's fault...\n\n\"If you are born male you are born to be guilty. Think of the injustice of that.\"\n\nLars von Trier (centre) and some of those involved in the The House That Jack Built attended the film's Cannes premiere\n\nThere is also a scene in which he practises amateur taxidermy on one of his victims.\n\nVariety reporter Ramin Setoodeh said more than 100 people walked out of the Cannes screening.\n\nThe Hollywood Reporter called the film \"an autoerotic ego massage... often as inane as it is unsettling\".\n\nIt said it was a direct rebuttal \"to the current climate of reckoning over gender bias and sexual misconduct\".\n\nThe film also featured images of Hitler and other mass-murdering dictators.\n\nLars von Trier at Cannes with Melancholia's star Kirsten Dunst - before he was banned\n\nVon Trier's ban in 2011 was after he said of Hitler: \"He's not what you would call a good guy but I understand him. I sympathise with him a little bit.\"\n\nThe film's star Kirsten Dunst, sitting beside him at the time, also didn't look impressed with the director's statement\n\nThe House That Jack Built's producer told the BBC on Monday: \"It's not too bloody. Of course we have some graphic images, but they're very short and very few. It's more about the psychological side of evilness. I think there'll be a huge reaction to the film.\"\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 Pope has issued instructions telling nuns to use social media apps \"with sobriety and discretion\".\n\nThe document, titled Cor Orans, clarifies rules governing monastic life that were issued in 2016.\n\nIt says the guidance is intended to safeguard silence and recollection.\n\nThe document mentions \"social communications\" rather than specific apps, but Catholic newspaper the Tablet said that this referred to Facebook and Twitter among other services.\n\nThe document says that discretion should apply to \"the quantity of the information and the type of communication\", in addition to the actual content of the media.\n\nAn order of nuns in northern Spain made headlines last month after taking to social media to comment on a controversial case in Pamplona that saw a group of men accused of gang rape given what many regarded to be unduly lenient sentences.\n\nOn their Facebook page (in Spanish), the Carmelite Nuns of Hondarribia defended the victim by pointing out the free choice they had made to live in a convent, to not drink alcohol or go out at night.\n\n\"Because it is a FREE decision, we will defend with all means available to us (and this is one) the right of all women to FREELY do the opposite without being judged, raped, intimidated or humiliated for it,\" they added.\n\nThe latest guidance is not thought to have come about as a result of that case; and this is not the first time the Catholic Church has issued guidelines on social media use for nuns.\n\nThe original constitution on feminine monastic life, Sponsa Christi Ecclesia, was published in 1950 by Pope Pius XII, but Pope Francis expanded the document in 2016 to warn against digital culture's \"decisive influence\" on society.\n\nHe urged nuns not to let digital media \"become occasions for wasting time\".\n\nThe Vatican itself is a prolific tweeter.\n\nIt has posted close to 15,000 messages on its news account and more than 1,500 times via the Pope's English-language official page.\n\nIt also runs Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and Google+ accounts.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nNew fears have been raised about tumble dryers catching fire, despite efforts to modify the machines.\n\nThe BBC's Watchdog Live consumer programme has uncovered cases in which the machines have caught fire after being fixed.\n\nSome 5.3 million tumble dryers under the Hotpoint, Creda and Indesit brands required modification.\n\nWhirlpool, which owns the three brands, said it had total confidence in the fix for the machines.\n\nThe original defect was discovered in 2015 and has reportedly led to scores of fires since 2004. The company began a huge operation to modify or replace dryers to ensure they are safe.\n\nHowever, Watchdog spoke to Vicki Mudge and her sister-in-law Jemma Greenslade who said they had to drag Vicki's burning tumble dryer out of their flat. It had earlier been modified.\n\nJemma (left) and Vicki had to drag a burning tumble dryer out of their flat.\n\n\"You do trust them to think they are fixing something so it is going to be ok. It is disgusting really,\" Jemma said.\n\nThey said that, as they lived in a block of flats, the fire could have been a risk to their neighbours.\n\nDomestic service engineer Graham Watkinson - who has worked with electrical appliances for over 40 years - believes the modification does not totally remove the risk.\n\nCharlie Pugsley, deputy assistant commissioner at the London Fire Brigade, said he was seriously concerned about the reports of modified dryers catching fire.\n\n\"There is going to be a time delay between the modification and the fires occurring so if we are starting to see one or two, I would imagine it is only going to get worse,\" he said.\n\n\"Each fire has got the potential to do huge damage to someone's home and risk lives.\"\n\nThe damage caused to a seventh floor flat in Shepherd's Bush, London\n\nIn August 2016, a dryer - awaiting modification - was blamed for a huge fire in a West London tower block, with more than 50 people forced to flee their homes.\n\nDespite that incident the company continued to state the machines were safe to use as long as someone was in the property.\n\nWhich? threatened to bring judicial review proceedings against Trading Standards over the advice being given. Trading Standards instructed Whirlpool to issue new guidance earlier last year that the dryers should be unplugged and not be used until they had been repaired.\n\nAndy Slaughter, the MP in the area of the tower block fire, said: \"I am really worried that people now think that the problem is solved - that they can go out, go to sleep and leave machines on - because they have been modified or replaced, but actually there is still a real danger that they could catch fire.\"\n\nIn a statement Whirlpool said: \"We have total confidence in the modification. Extensive testing and analysis of the modification both before and since its implementation has shown it provides an effective solution for the issue.\n\n\"An external review with the input from three independent experts in fire safety, product safety, and engineering, concluded that the modification remains the most effective way of rectifying this issue for consumers.\n\n\"There have been no reported incidents where the modification has shown to be ineffective. Recent criticisms of the effectiveness of the modification are based on fundamental technical misunderstandings of what it addresses. We are concerned that such misinformed criticism risks discouraging consumers from registering for this important safety modification.\n\n\"We continue to urge consumers to contact us immediately if they believe they still own an affected appliance. We can assure consumers that if they contact us now, they can receive a resolution within one week.\"\n\nWatchdog Live is on BBC One at 20:00 on Wednesday", "Virgin Trains East Coast is a joint venture between Stagecoach (90%) and Virgin (10%)\n\nThe transport secretary is being threatened with legal action if firms running East Coast mainline trains are allowed to bid for future contracts.\n\nStagecoach and Virgin were told they could exit the Virgin Trains East Coast franchise three years early after reporting losses.\n\nRenationalisation group Bring Back British Rail wants \"action to stop this happening again\".\n\nChris Grayling's office said there was \"no basis for legal action\".\n\n\"Virgin Stagecoach have met all of their financial commitments as set out in the East Coast franchise agreements,\" a Department for Transport spokesman said.\n\nBring Back British Rail's solicitor said it would have \"no option but to seek the court's intervention\" if Mr Grayling refuses to stop Stagecoach and Virgin from bidding for more rail franchises.\n\nEllie Harrison, from the campaign group, said: \"The current Virgin Trains East Coast franchise has failed within three years yet the Secretary of State for Transport Chris Grayling is allowing its operators, Stagecoach and Virgin, to simply walk away, free to bid for rail franchises again.\"\n\nChris Grayling has been accused of letting Stagecoach and Virgin \"simply walk away\"\n\nThe joint venture between Stagecoach (90%) and Virgin (10%) runs trains between London King's Cross and Edinburgh.\n\nStagecoach had reported losses on the line and in February Mr Grayling told MPs it had \"got its numbers wrong\" and had \"overbid\".\n\nLabour called the decision to allow the companies to withdraw early a \"bailout\".\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\nMore doubt has been cast on whether Meghan Markle's father will attend his daughter's wedding to Prince Harry on Saturday, as it is reported he is due to have heart surgery.\n\nThomas Markle had told US website TMZ he would not go amid a row over paparazzi photographs; then that he would; then that he could not, due to a planned heart procedure.\n\nMs Markle's estranged half-sister said he had faced an \"unbelievable stress\".\n\nSpeaking to Australia's Sunrise morning TV programme from Orlando, Florida, Samantha Markle said she was not sure if Mr Markle would be travelling to Windsor.\n\n\"He sent me a message that he was undergoing heart surgery,\" she said.\n\n\"We're all hoping he pulls through this now.\"\n\nMeanwhile, Kensington Palace has announced Princess Charlotte will be among the bridesmaids and her brother Prince George will be a pageboy at the wedding this weekend.\n\nMr Markle became embroiled in controversy at the weekend, following reports that he staged paparazzi photographs of himself in the run-up to the wedding.\n\nThe pictures showed Mr Markle - apparently unaware he was being photographed - in a series of wedding-related activities, including being measured for a wedding suit.\n\nOn Monday, Mr Markle reportedly told celebrity news website TMZ that he would not attend the wedding.\n\nTMZ later reported that Mr Markle had and wanted to attend - although he might not be able to because of health concerns.\n\nAnd in a third report, the website said that the health issues and planned surgery would prevent him from attending after all.\n\nOn Tuesday evening, BBC royal correspondent Nicholas Witchell said Ms Markle wanted her father to be there, but her major concern would be for his wellbeing.\n\nKensington Palace has said events are \"a deeply personal moment for Ms Markle\".\n\n\"She and Prince Harry ask again for understanding and respect to be extended to Mr Markle in this difficult situation,\" the palace said in a statement on Monday.\n\nOne minute there's a perfectly scripted wedding about to reach its traditional-yet-modern, royal-yet-diverse climax in the St George's chapel at Windsor. The next minute there's twists and turns worthy of the finest soap opera.\n\nIt is difficult to believe that things are quite where the various Palaces involved in this wedding thought they would be at this stage.\n\nIt is of course conceivable that Thomas Markle could have heart surgery at today, somehow find the energy to make a transatlantic flight, meet the Queen, go to the wedding and walk his daughter down the aisle. But it seems a little unlikely.\n\nSo who will walk Meghan down the aisle?\n\nWho will step under the standards of the Knights of the Garter, over the vault containing the remains of Henry VIII and Charles I and past 600 of years of Royal, English and British history?\n\nWill it be Meghan's mother Doria, or will she walk alone? Now, there's a thought.\n\nMr Markle had been due to meet Prince Harry for the first time this week, as well as the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh, before walking his daughter down the aisle at St George's Chapel in Windsor Castle.\n\nSamantha, who has not spoken to her famous sibling in three years - and will not be attending the wedding - told Good Morning Britain the photographs had been done with \"good intention\" and not for money.\n\nShe previously admitted the pictures had been her idea, in order to portray a positive image.\n\nThe father of the ex-Suits actress lives in Mexico and is a former lighting director who worked on programmes including the 1980s TV show Married with Children and General Hospital, for which he and his team won two Emmy awards.\n\nHe and Ms Markle's mother, Doria Ragland, divorced when Ms Markle was six years old.\n\nTMZ - which launched in 2005 - stands for Thirty-Mile Zone, an old Hollywood expression that describes the area where the studios are based and where most celebrities happen to live.\n\nThe US celebrity news site, which scooped the world's media on Thomas Markle's wedding plans, is no stranger to a-list exclusives (albeit not without controversy):\n\nMr Markle, who has two children - including Samantha - from his first marriage, filed for bankruptcy two years ago.\n\nMs Markle has previously said: \"It's safe to say I have always been a daddy's girl - he taught me how to fish, to appreciate Busby Berkeley films, write thank-you notes, and spend my weekends in Little Tokyo eating chicken teriyaki with vegetable tempura.\"\n\nRoyal fans are already camped outside Windsor Castle in preparation for the big day\n\nThe wedding will take place on 19 May at 12:00 BST at St George's Chapel in Windsor.\n\nWith five days to go, Kensington Palace revealed that Ms Markle will spend her last night before getting married at a luxury Buckinghamshire hotel with her mother, Doria.\n\nPrince Harry will be staying 15 miles away at the Dorchester Collection's Coworth Park in Ascot, with his brother, the Duke of Cambridge.", "Joshua Titcombe died from sepsis nine days after being born at Furness General Hospital\n\nAvoidable deaths occurred at a hospital while regulators took too long to act on concerns about midwives, a report has said.\n\nEleven babies and one mother died at Furness General Hospital in Barrow, Cumbria, between 2004 and 2013.\n\nA Professional Standards Authority review said the Nursing and Midwifery Council failed to react quickly enough to concerns from police and families.\n\nThe NMC has apologised and admitted its approach was \"unacceptable\".\n\nConcerns at the hospital were first raised after the death of nine-day-old Joshua Titcombe in 2008 from sepsis.\n\nThis prompted a highly critical government-backed report in 2015 which said a \"lethal mix\" of failures led to a number of deaths.\n\nThe Professional Standards Authority (PSA) Lessons Learned review criticised the NMC for taking up to eight years to begin fitness-to-practise hearings against a number of midwives after concerns were raised.\n\nIt said the delays meant midwives who were later suspended or struck off continued to practise.\n\n\"Further avoidable deaths occurred while the NMC were considering the complaints,\" the report said.\n\n\"Its handling of the cases before 2014 generally was frequently incompetent.\"\n\nMidwives at Furness General Hospital were criticised over the deaths of babies and a mother\n\nNo prosecutions were brought by police, but three midwives were subsequently struck off and a fourth was suspended following the deaths at the hospital.\n\nThe review said it could find no evidence of the NMC acting on information it was given by Cumbria Police about 22 cases it had investigated at the hospital, which is part of the University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust.\n\nHarry Cayton, chief executive of the PSA, said the review findings \"show that the response of the NMC was inadequate\".\n\nIn a joint statement, Liza Brady, Carl Hendrickson and James Titcombe, who were affected by the deaths, said the report showed \"the truly shocking scale of the NMC's failure to respond properly to the serious concerns and detailed information provided to them relating to the safety of midwifery services at Furness General Hospital\".\n\n\"We were particularly horrified that even when Cumbria Police directly raised significant issues, the NMC effectively ignored the information for almost two years,\" they added.\n\nMr Hendrickson's wife, Nittaya, and newborn son, Chester, both died at the maternity unit in 2008 after Mrs Hendrickson suffered an amniotic fluid embolism, where amniotic fluid gets into the mother's bloodstream.\n\nHe told the BBC: \"I was devastated. I needed help, I needed to find out the truth.\n\n\"The NMC at no stage offered any help, never contacted me. There was certainly no empathy or compassion.\n\n\"They were just a disgrace. They were almost not human.\"\n\nThe organisation declined to respond directly to Mr Hendrickson's criticisms.\n\nNMC chief executive Jackie Smith has been in her post for six years\n\nBarrow and Furness MP John Woodcock said the report \"shows how local families were systematically obstructed and failed by an organisation whose conduct has brought shame on the proud and vital profession it is supposed to represent\".\n\nThe review said although the NMC's performance as a regulator is improving, it needs to \"urgently review and improve\" its engagement with patients and families who register complaints and provide them with \"appropriate information\".\n\nNMC chief executive Jackie Smith, who has announced she will leave her post in July, said their approach to the deaths \"was unacceptable and I am truly sorry for this\".\n\nShe said they had made \"significant changes\" since 2014 which had \"put vulnerable witnesses and families affected by failings in care at the heart of our work\".\n\nHealth Secretary Jeremy Hunt said the NMC \"clearly still needs a massive culture change so that families feel they are being genuinely listened to and not just made part of a process\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Donald Trump's unconventional diplomatic approach appears to be taking shape, with a summit with North Korea's leader Kim Jong-un slated for 12 June in Singapore.\n\nBut the risks and rewards of Trump's bombastic approach are acute. Three North Korean experts offer some practical and profound advice on a future summit between the two leaders.", "Women in Saudi Arabia received driving lessons at an exhibition which took place ahead of next month's lifting of the female driving ban.\n\nThe Pinkish exhibition is part of a \"vision\" to \"support women's important roles in society\".", "Lebanon is more tolerant than most Arab countries\n\nThe organiser of a gay pride week in Lebanon says authorities have forced him to cancel the remaining events.\n\nLast year, Lebanon became the first Arab country to hold a gay pride week.\n\nBut the organiser of this year's Beirut Pride, Hadi Damien, says he was taken to a police station overnight after security services came to an event.\n\nMr Damien says he was asked to sign a pledge that he would cancel what was left of the week - which started on Saturday - in order to be released.\n\nLebanon is more tolerant than most Arab countries but lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people do still face sporadic police action.\n\nThe country's interior ministry has not commented on the case.\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 Hadi This article contains content provided by Facebook. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Facebook cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Facebook content may contain adverts.\n\nThe second Beirut Pride festival began with brunch celebrating parents who had not rejected their children when they came out as homosexuals and was due to include cultural events, talks and readings over the next nine days.\n\nBut on Monday night, Mr Damien was called by a venue and told that agents from the General Security directorate had stopped a reading of the script of a play about homophobic crimes, saying the event required approval from its bureau of censorship, according to a statement on the Beirut Pride website.\n\nAfter arriving at the venue, Mr Damien was asked by \"vice police\" officers to accompany him to Hbeich police station, where he was informed that he would be detained overnight.\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 beirutpride 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\nOn Tuesday morning he was summoned for questioning and advised that he would be released if he signed a pledge promising to cancel forthcoming Beirut Pride events, according to the statement.\n\nMr Damien said he was warned that if he did not he would be referred to an investigative judge who would \"interrogate me on the basis of articles pertaining to the incitement to immorality and to the breach of public morality for co-ordinating the activities\".\n\nHe later told the BBC: \"There's a lot of disappointment around the cancellation of Beirut pride. People first are concerned anticipating any upcoming crackdown.\"\n\nArticle 534 of Lebanon's penal code punishes \"any sexual intercourse contrary to the order of nature\" with up to one year in prison, and has been used to prosecute people suspected of homosexuality.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Is this a new dawn for Lebanon's LGBT community?\n\nIn recent years, authorities have conducted raids to arrest persons allegedly involved in same-sex conduct, some of whom were subjected to torture including forced anal examinations, according to Human Rights Watch.\n\nHowever, judges have also begun to challenge article 543.\n\nIn 2014, one ruled that sex between a transgender woman and a man could not be perceived as \"unnatural\". And last year, another declared that \"homosexuals have the right to have human or intimate relationships with any people they chose, without discrimination on the basis of their sexual orientation\".", "More than 1,600 IT specialists and engineers offered jobs in the UK were denied visas between December and March, BBC News has learned.\n\nThey were denied because the number applying exceeded the monthly limit allowed to enter the UK.\n\nCritics argue that the immigration policy will hamper the government's efforts to develop a high-tech economy.\n\nThe government said it was important that employers look to recruit from the UK before looking overseas.\n\nThe figures were obtained by the Campaign for Science and Engineering (Case).\n\nCase's executive director, Dr Sarah Main, said that job offers in areas where there were clear shortages, such as science and engineering, should be exempt from the Home Office cap.\n\n\"The tragedy is that this policy doesn't work for anyone: the government, employers or the public,\" she said.\n\n\"The government repeats its mantra that Britain should be open to the brightest and the best, and yet this policy specifically rejects those people.\"\n\nBetween December 2017 and March 2018, the Home Office received an unexpectedly high volume of applications from employers who had offered jobs to non-EU workers.\n\nThe so-called Tier 2 visa system was introduced by Theresa May when she was home secretary as a means of capping the number of skilled workers from outside the European Union who had a job offer.\n\nTheir prospective employers had to demonstrate that they had not been able to find a suitable applicant in the UK. Until December 2017, the limit had been exceeded once in almost six years this was in June 2015 when 66 applications were refused for engineering roles.\n\nThe cap is set at 20,700 per year, with a monthly limit of about 1,600.\n\nHome Office figures show that in December, January and February nearly half of all applicants were denied visas and in March the number of refusals exceeded 50% for the first time.\n\nCase submitted a freedom of information request to the Home Office for a breakdown of these figures by profession. It confirms that healthcare workers are the largest group to be denied visas. But it shows for the first time that hundreds of IT specialists and engineers needed by UK firms are also being turned down.\n\nBetween December and March, 1,226 IT specialists and 383 engineers were denied visas to take up jobs they had been offered. In addition 1,876 medical practitioners and healthcare workers, 197 teachers and 584 other professions were unable to take up their job offers in the UK.\n\nIt is unclear why there has been this surge in applications but one possibility is that it may be because European Union workers are either leaving the UK or not applying for jobs in anticipation of Brexit.\n\nIn March, Dr Main sent a letter to the prime minister, asking her to revise the current system. In it she said: \"Training and attracting talented people is critical to the success of the government's industrial strategy and to the UK's productivity. Productivity will suffer if firms cannot access the talent they need.\"\n\nMatthew Fell, the CBI's UK policy director, said UK firms were suffering as a result of the policy.\n\n\"A migration system that forces a binary choice between staffing our NHS or growing the UK economy is clearly broken,\" he said.\n\n\"We need both. At a time when government is seeking to promote 'global Britain', deliberately restricting access to skilled workers from around the world is self-defeating.\n\n\"This data shows highly skilled workers, who meet the requirements of the UK's points based system, are being turned away because of an arbitrary cap that puts numbers before people's contribution. At the very least, government should remove shortage roles from the cap.\"\n\nA Home Office spokesman said: \"The government fully recognises the contribution that international professionals make to the UK.\n\n\"However, it is important that our immigration system works in the national interest, ensuring that employers look first to the UK resident labour market before recruiting from overseas.\"\n\n\"When demand exceeds the monthly available allocation of Tier 2 (General) places, priority is given to applicants filling a shortage or PhD-level occupations. No occupation on the Shortage Occupation List has been refused a place.\"\n\nProf Venki Ramakrishnan, the president of the UK's Royal Society said that the restrictions would hold Britain back.\n\n\"Computing underpins the modern world but for the foreseeable future we are going to need to recruit IT professionals from overseas,\" he said.\n\n\"Employers know and accept that there is a need for highly skilled immigrants as do the majority of the general public. The people standing in the way are those who set random immigration limits that seem to be plucked out of the air for political purposes.\"\n\nDr Julia Wilson, associate director of the Wellcome Sanger Institute, said that the system was harming UK science.\n\n\"The repeated problems over the past months have delayed important research at the Sanger Institute,\" she explained. \"Genomics is a sector vital for the delivery of the government's industrial strategy and for the UK economy. The failure to foresee or then remedy these problems show the system is not fit for purpose.\"", "Meghan Markle's family has found itself on the world stage ahead of her wedding to Prince Harry on Saturday. As more doubt is cast on whether her father will attend the ceremony, the Royal Family's closely-controlled media operation has at times seemed to be unravelling.\n\nHow has Kensington Palace, the office and residence of Prince Harry, which has rolled out the royal wedding plans and strategy over the past few months, dropped the ball so spectacularly in the last four days?\n\nThis was going to be a different wedding - no massed ranks of dignitaries, no traditional wedding cake, members of the public invited to view the happy just-married couple, sustainable, seasonably and renewably sourced victuals.\n\nOver the last couple of months announcements have come and gone, by and large slavishly followed by broadcasters, newspapers and websites well aware of the interest of the audience.\n\nThe usual tactic of the palace is to say nothing about stories that come up that run counter to the royal narrative, and wait for them to go away.\n\nGiven that there are so few reliable sources for real royal news, and that broadcasters are unhappy running stories on rumour and conjecture alone, it was by and large a winning strategy.\n\nBut with the entertainment website TMZ apparently having a hotline to the father of the bride, the palace's near-monopoly on information has been broken.\n\nTMZ has functioned as a rival press office, issuing apparently well-sourced bulletins on Thomas Markle's health and state of mind that left the palace blindsided.\n\nThe response to 24 hours that entirely contradicted the previously stated plan for the wedding? No comment.\n\nWho will walk the bride down the aisle? No comment.\n\nWhat on Earth is going on? No comment.\n\nThe news from Mexico has been harder for the palace to control\n\nAmongst the many who are now ever-so-wise after the event, there are questions.\n\nHow could the palace have let Mr Markle fall into a paparazzi trap? Why wasn't someone sent out to mind him?\n\nBut was someone really going to sit in a town outside Tijuana for six months, fighting off photographers?\n\nAnd maybe a man who is clearly not wild on company didn't really fancy that?\n\nThe BBC understands but has been unable to confirm that Kensington Palace did offer assistance to Thomas Markle in the months running up to Saturday's wedding.\n\nThe presumption must be that he declined it.\n\nThe palace media operations are not that big, sometimes (like many press offices) not that good, and they operate by and large on precedent.\n\nWe do it like this because we've always done it like this; this is public and we will comment, this is private and we will not comment.\n\nThat means they don't appear to think strategy as much as they might, and they don't seem to have had a contingency plan for what might happen with Ms Markle's family.\n\nThe families of previous brides understood the rules, even if as so-called commoners they knew that a single narrative of the wedding would preserve the event.\n\nAnd they knew that if they stepped out of line they would be out in the cold.\n\nRoyal fans are already securing viewing spots in Windsor\n\nBut Ms Markle's extended family - most of them with little left to lose as they haven't seen the bride for many a moon and will spend the wedding in TV studios rather than in St George's Chapel - are different.\n\nThey have descended en masse on Britain, all with stories to tell and bank balances to improve.\n\nAnd the previous reliance on the palace for titbits - that cake recipe, those flowers, that photographer - has vanished like dew on a spring morning.\n\nAt some point - presumably soon, as the current situation (\"no comment\") is untenable at this late date - there will be resolution.\n\nAn announcement will come as to who will do what on the day.\n\nAnd the hope of the palace - probably well-founded - will be that the long-planned mechanics of the occasion will drown out the discord of the past four days.\n\nBut for the moment there is that thing that nature abhors, a vacuum. And every well-laid plan of the palace is consumed by the soap-opera drama playing out well beyond its control.", "Safaa Boular denies two counts of preparing acts of terrorism\n\nA teenage girl who allegedly planned to marry an Islamic State fighter in Syria sobbed uncontrollably after hearing he had been killed, a court has heard.\n\nThe Old Bailey was played a secret recording of Safaa Boular breaking down in April 2017 when she was told that Naweed Hussain had died in a bombing.\n\nThe court also heard how her mother and older sister consoled her and encouraged her to celebrate the death.\n\nMs Boular, 18, denies two counts of preparing acts of terrorism.\n\nShe has been accused of planning to travel to Syria to join IS militants and later preparing to carry out a terrorist attack in London after Hussain's death.\n\nDefence lawyers have told the jury Ms Boular was sexually groomed and manipulated by Hussain, a Briton from Coventry, who was twice her age.\n\nThe defendant's sister, Rizlaine Boular, has already admitted planning a knife attack, while her mother, Mina Dich, has admitted assisting her.\n\nProsecutors told the jury that Ms Boular received the news of Hussain's death in a message from a British undercover officer who was posing as a fighter.\n\nAt this point, the bug in the family's flat in Vauxhall, south-west London, picked up the reaction of Ms Boular, as well as her 21-year-old sister and her mother.\n\n\"Oh my gosh, oh my gosh!\" said Ms Boular, before beginning to scream and cry.\n\n\"Rejoice, he is a martyr,\" said an unidentifiable voice.\n\nThe court heard commotion and shouts before Ms Boular's mother began to frantically and repeatedly pray.\n\n\"Listen it's what you wanted,\" said Rizlaine Boular. \"Many people envy you.\"\n\n\"To me he's everything,\" sobbed Ms Boular. \"I can't take anymore.\"\n\nAs her daughter continued to cry, sometimes hysterically, Mina Dich declared that Hussain was now \"in paradise\".\n\nRizlaine Boular added: \"We are a step closer... Imagine if your appointment was first, you'd be happily waiting. He's waiting for you... We are so proud of you.\"\n\n\"I am going to die right now,\" said Ms Boular. \"I am happy thanks to God - I love him so much.\"\n\nLater that month all three women were arrested for terrorism offences.", "A member of the Windrush generation says he was left \"broken\" after being wrongly detained in an immigration centre because he was unable to prove he had a right to live in the UK.\n\nAnthony Bryan, 60, came from Jamaica in 1965 but last year was threatened with deportation by the Home Office.\n\nHe spoke to MPs and peers with Paulette Wilson, who had a similar experience.\n\nMr Bryan agreed with a suggestion that a factor in the way he was treated was because he was black.\n\nHe was asked by Labour peer Baroness Lawrence if he thought things would have been different if he had been from Canada, New Zealand or Australia, to which he replied: \"I hate to say it, but I don't think I would have this problem\".\n\nWhen she asked him if he saw \"race as being a big part\" in what happened, he said: \"In the Home Office? Yes.\"\n\nThe murder of Mrs Lawrence's son Stephen in 1993 led to an inquiry which found there had been institutional racism in the Metropolitan Police.\n\nMr Bryan, a grandfather from north London, was held in a detention centre twice, for almost three weeks, last year.\n\nHis difficulties began when he lost his job after receiving a letter informing him he had no right to remain, despite having lived in the UK since he was eight.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMr Bryan told a parliamentary committee how he had phoned his family from the detention centre to tell them: \"It looks like you're going to see me in Jamaica.\"\n\nHe continued: \"They had tickets for me - I thought I was going, to be honest.\"\n\n\"I was resigned because I couldn't fight any more. I just gave up,\" he told the Joint Committee on Human Rights.\n\nHe said he explained to the officials who came to detain him at his home that he had lived in the UK for most of his life, adding: \"But to them I was lying... everything I was telling them, I had to prove that\".\n\nMr Bryan, who was accompanied at the hearing by his partner Janet McKay-Williams, was released from the immigration centre in November after a last-minute intervention from a lawyer.\n\nStories of Commonwealth migrants who arrived in the UK legally as children between the late 1940s and 1973, but have no formal documentation to prove they have the right to remain in the country, have emerged in recent weeks.\n\nThe Windrush generation is named after the ship that brought the first arrivals to Britain from the Caribbean in 1948.\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\nGrandmother Ms Wilson, 61, from Wolverhampton, gave evidence to the MPs and peers on the committee alongside her daughter, Natalie Barnes.\n\nShe said that without the efforts of her daughter \"I would be in Jamaica, all alone\".\n\nMs Wilson had been looked after by her grandparents in Wellington, Telford, when she first arrived in Britain from Jamaica in 1968 at the age of 10.\n\nShe received a letter from the Home Office in 2015 and was told to report each month to immigration officials. In October last year she was detained and taken to the Yarl's Wood immigration removal centre, where she spent a week before being released.\n\nMs Wilson said: \"The first thing I got was a letter saying I was an illegal immigrant. At the time I didn't understand it but it took me about a week before I could show my daughter I had got this letter.\n\n\"They were saying I don't belong here - I've got six months to get out.\"\n\nReferring to the decision to detain her, Ms Wilson told the committee: \"Where could I have run to? My family is here in England. I wouldn't have run away.\"\n\n\"I was thinking they were going to pick me up here and put me on the plane and probably when I get there people's going to kill me. I was thinking all sorts of things in my head.\"\n\nMs Barnes said \"documents were very hard to come by, They kept telling us to go here, there and everywhere... it was just very hard to get that evidence\".\n\nCommittee chairwoman Harriet Harman said she would write to Home Secretary Sajid Javid to get the Home Office to give Mr Bryan and Ms Wilson their files so they could see the information that officials had about them.\n\nThe home secretary said this week that 63 members of the Windrush generation could have been wrongfully removed or deported from the UK since 2002.\n\nBut Mr Javid, who took over the post last month after Amber Rudd resigned, told MPs he did not have information on how many Windrush immigrants had been detained.", "The decision to end the East Coast Mainline rail franchise early is to come under scrutiny from MPs.\n\nThe Department for Transport has said Stagecoach and Virgin will withdraw from running the service within months after running into difficulties.\n\nNow the House of Commons transport committee has announced that it will hold an inquiry into the matter.\n\nRail Minister Jo Johnson acknowledged the companies overbid for the right to run the service.\n\nHe told the BBC's Today programme: \"They overbid, it's very simple and the department is looking very carefully into the bidding process to ensure there aren't any incentives for bidders to overbid.\"\n\nHowever, he said it was not possible to remove the element of risk entirely: \"With any private enterprise there is an element of risk. It is unrealistic to expect government to eliminate that altogether.\"\n\nLilian Greenwood, who chairs the transport committee, said: \"There are serious questions to be asked of the train operator, Network Rail and ministers and the transport committee intends to ask them.\n\n\"The failure of the East Coast franchise has wider implications for rail franchising and the competitiveness of the current system. Lessons need to be learned by all concerned.\n\n\"In the meantime, the Department for Transport must take the right steps to protect passengers and taxpayers. Safeguards must be put in place to restore public confidence in the sustainability of our railways.\"\n\nThe East Coast Mainline franchise was taken into public ownership in 2009 after being run by National Express.\n\nIt was re-privatised when Stagecoach and Virgin signed a deal to run the East Coast line from 2015 to 2023, promising to pay the government £3.3bn to run the service.\n\nStagecoach owns 90% of the joint venture and Virgin owns the remaining 10%.\n\nLast week, Transport Secretary Chris Grayling said Stagecoach had \"got its numbers wrong\" and would continue running the London to Edinburgh line only for \"a small number of months and no more\".\n\nHe said the government might step in to run the service, adding that the day-to-day operation of the line would be unaffected.\n\nThe National Audit Office has already announced it will investigate the government's handling of the franchise.\n\nChris Grayling is considering two solutions to the issue\n\nA Stagecoach Group spokesman said: \"Virgin Trains East Coast is a well-run, profitable railway and we are continuing to meet our contractual commitments, as we have done throughout the past 21 years in operating train services on behalf of the government.\"\n\nHe added that customer satisfaction with the route was high and that it was \"delivering 30% higher payments to the taxpayer than when the route was in public ownership\".\n\nAnd Mr Johnson told the BBC that passenger journeys had doubled since the line had been run as a franchise in the 1990s.\n\nMr Grayling has said he is considering two approaches.\n\nOne option is to allow Stagecoach to continue operating the franchise on a short-term and not-for-profit basis until a new contract is awarded in 2020.\n\nAlternatively, East Coast Mainline could be brought back under government control and be run by the Department for Transport through an operator of last resort.", "Stan Lee is the co-creator of Spiderman and numerous other Marvel characters\n\nStan Lee is suing the entertainment company he co-founded for $1bn (£742m), according to legal documents.\n\nThe comic book legend alleges he was coerced into a fraudulent sales agreement when he was in an emotionally and physically fragile state.\n\nThe complaint, filed in LA on Tuesday, claims Pow! Entertainment made Lee, 95, sign over his name and image rights.\n\nPow! later issued a statement insisting that Lee had \"clearly understood\" the terms of the agreement.\n\n\"The allegations are completely without merit,\" a company representative told the Hollywood Reporter.\n\n\"In particular, the notion that Mr Lee did not knowingly grant Pow! exclusive rights to his creative works or his identity is so preposterous that we have to wonder whether Mr Lee is personally behind this lawsuit.\"\n\nIt added: \"The evidence, which includes Mr Lee's subsequent statements and conduct, is overwhelming and we look forward to presenting it in court.\"\n\nPow!'s parent company, Hong Kong-based Camsing International Holding, said it was seeking legal advice.\n\nLee is the co-creative force behind many superhero characters, including Black Panther and Spider-Man.\n\nThe lawsuit alleges Pow! chief executive Shane Duffy and co-founder Gill Champion \"conspired and agreed to broker a sham deal to sell Pow! to a company in China and fraudulently steal Stan Lee's identity, name, image, and likeness as part of a nefarious scheme to benefit financially at Lee's expense\".\n\nThe complaint, lodged at Los Angeles County Superior Court, states Lee does not recall signing sale documents, nor having them read to him.\n\nJoan Lee, Stan's wife of almost 70 years, died last July aged 95\n\nThe suit draws attention to the death of Lee's wife last July, and his degenerative eye condition which has caused his poor eyesight, suggesting he could not have read the documents.\n\nThe legal papers also say Pow! took control of Lee's personal social media accounts. He appeared to regain control of his Twitter account on Tuesday and used the platform to tell fans his social media channels had been \"hijacked\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by stan lee This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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\"From now on, I will depend on you, my dear fans, to protect and defend me,\" he added.\n\nThe comic book writer went on to post his first Twitter video - with the help of fans - to express further gratitude.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 stan lee This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 just want to tell you I love your comments on Twitter - I don't know how much I have been missing now that I see them,\" he said.\n\n\"I appreciate everything you say and do, I love you all - let's keep up the great relationship\".\n\nThe nonagenarian signed off with his signature phrase \"excelsior!\" - implying triumph.\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.", "Oxfam chief executive Mark Goldring is to stand down following the scandal involving claims of sexual misconduct by staff in Haiti, the charity says.\n\nMr Goldring, who was criticised for his handling of the claims that aid workers used prostitutes in 2011, said someone else should \"rebuild\" the charity.\n\nHe has held the position since 2013 and will leave at the end of the year.\n\nIn a statement Mr Goldring said: \"This journey will best be led by someone bringing fresh vision and energy.\"\n\nThe British charity was accused of concealing the findings of an inquiry into claims staff sexually exploited female victims of the 2010 earthquake in Haiti.\n\nAn Oxfam spokeswoman said his resignation was \"absolutely not to do with his handling\" of the crisis.\n\nOxfam chairwoman Caroline Thomson said it was with \"great sadness\" she accepted his resignation, adding that he \"faced the test of a lifetime managing the crisis which hit us in February and related to events before he joined\".\n\nMr Goldring appeared in front of MPs that month, apologising for the actions of staff and also for his own comment to the Guardian that the charity was being attacked as if it had \"murdered babies in their cots\".\n\nHe denied there had been a cover-up and also said he would not step down unless the charity's board lost faith in his leadership.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Mark Goldring: 'We are sorry for the damage done to Haiti and the wider aid efforts'\n\nOxfam's deputy chief executive, Penny Lawrence, resigned in February over the handling of the claims.\n\nThe allegations, reported in The Times, said Oxfam's country director for Haiti, Roland van Hauwermeiren, used the services of prostitutes at a villa rented for him by Oxfam in the aftermath of the 2010 earthquake.\n\nAccording to the paper, Oxfam knew about concerns over the conduct of Mr van Hauwermeiren and another man when they worked in Chad before they were given senior roles in Haiti.\n\nThe charity's own investigation in 2011 led to four people being sacked and three others resigning, including Mr van Hauwermeiren.\n\nIt produced a public report, which said \"serious misconduct\" had taken place in Haiti - but did not give details of the allegations.\n\nIn announcing his resignation, Mr Goldring said: \"Following the very public exposure of Oxfam's past failings, we have redoubled our efforts to ensure that Oxfam is a safe and respectful place for all who have contact with us.\n\n\"We are now laying strong foundations for recovery. I am personally totally committed to seeing this phase through.\n\n\"However, what is important in 2019 and beyond is that Oxfam rebuilds and renews in a way that is most relevant for the future and so continues to help as many people as possible around the world build better lives.\"\n\nHe will continue to lead the charity until a successor is found.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Is nationalisation the answer for Britain's railways?\n\nLabour wants to bring the railways back under public control - a policy that has garnered widespread support from a travelling public irritated by fare rises, overcrowded trains and a sense that train companies have profited while passengers have not.\n\nThe only problem is that about three-quarters of the industry - the track, signalling and big stations - are already under public control.\n\nThey were recaptured not by a reforming Corbynist minister, but by the Blairite transport secretary Stephen Byers. When he withdrew support from Railtrack, the privatised owner of the network, in 2001, it collapsed into administration.\n\nFrom the wreckage was born Network Rail, a not-for-profit organisation whose debts now count as part of public borrowing, and whose budgets and priorities are set in Whitehall.\n\nWhat remains in the private sector are the companies that run the trains - the 25 rail franchises - and the companies that own the trains. When Labour's shadow chancellor John McDonnell talks about a return to public control, he means the former.\n\nJohn McDonnell says he wants the \"the greatest possible integration\" for the UK's railways\n\nMr McDonnell told the BBC in an interview that if Labour were elected it would bring them back in, then reverse the historic split between track and train created at privatisation. He said he would aim for the \"the greatest possible integration\", claiming it would lead to efficiencies and a better railway. In short, he wants to bring back British Rail.\n\nThose with experience of British Rail and the privatised industry are not as gung-ho as Mr McDonnell.\n\nMichael Holden, the respected executive who was called in to run the government's Directly Operated Railways when the east coast main line went awry in 2007, said the tyranny of the annual budgets hampered British Rail.\n\n\"You were always competing for money with education and health. The end result was that we never had enough money,\" he said.\n\nWould going back to a unified British Rail really solve the railways' current problems?\n\nThe private industry has invested more - there are fleets of new trains, and ridership has doubled since privatisation - but the railway still relies heavily on state support.\n\nEven after premium payments from rail franchises are taken into account, the government last year put £3.3bn into the industry, down from £3.8bn a decade earlier. Most of that went to Network Rail as a direct grant.\n\nThe cost of improving the railway has also escalated since privatisation. Roger Ford, the technical editor of Modern Railways and a seasoned observer of the industry, said a prime example was the price of electrification - putting in the equipment necessary to run electric rather than diesel trains.\n\nThe cost of the latest big scheme undertaken by Network Rail - on the Great Western Main Line - had ended up being roughly six times as expensive as the last similar scheme project done by British Rail. Mr Ford said while some cost escalation was to be expected, \"we don't really know why\" current costs were so great.\n\nPaul Plummer, chief executive of the Rail Delivery Group, which industry's umbrella body, said nationalisation \"would not help the fundamental issues we face.\"\n\nMr McDonnell indicated in an interview with the BBC that a Labour government would be unlikely to try and buy back franchises, offering their owners compensation - the approach he has advocated with a planned renationalisation of water companies - but might instead simply wait for existing franchises to expire.", "A meeting between Donald Trump (left) and Kim Jong-un has been much anticipated\n\nNorth Korean Deputy Foreign Minister Kim Kye-gwan has warned his country could pull out of a summit with US President Donald Trump, accusing Washington of harbouring sinister intentions. Here is his statement in full:\n\nKim Jong-un, chairman of the State Affairs Commission of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea [DPKR], made a strategic decision to put an end to the unpleasant history of the DPRK-US relations and met [Mike] Pompeo, US secretary of state, for two times during his visit to our country and took very important and broad-minded steps for peace and stability in the Korean peninsula and the world.\n\nIn response to the noble intention of Chairman Kim Jong-un, President Trump stated his position for terminating the historically deep-rooted hostility and improving the relations between the DPRK and the US.\n\nI appreciated the position positively with an expectation that the upcoming DPRK-US summit would be a big step forward for catalysing detente on the Korean peninsula and building a great future.\n\nBut now prior to the DPRK-US summit, unbridled remarks provoking the other side of dialogue are recklessly made in the US and I am totally disappointed as these constitute extremely unjust behaviour.\n\nHigh-ranking officials of the White House and the Department of State including John Bolton, White House national security adviser, are letting loose the assertions of a so-called Libya mode of nuclear abandonment: \"complete, verifiable and irreversible denuclearisation\", \"total decommissioning of nuclear weapons, missiles, biochemical weapons\" etc, while talking about a formula of \"abandoning nuclear weapons first, compensating afterwards\".\n\nThis is not an expression of intention to address the issue through dialogue.\n\nIt is essentially a manifestation of an awfully sinister move to impose on our dignified state the destiny of Libya or Iraq, which had been brought down due to yielding the whole of their countries to big powers.\n\nI cannot suppress indignation at such moves of the US, and harbour doubt about the US sincerity for improved DPRK-US relations through sound dialogue and negotiations.\n\nThe world knows too well that our country is neither Libya nor Iraq which have met miserable fates.\n\nIt is absolutely absurd to dare compare the DPRK, a nuclear weapon state, to Libya which had been at the initial stage of nuclear development.\n\nWe shed light on the quality of Bolton already in the past, and we do not hide our feeling of repugnance towards him.\n\nIf the Trump administration fails to recall the lessons learned from the past when the DPRK-US talks had to undergo twists and setbacks owing to the likes of Bolton, and turns its ear to the advice of quasi-\"patriots\" who insist on a Libya mode and the like, the prospects of the forthcoming DPRK-US summit and overall DPRK-US relations will be crystal clear.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Why North Korea is angry at this man\n\nWe have already stated our intention for denuclearisation of the Korean peninsula and made clear on several occasions that precondition for denuclearisation is to put an end to the anti-DPRK hostile policy and nuclear threats and blackmail of the United States.\n\nBut now, the US is miscalculating the magnanimity and broad-minded initiatives of the DPRK as signs of weakness and trying to embellish and advertise as if these are the product of its sanctions and pressure.\n\nThe US is trumpeting as if it would offer economic compensation and benefit in case we abandon nukes.\n\nBut we have never had any expectation of US support in carrying out our economic construction and will not at all make such a deal in future, too.\n\nIt is a ridiculous comedy to see that the Trump administration, claiming to take a different road from the previous administrations, still clings to the outdated policy on the DPRK - a policy pursued by previous administrations at the time when the DPRK was at the stage of nuclear development.\n\nIf President Trump follows in the footsteps of his predecessors, he will be recorded as a more tragic and unsuccessful president than his predecessors, far from his initial ambition to make unprecedented success.\n\nIf the Trump administration takes an approach to the DPRK-US summit with sincerity for improved DPRK-US relations, it will receive a deserved response from us.\n\nHowever, if the US is trying to drive us into a corner to force our unilateral nuclear abandonment, we will no longer be interested in such dialogue and cannot but reconsider our proceeding to the DPRK-US summit.\n\nThis statement was released via the state-run North Korean news agency KCNA's website.", "The reduction in charges follow a period of cuts for the police\n\nThe number of criminal charges being brought in England and Wales has been falling - despite more crimes being recorded in the same period.\n\nBBC analysis of Home Office data for Panorama shows 527,000 charges were brought in 2016-17 - a fall of 65,000 on 2014-15. Meanwhile, the number of crimes recorded rose by nearly 750,000.\n\nPolice say a squeeze on resources is making crime harder to investigate.\n\nThe Home Office says it is working with police to find a solution.\n\nYou need a modern browser to view the interactive content in this page. Please enter your postcode or police force name\n\nThe picture in Northern Ireland and Scotland is different. Charges have fallen at the same rate as recorded crime in Northern Ireland. In Scotland where the criminal justice system is different, they record clear-ups, a broader category than charges - these have fallen in line with recorded crime.\n\n\"My officers and staff, I think do a fantastic job with the resource that we have, but I realise that we are letting some people down,\" she said.\n\n\"Since 2010 we've had a 35% real-term cut and what that has meant in terms of officers and staff numbers is I have 1,400 fewer people.\"\n\nFewer charges means victims such as Richard Bolland are not getting justice. Last year he was attacked in the fish and chip shop he runs in Wyke, near Bradford.\n\nHe was so severely beaten he passed out and says the attack left him looking \"like Frankenstein\". Then he was robbed. \"He took my wallets, the company money, the money to pay the suppliers, the till float, he took everything,\" Mr Bolland said.\n\nRichard Bolland was beaten about the head\n\nHe says the initial response from the police was good, but he feels let down by CID.\n\nNo-one was ever caught and he was told by the police that if he could come up with a lead to help them, then he should let them know. \"Other than that it was on the shelf. And since then I've not heard a single thing from them.\"\n\nWest Yorkshire Police say that despite receiving tip-offs about who attacked Mr Bolland they could not gather enough evidence to bring them in. They say they have reviewed the case and believe they responded in the right way.\n\n\"I think there is an emerging crisis and it's a crisis that's right at the heart of policing, the investigation of crime,\" says Peter Neyroud, a former chief constable. He describes the fall in charges as significant and depressing.\n\nHome Office minister Victoria Atkins says the government is looking at this problem \"very carefully\" to see whether there is a problem at force level or if there is something it can do nationally.\n\n\"We want to ensure that when a victim reports a crime to the police that it's investigated properly and thoroughly and that any charges that are appropriate are made,\" she said.\n\nThe number of crimes recorded by police in England and Wales has risen by nearly 750,000 in the last three years. Some of this rise is because police are recording crime better.\n\nIn early 2014 an investigation by the House of Commons Public Administration Select Committee found that forces had been under-recording crime. As a result data audits are being carried out on each force by the Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary.\n\nBut some crimes are genuinely up. If you look at the more accurate Crime Survey for England and Wales, offences such as burglary, robbery and some violent crimes are rising.\n\nEither way the police have more cases to investigate than they did in 2014.\n\nThe reduction in charges follow a period of cuts for the police. There are about 20,000 fewer police officers in England and Wales than there were in 2010. \"That's four and a half million policing days of investigation,\" said Mr Neyroud.\n\nHe says there is also an increased demand for the police service to investigate more rapes, modern slavery, terrorism and organised crime.\n\nForces are having to make tough choices, Dee Collins says\n\n\"That's shifting all the experienced resources into those areas and leaving a considerable drop in the expertise in dealing with the basic day-to-day crimes which are the ones that most of the public are concerned about.\"\n\nHe believes this is leading to police screening crimes for those they feel they can investigate successfully and those they can't.\n\nIn West Yorkshire, Ms Collins admits they are having to make pragmatic decisions about which crimes to follow up.\n\n\"For example if it was an elderly victim and something that might feel fairly low-level we will probably still attend. If perhaps it had been myself ringing about a particular issue we might not. \"\n\nIt has certainly shaken Mr Bolland's faith in the abilities of the police. \"The thin blue line, it's a dotted line now and the dots are getting further and further apart,\" he says.\n\nTight resources and rising crime have brought back bad memories for Mr Neyroud from his time in the police.\n\n\"We spent more of our time apologising for what we weren't able to do than doing what we were able.\n\n\"The police service appears to me to be in that position again.\"\n\nData Analysis by Wesley Stephenson, Ransome Mpini, and William Dahlgreen. Design and development by Sumi Senthinathan, Steven Connor, and Becky Rush.\n\nWe have looked at the outcomes data and recorded crime data for the three years between 2014-15 and 2016-17. 2016-17 is the latest full year for which we have data.\n\nMethod for calculating change in recorded crime and charges:\n\nFor charges we have used: 'Outcomes open data year ending March' for 2014-15, 2015-16, 2016-17 taking the data for charges recorded in each particular year.\n\nFor recorded crime we have used: 'Police recorded crime open data Police Force Area tables from year ending March 2013 onwards'\n\nWe calculated percentage change using the data for the first and last years in our time period.\n\nIn the crime categories chart we have removed any category with fewer than 50 charges in the base year of 2014-15. This is consistent with methodology used by the Office for National Statistics.\n\nFor the PSNI we only have two years of data 2015-16 and 2016-17.\n\nPSNI use the same crime categories and recording methods as England and Wales. To calculate the PSNI percentage change we have used the data for the first and last years in our time period.\n\nPolice Scotland has different crime categories to England and Wales and it also uses the broader category of 'clear ups' rather than charges. The data we use for Scotland is as follows:\n\n4. Chart 1: Recorded crime is up but charges are down.\n\nFor the years between 2007-8 and 2016-17 we have used the same data as above plus: 'Police recorded crime open data Police Force Area tables from March 2008 to March 2012'. To calculate change we have excluded fraud offences and then calculated the year- on-year change in total recorded crime and the year on year change in total charges for England and Wales. This chart was produced with help from Marian Fitzgerald - Visiting Professor of Criminology, University of Kent.", "Last updated on .From the section England\n\nGoalkeeper Joe Hart and midfielder Jack Wilshere have been left out of England's World Cup squad by Gareth Southgate, BBC Sport has learned.\n\nHart, 31, who has won 75 caps, has had a poor season, conceding 39 goals in 19 Premier League games for West Ham - on loan from Manchester City.\n\nArsenal's 26-year-old Wilshere, who has had an injury-plagued career, managed 38 appearances this season.\n\nSouthgate reveals his 23-man squad for the tournament in Russia on Wednesday.\n\nHart has been England's first-choice goalkeeper for the last three major tournaments - Euro 2012, the 2014 World Cup and Euro 2016, as well as the qualifiers for this summer's event - but he has only played in one of the past five games under Southgate.\n\nEverton's Jordan Pickford is likely to be England's number one this summer, with Stoke City's Jack Butland also a contender.\n\nWilshere has won 34 caps, scoring twice. His last appearance for his country was the Euro 2016 last-16 defeat by Iceland.\n\nEngland have been drawn in Group G along with Belgium, Panama and Tunisia and start their World Cup campaign on 18 June against Tunisia.\n• None Football Daily podcast: 'It could be an extraordinarily inexperienced England squad'\n• None Quiz: How many of England's Brazil 2014 squad can you name?\n\nJoe Hart's exclusion from England's World Cup squad continues the steep decline of the goalkeeper who was first choice in their last three major tournaments.\n\nHis England career is now surely over after 75 caps.\n\nHart is now in the painful position of having no future at England level and a very uncertain one at club level with his stay at West Ham now over. The fall from grace is complete.\n\nJack Wilshere's failure to make England's World Cup squad will not simply be based on form for Arsenal this season - it will also be the result of manager Gareth Southgate deciding he is simply a risk not worth taking.\n\nWilshere has shown occasional flashes of his best this season but not enough to make a persuasive case for inclusion and those questions surrounding his fitness have simply never gone away.\n\nHis late withdrawal from England's friendlies against the Netherlands in Amsterdam and Italy at Wembley in March through injury will have done nothing to strengthen his case.", "Thomas Baty (left) and Thomas Howard complained of breathing difficulties on Sunday after going to a nightclub\n\nPolice in Sri Lanka are investigating whether drugs contributed to the death of a British amateur rugby player who died in the country.\n\nThomas Howard, 25, from Durham and team-mate Thomas Baty, 26, died after visiting a nightclub in Colombo during a rugby tour.\n\nPost-mortem tests on Mr Howard found no injury or natural causes for his death.\n\nFurther tests have been ordered but police confirmed to the BBC they were looking at whether drugs played a part.\n\nThe BBC has also seen a preliminary report into Mr Howard's post-mortem examination, which states the cause of his death needs further investigation.\n\nTissue, blood and other samples have been sent for analysis, it confirms.\n\nSri Lankan health minister Rajitha Senarathane said the chief judicial medical officer \"couldn't find the correct diagnosis for the cause of the death\".\n\n\"From the post-mortem they can't find anything so they have taken certain organs of the body and they have sent it to the government analysts,\" he said.\n\nAsked what might have cause their deaths, he said: \"They have played rugger, so they would be exhausted enough.\n\n\"After that, they were without sleep until early morning in a night club.\"\n\nThe men had been touring the country with Durham-based Clems Pirates RFC and begun with a game against Ceylonese Rugby and Football Club (CRFC) in Colombo.\n\nFormer Sri Lanka and CRFC player Pavithra Fernando, who was supposed to play in the match but had had a cold, said there had been \"no issues\" during the game.\n\n\"After the match all of us had a friendly drink together in the club and they left around 11pm,\" he said.\n\nSri Lankan police said some British players went to Colombo's Cleopatra nightclub after the match and returned to their hotel in the early hours of Sunday.\n\nMr Howard and Mr Baty complained of breathing difficulties to the hotel management and were taken to Nawaloka Hospital, where they died.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Mr Zuckerberg's visit to Brussels will be less public than his testimony to Congress last month\n\nFacebook has confirmed its chief executive will meet leading members of the European Parliament to discuss privacy concerns in Brussels.\n\nThe date of the meeting with Mark Zuckerberg has yet to be fixed but the president of the European Parliament said he hoped it would be next week.\n\nThe talks will be held behind closed doors at a meeting of the Conference of Presidents attended by leaders of the various political groups.\n\nBut this later event, which is likely to be in June, will be attended by different Facebook executives.\n\nThe social network has been embroiled in a data privacy scandal since it emerged that it had not checked that millions of users' personal details had been deleted after being shared with Cambridge Analytica.\n\nThe London-based political consultancy announced it would shut earlier this month.\n\nThe French president is also set to meet Mr Zuckerberg in Paris on 23 May.\n\nMr Zuckerberg previously visited Paris in 2011 when he met President Nicolas Sarkozy\n\nEmmanuel Macron's office said the two men would have \"frank\" talks about data privacy and tax.\n\nThe leaders of Microsoft, Intel and IBM are also set to attend the one-day Tech for Good summit at the Elysee Palace.\n\nMr Zuckerberg will not, however, be visiting the UK.\n\nHe has refused a request to testify before Westminster's Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee, which had complained that an earlier appearance by his chief technology officer had failed to yield enough detail.\n\nA spokeswoman for Facebook was unable to say whom else Mr Zuckerberg would meet or where he would travel while in Europe.\n\nBut she gave the following statement: \"We have accepted the Council of President's proposal to meet with leaders of the European Parliament and appreciate the opportunity for dialogue, to listen to their views and show the steps we are taking to better protect people's privacy.\"\n\nThe arrangements have displeased parliament's Brexit negotiator, who also serves as the leader of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe.\n\n\"I will not attend the meeting with Mr Zuckerberg if it's held behind closed doors,\" tweeted Guy Verhofstadt. \"It must be a public hearing - why not a Facebook Live?\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A large crowd gathered at the scene in Varanasi\n\nAt least 18 people have been killed and dozens trapped in the Indian city of Varanasi after a flyover collapsed, crushing vehicles beneath it.\n\nThe flyover was still being built when portions of its cement structure fell on the road being used under it.\n\nOfficials from the National Disaster Response Force said 18 bodies had been recovered so far.\n\nA rescue operation is continuing for those believed to still be trapped, but their number and condition is unknown.\n\nPhotographs and video from the scene showed cars and a bus crushed beneath the weight of the concrete, many of which still held people inside.\n\nLocal media reported that a handful of people had been successfully rescued, as seven cranes attempted to lift the concrete pillar. A large crowd also gathered at the scene.\n\nOne eyewitness told reporters they were nearby when the collapse happened. \"At least four cars, an auto-rickshaw and a minibus were crushed under it,\" they said.\n\nSeveral vehicles were only partly crushed beneath the tonnes of concrete\n\nIndia's NDTV also reported that many of those trapped are believed to be construction workers who had been building the flyover.\n\nThe cause of the collapse is not yet known, and an inquiry has been ordered, NDTV added.\n\nMajor collapses of buildings and other infrastructure are not uncommon in India, where the enforcement of construction standards is weaker than many Western countries.\n\nOther collapses with smaller death tolls are frequent.\n\nVaranasi is the home constituency of India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who said he was \"extremely saddened by the loss of lives due to the collapse\".\n\n\"I pray that the injured recover soon. Spoke to officials and asked them to ensure all possible support to those affected,\" he tweeted.", "The body of 85-year-old Rosina Coleman was found at her home in Romford\n\nAn 85-year-old woman has been found dead in her home after a \"cowardly assault\", police have said.\n\nA handyman working at the address in Ashmour Gardens in Romford, east London, found the body of Rosina Coleman at about 11:30 BST on Tuesday.\n\nFriends and neighbours described the mother of two as \"the nicest person you could hope to meet\" who was \"always happy\".\n\nMurder detectives have not yet made any arrests.\n\nDet Insp Paul Considine, who is leading the investigation, said police believe Mrs Coleman was attacked between 07:30 and 11:30 on Tuesday.\n\nHe added: \"This is a despicable incident in which the victim, an elderly lady who lived alone, had been subjected to a cowardly assault that left her with serious injuries.\n\n\"It is imperative that we find those responsible for this horrendous offence.\"\n\nA police cordon is still in place in Ashmour Gardens in east London\n\nNeighbours said Mrs Coleman had lived on the street for more than 40 years with her husband Bill, who died about 11 years ago.\n\nAlan Mckeown, who lives on the adjacent street, said she was \"the nicest person you could hope to meet\".\n\nHe said he would often pass Mrs Coleman while walking his dog and \"she always wanted to have a good chat\".\n\nHe added: \"I thought she must have had a heart attack or something. I didn't dream of anything untoward like this.\n\nJackie Harwood, 72, said she used to meet Mrs Coleman on Saturdays at the local British Legion.\n\n\"She was a lovely person who was always happy, always dancing,\" she added.\n\n\"She was popular and would cook bread pudding and bring it in for everyone. She would always talk about her family as well.\"\n\nForensics officers are still coming in and out of the semi-detached bungalow where Rosina Coleman lived alone.\n\nHer neighbours tell me she was popular and well-liked.\n\nAshmour Gardens is a quiet residential street with children out playing on their bikes and people walking their dogs.\n\nThose that stopped to talk said they were shocked something like this happened here.\n\nAnother neighbour, who did not wish to be named, said Mrs Coleman was a seamstress who sewed all of her own clothes and made a suit a week.\n\nHe added: \"It's such a sad thing. I can't get my head around it. I can't think of anybody that would want to harm her.\"\n\nA police forensics tent has been erected in the garden of the property, with a tarpaulin sheet drawn across one of the glass windows.\n\nOfficers have also searched nearby drains and bushes.\n\nA post-mortem examination is expected to be carried out on Thursday.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "That's it for our live text coverage of Parliament today.\n\nThe day started with trade questions before Sports Minister Tracey Crouch came to the House to update MPs on the government's decision to lower stakes on fixed-odds betting terminals.\n\nThen Housing Secretary James Brokenshire made a statement on Dame Judith Hackitt's review of building safety in the wake of the Grenfell Tower fire, announcing that he would launch a consultation on banning flammable cladding even though Dame Judith did not make that recommendation.\n\nLabour urged him to go even further, with frontbencher John Healey saying: \"Don't consult on it - do it.\"\n\nThere were backbench business debates this afternoon on plastics and on tackling homophobia, biphobia and transphobia.\n\nThe Commons will return on Monday.", "Cladding on the Grenfell Tower was blamed for the spread of the fire\n\nSurvivors of the Grenfell Tower fire will still be living in emergency accommodation 12 months after the tragedy, the government has confirmed.\n\nHousing Secretary James Brokenshire told MPs that of the 210 households affected, 201 had accepted offers of temporary or permanent accommodation.\n\nLabour said only a third of families affected were in a permanent home.\n\nMeanwhile, the government announced it will fund a £400m operation to remove dangerous cladding from tower blocks.\n\nOnly buildings owned by councils and housing associations will qualify.\n\nMr Brokenshire told a Labour-led debate that of the 201 households which had accepted offers of temporary or permanent accommodation, 138 have moved into their accommodation. Of these 138, 64 are in temporary accommodation and 74 in permanent homes.\n\nWeeks after the fire on 14 June last year, which killed 71 people, the government said survivors would be offered permanent furnished social housing within 12 months.\n\nMr Brokenshire acknowledged that progress had been \"too slow\" and that it was \"understandable\" that some in the community would feel \"let down\" but said the local council now had 300 properties available \"to those who need them\".\n\nShadow housing secretary John Healey said residents had spoken about being offered properties which were damp, with insufficient bedrooms or on tenancy terms which were different to those they had in Grenfell.\n\n\"No-one wants to bring up children in a hotel room,\" he said.\n\nDuring the debate, Labour former minister David Lammy paid tribute to family friend Khadija Saye, a 24-year-old artist who died in the fire.\n\n\"She died, frankly, because the state failed her,\" he said. \"The state told her to stay put and she stayed put and when she did leave, even though she got split up from her mother, she didn't quite make it out.\n\n\"Had she set about leaving earlier, she probably would be with us today.\"\n\nConservative backbencher Kwasi Kwarteng said the government will be judged on its response to the tragedy and warned that the Tory party was at risk of losing the good will of victims of the fire.\n\nHe told the debate that there was an issue of a \"polarised society\".\n\n\"The suspicion today is that as the royal borough has got wealthier and wealthier, the political class, the people running the borough have really forgotten some of the less advantaged members of their community,\" he said.\n\nAnnouncing the funding for replacing cladding during Prime Minister's Questions, Theresa May told MPs that fire and rescue services had visited more than 1,250 tower blocks around the country since the fire.\n\nAnother resident - who suffered from long-term health issues prior to the disaster - was rescued from the fire but died in hospital in January.\n\nCladding on 228 buildings failed safety tests after the disaster.\n\nOn Thursday, Dame Judith Hackitt, the senior engineer responsible for reviewing the building regulations in the wake of the Grenfell fire, will publish her final report.\n\n\"As we approach the anniversary of the appalling tragedy that was the Grenfell Tower fire, our thoughts are with the victims and survivors and all those affected by that tragedy,\" added Mrs May.\n\nThe prime minister said that while councils and housing associations \"must remove dangerous cladding quickly\", the new scheme should not undermine other \"important maintenance and repair work\".\n\nPrivately-owned tower blocks will not be covered by government funding with residents in some buildings covered in the cladding initially being asked to cover the costs.\n\nLeaseholder residents in the Citiscape building in Croydon, south London, were asked to pay up to £31,300 each in order for the cladding to be replaced but the tower's developer, Barratt Developments, then said it would pay instead.", "Thomas Baty (left) and Thomas Howard complained of breathing difficulties on Sunday\n\nA second British amateur rugby player has died after complaining of breathing difficulties on returning from a nightclub in Sri Lanka.\n\nThomas Howard, 25, and Thomas Baty, 26, had been touring the country with Durham-based Clems Pirates RFC when they visited the club in Colombo.\n\nMr Howard, from Durham, died after being admitted to hospital on Sunday.\n\nMr Baty, also from Durham, who had been critically ill in the same hospital, has also now died.\n\nDurham City Rugby Football Club, which oversees the team, confirmed Mr Howard died after \"suffering breathing problems\".\n\nA club statement said: \"It is with great sadness that the Club can now confirm that Tom Baty has died following his admission to hospital on Sunday.\n\n\"We would like to extend our sincere condolences to the Baty family.\"\n\nMr Howard's post-mortem examination did not show any injury or illness and samples have been sent for further analysis, police said.\n\nFamily members of both players are in Sri Lanka and are being assisted by UK consular staff.\n\nThe team arrived in Sri Lanka on 9 May and began the tour with a game against Ceylonese Rugby and Football Club (CR & FC) in Colombo.\n\nAccording to police in Sri Lanka, some British players went to Colombo's Cleopatra nightclub after the match and returned to their hotel in the early hours of Sunday.\n\nThe two players complained of breathing difficulties to the hotel management at about 10:00 on Sunday and were taken to Nawaloka Hospital.\n\nPolice are examining CCTV from the nightclub in an effort to establish the players' movements.\n\nTributes to the pair from other rugby clubs across the UK have been made on social media.\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's reporter in Colombo, Azzam Ameen, said: \"The Judicial Medical Officer has ruled out any internal or external bleeding injuries, so they have not been able to find out the exact cause of the deaths.\n\n\"The case has now been referred to the government analyst for further inquiries.\n\n\"The police here are taking the deaths of two UK visitors to Sri Lanka seriously, but they have said it may be a few more days before they can establish exactly what happened.\"\n\nA spokesman for Durham Police added: \"Investigations into the deaths of Thomas Baty and Thomas Howard are being carried out by the authorities in Sri Lanka.\n\n\"While those investigations continue, the families are being supported by officers from Durham Constabulary.\n\n\"Both families have asked that the media respect their privacy at this difficult time\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nAt 31, the left-back was the oldest player in Sir Alf Ramsey's starting XI which overcame West Germany 4-2 in the 1966 final at Wembley.\n\nHe spent most of his club career at Huddersfield Town before moving to Everton, where he helped the Toffees win the 1966 FA Cup.\n\nDerbyshire-born Wilson, who also played for Oldham and Bradford City, had been diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease.\n\nRay was a great man and he will be missed by so many people\n\nThe Terriers said in a statement they were \"devastated\" to learn of Wilson's death and added: \"He was a regular supporter at home matchdays alongside his eldest son Russell despite battling Alzheimer's disease.\"\n\nEverton also paid tribute to their former player, saying Wilson was \"unquestionably one of the finest footballers to wear the royal blue jersey\".\n\nFormer Toffees boss Joe Royle, who made his Everton debut the year Wilson helped them to FA Cup success, said: \"He is a World Cup winner and played in the last England team that had four, maybe five, world-class players. He was certainly one of those.\n\n\"He was the best of his kind at the time. And he was a top guy, always there with a smile or a helpful word. I played a few reserve games with Ray and it was like listening to a maestro. He knew his stuff.\"\n\nWilson's England team-mate Sir Bobby Charlton also paid tribute to his \"close friend\".\n\nThe 80-year-old said: \"Lady Norma and I are deeply saddened by the awful news that Ray has passed away\n\n\"We shared some wonderful memories throughout our career and I had the pleasure of being his room-mate. Ray was a great man and he will be missed by so many people.\"\n\nAnother of Wilson's England team-mates, goalkeeper Gordon Banks, described him as \"a wonderful guy, on and off the field\" and a \"world-class player\".\n\n\"It's very, very sad, horrible news,\" Banks said.\n\n\"He was always one of the lads who wanted to have a laugh in the dressing room and whenever we went out for a drink.\n\n\"He was such a wonderful guy, on and off the field.\n\n\"As a player, he really was superb. He wasn't a big, strapping guy, but he was so quick.\n\n\"He was a world-class player without any question. There were players we just couldn't do without, they were terrific players, and he was one of them.\"\n\nWilson was born in Shirebrook on 17 December 1934, and was given the name Ramon, in tribute to Mexican Hollywood actor Ramon Novarro.\n\nHe joined Huddersfield at the age of 17 in 1952, having previously worked on the railways. Wilson played in a forward role and in central defence before trying his hand at left-back, where he was advised to remain by reserve-team coach Bill Shankly. It was when Liverpool's legendary manager took charge of the first team in 1956 that the defender's career flourished.\n\nWilson went on to win the first of his 63 England caps in 1960 when he featured in the 1-1 draw against Scotland. He remains the last Terrier to play at a World Cup while at the club, having played at the 1962 tournament.\n\nAfter 283 appearances Wilson joined Everton in 1964. Silverware came in a memorable 1966 when Wilson helped the Toffees beat Sheffield Wednesday 3-2 in the FA Cup final before helping England to World Cup success a few weeks later.\n\nThe defender played 154 matches for the Merseyside club before joining Oldham in 1969. He finished his career in 1971 at Bradford, a team he also managed for just 10 games.\n\nWilson, who went on to open an undertaker business in Huddersfield, was appointed an MBE in 2000.\n\nRay Wilson may have been one of the more unsung members of England's 1966 World Cup-winning team - but he was a left-back of undoubted world class.\n\nWilson was the consummate defender but also blessed with lightning pace that would have made him a master even in the modern era, when an attacking edge is called for.\n\nHe made his name at his beloved Huddersfield Town but it was at Everton, who he joined at the relatively late age of 29 in 1964, where he enjoyed his greatest successes.\n\nAnd they all came in the space of two months at Wembley in 1966, playing in the Everton side that came from two goals down to beat Sheffield Wednesday 3-2 in the FA Cup final and then that historic day when West Germany were beaten 4-2 in the World Cup final.\n\nRay Wilson can take his place in history as one of only 11 Englishmen to possess a World Cup winners' medal.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Mothers at this shopping centre say other stores are better at catering for young children\n\nMothercare has confirmed it is closing 50 stores as part of a rescue plan, a move that will put 800 jobs at risk.\n\nThe baby products retailer said it was in a \"perilous\" financial position.\n\nThe store closures will leave it with 78 outlets in the UK by 2020.\n\nThe retailer has already nearly halved its store numbers over the past five years. It had intended have 92 outlets by 2023, but has now accelerated its closure plans and will have just 73 by that year.\n\nThe company plunged to a £72.8m loss in its most recent financial year, as it took hefty charges to pay for closing stores and reorganising the business.\n\nMothercare saw falling numbers of shoppers in the second half of the financial year and had to discount to try to stimulate sales. However, over the year as a whole, like-for-like sales fell 1.3%.\n\nYou just have to speak to shoppers to understand what's gone wrong at Mothercare.\n\nThe mums I met yesterday bought their baby stuff in the likes of Primark and the supermarkets. Mothercare, they told me, was too pricey.\n\nTruth is, this chain has been struggling for a long time. Its UK business hasn't made a profit since 2012. It's yet another High Street chain that hasn't kept up with changing shopping habits and increasing competition. The tough conditions on the high street have finally brought things to a head.\n\nWill this restructuring be enough to secure long term survival? The shenanigans over its management changes don't exactly instil confidence and raise questions about the leadership of a business which needs a compete reboot.\n\nThe plan to close stores and cut rents at 21 of its stores is being carried out through a company voluntary arrangement (CVA).\n\nThe CVA, as is standard, will need the support of its creditors. One of these, the Pension Protection Fund, has already said it will vote in favour.\n\nThe company also said it would reappoint the chief executive who left in April following poor Christmas trading and a profits warning.\n\nMark Newton-Jones was sacked by the then chairman Alan Parker - who has himself subsequently stepped down. Former Tesco executive David Wood who had taken on the chief executive role and is just over a month into the job, will become group managing director.\n\nIn a statement, Mothercare said: \"Recent financial performance, impacted in particular by a large number of legacy loss making stores within the UK estate, has resulted in a perilous financial condition for the group.\"\n\nAs part of its restructuring, Mothercare has also arranged a refinancing package worth up to £113.5m, which includes £28m raised through issuing new shares, and an extension of its existing debt arrangements.\n\nMothercare chairman Clive Whiley said: \"These measures provide a solid platform from which to reposition the group and begin to focus on growth, both in the UK and internationally.\"\n\nCVAs have become widespread this year as a sheaf of major High Street names have had to undergo deep changes in the way they operate.\n\nEarlier this year, toy store chain Toys R Us collapsed into administration, as did electronics retailer Maplin.\n\nCarpetright has entered into a CVA and announced store closures, as has fashion chain New Look.\n\nA number of reasons have been cited for failures on the High Street, including a squeeze on consumers' income, the growth of online shopping and the rising costs of staff, rents and business rates.\n\nRichard Hyman, retail adviser and consultant, told the BBC's Today programme that Mothercare's problems went back years.\n\n\"I think Mothercare has not really delivered on the promise implicit in the name, in trading terms, for generations really,\" he said.\n\n\"Nothing can sum it up quite as well as the fact you can't get a pram round the store.\"\n\nHe added that this has become more of an issue as the trading climate is now \"so much more unforgiving\".", "Kashket and Partners dressed Prince William for his wedding in 2011 and hold a royal warrant.\n\nThey've been showing the BBC what it takes to get a Royal groom dressed for his big day.", "Princess Charlotte comes to the role with experience\n\nThree-year-old Princess Charlotte will be one of six young bridesmaids at the wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, Kensington Palace has said.\n\nHer elder brother, Prince George, aged four, will be a pageboy alongside three other young boys.\n\nSo far, the details of the bridesmaids' dresses and the pageboys' uniforms remain under wraps.\n\nMs Markle, 36, will not have a maid of honour as she wanted to avoid choosing just one of her closest friends.\n\nAs well as his niece and nephew, Prince Harry has picked three godchildren - three-year-old Florence van Cutsem, two year-old Zalie Warren and Jasper Dyer, six - to have starring roles on his big day.\n\nJasper is the son of Prince Harry's close friend Mark Dyer, a former royal equerry to Prince Charles, who supported Harry after the death of his mother, Princess Diana.\n\nThe pair travelled together on Harry's gap year and Mr Dyer inspired the prince's charity work in Lesotho, Africa.\n\nMs Markle's goddaughters, Remi Litt, six, and her elder sister, Rylan, seven, will also be joining the procession of bridesmaids.\n\nAnd the three children of one of her best friends, Jessica Mulroney - Ivy, four, and seven-year-old twins Brian and John - will complete the picture.\n\nJessica, a stylist, is married to Ben Mulroney, a Canadian TV host and son of former Canadian prime minister, Brian Mulroney.\n\nShe was photographed arriving at Heathrow Airport with her family on Tuesday night.\n\nPrince George was pageboy at his aunt's wedding\n\nPrince George, second from right, concentrates on his duties\n\nPrince George, the son of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, will have experience to lean on - he was pageboy at his aunt Pippa Middleton's wedding to James Matthews last May.\n\nHis sister, Charlotte, a bridesmaid at her aunt's wedding, recently showed she was undaunted by the limelight when she visited her little brother, Prince Louis, at hospital after his birth.\n\nWith the world's cameras trained on her, she seemed to enjoy the attention, waving sweetly and smiling at the bank of photographers.\n\nMeanwhile, a petition organised by campaign group Republic has been handed to MPs.\n\nSigned by 32,000 people, the petition calls on MPs to make the Royal Family pay for the security and policing surrounding Saturday's wedding and for the government to publish a report of all costs to taxpayers.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"The royals should be paying for this wedding\" - Republic\n\nRepublic chief executive Graham Smith said: \"There is nothing inevitable about the public spending on a royal wedding. If the royals don't want to pay a big security bill they could have had a private wedding in Sandringham or Balmoral.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nPrince Harry and Ms Markle will be hoping for good behaviour from their bridesmaids and pageboys - all seven or under.\n\nAt his brother Prince William's wedding in 2011, the young bridesmaids and pageboys patiently posed in the Throne Room at Buckingham Palace\n\nPrince Harry was on hand to accompany the youngest ones in a carriage to Buckingham Palace\n\nThe day's highlight was a kiss on the balcony for all bar young bridesmaid Grace van Cutsem", "Every Govia Thameslink train time is being changed\n\nThe time of every train on Britain's largest rail franchise, Govia Thameslink (GTR), will change as part of a major shake-up.\n\nArrival and departure times are being re-set from Sunday and some services will call at different stations.\n\nSome signal workers have claimed it is going to be \"a disaster\", the Rail, Maritime and Transport (RMT) union said.\n\nGTR said nearly 400 extra trains each day would bring \"a significant boost\".\n\nThe company said it would be running about 3,600 trains across its network - which includes Southern rail, Gatwick Express, Thameslink and Great Northern.\n\nBut an RMT member said the new timetable would slow down services by allowing more catch-up time on routes and more turnaround time at stations.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A BBC investigation discovered Govia Thameslink was the worst for 'station skipping'\n\nThe union, which recently marked two years of its dispute with GTR over the role of guards, warned there was potential for massive disruption to the \"core\" area of London, from London Bridge to St Pancras.\n\nRMT general secretary Mick Cash said the new timetable would place massive strains on infrastructure and staffing levels already under pressure and accused GTR of \"winging it with potentially disastrous consequences\".\n\nGTR has urged passengers to check their plans before they travel.\n\nChief executive Charles Horton said: \"We don't want passengers to get caught out and so we strongly advise them to look up the times of their trains as they will find that from 20 May each and every one of them has changed.\n\n\"Due to the sheer scale of the changes, we will have to redeploy a large number of trains and crews and services may not run at normal times during the introductory phase, although the impact on peak-time services during the transition will be minimal.\"\n\nThe RMT union recently marked two years of its dispute with Govia Thameslink\n\nGTR has promised \"huge benefits\" with space for an extra 50,000 morning peak-time passengers travelling into London.\n\nIt said 80 more stations would have direct services to central London stations by next year.\n\nPassengers have also been promised \"enhanced frequency, reliability and connectivity across the network\", particularly at Brighton, Bedford, Luton and East Croydon.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nFriday's dramatic meeting between South Korean President Moon Jae-in and his North Korean counterpart, Chairman Kim Jong-un, represents an unambiguous historic breakthrough at least in terms of the image of bilateral reconciliation and the emotional uplift it has given to South Korea public opinion.\n\nWhether the agreement announced at the meeting - the new Panmunjeom Declaration for Peace, Prosperity and Unification of the Korean Peninsula - offers, in substance, the right mix of concrete measures to propel the two Koreas and the wider international community towards a lasting peace remains an open question.\n\nThe symbolic impact of a North Korean leader setting foot for the first time on South Korean soil cannot be underestimated.\n\nMr Kim's bold decision to stride confidently into nominally hostile territory reflects the young dictator's confidence and acute sense of political theatre and expertly executed timing.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHis clever, seemingly spontaneous gesture to President Moon to reciprocate his step into the South by having him join him for an instance in stepping back into the North was an inspired way of asserting the equality of the two countries and their leaders.\n\nIt also, by blurring the boundary between the two countries, hinted at the goal of unification that both Seoul and Pyongyang have long sought to realise.\n\nThe rest of the day was full of visual firsts and a set of cleverly choreographed images of the two leaders chatting informally and intimately in the open air - deliberately advancing a powerful new narrative of the two Koreas as agents of their own destiny.\n\nHandshakes, broad smiles and bear hugs have amplified this message of Koreans determining their own future, in the process offsetting past memories of a peninsula all too often dominated by the self-interest of external great powers, whether China, Japan, or more recently, during the Cold War, the United States and the former Soviet Union.\n\nThe two leaders' joint statements before the international media were another pitch perfect moment for Mr Kim to challenge the world's preconceptions.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Kim Jong-un issues his pledge for peace with South Korea\n\nIn an instance, Mr Kim's confident and relaxed announcement to the press dispelled the picture of a remote, rigid, autocratic leader in favour of a normal, humanised statesman, intent on working to advance the cause of peace and national reconciliation.\n\nA cynic might see this as both a simple propaganda victory for Mr Kim, and also his attempt to lock in place the nuclear and missile advances the North has already achieved by calling for \"phased…disarmament\" - by intentionally downplaying the expectation of immediate progress while emphasising the need for step-by-step negotiations.\n\nThe joint declaration echoes the themes of past accords, including the previous Korean leaders summits of 2000 and 2007, and an earlier 1991 bilateral Reconciliation and Non-Aggression agreement.\n\nPlans to establish joint liaison missions, military dialogue and confidence building measures, economic co-operation, and the expansion of contact between the citizens of the two countries have featured in earlier agreements.\n\nHowever, Friday's declaration is more specific in its proposals, with the two countries pledging, for example, \"to cease all hostile acts against each other in every domain, including land, sea and air…\" and providing a series of key dates for the early implementation by both sides of a raft of new confidence building measures.\n\nThese include the cessation of \"all hostile acts\" near the demilitarised zone by 1 May, the start of bilateral military talks in May, joint participation by the two Koreas in the 2018 Asian Games, the re-establishment of family reunions by 15 August, and, perhaps most importantly of all, a return visit to the North by President Moon by as soon as the autumn of this year.\n\nCommitting to early, albeit incremental, steps in the direction of peace, appears to be motivated by the Korean leaders' wish to foster an irresistible sense of momentum and urgency.\n\nThe declaration also calls for future peace treaty talks involving the two Koreas, together with one or both of China and the US.\n\nThe logic of binding external actors into a definite - but evolving - timetable for progress on key issues is that it lowers the risk of conflict on the peninsula - something both Koreas are keen to avoid and which they have long had reason to fear given the past bellicose language of a \"fire and fury\" Donald Trump.\n\nPlaying for time is a viable option, given that President Moon is at the start of his five-year presidency - a marked contrast to the summits of 2000 and 2007, when the respective leaders of the South, Kim Dae-jung and Roh Moo-hyun, were already well into their presidential terms.\n\nMr Moon can count, therefore, on repeat meetings with Mr Kim, and the two men appear genuinely interested in sustaining their dialogue and making progress on the wide-ranging set of initiatives included in the declaration.\n\nMr Kim's own statements at the summit have also been a vocal argument in favour of identity politics, given his stress on \"one nation, one language, one blood\", and his repeated rejection of any future conflict between the Koreas - two themes that will have played well with a South Korean public that traditionally is sympathetic to a narrative of self-confident, although not necessarily strident, nationalism.\n\nPresident Trump says he will continue to exert maximum pressure on North Korea\n\nFor all of the stress on Koreans determining their common future, there is no escaping the decisive importance of the US.\n\nThe much anticipated Trump-Kim summit in May or early June will be critical in testing the sincerity of the North's commitment to a peaceful settlement.\n\nPyongyang's professed commitment to \"denuclearisation\" is likely to be very different from Washington's demand for \"comprehensive, verifiable and irreversible\" nuclear disarmament.\n\nNot only will the Trump-Kim summit be a way of measuring the gap between the US and North Korea on this issue; it will also be an important opportunity to gauge how far the US has developed its own strategy for narrowing the differences with the North.\n\nPresident Moon has cleverly and repeatedly allowed Mr Trump to assume credit for the breakthrough in inter-Korean relations, recognising perhaps that boosting the US president's ego is the best way of minimising the risk of war and keeping Mr Trump engaged in dialogue with the North.\n\nWhatever the long-term, substantive outcome from the Panmunjeom summit, the event has memorably showcased the political astuteness, diplomatic agility and strategic vision of both Korean leaders.\n\nThe dramatic events of Friday are a reminder that personality and leadership are key ingredients in effecting historical change, sometimes allowing relatively small powers to advance their interests in spite of the competing interests of larger, more influential states.\n\nDr John Nilsson-Wright is Senior Research Fellow for Northeast Asia, Asia-Pacific Programme at Chatham House and a senior lecturer in Japanese Politics and International Relations at the University of Cambridge", "Theresa May went head-to-head with Jeremy Corbyn in the House of Commons. Here's what happened.\n\nThe main clash was between the two leaders over Brexit and the current debate going on in the cabinet over which form of customs arrangement the UK wants with the EU after Brexit.\n\nThe Labour leader went straight in with a joke that Mrs May, amongst others, enjoyed.\n\nHe asked the PM that when she said she wanted \"as little friction as possible... was she talking about EU trade or the next cabinet meeting?\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by BBC News (UK) This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMrs May replied that the government had a policy of leaving the customs union and ensuring that in doing so there was as frictionless trade as possible with the EU, no hard Northern Ireland border and also an independent trade policy. Then, referring to friction, she quoted shadow ministers who had backed a second EU referendum and asked Mr Corbyn to \"put minds at rest\" and rule out a second referendum.\n\nMr Corbyn ignored that and said that divisions in the cabinet meant there had been no progress in Brexit negotiations for five months. He said that the PM's trade goal had gone from \"frictionless\" to \"as frictionless as possible\", and asked how much friction she was willing to accept. Mrs May replied that even as a member of the EU trade was not frictionless - presumably explaining why the wording of the goal had changed.\n\nThe two then clashed over business and the economy with Mr Corbyn listing companies including Airbus who have warned, he said, that uncertainty and the proposed Brexit solutions meant they may be moving jobs out of the UK. Mrs May hit back by attacking Labour's record.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by BBC News (UK) This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nWe then came to the crunch with Mr Corbyn saying that negotiating deadlines were approaching and \"if the prime minister cannot negotiate a good deal for Britain why doesn't she step aside and let Labour negotiate a comprehensive new customs union and living standards backed by trade unions and business in this country - step aside and make way for those who will.\"\n\nMrs May said that her government had created more jobs and delivered on the Brexit talks so far. She accused Labour of broken promises and said \"it is only the Conservative Party which can be trusted by the British people to deliver a Brexit that is in the interests of British people and to deliver opportunity for all in a Britain fit for the future\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe SNP's leader at Westminster Ian Blackford raised the issue of the EU Withdrawal Bill, claiming the government was out of touch on 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 5 by BBC News (UK) This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nTheresa May is asked by Labour MP Virendra Sharma to find more funding for Sure Start, the \"proudest achievement\" of the late Baroness Jowell.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The PM is asked to find more funding for Sure Start in memory of Tessa Jowell\n\nHere's what the BBC's Andrew Neil and Laura Kuenssberg made of 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 6 by BBC Daily Politics and Sunday Politics This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. 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End of twitter post 7 by BBC Daily Politics and Sunday Politics\n\nHere's the BBC's Mark D'Arcy's take on it:\n\nThis was a marathon PMQs, finally juddering to a halt at 12:52. And Jeremy Corbyn continued hammering away at the government's internal deadlock over the critical question of post-Brexit customs arrangements.\n\nIt's just an impression, really, but something about the Labour leader's tone and body language suggests that he is edging, more and more, toward a very \"soft Brexit\" policy. Maybe this is the inexorable logic of opposition, pushing Labour towards the policy most likely to damage the government and split the Conservatives. Some on his benches - arch-remainer Stephen Kinnock for one - want to waft him towards their favoured policy of keeping Britain inside the EEA, the European Economic Area.\n\nTheresa May, as last week, stuck to her familiar formula about the trade arrangements she seeks, without giving much indication of how the government's open dissention will be resolved. But perhaps she gave a hint that ministers recognise how much trouble they are in, in the Commons.\n\nChallenged by Labour's Karen Buck to provide an early vote on the EEA option, she suggested that the vote could come on a number of bills, and then name-checked one that has not yet been fed into Parliament, the promised Implementation and Withdrawal Bill, that will put the divorce deal into UK legislation.\n\nWhat is interesting about that is that the EU Withdrawal Bill, due to clear the Lords today, would provide a much earlier opportunity for an EEA vote. And indeed lots of other awkward votes for the government. Peers have already inserted an EEA requirement into that Bill, and MPs will have to decide to accept or reject it.\n\nThere is a rumour that ministers are so concerned about a series of possible Commons defeats on this Bill that they might shelve it indefinitely, and maybe put parts of it into that promised Withdrawal and Implementation Bill in the autumn… at least kicking the can down the road for some months.\n\nIt underlines the government's continuing problem that there does not appear to be a Commons majority for the PM's version of Brexit. So a combination of Jeremy Corbyn and his pro-EU backbenchers gave the PM an uncomfortable interlude.\n\nFor the SNP, Ian Blackford opened another Brexit front, by highlighting the opposition to the government's plans in the Scottish Parliament. But that was a predictable line of attack and Theresa May was prepared. Both sides put their line on the record.\n\nAnd the PM also got in a pre-emptive concession on the Grenfell Tower issue - announcing new government funding in advance of the Labour Opposition Day debate this afternoon. A neat piece of choreography with backbencher Bob Blackman, aimed at taking some wind out of Labour's sails this afternoon.\n\nAn audio download of some of the key exchanges, and what Andrew Neil and his Daily Politics guests made of the exchanges.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Liz Rawlings This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Glittering carriages, dresses fit for princesses and some very excited BBC commentators.\n\nHere's how the BBC covered the other royal weddings, from Princess Elizabeth to Prince William.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Chris Grayling says talk of nationalising the whole rail network was \"missing the point\"\n\nRail services on the East Coast Main Line are being brought back under government control, following the failure of the current franchise.\n\nOperators Stagecoach and Virgin Trains will hand over control from 24 June.\n\nThe Department for Transport will run the service until a new public-private partnership can be appointed in 2020.\n\nTransport Secretary Chris Grayling said it would smooth the transition to a new operator, but critics said it was evidence of private sector failure.\n\nMr Grayling said the franchise had failed because Stagecoach and Virgin Trains had \"got their bid wrong\", overestimating the profitability of the line.\n\nIt is the third time in a just over a decade that the government has called a halt to the East Coast franchise.\n\nThe London to Edinburgh line has been run by a joint venture between Stagecoach and Virgin, since 2015.\n\nThe companies promised to pay £3.3bn to run the franchise until 2023, but at the end of last year it become clear they were running into trouble.\n\nIn February it was announced that the franchise would end early, leading to accusations the government was bailing them out.\n\nThis is the third time a franchise on the East Coast Main Line has failed.\n\nIn 2005, GNER signed a £1.35bn, 10-year deal in what was then the biggest contract in European railway history. One year later it was stripped of the route.\n\nIn August 2007, National Express agreed a £1.4bn deal, but then handed it back to the government in 2009 amid the financial crisis.\n\nIt was then government-run until Stagecoach and Virgin's £3.3bn bid in 2015.\n\nRead more: What went wrong at the East Coast Main Line?\n\nTo have one rail company fail to fulfil its contract may be regarded as a misfortune. To lose three looks like carelessness.\n\nThe government insists that the East Coast service is not failing, and will continue to generate revenue for the public purse.\n\nIt says Stagecoach and Virgin have only themselves to blame for their inability to make enough money from the line.\n\nThat may be true. But critics say that if operators keep over-bidding, then that suggests a problem with the tender process.\n\nThe assumptions made by the DfT when inviting bids have also been widely questioned.\n\nNow the DfT wants to use the line as a model for a new type of franchise, based on a public-private partnership.\n\nThat may help to solve some issues - for example, reducing the friction between the track operator, Network Rail and the train operator.\n\nBut whether it will help to make the line viable for the new operator is open to question.\n\nMr Grayling said the companies had overestimated growth in passenger numbers and revenues and were having to reach into their own pockets to fulfil the terms of the franchise.\n\nHe told the Commons that Stagecoach and Virgin have lost almost £200m, but there had not been a loss to taxpayers \"at this time\".\n\nThe rail companies have blamed their problems on Network Rail, saying it had failed to upgrade the line which would have allowed them to run more frequent services.\n\nShadow Chancellor, John McDonnell tweeted that he welcomed the move, which he said was implementing Labour's Manifesto promise to renationalise the railways.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by John McDonnell 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\nGreen Party MP Caroline Lucas tweeted that public ownership should be extended to the rest of the rail network.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Caroline Lucas This article contains content provided by Twitter. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nFor the next two years the operator of last resort, overseen by the Department of Transport will operate the East Coast Main Line.\n\nIt will be advised by the engineering firm Arup.\n\nIn 2020 there will be another tender process for operating the franchise.\n\nMr Grayling would like to see closer co-operation between the state-owned Network Rail which owns the track infrastructure and the private train operators.\n\nDespite their failure on the East Coast Main Line, Virgin and Stagecoach will be allowed to bid for future rail franchises.\n\nFor a government wedded to the benefits of the private sector and to leaving the railways in the hands of private companies, today's decision is a significant blow.\n\nIt's also further ammunition for a Corbyn Labour Party committed to renationalising the railways.\n\nMr Grayling may protest that this is only a temporary measure - but it is still the third time in just over a decade that a private company has had to be stripped of the East Coast Main Line contract.\n\nThere are also likely to be raised eyebrows that despite their failure, Virgin Stagecoach will still be able to bid to run the line again after it is transferred back into public private ownership in 2020.\n\nAnd while memories of British Rail's stale sandwiches may have faded - strikes, costly commuter fares, cramped carriages and failing companies are hardly likely to endear passengers to the current crop of private rail operators.\n\nAfter looking into problems with the service, Mr Grayling said he was advised \"that there is no suggestion of either malpractice or malicious intent in what has happened\".\n\nHe added that the firms have paid a \"high financial and reputational price\" in relation to the East Coast route.\n\nStagecoach said it had attempted to negotiate a new contract with the Department for Transport, without success.\n\nMr Grayling said passengers and staff would not be affected by the change to the franchise arrangement. He said season tickets, timetables and employment conditions would remain unchanged.", "Last updated on .From the section Everton\n\nSam Allardyce has been sacked as Everton manager after six months.\n\nThe 63-year-old signed a contract until June 2019 when he took over in November following Ronald Koeman's dismissal.\n\nEverton, who were 13th in the Premier League when Allardyce arrived, finished the season in eighth.\n\nAllardyce has been heavily criticised by fans for his management and Everton's style of play since he took over and the club said the decision was part of their \"longer-term plan\".\n\nIt is understood former Hull City and Watford boss Marco Silva is the main candidate to succeed Allardyce.\n\nThe 40-year-old Portuguese was owner Farhad Moshiri's first choice when he dismissed Dutchman Koeman.\n\nEverton have also been interested in Shakhtar Donetsk coach Paulo Fonseca, although he is also a contender to replace David Moyes at West Ham.\n\nThe new manager will be selected by Everton's new director of football Marcel Brands and new chief executive Denise Barrett-Baxendale.\n\nEverton chief executive Denise Barrett-Baxendale thanked Allardyce, adding: \"Sam was brought in at a challenging time last season to provide us with some stability and we are grateful to him for doing that.\n\n\"However, we have made the decision that, as part of our longer-term plan, we will be appointing a new manager this summer and will be commencing this process immediately.\"\n\nHas he got what it takes?\n\nIn the Premier League, Everton won 10 matches, lost six and drew eight under Allardyce, his reign ending with a 3-1 defeat by West Ham on the final day of the season.\n\nHe took over after a poor start to the season under Dutchman Koeman left the club in the relegation zone with two wins from nine matches.\n\nEverton were unbeaten in their first six league matches under Allardyce and claimed their only Europa League win under the ex-Crystal Palace, Sunderland, Blackburn, West Ham, Bolton and Newcastle boss.\n\nHowever, he was booed by fans following his side's 2-1 defeat at Burnley in March, and was again criticised after their draw with Swansea six weeks later.\n\nThe club apologised to Allardyce in April after a survey was sent to fans asking them to rank their manager's performance on a scale of zero to 10.\n\nThe former England manager said in April that he had spoken with Moshiri and that he would remain at the club next season.\n\nWayne Rooney's future at the club was reported to have rested on whether Allardyce would be manager next season.\n\nThe former England striker, 32, has agreed a deal in principle that could see him leave for Major League Soccer side DC United this summer in a £12.5m deal.\n\nThe Toffees announced a major restructure of their board on Tuesday, as Barrett-Baxendale replaced Robert Elstone as chief executive.\n\nAllardyce, who passed 1,000 games in charge of an English club in January, said he was \"disgusted\" by the club's decision to make the changes public without his knowledge, according to the Liverpool Echo.\n\n\"I'm shocked, disappointed and disgusted that the football club didn't have the decency to tell me, my director of football and my staff about the changes,\" said Allardyce.\n\n\"They must have been in the pipeline for a considerable time but no-one thought to tell me and my staff.\"\n\nEverton under Allardyce in the Premier League\n\nThis had been coming. He left Newcastle and West Ham in very similar circumstances. Allardyce goes into a club, does a good job, a solid job, but from the fans' perspective it is not enough.\n\nHe has now managed seven Premier League clubs and will be left to consider whether there is another club out there for him. It seems as though his style of football alienates fans of medium to large Premier League clubs and he cannot succeed at those clubs.\n\nHe had a meeting with owner Farhad Moshiri early on Wednesday, he did not expect it to take long and it clearly hasn't.\n\nAllardyce had a year left on his contract, he said last week he had done all the preparatory work for next season but behind that probably knew it would be left for someone else. He alienated Evertons fans with his style of football, even though he got them up to the safety of eighth in the table.", "Last updated on .From the section World Cup\n\nUncapped 19-year-old Liverpool defender Trent Alexander-Arnold is in Gareth Southgate's 23-man England squad for this summer's World Cup in Russia.\n\nDefender Gary Cahill has been recalled and there are also places for Ruben Loftus-Cheek and Nick Pope.\n\nGoalkeeper Joe Hart and midfielder Jack Wilshere have not been included, along with left-back Ryan Bertrand.\n\nEngland start their Group G campaign against Tunisia on 18 June, before games against Panama and Belgium.\n\nLiverpool midfielder Adam Lallana is one of five players on standby for the tournament, along with Burnley keeper Tom Heaton, Clarets defender James Tarkowski, Bournemouth's Lewis Cook and fellow midfielder Jake Livermore of West Brom.\n\n\"I believe this is a squad we can be excited about,\" Southgate said.\n\n\"It is a young group but with some really important senior players, so I feel the balance of the squad is good, both in terms of its experience, its character and also the positional balance.\"\n• None Pick your England XI for the opening match\n• Age: Based on players' age on the first matchday, England have named their third youngest squad for a World Cup (26 years 18 days) behind only the 1958 (25 years 81 days) and 2006 (25 years 286 days) editions.\n• Caps: The squad has made a total of 449 international appearances at an average of 19.5. Cahill (58) is the only player with more than 40 caps.\n• Goals: They have scored a total of 55 goals for England. Welbeck (15) and Kane (12) are the only players in double figures.\n• Continuity: Only five of the players featured in the 2014 squad - Cahill, Jones, Henderson, Sterling and Welbeck. This compares with six in the squad of four years ago that had been picked for the previous tournament.\n• Clubs: 10 Premier League clubs are represented, with Tottenham (five) boasting the most players ahead of Manchester United and Manchester City (four each).\n\nAlexander-Arnold's call-up is his first for the England senior team and follows the right-back's breakthrough season at Liverpool.\n\nThe England Under-21 international has played 33 times for the Reds this season, including nine appearances in their run to the Champions League final.\n\n\"I found out this morning, just before we came out to Marbella,\" he told Liverpool's official website. \"Jurgen Klopp said: 'Have you got anything planned around the time of the World Cup?'\n\n\"I was like: 'No, no holidays or anything...'\n\n\"He said to me: 'OK, good. You're in the squad!' It was a really proud moment.\"\n\nAlexander-Arnold is one of four full-backs in the squad, alongside Manchester City's Kyle Walker and Tottenham pair Kieran Trippier and Danny Rose.\n\nManchester City's Fabian Delph and Manchester United's Ashley Young have played in a full-back position for the majority of this season at their clubs.\n\n'Tough to leave out Hart and Bertrand'\n\nTwo of the most notable absentees from the squad are Manchester City keeper Hart and Southampton full-back Bertrand.\n\nHart, 31, has won 75 caps and was England's first-choice goalkeeper at the past three major tournaments but has had a poor season, conceding 39 goals in 19 Premier League games on loan at West Ham.\n\nBurnley's Pope was chosen over him, joining recent starters Jack Butland and Jordan Pickford in the squad, while Clarets team-mate Tom Heaton is selected as the goalkeeper on the standby list, despite not playing since September because of injury.\n\nBertrand withdrew from the squad for the friendlies against the Netherlands and Italy in March with injury, but had featured in nine of England's previous 10 games.\n\n\"Both calls were really tough,\" Southgate said.\n\n\"They're both good guys and have contributed a lot throughout qualification, so it wasn't an enjoyable part of the job and I feel it's important to acknowledge their contribution in getting us to Russia.\n\n\"With Joe, we've got three other goalkeepers who have had very good seasons and the decision I was faced with was do I keep Joe in and have experience around the group or give the three guys who have basically had a better season a chance?\n\n\"We felt the players all needed to be in on merit after their performances this season.\n\n\"Ryan is also very unfortunate in that it's probably one of the strongest positions we have. Ryan has had a decent season but I just felt the others were ahead of him.\"\n\nOne player returning to the squad is Chelsea centre-back Cahill.\n\nHe was left out of England's most recent squad for the friendlies against the Netherlands and Italy in March. Before that, the 32-year-old was an unused substitute in friendlies against Brazil and Germany, plus the final World Cup qualifier against Lithuania.\n\nCahill was preferred to fellow centre-back Chris Smalling, who played 45 times for Manchester United this season.\n\nWilshere and Newcastle's Jonjo Shelvey, who had been tipped for an inclusion after impressive form at the end of the season, have been overlooked in midfield.\n\nArsenal forward Danny Welbeck, who scored five Premier League goals this season, is included.\n• None The ups and downs of an England squad announcement\n\nJack Butland: Every call-up is an honour, but a World Cup call-up is something extra special! I've always dreamed of this moment and can't wait for the next couple of months.\n\nKyle Walker: Honoured to be able to represent England at the 2018 World Cup! Can't wait to get there and do the fans proud! Thank you for all your kind messages!\n\nDele Alli: It's an honour to be named in the England squad for the World Cup. It's a dream come true! Get me to Russia!!\n\nMarcus Rashford: After years of you standing on the touchline in the cold and rain, mum, we're off to the World Cup!\n\nJamie Vardy: What an honour! No words to describe the feeling right now..... can't wait to get going! See you in Russia.\n\nTrent Alexander-Arnold: Dreamt of going to a World Cup since I was a kid. Today that dream come true, an honour to represent the Three Lions this summer!\n\nBailey and Sancho in? The speculation\n\nAs ever with squad announcements, speculation was rife before the 23 names were released at 14:00 BST, with two Germany-based players in particular mentioned on social media.\n\nJamaica-born Bayer Leverkusen winger Leon Bailey sparked rumours by tweeting a picture of himself with the caption \"humble lion\" shortly before the announcement.\n\nReports suggest the 20-year-old, who has scored 12 goals in Germany this season, qualifies for England through his grandparents but there remain doubts about his eligibility.\n\nSpeculation also suggested Borussia Dortmund winger Jadon Sancho was going to be named on the standby list by Southgate.\n\nSancho only made his first-team debut in October and has played 12 times for Dortmund this season, having joined from Manchester City in August.\n\nHe has started the German club's past four matches, scoring once and providing three assists, and was part of the England team that won the 2017 Under-17 World Cup.", "There are warnings universities do not see the \"day-to-day racism\" on campus\n\nUniversities are being accused of \"complacency\" over a lack of senior black academics and lower achievement among ethnic minority students.\n\nBaroness Amos, the UK's first black woman university head, says there are \"deep-seated prejudices and stereotypes which need to be overcome\".\n\n\"Not even 1% of UK professors are black,\" she will tell a conference on university leadership.\n\nThe Office for Students says tackling such \"gaps\" should be a priority.\n\nSpeaking ahead of the conference, Baroness Amos, director of the School of Oriental and African Studies (Soas), in London, said universities liked to see themselves as \"inclusive and internationalist\".\n\nBut she said there has been \"anger and frustration\" among ethnic minority academic staff at their under-representation in senior jobs and the achievement gap for ethnic minority students.\n\nBaroness Amos was the UK's first black female university head when she became director of Soas\n\nShe will address the Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) Leadership for Higher Education Summit on Wednesday, organised by Advance HE, a new agency that will promote equal opportunities in universities.\n\nSome of the examples of gaps in representation and achievement to be presented are:\n\nBaroness Amos says that conversations about racism are difficult, because the debate often \"degenerates\" into arguments about whether individuals or viewpoints are racist.\n\nBut that misses the bigger picture of deep-rooted, \"insidious\", institutional prejudice.\n\n\"As a black person I know how hard it is to explain the pernicious and debilitating impact of day-to-day racism,\" she says.\n\n\"Many of us don't talk about it, but that doesn't mean it's not there.\"\n\nThere is much \"rhetoric\" about inclusivity and equality in universities, says Baroness Amos, which could cause \"complacency\" and a \"slow pace of change\".\n\n\"University leaders need to acknowledge that we are not doing enough,\" she says.\n\nNicola Dandridge, chief executive of the Office for Students, says the new watchdog recognises \"gaps in outcomes between students in certain ethnic groups\".\n\n\"Addressing these gaps, so that students from all backgrounds are able not just to get into higher education, but get on too, is a priority for the Office for Students,\" said Ms Dandridge, who will also address the conference.\n\nThere have been a series of recent claims of racism on campuses.\n\nEarlier this month Exeter University expelled students after allegations of \"vile\" racist language online.\n\nThe National Union of Students has claimed that universities can be \"more concerned about their reputation\" than tackling racism.", "Anne Frank's diary, written in hiding from the Nazis, is widely read more than 70 years after her death\n\nTwo new pages from Anne Frank's diary have been published, containing a handful of dirty jokes and her thoughts on sex.\n\nThe young Jewish teen's diary, written in hiding from the Nazis, became world-famous when published after her death and at the end of the war.\n\nThe hidden pages had been covered with gummed brown paper - apparently to hide her risqué writing from her family.\n\nNew imaging techniques have finally allowed researchers to read them.\n\nThe entries were written on 28 September 1942, not long after the 13-year-old Anne went into hiding.\n\n\"I'll use this spoiled page to write down 'dirty' jokes\", she wrote on a page with a handful of crossed-out phrases - and jotted down four dirty jokes she knew.\n\nShe added a few dozen lines about sex education, imagining she has to give \"the talk\" to someone else, and mentioning prostitutes - who she wrote elsewhere that her father had told her about.\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\"Anne Frank writes about sexuality in a disarming way,\" said Ronald Leopold of the Anne Frank House museum in Amsterdam. \"Like every adolescent she is curious about this subject.\"\n\nThe sentiment was echoed by Frank van Vree, director of the Niod institute, which helped decipher the pages from new photographs taken in 2016.\n\n\"Anyone who reads the passages that have now been discovered will be unable to suppress a smile,\" he said.\n\n\"The 'dirty' jokes are classics among growing children. They make it clear that Anne, with all her gifts, was above all also an ordinary girl.\"\n\nOne of the jokes reads: \"Do you know why the German Wehrmacht girls are in the Netherlands? As mattresses for the soldiers.\"\n\nThe Anne Frank Museum said this was not the only time the teenage girl wrote about sex - mentioning other jokes she had heard the people in her hidden home tell, or the passages about her periods and sexuality.\n\nWriting about the decision to publish pages that Anne clearly wanted to keep hidden, the museum said that her diary - a Unesco-registered world heritage document - held significant academic interest.\n\nBut it also said that the pages \"do not alter our image of Anne\".\n\n\"Over the decades Anne has grown to become the worldwide symbol of the Holocaust, and Anne the girl has increasingly faded into the background,\" it said in a statement.\n\n\"These - literally - uncovered texts bring the inquisitive and in many respects precocious teenager back into the foreground.\"\n\nAnne Frank went into hiding in a secret annexe of her father's business on 5 July 1942 - about a month after she received a diary for her 13th birthday.\n\nShe lived there with her family and their friends, the Van Pels, until their discovery two years later. How they were found after so long in successful hiding remains a mystery.\n\nAnne Frank died of disease in a Nazi death camp in 1945, the year the war ended. Her father, the only family member to survive, published her diary in 1947.", "The Bank of England's deputy governor has admitted his comments that the UK economy is entering a \"menopausal\" era \"conveyed ageist and sexist overtones\".\n\nBen Broadbent used the phrase in a Daily Telegraph interview about economies that were, he said, \"past their peak, and no longer so potent\".\n\nBut in an internal message seen by the BBC he said he knew some bank staff had been offended and he was \"truly sorry\".\n\nHe told colleagues he should not have used the word.\n\n\"I recognise that while these are economic terms that have been used in the past, my use of the word \"menopausal\" conveyed ageist and sexist overtones and I should not have used it\", he wrote on the Bank's internal website.\n\n\"I was attempting to explain the meaning of the world \"climacteric\". As the journalist who was interviewing me has subsequently tweeted, I made it clear in the interview that this is a term which applies to both genders.\n\nHe said he wanted to \"emphasise how sorry I am for the offence my interview this morning has caused to Bank colleagues\".\n\nIn it he said he was sorry for his \"poor choice of language\" and the \"offence caused\".\n\nHe said productivity affected \"every one of us, of all ages and genders\".\n\nBut his comments have sparked a backlash.\n\nSarah Smith, professor of economics at Bristol University, told the BBC they were \"not useful\".\n\nSilvana Tenreyo is the only female member of the Monetary Policy Committee\n\n\"It conveys a rather derogatory view of women. I've never thought of the menopause as not productive,\" she said.\n\nCarolyn Fairbairn, director-general of the CBI, called it a \"poor choice of words\" that distracted from the real issue at hand.\n\nJayne-Anne Gadhia, boss of Virgin Money UK, said: \"When I read this I thought about my own menopause and was sure he meant that the future is hard work, challenging, renewing, worth fighting for, 100% positive and constantly HOT!\"\n\nAnd TUC general secretary Frances O'Grady said: \"There's no need to resort to lazy, sexist comments to describe problems in the economy.\"\n\nMr Broadbent sits on the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee (MPC), which has been criticised for having only one female member on its nine-strong board.\n\nThe economist is also thought to be to among a number of potential successors to the Bank's governor, Mark Carney.\n\nThe bank faced a backlash in 2013 over female representation on banknotes.\n\nIn his interview, Mr Broadbent compared a recent slowdown in UK productivity to a similar lull at the end of the 1800s, which has been described as a \"climacteric\" period.\n\nThe term, which is borrowed from biology and is used for both sexes, means \"you've passed your productive peak\", the deputy governor said.\n\nHe suggested that the UK may be seeing a \"pause\" between two technological leaps forward - akin to one experienced by late-Victorian industrialists from steam to electricity.\n\nHowever, he said the economy could be awaiting its next big breakthrough, possibly as a result of Artificial Intelligence.\n\nMr Broadbent later stressed that his use of the word menopausal had only applied to the 19th Century.\n\nThe Bank's attitude towards women has been questioned in the past.\n\nIn 2013 the Bank announced a plan to phase out £5 notes featuring social reformer Elizabeth Fry, without plans to put a woman on any other bank notes.\n\nAfter pressure from campaigners the Bank announced it would make Jane Austen the face of the new £10 note.", "Victoria Cilliers almost died in the 2015 parachute jump\n\nAn Army sergeant accused of trying to murder his wife by tampering with her parachute has told a court he \"would never\" do anything to harm her.\n\nEmile Cilliers, 38, of the Royal Army Physical Training Corps, denies sabotaging Victoria Cilliers' parachute in 2015 in a bid to kill her.\n\nThe prosecution alleges he planned to start a new life with his girlfriend.\n\nMr Cilliers denies two counts of attempted murder and causing a gas leak at the family home in Amesbury.\n\nAt Winchester Crown Court, defence barrister Elizabeth Marsh QC asked Mr Cilliers whether he had \"harboured any wish to harm\" his wife or children.\n\nHe replied: \"No. Never. I would never do anything to harm any of them.\"\n\nProsecutors allege the defendant was £22,000 in debt and believed he was set to receive a £120,000 insurance payout in the event of his wife's accidental death.\n\nMrs Cilliers sent a text to her husband on 30 March 2015 saying she could smell gas and had found blood around a gas lever in a kitchen cupboard.\n\nThe army sergeant told the court he could not remember cutting his hand and had not touched the valve as he \"really doesn't have any experience of gas\".\n\nHe suggested to the jury that vibrations caused by nearby building work could have opened the valve.\n\nMr Cilliers left work early on the day of the gas leak and on his way home he sent Mrs Cilliers a text message to suggest they go parachuting the following weekend.\n\nHis wife, an experienced skydiver, survived the 4,000ft (1,220m) fall at Netheravon airfield in Wiltshire in April 2015.\n\nMr Cilliers described how he went on an all-inclusive holiday in the Czech Republic with his girlfriend Stefanie Goller while Mrs Cilliers, then pregnant, was left at home.\n\nThe prosecution alleges Mr Cilliers sabotaged his wife's main and reserve parachutes, causing them to fail during a jump at the Army Parachute Association at Netheravon, Wiltshire\n\nHe told the jury he knew he could not afford it, but he \"was being stupid and wasn't thinking properly\".\n\nMr Cilliers said he had not told Ms Goller of his \"completely out of control\" financial problems.\n\nMessages between Mr Cilliers and Ms Goller indicated he was considering leaving his job, but he told the court he was merely \"stringing Stefanie along\".\n\nAs well as having a sexual relationship with his wife and Ms Goller, Mr Cilliers was sleeping with his ex-wife Carly Cillers and had contacted prostitutes.\n\nDays after the birth of his second child with his wife, he arranged to go away for the weekend with a former lover called Wanda, although this \"never materialised\".\n\nHe said he was unhappy in his relationship with Mrs Cilliers, as he thought they may have married \"too soon\".\n\nBut he said he had planned to stay with his wife until their newborn baby was six weeks old, when he would make a decision.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The government's flagship Brexit bill is to return to the House of Commons having suffered a total of 15 defeats in the Lords.\n\nBrexit Minister Lord Callanan said he had \"a tremendous sigh of relief\" as he wound up proceedings.\n\nLabour urged Theresa May to take a \"pragmatic view\" of all the changes proposed by peers.\n\nThe 15th defeat came on the issue of environmental protection standards after Brexit.\n\nPeers voted by a majority of 50 to say the government should set up a body to maintain EU standards.\n\nOther defeats inflicted in the House of Lords - where the government does not have a majority - came on the customs union, the Irish border and removing the precise date of Brexit - 29 March 2019 - from the legislation.\n\nMPs will now debate the amendments when the bill returns to the Commons, with no date officially set so far.\n\n\"No one can be in any doubt that we have listened,\" Lord Callanan told peers.\n\n\"The government has suffered defeats on 15 issues.\n\n\"Although I regret the number of defeats I am grateful to those many Lords who I think have worked constructively to improve the bill.\n\n\"This House has done its duty as a revising chamber. The bill has been scrutinised.\"\n\nLabour's Lords Leader Baroness Smith said the bill was now \"in better shape\".\n\n\"I hope Mrs May will take a pragmatic view of how best to proceed rather than follow a purely ideological route that rejects sensible amendments,\" she added.\n\nThe bill's 15 defeat came over environmental standards\n\nEarlier, peers backed a cross-party amendment designed to ensure EU environmental principles continue to have a basis in domestic law at the end of the post-Brexit transition period in December 2020.\n\nIt requires the environment secretary to bring forward proposals for primary legislation to create a duty on public authorities to apply these principles, and to establish an independent public body to ensure compliance.\n\nLord Krebs, who instigated the move, argued that while EU rules would be carried over into UK law, environmental principles underpinning them would not.\n\nMinisters had promised a consultation on the issue but lost by 294 to 244.\n\nLord Krebs, the former chair of the Food Standards Agency, said he was \"not satisfied\" with the idea of a consultation and wanted guarantees that existing principles will continue to apply and be enforced.\n\n\"We have heard many times that the purpose of the Bill is to ensure that everything is the same the day after Brexit as it was the day before,\" he said.\n\n\"Yet for environmental protection things will not be the same. We're talking about the protection of our air quality, our water quality, rivers, oceans, habitats and biodiversity.\"\n\nLord Callanan argued the proposed change was \"premature\" in that it prejudged a period of consultation and would \"ultimately be detrimental to the future protection of environmental law\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Typhoon was drafted in to replace a Lancaster bomber in a memorial flight\n\nCrowds of people were left disappointed after a mix-up led to them missing a flypast by an RAF Typhoon over the Derwent Dam.\n\nSpectators were initially informed a Lancaster Bomber, marking the 75th anniversary of the Dambusters raid, would not fly due to bad weather.\n\nThey were then told its replacement, a Typhoon, would also not fly, only for it to roar over minutes later.\n\nThe RAF has apologised to those who attended the event for the confusion.\n\nSqn Ldr Andy Millikin, the Officer Commanding the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight, tweeted that the Lancaster, and later the Typhoon, could not make it to the dams due to poor weather.\n\nHowever, not long after his post the Typhoon flew overhead as many people had already started leaving the Ladybower Reservoir area.\n\nMany people were leaving when the Typhoon thundered overhead\n\nSharon Fitton, who was one of many people who were annoyed about the mix-up, tweeted: \"What a shame thousands of people waiting for hours to read flyby cancelled, yet Typhoon has just flown over all leaving spectators. Poor show RAF.\"\n\nStuart Needham added: \"I've got some footage of me and my missus in the pub listening to the sound of a jet flying overhead after reading and being told by a copper it had been cancelled.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Mellen* This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nHowever, others defended the decision.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIt is understood that the confusion arose when the pilot said he could not fly the proposed route due to low cloud.\n\nHowever, he overcame the problem by flying in a different direction but this message was not passed on.\n\nMany people turned up to watch the Typhoon fly over the dam\n\nThe flypast was to mark the 100th anniversary of the Royal Air Force and 75th anniversary of the Dambusters raid by 617 Squadron.\n\nThe Lancaster was meant to leave RAF Scampton, Lincolnshire, and fly through the Derwent Valley over Chatsworth towards Rolls Royce in Derby and then Eyebrook Reservoir in Leicestershire.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The royal bride's teachers and first boyfriend remember her as a passionate teenager, a hard-working actress and an anti-sexism campaigner.", "Passengers had been urged to plan ahead and check revised timetables\n\nA rail firm cancelled dozens of trains - hours after its new timetable began.\n\nGovia Thameslink Railway (GTR) rescheduled every service on its Great Northern, Thameslink and Southern franchise as part of an overhaul billed as the biggest in the UK.\n\nIt said introducing the new timetable was a \"significant logistical challenge\" and apologised for \"any inconvenience caused\" to passengers.\n\nIt was unable to confirm how many trains had been cancelled on Sunday.\n\nA GTR spokesman added: \"We are introducing the biggest change to rail timetables in a generation and, as we have been informing passengers, we expect some disruption to services in the initial stages.\n\n\"This is a significant logistical challenge as we make rolling incremental changes across more than 3,000 daily services.\"\n\nHe added the timetable changes would mean a 13% increase in services across the GTR network.\n\nThe RMT and Aslef unions said they understood the disruption was because there were not enough fully-trained drivers.\n\nThe changes affect Great Northern, Southern and Thameslink trains\n\nAn RMT spokesman said: \"The union is still talking to members about the impact on the new timetable and plans to release further information on Monday.\"\n\nThe Thameslink, Southern and Great Northern rail franchise includes services to Bedford, Luton, Peterborough, King's Lynn, Cambridge, London King's Cross, London Moorgate, Wimbledon and Brighton.\n\nNo entire routes were cancelled on Sunday but \"occasional trains\" were not running, said a spokesman.\n\nFrustrated passengers tweeted to complain about disruption on Great Northern services, with one asking \"Any clue as to the reason? No drivers by any chance? Or explain the operational incident please.\"\n\nThe company replied: \"Unfortunately we are not privy to this information\".\n\nAnother stranded passenger wrote: \"You've cancelled 5 (FIVE!!!) trains in a ROW between London and Stevenage, what an absolute joke\" while another asked: \"Surely you have had more than a year to plan your new timetable?\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Great Northern This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nFrom Sunday, every schedule for Thameslink, Southern, Gatwick Express and Great Northern trains has been changed, in an attempt to improve rail efficiency in the South East.\n\nIt will mean 400 extra trains a day and new direct services from 80 stations into central London.\n\nBut passengers in a number of smaller locations complain they will be served with fewer or slower services.\n\nSteve Chambers, from the Campaign For Better Transport, said he was concerned about the disruption seen on Sunday.\n\n\"The changes have been brought in on a day when there are usually less passengers and less trains and still there have been problems,\" he said.\n\n\"It doesn't bode well for tomorrow. But the biggest issue altogether will be people turning up to get their usual train and finding it no longer exists.\n\n\"The way customers have been informed just has not been good enough.\"\n\nThe RMT also claims passengers with reduced mobility may be left behind if a train is at risk of delay.\n\nGTR said it placed high priority on making its services accessible to all.\n• None Rail firm changes time of every train\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Ed Sheeran says he has not given permission for his song Small Bump to be used by anti-abortion campaigners.\n\nThe singer told his Instagram followers it was \"important\" that he let them know \"it does not reflect what the song is about\".\n\nHe said he's been told that the song, released in 2012, has been used to promote an anti-abortion campaign.\n\nIt comes just days before a referendum on whether to change Ireland's strict abortion laws takes place on 25 May.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Why Ireland is having a referendum on abortion\n\nSmall Bump, which comes from his debut album + (Plus), includes the lyrics: \"You were just a small bump unborn, just four months then torn from life.\n\n\"Maybe you were needed up there, but we're still unaware as why.\"\n\nWriting on Instagram on Friday, Ed said: \"I've been informed that my song Small Bump is being used to promote the pro-life campaign, and I feel it's important to let you know I have not given approval for this use, and it does not reflect what the song is about.\"\n\nVoters in Ireland are to decide on whether to change the country's constitution - which only allows for abortions if the life of the mother is in danger.\n\nIf passed, the law would allow for abortions to take place up to 12 weeks of pregnancy without restriction.\n\nAt the moment, a woman convicted of having an illegal abortion faces up to 14 years in jail. But they are allowed to travel abroad for terminations.\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.", "Twenty-two people were killed in the Manchester Arena attack on 22 May last year\n\nThe public must do more to tackle terrorism by standing up to hate, a group of terror attack survivors and relatives has said.\n\nIn an open letter released ahead of the Manchester bombing anniversary on Tuesday, they set out a five-point plan to help stop future plots.\n\nAmong the 41 signatories is the widow of murdered Fusilier Lee Rigby.\n\nOthers are survivors and relatives of those killed in attacks in London, Manchester, Paris, Tunisia and Bali.\n\nBrendan Cox, whose wife Jo Cox was murdered in 2016, helped co-ordinate the letter, while Bethany Haines, the daughter of the British aid worker David Haines who was killed by the Islamic State group, has also signed it.\n\nDan Hett, whose brother Martyn was one of 22 victims to die in the Manchester Arena attack on 22 May last year, said terrorists hoped to \"turn our communities against each other\" by spreading fear.\n\n\"That's why we're asking people to join the fight against terror, by all playing our part,\" he said.\n\n\"Most importantly we're asking people to take on the hatred that leads to terror - no matter where it comes from, or who it's directed towards.\"\n\nSpeaking on BBC Radio 4's Sunday programme, Mr Hett added that the group behind the letter - Survivors Against Terror - wanted to reach people earlier on in their lives.\n\n\"This is much more about being pro-active versus responsive once things happen,\" he said.\n\nIn addition to asking the public to address everyday prejudice and hatred, the letter said people should deny terrorists any \"notoriety\", support emergency and security services and donate to survivor advocacy and support groups.\n\nSocial and traditional media also needed to \"do far more\" to \"shut down those driving hate\", the letter said.\n\nIt continued: \"Hatred is the sea that terrorists need to swim in, if we take on that hatred, we dry up that sea.\"\n\nBishop of Manchester David Walker added: \"The way we defy terrorism is by not going down that path of hate.\"", "Residents in the south-eastern corner of Hawaii's Big Island have been told to evacuate immediately.\n\nLava from the eruption of the Kilauea volcano is approaching a major coastal highway.", "The Church of Scotland has moved a step closer to allowing ministers to conduct same-sex marriages.\n\nThe Kirk's General Assembly backed a motion which tasked a committee with drafting church law on the issue.\n\nIts legal questions committee was asked to report back to the annual meeting of the decision-making body in 2020.\n\nUnder the plans outlined in the motion, ministers and deacons would be allowed to conduct same-sex weddings \"if they wish\".\n\nThe motion was carried by 345 votes to 170 and the result was announced on the Church of Scotland's official Twitter feed.\n\nThe move comes almost a year after the Scottish Episcopal Church voted to allow gay couples to marry in church.\n\nIt became the first major Christian church in the UK to allow same-sex marriage.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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End of twitter post by Church of Scotland\n\nThe vote came after the Right Rev Susan Brown was installed as Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland at the beginning of the gathering in Edinburgh.\n\nA minister of Dornoch Cathedral in the Highlands, she was previously known for presiding over the wedding of Madonna and Guy Ritchie in 2000.\n\nHer appointment came in the year the Church marks the 50th anniversary of the ordination of women.\n\nThe 59-year-old is the fourth woman to hold the title.\n\nSpeaking before the ceremony, Mrs Brown said: \"The prospect of becoming Moderator of the General Assembly is slightly scary but incredibly exciting.\n\n\"It will be a challenging year but I am really up for it.\n\n\"As the ambassador for the Church, I am really looking forward to meeting people and hearing their stories as my theme is 'walking with'.\n\n\"I also want to highlight how important walking, which is an ancient spiritual tradition, is for our physical and mental health, an issue that I plan to raise with political leaders.\"\n\nThe Right Rev Susan Brown was installed as Moderator in a ceremony at the beginning of the General Assembly.\n\nNicola Sturgeon and the Duke of Buccleuch, who represented the Queen as Lord High Commissioner to the Assembly, were at the ceremony.\n\nDuring the ceremony her predecessor, the Very Rev Dr Derek Browning, welcomed the new Moderator saying, \"full-blooded, soul-warming, kind-hearted parish ministry,\" has been the centre of her work.\n\n\"On this year when we celebrate the 50th anniversary of the ordination of women to the Ministry of Word and Sacrament it is particularly special that you as a committed parish minister will be our Moderator,\" Dr Browning added,\n\n\"It is also a delight that having served in two Highland parishes that you will also represent that important part of our country for the first time in a number of years.\"\n\nAbout 730 commissioners from Scotland and beyond are attending the General Assembly on The Mound to make decisions on matters of Kirk policy and governance.\n\nThe Duke of Buccleuch was given an official welcome to Holyrood Palace in Edinburgh on Friday\n\nDuring the Church of Scotland's Assembly on Tuesday, a public procession will take place to mark 50 years of the ordination of women within the Kirk.\n\nNearly 300 people are expected to take part in the event in central Edinburgh, exactly half a century on from the Assembly's decision in 1968 to permit women to become ministers.\n\nWednesday brings discussion of a report from the Church and Society Council, which proposes the Kirk \"should, over the next two years, divest from fossil fuel companies unless there is clear evidence that these companies are themselves modifying their policy and practice\".\n\nThe General Assembly meets for a week every year in May. It has the authority to make laws determining how the Church operates and can also act as the Kirk's highest court.\n\nThis year's Assembly closes on Friday 25 May.\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. Princess Charlotte and Prince George arrive at the royal wedding\n\nSix bridesmaids and four pageboys played a major supporting role as Prince Harry and Meghan Markle tied the knot. Prince George and Princess Charlotte - Prince Harry's niece and nephew - were among the children, all aged between two and seven, under the spotlight of the world's media at St George's Chapel, Windsor.\n\nPrincess Charlotte was joined as a bridesmaid by Prince Harry's god-daughters - Zalie Warren, two, and three-year-old Florence van Cutsem - and Meghan's Markle's goddaughters. Sisters Remi and Rylan Litt, aged six and seven respectively, and four-year-old Ivy Mulroney are the daughters of Ms Markle's friends Benita Litt and Jessica Mulroney.\n\nAs a pageboy, Prince George wore a miniature version of the Blues and Royals frockcoats worn by Prince Harry and his brother and best man Prince William. The other pageboys were seven-year-old twins John and Brian Mulroney and Jasper Dyer, six, another of Prince Harry's godsons.\n\nThe Duchess of Cambridge arrived with Prince George (l), Jasper Dyer, Princess Charlotte (r) and Florence van Cutsem.\n\nThe bridesmaids had to be given a helping hand as they walked up the steps of St George's Chapel. Princess Charlotte turned to give a wave.\n\nThe designer of the wedding dress, Clare Waight Keller, was also behind the bridesmaids' dresses. Made of ivory silk radzimir, the high-waisted outfits with short puff sleeves and pleated skirt were hand finished with a double silk ribbon detail tied at the back in a bow.\n\nThe girls also wore a flower crown chosen by Prince Harry and Meghan, which replicated the blooms used in the bridal bouquet.\n\nPageboys John and Brian Mulroney accompanied Meghan Markle on the journey from her hotel to Windsor in a vintage Rolls-Royce.\n\nThey held the train of Ms Markle's dress as she walked up the steps of St George's Chapel.\n\nJust before Ms Markle arrived, the Duchess of Cambridge helped coax the children into position. They were handed flowers, ready for their big moment. And they walked back down the aisle with the newlyweds at the end of the service.\n\nA wave goodbye from Princess Charlotte after the service as the new Duke and Duchess of Sussex boarded a horse-drawn landau for the procession in front of cheering crowds.\n\nThe best way to get news on the go", "Ms Valdez's suspected abductor Mark Hennessy was shot in Cherrywood in south Dublin by Gardaí (Irish police)\n\nThe woman abducted near her home in County Wicklow died by strangulation, Irish police have confirmed.\n\nA post mortem examination took place on Tuesday to establish how 24-year-old Jastine Valdez died.\n\nGardaí (Irish police) had been searching for Ms Valdez after witnesses saw the student being bundled into a car near Enniskerry on Saturday.\n\nHer body was found in the Puck's Castle area of County Dublin on Monday.\n\nAccording to Irish national broadcaster RTE, detectives believe she was killed within 45 minutes of being abducted.\n\nA blood-stained note found in the car driven by her suspected killer Mark Hennessy is to be forensically analysed.\n\nMr Hennessy, 40, was shot dead by police in Cherrywood in south Dublin on Sunday night.\n\nThe Wicklow father of two had a previous conviction for assault a number of years ago, but he was also facing a drink-driving charge after he had been arrested last year, RTE reports.\n\nOfficers thanked the public for their help with the investigation and appealed for privacy for the Valdez family.\n\nIt was reported that Ms Valdez's purse was found by Gardaí in the Rathmichael area of County Dublin on Monday morning.\n\nJastine Valdez was last seen alive on Saturday afternoon\n\nSearch teams were in Rathmichael and also searched an area known as the 'Scalp', while a walk on Killiney Hill was cordoned off.\n\nThe Garda helicopter conducted an aerial search of the area while members of the Irish Defence Forces and Civil Defence were called in to help.\n\nIt is understood Mr Hennessy was armed with a knife when he was shot.\n\nA Garda statement said officers had \"interacted with the driver\" of a black Nissan Qashqai in Cherrywood at about 20:00 local time on Sunday.\n\nIt added that an \"official Garda firearm was discharged\" during the incident.\n\nThe shooting has since been referred to the Republic of Ireland's police watchdog for an independent investigation.\n\nOfficers searching for Ms Valdez had appealed for information about the suspected abduction of a woman on the R760 road out of Enniskerry, around the same time she disappeared.\n\nMr Hennessy was a father of two from County Wicklow\n\nA woman walking along the road was reportedly forced into a black Nissan Qashqai, registration 171 D 20419, at about 18:15 local time on Saturday.\n\nA phone belonging to Ms Valdez was later found near the Powerscourt Estate in Enniskerry and the area was cordoned off for investigation.\n\nPolice traced a vehicle to the man who was later shot\n\nAn incident room has been established at Bray Garda Station.\n\nSunday Times journalist John Mooney said that after the abduction reports, police viewed CCTV footage and traced a vehicle to Mr Hennessy.\n\nThey visited his home in Bray, County Wicklow, but his partner said he was not there.\n\nMr Mooney said there was no known link between Mr Hennessy and Ms Valdez.\n\n\"The words abduction and ransom have been mentioned to me, but some of the more established detectives working on this case are stating that maybe there's some connection that hasn't been established just yet,\" he said.\n\n\"But at the moment there is no clear link between the two.\"", "A simple box filled with 20 items of comfort and kindness is helping women in Norfolk undergoing chemotherapy treatment for breast cancer.\n\nOa Hackett, who lives near Norwich, developed 'littlelifts' after being diagnosed with breast cancer four years ago at the age of 28.", "More than 100 people have died after a Boeing 737 airliner crashed near Cuba's main airport in Havana.\n\nThree women survived the impact and subsequent fire, and are in a critical condition in hospital.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Dimitrios Pagourtzis is read his rights after his arrest\n\nThe Santa Fe High School shooting suspect told police he spared certain students he liked \"so he could have his story told\", a court document shows.\n\nDimitrios Pagourtzis has been charged with murder after 10 people were shot dead on Friday in the Texas town.\n\nAccording to an affidavit filed in court, Mr Pagourtzis, 17, waived his right to remain silent and admitted \"to shooting multiple people\".\n\nAuthorities said he exchanged gunfire with police before surrendering.\n\nThe gun battle went on for about 15 minutes before Mr Pagourtzis gave himself up, abandoning a plan to take his own life, the New York Times reported.\n\nPolice now say that eight students and two teachers were killed, with 13 people wounded in the attack, including one of the school's policemen who is in critical condition.\n\nThe details in the affidavit, released by the Galveston County District Attorney's Office, appeared to shed some new light on Mr Pagourtzis's arrest inside the school building.\n\nThe documents said he emerged from the school's Art Lab 2 classroom at 08:02 on Friday, about 30 minutes after the first reports of a shooting, and surrendered. Authorities said two apparent improvised explosive devices he brought to the scene turned out to be harmless.\n\nThe affidavit also said Mr Pagourtzis was wearing a trench coat and had a Remington 870 shotgun and a .38 calibre pistol. Previous testimony from students described him as wearing a long black trench coat.\n\nOne student, Breanna Quintanilla, told the Associated Press that Mr Pagourtzis walked into the classroom she was in, pointed at someone, and said: \"I'm going to kill you.\" Ms Quintanilla was wounded in her leg as she fled.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"It broke my heart to see what was going on\"\n\nMr Pagourtzis has been charged with capital murder and aggravated assault of a public servant. The first charge means he could face the death penalty.\n\nHe appeared \"weirdly non-emotional\" on the morning after the shooting, one of his lawyers said on Saturday.\n\nNicholas Poehl, one of two lawyers hired by the suspect's parents, told Reuters news agency he had spent an hour with the suspect on Friday night and Saturday morning.\n\n\"He's very emotional and weirdly nonemotional,\" the attorney said. \"There are aspects of it he understands and there are aspects he doesn't understand.\"\n\nMr Pagourtzis's family said in a statement they were \"saddened and dismayed\" by the shooting and \"as shocked as anyone else\" by the events. They said they were co-operating with investigators.\n\nAuthorities said there were few if any outward signs that Mr Pagourtzis was planning an attack.\n\n\"Unlike Parkland, unlike Sutherland Springs, there were not those types of warning signs,\" said Texas Governor Greg Abbott. \"We have what are often categorized as red-flag warnings, and here, the red-flag warnings were either nonexistent or very imperceptible.\"\n\nMr Pagourtzis suggested in social media posts that he was an atheist and said: \"I hate politics\". On 30 April he posted a photograph of a T-shirt bearing the slogan \"Born to Kill\".\n\nPakistani exchange student Sabika Sheikh, 17, was among the dead\n\nNone of the victims has yet been identified by US authorities, but some have been named separately. The embassy of Pakistan in Washington DC confirmed that exchange student Sabika Sheikh, 17, was among the dead.\n\nSubstitute teacher Cynthia Tisdale was also killed in the attack, her family told US media outlets.\n\nMs Tisdale's niece and brother-in-law both confirmed the news. Writing on Facebook, John Tisdale said his sister-in-law was an \"amazing person\".\n\nMs Sheikh was on the Kennedy-Lugar Youth Exchange & Study Abroad programme (YES). The programme is run by the US state department, and was set up in the aftermath of the 11 September 2001 attacks to bring students from Muslim-majority nations to the US on a cultural exchange.\n\nA vigil was held on Friday night for the victims. A professional athlete from the state - JJ Watt, of the Houston Texans NFL team - offered to pay the funeral expenses of the victims.\n\nThe shooting was the fourth deadliest shooting at a US school in modern history, and the deadliest since a student opened fire in February at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, killing 17 people.", "Chelsea Football Club owner Roman Abramovich has faced delays in renewing his UK visa, the BBC understands.\n\nThe Russian billionaire did not attend Saturday's FA Cup final at Wembley when the Blues beat Manchester United 1-0.\n\nA source close to the 51-year-old suggested he was in the process of renewing his visa, and said it was taking a little longer than usual.\n\nAsked about the visa, Security Minister Ben Wallace said: \"We do not routinely comment on individual cases.\"\n\nMr Abramovich's office said it does not discuss personal matters with the media.\n\nThe delay comes amid increased diplomatic tensions between London and Moscow after the poisoning of former Russian spy Sergei Skripal in Salisbury.\n\nBBC home affairs correspondent, Daniel Sandford said Mr Abramovich appears to be able to run his businesses in Russia without significant interference from the Kremlin, suggesting that he is reasonably close to President Vladimir Putin.\n\nBut he said it was not clear if the delay in renewing his visa is in any way linked to the deterioration in relations between the two countries.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMr Abramovich, who made his fortune in oil and gas in the 1990s, became owner of the companies that control Chelsea in 2003.\n\nAccording to the Sunday Times Rich List, he is Britain's 13th-richest man, with a net worth of £9.3bn.\n\nHe owns a mansion on Kensington Palace Gardens, the most expensive street in London.\n\nMr Abramovich is also the former governor of the remote Chukotka region in Russia's Far East.\n\nHe has been a regular visitor to the UK since buying Chelsea, attending many of the home matches, and has been to Wembley for previous cup finals.\n\nHis private Boeing 767 left the UK on 1 April. It has since travelled to Moscow, New York, Monaco and Switzerland but does not seem to have returned to Britain.\n\nMr Abramovich (right) has often been spotted at Chelsea's Stamford Bridge ground\n\nThe best way to get news on the go", "Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have been declared husband and wife, following a ceremony at Windsor Castle.\n\nThe couple shared their first kiss on the steps outside St George's Chapel.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe newly married Duke and Duchess of Sussex have left Windsor Castle as the weekend's royal wedding celebrations come to a close.\n\nThe couple stayed at the castle on Saturday after an evening reception with 200 of their friends and family, hosted by Prince Charles.\n\nDetails of Prince Harry and Meghan's honeymoon have yet to be confirmed.\n\nBut their first official engagement as a married couple will be a garden party at Buckingham Palace on Tuesday.\n\nEarlier the Royal Family posted a message on their twitter account to thank those who had travelled to Windsor for the wedding.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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End of twitter post by The Royal Family\n\nThe wedding celebrations ended with a black-tie dinner and fireworks display at Frogmore House, near Windsor Castle.\n\nFor the evening, Meghan changed out of her wedding dress into a lily-white, silk crepe Stella McCartney halter-neck gown.\n\nPrince Harry, who was given special permission from the Queen to keep his short beard for the ceremony, while wearing the frockcoat uniform of his former regiment, the Blues and Royals, changed into a tuxedo.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Stella McCartney This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 evening refreshments are said to have included themed cocktails, including one named \"When Harry met Meghan\" - referencing the romantic comedy starring Meg Ryan and Billy Crystal.\n\nGuests dined on posh burgers and candy floss, according to reports, and danced to music provided by a celebrity DJ.\n\nSome are also said to have staged an after-party at Chiltern Firehouse in central London.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Meghan reveals her halter-neck evening dress before driving into the sunset\n\nClare Waight Keller, the designer of Meghan's wedding dress, said it was a collaborative process with the royal bride.\n\nMeghan was \"exactly what you see on TV\", said the Birmingham-born designer, adding: \"She's just so genuine and warm and radiant. She's just glowing.\n\n\"She's a strong woman. She knows what she wants, and it was really an absolute joy working with her.\"\n\nThe designer - artistic director of Givenchy - also spoke to Prince Harry after the ceremony.\n\n\"He came straight up to me and he said 'oh my God, thank you, she looks absolutely stunning',\" she said. \"I think everybody saw on television - he was absolutely in awe, I think.\"\n\nHer final design sketches are being given to Meghan as a keepsake.\n\nMuch has been made of the boat neck cut and the minimalist design of the dress\n\nMeghan showed little sign of nerves while getting ready, her hair stylist has revealed.\n\nSerge Normant, who flew from New York for the big day, said it was \"dreamy\" to work with her, adding: \"She was very happy. It was a beautiful morning, just the perfect morning to get married.\"\n\nAs a wedding gift, Prince Harry gave his bride an emerald-cut aquamarine ring which had belonged to his late mother - Diana, Princess of Wales - which she wore to the evening reception.\n\nAll of the 600 guests at the ceremony held at St George's Chapel, in Windsor Castle, were invited to a lunchtime reception at St George's Hall, where the best man, the Duke of Cambridge, acted as compere.\n\nGuest Suhani Jalota, founder of the India-based Myna Mahila charity, said Elton John performed a \"mini-concert\". She said speeches by the Prince of Wales and the groom were \"lovely\", adding: \"Some people were even crying.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAmong the close friends who attended the evening celebrations were Bollywood star Priyanka Chopra and tennis ace Serena Williams, who revealed their outfit changes on social media.\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post by mimicuttrell 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’. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nPosting on Instagram, David Beckham said: \"Watching Harry as happy as he was makes us all proud of the man and person he has always been... what a day.\"\n\nTV audiences around the world watched the ceremony at St George's Chapel, held in front of 600 guests.\n\nIn the UK, more than 13 million people watched the TV coverage on the BBC One - peaking at 13.1 million just after 13:00 BST.\n\nITV's audience peaked at 3.6 million, just after 14:00 BST.\n\nThousands of people lined the streets of Windsor to watch the couple as they left the ceremony in a horse-drawn carriage.\n\nThe best way to get news on the go", "Prince Harry looked relaxed, waving to the crowds, as he made his way to the chapel with his brother, the Duke of Cambridge", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Tech companies ignored invite to government meeting about online behaviour, says Matt Hancock\n\nThe culture secretary has agreed he does not have enough power to police social media firms after admitting only four of 14 invited to talks showed up.\n\nMatt Hancock told the BBC it had given him \"a big impetus\" to introduce new laws to tackle what he has called the internet's \"Wild West\" culture.\n\nHe admitted self-policing had not worked and legislation was needed.\n\nBut Labour's Tom Watson said the government had \"squandered\" chances to \"get tough on the tech giants\".\n\nMr Hancock told BBC One's Andrew Marr Show, presented by Emma Barnett, that the government \"just don't know\" how many children of the millions using using social media were not old enough for an account and he was \"very worried\" about age verification.\n\nHe said that as part of the Data Protection Bill currently going through Parliament, firms could be fined up to 4% of their global turnover - which could run to more than £1bn for the biggest firms.\n\nAsked what the threshold would be for firms to be hit with fines, in terms of underage children on certain platforms, he said: \"I'm not going to give a figure because we are going to consult on it.\"\n\nHe told the programme he hopes \"we get to a position\" where all users of social media have to get their age verified.\n\nCodes of conduct would be examined he said as existing \"terms of reference\" were often not enforced properly. Asked how many of the 14 firms invited to attend government talks had showed up, he replied: \"Four.\"\n\nGovernments love to talk tough, but sooner or later they have to back it up with action.\n\nThe culture secretary has admitted that calling on technology companies to \"step up\" and \"do more\" has only got ministers so far.\n\nBut efforts to regulate the internet have had limited success.\n\nA plan to introduce age verification for all porn sites was due to come into force in April, but has been delayed with no details given about how it might work.\n\nAn \"opt in\" system where internet service providers ask people if they want to access adult content has seen sex education and suicide prevention advice inadvertently blocked.\n\nA new law in Germany forcing social networks to remove hate speech within 24 hours is being revised after complaints that too much content was being blocked.\n\nTwo government departments are working on the new laws aimed at holding technology companies to account.\n\nThey have a difficult, if not impossible, task.\n\nHe said: \"One of the problems we have got is that we engage with Facebook, Google and Twitter and they get all of the press, they get all of the complaints in the public debate but there's now actually a far greater number of social media platforms like musical.ly.\n\n\"They didn't show up and the companies, they have now got over a million on their site.\"\n\nHe said that this, and the difficulties getting Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg to answer MPs' questions showed Britain did not have the power needed: \"That's one of the reasons we are legislating.\n\n\"The fact that only four companies turned up when I invited the 14 biggest in gave me a big impetus to drive this proposal to legislate through.\"\n\nPushed for details of how quickly social media firms would have to remove terrorist content to avoid a fine, he said: \"We should be very ambitious,\" but said a set timescale could mean companies \"work up to that timescale\", while he would prefer them to do so \"as quickly as possible\".\n\nAccording to a consultation carried out last year, following the Internet Safety Green Paper, four out of 10 people had experienced abuse online and 60% had seen inappropriate content. Digital Minister Margot James told Sky's Ridge on Sunday she had received abuse and reported it to the police.\n\nShe added: \"It's not just of parliamentarians, it's any woman in public life, and some of our famous broadcasters have had the most terrible abuse online which is completely unacceptable - if it's not illegal it should be and I think some of it is.\"\n\nTwo government departments are working on a White Paper expected to be brought forward later this year. Asked about the same issue on ITV's Peston on Sunday, Mr Hancock said the government would be legislating \"in the next couple of years\" because \"we want to get the details right\".\n\nBarnardo's chief executive officer Javed Khan urged the government to consider legislation \"that ends the era of technology self-regulation and puts children's safety at the heart of the online world\".\n\nBut shadow culture secretary Tom Watson said: \"It's embarrassing that the social media companies don't even take Matt Hancock seriously enough to show up to meet him.\n\n\"The data protection bill was the opportunity to get tough on the tech giants and the government has squandered that.\n\n\"They voted down Labour's proposal for a digital bill of rights that would have given adults and children stronger statutory protections online.\"\n\nThere have been a number of efforts by politicians to curb intimidation and abuse on social media.\n\nIn February Theresa May announced a crackdown on the intimidation of political candidates and highlighted the \"coarsening and toxifying of our public debate\" on social media.\n\nMr Hancock's predecessor, Karen Bradley, said that Facebook and Twitter could be asked to help fund campaigns against abuse while the European Commission flagged up delays by social networks in preventing and removing hate speech.\n\nFormer Home Secretary Amber Rudd last year accused technology experts of \"sneering\" at politicians who tried to regulate their industry.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Freya Lewis, 15, was the honorary starter in the 2.5k junior race, in which she also took part\n\nA minute's silence has been held at the Great Manchester Run in tribute to those who died in last year's terror attack in the city.\n\nTwenty-two people were killed by a suicide bomber at an Ariana Grande concert on 22 May.\n\nSome of the survivors took part in the race, including Martin Hibbert who was paralysed from the waist down.\n\nSir Mo Farah won the men's 10K run while Ethiopia's Tirunesh Dibaba came first in the women's event.\n\nDavid Weir triumphed in the men's wheelchair race and Liz McTernan won the women's contest.\n\nMartin Hibbert (right) competed after surviving the arena attack\n\nParticipants and spectators sang along to Don't Look Back in Anger by Oasis after the silence.\n\nAbout 30,000 people took part in the races, making it the third largest running event in the UK\n\nLuthfur Rahman, from Manchester City Council, said: \"It will have real resonance, after last year's event epitomised Manchester's spirit of togetherness following the heinous attack on our city.\"\n\nThe 2017 run took place six days after the attack, which left more than 800 people with physical and psychological injuries.\n\nLast year, the Great Manchester Run became a symbol of solidarity after the attack at the arena just a few days before.\n\nSo it felt fitting for a silence to take place before the runners began their 10k event this time round.\n\nThere was applause when survivor and race participant Martin Hibbert was introduced, while signs commemorating the victims were held up by some members of the crowd.\n\nAfter the silence, the crowd broke into applause before Don't Look Back In Anger was played over the loudspeakers.\n\nIt was an emotional moment for all those present.\n\nMr Hibbert, who took part in the 10k in a wheelchair, is fundraising for the three hospitals that treated him and his daughter.\n\nHe hopes to raise a total of £1m by competing in various races during the next 12 months, including the Boston Marathon.\n\nHe said deciding to participate \"felt right\", adding: \"I didn't think about how tough it would be, if I could even do it.\"\n\nSir Mo Farah celebrated his win with his family\n\nFreya Lewis, 15, who was seriously injured, said she was \"overwhelmed\" after being the honorary starter in the junior event, in which she also took part.\n\nAlong with her father Nick, she is raising money for the hospital that treated her.\n\n\"I wanted to give something back because they gave so much to me,\" she said.\n\nThe route passes Manchester United's Old Trafford stadium and Salford Quays before returning to the finish line on Deansgate in the city centre.\n\nIt is the culmination of the city's weekend of athletics, which started with the Great City Games on Friday.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Moqtada Sadr has ruled himself out of becoming prime minister\n\nAn alliance headed by a former Shia militia chief who led two uprisings against the US-led invasion of Iraq has won the parliamentary elections.\n\nBut Moqtada Sadr, who is also staunchly opposed to Iranian involvement in the country, cannot become prime minister as he did not stand as a candidate.\n\nHowever, he is expected to play a major role in forming the new government.\n\nThe party of outgoing PM Haider al-Abadi was pushed into third place, behind a pro-Iranian alliance.\n\nMr Sadr's win represents a remarkable comeback for the cleric after he was sidelined for years by Iranian-backed rivals.\n\nThese elections were the first since Iraq declared victory over the Islamic State group in December. Some 5,000 American troops remain in Iraq supporting local forces, which were fighting IS.\n\nFinal results released by the election commission early on Saturday showed Mr Sadr's Saeroun bloc won 54 seats, compared to Prime Minister Abadi's 42. The pro-Iranian Fatah alliance went into second place with 47 seats.\n\nBut Mr Sadr's nationalist alliance - formed of his own party and six mainly secular groups, including the Iraqi communist party - failed to win more than 55 of the 329 seats up for grabs, so he faces the complex task of drawing together a governing coalition.\n\nMr Sadr, who made his name as a militia chief fighting US forces after the 2003 invasion of Iraq, has reinvented himself as an anti-corruption champion, and also campaigned on a platform of investing in public services.\n\nOn Monday, Mr Sadr's supporters had celebrated as early results came in\n\nThe defeat of Mr Abadi's alliance came as many voters expressed dissatisfaction with corruption in public life.\n\nDespite his poor showing, he may yet return as prime minister after negotiations which must now be completed within 90 days to form a new government.\n\nWhoever is named prime minister will have to oversee the reconstruction of Iraq following the battle against IS, which seized control of large parts of the country in 2014.\n\nInternational donors pledged $30bn (£22bn) at a conference in February but Iraqi officials have estimated that as much as $100bn is required. More than 20,000 homes and businesses were destroyed in the second city of Mosul alone.\n\nMore than two million Iraqis are still displaced across the country and IS militants continue to mount deadly attacks despite having lost control of the territory they once held.\n\nTurnout at the 12 May election was only 44.5% - much lower than in previous polls.", "Janet Daby was chosen from a shortlist made up of only black and ethnic minority women\n\nMembers of the Labour Party have selected Janet Daby to stand in the Lewisham East by-election.\n\nMs Daby was chosen after hustings in south-east London on Saturday from a shortlist made up of only black and ethnic minority women.\n\nShe beat Sakina Sheikh and Claudia Webbe to run as the party's candidate for the by-election on 14 June.\n\nBrenda Dacres pulled out of the contest on Friday because of health reasons.\n\nMs Daby said it was an \"honour\" to be put forward to run for Parliament.\n\nJeremy Corbyn congratulated Ms Daby and said she would make a \"great advocate\" for people in Lewisham.\n\nHeidi Alexander is Sadiq Khan's new deputy mayor for transport\n\nThe by-election was sparked by the resignation of Heidi Alexander, who is going to work for London Mayor Sadiq Khan.\n\nMs Alexander won the south-east London constituency by more than 21,000 votes in last year's general election, with the Conservatives second and Liberal Democrats third.\n\nShe is to become London's new deputy mayor for transport.\n\nJanet Daby's selection will be seen as a boost for the Labour Party's centrists.\n\nHer views on Brexit put her at odds with party leader Jeremy Corbyn.\n\nHe has ruled out remaining in the single market - but Ms Daby was cheered by Labour members as she told them she was \"pro-EU\" and wanted to \"stay in the single market and customs union\".\n\nHeidi Alexander claimed Jeremy Corbyn's shadow cabinet was dysfunctional when she quit it.\n\nSo there had been speculation that she might be replaced with a more left-wing candidate.\n\nBut Sakina Sheikh, who was backed by Momentum and is thought to be a favourite of Corbyn's, along with Claudia Webbe - who had the support of several unions - both lost by a long way.\n\nMs Daby received more than 60% of the vote.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Japanese family drama Shoplifters has received the coveted award for best film, the Palme d'Or, at the Cannes Film Festival.\n\nThe runner-up Grand Prix went to US director Spike Lee's anti-racism satire BlacKkKlansman.\n\nLed by actor Cate Blanchett, the jury announced their top picks after what was a politically charged festival.\n\nDisgraced Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein, who sparked the #MeToo movement, was particularly called out.\n\nWhile presenting an award, Italian actress Asia Argento said: \"I want to make a prediction: Harvey Weinstein will never be welcomed here ever again.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"We know who you are, and we're not going to allow you to get away with it any longer.\"\n\nOnly three female directors were among the 21 in contention for the festival's 71st top prize, many of which drew critical acclaim ahead of the famously unpredictable awards night.\n\nChoosing the winner of festival's top gong, which went to Japanese indie filmmaker Hirokazu Kore-eda, was \"painful\" in light of the strong competition, said Blanchett.\n\nPoland's Pawel Pawlikowski won the best director award for his love story Cold War.\n\nLittle-known Italian actor Marcello Fonte won best actor for his role as a hapless cocaine-dealing dog groomer who faces down a thug in Dogman.\n\nAnd a special Palme d'Or was awarded to French-Swiss Jean-Luc Godard for the film Image Book.", "Ten people were killed and another 10 wounded when a gunman opened fire at Santa Fe High School in Texas. This is what happened.", "The Duchess of Cambridge arrived with Princess Charlotte, who could just be seen peeking out of the car window", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe Royal Family has thanked those who travelled to Windsor for the wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle.\n\nThousands of people lined the streets to see the couple, while the ceremony at St George's Chapel was broadcast to TV audiences around the world.\n\nMeghan's stylist said she was \"calm and chatty\" ahead of the ceremony, and that Prince Harry felt \"fantastic\" after.\n\nMore than 13 million people watched the TV coverage on the BBC - peaking at 13.1 million just after 13:00 BST.\n\nThe wedding celebrations ended with a black-tie dinner and fireworks display at Frogmore House, near Windsor Castle.\n\nTwo hundred of Meghan and Harry's closest friends and family attended the event held by Prince Charles.\n\nThe designer of Meghan's wedding dress, Clare Waight Keller, said it was \"an incredible thing to be part of such a historic moment\".\n\nThe Birmingham-born designer, now the artistic director of Givenchy, said it was a collaborative process with the royal bride, adding: \"I think she loved the fact that I was a British designer, and working in a house such as Givenchy which has its roots in a very classical, beautiful style.\"\n\nMs Waight Keller said Meghan was \"exactly what you see on TV\", adding: \"She's just so genuine and warm and radiant. She's just glowing.\n\n\"She's a strong woman. She knows what she wants, and it was really an absolute joy working with her.\"\n\nThe designer also spoke to Prince Harry after the ceremony.\n\n\"He came straight up to me and he said 'oh my God, thank you, she looks absolutely stunning',\" she said. \"I think everybody saw on television - he was absolutely in awe, I think.\"\n\nMs Waight Keller said she will give her final design sketches to Meghan as a keepsake.\n\nMuch has been made of the boat neck cut and the minimalist design of the dress\n\nBefore the ceremony, Meghan prepared without any sign of nerves, her hair stylist has revealed.\n\nSerge Normant, who flew from New York for the big day, said it was \"dreamy\" to work with her, adding: \"She was very happy. It was a beautiful morning, just the perfect morning to get married.\"\n\nSpeaking to the couple after the wedding, Mr Normant said Meghan was \"thrilled\" and Prince Harry was \"fantastic\".\n\nAs a wedding gift Prince Harry gave his bride an emerald-cut aquamarine ring which had belonged to his late mother - Diana, Princess of Wales.\n\nThe Royal Family's twitter account posted a message of thanks to those who followed the wedding from the UK, the Commonwealth and around 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 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 by The Royal Family\n\nThe newlyweds - now to be known as the Duke and Duchess of Sussex - spent the night at Windsor Castle.\n\nThe couple are not expected to leave for their honeymoon immediately, choosing instead to remain in the UK before taking a break.\n\nTheir first official engagement as a married couple will be a garden party at Buckingham Palace on Tuesday.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Meghan reveals her halter-neck evening dress before driving into the sunset\n\nMeghan, who had changed out of her wedding dress into a lily-white, silk crepe Stella McCartney halter-neck gown, broke with royal tradition to give a speech at the evening reception.\n\nAmong the close friends who attended the evening celebrations were Bollywood star Priyanka Chopra and tennis ace Serena Williams, who revealed their outfit changes on social media.\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post by mimicuttrell 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. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nEarlier, the prince and his bride exchanged vows and rings before the Queen and 600 guests at St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle.\n\nMs Markle wore a white boat-neck dress by British designer Clare Waight Keller and Prince Harry was given special permission from the Queen to keep his short beard while wearing the frockcoat uniform of his former regiment, the Blues and Royals.\n\nLarge crowds turned out in bright sunshine to see them driven around Windsor afterwards in a horse-drawn carriage.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prince Harry and Meghan share their first kiss on the steps outside St George's Chapel\n\nGuests at the wedding included Oprah Winfrey, George and Amal Clooney, David and Victoria Beckham and Sir Elton John, who later performed at the wedding reception.\n\nPrince George and Princess Charlotte were among the 10 young bridesmaids and pageboys.\n\nPrince Charles walked Ms Markle down the aisle, after her father, Thomas, was unable to attend for health reasons.\n\nPrince Charles also accompanied Ms Markle's mother, Doria, after the service finished\n\nThe wedding service combined British tradition with modernity and the bride's African-American heritage.\n\nThe Most Rev Bishop Michael Curry, presiding bishop and primate of the US Episcopal Church, gave an address, the Rt Rev David Conner, Dean of Windsor, conducted the service and the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Most Rev Justin Welby, officiated.\n\nSpeaking afterwards, Bishop Curry said it was \"a joyful thing\" to see diversity in the ceremony.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Mike Pilavachi This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAll 600 guests were invited to a lunchtime reception at St George's Hall, hosted by the Queen, where the best man, the Duke of Cambridge, acted as compere.\n\nGuest Suhani Jalota, founder of the India-based Myna Mahila charity, said Elton John performed a \"mini-concert\". She said speeches by the Prince of Wales and the groom were \"lovely\", adding: \"Some people were even crying.\"\n\nPosting on Instagram, David Beckham said: \"Watching Harry as happy as he was makes us all proud of the man and person he has always been... what a day.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nOther celebrities attending were TV personality James Corden, singer James Blunt, actress Carey Mulligan and former England rugby player Jonny Wilkinson.\n\nPrince Harry's uncle, Earl Spencer; the Duchess of York, Sarah Ferguson; and the Duchess of Cambridge's sister, Pippa Middleton, were also invited.\n\nAbout 1,200 members of the public - many who were recognised for their charity work - were invited into the grounds of Windsor Castle for the wedding.\n\nThe best way to get news on the go", "Labour's Barry Gardiner was pressed on whether he stood by remarks he made to a private audience about Brexit negotiations that were made public.\n\nThe shadow international trade secretary did not confirm whether he believed people were playing up concerns about Irish border for political reasons.\n\nBut he told interviewer Emma Barnett: \"Sometimes you have conversations in private, and the reason they are held in private is because you can advance thinking.\"", "Luc Besson's lawyer said he \"categorically denies\" the rape allegation\n\nPolice in Paris are investigating a rape allegation made against Luc Besson, one of France's best-known film directors.\n\nThe complaint was filed by an actress at a Paris police station on Friday.\n\n\"Luc Besson categorically denies these fantasist accusations,\" the director's lawyer Thierry Marembert told the AFP news agency.\n\n\"[The complainant] is someone he knows, towards whom he has never behaved inappropriately.\"\n\nBesson, 59, a director, producer and screenwriter, is most famous for directing the 1988 film Le Grand Bleu, as well as Leon, Subway, The Fifth Element and action thriller Nikita.\n\nHe recently directed the sci-fi epic Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets, starring Dane DeHaan and Cara Delevingne.", "Freya Lewis, who was seriously injured in the attack at an Ariana Grande concert last year, has taken part in the 2.5k-long Junior Great Manchester Run.\n\nThe 15-year-old is raising money for the hospital that treated her.\n\nHer father Nick said she had \"proven to be very remarkable... we're proud beyond words\".", "The Most Rev Bishop Michael Curry, choir conductor Karen Gibson and cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason\n\nAs Prince Harry married Meghan Markle, there was a lot of comment from American people about black influence on the wedding ceremony.\n\nIt combined elements of a traditional royal wedding with black culture.\n\nIn the US, people have used the hashtag #BlackRoyalWedding and welcomed the diverse feeling of the wedding.\n\nThis tweet had nearly 10,000 retweets and over 40,000 likes:\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Elamin Abdelmahmoud This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nElliot Conner in South Carolina welcomed the various elements of the wedding:\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Elliot Conner This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nOthers drew attention to the diverse feel of the wedding in general:\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Chloe🍄 This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 Chryl Laird This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBlack guests at the royal wedding included Idris Elba, Oprah Winfrey and Serena Williams.\n\nIdris Elba arrived holding hands with his fiancee. Sabrina Dhowre, dressed in a varsity-striped dress and jacket. Oprah Winfrey entered behind in an elegant pale pink dress with lace detailing at the neck\n\nAmerican Bishop Michael Curry captured the world's attention with a long and powerful address.\n\nThe Chicago-born bishop spoke passionately about the power of love, quoting Dr Martin Luther King Jr.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAs a result of his speech, Martin Luther King has been trending on Twitter all day. This is one of the most popular tweets.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Lydia 🌹❄️ This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nKaren Gibson and The Kingdom Choir performed Ben E King's soul classic Stand by Me during the service.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Lily Herman This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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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We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nTanya Kersey and Melanie Williams Oram sum up the sentiments of thousands of people.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 9 by tanyakersey This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe best way to get news on the go", "Fernando de Noronha has one of the world's best beaches\n\nA remote Brazilian island with a ban on childbirth is nonetheless celebrating the first baby born there in 12 years.\n\nFernando de Noronha island, 370km (230 miles) from the city of Natal, has about 3,000 residents but no maternity wards.\n\nExpectant mothers are requested to travel to the mainland.\n\nA woman who does not want to be named had a baby girl on Saturday on the island - she says she was unaware she was pregnant and is \"dumbstruck\".\n\nThe woman is believed to be aged 22.\n\n\"On Friday night I had pains and when I went to the bathroom I saw something coming down between my legs,\" she was quoted as saying by O Globo website.\n\n\"That's when the child's father came and picked it up. It was a baby, a girl. I was dumbstruck.\"\n\nThe baby was later taken to the local hospital.\n\nIn a statement, the local administration confirmed the birth.\n\n\"The mother, who does not wish to be identified, went into labour at her home,\" the statement says, according to O Globo.\n\n\"The family says they were not aware of the pregnancy.\"\n\nTo celebrate the rare birth, local residents are now helping the family, with some donating clothes for the baby girl, reports say.\n\nFernando de Noronha boasts some of the world's best beaches and is famous for its wildlife reserve in Brazil's national maritime park. Sea turtles, dolphins, whales and rare birds are frequently observed there.\n\nBecause of the reserve's vulnerability, strict population controls are in place on the island.\n• None Brazilian island is overrun by invasion of blind toads", "Gündogan (left) and Özil met the German president in Berlin\n\nTwo German footballers of Turkish origin have met President Frank-Walter Steinmeier after criticism of photos showing them with Turkey's president.\n\nTurkey's governing AK Party released the photos of them with Recep Tayyip Erdogan ahead of elections there.\n\nSome German politicians said it seemed Mesut Özil and Ilkay Gündogan were endorsing Mr Erdogan - which they deny.\n\nGermany has criticised the Turkish leader's crackdown on political dissent following a failed coup.\n\nÖzil, who plays for Arsenal, and Manchester City player Gündogan gave Mr Erdogan signed shirts at an event in London last week.\n\nBoth players are preparing to play in next month's Fifa World Cup in Russia, where Germany is among the favourites. Turkey did not qualify.\n\nThe German football federation (DFB) had also criticised the pair.\n\n\"The two players contacted us and the DFB and wanted to clear this issue up,\" Germany coach Joachim Loew told reporters.\n\nThey met President Frank-Walter Steinmeier at the presidential palace in Berlin.\n\n\"It was important to both of them to clear up the misunderstandings,\" said President Steinmeier.\n\nHe said that Özil had told him he stood by Germany, while Gündogan affirmed that \"Germany is clearly my country and my team\".\n\n\"Both assured us that they had not wanted to send any political signal with that action,\" DFB President Reinhard Grindel said.\n\n\"They also stated that they stand for our values on and off the pitch and that they identify with them.\"\n\nMesut Özil (L) presented President Erdogan with his Arsenal shirt last week\n\nMr Erdogan, in power for the past 15 years, is seeking re-election in a snap poll on 24 June.\n\nHis Islamist-rooted AK Party has cracked down hard on opponents, especially since the July 2016 coup attempt by military officers.\n\nTurkish police have arrested more than 50,000 people accused of links to US-based Islamic cleric Fethullah Gulen or to Kurdish separatists. They include opposition activists, journalists, teachers, lawyers and other public servants.\n\nMr Erdogan has also purged the military, police and judiciary, putting many state officials on trial.\n\nAfter the criticism of last week's meeting, Gündogan issued a statement defending himself, Özil and a third player of Turkish origin Cenk Tosun over their meeting with Mr Erdogan.\n\nThey met on the sidelines of an event at a Turkish foundation that helps Turkish students, he explained.\n\n\"Are we supposed to be impolite to the president of our families' homeland?\" he asked.\n\n\"Whatever justified criticism there might be, we decided on a gesture of politeness, out of respect for the office of president and for our Turkish roots.\"", "Last updated on .From the section FA Cup\n\nEden Hazard's first-half penalty decided the FA Cup final in Chelsea's favour at Wembley to leave Jose Mourinho and Manchester United empty-handed this season.\n\nHazard - in a moment which did not bode well for the World Cup meeting between England and Belgium in Russia in June - twisted and tore past Phil Jones before drawing a clumsy foul from the United defender after 22 minutes.\n\nHe calmly dispatched the penalty which was to prove to be the decisive moment in a final that was hard fought rather than distinguished.\n\nUnited, with striker Romelu Lukaku only fit enough for a place on the bench, raised their game after the break.\n\nAlexis Sanchez had a goal ruled out for straying just offside, with referee Michael Oliver using the video assistant referee (VAR) to confirm the call, Chelsea keeper Thibaut Courtois excelled with a succession of fine saves, and Paul Pogba wasted their best chance late on when he missed the target with a free header.\n\nThis may well be Antonio Conte's last game as Blues manager and if he leaves, he does so after delivering the FA Cup to follow last season's Premier League title.\n\nIf it is to be goodbye for Conte, his team delivered the famous old trophy in a manner that has become the Italian's trademark.\n\nHis side grabbed the initiative to take advantage of United's tentative first 45 minutes, securing a precious lead that they defended with great resilience and organisation for the rest of an attritional final.\n\nAnd it was a tribute to Conte that he inspired this performance following a flat end to their Premier League campaign, when a home draw with Huddersfield and a lame defeat at Newcastle left them fifth, out of the Champions League qualification spots.\n\nThis has been a season in sharp contrast to Conte's title-winning campaign. The 48-year-old has appeared at odds with the club's hierarchy, often detached and not quite the driven figure who arrived at Stamford Bridge in the summer of 2016.\n\nAnd yet he has delivered silverware, which has escaped Mourinho and Mauricio Pochettino at Tottenham this season - although the failure to finish in the top four is painful and likely to be the point at which Conte and Chelsea part company.\n\nOne fact is beyond dispute. The manager remains a hugely popular figure with Chelsea's supporters as they chanted his name. If he is leaving, he has given them another happy memory.\n• None 'I am committed to this club but I can't change' - Chelsea boss Conte\n\nThe sight of thousands of empty seats as Manchester United's players went up to receive their losers' medals summed up a bitterly disappointing day for Mourinho and his side.\n\nUnited's Premier League points tally of 81 was very respectable but it was still 19 behind champions Manchester City and this loss leaves a taste of anti-climax to their season.\n\n'They defended with nine players'\n\nThey deserve credit for finishing second and reaching the FA Cup final but too often the style of play has been stodgy and even the resilience United have demonstrated this season could not spark a recover at Wembley.\n\nAs United stumbled through the first half, they will have been desperately hoping they could dig deep in the fashion that saw them beat Spurs here in the semi-final. It was not to be, despite an improved second-half performance.\n\nUnited were thwarted by Courtois when they did break through, but this was a day when Mourinho and many of his players came up short.\n\nMourinho will feel the failure to win a trophy as acutely as anyone - especially as it came against the club where he enjoyed so much success.\n\nNow he must act to add an extra touch of stardust to this United team as they are functional rather than exciting, as proved in this final.\n\nThe big games are often decided by the big players and this is exactly why Chelsea were able to close out this win and salvage success from a season of underachievement.\n\nAnd, in contrast, so many of those Mourinho and Manchester United would have been counting on to make the difference did not make the expected contribution.\n\nWho performed best in the FA Cup final? How you rated the players...\n\nN'Golo Kante was magnificent in midfield - tireless and effective, a superb defensive buffer when United did finally exert pressure, while keeper Courtois was also outstanding.\n\nIn defence, Antonio Rudiger was a rock and Gary Cahill delivered a performance that was a timely reminder of why England manager Gareth Southgate included him in his World Cup squad.\n\nMatch-winner Hazard was always a threat and Southgate might have had an ominous feeling as he watched him go past Jones before drawing a clumsy foul from the man he may face when England meet Belgium in Russia next month.\n\nFor United, Jones had a nightmare, Sanchez was truly dismal and Pogba only raised a gallop after half-time. The Frenchman also missed arguably their best chance when he headed wide at a corner when unmarked and only eight yards out.\n\nFor all Mourinho's complaints about injustice, a clear penalty decided the fate of this final.\n\nWhy was Jones not sent off?\n\nThere was plenty of debate on social media after Oliver's decision to show a yellow card to Jones for conceding the spot-kick.\n\nThe referee's decision was dictated by a law change in 2016 intended to abolish \"triple punishment\" in such circumstances.\n\nBefore the change, any denial of a clear goalscoring opportunity inside the area resulted in the offender receiving a red card and a suspension, as well as conceding a penalty.\n\nUnder the amended Law 12, which relates to fouls and misconduct, a player judged to have made a genuine attempt to win the ball is shown a yellow card instead.\n\nThe law states: \"Where a player commits an offence against an opponent within their own penalty area which denies an opponent an obvious goalscoring opportunity and the referee awards a penalty kick, the offending player is cautioned if the offence was an attempt to play the ball.\n\n\"In all other circumstances (e.g. holding, pulling, pushing, no possibility to play the ball etc.) the offending player must be sent off.\"\n\n'Great desire to finish the right way' - what the managers said\n\nChelsea boss Antonio Conte: \"I'm very satisfied because today was very difficult.\n\n\"To win the FA Cup against a really strong team - a really great team like Manchester United - we must be pleased.\n\n\"It wasn't easy, but I'm very happy for our fans, for my players.\n\n\"I predicted at the start of the season the difficulty of this season. Despite this we finished fifth and have won the FA Cup.\n\n\"To miss a place in Champions League is not good. We must be honest to say this - but at the same time I think you have to know the real situation, to understand if this group of players did their best this season.\n\n\"An important trophy like this shows the great commitment of my players. It showed great desire to finish the season in the right way despite the great difficulty we have had.\"\n\nManchester United boss Jose Mourinho: \"Every defeat hurts, but for me personally the ones that hurt less are when you give everything and you go without any regrets.\n\n\"I prefer to lose like today than lose like we did at, for example, Newcastle. I leave my players happy with them. For me, that's really important.\n\n\"I knew the opponent I was going to play against. I knew they have a compact low block with lots of physicality where they try to close everything.\n\n\"I knew without a target man it would be difficult for us.\"\n• None Mourinho has lost his first cup final in charge of an English club, after winning each of the previous six (four League Cups, one FA Cup, one Europa League).\n• None Chelsea won their eighth FA Cup, taking them level with Tottenham - only Manchester United (12) and Arsenal (13) have won more.\n• None Seven of the past 10 FA Cup winners have been London clubs (Chelsea winning four, Arsenal three).\n• None Conte won a domestic cup final for the first time as a manager, after losing with Juventus against Napoli in the 2012 Coppa Italia, and the 2017 FA Cup with Chelsea against Arsenal.\n• None United's have won only one of their past four FA Cup final appearances.\n• None Mourinho's side had 18 shots in the game; they last attempted more shots without scoring in a match in October 2016 (38 in a 0-0 Premier League draw against Burnley).\n• None Hazard's penalty was the first scored in an FA Cup final (excluding shootouts) since Ruud van Nistelrooy for Manchester United against Millwall in 2004.\n• None Attempt missed. Nemanja Matic (Manchester United) header from the centre of the box is too high. Assisted by Antonio Valencia with a cross.\n• None Attempt missed. Alexis Sánchez (Manchester United) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the left. Assisted by Nemanja Matic.\n• None Attempt missed. Paul Pogba (Manchester United) header from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Anthony Martial with a cross following a corner.\n• None Offside, Chelsea. Cesc Fàbregas tries a through ball, but Olivier Giroud is caught offside.\n• None Attempt blocked. Anthony Martial (Manchester United) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Paul Pogba.\n• None Attempt saved. Nemanja Matic (Manchester United) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Ander Herrera. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "We asked you what it was like to see the carriage travel through Windsor- and one word kept coming up.", "BBC royal correspondent Nicholas Witchell says the new Duke and Duchess of Sussex offer the potential to reach audiences who instinctively might not identity with the royal family.\n\nThe intensity of the feelings they have for each other was very visible at their wedding, he said.\n\nThe service itself was \"very Harry and Meghan\" with the gospel choir and \"passionate\" address by the Most Rev Bishop Michael Curry breaking new ground.\n\nHe added the couple will be pleased and relieved the day went so smoothly and successfully,", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The emergency services were alerted at about lunchtime on Sunday\n\nA fire crew has returned to Arthur's Seat in Edinburgh after reports that a grass blaze on the hillside had reignited.\n\nAbout 30 firefighters using backpacks tackled the flames for several hours after the fire was reported at about 13:40 on Sunday.\n\nCrews left the scene at about 23:30, but one appliance returned at about 11:00.\n\nOne casualty was taken into the care of paramedics with a suspected leg injury.\n\nFirefighters are currently beating out smouldering patches on the extinct volcano.\n\nFire chiefs in Scotland have warned of an increased risk of wildfires, following a series of blazes across the country.\n\nPark Rangers were trying to stop people climbing Arthur's Seat\n\nNine fire engines were sent to the blaze at Mobster Croft in the Spittal area after the alarm was raised shortly before midday.\n\nFirefighters spent more than six hours tackling the wildfire.\n\nCrew from Balintore fire station were among firefighters called to tackle a wildfire near Mey in Caithness on Friday.\n\nAnd in Argyll on Saturday the A85 near Dalmally was closed by a wildfire for several hours.\n\nThe fire was on both sides of the road at Glenlochy.\n\nThe previous day crews had been called to a wildfire near Mey village in Caithness.\n\nFire chiefs warned that discarded cigarettes and unattended barbecues or campfires can start fires which burn for days and devastate vast areas of land\n\nBruce Farquharson, an area manager with the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service, urged the public to play their part in preventing further fires.\n\n\"Right now, many firefighters across Scotland are actively tackling wildfires, working to protect our communities and their efforts have to be commended,\" he said.\n\n\"However, many of these fires are preventable, and we again urge people to read our safety advice, and enjoy the weather responsibly.\"\n\nThe Balintore fire crew were also called out to help at the wildfire in Caithness on Saturday.\n\nMr Farquharson, who is also the chairman of the Scottish Wildfire Forum, urged people to follow the Scottish Outdoor Access Code.\n\nHe added: \"Wild and grass fires can start by the careless disposal of cigarettes and barbecues or campfires left unattended.\n\n\"They then have the potential to burn for days and devastate vast areas of land, wildlife and threaten the welfare of nearby communities.\n\n\"Many rural and remote communities, such as those in the Highland area, are hugely impacted by wildfires, which can cause significant environmental and economic damage.\n\n\"Livestock, farmland, wildlife, protected woodland and sites of special scientific interest can all be devastated by these fires - as can the lives of people living and working in rural communities.\n\n\"Just one heat source like a campfire ember can cause it to ignite and if the wind changes direction even the smallest fire can spread uncontrollably and devastate entire hillsides.\"\n\nCrews from across Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross have been mobilised to tackle wildfires over the last two days\n\nScottish Natural Heritage said there was a danger of fires in the north east, south east and central Scotland, especially between 16 and 24 May.\n\nIts recreation and tourism manager, Mark Wrightham, said: \"In this weather, we advise people to be careful when lighting fires, or consider using a camping stove instead. Be particularly cautious when disposing of cigarettes - even a cigarette butt can easily start a wildfire.\n\n\"One of the biggest risks is disposable barbecues. These should be taken away and disposed of safely in a bin. You may think the barbecue's no longer a risk, but the lingering heat could cause vegetation to smoulder and catch fire.\n\n\"A few simple tips can make all the difference in making sure as many people as possible can enjoy our countryside safely.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The body of 85-year-old Rosina Coleman was found at her home in Romford\n\nA man has been charged with murdering an 85-year-old woman who was found dead in her home.\n\nRosina Coleman was discovered by a handyman at her house in Ashmour Gardens, Romford, east London, at about 11:30 BST on Tuesday.\n\nA post-mortem examination gave the cause of death as blunt force trauma to the head and neck.\n\nPaul Prause, 65, was charged with murder on Saturday and will appear at Redbridge Magistrates' Court on Monday.\n\nHe was arrested at an address in Romford on Friday.\n\nNeighbours described Mrs Coleman as \"incredible\" and someone who was \"always happy\".\n\nThe former seamstress was a mother of two and had lived on the road for decades with her husband Bill, who died about 11 years ago.\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. Eruptions could block escape routes for residents on south-eastern corner of Big Island\n\nThe first serious injury has been reported as Hawaii continues to grapple with weeks of volcanic eruptions and lava flow.\n\nThe injured man was sitting on a balcony at his home when \"lava spatter\" - projectile molten rock - landed on him.\n\n\"It hit him on the shin and shattered everything there down on his leg,\" a spokeswoman for the county mayor said.\n\nLava spatters can weigh \"as much as a refrigerator\", she told Reuters.\n\nThe Kilauea volcano on Hawaii's Big Island erupted at the beginning of May, and the situation for residents has steadily been worsening.\n\nOn Saturday, a key coastal road used as the main escape route for residents was in danger of being cut off, which could hamper evacuations.\n\nThe possibility of the lava flows reaching the ocean, meanwhile, threatens to release toxic gases in a plume called a \"laze\".\n\nWhen molten lava hits sea water, the chemical reaction can create \"hazy and noxious conditions\" laced with hydrochloric acid and tiny particles of glass, the US Geological Survey (USGS) says.\n\n\"Even the wispy edges of it can cause skin and eye irritation and breathing difficulties,\" USGS warned.\n\nSome of the lava flows have increased over the weekend.\n\nThe Hawaiian Volcano Observatory said that the rate of eruptions increased in the area known as the lower east rift zone, where four fissures have merged together.\n\nThe result is \"a continuous line of spatter and fountaining\". Two different lava flows from the combined fissures have now merged less than a mile from the coast.\n\nGeologists are warning that the behaviour of the lava flows remains unpredictable, and are urging residents to obey all warnings from Hawaii's civil defence.\n\nThis fast-moving flow in the Pahoe area consumed a home, seen here burning in the top left\n\nAt the summit, a large explosion happened at around midnight on Friday night into Saturday, sending a plume of volcanic gas some 10,000 ft (two miles, or 3km) into the air.\n\nThousands of people have already left their homes in some areas of the island. Bush fires have also broken out in several areas.\n\n\"It is a very dynamic situation,\" geologist Carolyn Parcheta from the observatory told a news conference, while warning of the risk to one of the main residential areas.\n\nLava \"flooded around the east side of Lanipuna Gardens, and to me that is a very scary scenario,\" she said.\n\n\"That's what concerns me most - is that people might be trapped by something like that.\"\n\nDespite safety concerns in some residential areas - and worries that volcanic ash could interfere with air travel - Hawaii's business community has stressed that many tourist activities remain open, as do the island's airports.", "Teenagers at the Discovery Academy in Stoke-on-Trent, which has introduced free sanitary towels, tackle the stigma around \"that time of the month\".", "Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have been declared husband and wife, following a ceremony at Windsor Castle.\n\nThe couple exchanged vows and rings before the Queen and 600 guests at St George's Chapel.\n\nWearing a dress by British designer Clare Waight Keller, Ms Markle was met by Prince Charles, who walked her down the aisle.", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nNadal cruised to the first set before defending champion Zverev won nine of the next 11 games to take the second set 6-1 and lead 3-1 in the decider.\n\nBut the Spaniard turned the match around following a lengthy rain delay and closed out a 6-1 1-6 6-3 victory.\n\nThe win will see Nadal regain the world number one ranking before the French Open which starts next Sunday.\n\nRoger Federer had regained top spot in the rankings when Nadal lost to Dominic Thiem at the Madrid Masters last week, his only defeat on clay this season.\n\nNadal has now won three clay-court titles from four tournaments in the lead-up to his bid for an 11th Roland Garros title in Paris.\n• None Milos Raonic pulls out of French Open with injury\n\nNadal cruised to the first set in just 32 minutes and had looked on course for a routine victory against in-form Zverev, who had won 14 matches in a row and 30 matches in total this season - more than any other player.\n\nBut the 31-year-old made a number of uncharacteristic errors in the second set while world number three Zverev upped his game to level at 1-1.\n\nThe German, 21, broke Nadal's serve in the opening game of the deciding set and maintained that break to lead 3-1 going into an 11-minute rain delay.\n\nNadal won the game after the players returned only for play to be halted by a second, longer rain delay, after which he won four games in a row to clinch the match.\n\nThe win is Nadal's 78th ATP Tour title and takes him clear of John McEnroe into fourth place in the list of most men's titles won in the Open era.\n\nIt also extends Nadal's impressive record in Rome where he has won the title more than any other player with Serbia's Novak Djokovic second on four titles.\n\nMost titles in the Open era\n\nZverev was just three games away from a first win over Nadal - and a hugely significant one, on clay, so close to the French Open - when rain dragged the players off court.\n\nNadal barely put a foot wrong on the resumption, winning five games in a row to make sure he will be the world number one as well as the top seed at Roland Garros.\n\nBut make no mistake, Nadal was seriously rattled by the way Zverev played - the German won nine games out of 11 from the start of the second set.\n\nNadal adopted his customary deep returning position, and at times was dominated by the German's big serve and crisp, flat, ball striking.\n\nThey will be the top two seeds at Roland Garros, and may well meet in the final in Paris.\n\nFirst, though, Zverev must survive the first four rounds, something he is yet to achieve at any Grand Slam.", "From Charles taking Doria's hand, to \"thank you Pa\", here are some moments to remember...\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIt's been a tumultuous week for the Markles and the Raglands. Had all gone to plan, Doria Ragland's former husband, Thomas Markle, would have walked their daughter down the aisle.\n\nBut he underwent heart surgery this week, putting him out of the picture, while Ms Markle's half-siblings never received an invitation.\n\nThe bride's side of St George's Chapel seemed a very lonely place - Doria Ragland was the only member of the family there.\n\nDressed in a pale green Oscar de la Renta outfit, side-set hat and delicate nose stud, she looked emotional, deep in thought and, at times, a little lost.\n\nSo, at the signing of the register, she appeared relieved to take the guiding hand of Prince Charles - on what must have been a daunting and surreal occasion.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe first glimpse of the groom suggested Prince Harry, in full military regalia, was in typical buoyant spirits, smiling and laughing as he waved to the crowds of well-wishers on his arrival.\n\nBut the smile faded, and the emotion of the occasion was etched on his face, as he waited at the altar for his bride to arrive.\n\nAs she entered on the arm of his father, Prince Charles, Harry looked close to tears. He mouthed \"thank you Pa\" to his dad as he took his seat.\n\nDuring the service, the prince couldn't seem to relax. In contrast, Ms Markle cut a much calmer figure, smiling often and looking into the eyes of her husband-to-be.\n\nIt was only once out of the chapel and onto the streets in the carriage procession that Prince Harry seemed to breathe again - and relax.\n\nThe big reveal came as a burgundy Rolls Royce Phantom pulled up at the foot of the chapel steps.\n\nOut stepped pageboys - Brian and John Mulroney - and then came the bride, trailing a five-metre fine silk veil, embroidered with the flowers of each country in the Commonwealth.\n\nThe gap-toothed twins rushed around to lift the veil off the ground as Ms Markle walked alone into the chapel.\n\nTo fashion expert Jo Elvin, the sculpted white boat-neck gown by British designer Clare Waight Keller for French fashion house Givenchy, was a stroke of genius.\n\n\"It compliments her style that she's known for,\" she said.\n\nDavid Emanuel, who designed Princess Diana's dress, said it was \"very clever\" to include the Commonwealth flowers in the veil.\n\n\"I think Diana would have approved.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. US bishop wows with his wedding address\n\nThe American bishop Michael Curry, invited by Ms Markle, got the guests smiling and giggling in their pews.\n\nBishop Curry's theme was the power of love, and he soon had his audience falling a little bit in love with him.\n\nGesticulating in a style far removed from any other royal wedding ceremony, he addressed the audience as \"brothers and sisters\" and told them: \"There's power in love, don't underestimate it.\"\n\nThe bride and groom sat near the preacher, holding hands as he spoke.\n\nAnd when he went on for too long, carried away by the moment, he told them: \"We gotta get you all married!\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prince Harry and Meghan share their first kiss on the steps outside St George's Chapel\n\nIt's always The Moment in every royal wedding.\n\nUsually on the balcony at Buckingham Palace, this kiss had a rather more low-key, down-to-earth feel about it.\n\nThe bride, looking demure, and the prince held hands as they walked out of St George's Chapel and on to the West Steps.\n\nOne lip reader says Ms Markle discreetly asked her new husband: \"Do we kiss?\"\n\nTo which the prince quietly replied: \"Yeah\".\n\nA jubilant crowd, ready with their mobile phones, zoomed in. One for the album.\n\nThe best way to get news on the go", "The victim died early on Sunday at the junction between Upper Green East and Montrose Gardens in Mitcham\n\nA man has been stabbed to death in south London.\n\nPolice were called at about 03:30 BST to the junction between Upper Green East and Montrose Gardens in Mitcham.\n\nOfficers found a man, thought to be in his 20s, with multiple stab wounds. Paramedics tried to save him but he died at the scene.\n\nA 44-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of murder and is presently in custody in a south London police station.\n\nOfficers are yet to formally identify the victim. Post-mortem tests were due to be held later.\n\nParamedics tried to save the victim but he died at the scene\n\nMitcham and Morden MP Siobhain McDonagh offered her condolences to the victim's family and said she would attend a police meeting on Monday about the killing.\n\nLondon Mayor Sadiq Khan said he was in touch with the Metropolitan Police about the investigation.\n\n\"They will do everything they can to bring the perpetrator to justice,\" he added.\n\nThere have been more than 60 murders in the capital this year, of which more than half were stabbings.\n\nEarlier this month, an urgent investigation into the recent surge in violent crime in London was launched by members of the London Assembly.\n\nOn Tuesday, the Met's assistant commissioner said there were signs the spike in violence was \"stabilising\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Motorists face tougher MOT tests on their vehicles from Sunday, as an updated test introduces new categories under which a vehicle can fail or pass.\n\nThe categories include \"dangerous\", \"major\" and \"minor\" which determine whether a car, van or motorcycle must be taken off the road or can be driven as long as repairs are carried out.\n\nThe MOT will also be tougher on diesel emissions.\n\nVehicles with a diesel particulate filter will now have to pass new tests.\n\nThat filter captures and stores exhaust soot to reduce emissions.\n\nA diesel vehicle will fail its MOT if there is smoke of any colour coming from the exhaust or there is any evidence that the diesel particulate filter has been tampered with.\n\nThese faults will be classed as \"major\" under the new categories.\n\nDefects found during an MOT will be categorised as:\n\nNamed originally after the Ministry of Transport, there are 30 million MOT tests a year in Britain. And around a third of them fail with indicators and lights being the most common cause. Now that number is set to rise - initially at least - as the test gets a bit tougher.\n\nIt will be especially strenuous on diesel cars, and that affects around half of UK road users. Most newer diesels have a particulate filter but if the tester sees any smoke at all emerging from the exhaust, that car will fail. If someone has tampered with the filter, that too is a 'fail'.\n\nThe advice as ever is to regularly check for any leaks, low tyre pressure and that all your lights - front, side and back - are working. Fail to prepare: prepare to fail.\n\nA wider range of a vehicle's parts will also be tested including: the tyres, to check if they are underinflated; the brake fluid, to investigate if it has been contaminated; and fluid leaks, to make sure they do not pose an environmental risk.\n\nThe full list can be found here.\n\nThere is good news for drivers of classic cars - vehicles more than 40 years old, or produced before 31 May 1978, will not need an MOT.\n\nA spokesman for the RAC motoring organisation said these vehicles were often \"rare classics\" and well maintained by their owners so were \"deemed not to be such a road risk\".\n\nThe best way to get news on the go", "Meghan has chosen a lily white, silk crepe Stella McCartney halter-neck dress for the newlyweds' private party.\n\nThe couple left Windsor Castle in a silver blue Jaguar E-Type Concept Zero, for a reception hosted by Prince Charles at Frogmore House.Castle.", "Passengers have been urged to plan ahead and check revised timetables\n\nA rail timetable overhaul billed as the biggest in the UK has begun - but it may leave some users behind.\n\nGovia Thameslink Railway (GTR) is rescheduling every train in its franchise, which includes Southern, Thameslink and Great Northern services.\n\nBut passengers in a number of smaller locations complain they will be served with fewer or slower services.\n\nAnd the RMT union claims passengers with reduced mobility may be left behind if a train is at risk of delay.\n\nGTR said it placed high priority on making its services accessible to all.\n\nFrom Sunday every schedule for Thameslink, Southern, Gatwick Express and Great Northern trains will be different in an attempt to improve rail efficiency in the South East.\n\nIt will mean 400 extra trains a day and new direct services from 80 stations into central London.\n\nTravel journalist Simon Calder said the overhaul would benefit some passengers, such as those travelling from Brighton to London where some rush hour services will be 15 minutes faster.\n\nBut he said those journey times are faster because they miss out stops, adding: \"If you're one of the people who's waiting on the platform when the train goes through at 90 miles an hour instead of stopping - you're going to be a bit miffed.\"\n\nAnd there appear to have been some teething problems, with cancellations and delays on trains run by Great Northern, Southern and Thameslink.\n\nGTR told the BBC that, \"as part of the huge logistical challenge of introducing this new timetable, some services are not initially running. We are working hard to minimise the impact this will have on our busiest trains. This situation will improve.\"\n\nOn Great Northern the new timetable has been scrapped and a short-term one is in place.\n\nGTR has for weeks reminded passengers to plan ahead, check revised timetables and expect their usual services to run at new times.\n\nThe train operator does still anticipate delays and minor issues with services as staff and commuters adjust and trains and crew are redeployed.\n\nIt has called the shake-up \"the biggest-ever change to rail timetables to significantly boost capacity on the UK's most congested network\".\n\nAhead of the new timetable, the RMT said GTR staff had been given the instructions \"Do not attempt to place PRM [Persons of Reduced Mobility] on train if there is a possibility of delaying the service\" in a booklet outlining strategies for managing the time trains spend stopped at a station.\n\nRMT general secretary Mick Cash said: \"I cannot believe in this day and age we are telling staff to ignore the needs of disabled people if the time it will take to deploy a ramp and assist them onto the train will cause a delay.\"\n\nAlthough the rail company did not deny the existence of such instructions, it said: \" Our policy remains the same which is to offer assistance to all passengers to help them with their journeys.\n\n\"We have a responsibility to make sure each service leaves on time to avoid knock-on delays, skipped station stops and cancellations to other services which would affect thousands of other passengers, many of whom may also be disabled,\" a GTR spokesperson said.\n\nSouthern Rail services into London Bridge will have new timetables from Sunday\n\nThe timetable changes mean some of the services will be faster and more frequent, while those that that typically suffer chronic delays will be deliberately slowed down to make arrival times more realistic.\n\nGTR is the largest rail franchise in the UK and its commuter services call into London stations such as St Pancras, London Bridge and London Victoria.\n\nIt has said the schedule revamp will mean some services to and from commuter towns will be reduced, although total network capacity will increase.\n\nEmily Ketchin, founder of the campaign group Harpenden Thameslink Commuters' Group, says she and others commuting between Harpenden, Hertfordshire, and London, will be adversely affected.\n\n\"We are actually losing a third of key services in the morning, and also getting longer journey times, in the morning and in the evening,\" she told BBC Radio Five live.\n\n\"We currently have nine fast services and that is going down to six and it is totally unacceptable. Even before these cuts it was a very overcrowded service.\n\n\"It is very difficult to get on a train and it is going to get a lot worse. And we pay £4,000 a year for that service.\"\n\nTrain company GTR said Harpenden services were being temporarily reduced because of upgrade works on the neighbouring Midland Mainline, which is being electrified from Bedford to Kettering and Corby.\n\nIt said that planned extra train seats for Harpenden commuters would not now come into effect until 2020, when the route modernisation programme north of Bedford was completed.", "The diagnosis of cancer and other diseases in the UK can be transformed by using artificial intelligence, Theresa May is to say.\n\nThe NHS and technology companies should use AI as a \"new weapon\" in research, the PM will urge in a speech later.\n\nExperts say it can be used to help prevent 22,000 cancer deaths a year by 2033 while aiding the fight against heart disease, diabetes and dementia.\n\nHigh-skilled science jobs will also be created, Mrs May is to pledge.\n\nSpeaking in Macclesfield, Mrs May will say: \"Late diagnosis of otherwise treatable illnesses is one of the biggest causes of avoidable deaths.\n\n\"And the development of smart technologies to analyse great quantities of data quickly and with a higher degree of accuracy than is possible by human beings opens up a whole new field of medical research.\"\n\nThe prime minister wants to see computer algorithms sifting through patients' medical records, genetic data and lifestyle habits to spot cancer.\n\nBBC health and science correspondent James Gallagher says Mrs May's plans do chime with excitement within medical science about the potential of using data and AI.\n\nBut our correspondent added there are many challenges ahead including creating the right infrastructure within the health service, separating hype and genuine innovation and ensuring the public's highly personal data is used responsibly.\n\nCancer Research UK says halving the number of lung, bowel, prostate and ovarian cancers diagnosed at an advanced stage could prevent thousands of deaths a year.\n\nThe prime minister will also unveil a new strategy to help older people remain healthy\n\nSir Harpal Kumar, chief executive officer of Cancer Research, described the government's plans as pioneering but added: \"We need to ensure we have the right infrastructure, embedded in our health system, to make this possible.\"\n\nSimon Gillespie, chief executive at the British Heart Foundation, said: \"Using artificial intelligence to analyse MRI scans could spot early signs of heart disease which may be missed by current techniques.\n\n\"This could lead to a quicker diagnosis with more personalised treatment that could ultimately save lives.\"\n\nMrs May will also use her speech to announce a new target to ensure that five more years of people's lives will be healthy, independent and active by 2035.", "The suspect has been booked into the Galveston County Jail\n\nHe was in a church dance club. He played on the school football team. He was a high-achieving student. And yet he allegedly opened fire on classmates, killing 10 people.\n\nOfficials say there were few red flags from Dimitrios Pagourtzis, the 17-year-old facing capital murder charges over Friday's Santa Fe High School shooting in Texas.\n\nTexas Governor Greg Abbott said a photo on the suspect's now-deleted Facebook page showing a T-shirt with the phrase Born to Kill may be the only warning sign.\n\n\"But as far as investigations by law enforcement agencies, as far as arrests or confrontation with law enforcement, as far as having a criminal history, he has none,\" he told a news conference.\n\n\"His slate is pretty clean. There simply were not the same type of warning signs that we've seen in so many other shootings.\"\n\nHowever, hours before he allegedly stormed into an art class armed with a shotgun and revolver the teenager made a weird post on social media, a law enforcement source told CBS News.\n\nAccompanied by an occult symbol, it said simply, \"Dangerous Days\".\n\nHe had also previously posted an image of a trench coat pinned with various insignia, including the Iron Cross used by the Nazis, which the teen wrote represented \"bravery\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe Communist hammer and sickle pin, he said, stood for \"rebellion\", and a depiction of the idol Baphomet symbolised \"Evil\".\n\nStudent Dustin Severin told KPRC-TV that he saw the teen in the hall before the shooting wearing his usual outfit of black boots and a trench coat.\n\nHe said the suspect had been picked on by school coaches \"for smelling bad\", and had mostly kept to himself.\n\nOne of his teachers told the New York Times: \"He was quiet, but he wasn't quiet in a creepy way.\"\n\nPolice say the teenager detailed his plans to carry out the school shooting in a diary, on his computer and on a mobile phone.\n\nThe suspect had planned to take his own life, say investigators, but he ultimately gave himself up.\n\nAnd yet there were many other signs that Dimitrios Pagourtzis was a regular, outgoing teenager full of promise.\n\nSchool officials say he was previously on the school's \"honour roll\" of high-achievers, and was expected to graduate in 2019.\n\nAccording to local media, he was a member of a dance squad with a local Greek Orthodox church.\n\nHe had also played for the Santa Fe High School Indians American football team for the 2015-16 season.\n\nSuch wholesome extracurricular activities only add more emphasis to the question bewildered members of his community are asking in the aftermath of the rampage:", "US wildlife officers in Washington state have shot dead a cougar that killed a cyclist and mauled another.\n\nThe two cyclists were in North Bend, about 30 miles (50km) from Seattle, when the attack occurred. The injured man used his mobile phone to seek help.\n\nThe rider who died was dragged away by the cougar to its den, said King County sheriff spokesman Sergeant Ryan Abbot.\n\nWildlife officials said it was only the second fatal cougar attack in Washington state in the past 100 years.\n\nTracker dogs were used to locate the animal, hours after the attack.\n\nCougars - also known as mountain lions - are the fourth largest cat species in the world, but they rarely attack humans.\n\nWildlife officials however say more cougar attacks have been reported in the western US and Canada over the past 20 years than in the previous 80.", "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.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Mr Gill was speaking with Vaughan Roderick on BBC Radio Wales' Sunday Supplement\n\nUKIP has no future and should fold if the right Brexit deal is done, the party's former leader in Wales has said.\n\nMEP Nathan Gill said the party \"could have been amazing\" in Wales but had achieved nothing - due to internal rows.\n\nMr Gill, who quit the assembly after infighting, said if Brexit was done properly UKIP would be \"dead\".\n\nUKIP said Mr Gill did not speak for the party which would continue post Brexit.\n\nMr Gill's comments come after former Tory MP Neil Hamilton was ousted as leader of UKIP's assembly group on Thursday, and replaced by AM Caroline Jones.\n\nMr Gill, who quit his assembly job in January amid pressure about \"double-jobbing\" as an AM and MEP, said there was no future for UKIP if the UK Conservative government delivered the right Brexit deal.\n\nHe told BBC Radio Wales' Sunday Supplement: \"It is all up to the Tories...if they fail to deliver that, UKIP can revive from the ashes, but they can kill us dead by delivering a good, solid, decent Brexit.\n\n\"I would very much prefer that we did what we said we were always going to do, get us a Brexit and then walk off stage.\n\n\"If we absolutely get the Brexit that we've always been promised, and that we fought for, then I fail to see what we would exist for.\"\n\nMr Gill was himself ousted by Mr Hamilton from his role as UKIP Wales leader shortly after the party won its first seats in the assembly in 2016.\n\nThe party initially had seven AMs, but it now has five after a series of rows - with Tory Mark Reckless leaving the UKIP group to sit with the Conservatives in Cardiff Bay.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Neil Hamilton defended the UKIP group in the Senedd on BBC Wales' Sunday Politics programme\n\nOn Thursday, Mr Hamilton was dramatically replaced as the group's leader in the assembly by Ms Jones.\n\nBut Mr Gill said the party had wasted opportunities to engage with the electorate and criticised Mr Hamilton's leadership style.\n\n\"We could have built a very strong party here in Wales, but it was a missed opportunity for very selfish reasons,\" he said.\n\nMr Hamilton, who remains UKIP's leader in Wales, denied the assembly group had squabbled non-stop since the election and said UKIP had made a \"big impact\" on the way the assembly works.\n\nSpeaking on BBC Wales' Sunday Politics Wales programme, he said: \"UKIP has a great role to play, and it is a great pity that these kinds of internal machinations get in the way of our public message.\"\n\nHe added: \"Of course there is a point to UKIP, what does [Mr Gill] think we have been doing in the assembly for the last two years?\n\n\"There are masses of issues in which UKIP has a role in the future.\"\n\nA UKIP spokesman said: \"In making these comments, Nathan Gill does not speak for the party.\n\n\"There was never going to be a deal. UKIP is and will be needed to fight for a complete withdrawal from the EU, whatever kind of Brexit in name only deal Theresa May negotiates.\n\n\"I am surprised that Nathan doesn't seem to understand that we need a party in the UK that is a genuine opposition to the political establishment and which represents the interests of ordinary patriotic British people.\n\n\"All MEPs will be redundant on the 29th of March 2019, but UKIP will not.\"", "Paul Austin found the device about 500 yards from his front door\n\nA live German sea mine from World War Two washed up on the Sussex coast has been towed out to sea and blown up.\n\nThe large metal device measuring about 6ft (1.8m) and thought to weigh about 1,000kg was found on Saturday.\n\nThe Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA) said the mine was \"safely detonated\" at about 17:10 BST.\n\nEarlier, residents were alerted as a precaution and vessels were told to steer clear of the mine off Elmer Beach, near Bognor Regis.\n\nA mile-wide maritime and air exclusion zone was in force, with coastguards broadcasting to vessels in the area.\n\nOperations have been taking place through the night\n\nSussex Police said bomb disposal teams were called in after the device was found in the water by someone living nearby.\n\nExplosives teams inspected the device and work took place to make it safe while the tides allowed access, officers said.\n\nPaul Austin, who found the device and alerted emergency services, said when he looked at it closely, it was \"quite clearly a weapon\".\n\nHe had been walking on the beach with a friend when he saw the object and noticed it had a propeller, or a fin, and a cone nose.\n\n\"At first it looked like a big oil drum. I didn't think it was a bomb,\" he said.\n\n\"We were almost standing on it, but then we stepped away.\n\n\"I said 'let's throw stones at it' as a joke. But then I thought - actually, that's a torpedo or a bomb.\"\n\nHe said he had since talked to emergency teams and learned it was one of the biggest bombs the Nazis ever produced.\n\nThe device was about 500 yards from his front door, he added.\n\nMr Austin said he was struck by how the bomb would have been used in the war, adding: \"If that went up, and it's full of TNT, it would have taken a lot of people with it.\"\n\nCoastguards said the device could be detonated at sea\n\nNo homes had to be evacuated.\n\nCh Supt Jane Derrick said the force had followed advice from military ordnance teams about safe areas.\n\nOther members of the public were earlier asked to avoid the Elmer Beach area, whether for using the beach, swimming or sailing.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Now the most talked about name in fashion, Clare Waight Keller from Givenchy describes Meghan's dress in detail.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Meghan reveals her halter-neck evening dress before driving into the sunset\n\nPrince Harry and Meghan Markle have become husband and wife in a moving ceremony at Windsor Castle.\n\nAn emotional-looking prince and his smiling bride exchanged vows and rings before the Queen and 600 guests at St George's Chapel.\n\nMs Markle, wearing a white boat-neck dress by British designer Clare Waight Keller, was walked down the aisle by Prince Charles.\n\nAt the altar, Prince Harry told her: \"You look amazing.\"\n\nAfter the service the couple - who will now be known as the Duke and Duchess of Sussex - kissed in front of cheering well-wishers on the steps of the chapel.\n\nThousands of members of the public turned out in bright sunshine to see them driven around Windsor in a horse-drawn carriage.\n\nLater, Prince Harry drove the couple to their reception in a 1968 silver blue Jaguar that has been converted to run on electric power, with a registration plate that referenced the date - E190518.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nGuests at the wedding included Oprah Winfrey, George and Amal Clooney, David and Victoria Beckham and Sir Elton John, who later performed at the wedding reception.\n\nMs Markle's sculpted dress was designed by Ms Waight Keller for French fashion house Givenchy.\n\nMost striking was a diamond bandeau tiara, loaned to her by the Queen, and a trailing five-metre silk veil embroidered with the flowers of each country in the Commonwealth.\n\nPrince Harry, 33, and his brother and best man, the Duke of Cambridge, wore the frockcoat uniform of the Blues and Royals.\n\nHe was given special permission from the Queen to keep his short beard as it is customary to be clean-shaven when dressed in Army uniform.\n\nTheir 10 young bridesmaids and pageboys - including Prince George and Princess Charlotte - rose to the occasion.\n\nHowever, the excitement became too much for one of the younger ones who started crying just before Ms Markle, 36, entered the chapel.\n\nPrince Charles walked Ms Markle down the aisle, after her father, Thomas, was unable to attend for health reasons.\n\nMr Markle, 73, reportedly watched the ceremony from California. He told the US celebrity website, TMZ: \"My baby looks beautiful and she looks very happy.\"\n\nMs Markle's mother, Doria Ragland, stayed with her daughter overnight before accompanying her to the chapel.\n\nDressed in a pale green Oscar de la Renta dress, with a neat hat, an emotional-looking Ms Ragland sat alone on the bride's side of the chapel for some time.\n\nAs the witnesses were called to sign the register, Ms Ragland appeared to accept an outstretched hand from Prince Charles with some relief.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The couple gazed into each other's eyes as they exchanged vows\n\nIn her vows, Ms Markle did not promise to \"obey\" her husband, while the prince has broken with royal tradition by choosing to wear a wedding ring.\n\nPrince Harry's ring is a platinum band with a textured finish and Ms Markle's has been made from a piece of Welsh gold.\n\nThe wedding service combined British tradition with modernity and the bride's African-American heritage.\n\nThe Most Rev Bishop Michael Curry, the president of the US Episcopal Church, gave an address, the Rt Rev David Conner, Dean of Windsor, conducted the service and the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Most Rev Justin Welby, officiated.\n\n\"There's power, power in love,\" said Bishop Curry, who was invited to speak by Ms Markle.\n\n\"If you don't believe me think about a time when you first fell in love. The whole world seemed to centre around you and your beloved.\"\n\nIn a fiery, passionate speech, he also referenced the African-American spiritual song Down by the Riverside, which was sung by slaves, and when he realised he had gone on too long, he told his audience he had better wrap up as \"we gotta get you all married!\"\n\nSpeaking afterwards, Bishop Curry said it was \"a joyful thing\" to see diversity in the ceremony, adding: \"That happened today, in different ways, different songs, different perspectives, different worlds and all of it came together and gave God thanks.\"\n\nLady Jane Fellowes, the sister of Prince Harry's late mother, Diana, Princess of Wales, gave a reading from the Song of Solomon.\n\nKaren Gibson and The Kingdom Choir performed Ben E King's soul classic Stand By Me during the service.\n\nPrincess Charlotte with her mother, the Duchess of Cambridge\n\nThe Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh, who is recovering from a hip operation, were among the last to arrive\n\nAs the bride and groom signed the register, 19-year-old cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason - who won the 2016 BBC's Young Musician - performed three pieces by Faure, Schubert and Maria Theresia von Paradis.\n\nHe was accompanied by musicians from the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, the English Chamber Orchestra and the Philharmonia.\n\nThe gospel choir also performed Etta James' uplifting version of Amen/This Little Light of Mine as the newlyweds left the chapel.\n\nAfter the service, the duke and duchess travelled through Windsor along a route lined by tens of thousands of well-wishers.\n\nThe Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead said more than 100,000 people visited the town on Saturday.\n\nIt was a traditional wedding - the dress, the bridesmaids, the vows, the hymns. And it was very, very different.\n\nThe Palace made it clear in a stream of announcements that they wanted a different kind of wedding.\n\nBut it was the service that marked this out as a modern, diverse wedding for a modern, diverse couple: the Kingdom Gospel choir setting toes tapping, a young black cellist, and a breathtaking address from Bishop Curry, the President of the Episcopal Church.\n\nEvery royal wedding is a chance for the Royal Family to relaunch and reinvent. There may have been trouble in the week before the wedding. But that is in the past.\n\nThis wedding was about the future, a different future for 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. Skip twitter post by Kensington Palace This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAll 600 guests were invited to a lunchtime reception at St George's Hall, hosted by the Queen. The best man, the Duke of Cambridge, acted as compere.\n\nGuests were treated to a performance by Sir Elton John and were served langoustine canapes, Windsor lamb, and champagne and pistachio macaroons. Instead of a formal sit-down dinner, food was served in bowls.\n\nThe reception also included the cutting of the lemon and elderflower-flavoured wedding cake.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nGuest Suhani Jalota, the founder of the India-based Myna Mahila charity, said Elton John performed a \"mini-concert\". She added that speeches by the Prince of Wales and the groom were \"lovely\", adding: \"Some people were even crying.\"\n\nPosting on Instagram, David Beckham said: \"Watching Harry as happy as he was makes us all proud of the man and person he has always been... what a day.\"\n\nOther celebrities attending were tennis star Serena Williams, TV personality James Corden, singer James Blunt, actress Carey Mulligan and former England rugby player Jonny Wilkinson.\n\nPrince Harry's uncle, Earl Spencer; the Duchess of York, Sarah Ferguson; and the Duchess of Cambridge's sister, Pippa Middleton, were also invited.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nPoliticians, including Prime Minister Theresa May, were not invited, as it is not a state event.\n\nBut the former Prime Minister, Sir John Major - a special guardian on legal matters to Princes William and Harry after the death of their mother - was among the invited guests.\n\nAbout 1,200 members of the public - many who were recognised for their charity work - were invited into the grounds of Windsor Castle for the wedding.\n\nAmong them was 13-year-old Leonora Ncomanzi, who was overjoyed when she got a wave from the bride herself.\n\n\"Meghan waved at me! When she was in the carriage, she saw me and waved - we've got it on video,\" she said.\n\nAnd Pamela Anomneze, in her 50s, said it had been a \"wonderful feeling\" to catch a glimpse of the Queen.\n\nOn Saturday evening, the newlyweds are celebrating with 200 close friends and family at a private reception less than a mile from Windsor Castle at Frogmore House, hosted by Prince Charles.\n\nMs Markle was expected to break with tradition for royal brides and make a speech at the event.\n\nThe Royal Family will pay for the wedding, including the service, music, flowers and reception.\n\nThe best way to get news on the go", "We talk to the black gospel choir, black British musician and African American preacher who took centre-stage at the royal wedding.", "Josh Warrington made history by becoming the first man from Leeds to win a world boxing title with a stunning split-decision upset victory over Wales' Lee Selby.\n\nSelby, who was cut above both eyes by accidental head clashes inside the first six rounds, could not recover from a superb start by the Yorkshireman.\n\nThe judges scored the contest 116-112 115-113 113-115, giving Warrington the IBF world featherweight title at Elland Road, home of his beloved Leeds United.\n\nWarrington, 27, came into the fight as a 4-1 outsider with the bookmakers but produced the performance of a lifetime, showing relentless energy and courage as he continued to power forward for 36 pulsating minutes.\n\nSelby, 31, had said he would be at ease in the \"Lion's Den\" but he could not overcome what Warrington served up in front of a hostile crowd as he moved to 27 wins from as many bouts.\n\nThe Welshman came back into the contest in the middle rounds but Warrington finished strongly and could now be set for a trip to Belfast to face former two-weight world champion Carl Frampton in August.\n\nSelby's defeat was a first defeat in nine years and just the second in his career.\n\nStadium fights in the UK are becoming commonplace, so much so that this was the fifth in a little over a year in an outdoor arena.\n\nBut there was something of a throwback about this one, with Selby figuratively taking on the might of an entire football club.\n\nWarrington is synonymous with Leeds United - he is the chairman of their supporters' club - and there was palpable excitement in the air even before his extraordinary ring entrance.\n\nWarrington's ring walk will endure in the memory, with one of Leeds' greatest ever players, Lucas Radebe, leading out the challenger as the strains of the Kaiser Chiefs - named after Radebe's first club - played him in with 'I Predict A Riot'.\n\nBoth Ricky Hatton and Tony Bellew have fought at the football stadiums of the clubs they love, Manchester City and Everton respectively, but Leeds is not a city with split footballing loyalties and the wall of noise that greeted Warrington was special even by recent standards.\n\nHowever, the noise was equally loud for Selby's ring walk - a chorus of boos and abuse, rather than cheers and adulation.\n\nHaving made the bold statement that his previous four title defences, against Fernando Montiel, Eric Hunter, Jonathan Victor Barros and Eduardo Ramirez, were all tougher foes than Warrington, silencing the home crowd was to be no easy task, especially as Warrington began aggressively and on the front foot.\n\nWarrington was relentless in the early exchanges, tagging Selby above his left eye and opening a cut at the start of the second session from a clash of heads.\n\nHe won both the opening rounds and was asking more questions of Selby than many would have expected.\n\nA clash of styles and a clash of heads\n\nKnown as the 'Welsh Floyd Mayweather' for his mean defensive skills, Selby was expected to box off the back foot and allow Warrington to be the aggressor, but he was drawn into a toe-to-toe dust-up, arguably playing into Warrington's game plan perfectly.\n\nIt stood to reason that Warrington would have a good game plan for the Welshman, considering his trainer and father Sean O'Hagan prepared Samir Mouneimne, the featherweight who inflicted Selby's only previous career defeat in 2009.\n\nAnother clash of heads in the sixth round opened another cut, this time around Selby's right eye, and prompted a furious reaction from Selby's corner, especially when it seemed referee Michael Alexander was contemplating ending the action.\n\nHowever, with his cornerman Chris Sanigar minimising the damage from the cuts, Selby began to come on strong in the later rounds, still trading with Warrington but using his reach advantage to ensure he was landing when the home favourite was missing.\n\nHe may wish he had adopted the tactic from the start but Warrington continued to press with punches to the back of the head aggravating Selby, who complained throughout the contest to no avail.\n\nWarrington continued to come forward, however, and showed he has more than merited the big fights and pay days ahead.\n\nAfter the fight, Selby didn't speak to the media, but new world featherweight champion Warrington said: \"I can't put it into words, I've worked hard over the last 18 weeks and during that time I've had two baby girls born. I'm overcome with emotion, it was sheer grit, and the crowd got me through this.\n\nOn a potential fight with Carl Frampton in Belfast, Warrington added: \"I don't mind going anywhere.\n\n\"I've been a fan of Carl's and two weeks ago I said I would beat Lee Selby and go to Windsor Park. We will sit down with Frank Warren and get the fight sorted.\n\n\"But I prefer the end of the year as I need some time to be a dad and let this sink in.\"\n\nFrampton, who was ringside for 5 live, said: \"I would love to fight Josh Warrington. I would love him to come to Belfast and fight me.\n\n\"It was a fantastic performance. My next fight will be in Belfast, that's all I know.\"\n\nBBC Sport boxing correspondent Mike Costello: That was a special, special performance. Warrington was told he would need the performance of his life and he has produced it. It was a magical performance.\n\nFormer British and European champion Jamie Moore on BBC Radio 5 live: It's a fantastic performance and Josh has sent a statement out to the featherweight division.\n\nI don't think he will be ready to face Carl Frampton on 18 August. It would be unfair for Josh Warrington to do that. Three months turnaround is far too much.\n\nA lot of us have overlooked Josh Warrington. He has shocked a lot of people tonight.", "Ella Kissi-Debrah lived 25m from the South Circular Road in south London\n\nA fresh inquest will be held into the death of a nine-year-old girl whose fatal asthma attack may have been linked to air pollution near her home.\n\nElla Kissi-Debrah, who lived near the South Circular Road in Lewisham, south east London, died in 2013 after having seizures for three years.\n\nThe High Court granted a new inquest after Ella's mother said more evidence had come to light.\n\nRosamund Kissi-Debrah said she was \"delighted\" by the ruling.\n\nIn a statement, she said she was looking forward to \"finally getting the truth\".\n\n\"The past six years of not knowing why my beautiful, bright and bubbly daughter died has been difficult for me and my family, but I hope the new inquest will answer whether air pollution took her away from us,\" she said.\n\n\"If it is proved that pollution killed Ella then the government will be forced to sit up and take notice that this hidden but deadly killer is cutting short our children's lives.\"\n\nElla had 27 visits to hospital for her asthma attacks\n\nElla was first taken to hospital in 2010 after a coughing fit and subsequently admitted to hospital 27 times.\n\nAn inquest in 2014, which focused on Ella's medical care, concluded her death was caused by acute respiratory failure and severe asthma.\n\nBut a 2018 report said it was likely unlawful levels of pollution, which were detected at a monitoring station one mile from Ella's home, contributed to her fatal asthma attack.\n\nRuling with two other judges that the 2014 conclusions should be quashed, Judge Mark Lucraft QC said: \"In our judgment, the discovery of new evidence makes it necessary in the interests of justice that a fresh inquest be held.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHe said Ella's family's lawyers had argued the new evidence demonstrated there was an \"arguable failure\" by the state to comply with its duties under the European Convention on Human Rights, which protects the right to life.\n\nElla may become the first person in the UK for whom air pollution is listed as the cause of death.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Charlotte was born at London's St Mary's Hospital on 2 May 2015\n\nPrincess Charlotte's birthday has been marked with the release of three photographs taken by her mother.\n\nCharlotte, who turns four on Thursday, was captured by the Duchess of Cambridge at Kensington Palace and their Norfolk home of Anmer Hall.\n\nThe Duke and Duchess of Sussex sent their best wishes to their niece.\n\nThe couple, awaiting the birth of their own child, replied to a Kensington Palace Instagram post: \"Happy Birthday Charlotte! Lots of love, H and M.\"\n\nIn one of the new images, Charlotte can be seen in a blue flower-print summer dress as she sits on grass at the palace.\n\nThe other pictures show her running and smiling as she holds a flower and sitting on a wooden fence.\n\nCharlotte, who is fourth in line to the throne, was born at St Mary's Hospital in Paddington, west London, at 08:34 BST on 2 May 2015.\n\nTwo photographs were taken at Anmer Hall, on the Queen's Sandringham Estate in Norfolk\n\nThe Duchess of Cambridge has released pictures she has taken of her three children on a number of occasions in the past.\n\nLast week, she released three images of her youngest son Prince Louis to mark his first birthday.\n\nAnd she broke with tradition in 2015 by issuing the official photographs of her newborn daughter.\n\nThe series of four pictures were taken just weeks after Princess Charlotte was born and showed her being cradled by her elder brother Prince George.\n\nPrincess Charlotte is the second child of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The tables turned on the online trolls\n\nTottenham striker Harry Kane has invited a fan subjected to online abuse to be a mascot at the club's last Premier League match of the season.\n\nNeil Markham posted a video of his daughter Ella dancing at the club's new stadium after Spurs lost to West Ham.\n\nAs a result Ella and her father received a slew of online abuse from fans upset about the result.\n\nBut that was followed by messages of support that Mr Markham said left him \"overwhelmed\".\n\nOn Saturday Mr Markham, from Banbury, Oxfordshire, posted a video of Ella dancing at the stadium on Twitter with the caption \"the result is never the most important thing\".\n\nAfter posting the video Ella, who has Down's syndrome, was ridiculed online, and Mr Markham was also subjected to abuse for posting the video.\n\nHe said: \"Ella was being called all sorts of names, [people were] laughing at her in terms of the way she was dancing and the way she looked.\n\n\"I was getting abuse in terms of having a child with Down's syndrome.\"\n\nBut Mr Markham said the response from people in support of Ella \"has been absolutely phenomenal\".\n\nMost importantly for Ella, her favourite player Harry Kane sent his own video of support to the family.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Lilywhite Spurs This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 it he said: \"I just want to thank you for your amazing support. Your family are proud of you as well.\n\n\"We know you're a big fan and we'd love for you to come down and be a mascot for the last game of the season.\n\n\"Keep dancing and keep doing what you're doing, lots of love.\"\n\nA Tottenham Hotspur spokesperson confirmed Ella would be a mascot at Spurs' final Premier League game against Everton on 12 May.\n\nThey added the club was doing all it could \"to identify those responsible for these posts and take the appropriate action\".", "Hundreds of wives and children of former Islamic State group fighters who are detained in camps in northern Syria are stuck as their countries of origin are reluctant to take them back.\n\nIn many European countries, their relatives are campaigning for their return.\n\nFatiha, 47, is the grandmother of 6 children aged between 1 and 7 who are being kept in Ain Issa camp in Syria, years after their parents left Europe to join the so-called Islamic State group.\n\nShe hopes she will soon be able to welcome the children back to her home near Antwerp in Belgium.", "Network Rail's former properties are home to a wide variety of businesses\n\nNetwork Rail only considered tenants of its arches \"late in the process\" when it sold its commercial property portfolio, the spending watchdog says.\n\nThe National Audit Office (NAO) said the £1.46bn generated by the deal in September was \"more than expected\".\n\nBut it said that tenants got no legal guarantees on the amount of rent they pay from the new owners.\n\nThe government says all tenants' rights have been protected - but campaigners warned firms could be priced out.\n\nLeni Jones, director of Guardians of the Arches, said: \"[The NAO's] report confirms that tenants' interests were only considered during the sale process because we forced Network Rail and the government to listen.\n\n\"That was a major dereliction of duty by both Network Rail and the government,\" she said.\n\nMs Jones added: \"If [the new owners] try to impose further crippling rent increases at the scale suggested by Network Rail, they can expect organised opposition.\"\n\nAccording to the NAO, Network Rail valued the portfolio at £1.17bn prior to the sale, but a competitive bidding process meant it fetched more.\n\nIt said the track operator also sold the property on a leasehold basis, so it could continue to safely maintain the UK's railway infrastructure.\n\nBut the NAO also said that Network Rail had \"not explicitly\" considered issues such as tenant protection or community regeneration during the sale.\n\nAnd while the new owners - Blackstone Group and Telereal Trillium - have adopted a charter to guide their dealings with tenants, it has no legal basis.\n\nAmyas Morse, head of the NAO, said: \"Network Rail achieved value for money in terms of the price paid... However, it is concerning that tenants as stakeholders did not form part of the aims of the sale and that they were only fully considered late in the process.\"\n\nBlackstone and Telereal have taken on Network Rail's existing lease agreements, meaning tenants' contractual obligations are unchanged.\n\nBut National Rail has always set rents based on market conditions and the new owners plan to continue this practice.\n\nPrior to the sale, Network Rail suggested buyers could expect a 54% rise in rent over the next three to four years.\n\nMs Jones said this was what arches tenants \"feared the most\".\n\n\"We are the backbone of our communities, driving local economic development and bringing variety and vitality to urban neighbourhoods all over the country. Big rent increases will kill that vitality stone dead.\"\n\nDavid Biggs, managing director at Network Rail Property, said: \"Our role is to safely run, improve and grow the railway for everyone that relies on it.\n\n\"The sale has enabled us to deliver a number of schemes, while at the same time tenants and communities will benefit from investment in the estate by the new owner.\"\n\nA spokesperson for the Department of Transport said: \"The rights of all tenants have been protected and all current agreements fully honoured. A charter commits the new owner to engage in an open and honest manner with their tenants and the community, as well as work with long-standing small business tenants to resolve financial pressures.\"", "As a relatively new defence secretary, Gavin Williamson once said that Russia should \"go away and shut up\".\n\nWell, the prime minister has told him to go away because in her view, he did not shut up.\n\nIn a leak investigation, that has broken the precedent of most leak investigations that end up with precisely no result at all, a rapid hunt of just a few days has resulted in the sacking of one of the most senior ministers in government, and one of the few ministers frankly, that the prime minister could more or less rely on.\n\nMr Williamson was for a while chief whip too, the keeper of the government's secrets.\n\nAnd, crucially, one of the few ministers who had good relations with the DUP. Indeed, brokering a deal on Theresa May's behalf in the wreckage of the 2017 general election.\n\nBut there was also a lot of resentment and frustration in government circles at how he sometimes behaved, suspicion often that he was too quick to seek his own political advantage, too interested in his own future, too entertained by the dark arts of Westminster.\n\nThat meant that as soon as the Huawei story broke, fingers were being privately pointed to him as the source of the leak. \"Operation get Gav\", as one of his allies described it.\n\nMinisters were quick to write to Number 10 demanding a full inquiry, some of them privately fuming that \"it must have been Williamson\".\n\nNumber 10 now says there was \"compelling evidence\" to prove that it was him.\n\nOfficials carrying out the inquiry did look at his phone.\n\nHe did, by his own admission, have a conversation on the particular day with the journalist who broke the story.\n\nDowning Street has made a very serious accusation and is sure enough to carry out this sacking.\n\nFor the prime minister's allies, it will show that she is, despite the political turmoil, still strong enough to move some of her ministers around - to hire and fire.\n\nMr Williamson is strenuously still denying that the leak was anything to do with him at all.\n\nThere is nothing fond, or anything conciliatory, in either the letter from the prime minister to him, or his reply back to her.\n\nAnd having had a fractious relationship with the National Security Adviser and Cabinet Secretary, Sir Mark Sedwill, some of Mr Williamson's friends believe that those looking into the affair were simply too quick to conclude the former defence secretary was responsible, treating him differently in this short investigation, compared to others who were on the list.\n\nOne senior Conservative also points out a rich irony here, saying: \"A government that governs by open leaking then sacks someone for not being open about their leaking. We have surely moved from the incompetent to the theatre of the absurd!\"\n\nThese are strange times indeed.", "Free-to-use cash machines have been disappearing at a rapid rate across the UK, according to a study by Which?\n\nNearly 1,700 machines started charging for withdrawals in the first three months of the year, with the majority starting to charge in March, according to the consumer lobby group.\n\nCardtronics, which runs most of those, and fellow provider NoteMachine are both likely to charge at more machines.\n\nThat could mean the country losing 13% of its free ATMs in only a few months.\n\nThe changes come after a reduction in the fee operators receive from banks each time an ATM is used.\n\nLink, which oversees ATMs, began to cut the fee, known as the interchange rate, last year. So far it has reduced the charge from 25p to 23p per withdrawal.\n\nLink said at the time that the move was aimed at protecting the ATM network. It left the fee for free-to-use ATMs - which are 1km or more from the next nearest cash machine - unchanged.\n\nAshleigh Cooper from Hebden Bridge in West Yorkshire has seen the number of cash machines dwindle from six down to two.\n\nMr Cooper, aged 60, said: \"It causes real problems especially on bank holidays. There are no banks here anymore. We have a mobile bank that visits every few weeks but that's no good to me.\n\n\"Hebden Bridge is quite a touristy area and there's usually a problem with one of the cash machines going out of order because it's run out of cash.\n\n\"The local cinema here was always a cash business but they're now having to accept digital payments or lose punters.\n\n\"For me it's like going back to the dark ages, it's crazy.\"\n\nATM operators receive the interchange fee from banks each time one of their cash machines is used.\n\nNoteMachine, which operates 7,000 cash machines across the UK, said the cut in the interchange rate meant it was considering introducing fees at up to 4,000 of its machines.\n\n\"Unless urgent action is taken to reduce the pressure on ATM operators by reversing the interchange fee reductions, NoteMachine will be forced to begin converting ATMs to surcharging,\" said chief executive Peter McNamara.\n\nRival ATM machine operator Cardtronics has said it is likely to convert another 1,000 of its ATMs over the coming months. It said it \"had been forced into charging a fee for cash withdrawals on some of our machines where Link's cuts have left us with no choice\".\n\nThere were about 52,000 free cash machines in the country at the start of the year.\n\nGareth Shaw, head of money at Which?, said: \"Communities are being stripped of free access to cash at an alarming rate that could hit the most vulnerable in our society the hardest, while denying millions of people free withdrawals.\n\n\"A regulator is desperately needed to get a grip of these rapid changes across the cash landscape and ensure all those still reliant on this important payment method aren't suddenly shut out from accessing the cash they need in their daily lives.\"\n\nReported charges range from 50p to £1.99 and the situation angered some of the respondents to the Which? survey.\n\nAnita Brakewell, from Blackpool, said: \"Being disabled means I don't have the option of walking to the next free cash machine, so these charges shut me out of cash that's important to my daily life.\n\n\"My town has also suffered from bank branch closures, making it hard to access the cash and financial services I need.\"\n\nAnd Robin Farnsworth, from Kirkcaldy, said: \"I stopped using the local cashpoint when it started charging me just to access my cash. I'm on a very tight budget and can't afford to be spending out just to get the money I need for everyday life.\"\n\nBank of England figures show that 2.2 million people are almost entirely reliant on cash.\n\nAnd last year's Access to Cash study, published in December, found that more than eight million people would struggle to cope in a cashless society, which would present real challenges for 25 million UK residents.\n\nHowever, cash use has halved in the past 10 years and in 2017, debit cards overtook notes and coins as the UK's most popular payment method.\n\nThere is a fierce, three-way, struggle going on over the future of our network of free-to-use cash machines.\n\nThe upstarts are independent operators like Cardtronics and Note Machine which now have the most ATMs.\n\nThen there are the banks. They have to pay the operators each time their customers use a non-bank machine.\n\nFinally, we have Link which runs the network and has been trying to get the operators to accept lower payments from the banks.\n\nTwo cuts to the payments have been pushed through, prompting Cardtronics to say it is being \"forced\" to charge the customer instead.\n\nAnd the backdrop is that we are using less cash, which means fewer withdrawals and less chance that a cash machine will pay its way.\n\nSo it's not clear where this will end.\n\nBut more charging will cause anger and frustration amongst those who depend heavily on cash.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Emergency services attend the scene of the fatal accident near Ecclefechan\n\nThree men have died in two separate crashes in the space of less than 10 hours on the A74(M) motorway.\n\nCraig McLaren, 22, from Eastriggs, was killed in the first accident at about 21:05 on Wednesday near Ecclefechan.\n\nA 57-year-old van driver and his 17-year-old passenger died in a second crash at 06:15 near Kirkpatrick-Fleming.\n\nThe road was closed for several hours after both accidents but has since reopened.\n\nCraig McLaren died in the first accident near Ecclefechan\n\nEmergency services were called to the first accident involving a Ford Fiesta on the southbound carriageway on Wednesday night.\n\nThe driver Craig McLaren, who was a serving soldier, died and an 18-year-old male passenger was taken to the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital in Glasgow.\n\nTwo female passengers were taken to Dumfries Infirmary. All three passengers suffered serious but not life-threatening injuries.\n\nThe road was in the process of being reopened when the second crash took place at about 06:15.\n\nThe road was closed for a second time following the van and lorry collision\n\nIt happened near Kirkpatrick-Fleming and involved a van and a lorry on the northbound carriageway.\n\nThe van driver and his passenger were killed. The lorry driver was unhurt.\n\nThere were significant tailbacks in the area for some time as the route was closed and accident investigations were carried out.\n\nTraffic Scotland reported that the road had fully reopened by about 12:30.", "With the results for Waverley and Mansfield now in, every council in England has declared.\n\nThe Conervatives have suffered huge defeats, losing more than 1,300 councillors and 44 councils.\n\nAnd Labour, who had been expected to make gains, instead lost 81 councillors and six councils.\n\nTheresa May has said the results show the public want both parties to \"get on\" with Brexit.\n\nBut the strongly pro-EU Lib Dems gained 700 seats, with leader Sir Vince Cable calling every vote received \"a vote for stopping Brexit\".\n\nThe Green Party - who are also pro-EU - have picked up an additional 194 seats in comparison to 2015.\n\nYou can read a full breakdown of all the results here.", "Henry Vincent and another man broke into Richard Osborn-Brooks's home in Hither Green\n\nA 79-year-old man who killed an armed burglar with a kitchen knife acted lawfully, an inquest has decided.\n\nRichard Osborn-Brooks stabbed Henry Vincent with a knife in Hither Green, south-east London, in April last year.\n\nMr Osborn-Brooks told Southwark Coroner's Court the 37-year-old had threatened him with a screwdriver, then \"rushed forward\" and \"ran into the knife I was holding\".\n\nSpeaking by videolink, Mr Osborn-Brooks told the inquest he still believed the intruder was \"intending to do me harm\" during the break-in on 4 April 2018.\n\nHe said two men had knocked on his door, grabbed him and pushed him inside.\n\nBoth then demanded money as one then shoved him toward the kitchen and the other ran upstairs.\n\nHe told the hearing that when he grabbed the knife, Mr Vincent's accomplice fled out of the front door but the intruder came down the stairs holding the screwdriver and saying \"get out of my way or I'll stick you with this\".\n\nMr Osborn-Brooks said he had then warned Mr Vincent that his weapon was \"bigger than yours\".\n\n\"I thought he would look at my knife... and he would take the opportunity to run out the front door which was open.\n\n\"He definitely didn't try to get out of the front door, he came towards me,\" Mr Osborn-Brooks said.\n\nMr Osborn-Brooks said Mr Vincent threatened him with a screwdriver during the raid\n\nMr Vincent's cause of death was given as an incised wound to the chest.\n\nHis sister had told the hearing her brother was \"not a violent person\".\n\n\"He was a father, he was a son, he was a brother. No one deserves to die,\" Rosie Vincent said.\n\nIn a statement, the pathologist who carried out the post-mortem examination said a toxicology report indicated \"a recent use of both cocaine and heroin\".\n\nHe said Mr Vincent \"may have been experiencing the effects\" at the time of the raid.\n\nSenior coroner Andrew Harris said: \"The interaction that led to the stabbing was the simultaneous approach of the deceased with a small screwdriver and the forward movement of the householder with a kitchen knife, leading to moderate force being applied by the knife to Mr Vincent's chest, and its penetration.\n\n\"The householder was terrified and asserted he acted in self-defence after an assault by the other intruder. He was close to, but not obstructing, the exit by the intruder.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Hundreds of people may have missed out on voting in this year's council elections because of pilot schemes requiring them to prove their identity.\n\nThe Electoral Commission said the trial project saw 2,083 voters refused a ballot paper because they weren't carrying the necessary ID, with up to 758 of them not returning to cast their vote.\n\nBroxtowe, Derby and North West Leicestershire were three of the 10 areas involved in the pilot.\n\nCraig Westwood, director of communications, policy and research for the Electoral Commission, said \"nearly everyone\" in the pilot areas was able to vote and showed the correct ID \"without difficulty\", but said government needs to \"consider carefully the available evidence about the impact of different approaches\".\n\nQuote Message: Important questions remain about how an ID requirement would work in practice, particularly at a national poll with higher levels of turnout.\" from Craig Westwood Electoral Commission director of communications, policy and research Important questions remain about how an ID requirement would work in practice, particularly at a national poll with higher levels of turnout.\"", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nPedro scored an away goal as Chelsea recovered from an early setback against Eintracht Frankfurt to set up an exciting Europa League semi-final return leg at Stamford Bridge.\n\nEintracht took the lead through their top scorer Luka Jovic, who superbly steered in Filip Kostic's ball.\n\nThe Blues, who started with Eden Hazard on the bench, equalised when Pedro thrashed home just before half-time.\n\nDavid Luiz also went close when his dipping free-kick came off the bar.\n\nThe draw means that Chelsea become the first team to go 16 successive Europa League matches without defeat, breaking the record set by Atletico Madrid from 2011 to 2012. They will have the chance to make it 17 in next Thursday's second leg.\n• None Football Daily: Arsenal and Chelsea close in on Baku final\n\nDid leaving Hazard on the bench pay off?\n\nThere was a great deal of surprise when the Chelsea teamsheet showed Hazard's name among the substitutes.\n\nManager Maurizio Sarri told BT Sport that he rested his 19-goal forward because of fixture congestion, with the Belgian having played 10 matches in a row. So it was a penny for Hazard's thoughts when he was shown watching his team struggle and a goal down after 23 minutes.\n\nHowever, Sarri did not rush on his key attacker and instead kept faith with what he had on the pitch, and was repaid with an excellent display thereafter.\n\nRuben Loftus-Cheek, brought back into the XI, led the fightback. After Pedro went close with a strike that drifted past Kevin Trapp's left-hand post, the England player kept the goalkeeper on his toes with a strike that also flirted with the woodwork.\n\nThe pair then combined for the goal. Eintracht's defenders lost possession after dawdling on the ball in the area, and Loftus-Cheek carved out an opening for Pedro to do the rest.\n\nThe Blues midfielder went close twice more, first with an effort that swept over the bar and then with a stinging shot with the outside of his boot that tested Trapp.\n\nBrazilian Luiz went even closer with an blockbuster of a free-kick that dipped wickedly and crashed off Trapp's bar. Hazard, who came on in the 61st minute, then set up another opportunity for the defender, but this time he headed straight at the German keeper.\n\nThey should have won the game but will no doubt be content with how they began their ninth major European semi-final since the Roman Abramovich era began in 2003. A repeat display at Stamford Bridge should see them reach their sixth European final.\n\nPrior to kick-off, Eintracht supporters produced a spectacular display by holding up black and white cards in the team's colours, while at one end a giant tifo covered the entire stand.\n\nCoach Ade Hutter's team lived up to the lavish introduction in the opening half hour, and underlined why they were unbeaten in 11 home games in the competition.\n\nKey to their success so far has been the forward combination of Kostic and 21-year-old Serb Jovic, who is likely to be courted by several top European sides in the close season.\n\nJovic has been in outstanding form this season, during which he made his move from Benfica permanent, and gave Bundesliga's fourth-placed side the lead with a deft header from Kostic's delivery.\n\nHowever, as Chelsea grew into the match, his team-mates appeared to lose their way. Eintracht's only clear-cut chance after the break fell to captain and defender David Abraham, who headed over from eight yards.\n• None Chelsea are unbeaten in their last 16 Europa League games, a record in the competition since it was rebranded in 2009-10.\n• None Eintracht Frankfurt have played 11 Europa League games at home, winning eight and drawing three. They haven't been behind for a single minute in those games.\n• None Just one of the six teams to draw the first leg of a Europa League semi-final away from home has been eliminated, Celta Vigo in 2016-17 (knocked out by Manchester United).\n• None Chelsea have scored the most goals (31) and had the most shots (217) in the Europa League this season.\n• None Pedro has been directly involved in seven goals in his last six starts for Chelsea in the Europa League (four goals, three assists).\n• None Jovic scored his ninth goal in this season's Europa League, only Olivier Giroud (10) has scored more.\n• None Offside, Chelsea. Kepa Arrizabalaga tries a through ball, but Olivier Giroud is caught offside.\n• None Attempt blocked. Gonçalo Paciência (Eintracht Frankfurt) right footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked.\n• None Attempt missed. David Abraham (Eintracht Frankfurt) header from the centre of the box is just a bit too high. Assisted by Sebastian Rode with a cross following a corner. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Fiona Onasanya was expelled by the Labour Party after her conviction\n\nDisgraced Fiona Onasanya has become the first MP to be removed by a recall petition.\n\nMs Onasanya, 35, was jailed in January for lying about a speeding offence.\n\nShe was expelled by Labour after her conviction and had been representing Peterborough as an independent.\n\nPeterborough City Council said 19,261 constituents had signed the petition. Ms Onasanya will be allowed to stand for re-election.\n\nThe council said the signatures represented 27.6% of eligible residents. The threshold required to remove Ms Onasanya was 10%.\n\nCommons Speaker John Bercow confirmed the recall petition had been successful.\n\nHe told MPs: \"Fiona Onasanya is no longer the member for Peterborough and the seat is accordingly vacant.\n\n\"She can therefore no longer participate in any parliamentary proceedings as a member of parliament.\"\n\nMs Onasanya, who was jailed for perverting the course of justice, has become the first MP to be removed by the recall process, introduced by David Cameron in 2015.\n\nShe was first elected to Parliament as a Labour MP with a slender majority of 607 in 2017.\n\nThe process by which the electorate can remove an MP before the end of their term was introduced in the UK in 2015 in response to the 2010 MPs' expenses scandal.\n\nThe recall procedure can only be triggered under certain circumstances, including if an MP is convicted in the UK of an offence and sentenced or ordered to be imprisoned or detained - and all appeals have been exhausted.\n\nFor a recall petition to be successful, 10% of eligible registered voters need to sign the petition. It remains open for six weeks.\n\nIf successful, a by-election is called and the recalled MP is allowed to stand as a candidate.\n\nThe first recall petition against an MP was triggered in July 2018 against North Antrim MP Ian Paisley after he failed to declare two holidays paid for by the Sri Lankan government.\n\nThe petition was unsuccessful, as it was short of 444 signatures, and Mr Paisley remained an MP.\n\nThe petition against Ms Onasanya is the first time a recall petition has been held in England.\n\nA third MP, Chris Davies, Conservative member for Brecon and Radnorshire, is facing a recall petition in Wales after he was convicted for a false expenses claim.\n\nLabour Party chairman Ian Lavery said: \"Labour campaigned hard for a victory in this recall petition.\n\n\"Labour will vigorously fight the by-election here in Peterborough.\"\n\nNigel Farage said his new Brexit Party would contest the by-election, but a spokesman said no decision had yet been taken on whether Mr Farage would be the candidate.\n\nThe by-election in a city which voted 61% Leave in the 2016 EU referendum potentially offers the former UKIP leader a route to a seat in Parliament after seven unsuccessful attempts.\n\nMeanwhile, the former MP George Galloway - a Brexiteer - also declared on Twitter his intention to stand in the by-election.\n\nConservative parliamentary candidate for Peterborough Paul Bristow said: \"The people of Peterborough deserve a better MP who will vote in Parliament to deliver Brexit.\"\n\nFiona Onasanya made her first and last speech in the Commons last week following her release from prison\n\nThe by-election in Peterborough will come in the middle of one of the most tumultuous times in modern political history.\n\nBrexit has shaken up political alliances like never before, but we don't know what impact that will have, and who it will favour.\n\nThe by-election could be an opportunity for the new parties to test the popularity of what they're offering, but the question is what party will they be taking voters from?\n\nAnother possibility is that Brexit has made everyone so fed up with politics that people in Peterborough will just decide not to vote at all, and we will see a very low turnout.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Athletics\n\nAthletics South Africa (ASA) says it is \"reeling in shock\" after Olympic 800m champion Caster Semenya lost a landmark case against athletics' governing body.\n\nThe South African, 28, challenged new IAAF rules which attempt to restrict testosterone levels in female runners.\n\nAthletes with differences of sexual development (DSD) must now take medication to compete in some track events or change to another distance.\n\nASA said the decision \"goes to lengths to justify\" discrimination.\n\nSemenya had challenged the IAAF's new rules at the Court of Arbitration for Sport (Cas) but on Wednesday it announced it had rejected the appeal.\n\n\"We believe their decision is disgraceful,\" ASA added.\n\nAnd it said by justifying discrimination, Cas had \"seen it fit to open the wounds of apartheid\" - the South African political system which enforced white rule and racial segregation until 1991 - which it pointed out was \"condemned by the whole world as a crime against humanity\".\n• None 'Nobody has truly won in Semenya case - one side has just lost less than the other'\n• None Semenya Q&A: Why is her case pivotal?\n\nCas found the rules for athletes with DSD, like Semenya, were discriminatory - but that the discrimination was \"necessary, reasonable and proportionate\" to protect \"the integrity of female athletics\".\n\nBut, in making the ruling on Wednesday, Cas said it had \"serious concerns as to the future practical application\" of the regulations.\n\nSemenya, a multiple Olympic, World and Commonwealth champion, said she believed the IAAF \"have always targeted me specifically\".\n\n\"We are reeling in shock at how a body held in high esteem like Cas can endorse discrimination without flinching,\" said ASA in a statement on Wednesday.\n\n\"For Cas does not only condone discrimination but also goes to lengths to justify it, only undermines the integrity that this body is entrusted with.\n\n\"We are deeply disappointed and profoundly shocked.\"\n\nSemenya is still eligible to compete at the Diamond League meet in Doha on Friday and can make an appeal against the Cas ruling to the Swiss Tribunal Courts within the next 30 days.\n\nASA said it was \"encouraged to take the matter further\" because of some of the observations raised by Cas in the ruling.\n\n\"ASA was confident of a favourable outcome given the human rights, medico-legal and scientific arguments and evidence that we believe invalidated the regulations,\" it added.\n\n\"It is these facts that have left ASA shocked that Cas rejected these compelling factors in favour of the IAAF.\n\n\"ASA reiterates that this may not be the end of the matter.\"\n\nWhat are the proposed changes?\n\nThe rules, applying to women in track events from 400m up to the mile, require athletes to keep their testosterone levels below a prescribed amount \"for at least six months prior to competing\".\n\nHowever, 100m, 200m and 100m hurdles are exempt, as are races longer than one mile and field events.\n\nFemale athletes affected must take medication for six months before they can compete, and then maintain a lower testosterone level.\n\nThe rules were intended to be brought in on 1 November 2018, but the legal challenge from Semenya and Athletics South Africa caused that to be delayed until 26 March.\n\nThe United Nations Human Rights Council has called the plans \"unnecessary, harmful and humiliating\" and South Africa's sports minister called them a \"human rights violation\".\n• 31 July 2009: 18-year-old Semenya runs fastest 800m time of the year to win gold at the Africa Junior Championships.\n• August 2009: Semenya undertakes a gender test before the World Championships in Berlin. She is unaware of the purpose of the test, with Athletics South Africa president Leonard Chuene telling her it is a random doping test.\n• 19 August 2009: Semenya wins 800m world gold, breaking the world-leading mark she set in July. After her victory, the news of Semenya's gender test is leaked to the press.\n• November 2009: There are reports that Semenya's test has revealed male and female characteristics. The results are not made public.\n• 6 July 2010: Semenya is cleared by the IAAF to compete again.\n• 22 August 2010: Semenya wins the 800m at an IAAF event in Berlin.\n• 11 August 2012: Semenya wins 800m silver at the 2012 London Olympics. This is later upgraded to gold after Russian winner Mariya Savinov is given a lifetime ban for doping violations. Semenya is also upgraded to 2011 world gold.\n• July 2014: India sprinter Dutee Chand, 18, is banned from competing after a hormone test shows natural natural levels of testosterone normally only found in men.\n• 27 July 2015: Chand is cleared to compete; the Court of Arbitration for Sport suspends, for two years, the introduction of an earlier version of IAAF rules requiring female athletes to take testosterone-suppressing medication.\n• 20 August 2016: Semenya wins 800m gold at the Rio Olympics, but the decision to allow her to compete is\n• 4 July 2017: Research commissioned by the IAAF finds female athletes with high testosterone levels have a \"competitive advantage\".\n• 26 April 2018: The IAAF introduces new rules for female runners with naturally high testosterone.\n• 19 June 2018: Semenya says she will challenge the \"unfair\" IAAF rules.", "Nicola Sturgeon has condemned the \"reprehensible\" security leak from the National Security Council as she accused Gavin Williamson of behaving for his \"own selfish political ends\".\n\nThe Scottish first minister said the leak from the National Security Council was a \"sign of the complete dysfunction at the heart of the UK government\".\n\nAsked, during today's First Minister's Questions, whether anyone who breaks the Official Secrets Act should be prosecuted, she said it should be a matter for the police.\n\nShe added: \"I think any minister that has been found guilty in such a way I think that they lose their job.\n\n\"All politicians in government should recognise the responsibility and the privileges we carry and should not be behaving in the way it appears Gavin Williamson was behaving - for their own selfish political ends.\"", "Sir Gavin Williamson is in the spotlight again, after he resigned from the government amid accusations of bullying and harassment.\n\nFormer chief whip Wendy Morton has handed over a series of expletive-laden text messages from Sir Gavin to Parliament's bullying watchdog and made a complaint to Tory HQ about his conduct.\n\nFollowing a report in the Guardian that Sir Gavin told a senior civil servant to \"slit your throat\" and \"jump out of the window\" when he was defence secretary, No 10 said it would be conducting its own informal investigation.\n\nIn his resignation letter, Sir Gavin said allegations about his \"past conduct\" were becoming a distraction for the government - even though he \"refutes the characterisation of these claims\" and has apologised to the recipient of some text messages.\n\nThis is the third time Sir Gavin has had to leave government, having already been sacked from cabinet twice previously - as education secretary and defence secretary.\n\nHis rise through the Conservative ranks has been blown off course by a number of separate scandals.\n\nHowever, he has been widely seen as a political survivor, serving under four different prime ministers.\n\nThe 46-year-old was raised near Scarborough, North Yorkshire, by Labour-supporting parents.\n\nEducated at state schools, he became involved in Tory politics while studying at Bradford University and later went on to become a county councillor in North Yorkshire.\n\nA former fireplace salesman, he also ran a pottery firm, making and selling ceramic tableware, before being elected as MP for South Staffordshire in 2010.\n\nSir Gavin began his parliamentary career as a ministerial aide to David Cameron, acting as the then-prime minister's bag carrier and eyes and ears at Westminster.\n\nHe remained in this important role until Mr Cameron left office in June 2016.\n\nAfter Theresa May became prime minister, he was made chief whip, responsible for keeping MPs in line and enforcing party discipline.\n\nIn the aftermath of the disastrous 2017 election, he played a crucial role in paving the way for the Conservatives' agreement with the Democratic Unionists to prop up Mrs May's minority government.\n\nSir Gavin Williamson (right) shakes hands with the DUP's Sir Jeffrey Donaldson, after the party signed a deal to prop up Theresa May's government\n\nIn his role as chief whip he was known for keeping a tarantula called Cronus on his desk.\n\nDescribing his methods in the whips office, he told the Conservative Party conference in 2017: \"We take a carrot and stick approach... Personally I don't much like the stick, but it is amazing what can be achieved with a sharpened carrot.\"\n\nNick Timothy - a senior adviser to Mrs May - described Mr Williamson as an \"excellent\" chief whip, who was \"a shrewd tactician\" and \"a judge of character\".\n\n\"Even MPs who don't like him admit that he was the best chief whip the party has had in decades - and he did it through some of the hardest years,\" he said in a tweet.\n\nSir Gavin's promotion to defence secretary in November 2017 came as a surprise to some within the Tory Party and the armed forces. He had no military background and little opportunity to build up a public profile because his role in the whips office meant he did not speak in Parliament.\n\nWhile at the Ministry of Defence he lobbied successfully for more funding for the military, often to the irritation of the Treasury.\n\nBut he was derided in the press for telling Russia to \"shut up and go away\", and for suggestions the UK should respond in kind to \"acts of warfare\" by the Kremlin.\n\nHis downfall came after an inquiry into a leak from a top-level National Security Council meeting about whether to allow Chinese firm Huawei to help build the UK's 5G network.\n\nSir Gavin denied leaking information from the meeting, but Mrs May said she had \"lost confidence in his ability to serve\" and sacked him in May 2019.\n\nSir Gavin faced protests from pupils in the summer of 2020 after their A-level results were downgraded\n\nHe was not on the backbenches for long and returned to cabinet as education secretary in July the same year, when Boris Johnson became prime minister.\n\nWhen the Covid pandemic broke out in 2020, the role became even more high profile, with Sir Gavin responsible for tricky areas including home-learning and managing the return to classrooms and exams when schools fully reopened.\n\nHe was widely criticised for U-turning over getting all primary school pupils back in school after lockdown and there were also clashes with footballer Marcus Rashford over his campaign to provide children with free meals during holidays.\n\nPerhaps the biggest debacle was the chaos of the 2020 school exam period, with multiple U-turns over how to grade pupils after examinations were cancelled because of the pandemic.\n\nThis resulted in his department's most senior civil servant and the head of the exams watchdog both leaving their roles.\n\nSir Gavin stayed put until September 2021, when he was replaced by Nadhim Zahawi.\n\nSome argued he had been made a political fall guy - used as a lightning rod for the criticism of how the government had dealt with the challenges Covid posed to education and taking the blame for decisions that were never down to an individual minister.\n\nBut in March, the news he would receive a knighthood for his political and public service prompted anger from some teachers and parents, who blamed him - at least in part - for the mistakes on schools policy during the pandemic.\n\nSir Gavin returned to cabinet as a minister without portfolio under Mr Sunak in October. But it took less than two weeks for concerns to be raised about his appointment following claims he had bullied a fellow Conservative MP.\n\nIn texts sent to then-Chief Whip Ms Morton in the run-up to the Queen's funeral in September he appeared to complain that MPs who were not favoured by Prime Minister Liz Truss were being excluded from the ceremony at Westminster Abbey.\n\nIn the messages, published by the Sunday Times, Sir Gavin reportedly warned Ms Morton \"not to push him about\" and that \"there is a price for everything\".\n\nHe was quoted by the paper as saying he regretted \"getting frustrated\" and was happy to \"work positively with [Ms Morton] in the future as I have in the past\".\n\nNo 10 described the messages as \"unacceptable\" but the prime minister's official spokesman insisted Mr Sunak had full confidence in Sir Gavin.\n\nWhen he resigned, the prime minister said he accepted his resignation with \"great sadness\" but understood his decision to step back.\n\nSeparately an unnamed official at the Minister of Defence said Sir Gavin \"deliberately demeaned and intimidated\" them.\n\nThe official said they raised concerns to the Ministry of Defence's human resources department, but did not make a formal complaint at the time.\n\nSir Gavin did not deny using the language attributed to him but said he \"strongly\" rejected allegations of bullying.\n\nHowever, the pressure of multiple accusations and inquiries became too great, and Sir Gavin was forced to step down.\n\nWriting in his resignation letter, he said he would \"clear my name of wrongdoing\" but it remains to be seen if this consummate Westminster operator can, once again, bounce back.", "The boy was found injured in the Somerford Grove area of Hackney\n\nA teenage boy has been stabbed to death in an attack in Hackney, east London.\n\nThe 15-year-old victim was found injured in Somerford Grove at about 21:00 BST on Wednesday and died shortly after, police said.\n\nA shopkeeper said a boy ran into his store pleading for help, saying he had been stabbed in the back.\n\nA second boy, aged 16, found nearby Shacklewell Road, was also stabbed but did not sustain life-threatening injuries.\n\nA man from Elif Food Centre, who did not want to be named, told BBC London he tried to help one of the victims.\n\nHe said: \"One boy came running into the shop last night saying 'I have been stabbed in the back. Help me. Help me.'\n\n\"We called an ambulance and now police have seized our CCTV.\"\n\nTwo friends of the victim spoke of their shock after visiting the crime scene.\n\nOne said: \"It came as a surprise to us because he was a good guy.\n\n\"We did music together. He didn't only produce afrobeats, he made drill music as well. He also sold some beats to some big artists.\n\n\"I never thought that any of my friends would be murdered. I'm shocked.\"\n\nThe other friend added: \"I saw him the day before yesterday. He was a good friend, a nice lad.\n\n\"I'm so done. It doesn't feel safe any more.\"\n\nThe 15-year-old boy is one of the youngest victims to be stabbed to death in London so far this year\n\nPolice said a Section 60 stop-and-search order had been put in place for the whole of Hackney. No arrests have been made in connection with the killing.\n\nMet Commissioner Cressida Dick described it as a \"terrible, terrible thing\" as the force revealed statistics showing a drop in homicides compared to the previous financial year.\n• None 311Fewer knife crime victims under the age of 25\n\nSpeaking about the latest stabbing in Hackney, Ms Dick said the two boys were with a group of other boys and a girl, adding there was \"some sort of confrontation with another group\".\n\nAnother boy, aged 16, was found stabbed near the crime scene\n\nJust off a busy main road there is a huge cordon surrounding the Somerford Grove estate.\n\nElif Food Centre, a 24-hour off-licence, is also taped off as police officers stand guard.\n\nRight in the middle of the cordon a big blue tent can be seen - the spot where the victim died.\n\nResidents have been telling me they are shocked and scared as only six days ago another person was stabbed to death in Hackney.\n\nHours later, officers were called to another, unrelated, stabbing near Camden Town Tube station.\n\nA man suffered \"life-threatening\" injuries in the attack on Camden Road shortly after midnight.\n\nSo far this year, more than 40 murder investigations have been launched in the capital by the Metropolitan Police and British Transport Police.\n\nTwenty-nine of those cases are stabbing investigations.\n\nLondon mayor Sadiq Khan said he was \"deeply saddened\" by the latest killing.\n\n\"This horrific violence has absolutely no place on our streets,\" he said.\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. The king is seen pouring sacred water on the head of Queen Suthida\n\nThe king of Thailand has married the deputy head of his personal security detail, and given her the title of queen, a royal statement has said.\n\nThe surprise announcement about his long-time consort comes before his elaborate coronation ceremonies begin on Saturday.\n\nKing Maha Vajiralongkorn, 66, became the constitutional monarch after the death of his much-loved father in 2016.\n\nHe has been married and divorced three times before and has seven children.\n\nA royal statement said: King Vajiralongkorn \"has decided to promote General Suthida Vajiralongkorn Na Ayudhya, his royal consort, to become Queen Suthida and she will hold royal title and status as part of the royal family\".\n\nQueen Suthida is King Vajiralongkorn's long-term partner and has been seen with him in public for many years, though their relationship has never before been officially acknowledged.\n\nThe king is seen pouring sacred water on the head of Queen Suthida\n\nFootage from the wedding ceremony was shown on Thai TV channels late Wednesday, showing other members of the royal family and palace advisers in attendance.\n\nThe king is seen pouring sacred water on the head of Queen Suthida. The couple then sign a marriage registry.\n\nShe and others are prostrated before the monarch, as is customary in Thailand.\n\nIn 2014 Vajiralongkorn appointed Suthida Tidjai, a former flight attendant for Thai Airways, as the deputy commander of his bodyguard unit. He made her a full general in the army in December 2016.\n\nThe previous king, Bhumibol Adulyadej, ruled for 70 years, making him the longest-reigning monarch in the world when he died in 2016.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A guide to voting in the local elections\n\nThe polls have closed in the elections for 462 new members of Northern Ireland's 11 district councils.\n\nEarlier the Electoral Office described voting as \"steady\". A total of 819 candidates were standing.\n\nPolling stations opened at 07:00 BST and closed at 22:00 BST in the proportional representation election.\n\nTurnout reports from polling stations at 17:00 BST ranged from a low of 15% in east Belfast to as high as 36% in one venue in the north of the city.\n\nThe final turnout in the last council elections five years ago was just over 51%.\n\nFull lists of the candidates standing in each council area can be found on the Electoral Office's website.\n\nA total of 1,305,553 people were eligible to vote.\n\nThe single transferable vote (STV) system is used in council elections, in which voters rank candidates by numerical preference.\n\nVoters marked their ballot with 1, 2, 3 and so on and could indicate as many or as few preferences as they wanted.\n\nVoters will decide who takes the 462 seats that are available across 11 councils\n\nCandidates are then elected according to the share of the vote they receive.\n\nIn advance of this election there had been some concern expressed that the turnout might be down, perhaps due to public disenchantment with politics, perhaps because for the first time in more than two decades these council elections were not happening in tandem with another contest.\n\nIn the event the good weather seems to have brought the voters out in force, with reports of people having to queue to get into some polling stations.\n\nSo it may be we will match the turnout in the last council election five years ago, which was 51%.\n\nCounting begins in the morning, and results will start to be declared during the afternoon. But the full makeup of our new councils won't be clear until Saturday.\n\nThe number of candidates was down from the 905 people who put their names forward for the previous council elections five years ago.\n\nCounting in the elections will begin on Friday morning.\n\nBBC News NI will cover the latest election results and analysis on its website, mobile app and on Facebook and Twitter on Friday and throughout the weekend.\n\nThere will also be special election programmes on BBC Radio Ulster from 16:00 on Friday and 10:00 on Saturday and on BBC Radio Foyle from 17:00 on Friday.\n\nTelevision coverage will be on BBC One Northern Ireland at 15:30 on Friday, BBC Two Northern Ireland at 19:30 on Friday and 10:00 on Saturday, with an hour-long Sunday Politics programme on the same channel at 11:00 on Sunday.", "Voters are continuing to head to the polls for council and mayoral elections across England and Northern Ireland.\n\nElections are being held for 248 English councils, six mayors and all 11 councils in Northern Ireland.\n\nPolling stations for the votes - spanning metropolitan and district councils and unitary authorities - are open until 22:00 BST.\n\nNo local elections are taking place in Scotland and Wales.\n\nThis is the biggest set of local elections in England's four-year electoral cycle, with more than 8,400 seats being contested.\n\nA further 462 seats are up for grabs in Northern Ireland.\n\nFind the result of your council election Enter your postcode or council name to find out By-elections can take place in some council wards even if that council is not scheduled for elections this year. Check your council website for details.\n\nVoters in 10 local authorities in England need to either show ID or produce their polling card before they can vote as part of a trial scheme.\n\nThose in Braintree, Broxtowe, Craven, Derby, North Kesteven, Woking and Pendle have to show ID before they can vote.\n\nVoters in Mid Sussex, North West Leicestershire, and Watford local authorities are required to show their polling card.\n\nEveryone else in England can vote as usual, with no need to bring along a polling card or any proof of ID.\n\nBut in Northern Ireland, voters need photo ID, the polling card received through the post being for information purposes only.\n\nResults for about 108 English councils are expected to be declared before 06:00 on Friday.\n\nThe remaining 140 are scheduled to come in throughout Friday, mostly between midday and 1800 BST.\n\nThe Northern Irish results will take longer to come through because of a more complicated voting system.", "New International Development Secretary Rory Stewart has said he intends to stand for the Conservative leadership after Theresa May steps down.\n\nHe told the BBC's Political Thinking With Nick Robinson podcast he could \"help bring the country together\".\n\nMr Stewart also said he wanted to move \"beyond my brief\", laying out his opinions on \"other issues\".\n\nMrs May has told Conservative MPs she will stand down if her Brexit deal is passed by Parliament.\n\nBoris Johnson, Michael Gove, Sajid Javid, Jeremy Hunt, Dominic Raab and Andrea Leadsom are among those who have been touted as possible replacements.\n\nIn March Chief Secretary to the Treasury Liz Truss told The Sunday Times if she were leader she would use money saved by Brexit to fund tax cuts for businesses and young people.\n\nJustine Greening told the same paper she would be tempted to enter the race to ensure the Conservatives bring a modern approach and equality of opportunity.\n\nAnd Work and Pensions Secretary Amber Rudd has said it is \"entirely possible\" she will launch a bid for the Tory leadership once Mrs May steps down.\n\nMr Stewart was promoted to international development secretary, his first cabinet role, on Wednesday, having previously served as prisons minister.\n\nThis followed the sacking of Defence Secretary Gavin Williamson, who was replaced by Penny Mordaunt, who moved from the international development job.\n\nSpeaking to Political Thinking, Mr Stewart said: \"I think it's important at this time when the prime minister's said she's going to step down to have a voice that's arguing for being radical - but radical in the centre of British politics, not radical on the extreme right of British politics.\n\n\"A voice that's prepared to say I do want to bring this country together.\"\n\nMr Stewart campaigned for the UK to remain in the EU during the 2016 referendum campaign. But he told Political Thinking that \"of course I accept Brexit; I'm a Brexiteer, but I want to reach out to Remain voters as well to bring this country together again.\n\n\"And the only way I can do that is by moving beyond my brief and beginning to lay out, whether it's on climate change or any of these other issues, what I think it would mean to be a country we can be proud of.\"\n\nHowever, Mr Stewart said he had \"to get the balance right because my primary job is to look after my department and that's what I really want to focus on day-in, day-out.\n\n\"But ultimately the prime minister is going to step down and if we're going to have a leadership contest we might as well be open about it and candidates might as well explain what they're about.\"\n\nMr Stewart also paid tribute to Mr Williamson, who was sacked by Mrs May after she said she had information that suggested he was responsible for leaking details of a National Security Council meeting.\n\nHe called Mr Williamson \"an extremely energetic secretary of state for defence\", adding that \"whatever happened in those last days and whatever he did wrong at the end, we owe him huge respect for what he did before that\".\n\nMr Williamson strenuously denies being the source of the leak.", "Richard Osborn-Brooks had been held on suspicion of murder\n\nA man arrested on suspicion of murdering a suspected burglar has been released without charge.\n\nRichard Osborn-Brooks discovered two intruders at his home in South Park Crescent Hither Green, south-east London, on Wednesday.\n\nThe 78-year-old was arrested after Henry Vincent, 37, from Kent, was fatally stabbed during a struggle in the kitchen.\n\nThe Met said Mr Osborn-Brooks had been released and would face no action.\n\nDet Ch Insp Simon Harding said: \"This is a tragic case for all of those involved.\n\n\"As expected with any incident where someone has lost their life, my officers carried out a thorough investigation into the circumstances of the death.\"\n\nHenry Vincent was under investigation over a separate burglary involving another elderly victim\n\nPolice said they were called at about 00:45 BST to the property over reports of a burglary when they found Mr Vincent collapsed in nearby Further Green Road.\n\nA witness said an accomplice dragged Mr Vincent toward a van before leaving him for dead. A second suspect fled the scene and is still being hunted by police.\n\nWhen we look at the law it is all down to what is considered to be \"reasonable force\" when someone is defending their home.\n\nThe law was clarified in 2013 to say if it was a highly stressful situation and if someone was under a great deal of pressure, then it would not be against the law to act using reasonable force.\n\nIt's always debateable what reasonable force actually is. But there was an assumption that if someone entered your house and if you were genuinely petrified and you did take some action, such as we had in this case, then that could be considered reasonable.\n\nMr Osborn-Brooks was held on suspicion of murder and released following a consultation between Scotland Yard and the Crown Prosecution Service.\n\nHis arrest had provoked outcry from neighbours and an online fundraising campaign.\n\nDet Ch Insp Harding said: \"While there might be various forms of debate about which processes should be used in cases such as this, it was important that the resident was interviewed by officers under the appropriate legislation; not only for the integrity of our investigation but also so that his personal and legal rights were protected.\"\n\nForensic officers investigate the drains near the scene in South Park Crescent\n\nIn January, Mr Vincent was named and pictured by Kent Police investigating a distraction burglary on a man in his 70s.\n\nFamily and friends paid tribute to him on social media.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Milo Yiannopoulous, Alex Jones and Louis Farrakhan have all been banned\n\nFacebook is banning several prominent figures it regards as \"dangerous individuals\".\n\nThe social network accused Alex Jones, host of right-wing conspiracy website InfoWars, its UK editor Paul Joseph Watson and ex-Breitbart News editor Milo Yiannopoulos of hate speech.\n\nLouis Farrakhan, the Nation of Islam leader who has expressed anti-Semitic views, will also be excluded.\n\nFacebook has already banned anti-Islamic UK groups like Britain First.\n\nThe latest ban also applies on Instagram, which Facebook owns.\n\n\"We’ve always banned individuals or organisations that promote or engage in violence and hate, regardless of ideology,” the company said in a statement.\n\n\"The process for evaluating potential violators is extensive and it is what led us to our decision to remove these accounts today.\"\n\nThe banned group also includes Paul Nehlen, a white supremacist, and Laura Loomer, an anti-Islamic activist with a large social media presence.\n\nIn November, Ms Loomer handcuffed herself to a Twitter building in New York in protest at being banned from that platform.\n\nLaura Loomer is among those banned from the platform\n\nWhite supremacist Paul Nehlen, right, has twice run in Republican primaries\n\nHowever, Facebook has been criticised for giving forewarning of the bans, giving those affected a chance to redirect their followers to other services.\n\nFor a brief time on Thursday, Alex Jones was broadcasting, on Facebook, about his impending ban.\n\n“I’m about to be banned,\" wrote Mr Yiannopoulos to his followers on Instagram. \"Please sign up for my mailing list before this account disappears.\"\n\nA spokesperson at Facebook said the ban will apply to all types of representation of the individuals on both Facebook and Instagram.\n\nThe firm said it would remove pages, groups and accounts set up to represent them, and would not allow the promotion of events when it knows the banned individual is participating.\n\nIn an email, Facebook explained its rationale for banning the users:\n\nDo you have more information about this or any other technology story? You can reach Dave directly and securely through encrypted messaging app Signal on: +1 (628) 400-7370", "Police found the women's remains at a flat in Vandome Close\n\nA man has been charged with preventing the lawful burial of two women whose bodies were found in a freezer.\n\nThe pair's remains were found clothed and on top of each other at a flat in Vandome Close, Canning Town, east London, on Friday.\n\nDetectives have said it may take a week before the women are formally identified.\n\nZahid Younis, 34, of Vandome Close, is due to appear at Wimbledon Magistrates' Court on Thursday, Scotland Yard said.\n\nHe faces two counts of preventing the lawful and decent burial of a dead body.\n\nSpeaking on Wednesday, Det Ch Insp Simon Harding said a chest freezer, measuring a few feet wide, had been removed from the crime scene.\n\nWork to identify the women was ongoing, he said, and post-mortem examinations would be carried out on Friday.\n\nThere are fears for Mary-Jane Mustafa, 37, who went missing last May.\n\nThe Met has appealed for anyone who has visited the flat in the last year to contact them.\n\nA 50-year-old man arrested on suspicion of murder has been released under investigation.\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. Pacer Liz Ayres says slower runners were called \"fat\" and \"slow\" by contractors.\n\nOne of the official pacers at the London Marathon has said she and fellow runners were treated \"horrifically\" during the race.\n\nLiz Ayres was asked to run the course in 7.5 hours to aid participants.\n\nShe said runners were called \"fat\" and \"slow\" by contractors and volunteer marshals - and one woman received chemical burns from the clean-up operation that began around them.\n\nMarathon organisers said they were \"very sorry to hear\" of her experience.\n\nLike many other marathons, London asks volunteers to run at specific paces during the race as a timing aid for those participating.\n\nThis was the first year the London Marathon had recruited people to run at paces slower than six hours.\n\nMs Ayres said the clean-up operation had begun before all runners had passed\n\nMs Ayres told the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme that organisers had intended to make the run \"more inclusive\", with about 200 runners finishing the course at the same time or later than her.\n\nBut, she said, despite running at the requested speed, the clean-up operation had begun around her and other runners and they had been \"told to hurry up\".\n\nShe added that abuse had also been directed towards them by official marathon representatives, such as cleaning contractors and marshals.\n\nThis included comments such as: \"If you weren't so fat, you could run,\" and: \"This is a race, not a walk.\"\n\nLiz Ayres says some runners wanted \"to go home and quit\"\n\nMs Ayres said she would \"rather the race was cancelled than people being spoken to like that\".\n\n\"I had runners that were crying - ones saying they were going to go home and quit,\" she said.\n\nThose affected had been running for charities.\n\nSome had been slower due to injuries, or not having been able to train due to family circumstances, Ms Ayres added.\n\nMs Ayres said similar issues had also been reported by other pacers ahead of her.\n\n\"The 6.5-hour pacer said she experienced this, too,\" she said.\n\n\"If you look at the timings of people who finished, that means about 1,000 people were affected.\n\n\"That's almost one in every 40 runners.\"\n\nMs Ayres said runners on Tower Bridge had also had to \"dodge round sewage collection lorries\" and run through chemical spray used to clean the streets.\n\nOne woman, Sarah Benjafield-Clarke, told the Victoria Derbyshire programme that her GP had confirmed that a blister she had developed from running during the race had developed into a chemical burn.\n\nMs Ayres also said that as early as the three-mile mark, water stations had been packed away and she had called the London Marathon team only to be told she was lying and that the water stations were still open.\n\nMs Ayres said water stations along the course had been packed away by the time she had reached them\n\nJames Miller, 35, had been running for a dementia charity.\n\nHe finished in just over eight hours and told the BBC it was \"really demotivating to see the course being dismantled around us\".\n\n\"The worst part was the clocks and timing mats being taking away, so when I passed the 30 and 35km points my time wasn't recorded and I wasn't able to keep track of the progress I was making towards the finish line.\n\n\"I even had to ask for directions at a couple of points as the route wasn't obvious.\n\n\"It was like you were forgotten about.\"\n\nLondon Marathon event director Hugh Brasher said: \"We work hard to provide the best possible experience for every runner in the London Marathon and we were very sorry to hear about the experience of Elizabeth and a small number of other runners on Sunday.\n\n\"A senior member of our team called Elizabeth yesterday to find out more and we are now looking into this in detail as part of a full investigation.\n\n\"We'll be talking to the people involved to find out what happened and we'll also be contacting the runners who were in the group being paced by Elizabeth.\"\n\nThis year's marathon was completed by a record 42,549 runners.\n\nFollow the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme on Facebook and Twitter - and see more of our stories here.", "Last updated on .From the section Leeds United\n\nLeeds striker Patrick Bamford has been banned for two matches by the Football Association after being found guilty of \"successful deception of a match official\" in the draw with Aston Villa.\n\nBamford went down as though he had been hit in the face by Anwar El Ghazi after Leeds' controversial opening goal.\n\nReplays showed Villa's Dutch winger had made no contact with the head of the 25-year-old.\n\nEl Ghazi was sent off but had the red card rescinded on Tuesday.\n\nBamford will miss Sunday's Championship trip to Ipswich and the first leg of Leeds' play-off semi-final tie.\n\nLeeds said in a statement that although Bamford did not deny the charge they had requested a hearing to \"contest the penalty imposed on the player\".\n\nThey added: \"The club felt that given the circumstances surrounding the incident, including the extraordinary act of sportsmanship which saw our head coach Marcelo Bielsa demand our team to allow Aston Villa to score an uncontested equaliser, we could have a sensible discussion around the sanction.\n\n\"We acknowledge that the FA panel did not feel that to be reasonable and the club therefore joins Patrick in accepting the two-match ban.\"\n\nThe melee, in which the Bamford incident occurred, was sparked after Mateusz Klich scored for Leeds with Villa players appealing for the ball to be played out after Jonathan Kodjia had gone down injured in the centre circle.\n\nAfter clashes between the players and an exchange between the two benches, Leeds boss Bielsa ordered his team to allow Villa to walk in an equaliser from kick-off, which was scored by winger Albert Adomah. Sunday's game finished 1-1.\n\nOn Tuesday both clubs were charged with failing to ensure their players conducted themselves in an orderly fashion in the aftermath of Leeds' goal. They have until 18:00 BST on Friday to respond to their respective charges.\n\nLeeds' failure to win saw Yorkshire rivals Sheffield United promoted to the Premier League and they will now feature alongside Villa in the play-offs.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. On Tuesday, before he was sacked by Theresa May, Gavin Williamson said in a BBC interview that he had never leaked anything from the NSC\n\nGavin Williamson has been sacked as defence secretary following an inquiry into a leak from a top-level National Security Council meeting.\n\nDowning Street said the PM had \"lost confidence in his ability to serve\" and Penny Mordaunt will take on the role.\n\nThe inquiry followed reports over a plan to allow Huawei limited access to help build the UK's new 5G network.\n\nMr Williamson, who has been defence secretary since 2017, \"strenuously\" denies leaking the information.\n\nIn a meeting with Mr Williamson on Wednesday evening, Theresa May told him she had information that provided \"compelling evidence\" that he was responsible for the unauthorised disclosure.\n\nIn a letter confirming his dismissal, she said: \"No other, credible version of events to explain this leak has been identified.\"\n\nResponding in a letter to the PM, Mr Williamson said he was \"confident\" that a \"thorough and formal inquiry\" would have \"vindicated\" his position.\n\n\"I appreciate you offering me the option to resign, but to resign would have been to accept that I, my civil servants, my military advisers or my staff were responsible: this was not the case,\" he said.\n\nThe inquiry into the National Security Council leak began after the Daily Telegraph reported on the Huawei decision and subsequent warnings within cabinet about possible risks to national security over a deal with Huawei.\n\nBBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg said sources close to the former defence secretary had told her Mr Williamson did meet the Daily Telegraph's deputy political editor, Steven Swinford, but, she pointed out \"that absolutely does not prove\" he leaked the story to him.\n\nAccording to Sky News defence and security correspondent Alistair Bunkall, Mr Williamson swore on his children's lives that he was not responsible for the leak.\n\nSecurity correspondent Frank Gardner said the BBC had been told \"more than one concerning issue\" had been uncovered regarding Mr Williamson during the leak inquiry and not just the Huawei conversation.\n\nDowning Street has made a very serious accusation and is sure enough to carry out this sacking.\n\nFor the prime minister's allies, it will show that she is, despite the political turmoil, still strong enough to move some of her ministers around - to hire and fire.\n\nMr Williamson is strenuously still denying that the leak was anything to do with him at all.\n\nThere is nothing fond, or anything conciliatory, in either the letter from the prime minister to him, or his reply back to her.\n\nThe National Security Council (NSC) is made up of senior cabinet ministers and its weekly meetings are chaired by the prime minister, with other ministers, officials and senior figures from the armed forces and intelligence agencies invited when needed.\n\nIt is a forum where secret intelligence can be shared by GCHQ, MI6 and MI5 with ministers, all of whom have signed the Official Secrets Act.\n\nThere has been no formal confirmation of Huawei's role in the 5G network and No 10 said a final decision would be made at the end of spring.\n\nHuawei has denied there is any risk of spying or sabotage, or that it is controlled by the Chinese government.\n\nMrs May said the leak from the meeting on 23 April was \"an extremely serious matter and a deeply disappointing one\".\n\nIt is vital for the operation of good government and for the UK's national interest in some of the most sensitive and important areas that the members of the NSC - from our armed forces, our security and intelligence agencies, and the most senior level of government - are able to have frank and detailed discussions in full confidence that the advice and analysis provided is not discussed or divulged beyond that trusted environment.\n\n\"That is why I commissioned the cabinet secretary to establish an investigation into the unprecedented leak from the NSC meeting last week, and why I expected everyone connected to it - ministers and officials alike - to comply with it fully. You undertook to do so.\n\n\"I am therefore concerned by the manner in which you have engaged with this investigation.\"\n\nForeign Secretary Jeremy Hunt said the prime minister had no alternative but to sack Mr Williamson, but he said on a personal level he was \"very sorry about what happened\".\n\nWhen asked whether there should be a criminal inquiry into the NSC leak, new defence secretary Ms Mordaunt said: \"The prime minister has made her decision.\n\n\"What I'm focused on is getting on with the job.\"\n\nLabour's deputy leader Tom Watson has called for a police inquiry to investigate whether or not Mr Williamson breached the Official Secrets Act.\n\nThat sentiment was echoed by former national security adviser Lord Ricketts. He told BBC Newsnight that on the face of it, the leak was a breach of the official secrets act and therefore the police ought to be considering an inquiry.\n\nLib Dems leader Vince Cable said Mr Williamson's sacking was \"absolutely extraordinary\" and the PM did it in \"such a forthright way\".\n\nHe added that he believed it was \"clearly a police matter\". His deputy, Jo Swinson, has asked the police to open an investigation.\n\nBut Scotland Yard said in a statement that it was a matter for the National Security Council and the Cabinet Office, and it was not carrying out an investigation.\n\nDefence Committee chairman Julian Lewis told the BBC that Mr Williamson's sacking was a \"loss\" when looked at \"purely\" from the point of view of defence.\n\nHe said he thought \"very highly\" of Ms Mordaunt - the first woman to take the role of defence secretary.\n\nRory Stewart has been confirmed as the new international development secretary, taking over from Ms Mordaunt.\n\nMr Stewart said he believed the prime minister and national security adviser had \"made the right decision\" in sacking Mr Williamson.\n• None Inquiry to be held into Huawei leak", "The polls have just closed. A phrase we're perhaps quite accustomed to these days.\n\nAll day, voters in many parts of England and in Northern Ireland have been casting their ballots, expressing their views on the politicians who had put themselves up for scrutiny, stepping forward for the chance to be part of important decisions about our communities - on housing, the transport we use, the care provided to the youngest and oldest in our society.\n\nEach and every area will have its own many stories, each of us our own motivations for which box, or none, we tick. What happens in towns, villages and cities, and the decisions made by town halls and councillors has a huge bearing, of course, on these results.\n\nThese elections are not taking place everywhere, so the results can't and won't give us a complete geographical picture. Turnout tends to be low in council elections, so in that sense too, the results are not representative of the whole voting public in the same way as a general election, where many millions more of us take part.\n\nNot all of the parties are even standing. Neither of the two new arrivals, Change UK and the Brexit Party, are taking part.\n\nAnd quite fittingly in a country like ours, there are plenty of quirks. In one Surrey borough for example, the residents' association party has held control for years and years and anyone else can pretty much forget their chances of getting a look in. In Cheshire West and Chester, the kind of area where general elections are traditionally won and lost, the lines of the map have been redrawn this time round, so it's still a fight between Labour and the Tories, but in a different way.\n\nWhatever happens in the next 24 hours as the results emerge, bear in mind that the results of these local elections are not a beautifully clear, let alone reliable, crystal ball that will reveal the future. But these contests are an enormous set of elections, much bigger than the normal set of local ballots, and an important chance to test how the craziness of our national politics right now is going down with the public.\n\nPolling matters of course, and goodness knows, there is plenty of that about. Recent surveys are certainly not pretty reading for the government, nor do they suggest their main opponents, Labour, streaking ahead. They are a useful but only hypothetical guide to the currents of the public's thinking.\n\nReal votes in real elections are what count, and tonight's a real chance to get a flavour of what the Great British voting public really thinks.\n\nWe'll be on air as the results come in overnight, on BBC One and BBC News, with loads of coverage online too.\n• None What to look out for in the local elections", "Julian Assange pumped his fist at photographers as he arrived at Southwark Crown Court on Wednesday\n\nWikileaks co-founder Julian Assange has said he does not consent to being extradited to the US over charges related to leaking government secrets.\n\nHis extradition hearing came a day after he was sentenced to 50 weeks in jail for breaching the Bail Act following his arrest last month.\n\nThe 47-year-old appeared by video link at Westminster Magistrates' Court.\n\nThe court heard that the \"extradition process will take many months\". The case was adjourned until 30 May.\n\nAssange told the court: \"I do not wish to surrender myself for extradition for doing journalism that has won many awards and protected many people.\"\n\nOutside the court dozens of his supporters, many holding posters and banners demanding his freedom, blocked the road in protest.\n\nAssange took refuge in Ecuador's London embassy in 2012 to avoid extradition to Sweden over sexual assault allegations, which he has denied.\n\nThe UK will decide whether to extradite him to the US in response to allegations that he conspired with former US intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning to download classified databases.\n\nAustralian-born Assange faces up to five years in a US prison if convicted.\n\nWikileaks has published thousands of classified documents covering everything from the film industry to national security and war.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "Star Wars star Harrison Ford has paid an emotional tribute to Chewbacca actor Peter Mayhew, who has died aged 74, saying: \"I loved him.\"\n\nFord, who played Han Solo, praised the \"kind and gentle man\" for his \"great dignity and noble character\".\n\nMayhew died at his home in Texas on 30 April with his family by his side, a statement said.\n\nThe British-US actor played the giant Wookiee warrior in several Star Wars films from 1977 until 2015.\n\n\"He put his heart and soul into the role of Chewbacca and it showed in every frame,\" his family said.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nLondon-born Mayhew played Chewbacca in the original Star Wars trilogy, episode three of the prequels, and shared the role in 2015's The Force Awakens.\n\nFord and Mayhew's characters were close friends and piloted the Millennium Falcon. \"We were partners in film and friends in life for over 30 years and I loved him,\" said Ford.\n\n\"He invested his soul in the character and brought great pleasure to the Star Wars audience.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMark Hamill, who played Luke Skywalker, described Mayhew as \"the gentlest of giants\".\n\nHamill said: \"What was so remarkable about him was his spirit and his kindness and his gentleness was so close to what a Wookiee is.\n\n\"He just radiated happiness and warmth. He was always up for a laugh and we just hit it off immediately and stayed friends for over 40 years.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Mark Hamill: Peter Mayhew was 'as kind and gentle as a Wookiee'\n\nStar Wars creator George Lucas had wanted a tall actor to play Chewbacca and initially considered 6ft 6in (1.98m) David Prowse for the role.\n\nHowever, Prowse wanted to play Darth Vader, so Lucas then turned to Mayhew, who at 7ft 2in (2.18m) was chosen purely for his height. His face was never seen.\n\n\"He fought his way back from being wheelchair-bound to stand tall and portray Chewbacca once more in Star Wars: The Force Awakens,\" his family said.\n\nMayhew also consulted on The Last Jedi, released in 2017, in an attempt to pass on the secrets of the role to his successor, Finland's Joonas Suotamo.\n\nMayhew's family said \"the Star Wars family meant so much more to him than a role in a film\".\n\nLucas said: \"Peter was a wonderful man. He was the closest any human being could be to a Wookiee: big heart, gentle nature - and I learned to always let him win. He was a good friend, and I'm saddened by his passing.\"\n\nLucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy added: \"Peter's iconic portrayal of the loyal, lovable Chewbacca has been absolutely integral to the character's success, and to the Star Wars saga itself.\n\n\"When I first met Peter during The Force Awakens, I was immediately impressed by his kind and gentle nature.\n\n\"Peter was brilliantly able to express his personality through his skilful use of gesture, posture, and eyes. We all love Chewie, and have Peter to thank for that enduring memory.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Joonas Suotamo This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSuotamo played Chewbacca's body double in Force Awakens and went on to play the Wookiee in 2017's The Last Jedi and 2018's A Star Wars Story.\n\nHe added to the warm tributes, saying Mayhew was \"an absolutely one-of-a-kind gentleman and a legend of unrivalled class\".\n\nRobert Iger, head of The Walt Disney Company, tweeted that the \"beloved\" star was \"a gentle giant playing a gentle giant\".\n\nThe Force Awakens director JJ Abrams and The Last Jedi director Rian Johnson added their voices.\n\nIn a handwritten note posted on Twitter, Abrams said: \"Peter was the loveliest man... kind and patient, supportive and encouraging. A sweetheart to work with and already deeply 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 3 by Rian 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\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Elijah Wood This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 5 by KevinSmith This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nCanadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau shared a photograph of himself with the star.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Justin Trudeau This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSan Diego Comic-Con said he was their \"beloved companion\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 San Diego Comic-Con This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 family's statement also said the actor had been \"heavily involved\" with non-profit organisations and had launched his own foundation, which they said supported \"everything from individuals and families in crisis situations to food and supplies for children of Venezuela\".\n\nThey did not reveal the cause of death. A memorial service for friends and family will be held on 29 June, while a separate memorial for fans will take place in December, the statement said.\n\nThe actor is survived by his wife Angie and three children.\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.", "Adam Price said Wales \"doesn't matter one bit\" in Westminster's corridors of power\n\nEuropean elections are a chance to draw a line under \"grief\" over the current \"lack of leadership in politics\", Plaid Cymru's leader has said.\n\nLaunching the party's campaign, Adam Price urged anyone in Wales wanting another EU poll to back Plaid Cymru.\n\nHe said the party was targeting Welsh Labour voters who felt let down on Brexit.\n\nPlaid was the only Welsh party \"with a chance of winning seats\" unequivocally backing a further referendum, he said.\n\nPlaid says Wales should hold an independence referendum if Brexit occurs without a further EU referendum.\n\nLast Friday's announcement by Mr Price on an independence vote went further than his party conference speech in March.\n\nAt the Plaid Cymru campaign launch for the European election in Cardiff on Thursday, Mr Price said thousand of Labour supporters across Wales were living in a \"state of permanent despair\".\n\nEuropean elections, on 23 May, offered a chance to draw a line \"under your grief\" over the \"lack of leadership in politics in general at the moment\", he said.\n\n\"These elections are a bridge across which thousands of people can venture to make the change that Wales needs,\" he said.\n\n\"If we want a European future for Wales we have to vote for Plaid Cymru - the only party that unequivocally in that future.\"\n\nA vote for Plaid Cymru was \"our chance\" to \"make Wales matter in Europe and the world\" he said.\n\n\"We know that Wales matters. Wales matters to millions of our people, in their daily lives. But in the corridors of power in Westminster it doesn't matter one bit.\n\n\"This election is not just about putting Wales - our lives, our problems and our dreams - at the heart of Europe, but bringing in Wales from the margins, out from the cold.\"\n\nLead Plaid candidate Jill Evans said Wales needs a voice in Europe \"more than ever\"\n\nPlaid has previously said that a cross-party deal between anti-Brexit parties \"could have been an opportunity to offer the voters the clearest possible choice at the ballot box\" and blamed the Greens in Wales for the two parties failing to work together in the European election.\n\nThe Green Party has said no approach had been made to it by other parties.\n\nIn the last European Parliament election in 2014, the four Welsh seats were split between Plaid, Labour, UKIP and the Conservatives.\n\nMr Price said: \"We are the only party in Wales with a chance of winning seats in the European Parliament that is unequivocally supporting a People's Vote.\n\n\"For that reason we are appealing for support across the parties. We are saying to progressive people across the political spectrum - join us.\n\n\"Our appeal is especially to [Welsh] Labour supporters who, for years, have been in a state of permanent disappointment with the leadership of their party.\"\n\nPlaid Cymru's lead candidate, Jill Evans, first elected an MEP in 1999, said she was \"proud and thankful\" to be standing for a fifth time.\n\n\"Because now, more than ever, Wales needs a voice in Europe and because there is so much potential to build a better future for our nation in Europe.\"\n\n\"We are the only realistic choice for voters who are looking for a different and a constructive way forward,\" she added.\n\nThere are eight parties fighting for four Welsh seats in the planned European elections on 23 May.\n\nWelsh Labour, the Welsh Conservatives, Plaid Cymru, the Welsh Liberal Democrats, UKIP and the Green Party are joined by Change UK and the Brexit Party.", "Last updated on .From the section Athletics\n\nCaster Semenya has lost a landmark case against athletics' governing body meaning it will be allowed to restrict testosterone levels in female runners.\n\nThe Court of Arbitration for Sport (Cas) rejected the South African's challenge against the IAAF's new rules.\n\nBut Cas said it had \"serious concerns as to the future practical application\" of the regulations.\n\nOlympic 800m champion Semenya, 28, said in response to the ruling that the IAAF \"have always targeted me specifically\".\n\nNow she - and other athletes with differences of sexual development (DSD) - must either take medication in order to compete in track events from 400m to the mile, or change to another distance.\n\n\"For a decade the IAAF has tried to slow me down, but this has actually made me stronger. The decision of Cas will not hold me back,\" said Semenya in a statement.\n\n\"I will once again rise above and continue to inspire young women and athletes in South Africa and around the world.\"\n\nPreviously, she had said that she wanted to \"run naturally, the way I was born\".\n\nCas found that the rules for athletes with DSD were discriminatory - but that the discrimination was \"necessary, reasonable and proportionate\" to protect \"the integrity of female athletics\".\n\nHowever, Cas set out serious concerns about the application of the rules, including:\n• None Worries that athletes might unintentionally break the strict testosterone levels set by the IAAF;\n• None Questions about the advantage higher testosterone gives athletes over 1500m and the mile;\n• None The practicalities for athletes of complying with the new rules.\n\nCas has asked the IAAF to consider delaying the application of the rules to the 1500m and one mile events until more evidence is available.\n\nSemenya is still eligible to compete at the Diamond League meet in Doha on Friday and can make an appeal against the Cas ruling to the Swiss Tribunal Courts within the next 30 days.\n• None 'Nobody has truly won - one side has just lost less than the other'\n\nWhat are disorders/differences of sex development (DSD)?\n\nPeople with a DSD do not develop along typical gender lines.\n\nTheir hormones, genes, reproductive organs may be a mix of male and female characteristics, which can lead to higher levels of testosterone - a hormone that increases muscle mass, strength and haemoglobin, which affects endurance.\n\nThe term \"disorders\" is controversial with some of those affected preferring the term \"intersex\" and referring to \"differences in sex development\".\n\nThe new rules come into effect on 8 May, which means athletes who want to compete at September's World Championships - also in Doha - will have to start taking medication within one week.\n\nThose affected by the rules will have to have a blood test on 8 May to test their eligibility. A statement from the IAAF said that no athlete \"will be forced to undergo any assessment\" and that any treatment was up to the individual athlete.\n\nAthletes with differences of sexual development (DSD) have higher levels of natural testosterone, which the IAAF believes gives them a competitive advantage - findings that were disputed by Semenya and her legal team.\n\nHer lawyers had previously said her \"genetic gift\" should be celebrated, adding: \"Women with differences in sexual development have genetic variations that are no different than other genetic variations in sport.\"\n\nThey have also suggested that Semenya \"does not wish to undergo medical intervention to change who she is and how she was born\".\n• None Semenya Q&A - why is this case so pivotal?\n• None What Semenya ruling means for women and sport\n\nWhat are the proposed changes?\n\nThe rules, applying to women in track events from 400m up to the mile, require athletes to keep their testosterone levels below a prescribed amount \"for at least six months prior to competing\".\n\nHowever, 100m, 200m and 100m hurdles are exempt, as are races longer than one mile and field events.\n\nFemale athletes affected must take medication for six months before they can compete, and then maintain a lower testosterone level.\n\nThe rules were intended to be brought in on 1 November 2018, but the legal challenge from Semenya and Athletics South Africa caused that to be delayed until 26 March.\n\nThe United Nations Human Rights Council has called the plans \"unnecessary, harmful and humiliating\" and South Africa's sports minister called them a \"human rights violation\".\n\nWhat next for Semenya?\n\nOn Friday, Semenya won 5,000m gold at the South African Athletics Championships - a new distance for her, and one outside the scope of the IAAF rule change.\n\nIt was only the second time Semenya had run the distance and she finished more than 100m ahead of defending national champion Dominque Scott.\n\nHowever, Scott said she was unsure whether Semenya could be a serious Olympic contender over the longer distance.\n\nSemenya is national and Commonwealth champion at 1500m, and also broke the African 400m record in August.\n\nWhat is the difference between transgender and intersex?\n\nWe have heard a lot about transgender over the past year. Obviously that's a natural discussion that's going to take place, but Semenya is not transgender.\n\nIntersex is a term used to refer to differences of sexual development in individuals. It can relate to men and women and can manifest itself externally, with varied external genitalia or characteristics, or internally in relation to chromosomes and testosterone.\n\nIt can have health repercussions on athletes. Individuals can live their life not knowing they have any DSD.\n\nTransgender describes a person whose gender is not the same as, or does not sit comfortably with, the sex they were assigned at birth.\n\nThey may have reassignment to make that transition or they may wish to identify themselves as male or female without making any physiological transitions.\n\nEighteen-time Grand Slam champion Martina Navratilova: \"The verdict against Semenya is dreadfully unfair to her and wrong in principle. She has done nothing wrong and it is awful that she will now have to take drugs to be able to compete. General rules should not be made from exceptional cases and the question of transgender athletes remains unresolved.\"\n\nMarathon world record holder Paula Radcliffe: \"I understand how hard a decision this was for Cas and respect them for ruling that women's sport needs rules to protect it.\"\n\nMegha Mohan, BBC Gender and Identity reporter: \"The spectrum of identity stretches far beyond the binary, say human rights activists, so shouldn't Semenya's physical abilities be celebrated the same way as Usain Bolt's height and Michael Phelps's wingspan are? Either way this verdict does not signal the end of the debate.\"\n• 31 July 2009: 18-year-old Semenya runs fastest 800m time of the year to win gold at the Africa Junior Championships.\n• August 2009: Semenya undertakes a gender test before the World Championships in Berlin. She is unaware of the purpose of the test, with Athletics South Africa president Leonard Chuene telling her it is a random doping test.\n• 19 August 2009: Semenya wins 800m world gold, breaking the world-leading mark she set in July. After her victory, the news of Semenya's gender test is leaked to the press.\n• November 2009: There are reports that Semenya's test has revealed male and female characteristics. The results are not made public.\n• 6 July 2010: Semenya is cleared by the IAAF to compete again.\n• 22 August 2010: Semenya wins the 800m at an IAAF event in Berlin.\n• 11 August 2012: Semenya wins 800m silver at the 2012 London Olympics. This is later upgraded to gold after Russian winner Mariya Savinov is given a lifetime ban for doping violations. Semenya is also upgraded to 2011 world gold.\n• July 2014: India sprinter Dutee Chand, 18, is banned from competing after a hormone test shows natural natural levels of testosterone normally only found in men.\n• 27 July 2015: Chand is cleared to compete; the Court of Arbitration for Sport suspends, for two years, the introduction of an earlier version of IAAF rules requiring female athletes to take testosterone-suppressing medication.\n• 20 August 2016: Semenya wins 800m gold at the Rio Olympics, but the decision to allow her to compete is\n• 4 July 2017: Research commissioned by the IAAF finds female athletes with high testosterone levels have a \"competitive advantage\".\n• 26 April 2018: The IAAF introduces new rules for female runners with naturally high testosterone.\n• 19 June 2018: Semenya says she will challenge the \"unfair\" IAAF rules.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The drone had to be custom-built\n\nA donor kidney has been delivered to surgeons at a US hospital via drone, in the first flight of its kind.\n\nMany see huge potential for unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) delivering medical products, with some drones already doing so in Africa.\n\nThe US flight required a specially-designed drone which was able to maintain and monitor the organ.\n\nIt is hoped that it can pave the way for longer flights and address safety issue with current transport methods.\n\nThe recipient, a 44-year-old from Baltimore, had waited eight years for the transplant.\n\nShe said of the unusual delivery method: \"This whole thing is amazing. Years ago, this was not something that you would think about.\"\n\nAccording to the United Network for Organ Sharing, which manages organ transplants in the US, in 2018 there were nearly 114,000 people on waiting lists, with 1.5% of organs not making it to the destination and nearly 4% being delayed by two hours or more.\n\nThe drone took off at night\n\n\"Delivering an organ from a donor to a patient is a sacred duty with many moving parts. It is critical that we find ways of doing this better,\" said Joseph Scalea, assistant professor of surgery at University of Maryland School of Medicine (UMSOM), and one of the surgeons who performed the transplant.\n\n\"As a result of the outstanding collaboration among surgeons, engineers, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), organ procurement specialists, pilots, nurses, and, ultimately, the patient, we were able to make a pioneering breakthrough in transplantation.\"\n\nThe three-mile journey required a lot of new technology, including a custom-made drone capable of carrying the additional weight of an organ, which also needed on-board cameras and organ tracking, and communications and safety systems for a flight over an urban, densely-populated area.\n\nIt also had a parachute recovery system in case the aircraft failed.\n\nThe drone's mission was a success and the patient has now left hospital\n\n\"There's a tremendous amount of pressure knowing there's a person waiting for that organ, but it's also a special privilege to be a part of this critical mission,\" said Matthew Scassero, part of the engineering team based at the University of Maryland.\n\nCharlie Alexander, chief executive of The Living Legacy Foundation of Maryland, a charity working to increase organ donation, said: \"If we can prove that this works, then we can look at much greater distances of unmanned organ transport.\n\n\"This would minimise the need for multiple pilots and flight time and address safety issues we have in our field.\"", "The ship is reportedly the Freewinds, shown here docked in Aruba in 2014\n\nA US cruise ship has been placed in quarantine by the Caribbean island of St Lucia after a case of measles was reported on board, the island's chief medical officer said.\n\nDr Merlene Fredericks James said there was a confirmed case of measles on board and \"thought it prudent that we quarantine the ship\".\n\nNo-one aboard was allowed to leave.\n\nThe ship is reportedly the Freewinds, which is said to be owned and operated by the Church of Scientology.\n\nDr Fredericks James said in a video statement posted on YouTube on Tuesday that the ministry learned of the confirmed measles case from \"two reputable sources\".\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 Merrick Andrews 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\nShe cited the fact that measles was a highly infectious disease as a factor in the decision.\n\n\"One infected person can easily infect others through coughing, sneezing, droplets being on various surfaces, etc. So because of the risk of potential infection - not just from the confirmed measles case, but from other persons who may be on the boat at the time - we thought it prudent to make a decision not to allow anyone to disembark.\"\n\nShe also cited the current situation in the US, where cases of the disease are at a 25-year high, as another factor.\n\nNBC News, citing a St Lucia Coast Guard, reported that the boat is the Freewinds, a 440ft (134m) vessel owned and operated by the Church of Scientology, thought to have some 300 passengers on board.\n\n\"The ship's doctor has the confirmed case in isolation on the ship,\" Dr Fredericks James was quoted as saying by NBC. \"The individual is in stable condition.\"\n\nThe St Lucian authorities do not have the authority to keep the ship from leaving, and it is currently due to leave the island at 23:59 (03:59 GMT) on Thursday, NBC reports officials as saying.\n\nThe ship-tracking website MarineTraffic.com shows a ship called SMV Freewinds docked in Castries, the country's capital.\n\nThe Church of Scientology has so far not publicly commented on the case.\n\nEarlier this week, US health officials reported that more than 700 people had been infected by measles this year, marking a 25-year high for cases of the infectious disease in the country.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nCases had been recorded in 22 states and were mostly affecting unvaccinated children, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Monday.\n\nOfficials said the increase in cases is the largest since 1994, including 78 reported in the past week.\n\nSome parents are said to have chosen to leave their children unvaccinated due to the unscientific claim that vaccines cause illnesses such as autism, or on religious grounds.\n\nMost cases occurred in 13 outbreak zones, including in New York City's orthodox Jewish communities.\n\nAre you on the ship? 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:", "That's all from Holyrood Live on Thursday 2 May 2019.\n\nNicola Sturgeon has signalled she could ditch plans to cut air departure tax.\n\nThe Scottish government has promised to legislate to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to net-zero by 2045.\n\nNicola Sturgeon was challenged on proposals for a devolved air departure tax - which would be 50% lower than the current air passenger duty.\n\nAlison Johnstone and Richard Leonard both called on the first minister to scrap the plans.\n\nMs Sturgeon said the government would have to review every policy in order to meet the new climate change targets.\n\n\"Setting targets is one thing, having the policy programme in place to meet them is what matters,\" she added.", "Voters have delivered a stinging rebuke to the two main parties at Westminster in the local elections in England, with ballots still being counted in Northern Ireland.\n\nSee the results below in our interactive map.\n\nEither search using your postcode or council name or click around the map to show local results.\n\nBy-elections can take place in some council wards even if that council is not scheduled for elections this year. Check your council website for details.\n\nWith all the results declared in England the Conservatives have lost over 1,300 councillors while Labour has also seen dozens of losses. The Lib Dems and Greens have both made significant gains, with the Lib Dems gaining more than 700 councillors and the Greens nearly 200.\n\nIndependent candidates have also made unusually large gains, as shown by the rise of \"Others\" in the above chart.\n\nProfessor Sir John Curtice has calculated how Thursday's vote would translate across Britain. This projection of the national vote share puts Labour and the Conservatives both on 28%.\n\nThe Lib Dems were the big winners in terms of councils, taking over 10, seven of which were at the expense of the Conservatives. Their most impressive victory was in Chelmsford where they flipped a majority of 23.\n\nThe Conservatives saw big losses in the south west, particularly the new councils of Bournemouth, Christchurch & Poole and Somerset West & Taunton. Labour suffered its biggest loss in Ashfield, where it lost 20 councillors and the control of the council passed to Independents.\n\nLabour won seats in many parts of the country, and the party's largest gain was 16 councillors in the former UKIP stronghold of Thanet. The Conservatives' largest gain was in North East Derbyshire.\n\nSupport for the major parties fell more heavily in their heartlands, according to Prof Curtice, with Tories losing most seats in the south of England and Labour in the north.\n\nThe Green Party were one of the beneficiaries of the main parties' misfortune, gaining nearly 200 new councillors across the country and only failing to defend seats in two areas.\n\nMeanwhile, UKIP lost councillors in many areas. The biggest loss came in their old heartland of Thanet, where former-leader Nigel Farage campaigned unsuccessfully to become an MP in 2015.\n\nSeveral mayoral elections have also taken place across England. Middlesbrough and Copeland returned independent mayors, while the North of Tyne returned a Labour mayor as did Leicester. Bedford re-elected its Liberal Democrat mayor.\n\nData journalism, development and design by Daniel Dunford, Joe Reed, Sean Willmott, John Walton, Wesley Stephenson, Mike Hills, Clara Guibourg, Ed Lowther, Alison Benjamin, Tom Francis-Winnington, Katia Artsenkova, Shilpa Saraf and Adam Allen.", "Mr Vincent's relatives arrived in South Park Crescent with flowers, cards, balloons and a banner\n\nRelatives of a burglar who was killed during a raid on a pensioner's home have marked his birthday at the crime scene in south-east London.\n\nA group of women brought flowers, balloons and a banner to where Henry Vincent was stabbed in South Park Crescent, Hither Green.\n\nHomeowner Richard Osborn-Brooks, 78, was arrested on suspicion of murder but released with no further action.\n\nTributes to Mr Vincent have sparked outrage in the community.\n\nBut one relative said today: \"We don't want to cause any violence.\"\n\nOfficers tried to stop people stapling banners and balloons to the garden fences of homeowners\n\nMr Vincent, who would have turned 38 on Sunday, is suspected of burgling Mr Osborn-Brooks's home on 4 April with Bill Jeeves.\n\nThe women marking his birthday were escorted by five police officers, who tried to stop them stapling the banners and balloons to the garden fences of homeowners.\n\nEventually, the tributes were attached to a street sign and a lamp-post.\n\nA 37-year-old woman, who did no want to be named, said: \"We're here because it's his birthday, we just want to lay flowers. We don't want to cause any violence.\n\n\"We're not all criminals. We don't all do wrong.\"\n\nAnother woman said: \"We all loved him.\"\n\nHenry Vincent was under investigation over a separate burglary involving an elderly victim\n\nSince his death, residents have branded the tributes left to Mr Vincent an \"insult\" and repeatedly tore them down - prompting Met deputy commissioner Sir Craig Mackey to appeal for respect on both sides.\n\nMr and Mrs Osborn-Brooks are reportedly living in a safe house and plan to sell their property.\n\nFloral tributes were pulled down from a fence opposite the home of Richard Osborn-Brooks last week\n\nMr Vincent, who was from the travelling community, would have turned 38 on 15 April\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "In World War Two members of the Royal Sussex Regiment got the chance to film messages to their loved ones back home.\n\nThe film was screened at cinemas in Brighton and was eventually archived at the Imperial War Museum.\n\nNow North West Film Archive and Screen Archive South East are collaborating to try and trace the families of the veterans featured in the film.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Beyond Meat boss Ethan Brown is not worried about the competition\n\nShares of vegan burger maker Beyond Meat soared on their Wall Street debut as investors bet on the growing popularity of plant-based foods.\n\nThe stock closed up 163% on the first day of trading, valuing the California company at close to $3.8bn.\n\nBeyond Meat's shares were priced at $25 each at the start of trading, but touched $72 during the trading day before closing at $65.75.\n\nThe company has aggressive plans to expand sales outside the US.\n\nMoney raised from the listing will give Beyond Meat the firepower to compete with other rivals in the increasingly crowded fake meat market, which includes Silicon Valley start-up Impossible Foods.\n\nSpeaking at the stock market launch on the Nasdaq exchange, Beyond Meat founder and chief executive Ethan Brown called plant-based meat an \"enormous opportunity for economic growth in rural America and throughout the world\".\n\nHe said: \"We understand the composition of meat, we understand the architecture and year after year we collapse the gaps between our product and animal protein.\"\n\nBeyond Meat counts actor Leonardo DiCaprio and Microsoft founder Bill Gates among its investors.\n\nTyson Foods, the biggest US meat processor, owned a 6.5% stake in Beyond Meat, but last week said it sold its holding, as it looks to develop its own line of alternative protein products.\n\nBurger King and Impossible Foods last month started selling their vegan burger Impossible Whopper in 59 stores in and around St. Louis, Missouri, with nationwide sales expected by the end of the year.\n\nBeyond Meat creates substitutes for meat by using ingredients that mimic the composition of animal-based meat, like proteins from peas, fava beans and soy.\n\nAbout 70% of the company's revenues are generated by its flagship Beyond Burger patties, and it also sells imitation sausages and vegan ground beef.\n\nBeyond Meat, which has yet to make a profit, has started selling products in the UK as more supermarkets fill their shelves with meat alternatives. Beyond Burger was originally due to be introduced in the UK at 350 Tesco stores last August, but that was delayed by three months because of supply issues.\n\nWaitrose started a dedicated vegan section in more than 130 shops last year and Iceland reported sales of its plant-based foods rising by 10% in a year.\n\nResearch conducted by the Vegan Society in 2016 estimated there were around 540,000 vegans across the UK, compared with around 150,000 in 2006.\n\nIn 2018, some $50m of Beyond Meat's revenues came from retail sales, including at Amazon's Whole Foods Market and Kroger Co supermarkets, while some $37m was generated at restaurants.\n\nAccording to regulatory documents ahead of the stock market debut, Beyond Meat's net loss narrowed marginally to $29.9m in the year ended 31 December, from $30.4m a year earlier. Net revenue more than doubled to $87.9m in the same period.", "Clashes have broken out between police and protesters as \"yellow vest\" demonstrators and labour unions held a traditional May Day rally.\n\nDozens of people were injured and more than 300 arrested, as so-called \"black block\" protesters in dark clothes and face masks also took to the streets.\n\nSome protesters smashed shop windows and threw projectiles at the police, who responded with tear gas and water cannon.\n\nIt follows months of demonstrations by the \"yellow vests\" or \"gilets jaunes\", whose original protests about fuel prices have expanded to wider complaints about economic inequality.\n\nFrench President Emmanuel Macron has made a series of concessions to the movement - most recently with a wave of tax cuts.", "Defence Secretary Gavin Williamson has been sacked by the prime minister after information from a National Security Council meeting was leaked to a newspaper. Here is Theresa May's full letter dismissing him.\n\nThank you for your time this evening. We discussed the investigation into the unauthorised disclosure of information from the National Security Council meeting on 23 April.\n\nThis is an extremely serious matter, and a deeply disappointing one.\n\nIt is vital for the operation of good government and for the UK's national interest in some of the most sensitive and important areas that the members of the NSC - from our Armed Forces, our Security and Intelligence Agencies, and the most senior level of government - are able to have frank and detailed discussions in full confidence that the advice and analysis provided is not discussed or divulged beyond that trusted environment.\n\nThat is why I commissioned the cabinet secretary to establish an investigation into the unprecedented leak from the NSC meeting last week, and why I expected everyone connected to it - ministers and officials alike - to comply with it fully. You undertook to do so.\n\nI am therefore concerned by the manner in which you have engaged with this investigation.\n\nIt has been conducted fairly, with the full co-operation of other NSC attendees.\n\nThey have all answered questions, engaged properly, provided as much information as possible to assist with the investigation, and encouraged their staff to do the same. Your conduct has not been of the same standard as others.\n\nIn our meeting this evening, I put to you the latest information from the investigation, which provides compelling evidence suggesting your responsibility for the unauthorised disclosure.\n\nNo other credible version of events to explain this leak has been identified.\n\nIt is vital that I have full confidence in the members of my cabinet and of the National Security Council. The gravity of this issue alone, and its ramifications for the operation of the NSC and the UK's national interest, warrants the serious steps we have taken, and an equally serious response.\n\nIt is therefore with great sadness that I have concluded that I can no longer have full confidence in you as secretary of state for defence and a minister in my cabinet and asked you to leave Her Majesty's government.\n\nAs you do so, I would like to thank you for the wider contribution you have made to it over the last three years, and for your unquestionable personal commitment to the men and women of our Armed Forces.\"\n\nIt has been a great privilege to serve as Defence Secretary and Chief Whip in your government. Every day I have seen the extraordinary work of the men and women of our armed forces, who go to incredible lengths to defend our country.\n\nI am sorry that you feel recent leaks from the National Security Council originated in my department. I emphatically believe this was not the case. I strenuously deny that I was in any way involved in this leak and I am confident that a thorough and formal inquiry would have vindicated my position.\n\nI have always trusted my civil servants, military advisers and staff. I believe the assurances they have given me.\n\nI appreciate you offering me the option to resign, but to resign would have been to accept that I, my civil servants, my military advisers or my staff were responsible: this was not the case.\n\nRestoring public confidence in the NSC is an ambition we both share. With that in mind I hope that your decision achieves this aim rather than being seen as a temporary distraction.\n\nAs I said there has been no greater privilege than working with our armed forces and I will continue to stand up for our service personnel and the superb work they do.\"\n• None Inquiry to be held into Huawei leak", "London's Gay Men's Chorus performed outside the Admiral Duncan pub in Soho to remember the victims of a deadly nail bomb attack on 30th April 1999.\n\nThe attack, which killed three people and injured 79, was the third bomb attack in a fortnight by a self-confessed homophobe and racist.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe aerospace firm, Bombardier, is putting its Northern Ireland operation up for sale as part of a reorganisation of the business.\n\nThe Canadian aircraft manufacturer employs about 3,600 people across several locations in Northern Ireland.\n\nThe company said it would be working closely with employees and unions, through any future transition period.\n\nUnions said it caused \"uncertainty\" for workers at Northern Ireland's biggest manufacturing employer.\n\nIt is selling off its aerospace operations in Belfast, Newtownabbey, Newtownards and Dunmurry. The company's Moroccan operation is also being sold off.\n\nIn a statement, Bombardier said it was consolidating all aerospace assets into a \"single, streamlined and fully integrated business\".\n\nThe statement added: \"Our sites in Belfast and Morocco have seen a significant increase in work from other global customers in recent years.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The history of Bombardier in Northern Ireland\n\n\"We are recognised as a global leader in aerostructures, with unique end-to-end capabilities - through design and development, testing and manufacture, to after-market support.\"\n\nIt said Bombardier was committed to finding the right buyer.\n\nIt added: \"We understand that this announcement may cause concern among our employees, but we will be working closely with them and our unions as matters progress, and through any future transition period to a new owner.\n\n\"There are no new workforce announcements as a result of this decision.\"\n\nBusiness Secretary Greg Clark spoke to representatives of the company before the announcement was made.\n\n\"The Belfast plant is one of our most important aerospace facilities in the country and a vital asset in the UK's leading aerospace sector,\" he said in a statement.\n\n\"The government will work with potential buyers to take this successful and ambitious business forward.\"\n\nSpeaking on BBC News NI's Talkback programme, Gavin Robinson, MP for East Belfast, said that, in recent years, Bombardier workers have not been able to \"get a break\".\n\nHe said that \"government has a role to ensure that all avenues are explored\" in relation to the sale.\n\nIt is not yet clear who could buy the Belfast operation but it may be attractive to global engineering firms who are 'Tier 1' aerospace suppliers.\n\nIndustry watchers point to firms like Spirit Aerosystems or GKN.\n\nThe Belfast plants don't just make parts for Bombardier, they also supply external customers such as Airbus.\n\nBombardier Belfast director, Michael Ryan, previously said the Belfast factory would be capable of functioning as an outside supplier to Bombardier's business-jets division.\n\nSusan Fitzgerald, the regional co-ordinating officer with Unite trade union, said that the Bombardier workforce have been \"bracing for a shock announcement every morning\".\n\n\"The sale causes significant uncertainty for workers and members,\" she said.\n\nStephen Kelly of Manufacturing NI warned that, between workers and Bombardier suppliers, the sale will have a direct impact on 12,000 jobs in the Northern Ireland economy.\n\n\"It's deeply worrying for the suppliers... and it is deeply worrying for the workers,\" said Mr Kelly.\n\nBombardier, which is based in Montreal, has more than 68,000 employees in 28 countries.\n\nLast month, it slashed its full-year revenue forecast from $18bn (£13.7bn) to $17bn (£13bn) due to timing of aircraft deliveries, production challenges in its train-making division and unfavourable currency conversions.\n\nThe rail unit is meant to generate $10bn (£7.6bn) but Bombardier has cut its full-year revenue forecast for the division by almost 8% to $8.75bn (£6.7bn).\n\nBombardier's president and chief executive Alain Bellemare said that the company expected to meet its aircraft delivery and financial performance targets for the year in its aerospace businesses.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Theresa May on local election results: \"Simple message... just get on and deliver Brexit\"\n\nThe Conservatives have lost 1,334 councillors, with Theresa May saying voters wanted the main parties to \"get on\" with Brexit.\n\nLabour also lost 82 seats in the English local elections, in which it had been expected to make gains.\n\nBut the strongly pro-EU Lib Dems gained 703 seats, with leader Sir Vince Cable calling every vote received \"a vote for stopping Brexit\".\n\nThe Greens and independents also made gains, as UKIP lost seats.\n\nAll 248 English councils holding elections have now announced their full results.\n\nWhile the scale of the Conservative election losses is larger than expected, Labour had predicted it would gain seats, having suffered losses the last time these council seats were contested, in 2015.\n\nThe Green Party has added 194 councillors, while the number of independent councillors has risen by 612.\n\nResults from Northern Ireland's 11 councils are also being announced. No local elections are taking place in Scotland and Wales.\n\nAfter nine years in government it's not surprising that the Conservatives have lost a significant chunk of seats.\n\nBut the sheer number that have disappeared and the loss of control of authorities will hurt - especially with so many activists identifying Theresa May's handling of Brexit as a root of the problem, not just a general malaise.\n\nThe perceived personal nature of the failure is more of an indignity than an encounter with a heckler in tweeds.\n\nAnd for Jeremy Corbyn, it is surprising and disappointing that Labour has simply failed to make any significant capital from such a divided and chaotic government.\n\nHowever ardently his devotees swear loyalty, the party has fallen back - on this set of results at least - seeming further, rather than closer, from winning power in a general election he so often claims to crave.\n\nRead more from Laura here.\n\nMPs have yet to agree on a deal for leaving the European Union, and, as a result, the deadline of Brexit has been pushed back from 29 March to 31 October.\n\nWhile local elections give voters the chance to choose the decision-makers who affect their communities, the national issue has loomed large on the doorstep.\n\nMrs May, appearing at the Welsh Conservative conference, said voters had sent the \"simple message\" that her party and Labour had to \"get on\" with delivering Brexit.\n\n\"These were always going to be difficult elections for us,\" the prime minister added, \"and there were some challenging results for us last night, but it was a bad night for Labour, too.\"\n\nA heckler shouted at the prime minister: \"Why don't you resign?\" He was then ushered out of the conference hall in Llangollen, North Wales, as the audience chanted: \"Out, out, out.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Vince Cable: Lib Dems are \"success story of the night\"\n\nBBC political correspondent Iain Watson said that while the Conservatives had lost \"more than 10 times as many councillors\", it was \"remarkable\" that Labour, \"around the mid-term of a not-very-popular government - has not made net gains\".\n\nSpeaking in Greater Manchester, Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn said he \"wanted to do better\" and conceded voters who disagreed with its backing for Brexit had deserted the party.\n\nBut Lib Dem leader Sir Vince, attending a rally in Chelmsford, Essex, where his party took control of the council, said it had been a \"brilliant\" result and that \"every vote for the Liberal Democrats was a vote for stopping Brexit\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe BBC projects that, if the local election results it analysed were replicated across Britain, both the Conservatives and Labour would get 28% of the total vote.\n\nThe data, based on 650 wards in which detailed voting figures were collected, suggests the Lib Dems would get 19% and other parties and independents 25%.\n\nPolling expert Prof Sir John Curtice said the days of the Conservatives and Labour dominating the electoral landscape, as happened in the 2017 election when they won 80% of the vote between them, \"may be over\".\n\nHe said it was only the second time in history that the two main parties' projected national share of the vote had fallen below 30%.\n\nThe only other occasion was in 2013, when UKIP performed strongly in local elections.\n\nProf Curtice also said the Conservatives and Labour had both lost ground since last year's local elections when both were estimated to be on 35%.\n\nWhile the Lib Dem figure was the highest since 2010, when they agreed to join the coalition government with the Conservatives, he said it was still well below the 24% the party regularly achieved in the 1990s and 2000s.\n\nGreen Party co-leader Sian Berry told the BBC the Greens were not simply benefiting from a protest vote over Brexit - their gains reflected \"huge new concerns\" about climate change as well as the strength of their local campaigning on a range of issues.\n\nFor UKIP, Lawrence Webb, a former London mayoral candidate who is standing in this month's European elections, said the party's \"fortunes were on the up\", despite the fall in its number of councillors.\n\nThis is the biggest set of local elections in England's four-year electoral cycle, with more than 8,400 seats being contested. A further 462 seats are up for grabs in Northern Ireland.\n\nSix mayoral elections have also taken place, with Labour's Jamie Driscoll winning the contest to become the first ever North of Tyne mayor.\n\nLabour candidates also won in Leicester and Mansfield but the party out lost to independents in Middlesbrough and Copeland.\n\nEither search using your postcode or council name or click around the map to show local results.", "Grassfires spread quickly, especially during the dry summer months\n\nArsonists were responsible for a 75% spike in grassfires in the past year, new figures have shown.\n\nA total of 2,850 fires were started from April 2018 to March 2019, compared with 1,627 in the 12 months previously.\n\nFire chiefs said these figures were \"very disappointing\", and attributed it to last year's hot and dry summer.\n\nWales' fire services have developed an educational programme in a bid to tackle the problem, resulting in 60,000 speeches to schoolchildren.\n\nKelvin Griffiths, 65, a farmer from Carmel, Gwynedd, lost grazing land in a grassfire on Cilgwyn Mountain last year, which shares common land on Ywch Gwyrfai.\n\n\"There was a huge fire stretching for a mile long. I have cattle and sheep that graze there,\" he said.\n\n\"There are houses on the common nearby who were really worried.\"\n\nLisa Jones - who lives nearby - took this picture of the fire in Carmel\n\nOperation Dawns Glaw was set up in 2016 to tackle deliberate grassfires, involving all three of Wales' fire services.\n\nThe UK heatwave of 2018 - one of the driest and warmest summers in Wales since 1995 - also meant more fires.\n\nThe operation's chairman Mydrian Harries said: \"Sadly in the last year we've seen that increase and predominantly attributed it to the hot weather in June, July and August.\n\n\"When the weather starts drying, any fire that commences does spread rapidly.\n\n\"Add to that some warm currents and prevailing winds and we do find the fire spreads rapidly. Unfortunately there's a sector out there who do see this as opportunities to burn.\"\n\nMr Harries said about 50% of all last year's grassfires were recorded as deliberate.\n\n\"While these statistics are very disappointing, they should not take away from the overall success of Operation Dawns Glaw,\" he said.\n\nFire officers are also looking to tackle fly-tipping and countryside rubbish fires, which can spread to grassland, starting huge fires.\n\nNatural Resources Wales says land can take \"decades\" to recover from severe grassfires\n\nLand owners and farmers are allowed to do controlled burns on their land between October and March, but only if they have created a specific plan for starting and containing the fire.\n\nAnyone carrying out one of these burns outside of these months or without a plan is committing arson.\n\nHowever, Mr Griffiths believes these strict regulations mean farmers' land becomes overgrown, making it more at risk of spreading grassfires.\n\n\"Now there are so many restrictions on burning, if you want to burn, you have to inform the police, create fire barriers and have an army of people,\" he said.\n\n\"It's not feasible. It overgrows and then it becomes a threat and cattle and sheep can't access the grazing.\n\n\"Once you ignite it just goes 'whoosh' and if there's a strong wind behind, it takes no time at all.\"\n\nMid and West Wales Fire and Rescue Service said it was not its legislation to police.\n\nA spokesman said: \"What we're doing with the Welsh government and partners in Dawns Glaw is to tell people to burn within the prescribed periods.\"\n\nThe Welsh Government said it was \"irresponsible\" to set a fire in open land \"without proper controls and safeguards, or outside the permitted season\".\n\n\"Such fires can very easily spread out of control, for example if the wind strengthens or changes direction, and can take days or even weeks to extinguish, especially if they spread into peat,\" a spokesman said.\n\n\"This in turn ties up fire crews who might well be needed to attend other incidents. The regulations are designed to greatly reduce these risks.\"", "There is no clear understanding of what is needed to deliver welfare payments to Scotland's expected 1.4 million claimants, Audit Scotland has said.\n\nThe warning from the spending watchdog comes as the Scottish government prepares to take over control of 11 benefits from the UK government.\n\nSo far almost £90m has been spent on delivering the new benefits system.\n\nHowever, Audit Scotland said it was still unclear what the overall cost would be.\n\nIn its report, the spending watchdog said that while the delivery of the first two benefits to be taken on by Social Security Scotland had gone well, the real challenge lay ahead.\n\nThe new benefits - the carer's allowance supplement and best start grants - began being given to claimants in 2018.\n\nFigures from Audit Scotland show that £33m was paid to 77,000 people receiving the carer's allowance supplement, while £2.7m was paid to 7,000 people receiving best start grants.\n\nThe Scottish government has also spent £87m implementing the new system.\n\nHowever, in the report Scotland's auditor general Caroline Gardner warned that while the Scottish government had done a \"good job\" delivering the first two benefits, its second phase of delivery included the most complex and highest risk benefits\n\nShe also highlighted the difficulties that Social Security Scotland, which is headquartered in Dundee, had encountered employing adequately skilled staff, both in project management and in IT.\n\nSocial Security Secretary Shirley-Anne Somerville said seven benefits would be implemented by the end of 2019\n\nMs Gardner said the vacancy rate was 30%, prompting a reliance on agency staff and contractors and pushing up costs.\n\nShe said: \"The government has done well to date but has had to work flat out to reach this point, leaving little time to draw breath and plan for the challenges ahead.\n\n\"The social security team is doing the right things to address that issue, but it hasn't yet got a clear understanding of what's needed to deliver the more complex benefits to come, or how much it will cost.\"\n\nShe told BBC Radio's Good Morning Scotland programme: \"To put it in context, the benefits that have been delivered so far are about 2% of the total £3.5bn that will be involved when it's fully rolled out.\n\n\"The government deliberately focused on the benefits that were easier to implement first of all - the one-off payments, the relatively small caseloads and where people's eligibility is easy to assess, new parents for example.\n\n\"The disability benefits are very different. More people are involved, assessing eligibility is much more complex and there are regular payments that people will rely on for their living costs, so scaling that up really is a very significant move from the success that has been achieved so far.\"\n\nMinisters have previously denied their timetable for implementing the new benefits' rollout was unrealistic.\n\nSocial Security Secretary Shirley-Anne Somerville said that the government was already taking action to respond to the Audit Scotland report.\n\nShe said that they aimed to have delivered three of the 11 devolved benefits by the end of 2019, as well as four new ones to the Scots in most need.\n\nShe told Good Morning Scotland: \"I very much welcome the report from Audit Scotland. It has recognised that we've done very well to deliver at that very high pace and with significant challenges.\n\n\"The evidence from last year shows that we have been able to establish a new public service for Scotland, we are delivering benefits - there's over £197m delivered by Social Security Scotland already directly to low income families and to carers.\n\nMs Somerville said that she recognised there were challenges ahead for the service but that plans to meet them were already well underway.\n\nShe also said that progress was being made on the department's vacancy rate, which had dropped from 30% to 15% in mid April.\n\nOn the overall costs of the service, Ms Somerville said: \"The financial memorandum from the social security bill, that was only passed last year, show that the implementation costs were around £308m.\n\n\"The steady-state running costs for the agency were estimated to be between £144m-£156m and that replicates and shadows very well what happens within the current system.\"\n\nThe Scottish Conservative spokeswoman for social security, Michelle Ballantyne, said the SNP had spent years complaining about the UK government's approach to benefits but was now finding out how difficult it was to create a fair and sustainable welfare system.\n\nShe added: \"This report shows that 98% of the annual expenditure on devolved benefits have yet to be delivered.\n\n\"They have spent a fortune just to get to this point, and the costs appear to be rising still.\"\n\nMark Griffin, Scottish Labour's social security spokesman, said: \"This damning report means that vulnerable people in Scotland will continue to suffer at the hands of the Tories while they wait for a devolved system that was meant to bring dignity and respect.\n\n\"The SNP have already chosen to leave Scotland's social security powers at the whims of a Tory government, with some disabled people having to wait up to 2024 for their payments to transfer.\"", "Windsor and Maidenhead are selecting their councillors, and Finn the cocker spaniel \"wanted to show his snout at the polling station\"\n\nIt is that time of year when our canine friends take centre stage.\n\nAs voters in England and Northern Ireland go to the polls our dogs often join us for the walk and, sometimes, a photo opportunity.\n\nElections are being held for 248 English councils, six mayors and all 11 councils in Northern Ireland. There are no local elections in Scotland and Wales.\n\nSince the polls opened at 07:00 BST many a dog has been snapped outside a polling station and, as has been popular on polling days over recent years, shared across social media.\n\nLabradoodles Hotch and Penny were up early this morning for a trip to the polling station at Folkestone Central in Shepway\n\nMartha from Brighton says five-year-old Nelly, a border terrier cross, was \"promised cheese\" if she stood nicely for a picture\n\nBarney the Labrador \"exercised his democratic right\" this morning in Wallasey, Merseyside, according to owner Ben Murphy\n\nAnne Rawson's cockerpoo Scooby is \"a friend to all\" whose favourite kind of polling station is one where he gets petted and given treats\n\nYou might also be interested in:\n\nDarren says his dog Woody the dachshund \"had fun voting\" and \"was welcomed by the team\" at the polling station in Brighton\n\nSam says Phoebe the pug \"just loves the taste of democracy in the morning\" in Chorlton, Manchester\n\nMichi is a Japanese spitz and \"a very friendly and convivial chap, and everyone smiles when they see him,\" according to owner Inbali\n\nPoppy the chocolate Labrador joined Louise at a polling station for a \"walk in the sunshine\" in Hull this morning", "The future of 1p and 2p coins may be in doubt - but it seems their use goes way beyond simply paying for things.\n\nTreasury officials are seeking views on the future mix of UK notes and coins as we increasingly move towards digital and mobile payments.\n\nIt conjures up the image of people throwing their smartphones, rather than coppers, into a fountain for good luck - although Downing Street has backed away from a plan to scrap copper coins.\n\nAccording to BBC News readers, viewers and listeners there are many other uses for these coins, from home improvements to baking. Here is a selection.\n\nMany flower sellers and lovers swear by the use of pennies in a vase to keep them from drooping.\n\nReader Chris Stone says: \"The question the government should really be asking is if they end copper coins, what will we put in our vases with tulips? Is this part of their strategy to restrict growth?\"\n\nThey say the copper is important, and it is unlikely they would want to dunk a fiver in the vase - even though the new polymer banknotes are waterproof.\n\nFrom pretty penny to penny-wise, there are dozens of phrases in the English language in which pennies play a part.\n\nA number of people have said this is part of British culture.\n\nIf they are replaced by digital payments, will the language become less elegant?\n\n\"A crypto-currency for your thoughts\" just isn't poetic.\n\nVarious uses have been found for pennies among DIY enthusiasts.\n\nSome have used thousands of pennies as flooring or to tile walls, although it takes quite a bit of patience and glue to achieve the desired effect.\n\nOthers have found more practical uses.\n\nOn Twitter, DogKick says they are \"great as a standby screwdriver for slot-headed screws\".\n\nTeachers swear by coins when it comes to helping youngsters learn to count and add up. It is best to start with ones and twos, and considerably more challenging if they could only use fives and tens.\n\nBBC News website readers have also expressed their worries over the future of games using pennies.\n\nPaul Watts says: \"I save 2p coins during the year and my family use them to play the card game Newmarket at Christmas.\n\n\"There is a lot of joy in everyone's faces when the kitty builds up. But when it is won it, only amounts to around £2.40, but then it hasn't cost anyone a lot of money if they lose!\n\n\"Imagine no 2p coins and having to play with 5p coins. That would then be potentially an expensive card game at Christmas -unless you won.\"\n\nOthers have spoken of switching coins to play the game variously known as penny up, or penny up the wall, or penny pitching - where players try to rebound their coins onto the coins of their opponents.\n\nThe leisure theme continues with an appeal from one reader over the future of a traditional game in the UK's amusement arcades.\n\n\"Snooker Bob\", from Aylesbury, writes: \"We love the 2p coin and save them up every year for our trip to the seaside. These would not be the same without a visit to the arcades with their 'penny falls'.\n\n\"A couple of pounds of these coins can give pleasure to adults and children alike. What is the alternative? Five pence pieces are too small and 10 pence coins too expensive. Please do not take this pleasure away and also jeopardise the jobs of those who work in them.\"\n\nJohn White, chief executive of the amusement industry trade body Bacta, agrees, saying that other coins would not work in these machines.\n\n\"Generations of British families know and love them. This will destroy the product and a number of seaside arcades in the UK,\" he says.\n\nThere is another geographical concern, expressed by Linda Wooldridge on Twitter.\n\n\"Cities can work with contactless cards, rural and village shops not so - they work on real money,\" she says.\n\nThe phrase \"unexpected item in the bagging area\" remains one of the most annoying in the English language.\n\nSo, to get their revenge, or simply for good money management, many shoppers use their stock of pennies to pay at a supermarket self-service checkout machine.\n\nMariama on Twitter says: \"I only ever use the self-service checkout.\"\n\nOthers worry about the effect on prices.\n\nBBC News website reader Denise Ellis says: \"I would be sorry to see the 1p and 2p go - it would be yet another sign of inflation if all prices were rounded up to the nearest 5p or 10p. Having said that though, the pricing of lots of things at £x.99 is annoying.\"\n\nDavid Barber, from St Neots, Cambridgeshire. says: \"We must not get rid of 1p and 2p coins. It would be another kick in teeth for those in our country who have very little income, be it pension or benefits. Price increases would need to be a minimum of 5p if there are no lower denomination coins.\"\n\nBut Gillian Crawley, from Kingswood in Surrey, says: \"Of course 1p and 2p coins should be discontinued - they are now pointless, weigh down purses and pockets, and their loss might discourage the ridiculous habit of pricing most things at, for example, £2.99 rather than £3. That fools no one and has been going on for far too long.\"\n\nMike Cherry, the national chairman of the Federation of Small Businesses, says: \"It is important for a proper impact assessment to be carried out before any actions which might restrict the availability of 1p and 2p coins.\n\n\"While growing numbers of transactions are paid for electronically, cash is still an essential part of the mix for many small businesses. A retailer wanting to charge 99p should still be able to hand a penny change to a customer who pays with a £1 coin.\"\n\nSarah Fox, on Twitter, says pennies are \"good for blind baking\".\n\nBBC Good Food explains that this is the process of pre-cooking a pastry base - a sure-fire way to avoid the dreaded soggy bottom.\n\nApparently, the unbaked pie crust is lined with scrunched-up parchment, which can then be weighed down with pennies.\n\nMany readers were concerned with the potential loss for charities, as many pop coins in a jar and donate when the jar is full.\n\nThomas says: \"How many other people also deposit this 'shrapnel' into charity tins and if we withdrew the coins, how much would income would they lose?\"\n\nAndy, from Marlow, says: \"I put all my 1p and 2p pieces in charity jars. It isn't much, but everyone doing it would surely make a difference.\"\n\nCharities do face the cost of processing coins, so would no doubt prefer donations by direct debit or in bigger denominations. The question is, whether this would make up for the money lost if there were no coppers to donate?", "Craig Orr is the only male nurse on his ward\n\nCraig Orr used to be a police officer but after retiring early he retrained as a nurse.\n\nHis new career means the 46-year-old, who works at the Royal Victoria Hospital in Kirkcaldy, is \"surrounded by women\".\n\nCraig told BBC Scotland's The Nine: \"There are approximately just over 50 members of staff and I'm the only male nurse here.\"\n\nIt is a similar story at hospitals across Scotland.\n\nLast year the number of male nurses fell to a seven-year low, accounting for about 10% of the 65,000 nursing staff across the country.\n\nCraig's ex-police officer colleagues can't believe his new career\n\nStudies have suggested that men view nursing as a worthwhile career with good progression opportunities.\n\nBut they perceive a strong societal link between nursing and femininity which deters them from taking it up.\n\nAn NHS study last year said there was still a \"stigma\" attached to men in nursing and there were not enough role models to challenge this.\n\nIt also said that focus groups suggested men take longer to mature than women and do not realise that nursing is a suitable career for them at a young age.\n\nCraig Orr says that when he bumps into ex-colleagues from the police, they ask what he is doing now.\n\n\"They say 'Oh really, I didn't expect that'.\"\n\nLee Ormiston is one of five men on his university nursing course\n\nHe is one of just five men in his year at Dundee University's School of Nursing in Fife.\n\n\"I think it is seen as a primarily feminine occupation,\" he says.\n\n\"Every TV programme or film you see, it is always a female nurse and you are not so 'macho' being in a nursing profession.\"\n\nLee says nursing is not considered 'macho'\n\nOver the past decade the number of male nursing students across the country has remained stagnant at about 10%.\n\nRecent figures from the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service (UCAS) show male applicants for nursing courses in Scotland were up this year to 410 but they are still down from 460 in 2010.\n\nLee says: \"Because there are not a lot of males already in the profession, that is causing the ones that want to do it not to come into it, because they feel it is not for them.\"\n\nDundee University School of Nursing lecturer Richard Craven has been doing research into why men are not applying to do nursing.\n\nUniversity lecturer Richard Craven asked football fans about their attitudes to males in nursing\n\nLast weekend he went to Raith Rovers against Brechin City to talk to male football fans about nursing.\n\nSome said the career was considered feminine and they would not go into it but others agreed there should be more men involved.\n\nMr Craven said: \"From a person-centred care point of view, it gives people choice.\n\n\"I'm thinking particularly of experiences I have had in care of older adults, for example, where men of older generations, perhaps affected by things like dementia, might identify more strongly with younger men than they would with a woman carer.\"\n\nGlasgow Caledonian University is also campaigning to address the gender imbalance in nursing.\n\nThe message could not be simpler - men are nurses too.\n\nStudent nurse Lee Ormiston says: \"You can be a man, you can be empathetic, get a career in nursing, help people. Definitely.\"\n• None School of Nursing and Health Sciences at the University of Dundee 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 pair of 100-year-olds are still in love after 76 years\n\nNellie Graham is celebrating her 100th birthday and she is in good company.\n\nHer husband, Joe, marked the same milestone last August.\n\nThe County Antrim pair, who still live independently at their Randalstown bungalow, are thought to be Northern Ireland's oldest married couple.\n\nMarried on 23 September 1942 in the middle of World War Two, this year marks their 77th wedding anniversary.\n\nThey met at school and have been inseparable ever since.\n\nMrs Graham celebrated her century at a family party at the weekend - surrounded by her 11 grandchildren and 11 great-grandchildren.\n\nSo what's the answer to the question everyone wants to know - the secret to such a long and healthy life?\n\n\"I don't know any secret, just hard work,\" she says.\n\nA keen baker, Mrs Graham still does all the cooking and cleaning for the couple, but takes a break every Friday to get her hair done.\n\nMrs Graham says she and her husband always make up after a row\n\nShe has spent just one night in hospital for a minor ailment in her 10 decades.\n\nMr Graham is in poorer health, so his wife cares for him every day, and gets up at 07:00 every day to make him porridge for breakfast.\n\nDoes she have any tips for a long and happy marriage?\n\n\"I hear tell of these ones saying that they never had a row, but I couldn't take that in,\" she says.\n\nThe couple have 11 grandchildren and 11 great-grandchildren\n\n\"There could be a row between now and bedtime.\n\n\"But you always make up, certainly you do.\"\n\nOn how she feels to be one of very few married couples to have reached 100, Mrs Graham says: \"Well anyone we would talk to have never known a couple, they've known one, but not a couple, so this will go down in the records.\n\n\"It doesn't make us feel any different - doesn't make us feel any younger or any older.\n\nDavid Graham says he has picked up some advice from his mother and father on living a long life\n\n\"You're as young as you feel,\" she adds.\n\nThe couple's eldest son David is a very youthful looking 76.\n\nHe says he couldn't be prouder of his parents: \"I suppose we're one of the most unique families in Northern Ireland.\"\n\nOf his parents' marriage that has spanned more than seven decades, he says: \"Father has slowed down a bit, but he never gets a chance to talk, she does all the talking for him and her both.\"\n\nMr Graham says he has picked up some advice from his mother and father on living a long life.\n\n\"Just keep going no matter what befalls you, just keep motoring on, do what you do every day and get on with it,\" he says.\n\n\"A doctor told me one day I'd live to 150.\n\n\"I said: 'I don't think so, unless there's a miracle cure along the way.'\n\n\"But I suppose the genes are quite strong.\"\n\nCould living in Randalstown be the secret behind those strong genes?\n\n\"I don't know if there's something in the air or what, but it seems to work for this pair anyway,\" says Mr Graham.\n\n\"They're unbelievable and we don't know how lucky we are to have them.\"\n• None Secrets of living to a ripe old age", "A public inquiry has been hearing from victims of the contaminated blood scandal.\n\nThroughout the 80s and 90s thousands of people developed hepatitis C and HIV as a result of 'the worst treatment disaster in the history of the NHS'.\n\nStephen Nicholls and Carolyn Challis are just two of hundreds that are expected to give evidence.", "Online coverage of election night comes from the BBC newsroom in central London\n\nThe BBC, like other broadcasters, is not allowed to report details of campaigning or election issues while polls are open on Thursday for elections in England.\n\nThe BBC is required by electoral law to adopt a code of practice, ensuring fairness between candidates, and that is particularly important on polling day.\n\nThe code of practice is contained in more detailed election guidelines which are written and published for each election, and they include guidance about polling day.\n\nOn polling day, the BBC does not report on any of the election campaigns from 00:30 BST until polls close at 22:00 BST on TV, radio or bbc.co.uk, or on social media and other channels.\n\nHowever, online sites do not have to remove archived reports, including, for instance, programmes on iPlayer. Any lists of candidates and the guide to parties' policies remain available online during polling day.\n\nCoverage of what is happening on the day is usually restricted to uncontroversial factual accounts, such as the appearance of politicians at polling stations, or the weather.\n\nIt tends to focus on giving information that will help voters with the process of going to polling stations.\n\nSubjects which have been at issue or part of the campaign - or other controversial matters relating to the election - must not be covered on polling day itself; it's important that the BBC's output cannot be seen to be directly influencing the ballot while the polls are open.\n\nThe BBC, however, is still able to report on other political events and stories which are not directly related to the elections.\n\nNo opinion poll on any issue relating to politics or the election can be published until after the polls have closed.\n\nWhile the polls are open, it is a criminal offence to publish anything about the way in which people have voted in that election.\n\nFrom 22:00 BST normal reporting of the election resumes.", "The boy told the inquest he did not know how serious allergies could be\n\nA boy who flicked a piece of cheese at a teenager with a dairy allergy who later died did not mean to harm him, an inquest has heard.\n\nKaranbir Cheema, 13, who also had other allergies and asthma, suffered from a severe reaction at his school in west London on 28 June 2017.\n\nHe was taken to hospital in a life-threatening condition and died two weeks later.\n\nAn inquest into Karanbir's death heard a piece of cheese landed on his neck.\n\nA boy, who cannot be named for legal reasons, told Poplar Coroner's Court he did not know why he threw the cheese, describing it as \"immature behaviour.\"\n\nThe court heard he was given it by a friend during break time at William Perkin Church of England High School in Ealing.\n\nHe then threw the piece of cheese at Karanbir - but said he was not specifically his target.\n\n\"After that he just said 'I am allergic to cheese',\" the boy said.\n\n\"I apologised and went to class after.\"\n\nThe boy admitted he did not know how serious allergies could be and thought they could simply cause a rash or fever.\n\n\"I didn't mean to hurt him and obviously I feel bad now\", the boy said.\n\nIn a statement, Karanbir's mother Rina said her son was \"extremely diligent\" at managing his allergies.\n\nInformed that cheese had been put down his neck, she said a consultant at the hospital questioned this because contact through the skin would not cause such a bad reaction.\n\nGiving evidence, Rajvnder Saini who worked at the school, said an Epipen kept in the school for Karanbir had expired in July 2016.\n\nAn email was sent to the boy's mother in February 2017 to inform her, the court heard.", "The Xiahe mandible was found in 1980 in Baishiya Karst Cave\n\nScientists have found evidence that an ancient species of human called Denisovans lived at high altitudes in Tibet.\n\nThe ability to survive in such extreme environments had previously been associated only with our species - Homo sapiens.\n\nThe ancient ancestor seems to have passed on a gene that helps modern people cope at high elevations.\n\nDetails of the study are published in the journal Nature.\n\nThe Denisovans were a mysterious human species living in Asia before modern humans like us expanded across the world tens of thousands of years ago.\n\nUntil recently, the only fossils came from a few fragments of bone and teeth from a single site in Siberia - Denisova Cave.\n\nBut DNA had shown that they were a distinct branch of the human family.\n\nNow, scientists have identified the first Denisovan fossil from another site. It's a mandible (lower jawbone) discovered in 1980 at Baishiya Karst Cave, 3,280m up on the Tibetan Plateau.\n\nA technique called uranium-series dating was used on carbonate deposits on the bone. This yielded a date of 160,000 years ago for the mandible.\n\nCo-author Jean Jacques Hublin, from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, said finding evidence of an ancient - or archaic - species of human living at such high elevations was a surprise.\n\n\"When we deal with 'archaic hominins' - Neanderthals, Denisovans, early forms of Homo sapiens - it's clear that these hominins were limited in their capabilities to dwell in extreme environments.\n\n\"If you look at the situation in Europe, we have a lot of Neanderthal sites and people have been studying these sites for a century-and-a-half now.\n\n\"The highest sites we have are at 2,000m altitude. There are not many, and they are clearly sites where these Neanderthals used to go in summer, probably for special hunts. But otherwise, we don't have these types of sites.\"\n\nAn autumn view of Jiangla River Valley, where Baishiya Karst Cave is located\n\nOf the Denisovans on the Tibetan Plateau, he said: \"It's a plateau... and there are obviously enough resources for people to live there and not just come occasionally.\"\n\nWhile the researchers could not find any traces of DNA preserved in this fossil, they managed to extract proteins from one of the molars, which they then analysed applying something called ancient protein analysis.\n\n\"Our protein analysis shows that the Xiahe mandible belonged to a hominin population that was closely related to the Denisovans from Denisova Cave,\" said co-author Frido Welker, from the University of Copenhagen, Denmark.\n\nThe discovery may explain why individuals studied at Denisova Cave had a gene variant known to protect against hypoxia (oxygen deficiency) at high altitudes. This had been a puzzle because the Siberian cave is located just 700m above sea level.\n\nPresent-day Sherpas, Tibetans and neighbouring populations have the same gene variant, which was probably acquired when Homo sapiens mixed with the Denisovans thousands of years ago.\n\nIn fact, the gene variant appears to have undergone positive natural selection (which can result in mutations reaching high frequencies in populations because they confer an advantage).\n\n\"We can only speculate that living in this kind of environment, any mutation that was favourable to breathing an atmosphere impoverished in oxygen would be retained by natural selection,\" said Prof Hublin.\n\n\"And it's a rather likely scenario to explain how this mutation made its way to present-day Tibetans.\"", "Trans woman Stephanie Hayden claimed a Catholic journalist harassed her in a series of tweets\n\nA judge has told a transgender lawyer and a Catholic journalist involved in an \"out of control\" Twitter row not to mention each other online.\n\nTrans woman Stephanie Hayden has been granted an injunction against Caroline Farrow after a \"barrage\" of tweets.\n\nAt a High Court hearing in London, Mr Justice Bryan also asked Ms Hayden to not mention Mrs Farrow, and she agreed.\n\nThe judge said tweets sent by mother-of-five Mrs Farrow, whose husband is a priest, had \"crossed the line\".\n\nAn interim injunction bans Mrs Farrow from mentioning Ms Hayden, in particular from \"misgendering\" her, by referring to her as male when she is legally female.\n\nThe judge said: \"The tweeting… has got out of control. Each have said things in those tweets which, in the cold light of day in this court, I would anticipate they would rather wish they had not done.\"\n\nRepresenting herself, Ms Hayden told the judge the debate with Mrs Farrow had been going on since January.\n\nShe claimed Mrs Farrow harassed her in a series of tweets, suggesting she was violent, misgendering her and posting a photograph of her.\n\nMrs Farrow denied this and her lawyers argued she had been subjected to \"a positive avalanche of abuse over a number of months\" from Ms Hayden.\n\nThe two have previously been involved in Twitter rows over similar issues, the court heard.\n\nMrs Farrow was investigated by police after the founder of transgender support charity Mermaids, Susie Green, accused the commentator of misgendering her daughter on Twitter.\n\nMs Green later withdrew the complaint and Surrey Police announced in March they would take no further action.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Drake gave a Game of Thrones shout-out while accepting one of his awards\n\nDrake has broken the record for the number of Billboard Music Awards received by an artist - after picking up another 12 at Wednesday's event.\n\nIt means the rapper now has a total of 27 Billboard Awards to his name.\n\nHe won the biggest prize of the night - the award for top artist - beating the likes of Cardi B, Ariana Grande, Post Malone and Travis Scott.\n\nDrake thanked his mum for her \"relentless effort\" in his life during his acceptance speech.\n\nHe said: \"No matter how long it took me to figure out what I wanted to do, you were always there to give me a ride and now we're all on one hell of a ride.\"\n\nDrake also won top male artist, top streaming songs artist, top rap artist and top Billboard 200 album for Scorpion as well as seven others.\n\nBTS were named social artists of the year for the third time in a row\n\nOther winners on the night included Ariana Grande, who picked up the award for top female artist, BTS, who took home the top duo/group award, and Luke Combs, who won top country artist.\n\nCardi B won 12 awards, including the top 100 song prize for Girls Like You - which features Maroon 5.\n\nHer speech is well worth a watch.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by XXL Magazine This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nEd Sheeran and Ella Mai were among the British winners. Ed won top touring artist while Ella Mai won top R&B artist.\n\nPicking up her award, Ella - who was born in London - thanked God and her fans, as well as her family.\n\nShe said: \"My mum, my brother and my grandma, for always being my number one supporters.\"\n\nElla Mai's song Boo'd Up was a massive hit in the US\n\nImagine Dragons won the award for top rock group and its lead singer Dan Reynolds used his acceptance speech to speak out against the use of gay conversion therapy in the US.\n\nHe said: \"I just want to take this moment to say that there are 34 states that have no laws banning conversion therapy.\n\n\"And on top of that 58% of our LGBTQ population live in those states.\n\n\"This can change but it's going to take all of us talking to our state legislation, pushing forward laws to protect our LGBTQ youth.\"\n\nMariah performed a medley of her greatest hits at the event\n\nThe event saw performances from a range of artists including Taylor Swift, Jonas Brothers, Madonna and Mariah Carey - who won the icon award,\n\nDuring her acceptance speech, Mariah said she'd \"always felt like an outsider\" and \"someone who doesn't quite belong anywhere\".\n\nShe added: \"Icon? I really don't think of myself in that way. I started making music out of a necessity to survive and to express myself.\"\n\nClick here for the full list of winners.\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "MPs have approved a motion to declare an environment and climate emergency.\n\nThis proposal, which demonstrates the will of the Commons on the issue but does not legally compel the government to act, was approved without a vote.\n\nLabour leader Jeremy Corbyn, who tabled the motion, said it was \"a huge step forward\".\n\nEnvironment Secretary Michael Gove acknowledged there was a climate \"emergency\" but did not back Labour's demands to declare one.\n\nThe declaration of an emergency was one of the key demands put to the government by environmental activist group Extinction Rebellion, in a series of protests over recent weeks.\n\nAddressing climate protesters from the top of a fire engine in Parliament Square earlier, Mr Corbyn said: \"This can set off a wave of action from parliaments and governments around the globe.\n\n\"We pledge to work as closely as possible with countries that are serious about ending the climate catastrophe and make clear to US President Donald Trump that he cannot ignore international agreements and action on the climate crisis.\"\n\nThousands of Scottish school pupils took part in climate protests last month\n\nDozens of towns and cities across the UK have already declared \"a climate emergency\".\n\nThere is no single definition of what that means but many local areas say they want to be carbon-neutral by 2030.\n\nSome councils have promised to introduce electric car hubs or build sustainable homes to try to achieve that goal.\n\nIt's a much more ambitious target than the UK government's, which is to reduce carbon emissions by 80% (compared to 1990 levels) by 2050.\n\nLabour's motion also calls on the government to aim to achieve net-zero emissions before 2050 and for ministers to outline urgent proposals to restore the UK's 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